Benjamin (Ronald Coolbeth) Franklin had appeared on my public access video Kindred Expressions abt 6 years ago, or so it seems. He’s sometimes referred to himself as Lance, the handsome man, but this time he appeared in full regalia: Benjamin Franklin jacket, styled hair & glasses. He broke out of character from time to time, laughing and snickering, but was able to contain himself for a little words of wisdom. Unfortunately, it all ended on a bad but funny note, where Mr. Ron twisted his back, squirming in his seat and finally leaving for Paris, France. It all went pretty good, I should say. Mr. Ron later played Johnny DeAngelo (a Kindred Expression outtake), pulling out his gat and demanding the package he came for. That one ended on a real bad note, and made everyone very unhappy.
Kindred Expressions was a grandfather/grandson compilation video: the best of our public access television projects. Ron read some poems, I made some music videos, and it all ended where Mr. Ron and myself told everyone the real meaning of being a creative artists (“… don’t give up!” was the final word of advice). The best part of the video was the wonderful “Bobo Dingo Is My Name.” An absurdist piece abt a man who plays tricks on bathroom dwellers. A man who spends his days running around on hospital hill, looking pretty bizarre in a yellow wig and hobo wear, and saying “Mr. Dingo is my name… and strange is my game.” Kindred Expressions was a swell little piece. You can find the complete video here.
A poem set to video, this one is called “Terry’s On The Parrot.” It was featured in my NCTV public access video entitled Scrapbook From The Underground;” Beat styled poetry readings, music videos, sketches, and self-indulgent ad libbing (a recurrent trait in most of my projects). The poems rhythmic quality was inspired by Tom Wait’s “Earth Died Screaming.” I had a lot of fun putting together the images, esp. “The trucker and his gal.” Scrapbook From The Underground is due to air on Northampton’s NCTV sometime this coming week. NCTV has (it’s abt time) recently been airing more creative programming: claymation, a spoof on the movie Saw by Noho High School students, & a families (mostly the kids) original sketch on a scary movie. Hopefully, NCTV will have more to come, sometime soon.
—– (Scrapbook From The Underground was based on my poetry book ’scrapbook of madness;” a scrapbook full of handwritten & typed prose poetry. The title of the video is a spoof on Dostoevsky’s Notes From (the) Underground. The term ’scrapbook of madness’ was taken from a John Lennon quote from Jann S. Wenner’s The Full Rolling Stone Interviews — paraphrased: “Me and Yoko would be living along the coast in Ireland when we’re 64, looking through our scrapbooks of madness.”)
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