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Month: September 2009 (Page 5 of 5)

He says No

September 7, 2009 / / 0 Comments
He says:
Not unless you ask me
and if you ask me
I will say no
a rather wordy prohibition
but it sounds tougher than just no alone

Yet walls are seldom tough
they simply sit in place
holding one place back
while being a barrier to another
never allowing passage between the two

until the wall grows old and crumbles
with or without permission
–Gee-O-Vaw-Knee
(sending my love to the entire crew)

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a great poem from a ghost from the past… Or from the future!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

just watched us on LES BIO

September 7, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Just accidentally tuned in to LES BIO PROJECT and watched episode of you Linda and I ..really great!!!
xoxopenny

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ah, yes, Penny! We should do a play or something together! It’s playing
here too! We are just too good!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Interview

September 6, 2009 / / 0 Comments
Buenos Aires

Queridos Frank & Sheri

I finished studying the transcript of the interview. Thanks again to Jen for the extensive work. It was very interesting to read about this corner, this tribe of the grand Poly-Nation. Fascinating how different humans can approach the same question so variedly.

I’d greatly enjoy visiting you and have my proper Swiss side be irritated by your fluid flexibility. But that will have to wait till the financing is approved. For now I can only afford to meet with people that are in places I travel to anyway (Argentina, Switzerland & New York). Unlike the brave step of Sheri & Jessica to just go forward into things, we won’t be starting to film till the whole project is financed.

Meanwhile I’m trying to knit together as tightly as possible on a virtual level the network that will create this film. I am in the process of discovering what there is out there that can be played with to build the mosaic of this film. Therefore, I have a bunch of somewhat technical questions for the two of you:

Frank:

Who is the commune in Massachusetts where you were “channeling” Reed?
What is their stand on the question of Monogamy? Might they be a worthy point to visit for the film?

Are you still in contact with Suzie Block? Could you connect me to her? Do you have a copy of the tape of your stunt on her show?

In what video format were your performances filmed? What year was the first one filmed?

Are you in contact with Annie Sprinkle? Could you connect me to her?

Are you still in contact with One Taste? Could you connect me to them?

There are a lot of things that are foreign to me… being a foreigner… Balazzo; Noisefest; Kimo; Cherry; Leprechauns. Could you enlighten me?

Did you ever make an edited piece out of the “Erotic Play” materials?

Do you think your neighbors (70s / christian) would be willing to give us a short interview about what they think about you? That could be a sweet moment.

Sheri:

“Jessica – my director/co-creator – is looking for the interview as we speak (she’s in possession of them at this time).”

Great, on what format were they shot?

“Once I get them, I’ll let you know and if you want them sent somewhere, let me know.”

It would be very nice to get a copy. For now the quality doesn’t matter, just so I see how the interview feels on the visual level. Could you send it to my New York address below?

Do you remember what year the interview happened?

Do you have the whole interview as on the transcript or did you turn your camera off at some point?

Did you ever put together a mix of their performances?

You say in the interview that you did a bunch of other interviews. Could any of them also be interesting for our film, with other words, were any of them with other people that live in a constellation that goes beyond 2?

Did you ever do the animation you had planned?

“Glad that the interview’s ripples are seeing new oceans ;)”

Let’s hope I’m more fortunate in getting the financing together. So far it looks good. We got the strongest Swiss producer behind the project. But as you know, filmmaking is a tricky tiger to ride, you can be thrown off at any point of the ride….

Thanks for the link. I haven’t had the time yet to watch it. What do you know about Joy Davidson?

From the Heart

Tomi

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well, Tomi, the dust has settled after weeks of multiple shows and I survived! So I can now answer your questions…

the Massachusetts commune was THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SPIRIT. They don’t exist anymore, except as an email list. Most of them were /are reactionary victims of life who thought /think I was /am a carnal devil… Which is ironic because when I was living there, i was still a virgin for most of the time I was there… But I cuddled/played with people on my bed… Hence carnal! There I had my first complete sexual encounters and got married [mainly to nail down the commitment]. The official rule on sex in the community was only in long term relationship. of course there was stretching that policy! [especially among the core group, which I was not in.] I left with my wife because we wanted to focus on our personal relationship and that was beginning to run into conflict with certain commune’s factions.

Btw, I was never comfortable with the concept of marriage which is connected to ownership. But “getting married ” is a way to define the commitment of the relationship.

when I lived there, 250 people lived there. About two years after I left I went back. I was there for about a hour. I was with two people of my tribal relationship which was then four. When I got on the community email list more than 30 years later, that was apparently still a big scandal for them… How I showed up with two women! Most people are just curious about how such a group relationship works. But the community members on the email list were extremely negative and hostile… Even though apparently there was another triad that came out of the community.

by the “stunt,” do you mean the music jam we did at Suzy’s? Both Suzy and we videod it. Suzy was my vice presidential candidate when I ran for president. Btw, here is one of the planks of my platform:

Government should leave marriage to churches. Instead, any two or more adults who have been living together for at least 2 years should be able to register as a “family.”

well, the first performances that were videod on reel to reel were our Fantasy Costume Parades and free concerts in 1977. but these tapes were stolen. Starting with THE OUTRAGEOUS BEAUTY REVUE, videos of most of my
phases are available. See http://www.eroplay.com/intimatetheater/intimate.html and http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/shaman.html#PerformAnchor. My feature videos are up at :http//www.eroplay.com/feisto/index.html.

Yes, I did used the Erotic Play footage! In fact I made two videos from it… I believe in recycling! Erotic Play turned out to be a documentary of the process of filming it. The Nude Cave is an abstract erotic video which I created the music for.

Annie and Suzy, this is Tomi!

For One Taste, I suggest you google them. I am not on good terms with them. But you should interview them.

as for our neighbor Betty, I suggest you wait until you are actually ready to interview her.

All of those strange words are names of clubs… Except for LEPRECHAUN [little green Irish people] which I used in the title of a saint Patrick day gig. and NOISEFEST is a festival of noise music in sacramento.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

This week’s Maximum Rock N Roll!

September 6, 2009 / / 0 Comments
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 4pm pacific

http://www.luver.com/maxrnr.html

tape #70
56 minutes
hosts: Tim, Ruth & Dr. Veil
guest: Frank Discussion

Side One
1. The Farts
2. Two Minute Hate “Dumb Jock”
3. Scream “Mass Media”
4. The Afflicted “Here Come The Cops”
5. Crucifix “Steel Case Enclosure”
6. The Insane “Wide Eye”
7. Blitz “Propaganda”
8. The Crash “Fight For Your Life”
9. Serious Drinking “Bobby Moore Was Innocent”
10. Subhumans
11. UK Subs “Bic”
12. UXA “Tragedies
13. Ultravox “Fear In The Western World”
14. The Urinals “Ack Ack Ack Ack”
15. KS2 “Swine”

Side Two
1. Betrug “I Hate Hamburgers”
2. Der Flucht
3. O.H.L.
4. Katzbakken
5. The Feederz “Games”
6. The Feederz “Subscription”
7. Guest: Frank Discussion

Finland:
8. Kaos “Politika”
9. Appendix
10. Mahahitsu
11. The Bastards

12. Last Gasp

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ah, frank discussion of THE FEEDERZ.. One of my backup bands!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

RE: Goings On

September 6, 2009 / / 0 Comments

(Frank Moore wrote:)

thanks, Harley! We should have submitted also Friday’s performance in Oakland where I will be a guest vocal cords in the Los Angeles band MAGIKAL ORCHIDS. Actually this is a crazy busy week. We did three SHAMAN’S DEN shows [actually a fourth guest cancelled] and now these two back-to-back performances! We may die!

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You may not. Not without my permission which I shall never grant. Harley

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mmmmmm… There are a lot of people denying me their permission!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

your treatment

September 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments
in itself, Tomi, is extremely helpful!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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“Monogamy?”
This feature length documentary will be a fast paced, funny, at times satirical, but never unscientific exploration of monogamy and its many alternatives. A journey through history, the animal world, different cultures; through past and present, public and personal, failed and successful experiments in freer arrangements between lovers. The filmmakers won’t shy away from exploring the far corners of the Himalayas, from interviewing experts, sexperts and other professionals, as well as from listening in on the opinions of the average Joe & Jane on the street. But there is no reason to do all the legwork ourselves, a wide range of filmed material already exists: From wildlife footage, to excerpts of documentaries, to Hollywood outtakes, it will all flow together into a colorful collage about this controversial and sexy subject.

Synopsis
A lovely chapel, the people in the pews touched by the event, the couple standing in front of the priest in awe. He is about to say his conclusive (and all exclusive) words: Till death do you part… Are they serious, are they really gonna give their word on this? Yes… we are in love… so it’s only natural that “we do”… Natural? Looking at it from a purely statistical point, there is a high probability this marriage will end with affairs and/or visits to prostitutes, and/or in divorce. Maybe because it doesn’t take into account the nature of the beast? More precisely our natural predisposition. Maybe monogamous marriage is an unnatural construct, for most destined to fail— and in the course making many a couple disillusioned and miserable? At least looking at the animal world, this conclusion doesn’t seem too farfetched. We’re one of the very few mammals that tries to stay monogamous.
As far back as we can research, humans always have been polygamous. It was only with the Christians and their new testament that this peculiar concept of one woman, one man, and “forever”, started to be propagated on a broader scale. At first most weren’t convinced—from Muslims to Mormons, many cultures remain polygamous to date.

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The only little problem is, that while these cultures take care of the needs and desires of their men, women really get the short end of the stick. There are actually exceptions, even in traditional cultures. For example in the Himalayas where it is common for a woman to have several husbands. Either way around, a system that leaves out the needs of half its members is a frustrating solution. Some groups took “liberté, égalité, fraternité” to heart and started experimenting with free love that respected both sexes. As early as the 1840s the Oneida Community flourished in upper New York. Well, that it ended with the founder, John Humphrey Noyes, claiming to have fathered 300 children in a single year only shows how hard it is to break out of the patriarchal mold of our society… Finally ‘68 came around and accompanied by songs like David Crosby’s “Triad” the lid was blown off for good. Since then many groups have been and still are experimenting with polygamous relations. But there are also many personal “experiments” of famous people like Warren Buffet, Tilda Swinton, etc., and not so famous ones, like Marion and her two men that reside on three floors of a Paris flat. Living on the middle floor Marion brings up two kids, one from each “husband”. These “unsung heroes” have quietly gone about their personal constellations, happily living in ways that society doesn’t sanction. But back to our couple that’s still eagerly awaiting to get married. Are you still sure this is the right, the “natural” thing to do? They hesitate… Don’t worry, maybe we can bring this to a happy end after all. There are actually animals that get married for life, like the penguins. They don’t care all that much if it’s between opposing sexes. Look at this couple of male penguins…. and their egg… a stone. Actually, once you give them a real egg, as they did in 2004 at the Central Park Zoo, they brood it till the baby cracks the hard shell, then bring it up very fatherly. Or look at the swans, they too are married for life. While in the past we believed that that also meant that they only have sex with their partner, DNA tests now show that the eggs they are hatching are actually fertilized by various fathers… Maybe that’s a concept our newlyweds could adopt? Till death do us part we shall be together… and love many others too. Maybe this way the unnatural construct of monogamy could finally be brought to sing its swansong?!

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Behind this project are: Tomi Streiff, director of the romantic road moo-vie “The Wedding Cow” that won 20 awards while participating in over 50 international film festivals on 5 continents. Line producer & director of the feature length documentary “Guevote” and DP on many documentaries, lastly on Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles’s pseudodoc “Brüno”. Jane Hallisey, researcher, writer and interviewer on many non-fiction pieces like “Choosing Sides: Vietnam”, “Lifetime Portraits of Esther & Amelia Earhart” & “Warrior Tradition: The Samurai” for print & TV.

Re: saturday’s performance (Erika)

September 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments

(Erika wrote:)

I saw Tom today who was at the performance. He was the guy from Long Island who is traveling. He was People’s Park eating food. He said wow about the performance and looked like he was still churning it. Later I went over and gave him some handouts for next months performance so he could give them out to other people. He said that he was still trying to figure it all out and that afterwards he felt emotions that he had never felt before, emotions that did not have words. He said that Frank’s writing were right on and that when he was being embraced by Linda, Jen and Erika the words of the poems changed. He said he would come next time if he was around and he wanted to know what kind of Shamanism Frank does. I talked about the direct experience of reality and that he could email Frank to talk with him more. He asked why the performances did not happen more often and I told him about checking out the web site, the Shaman’s Den and Luver and how great it was that there was a performance workshop series right now. He said he would tell people about it and come again if he was in town.

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and the performance continues!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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