Lucha libre, vintage masked wrestlers, indie pro wrestling. Spaghetti Westerns. Vintage ninja films, chambara and jidai geki. Kaiju and sponge suit monsters. Vintage Captain America, Invaders, and WWII costumed heroes. Frankenstein in any incarnation. Well crafted zines, paticularly 2- and 3-color work. Photoshop techniques for simulating vintage photography. Fortean speculation, ancient astronaut theory and cryptozoology. 50's rayguns and space toys. 1:6 scale figures. Revolutionary War partisan militia. Exotic old west handguns. Black licorice. Pageboy and bob haircuts.
Müzik
Film music - especially Ennio Morricone, foreign 60's mod, and Japanese orchestrations
Mod-era rock, jazz and lounge. The kind of music playing on a stereo in a Steranko comic, or any music that accompanied a James Coburn screen entrance
Japanese stuff like Polysics and Thee Michele Gunn Elephant
New England indie rock like the Mission of Burma, Big Dipper, Miracle Legion, Morphine
60's production sound, early Neil Diamond, Monkees, Yardbirds
Saddle balladeers like Marty Robbins
Filmler
Mexi-lucha-cinema: Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters, Campeones Justicieros, Santo and Samson, Vampire Women, Neutron, Sombra Vengadora, Medico Asesino, Wrestling Women. Spaghetti Westerns: The Big Gundown, Face to Face, Death Rides A Horse, Sabata, Sartana. Ninja flicks: Shinobi no Mono, Watari the Ninja Boy, Castle of Owls (and Owl's Castle), Red Shadow, Akakage, Samurai Spy, Five Element Ninjas, Ninja Death 1-3, Ninja the Final Duel, Duel to the Death, Ninja in the Dragon's Den, Zipang. Jidai-Geki: Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Sword of Doom, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hanzo the Razor. Post Apoc and Road Warrior knockoffs: Warriors of the Wasteland, 1990 the Bronx Warriors, Escape 3000 (Turkey Shoot), Damnation Alley, After the Fall of New York, Ultimate Warrior. Conan/Excalibur knock-offs: Sword and the Sorceror, Viking Massacre, Ator, Hawk the Slayer. 60's superheroes: Diabolik, Superargo, Argoman, 3 Fantastic Supermen, Goldface. Creatures and monsters: Aztec Mummy, Italian zombies, Blind Dead, Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People), Yokai Monsters, Shock Waves, CHUD. B-Monsters: Robot Monster, Teenage Frankensein, Eegah!, War of the Colossal Beast. Any beach or hot-rod flick that features Don Rickles!
Televizyon
If any, its vintage TV: Prisoner, Avengers, Green Hornet, Land of the Lost, Johnny Quest, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Combat!, Have Gun Will Travel, season two Wonder Woman, Kung-Fu. MST3K, Creature Double Feature back in the day, resurgent BBC shows like Jeckyl and the new Doctor Who. I miss shows like The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Brisco County, Hogan's Heroes - shows that were weird and downright baffling without TRYING to be.
Kitaplar
Always looking for GOOD zombie books, but there are so few short of Max Brooks. Steve Niles' Cal Macdonald stuff, vintage Ace Double sci-fi, forgotten film tie-ins, The Spider, the Fantomas novels, any Japanese history by Stephen Turnbull, and Taschen's girly fare like Exquisite Mayhem.
Comics: Captain America (vintage), Invaders, Union Jack, Walking Dead, Darwyn Cooke's Catwoman, Morrisson and Case's Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man, Frankenstein's Monster, Lone Wolf and Cub, Jose G. Cruz's Santo el Enmascado de Plata photonovellas, anything done by Steranko, Kirby's 2001, any Marvel Treasury, Dell monster-superhero stuff like Dracula.
Kahramanları
Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Wolf Ruvinskis, the unsung Mexican directors and craftsmen responsible for the genre I so love. Ikki Kajiwara and his in-ring children Tiger Masks 1-4, Jushin Thunder Lyger, Great Sasuke and Ultimo Dragon.
Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Inoshiro Honda, Ennio Morricone, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, Takakura Ken, Clint Walker, Lee Van Cleef, William Hobbs, Toshiro Mifune, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Shintaro Katsu, Peter Cushing, Chritopher Lee, Ray Harryhausen, William Smith, William Castle, Vincent Price, Michael Gough, Michael Caine, Bruce Lee, James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, El Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Jushin Thunder Lyger, Great Sasuke, Tiger Mask 1 and 4, Great Kabuki, Sho Kosugi, Ikki Kajiwara, Goseki Kojima, Jack Hill, Clifford Symak, Mike Stone, Masaki Hatsumi, Tadashi Yamashita, Chuck Norris, Michele Yeoh, Maggie Chung, Xang Zi-Yi, Lousie Brooks, Lorena Velazquez, Jim Steranko, TV's Frank, Crow and Tom Servo and my dad.
Worcester State College
Worcester, MASSACHUSETTS
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 1992
Derece: Bachelor's Degree
Ana dal: Masss Communications
Kulüpler: WSCW, AERho
1987 - 1992
Northbridge High
Whitinsville, MASSACHUSETTS
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 1987
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: High School Diploma
Ana dal: getting a piss-poor public education
Hakkımda: Well for starters, I wrote this movie! Check it out...
From Parts Unknown Publications has brought vintage masked wrestler material and lucha libre pop culture to English speaking audiences since 1996. Visit our website for our line of books and magazine back issues.
Publisher Keith J. Rainville - a SoCal transplant originally from cow country Massachusetts - is from three generations of photographers, a graphic designer and production artist in one form or another since birth. Clientele has included distributors and publishers in the comic books industry during the 90's boom, Spümcø during the birth of internet animation, Lucha VaVOOM, and the LA Opera.
Also visit FPU offshoot Vintage Ninja, - dedicated to retro cinema and art - concentrating on the 60's Japanese craze and how we got none of that coolness here in the 80's.
Kimle tanışmak isterim: The catalysts of the mask's development - the Parisian showman who according to legend entered an 1873 grappling tournament in a primitive hood inventing the notion of the wrestling mask, the original craftsmen at Desportes Martinez who perfected it, and Valente Perez as he was elevating it to a new level.
MONGREL ZINE #7 IS OUT NOW
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights!
Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his
Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with
tales of stealin’ Lil Wayne’s wardrobe girl and drinking with Fats
Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best
skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from
what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by
night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious
House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach,
plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans,
Corpusse, Telekrimen, and tonnes more…
This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks
including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for
this Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine!
Tendremos una venta de especial todas las bolsas, playeras de rock, playeras de luchas y carteras por solo $5.00 ademas tenemos juguetes de WWE empezando de $10.00 dolares en adelante, posters, mascaras de luchas y futbol de $5.00 y $10.00 dolares y por ultimo tambien tenemos el nuevo CD de Germen disponible,no faltes te esperamos.
Interviews with Demon’s
Claws, Red Mass, The Black Lips, Dead Ghosts, artist TrUdE, The Sunday
Sinners, Bloodshot Bill, Manic Attracts, Nardwuar the Human Serviette,
Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo), Teenage Hookers, Petroleum By-Product,
Simply Saucer plus other lubricants like a tribute to the late Sky
Saxon, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs), reviews, and a 25-track CD Comp of
the best new garage, punk, and rocknroll!
Just checking in. I hope your weekend is fabulous! If you find time I would like to invite you to read my new short stories on my blog. It's called PEEK-A-BOO! Much love! Your friend, Brian
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
