i've posted about this in the past, but pickles dickles favorite record label, chicago's numero group, is putting out their first dvd, a collection of short animated films by al jarnow, and it looks insanely awesome. if you watched sesame street when you were a kid, and who didn't, then you undoubtedly saw some of this guys amazing stop motion work.



you should totally pick it up from their site. while you're there you should take advantage of their insane staying in biz sale: 3 sets for 45 bucks, which is insane given the superb quality of their releases.

my personal recommendations:
016 Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
019 Don't Stop: Recording Tap
022 Brotherman: OST by the Final Solution
*4 Boscoe: S/T

the new issue of wax poetics is pulling one hundred percent heat. i remember someone on a message board somewhere commenting that each issue if wax poetics was only as good as the individual articles, which is true to a point and the main reason why i'm unlikely to ever get a subscription... but this issue is looking to be untouchable in so far as truly interesting topics.

articles on spike lee, ralph bakshi, blaxploitation soundtracks, numero's brotherman soundtrack and (picklesdickles fave) light: on the southside, black dynamite director scott sanders, and cover boy curtis mayfield? SOLD!

perfect bound cover to cover quality that is well worth your hard earned money if you are the sort of person who likes good things.

man this looks so cool. for those not in the know, al jarnow was the dude behind a whole slew of the trippy stop motion animation stuff you might half remember from sesame street or maybe some other pbs thing you might have caught sometime in your childhood.



i'm still not sure why chicago reissue record label the numero group has decided to put this out (sometime in late february), but i'm pretty happy someone out there is.

i know i can't keep my mouth shut about light: on the south side, but numero just upped the ante with a set of trading cards of every picture in the book plus nine that didn't make the cut.

limited to 300. act fast if it's you still have fond memories of trading cards with your buds in middle school.

my pants tightened slightly when i clicked purchase. can't wait to have them sitting in the shelf next to their other set of cards i snatched up a little while back.

sweet baby jesus in some spicy bar~b~que sauce! look at all that small print on the inner sleeves! and the label scans, ooh heavens the label scans! this is shaping up to absolute the best thing i will have bought this entire year.

get yours while they're still coming with a bonus 45 and super duper maybe extra maybe a signed print, if they're not all out yet.

audio is hugh hawkin's "bring it down front."

on the one hand, i can't believe i just spent 66 bucks on this. on t'other... holy shit i am so psyched that i bought this!

"Between 1975-1977 Chicago's South Side night clubs were a little lighter. Not just because of a lanky white guy skulking about, but rather because of the camera and strobe light he carried. Michael Abramson hit Perv's House, Pepper's Hideout, The High Chaparral, The Patio Lounge, and The Showcase Lounge, not to capture the artists on stage, instead popping off a half dozen rolls every night on the crowd. Light: On The South Side gathers for the first time over 100 of these images, as Numero shines its own strobe on yet another dark corner of the past. The 132-page hard back book features photos, an ephemera section, and an essay by Nick Hornby. Housed in a gorgeous slipcase with the 12X12 book is Pepper's Jukebox, a seventeen track compilation of the kind of funky Chicago blues heard from the stage and the Wurlitizer. The deluxe 2LP set is packaged in a sharp gatefold jacket with two inner sleeves crammed to the gills with label scans and stories. All in all, it's the classiest Numero record ever made, spotted easily from across the room with it's near 2" spine."

"The first 250 copies ordered from our website will come with a signed and hand-numbered print from the photographer Michael Abramson, plus a limited edition bonus 45. The 45 will only be available for the first 1000 orders, after that it disappears permanently."

does this seem like your sort of shit? well, GO GET IT!