Apa khabar good people!

It has been a while since we sent you anything! I know, it's a bit odd since we
have been
adding more and more of you into the list but there was no news forthcoming.

Well, things are changing. You will get a weekly report from our end from now
on.
Hopefully it wont take too much of your mailbox. And this is the first one.

Oh wait! We all are filled with much gratitude for you people for putting down
your
addresses on the mailing list. Thank YOU!

WHAT"S BEEN HAPPENING?

The shop underwent a bit of a shuffle recently. The core group of people taking
care of
the shop (me, Aiman & Bebe) is now being joined by another two. First, Encik
Shammir
who runs Basement Records (and many more sub-labels of the DIY punk rock
species).
Secondly, we got Encik Wan Hazril, a young man who have been running a very
successful
mail-order distro called Cactus Records.

So now we are five. And the shop has also been physically shuffled. The location
is still
the same but the layout of the store is now a lot more conducive for browsing.
Previously
it looked more like some cool kid's bedroom. Now it's optimised for full
consumer
experience!

Currently we have two sections. We created a room at the back of the store so
friends who
wanna hang out, have a discussions, use the computer etc. can sit themselves at
the back,
away from the browsing section. The store's info-shop/library and my cari-makan
workspace is gonna be there. My band can now jam behind there without disrupting
the
"traffic".

Surprisingly, the drastic "renovation" made the shop bigger! Come and check it
out soon.

WHAT'S NEW?

DVDs: We are now carrying a lot of titles from Da Huang Pictures. Yup, all those
hard to
get DVDs of local indie film scene are in the shop now.

LOCAL INDIE FILMS DVD TITLES AVAILABLE:

01 - Tan Chui Mui's Love Conquers All DVD - RM20
02 - Tan Chui Mui's 3 Shorts DVD - RM18
03 - Liew Seng Tat's Flower in the Pocket - RM20
04 - Amir Muhammad's Apa Khabar Orang Kampung - RM30
05 - Amir Muhammad's 6-Shorts DVD - RM20
06 - James Lee's Before We Fall in Love Again DVD - RM20
07 - James Lee's Waiting For Love DVD - RM20
08 - Woo Ming Jin's The Four: Short Films DVD - RM20
09 - Azharr Rudin's Amber Sexology DVD - RM25

you can find out more about these films from:
http://www.dahuangpictures.com/blogs/


OTHER DVDs:

We also stock some 2nd hand DVDs from friends who like their shelves at home
empty
and minimal. These DVDs are mostly DVD9 and comes with cardboxes. Titles are
mostly 1
unit each.

01. Chalkdust Memories DVD - RM10
- a compilation of instructional films shown to American high-school student
back in the
day, touching upon the dangers of sex, drugs, nuclear attack, driving etc.
Hilarious.

02. Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter DVD - RM15
03. Tadanobu Asano's Screwed DVD - RM10
04. Takashi Miike's Audition DVD - RM10
05. Masaru Konuma's Wife to be Sacrificed DVD - RM10

06. Tsai Ming Liang's What Time Is It There DVD - RM40
- features a nice packagin with postcards, poster & a making-of / director's
notes DVD.


MUSIC DVDs (2nd Hand - original releases)

01. Black Sabbath - The Last Supper DVD - RM30
- the original quartet of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward reunited for a
string of shows
in 1999. 120 minutes of pure Sabbath magic!

02. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York DVD - RM25
- don't think we need to add to this. Features rehearsal footages, the original
MTV
broadcast and also their classic rendition of Bowie's The Man Who Sold The
World.


VCDs (anime)

01. Ghost In The Shell 2xVCD - RM3
02. Macross II - The Movie - RM3


PUNK ROCK-RELATED DVDs (original, sealed)

01. The Accused - Video Archives Vol. 1 - RM40
- 2 hours of The Accused's crazy "splatter-rock" shows from 1986-1991.

02. Punk Im Dschungel - Punk Nat Det DVD - RM70
- A documentary following a tour by German punk band Cluster Bomb Unit in
Indonesia.
Features a lot of commentaries, interviews and scenes from the huge DIY punk
rock
subculture there. Comes with a patch and a limited edition vinyl-single/CD
hybrid
(soundtrack compilation of the doco, with tonnes of Indonesian bands)


GRAPHIC NOVELS

01. Frederic Boilet's Yukiko's Spinach - RM29
02. Boilet & Takahama's Mariko Parade - RM29
- an amazing example of the "nouvelle manga" movement, wherein a group of
Franco-
Belgian and Japanese cartoonists attempt to blend the best elements of their
respective
comics cultures.

03. Guy Delisle's Shenzhen - A Travelogue From China - Hardcover - RM35
- the follow-up to Delisle's much-aclaimed Pyongyang: "Here he again finds
himself
working on an animated movie in a Communist country, this time in Shenzhen, an
isolated
city in southern China. Delisle not only takes readers through his daily
routine, but also
explores Chinese custom and geography, eloquently explaining the cultural
differences
city to city, company to company and person to person" - Amazon

04. Herge's The Adventures of Tin Tin Vol 4 - Hardcover - RM23
- features three different classic adventures compiled in one hardcover book.

05. Martin Wagner's The Collegiate Hepcats - RM10
- Hepcats is a comic book self-published in the 1990s by artist Martin Wagner.
It dealt
with the lives of four college students, rendered as anthropomorphic animals
(humanoid
bodies, but animal heads), and was inspired by Wagner's own college experiences.
The
Collegiate Hepcats compiles complete collection of all the original Daily Texan
strips, plus
Hepcats #1 and some pre-Hepcats work from the University of Houston paper.


MAGAZINES
we carry a lot of music, films, lifestyle and art magazines, mostly 2nd hand and
ranges
from RM3 to RM15. They are WIRE, WIRED, SELECT, THE FACE, SIGHT & SOUND, DAZE,
ID
etc.


ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
we also have several artbooks, but they do go pretty fast as college students
are keen to
grab them pronto.

01. David Bailey's If We Shadow Book - 216 pages Paperback - RM60
- "Sometimes tender and witty, often violent and disturbing, David Bailey's
photographs
have not lost their power to arouse and to shock, nor the aesthetic appeal which
makes
them linger in the mind. They constitute one of today's most characteristic
iconographies."
- Bnet

02. Sophie Calle's Exquisite Pain - Hardcover - RM80
- "Over the last two decades, Sophie Calle has made it her business to follow,
peek into
and illuminate the lives of people she barely knows, with results that both
illustrate human
vulnerability and tend not infrequently to pathos. In Exquisite Pain, Calle
turns her
attention to a life-changing and heart-breaking experience from her own past." -
Thames
Hudson

03. Gianni Versace's Men Without Ties - Hardcover - RM20
- "Shots from Versace's collections with commentary by Richard Martin
elucidating the
thought behind Versace's designs, a short story by Barry Hannah, notes from
director Bob
Wilson, and comments from Gianni Versace himself." SFC Book review

04. Fiction. Love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art
Exhibition Catalogue - 3D cover - RM45
- "Are comics and animation becoming new art forms?". Featuring 39 artists,
mostly from
Japan and Taiwan, and their creations. The show was held in Taipei 2004.


BOOKS
2nd hand books, very good condition. Mostly in plastic covering and uber-mint!

01. Tom Holland's Lord of The Dead - paperback - RM15
02. Kevin Passmore's Fascism - A very Short Introduction - thick paperback -
RM10
03. Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being - paperback - RM19
04. Alan Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes - paperback - RM13
05. Mario Puzo's Omerta - paperback - RM10
06. Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon - paperback - RM10
07. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary - paperback - RM10
08. James Boswell's Life of (Samuel) Johnson - RM20
09. Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White - paperback - RM10

and many more sitting on our slated and enchanted book rack.

HELP THE SHOP!
Okay, guys & girls... if you have things you want to rid off, giveaway, sell
etc. Do send a
list over. We want comics, magazines, graphic novels, books, original DVDs/VCDs,
etc.
You can either donate them to us or donate the sales to our favourite gang (Food
Not
Bombs KL) or we can sell them for you. Do send us a list and we'll email you up.

If you want us to sell them for you, our terms is pretty simple: the shop takes
30% of
whatever retail price you put. And we'll pay you after 2 months of the date
delivered.

NEXT MAIL-OUT WILL BE ON MUSIC - Fanzines, Vinyls (7", 10" and 12"), CDs, CD-Rs
and
audio cassettes. After that we'll send you a list of the t-shirts, buttons and
patches we are
selling.

Any question, please direct it to thericecookershop@...

have a good week boss!


cheers,

Joe

call the shop: 03 - 203 12 203
come to the shop: 2.03, Mezzanine Floor, The Annexe, Central Market, Kuala
Lumpur
link to map:
http://ricecooker.kerbau.com/2007/03/10/the-ricecooker-get-yr-butts-there-people\
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