Flleur’s Physical Media Recommendations
Physical media for the chronically online, in order of appearance on my socials.
Updated regularly
On The Nile by Egyptian Lover @thegyptianlover
Greg Broussard, aka Egyptian Lover, is a vocalist, producer, & DJ from Los Angeles. This book examines the era that Egypt emerged from, ultimately leading to his groundbreaking release 40+ years ago. The book includes archive photos, handwritten lyrics, & notes from individuals in his orbit. Contributors include: Ice-T, Arabian Prince, Chris “The Glove” Taylor, Cozmo D, Moodymann, Dam-Funk, J Rocc, David Broussard & more.
Manga Corps by Gabber Eleganza @gabbereleganza
Published by @neversleeplife
Documenting over a decade of Japan’s hardcore techno scene, this stunning collection compiles flyers & artifacts from the underground rave movement, spanning from the 1990s to the early 2000s. It offers a rare & unfiltered glimpse into a subculture that remained largely unseen outside of Japan.
The Royal We by Roddy Bottum @roddybottum
A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age & out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San Francisco. The book follows his travels from Los Angeles, growing up gay with no role models, to San Francisco, where he formed Faith No More & went on to tour the world relentlessly, surviving heroin addiction & the plight of AIDS, to become a queer icon.
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller @canongatebooks
A collection of stories from legendary writer, actress, & adventurer Cookie Mueller, detailing her time in Baltimore with John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, and an America enduring AIDS. Selections from her columns for Details & the East Village Eye are also featured, alongside Mueller’s eulogy to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Desert Oracle by Ken Layne @desertoracle
Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy and musings on everything from desert flora to rumoured cryptid sightings & other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest.
Topanga Beach Snake Pit Vol.1 By: Baretta via @surfingcowboys
Stories from Topanga Beach’s Snake Pit during the 70s-80s, featuring surfers, musicians, Charles Manson, & more, offering a gritty, intimate view into a community on society’s edge.
The Pit Periodical @thepitperiodical
A Montreal-based, quarterly print magazine featuring selected visual art, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews of local goingson, a seasonal menu, & community surveys. It is equal parts earnest and silly. It is run by Chloe Majenta, painter, & Mariana Jimenez, writer, who wanted to create a site to gather avant-garde voices of varying disciplines under one roof.
Only available in print, & never digitized as a part of their mandate, you can grab a copy via their stockists
Needlebound @needle_bound
An annual publication that archives & amplifies the online fibre arts community through print. Founded by Hayley Mortin @dazy_chains in 2024, it exists as a deliberate counter-space to algorithmic curation as a place where fibre artists control their own narratives, set their own terms, & appear in full complexity rather than flattened into content.
032c @032c
A media and fashion company founded by Joerg Koch in 2000, which began as a magazine in Berlin. Now the brand also creates ready-to-wear collections, the mission being to inform, provoke, & activate the imagination. The 032c universe is a place for freedom, research, and creativity, where fantasy is reality, aspiration is attainment, & everything is culture in the making.