Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand 'art surfers' at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
-William Wordsworth
QUOTE: "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." T.S.Eliot.
MUSIC: The Afterimage Photo Gallery is showing the work of jazz photographer William Claxton thru July 6. (See Hard Copy Issue #80 Cover) In the mid 50's he took photos of: Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, & many more. Check it out. "There are 2 types of music: good and bad and the ear knows the difference." Duke Ellington. .... Yul Tolbert sent in his favorite TV theme songs: McNeil/Lerher / Northwood / Futurama / Swans Crossing / The Cape / Babylon 5 / Nightline / Batman/Superman / Celebrity Deathmatch / Early Edition. What's your list?
INTERIOR DESIGN: So your mansion is ready for the pages of AD (Architectural Digest). Well that could mean big $$$! "A spread in one of the big flashy design magazines - Architectural Digest, especially - can translate into literally hundreds of thousands of dollars for an architect or interior designer." (K. Goad, D Magazine) And by the way you'd better be a mag virgin if you want to be in AD. They won't even consider a home/apartment that's been featured in another magazine. Wellllll!
MUSEA REMEMBERS THE PASSING OF: We remember these artists: Al Hirt, Dixieland trumpeter / Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma Flintstone / Anthony Newley; actor, singer, songwriter / Dana Plato, child actress / & Shel Silverstein, author, musician.
ART: Aardvark Studios, (Dallas) wrote me a letter announcing their "RENAISSANCE 2000 PROJECT" They invite any artist in the world to submit an original work of art no bigger than 12 X 12 X 12 inches that will be fused with other works to create a mixed media assemblage celebrating Art's past, present and future. (Musea sent in our cover Pierrot from last issue). David L. Alvey said that it's "a very non-corporate art project... no art is for sale... there are no corp. sponsors...no jury ... no rejections ... no age limits. We've already received work from school kids in England and environmental artists Christo of Jeanne Claude - talk about diversity." It sounds very revolutionary and we like it! 972-699-8953.... A copy of William Blake's The First Book Of Urizen sold at auction for $2.5 mill in May. Highest price for a piece of English Lit. One reason is the 24 color etchings by Blake who is known as an artist as well as a poet (No Format Art - YEAH!) .... 6 murals on the Automobile Building at Fair Park are being restored. They were painted in 1936 , patterned after designs by French artist Pierre Boudrelle, and destroyed in a 1942 fire. We salute the $200,000 project. Fair Park is the jewel of Dallas - That's where the stables are for city mascot Pegasus! (L. Wertheimer / DMN)
ART S REV. ON HOLD: "Well if you appreciate my business, why am I on HOLD!"
ADS: REALITY CHECK: When Jimi Hendrix sang, "Are you experienced?", I assure you he was NOT talking about Rebok Shoes! When the Beatles sang, "It's getting better all the time" (2nd line is 'it can't get much worse') they were NOT trying to sell you Phillips TV's! .... On our website is a link to Adbusters. They hate ads as much as we do. Guess what, NBC, CBS, & ABC won't sell them airtime to get their anti-ad message out. In April they celebrated turn off your TV week! Check them out!
TV: SNL (Saturday Nite Live, and note to saxophone player - that high note you're playing at the end of the intro is irritating more beings than just dogs. After a 100 years of that screeching high note - Stop It!) actually said the name HUNKASAURUS in one of their skits. Were they promoting resident musician Hunk & P.D.? If so they have $10 coming (see page 3)... (Insider stuff: NBC is owned by nuclear power co GE, so when the top brass saw the script for sweeps month miniseries .Atomic Train. they blew a reactor and had the nuclear waste cargo switched to hazardous waste - rumor has it. Kinda makes you wonder if NBC NEWS is muzzled too when it comes to real news about ' runaway atomic trains'!
THEATER: Talk about bringing live theater to the people - a group of NYC actors are putting on a weekly soap opera, free of charge, on the No. 1 subway train! Each scripted episode is supposed to run 2 minutes 20 seconds, the duration of 2 subway stops. Then the cast jumps out and goes to another car for another performance. (Washington Post). In the WHY IS THEATER SO BAD DEPT. 1 major reason is the price of the tickets. When college people could afford the theater it had to be creative and fresh. But now with only the richest of old people buying the over priced tickets, the theater has turned old and dowdy too.
ZINES: The new ZINE WORLD #10 is out bigger and better than ever, with reviews of 100's of zines from across the country and the world (I'm a reviewer). To see what the zine revolution is all about send $3, cash to 537 Jones St. #2386, SF,CA 94102 (or check out a copy at 'Forbidden' in Exposition Park.) There may be a name change in the works. I suggested "Zine Kong". Fellow ZW reviewer Pam Yamaguchi said, "Zine Kong, huh? I'm picturing a huge ape on the Empire State Building swatting at flying photocopiers and long armed staplers." ....In other zine news, the other best zine review zine, Amusing Yourself To Death and Java Turtle's Lynne Lowe are putting on the 2nd Santa Barbara Zine Fest, Sat. June 5. A lot of the most notable zinesters will probably attend. (805-962-3379)
AND FINALLY: There's a lot new on our website: extraordinary poetry of the south seas by Malaysian poet Dr. Robert James Berry / Links to superb computer artist Llori Steinberg / A link to ad fighters, adbusters.org. / a link to letter writer Rich Mackin, and much much more. We started the website 1 year ago, May 12th, so we're celebrating our birthday online. Come visit!