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Title: Bad Wisdom by Bill Drummond, Mark Manning ISBN: 1-84068-108-X Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant delusions
Comment: If you are a fan of the work of Zodiac Mindwarp or The KLF or even if you just liked American Psycho you should check this out. Carrying a picture of Elvis, a doctor's bag and some paper to record a journey prompted by the hope of restoring peace to the world, Bill and Mark and Gimpo set out and record their adventure. Psychotic and brilliant.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Endless Fountain Of Possibility
Comment: Well, what can one expect from Bill Drummond AND Mark Manning together?? It's been a few years since I've read this but I've just gone through it again and it saddens me to see this book is out of print. The insights, perversions, monstronsities and beauty these two can dream up is amongst the most creative and hilarious I've ever read. This book is hailed as a quest to save the world but in all honesty it's just an excuse to use up some record company money to take a trip into the arctic (only these two would choose that part of the world to vacation in). This books real focal point is the search for the ever-illusive lost chord. Finding it, they reckon, will cause massive world peace and loving vibes the world over. What makes this book gorgeous is the pure honesty that pours over every soul drenched page. Drummond and Manning play dueling authors and take turns writing about the same experiences (Drummond is always very inward-looking and pretentious while Manning is downright disgusting and hilarious). They make a great and horrible team and the editorial balance is perfect all the way through. The real gem is Manning's writing though. He can go from being the most disturbed and sickening individual on the planet (his preoccupation with flatulence and beheadings is just as funny as it is horrific) to weaving the most gorgeous and vivid dreamscapes that have ever been imagined. And that's what makes the book so damn readable: Pure imagination mixed with true feeling. Can't wait for their upcoming book about riding down the Congo River!
Rating: 4
Summary: Rock and Roll Zen Masters Save the World!
Comment: Bad Wisdom is the hilarious account of the two author's (one of whom is better known to discriminating connoisseurs of Heavy Metal as Zodiac Mindwarp) quest to prevent the world's destruction by nefarious forces of evil and chaos (namely Madonna and her Homoschutzstaffel, feared masters of the deadly martial art of Vogueing). The two self-proclaimed Zen masters must face hideous peril from within and without, coming cheerfully to terms with their own misogyny and homophobia as well as surmounting numerous obstacles in their pursuit of the mystic Lost Chord, an arcane harmony necessary to thwart Madonna's diabolical plot. Mark Manning's canny but brutal heavy-metal prose provides a despicably funny counterpoint to Bill Drummond's more introspective- and subtle- recounting of the events of the story. While this book is sure to be offensive many, there are those who will find that to be one of its virtues. Bad Wisdom has the makings of an underground classic in the mold of the Illuminatus Trilogy: I highly recommend it!
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Title: Manual: How to Have a Number 1 the Easy Way by Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty ISBN: 1899858652 Publisher: Ellipsis London Pr Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: 45 by Bill Drummond ISBN: 0349112894 Publisher: Little Brown Uk Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: K Foundation Burn a Million Quid by Chris Brook, Chris Brook, Gimpo ISBN: 1899858377 Publisher: Ellipsis London Pr Ltd Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Fucked by Rock: The Unspeakable Confessions of Zodiac Mindwarp by Mark Manning, Bill Drummond ISBN: 1840680261 Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Designed by Peter Saville by Peter Saville ISBN: 1568984227 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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