William Burroughs, Charley Plymell and James Grauerholz

Bill Burroughs, charley Plymell and James Grauerholz

"We had to do a special grocery shopping for Ginsberg, who spent most of the time at dinner talking about his special diet that had to be sugar free. They were both asked earlier on stage at Kansas University in Lawrence what their favorite line was in all literature. Bill answered, "Tomorrow,tomorrow tomorrow," and Allen answered "That in black ink my love may still shine bright." After dinner, we reflect and I thought Bill's lines were all too familiar to describe what one goes through trying to score, but of course it had greater connotations. Allen tried to remember and recite the sonnet his lines came from, but couldn't. I said it was easier if he started at the beginning and recited the whole sonnet which I began to do. About halfway through Bill started figiting with his hand in his pocket of his.38 Special. James put his hand on his shoulder to comfort him and whispered "let him finish". Bill wasn't known for liking poetry that much as such, especially my long recital. I laughed to myself while continuing the sonnet, imagining and old cowboy western movie I'd seen where the guy got on stage out in Nevada or somewhere reciting Shakespeare and a drunken cowboy pulled out his revolver to shoot as his feet. They were both impressed at my reciting the whole sonnet.

Soon the Kansas moon lit the sky and Bill was prowling around outside in his pyjamas while James and I talked under a Cottonwood tree. When we came back in, Allen was offered some desert with us, and he reminded us that he must not eat sugar. Bill had been showing off the famous skull from Mexico carved from sugar. I quipped, "At least Allen won't eat your skull!" That got a big chuckle from Bill, who replied in that flat St. Louis voice, "No. Ginsberg won't eat my skull."

That was the last dinner Bill and Allen would have together. It embodied the love that he would later write on his funuary card."

Charles Plymell,  "SOME MOTHERS' SONS", http://www.cherryvalleyeditions.com/

Healing Crazy Minds: Master Musicians Of Joujouka & Morocco's Boujeloud Festival

Richie Troughton , August 18th, 2010 13:37

Following in the footsteps of Brian Jones and Timothy Leary, Richie Troughton heads to Morocco to experience the magical sounds of the Master Musicians of Joujouka

Read the whole article at :
http://thequietus.com/articles/04829-healing-crazy-minds-master-musicians-of-joujouka-morocco-s-boujeloud-festival

Phil Scalia's new wikigraph

phisca added a photo to Wikigraphs

Aug 17, 2010 6:43:45 PM

Charles Plymell at Bitter End.

Charles Plymell reading JFK Jr. poem at Bitter End, NYC. after his plane crash.

Baud: Afternoon sphere play

By Baud

Chinese Modern Art: The Last Banquet by Zhang Hongtu, the Chinese Warhol, painted in 1989.

More paintings by Zhang Hongtu at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/04/chinas_warhol_gets_dirty?page=0,2

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Herman Leonard passes away

Herman Leonard, icon photographer of Jazz scenes, has died at the age of 87 on August 14th in Los Angeles. He was famous for his "smoky," backlighted B and W photos of Jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Over 60,000 of his negatives are stored at the Ogdon Museun. He returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and was featured in the 2005 BBC Sundance Documentary “Saving Jazz," and was featured in the 2006 BBC documetnary "Saving Jazz."

Herman Leonard in 2004

Source: blogs.tampabay.com/.../06/herman-leonard.html

Phil Scalia: View of Citi Building

View of Citi Building from a cemetery in Queens NY

by Phil Scalia

http://www.philipscalia.com/

Sunday August 15th NOVACRIMINAL and THE RADIO SWEETHEART live in Long Beach

It's the last show we'll play before William takes off for Ireland so come on down!

Clancy's 803 E. Broadway Long Beach Ca

The Radio Sweetheart
novacriminal
...
9PM
21+
FREE

Stéphan Barron: [09carnet_1]ORIENT EXPRESS - STEPHAN BARRON - OSTRALE, DRESDEN 2010

ORIENT EXPRESS à OSTRALE, DRESDE, 2010
New version, will show in Dresden, Ostrale international exhibition from 27.8 to 19.9 2010
video edition dvdremix, and paper edition.

The project was realized during a pivotal phase of european history, two years before the fall of the Berlin wall, there is an almost premonition sense of the rejoining of the post war divide.
This work is highly significant in its use of networks, digital technology and art on global scale. Ideas that seem omni-present now, ecology, travel and changes in our perception of time and space are all thoroughly explored in this mid 80`s work.
Orient express is important in the canon of technoromanticism, there are echos of the work of Caspar David Friedrich exploring common themes of distance, scale, spiritualism and fraternity by employing the tools of our time. By way of co-incidence Friedrich`s ¨The big enclosure¨ (Das große Gehege - Ostra Gehege) was
painted in 1832 at the site that is now the Ostrale.
More at  http://www.technoromanticism.com/en/projects/OSTRALE/orexp_ostrale_en.html  

Orient Express, Paris, 1991

The Huffington Post: Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/gerard-malangas-journey-f_n_670629.html
Screen Test Superstar:


How Gerard Malanga's poetry defined the early Andy Warhol era

Chelsea Weathers

Poetry Foundation

Phil Scalia: new wikigraphs

phisca added 2 photos to Wikigraphs

Aug 9, 2010 10:58:00 AM

invitation exposition andré willequet - galerie didier devillez

http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/

Literary Kicks: "Appreciating Andrew Wylie, Evil Bohemian Jackal" by Levi Asher

http://www.litkicks.com/EvilBohemianJackal

Phil Scalia: vacation 2010 + Wikigraph

Workin on a tan!

http://www.philipscalia.com/

Wikigraphs: View Album Play slideshow

Joyce Meets Burroughs by Way of Mary Beach

On line at :
http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2010/07/joyce_meets_burroughs_by_way_o.html

The Beach-Plymell Collection

Mary Beach & Claude Pélieu Art
http://www.beachpelieuart.com/

Charles Plymell: In Paris (June 68)

http://www.inter-zone.org/charlesplymellinparis.html

Charles and Pam Plymell, 1966

AD Winans : A Call to Poets

http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans3.html

Photo of A.D. Winans by Janusz Zalewski.

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Après son exposition collective « Sound by artists » en 2009, la galerie Frédéric Giroux entame en 2010
une série d’expositions personnelles d’artistes sonores :
Pascal Broccolichi du 20 mars au 15 mai,
Pierre Beloüin du 22 mai au 19 juin
Optical Sound du 6 au 24 juillet
Jérôme Poret du 4 septembre au 30 octobre
et Pierre-Laurent Cassière du 6 novembre au 23 décembre.




Previously on Optical Sound…
Du 6 au 24 Juillet
Galerie Frédéric Giroux 8 rue Charlot 75003 Paris
http://www.fredericgiroux.com/

Optical sound est une structure hybride et atypique, furtive et mobile qui dessine ses propres frontières entre musique expérimentale et art contemporain. Bien avant l'exode des musiciens vers les contrées plus accueillantes des arts plastiques - crise du disque oblige et soif insatiable de nouveauté - Optical sound œuvre depuis 1997 au mixage interdisciplinaire et produit sans distinction projets de musiciens-artistes- graphistes… : disques, dvd's, badges, sérigraphies, éditions limitées, interfaces, expositions, revues… Pas de dogme, ni de chapelle mais la cartographie d'un territoire animé par un réseau serré d'intervenant qui travaillent en cooptation, par le truchement des productions, des rencontres et du partage des données et des passions. Ici règne la Direction artistique au sens noble du terme, Pierre Beloüin en est le gardien - du studio d'enregistrement ou de la salle de concert, en passant par le Black Cube… - selon. Graphistes, plasticiens, écrivains, journalist es, musiciens font partie d'une dynamique de production, d'une marque de fabrique qui traverse les aléas de la production culturelle underground dans un pays peu réceptif aux décloisonnements et au transferts de genres. Cette exposition fera la part belle à ce qui peut-être vu - galerie oblige - mais lézardera le long des murs et dans les écouteurs cette musique qui depuis la naissance du label hurle en faveur d'un projet mixed media toujours bien vivant.




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J.G. Thirlwell, Alain Declercq, Barbara Breitenfellner, Rebecca Bournigault, Pascal Broccolichi, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Jérôme Poret, Sophie Sommerlatt, Marjolaine Bourdua, Cathryn Boch, Emeline Girault , Cendrillon Bélanger, Philippe Perreaudin, Claire Moreux, Lydie Jean Dit Pannel, Serge Comte, Pascal Béjean, Loïg R, Goran Vejvoda, Ian Simms, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Nicolas Simonin,Jill Gasparina, Frederic Nogray, Frédéric Post, Alain Declercq, Stéphane Sautour, Claude Lévêque, Rainier Lericolais, Christian Vialard, P.Nicolas Ledoux, Guillaume Ollendorf, Simon Fisher Turner, Isabella Turner, Sébastien Roux, Eddie Ladoire, Lionel Marchetti, Black Sifichi, Norscq, Cocoon aka Christophe Demarthe, Stéphane Thidet, David Michael Clarke, Anabelle Hulaut, Philippe Lepeut, Christophe Bailleau, Olivia Louvel, Thierry Weyd, Samuel Ruchot, Julien Sirjacq, Cécile Babiole, Gilles Berquet, Mirka Lugosi, Mathias Delplanque, Alia Daval, Dorota Kleszcz , François Ronsiaux,Wild Shores, Hervé TTrioreau, Laurent Faulon, Davide Bertocchi, Alexandre Bianchini, Dominique Blais, Vincent Epplay, Gérôme Nox, Scanner…

En vente à la galerie jusqu'au 24 Juillet, de 50 euros à 1500 euros



À l’occasion de cette exposition les éditions Optical Sound seront disponibles intégralement sous la forme d’un lot unique contenant la collection complète des 13 ans de productions.
 Par ailleurs un nouveau numéro "manifeste !", hors série de la revue Opticalsound consacré aux Manifestes sera proposé en exclusivité et en parallèle à sa présentation à l'Espace de l’Art Concret,(Mouans –Sartoux) à l'occasion de l'exposition "le temps des manifestes". du 22 mai au 19 juin



commissariat de l'exposition :
Pierre Beloüin avec P.Nicolas Ledoüx et Olivier Hüz.


Artistes invités :

*La Vitrine par : Eddie Ladoire « ENJOY THE SILENCE » :

Feuille d’acier de 5mm d’épaisseur + découpe laser  (140x90) Tirage unique
« Enjoy the silence» est le titre d’un album du groupe de pop électronique anglais : Depeche Mode.
Fixer cette phrase hors de son propos, sur un support non musical et dans un contexte de bruit, devient un geste quasi fictionnel, et sculptural

*Black Sifichi (13 years continuous mix, vidéo)(www.blacksifichi.com)

*Ototoï (Borne interactive développé par Servovalve et Marie Destandau pour le site www.ototoimusic.com)
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Bob Branaman's illustration of Chances R

Bob Branaman's illustration of Chances R, famous gay bar in 50's published with Ginsberg poem when he visted Charles Plymell in Wichita in 60's.