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  Jerry on Jerry - The Unpublished...

  Jerry Garcia

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  Listen in on hours of revelatory conversations with Jerry Garcia, one of the most beloved and missed figures in the world of music, with JERRY ON JERRY. More than twenty years after his death, at too young an age, Jerry remains a cultural icon whose influence and legacy endure. Now, these never-before-heard interviews reveal a candid and poignant side of Jerry, as he speaks openly on everything from religion and politics to his personal life and his creative process. Carefully selected by former Grateful Dead publicist and the band's authorized biographer, Dennis McNally, and curated with the cooperation of the Jerry Garcia Family, JERRY ON JERRY marks the first time these insightful and intimate archival recordings have ever been made available to the public.  Here, Garcia talks about what it was like growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, his obsession with his first guitar, and his first encounters with early R&B, which had a profound and lasting impact on his music. After discussing his brief, but eye-opening stint in the army, Jerry offers up stories of his time spent as a student of the Beats, and his personal and reverent memories of Neal Cassady. He ponders what he sees as the complicated nature of LSD and the oppressiveness of government. He goes on to remember in detail the early days of the Dead, from their first gigs as the Warlocks and their days at 710 Ashbury Street, to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and performing on the road with Jefferson Airplane. Throughout he breaks to opine on movies (one of his favorite subjects), to open up about his songwriting process and his prolific collaboration with Robert Hunter, and his admiration for a broad range of musicians from the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to Scotty Stoneman and Bill Keith.  With an introduction written and read by Dennis McNally, and a foreword written and read by Trixie Garcia, Jerry's daughter, this audiobook is the ultimate complement to any collection. JERRY ON JERRY is one of the most revealing and unguarded portraits of the adored front man of the Grateful Dead and a true, long-awaited gift to his fans.

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  Winter Getaway with Jack Benny

  Carl Amari

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  We’re headed to Palm Springs with Jack Benny and his gang, along with special guest Al Jolson. We’ll also hear Vincent Price as The Saint, Box 13 with Alan Ladd, and Dark Fantasy. Plus, trivia, Hollywood news and more!
  A Falcon Picture Group audio production.

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  Dalí

  Eric Shanes

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  Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.

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  Inside the Pleasure Dome -...

  Mike Hoolboom

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  Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the only rules left unbroken are the ones that have been forgotten. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs lay it all down like a road, ready to take you through the vanishing point of personality.
   
  This new edition includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan, and features never-before-heard raps from Ellie Epp, David Rimmer, Ann Marie Fleming, Anna Gronau, John Kneller, Rick Hancox and Kika Thorne, joining fellow fringers like Mike Snow, Carl Brown, Patricia Gruben, Penelope Buitenhuis, Fumiko Kiyooka, Wrik Mead, Annette Mangaard, Gariné Torossian, Richard Kerr and Mike Cartmell.

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  Lingerie

  Klaus Carl

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  What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society?
  Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait.
  Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, revealing the economy and corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to changing social values. This Mega Square book contains pictures of lingerie from the 17th to the 21st century.

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left.  What's going on here?  It's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful.  The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, preparing for his wedding.  Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius.  When Hermia is given the choice between marriage to Demetrius or life as a nun, she and her true love Lysander flee into the forest.  Demetrius follows them; and Helena, who loves Demetrius, follows him.  Also in the forest are Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, at odds with one another.  At Oberon's behest, Puck causes Demetrius to fall in love with Helena -- oops, he missed, that was Lysander instead.  Mayhem ensues.  In the meantime, a group of bumbling craftsmen rehearses a play.  Puck gives one of them, Bottom, the head of an ass and makes Titania fall in love with him.  Further hilarity results as Bottom sees nothing at all odd about this.  Eventually everything is straightened out, Bottom and the rest "perform" their play, there is a triple wedding, and Puck assures us the whole thing has been a dream.  Number of quotes you know: 5 (what fools these mortals be).  Useful insults: 19.  (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden) 
  Cast: 
  Theseus, Duke of Athens – Mark F. SmithEgeus, father to Hermia; and Snout, a tinker – John LiederLysander, in love with Hermia – mbDemetrius, in love with Hermia – David O'ConnellPhilostrate, master of the revels – PhilippaQuince, a carpenter – Brian EdwardsSnug, a joiner – Elizabeth KlettBottom, a weaver – Simon TaylorFlute, a bellows-mender – David NicolStarveling, a tailor – Jessica MillerHippolyta, queen of the Amazons – Cori SamuelHermia, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander – Laurie Anne WaldenHelena, in love with Demetrius – Rosalind WillsOberon, king of the fairies – Fr. Richard Zeile of DetroitTitania, queen of the fairies – Deborah IrvingPuck, or Robin Goodfellow – Karen SavagePeaseblossom – Larysa JaworskiCobweb – Charlene V. SmithMoth – Alana JordanMustardseed – Jamie Ash YoungStage directions – Paul Williams 
  Fairy song composed and performed by Rosalind Wills; performed by Rosalind Wills</a&gt

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