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Hey!

Punk is a word, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never understand it. (among punk friends it’s ‘a little bit hipper than hip’ -) and………and SOME PUNKS ARE ONES who might kiss the lepor on the mouth as St. Francis did, and will kill themselves for a two hour performance, where the performer subsidizes the audience who will be mostly poor, and punk is one of the screaming cogs in the wheel of anarchy, Punk is acquainted with the alleyways and hide-outs under bridges where they will find more angels than devils (such as ‘angel’ poet of the SF alleys and streeets, Sparrow 13, who has ‘read poetry’ with Julia Vinograd who is a fan of his work. – Punk never thouhtlessly smashes a flower under foot. Punk likes fun. Rhythm, song, dance, cartwheels, skateboard, clowning, John the Baker cookies, jam sessions till guitarists have bloody fingers. All night long! Punk is warm rain in your face and a sweet friend beside you. Punk is someone who fell off the ‘norm’ chart and has been dangling giddily since then at the edge of the ‘below below the below of the underground – thanks to Malvina Reynolds for “below the below” in song) Punks are ‘fiercely’ heart-first!!!!

Jessse cleopatra james
aka jesse beagle

ps – FUNNY YOU RAN INTO THAT FRANK, BUT I NEVER KNOW WHAT MY
GOOGLE-FISHING HOOK WILL BRING UP!!!!!!!!!!

DJB

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yep.

funny. i knew back then we freaked out a lot of punks …that’s why dirk had me there for over 3 years on at least a weekly basis. and vale was one of the freaked outs…which this reveals. when i have talked about it, people didn’t believe it because vale documented the extreme subcultures in REsearch…so why would i freak him out!?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Hi Frank,
I was reading Steve’s post and I wanted to present a different position.
Not to be an apologist for the guy that had a physical reaction to your performance.
But we are all wired a bit differently and where some people would be curious, fascinated or aroused. Others could be threatened, over-welmed and challenged. I think he may have gotten more from your performance than a person that is more tolerant/jaded where it might just be another event in their field of vision.
His response has given us a lot to chew on in the salon.
I applaud him for his willingness to share his reaction. He didn’t have to step up and share his feelings.

Thanks again for providing a forum for these discussions.

Mark Soden (aka phog masheeen)

PS On a very different note.

I am celebrating Friday the thirteenth with a streaming performance.
Here are the details:

phog masheeen live with guests:
Dr. Kaplan – Sonified Kitchen Ware
Alan Lechusza – Reeds and Electronics
Tom Neas – Electronic Percussion
William Almas – Visualizations

Live 2-13-09 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM PST

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phog-masheeen-live

This performance will be recorded for later access.

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i agree. and his response isn’t a dead end like “it was polarizing” is. his responses, if followed through, will lead to insights for all of us…which is why i hope he will write back. he is innocent faced with being transported beyond the normal boxes during the jam…boxes that cripple and limit. that is what caused the physical reactions. he tried to pin the reactions on the nude crip groaning and the “older women” naked. but when he starts trying to get his head around it, the nude crip and older women fade away as excuses/causes, leading him into an expanding reality. this is what jaded art crowds can avoid.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Hey Frank,

It’s Rafael-Alexandre from Montréal. Been a while :): I was “hibernating” for the past 3 month but now I’m back, in a better and improved form

Well, as I receive regularly your e-salon emails, I received the one featuring this guy Chuck.

Once, I remember seing that video of yours on Mievo or youtube that was taken out by the site for pornographic content or “violation of sites viewable content”, or something like that, can’t remember: the whole thing made me smile…It actually was bizarre, and very experimental.

You know I’m sympathetic to this kind of art, because anti-mainstream, for the rest, you can’t judge art for being what it is: it is made to destroy boundaries ( well yours is according to me ).

What I mean to say Frank, is that :

1 ) Your art doesn’t hurt anyone ( your not promoting hate or violence towards anyone or any ideals; Indecent ? Ok. But their is far worst things out there, degrading human dignity: you guys are all major, legal and consentant, where’s the problem ? )

2 ) Your destroying boundaries

3 ) BUT MOST IMPORTANT, YOUR DESTROYING PREJUDICES AGAINST PEOPLE SEEN AS OUTCASTS BY “NORMAL” ( who the hell is “normal” anyways ?, would anybody like to be “normal”, like clones, generated upon a standard of what a human being should be ideally ? ) PEOPLE.

Sure, I live in the “Matrix”, but how many people can’t see the outside of the Matrix, how many are doomed in ignorance and being sheeps all their lifes ? Too many, Frank, and too many abandoned their dreams and declared forfait and joined back the Matrix.

So I think you’re doing the right thing in pursuing this debate with Chuck.

Your performance art is not a freak show,

Courage pour la suite,

Cordialement,

Rafael

P.S Add me to your myspace page, I received the notice but couldn’t find you on the site

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EXACTLY!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore