It's All Write Ma - Zimmy Zoomin'
Schedule
Sat May 25 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Location
Pour Vida Art & Plant House, 2124 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 | Venice, CA
Specific details for this event are available from Gerry [email protected] 310-306-7330The following is from 2021 and resonates a lot with the feel and happenings:
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Former Dylanologist Germy Folkways will host celebrating the paradoxical exuberance of Dylan Thomas/Little Richard wanna-be Robert Zimmy with all y'all. Live music and discussion.
When asked "Are you a poet?" Bob responded “I' m a trapeze artist.” Bob says: “Don’t ever tell anyone everything you know” and "“I didn't create Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan has always been here." In the LA Free Press-1965, Dylan was asked why he came to California. Bob: "To find some donkeys for a film I'm making." LA Free Press: "Are you going to play yourself?" Bob: "No, I am gonna play my mother & we're calling it Mother Revisited." Uncover the hidden dimensions of music, literature and film frequencies by way of rare film clips, live music and discussion. Probe his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One, his poem/novel Tarantula, and the reasons why Dylan shelved both his feature film Renaldo & Clara, and his documentary Eat The Document. Delve deep into his relationship with the avant-composer-filmmaker Frank Zappa (who was called "the Orson Welles of Rock" by NY Times) via the liner notes on John Wesley Harding, & Bob's visit to Zappa's home.
Compare and contrast Dylan's "If my thought-dreams could be seen" to the oft-quoted inquiry into the identification of the brain police. Will Erokan's Menippean satirical short I'm Not Beer caused Will's music magazine publisher dad to retort "Don't go messin' with Bob Dylan." Why? Why did Scorsese leave out important influences (alcohol, drugs, sex) in his much overly-praised Dylan doc? The mama multi-verse breaks open with Dylan's 2009 lyric "I'm reading James Joyce."
Poet Michael McClure took McLuhan to his first rock concert (Dylan), where McLuhan yelped "Gravity is like acoustic space -- the center is everywhere." When asked about the 60's, Bob answered, "Read McLuhan."
This is a self-reflexive reel mutha fo ya playshop. That he not busy writing songs is busy filming, or at least lying 5 times in the most recent Bobby Doc.
Where is it happening?
Pour Vida Art & Plant House, 2124 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291, United States