GRIST

Rare issue of GRIST magazine edited, designed, printed by Charles Plymell in S.F. in 60's on same multilith that ZAP was printed on. The format was maximum size for Multilith which determined format of comix for many years. The front cover was done by Plymell and back cover Wilson drawing. The center fold (not pictured) was also Wilson drawing.

Phi Scalia: Wikigraphs

On line at
http://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia-htm
http://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia2-htm
http://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia3-htm
 

"Fata Morgana"

"Solstice"

NOVACRIMINAL music : Thursday July 8th NOVACRIMINAL live dowtown

Thursday, July 8, 2010


Time: 9:30pm - 11:30pm

Location: the 5 star bar

Street: 267 S Main (at 3rd)

City/Town: Los Angeles, CA

Come down to the Artwalk and end the evening with us.

More bands to be announced

A UPDATE ON ARTIST S. CLAY WILSON by LORRAINE CHAMBERLAIN

I have been flirting with S Clay Wilson for forty years, lived with him for ten, visited him in the hospital every day for a year, and brought him home to take care of six months ago. It is a daunting task. But one I have been and will continue to be devoted to every day. He is changed in many ways, but I find it easy to love this New Wilson as much as the Old One. This version is more tender and sensitive, although on occasion he can be just as stubborn and difficult as he always was.


Wilson was not in a bar the night his life changed. He was trying to get home from a friend's house. We have never known if he fell or if he was beaten up. He certainly looked like he'd been attacked, covered with bruises, cuts, a fractured orbital bone with bleeding in three hemispheres of his brain. Some good samaritans discovered him unconscious, face down between two parked cars in the rain. We have never found out who these people were who saved his life by calling an ambulance, waiting for it to arrive so they could find him. I scoured that little street days later, asking people if they knew who did that, in order to thank them. Several people had heard about "the guy who got beat up" on their street, but knew nothing more. We will never be certain of the cause his wounds. He suffered a severe, traumatic brain injury that night, and at first it didn't show.

Wilson was in a coma for three weeks until he was taken off the ventilator. They had removed it once before in the first week, but he failed this breathing test and had to be intubated again. He suffered from a bout of pneumonia after that, so it was frightening when the neurosurgeon told us he may not make it when they removed the machine again. Thankfully, he gradually opened his eyes and continued breathing on his own.

We had no idea how severely impaired he was for many months after that day. Always an uncooperative personality, many times he told people to 'get lost" when they came to visit. Some took it personally, some blamed it on me, and some let it roll off their backs to return another day for a more successful visit. He had bouts of outrage when he was in the rehab facility, trying to escape with all of his belongings crammed into the legs of a pair of sweats, like a duffel bag. He spent days ranting about vivid characters and scenarios not based in reality. It took me awhile to realize that many of these wild delusions were really "verbal drawings"...not hallucinations at all. He couldn't draw them, so he spoke them.

It took several months before he could even write his name. I brought him a small sketch pad which he kept close by but left blank. One day I looked in it to discover his famous signature! It brought me to tears, offering hope for the first time about his ability to draw again some day. Soon after that we discovered a face he'd drawn on an easel in the dining room. A friend thought it looked like me. Two days later, I discovered four Checkered Demon faces on the same easel. I saved these little gems to show him later, thinking we would have a great laugh at their simplicity.

In the ensuing month he surprised us all by completing a fantastic color piece he titled "Lots of Pirates" . After three months he was moved to another facility and stopped drawing. It took awhile to realize this was because he didn't have the right furniture. I arrived one day with a lamp and a high stool to place in front of a raised table, much like his arrangement at home. He was off and running, drawing for hours at a time in the following months. But his feverish output died down after ten drawings.

Since returning home, he spends many days drawing, followed by days or sometimes weeks off. He has completed several remarkable pieces here at home, but said recently that he is weary of his characters. This worries me, of course, but I do not nag him. I try to keep him engaged in any way possible, exercising, walking, and visiting with his friends. We go to museums and galleries together, and once in awhile to a matinee. He loved Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, as well at Crazy Heart.

He remembers many old pals as well as his sister, but the mystery of his impairment has caused him to obsess about old slights and misunderstandings.( I have tried to get him to ease up on this attitude,but so far, regarding some people, to no avail.) He can recall much of his intellectual knowledge about art and movies. He never watches tv, having been a terrible snob about that all his life. But we haunt the libraries, renting up to 20 movies at a time. I do not allow him to lie in bed all day watching them. We begin viewing at around 4pm most days, and by 9 pm we may have completed three films before going to sleep.

Wilson is not a blank slate. In many ways, he makes more sensitive observations than he ever verbalized before his accident. He cannot problem solve, however, and can do very little for himself without help. His short term memory is shot, and he no longer talks very much since he now has aphasia. Sometimes it is hard for him to express himself, but since we are together most of the time I can usually help "put words in his mouth" so he can get it out. (He's always quick to tell me if I'm getting it wrong, however.)

I have put together a Special Needs Trust for him, since he is no longer capable of earning a living. He receives Social Security and Disability benefits which barely cover expenses. This Trust gives him a little security for his future needs, although it is not growing very quickly. This gifted artist who has worked as hard as he partied is now in need of everyone's generous help. He is still capable of worrying about the future even though he does not fully understand what has happened to alter it.

This is a tragic turn of events for a proud man. I hope people will visit the web page I made for him and donate what they can. The Trust is set up so that the money can only be spent on him. It cannot be used for rent, food or utilities, so we pool our meager resources to cover those.

He loves to get letters and postcards although he cannot write back. I try to send thank you notes and postcards to everyone who writes to him or donates to the Trust.

To some people this terrible injury may seem self-inflicted or his own fault and thus, less deserving of our help. But this iconic artist and extraordinary man needs all of the loving care, sympathy, and generosity his fellow man can spare.

The Trust address is www.sclaywilsontrust.com

Other mail can be sent to Wilson at PO Box 14854 San Francisco, Ca 94114

Lorraine Chamberlain

More in Punk Globe:
- AN UPDATE ON ARTIST  S. CLAY WILSON By: Lorraine Chamberlain
http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonarticle0610.html
- A benefit for S. Clay Wilson :
http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonbenefit409.html
- S. CLAY WILSON You Can't Keep a Dirty Cartoonist Down! by Rebecca G. Wilson
http://www.punkglobe.com/S.%20Clay%20Wilson%20Interview.html

Alain Jegou et Jean Azarel au Marché de la poésie Rochefort sur Loire 4 juillet 2010

Présentation de "Papy Beat Generation" , Editions Hors Sujet, au marché de la Poésie de Rochefort sur Loire, dimanche 4 juillet 2010.

Alain Gegou et Jean Azarel

Jean Azarel et Pierre Rannou, éditeur de "Papy Beat Generation" chez Hors Sujet

Phil Scalia : Photographs

BP CEO helps out in the gulf

Washington crossing the Gulf of Mexico

http://www.philipscalia.com/

RealityStudio: Bulletin from Nothing, Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker

Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/bulletin-from-nothing/
 

A.D. Winans : FOURTH OF JULY POEM and more

FOURTH OF JULY POEM :
On line at http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans1.html

FOR JAMIE,
FOR WILLIAM BURROUGHS,
ON THE DEATH OF JACK MICHELINE,
REMEMBERING BOB KAUFMAN
On line at http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans2.html

Jack Micheline and A.D. Winans in SF. Sometime in the nineties. Photo by Linda Lerner

Mike Watt Interview and Bass Lesson. PlayThisRiff.com

Grant Hart at Cakeshop VIDEO by Laki Vazakas; Photo gallery by Phil Scalia

Grant Hart at Cakeshop VIDEO by Laki Vazakas :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQdhaFehGG8




Photo gallery by Phil Scalia: Grant Hart http://www.philipscalia.com/gh/index.htm

Charles Plymell ARMAGEDDON RAPTURE HEADED END-TIME BLUES

Charles Plymell at St. Mark's on the Bowerie

photo: © Phil Scalia — May 3, 2006

On line at http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/Bowerie.html

ANDREA SCHROEDER POETISCHE SONGS MIT GROSSER STIMME

Aus München kommt der eigenständige Folk-Blues von Andrea Schroeder. Ihre erdige, beschwörende Stimme gleitet über hypnotisierenden Rhythmen. Ihre Musik, voller Kraft und Poesie, entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Hubsi Widmann, dem Ex Mastermind von Schandmaul. Einige ihrer Songs sind internationale Kooperationen, u.a. mit Richard Horowitz
(Golden-Globe für die Filmmusik “Der Himmel über der Wüste” von Bernardo Bertulucci) und dem legendären New Yorker Beatpoeten Charles Plymell. Die beschwörende und einfühlsame Musik von Andrea
Schroeder mit ihrer charismatischen Stimme fand innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine große Zuhörerschaft und internationale Anerkennung.
Sie erinnert an die Klänge von Velvet Underground oder Patti Smith.

Andrea Schroeder - Gesang
Hubsi Widmann - Bass, Drehleier, Gitarre
Georg Weis - Gitarre, Mandoline, Klavier
Karsten Helmbold - Percussion
__________________________________
http://andreaschroeder.com/
http://myspace.com/andreaschroedermusic
__________________________________

Charles Bukowski

Mike Watt: dates of the Stooges' concerts, tour July 2010

friends,


I'm on tour now w/the stooges, thousands of miles away from my pedro town...

july 2 festival beauregard - herouville saint-clair, france

july 5 place du palais, monaco

july 7 l'olympia - paris, france

july 9 rock zottegem festival - zottegem, belgium

july 10 les deferlantes festival - argeles sur mer, france

july 12 les nuits d'istres festival - istres, france

july 14 les nuits de fourviere festival - lyon, france

july 16 fiera della musica festival - azzano decimo, italy

july 18 colours of ostrava festival - ostrava, czech republic

july 20 paleo festival - nyon, switzerland

july 21 big festival - biarritz, france

it is great honor to work bass for stooges, I try my hardest.
back home for a little bit in three weeks.
on bass, watt
http://mikewatt.com/

the june 27, 2010 edition of the watt from
pedro show w/on-air guests peter distefano
+ twan plus #005 of the pinhead from asia
segment up now at:
http://twfps.com/

Featuring the work of Ally Malinenko and John Hospodka

On line in the following sites :

Rusty Truck: http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
 
deuce coupe http://deucecoupe.wordpress.com/

Charles Plymess in the Rusty Truck

Charles Plymell: The Rusty Truck Interview - Introduction to Charles Plymell by A.D. Winans
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/charles-plymell-the-rusty-truck-interview/

Archive for the charles plymell Category :
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/category/charles-plymell/

Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : W. Blake, Rilke, Rimbaud

Some videos from poetry evening in our home town last autumn (also, don't remember, maybe i already sent those links). There I made music for texts of some my favorite poets - W. Blake, R.M. Rilke, A. Rimbaud.

Vasha


- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : "The Smile" by William Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSKPyZtmUo



Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rilke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWcacWumGsM&feature=related



- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rimbaud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-3WMU1kh0 

Vasha & Egle: videos on the roads of Europe

Those videos are made by Egle, dureing their trip from Lithuania to Portugal in 2009:

- keliones pradzia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxekonmAw4 



- keliones II dalis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHf0p1R4qbk&feature=related




- keliones III dalis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MJos87RWZc&feature=related
 

Benoit Delaune: articles autour de William Burroughs

Benoit Delaune a rédigé une thèse de littératures comparées sur Burroughs, qui portait principalement sur le cut-up et la "trilogie nova". Il a participé en juillet dernier au colloque parisien pour les 50 ans du Festin nu, en tant que "parleur" et aussi en tant que musicien, avec le groupe dont il fait partie, Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique.

Quelques uns des articles qu'il a écrits autour de Burroughs sont consultables en ligne :

- "Texte itératif et stéréotypes chez William Burroughs : de l’intertextualité à l’autostéréotypie":
http://revel.unice.fr/cnarra/index.html?id=1268 dans les Cahiers de Narratologie

- Collage, montage, cut-up, musique concrète : figures de l’intégration du chaos dans l’œuvre chez William Burroughs et Pierre Schaeffer : http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article276 : TRANS - Revue de littérature générale et comparée, N° 9: Pop-culture.

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Benoit Delaune has written a thesis of comparative literatures on Burroughs, particularly down the cut-up and "nova trilogy". In July 2009 he took part in the colloquium in Paris for the 50 yeats of Naked Lunch, as a lecturer as well as a musician, with the group he is a member of, " Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique".


Some of the articles he wrote around Burroughs are available on line :

- "Texte itératif et stéréotypes chez William Burroughs : de l’intertextualité à l’autostéréotypie": http://revel.unice.fr/cnarra/index.html?id=1268  in the Cahiers de Narratologie.

- Collage, montage, cut-up, musique concrète : figures de l’intégration du chaos dans l’œuvre chez William Burroughs et Pierre Schaeffer : http://trans.univ-paris3.fr/spip.php?article276  : TRANS - Revue de littérature générale et comparée, N° 9: Pop-culture.

Mino D.C.: Tableau d'herbes

l'atelier-jardin de mino d.c. à http://ateliermino.free.fr/