(Jesse Townley wrote:)
How soon until Luver.com unveils its new clothing line, “The naked guy in the wheelchair”?
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In Freedom,
Frank Moore
if your daughter wants freedom, reed may the way to go.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Jon Krop commented on a photo of you.
Jon wrote:
“Oh those Atari days! I still have mine!”
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pong, anyone ??
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Hey Frank. I loved what you had to say about people having the “right” to not be offended and to have their comfort zones forcibly protected. I was wondering if you knew of a brilliant author named Phillip Pullman who’s been under attack lately for saying pretty much the same thing.
My lover Tyr and I are huge fans of Phillip Pullman. He’s an atheist who believes that organized religion has caused immeasurable levels of bigotry, conformity, and violence in the world. He is also the author of the young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials, which include The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass. The books encourage children to THINK. At that age I remember a deep appreciation for the respect for children’s brains that came through in the writing, when many people have the unconscious or conscious belief that children are inferior, less intelligent beings. These books are some of the most sensual, enlightening, wonder-inspiring books I’d ever read, and I enjoy reading them even more than I did as a child.
Recently he wrote a new book called The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ. He’s been under attack lately from a lot of people who say that this new book and its title are offensive to Christians. Some have demanded that he publicly apologize for “offending people”. Here is a wonderful 2-minute clip on what he had to say about that. It’s very close to what you said about people having the “right” to not be offended ‘and to have their “comfort zones” be respected, honored, and forcibly protected,’ and I literally cheered to watch it.
http://www.thinkatheist.com/video/philip-pullman-answers-a
PS, who’s Paul Krassner? That name sounds incredibly familiar, a person I may have been exposed to in the last couple of days in some way.
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that is a great clip /quote, Katie! I will play it on my Berkeley community public access cable show. One of the functions of art is to go outside of the margins of the NORMAL /ACCEPTABLE to explore and question and expand, breaking down the old boxes. All of this threatens and offends those who are invested in the RIGHT /COMFORTABLE way.
Also the big lie is we are weak, fragile, so we need to be careful, need to protect ourselves, to always be just dipping our toes in the water instead of going all the way, instead of living with irresistible abandon. The truth is being careful is what creates fragility. Getting dirty, tasty, going all the way gives you a freedom and a healthy immune system!
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner for the overview of Paul Krassner. Basically he’s one of the Counter culture’s mothers… And one of my heroes since high school when I got into trouble for getting THE REALIST, his no-bars satire zine. And check http://www.eroplay.com/krassner.html which is my interview with him I did in the mid- nineties.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(to Paul Krassner:)
a few weeks ago, Linda found your obit of George Carlin online. First, what you and The Realist did for Carlin in the mid- sixties, you did for me too!
Carlin: “All through this period I was sustained and motivated by The Realist, Paul Krassner’s incredible magazine of satire, revolution and just plain disrespect. It arrived every month, and with it, a fresh supply of inspiration. I can’t overstate how important it was to me at the time. It allowed me to see that others who disagreed with the American consensus were busy expressing those feelings and using risky humor to do so. Paul’s own writing, in particular, seemed daring and adventurous to me; it took big chances and made important arguments in relentlessly funny ways. I felt, down deep, that maybe I had some of that in me, too; that maybe I could be using my skills to better express my beliefs. The Realist was the inspiration that kept pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading it and remain the same.”
But this line in your piece stood out for me:
As a performer, George Carlin was uncompromising, knowing that his audience trusted him not to be afraid of offending them. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/remembering-george-carlin_b_109548.html
recently I got tired of people thinking they have the right to be NOT be offended and to have their “comfort zones” be respected, honored, and forcibly protected. So I went after COMFORT ZONES even more than usual. I call my performance series UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN experiments in experience/participation performance. They even come for “uncomfortable.” But as soon as the performance dips into depth, they use their being uncomfortable to pull back! And they start yammering about staying in their comfort zones!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
hi, Earle! At http://www.eroplay.com/intimatetheater/intimate.html we just put up the two hour video of the below show I did in Los Angeles. In a lot of ways it’s one of the most “polished” things I ever did. It is a professional video in a high class theater. And it’s the climax of my rock star performances which I had been doing for years in one form or another. After this, I went into live jams with large bands.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
I would like to use some of the materials which you have published on the web in a multi-media project for an education class at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. I have attached a copy of the description of the assignment. This is a class for people who are going to be high school teachers. I am going to be a Spanish teacher myself. What we are trying to determine are the answers to basically two questions:
1. What was it, exactly, that allowed you to overcome the limitations of your disability, condition, or exceptionality, whatever you want to call it, and to succeed in life? Was there a teacher, a person, family, or assistive technology which you found particularly helpful or inspiring?
2. What can we do, as teachers, to make our classrooms more accessible to people like yourself?
I noticed that you have done some rock music. Is there a music video somewhere on the site that I could use? If you are agreeable, I may have some more questions to ask. Thank you for any help you may want to provide.
Thank you.
Earle Horton
P.S. I remember you from the Brotherhood of the Spirit community. That was a long time ago. I regret missing the Renaissance Community mailing list conversations, but I got a copy of the Archives from Stephen Wolfson and read them later. What an odd bunch of people we were.
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hi, Earle! Interesting class.
Well, I was lucky. My Mom and grandma didn’t believe the doctors who said I didn’t have any IQ and should be institutionalized. Instead Mom pushed me into life. When schools wouldn’t take me, Mom taught me at home, but made sure I was in the boy Scouts, etc. and when I did attend school, I was lucky because for the most part I had Teachers with high expectations without limiting pictures, who pushed me. So I had high expectations without limiting pictures. So as Teachers, have high expectations without limiting pictures of all of your students. [lose “people like yourself ” picture.]
I write about this in my ART OF A SHAMAN [see http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham.html ]. And for an overview of my work, check out http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/shaman.html . If you don’t care about me singing nude, there are a lot of videos of our jams up there. If you want me singing dressed, we can put a video up. When do you need it by?
One of the things going for me was I am the kind that things come easy to. I am flexible. I don’t care about what is “normal, ” what’s “the right way.” I just play!
Please ask me more questions!
Oh, I just wrote this when my favorite teacher died:
I probably had a history class with him. But what is stuck in my mind is his World Cultures class. We sat in a circle so we all could see one another, talk directly to one another on an equal basis … not like in the regular row seating. We did learn about the World Cultures, and therefore diversity. But there was much more going on in the class. Mr. Haight got us to listen to one another, to reveal what we really felt and thought … not in a debating environment where you had to defend yourself … but in an environment of exploring. So the shy kids had the same access as the whiz kids. Mr. Haight created this environment with a warm chuckling humor and high expectations. I probably ripped off a lot of his style. I hope I did!
I wasn’t one of the shy kids. I was an opinionated big mouth. But I communicated by a head pointer and letter board. [I also typed with the pointer.] I only invented the head pointer a few months before I entered the class. But because of the environment, I could fully engage in the discussions.
When Ruth, John and I with a couple of other weird kids started a political club, Mr. Haight was our adviser. And when we wanted to print our own underground paper, he printed it on the school’s mimeograph machine. He talked in my defense when my radical political opinions in my column in the school paper got me in to hot water. Back then the disabled weren’t supposed to be radical or even political, just religious! But Mr. Haight didn’t see me as a disabled student, but as a passionate kid with something to contribute.
Really it was the two years that what was the Fifties transformed into what was the Sixties. And I think Mr. Haight did a lot of that transforming! This is obvious within his classroom. But I remember my mother and I going to his house for a study group about Vietnam. I also remember us and him on the picket line about the Vietnam War in Redlands! This was before it was fashionable anywhere … but in Redlands of all places!
Now fast forward to the early eighties … I ran into him in San Francisco. He was tickled at how my life had turned out, how I was a director, how I had relationships, etc. For awhile he was thinking of “investing” in my first film. But in the end he decided to use his money to take a bike tour around Europe with his wife. This made perfect sense to me. I learned how to make love with life from Mr. Haight!
Frank Moore
1/7/2010
Thank you very much, Frank
Anna
Anna Halprin
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and thank you, Anna, for inspiring me! And for giving me techniques such as scoring a performance which I use to this day. Also giving me hope that it is possible to develop community through art.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
LAWRENCE HALPRIN
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20TH, 2009 FROM 2-4PM
TEMPLE EMANUEL
2 LAKE STREET AT ARGUELLO BOULEVARD SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
THE HALPRIN FAMILY ANNA, DARIA, RANA, KHOSROW, RUTHANNA, LEVANNA, MICAH, JAHAN
To make a contribution to the Halprin Oral History project you may send a fully tax-deductable contribution to The Cultural Landscape Foundation, 1909 Que Street, NW 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20009
To learn more about TCLF goto www.tclf.org For a preview of clips from the Larry Halprin oral history project go to www.youtube.com/tclfsteward
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In the eighties I actually interviewed Anna!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(Louise Scott wrote:)
This is especiallly poignant since my oldest and dear friend, Midge, died yesterday. How precious we all are.
May the circle be unbroken….XXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Send it to a minimum of 3 people… Not before you read below you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore….
And who always will.
So, don’t worry about people from your past,
There’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.
Give these flowers to everyone you don’t want to lose in 2010
Including me, if that’s what is in your heart.
Try to collect 5; it’s not easy!
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ah, Louise, we did have fun living all together in the three room apartment in Santa Fe… You, Midge, Helen, Nevada, Steve, Denise, davidy, and me… And sometimes even more. Little money, but a shit full of love and good times!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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