Los Angeles, they say, is a siren. Calling all of us not born in this in this city, like the Whore of Babylon to an end-of-the-world orgy. It's easy for those of us recent additions to this freakshow-sex party to ignore that this city is followed by an immense history that still lingers along the streets (and the gutters) we walk everyday. New Angelenos truly enthralled with their home have years of reading ahead of them, starting with the apocalyptic Day of the Locust. For the slackers just mildly interested in getting some head from Los Angeles, there is only one book: Come Down From the Hills and Make My Baby. Reading Cole Coonce's pornographic love letter to Los Angeles is like skipping ahead in the history textbook straight to the Rodney King beating. After all, those of us here and now really cannot do without a little knowledge of the decade from which our city has not recovered. Loosely factual, this novel follows the indifferent musical career of the experimental-punk-noise outfit Braindead Soundmachine, the drunken exploits of the band members in East Hollywood when it was actually seedy, and the narrator's post-modern love for Los Angeles as he watches it burn on TV during the L.A. riots from a sports bar in Oregon. This book is worth picking up for its sexy, nihilistic description of transvestite strippers alone. But as a historical document, it's priceless.—Evan George, Los Angeles Alternative Press

Come Down from the Hills and Make My Baby

Biographies & Memoirs

Coonce, Cole

Arts & Literature

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This is the interiorized mythopoetic wet dream of Buffy Strangelove and his multifarious personae, swallowing L. Ron Hubbard and Jerry Falwell whole before breakfast and puking it out before lunch.

Elephant Gnosis

Literature & Fiction

Kettle, David

Literary

Volume 1 of the Cole Coonce drag strip reader. Churned out between races while sitting in a trackside porta-potty, Coonce's collection of incendiary drag strip journalism was written during his days at Super Stock &amp;amp;amp; Drag Illustrated, Full Throttle News and Nitronic Research, between his stints as a guitar player in Braindead Soundmachine and his return to show business as Angelyne's fluffer in Studio City, California. Its 256 pages of ack-ack includes "Viva La Nitro!" and "Who's Afraid of Arley Langlo?"

Top Fuel Wormhole: The Cole Coonce Drag Strip Reader

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Puss Titter and Mr. Breakwind are a married couple living their predictable lives in the provincial city of Hill Town Eye. After receiving a series of unsolicited emails promising riches beyond reason, Puss Titter anticipates that her future wealth will end her husband’s philandering, even as Mr. Breakwind plans further infidelities inspired by email offers of cheap aphrodisiac meds. Their rival pursuits set off a series of incidents that meld the real and virtual worlds together with startling results. Sampling phrases from actual spam emails, Anthony Ausgang’s prose heightens the surreal action in The Sleep of Puss Titter.

The Sleep of Puss Titter: A Lysenkoist Life in the Random-Word Generation

Ausgang, Anthony

Takajian, Andy

Contemporary

A delta blues singer guides a Third Reich officer on a tour of controversial Civil War Battles. En route, they retrace the steps of cagey Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest's greatest triumphs and vicious bloodbaths, while re-evaluating the notions of human bondage, charisma, existentialism and duty before encountering the very violence they themselves might be complicit in.

The Devil's Own Day

The Inertia Variations - updated. An epic and ever-expanding poetic cycle on the subject of work-avoidance, indolence and failure.

The Inertia Variations: (Updated 2010)

Tottenham, John

Poetry

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