Gerry Fialka
Suzy Williams
GERRY FIALKA by David Healey

GERRY FIALKA and the PXL-2000 Fisher Price Toy Video Camera by Alfred Benjamin

BRAD KAY & SUZY WILLIAMS by David Healey

Suzy- by Kristy Campbell

To download hi-res pics go here.
CONTACT: Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330
pfsuzy@aol.com

check out Suzy and Her Solid Senders' new cd: MUSIC IN THE FIRST DEGREE

New Suzy Article

June 2013 events info: 

June 4, TUES 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club http://www.venicewake.org/ MDR library 4533 admirality way MDRey ca 90292 310-821-3415 http://www.colapublib.org/libs/marina/ FREE

June 8, SAT, 4pm: MESS - Author ROBERT GUFFEY (Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form) interview http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 FREE

June 10, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - James Joyce Bloomsday - McLuhan Films http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 FREE

June 12, WED, 7-10pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys 23 windward av venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 http://www.dannysvenice.com/ FREE

June 15, SAT 8pm Suzy & Her Solid Senders at The Hip Kitty, 502 West 1st Street, Claremont, CA 91711-4618, 909-447-6700, www.hipkittyjazz.com $5 cover

June 16, Sunday from 10-1pm The BackBoners at Santa Monica Farmers Market -Ocean Pk & Main, free

June 16, SUNDAY 7-10pm: 7 Dudley Cinema - LIT SHOW FILM FESTIVAL & James Joyce films at http://beyondbaroque.org/events.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 free

June 19, Wed, 7-10pm: MOM at http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ & http://venicewake.org/Events/current.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ FREE

June 21 Friday, 8pm:  Suzy and friends at Moose Lodge 1600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica CA 90405, 310-306-7330, $10

June 30, SUNDAY, 7-10pm Jazz Funk Fest http://www.laughtears.com/jazzfunkfest.html at talking stick 1411 lincoln blvd venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 FREE  

July 2013 events info:

July 2, TUES 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club http://www.venicewake.org/ MDR library 4533 admirality way MDRey ca 90292 310-821-3415 http://www.colapublib.org/libs/marina/ FREE

                                                               
July 8, MON, 6-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - Experimental Films unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca free

July 10, WED, 7-10pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys 23 windward av venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 http://www.dannysvenice.com/ FREE

July 13, SAT, 4pm: MESS – Poet Laurel Ann Bogen interview http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 FREE  
     
                       July 17, Wed, 7-10pm: MOM at http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ & http://venicewake.org/Events/current.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ FREE     
 
July 19 - No Suzy-Moose Lodge show in July                                                                               
 
 July 20, Saturday 730pm The LIT SHOW  at http://beyondbaroque.org/events.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006  $15    
                                                                           
 July 28, SUNDAY 7-10pm: 7 Dudley Cinema – Hippie Revolution Films  at beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 free

August 2013 events info: 

      Aug 6, TUES 6-8pm: McLuhan-Finnegans Wake Reading Club http://www.venicewake.org/ MDR library 4533 admirality way MDRey ca 90292 310-821-3415 http://www.colapublib.org/libs/marina/ FREE

Aug 10, SAT, 4pm: TBA http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 FREE

Aug 12, MON,  7-10pm: DOCUMENTAL - Sean Gannon's (in person) compelling personal documentary SOMETHING BLUE http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 FREE

    Aug 14, WED, 7-10pm: SUZY WILLIAMS at Dannys  23windward av venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 http://www.dannysvenice.com/ FREE

Aug 21, Wed, 7-10pm: MOM at http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ & http://venicewake.org/Events/current.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/ FREE

Aug 22, Thurs, 7-10pm Jazz Funk Fest http://www.laughtears.com/jazzfunkfest.html at talking stick 1411 lincoln blvd venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 FREE  

Aug 23, Friday, 8pm:  NO Suzy at Moose Lodge show in August
 
      Aug 25, SUNDAY 7-10pm: 7 Dudley Cinema - Avant Garde Advertising Films at http://beyondbaroque.org/events.html beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 free

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FREE Monthly Cultural Events http://www.laughtears.com 310-306-7330
7 Dudley Cinema - Fourth Sundays at Beyond Baroque 7-10pm http://www.laughtears.com/7dudleycinema.html
Documental - 2nd Mondays at Unurban 6-10pm http://www.laughtears.com/documental.html
MESS Interviews - 2nd Saturdays at Unurban 4-6pm http://www.laughtears.com/mess.html
Suzy Williams - 2nd Weds at Dannys 7-10pm  http://www.laughtears.com/
McLuhan-Joyce -First Tuesdays at MDRey Library 6-8pm http://www.venicewake.org/
MOM - 3rd Weds Media Fun at Beyond Baroque 7-10pm http://venicewake.org/Events/current.html

VENUES:
unurban 3301 pico blvd santa monica ca 90401 310-315-0056 
talking stick 1411 lincoln blvd venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 http://www.thetalkingstick.net/
 MDR library 4533 admirality way MDRey ca 90292 310-821-3415 http://www.colapublib.org/libs/marina/
dannys 23 windward av venice ca 90291 310-450-6052 http://www.dannysvenice.com/
beyond baroque 681 venice blvd venice ca 90291 310-822-3006 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/

 

New HOT LINKS:
Ck out film META COGNITION http://vimeo.com/50173332 
      Gerry's 2013 new ROOM 237 article-  http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=29&article_id=172
SEE SUZY WILLIAMS in Fialka & Farina film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShuM7vh011w
and http://vimeo.com/59500786
New Fialka article & video on Mike Kelley - http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=28&article_id=165 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6D6lmIMyyc
      Robert Guffey on WAKE http://paranoiamagazine.com/archives-3/the-twelfth-thunder-beyond-the-digital-environment-of-finnegans-wake/
McLuhan on William Burroughs for The Nation, Dec. 28, 1964
http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/marshall-mcluhan-notes-on-burroughs-1964/
McLuhan '77 -
http://www.thatericalper.com/2012/11/16/marshall-mcluhan-full-lecture-the-medium-is-the-message-1977/
Imfm2rSuCs https://www.youtubecom/watch?v=dqFnv5etPws 
Fun Funk Keyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh6VJHM6u0

Gerry profile http://www.abbotkinney1stfridays.com/2013/05/venice-profile-who-is-gerry-fialka.html

Latest Linkage:

STORMIN' NORMAN & SUZY http://www.zamcheck.net/snandsuzy.html

Gerry on Occupy & Wake in OtherZine http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=27&article_id=148 

BSP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWurl-ISMxY & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ywANZ2ECl0


Gerry at Other Cinema's PXL THIS 20- 2011 screening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTUjjZ44rgo and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCiTFC4Dhc
Gerry on Erik Davis' Progressive Radio show 9-8-11
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/expanding-mind/2011/9/8/expanding-mind-090811.html
(a little static for first two minutes, then gerry comes in at the 4th minute, about 60 minutes total)
Gerry's interview with DJ Spooky 
http://www.archive.org/details/PaulMillerakaDjSpookyInterviewByGerryFialka
Gerry's new article http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=26&article_id=135
Gerry's interview with M.A. Littler (who's new film features Noam Chomsky)
http://www.archive.org/details/M.a.LittlerInterviewByGerryFialka10-1-11
Gerry interviews Bishop Joey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOgX5RVR0EA&feature=email
Oldest Finngans Wake song http://vimeo.com/24018381 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjG3pZzrcY 
SUZY's What the Frack is Going On song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs-hKvEETFM
Suzy & Brad Kay's Pinchback Pixelvision http://vimeo.com/19769816
Phil Ochs Film review by Gerry & Suzy http://change-links.org/?p=1561
Gerry & Jon Rappoport - Progressive Radio Network 11-15-10
http://garynull.squarespace.com/the-jon-rappoport-show and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnscVLV1nNs
Gerry's McLuhan WikiLinks Other Zine article - 
http://www.fivebodied.com/viewtopic.php?p=18650&sid=93d5b80cfb44c5d99ac1701e040f0a33 
and, with graphics, at http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/?issueid=25&article_id=123
MAP (live improv music/noise band) http://www.archive.org/download/MapAtTheTalkingStick/Track1.wma
Gerry on Music for Nimrods http://www.mediafire.com/?daa6kzkpdodm013
GF's Dream Awake Litquake 2009 http://www.archive.org/details/litquake_2009_1013_fialka
and Burroughs-Beckett http://www.archive.org/details/newnothing_2010_1021_Fialka

Essential reading - http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com/p/publications.html and 
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/health-headlines/2011/4/29/dr-carolyn-dean-the-medical-monopoly-its-not-about-whos-righ.htm



Links:  
   

7 Dudley Cinema - updates - archives - Monthly Venice film series at http://www.beyondbaroque.org/  (ABOUT US) (Link to the original 81x site for 7 Dudley Cinema)

 
   

JAZZ FUNK FEST - Feb12, Apr30, June30, Aug22, Oct29, Dec29, 2013 at Talking Stick

 
   

Workshops by Fialka: List One and List Two and List Three and List Four- Workshops Summary - Upon reading these workshop descriptions, LA Weekly Art critic Doug Harvey declared that Fialka should have his whole own department at Cal Arts. Fialka has lectured on Music at USC, James Joyce & experimental film at San Francisco Cinematheque, Advertising as Art at New England Institute of Art, Pixelvision at MIT & several UK venues, The Art of Fakery in Documentary Filmmaking at SF's Academy of Art & New Zealand's Massey University, McLuhan's Percepts at UC Davis Technocultural Studies (Jesse Drew & Craig Baldwin), Culture Jamming at Flint Institute of Arts, Finnegans Wake at UC Berkeley, various subjects at numerous Ann Arbor Film Festivals and many more. Read accolades at these links. Inquire about Fialka's "Who Knew Genres" study program. Fialka's BIO
What the programmers and participants are saying about Gerry Fialka

 
   

DOCUMENTAL - updates - archives - Santa Monica ongoing film series at the Unurban Coffee House, Santa Monica

Beyond Baroque Laughtears.com Events 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291, 310-822-3006, Monthly Films, monthly MOM discussion group, The Lit Show and more http://beyondbaroque.org/

SUBVERSIVE CINEMA screens experimental films to political activist cinema to lit, art, music flix to avant garde documentaries. We are looking for a new venue. Got ideas? Contact: Gerry 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com

 

 

Suzy Williams by Leland Auslender

Suzy Williams - LA's Diva Deluxe - upcoming shows, info 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com

***Second Wednesdays from 7:00-10:00pm at Danny's, 23 Windward Av, Venice CA 90291, 310-566-5610 http://www.dannysvenice.com/ free admission

***Upcoming shows with Suzy and Steve Weisberg TBA (call 310-306-7330 to confirm)

***Suzy & Her Solid Senders (<--Suzy's bio at this link) - Sun, Dec 18, 2:30-4pm at Moose Lodge 1600 Ocean Pk Blvd, Santa Monica CA 90405 (1-4pm) $10 westsidejazzforum.org

***STORMIN NORMAN & SUZY - West Coast Shows- Saturday, Oct 16 from 7-10pm at The Talking Stick, 1411 Lincoln Blvd (at California), Venice CA 90291, 310-450-6052, $10, First time ever on West Coast with FULL BAND
http://www.puddingbench.com/whats_hot.htm

*** Stormin' Norman & Suzy - East Coast Shows - info from zamcheck@aol.com,

***Suzy CD "Enjoy the Ride" available from here  http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/storeR.cgi/specific=itemcode&phrase=65537&cart_id=06-03-10.28567 and read All About Jazz rave-
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=37211

*** The Backboners  CD available

***Suzy & Brad Kay do BESSIE SMITH -  http://www.myspace.com/christmaswithbessie   

***The Off Their Jingle Bell Rockers (with Suzy Williams) available for all your Seasonal Caroling needs
http://www.madamechocolate.com/jingle.html 

COVER ME -new original song by SUZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEcUNc8hu8w
MORE new songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwKFe6F6CUI

Suzy & Brad in SF Oct 2010 http://www.laughtears.com/sanfran.html

More press ready (hi-res) stills at Suzy Williams' other web sites - http://www.puddingbench.com/suzy.htm --- http://dobbstown.com/Suzy/  --- http://www.muralista.org/suzy 

Suzy WIlliams' new CD available from HERE

click HERE for hi-res ver for print and publication
 

 
SUZY WILLIAMS - THE LIT SHOW In her annual celebration of song and literature, LA's Diva Deluxe SUZY WILLIAMS & Brad Kay perform songs based on words by Kurt Vonnegut, Edna St Vincent Millay, J.D. Salinger, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, Rudyard Kipling and more. Dorothy Parker wrote a song that Billie Holiday sang. Tennessee Williams wrote a song that Marlon Brando sang as a rambling troubadour in The Fugitive Kind. Lonely House was written by Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes. Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg wrote Pull My Daisy with David Amram. You've read the book, now hear the song. Beyond Baroque
 

 

MESS - archives- (Media Ecology Soul Sessions) at Beyond Baroque

GERRY FIALKA's INTERVIEWS have been one-on-one and before live audiences (as in the MESS Series) since the mid-70's. "Fialka's cool questions are right at the heart of all my work. By far the best interview I have ever been treated to." - Ondi Timoner, only two time Sundance Grand Jury winner. Read Ondi's interview here. LIONEL ROLFE interview HERE

Gerry Fialka - George Clinton Interview - Flipside No. 99 - Dec'95-Jan'96

 
   

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL History Book Project & Workshops

Gerry Fialka's essay in the program for The 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival - 2012

 
   
PXL THIS 18 - toy camera film festival  
   

PXL THIS 19 - toy camera film festival- deadline for entry Oct 22, premiere screening Dec 7, 2009 - Toy Camera Fisher Price PXL-2000 Pixelvision Film Festival.

PXL THIS sites: http://pxl2000.blogspot.com/ and http://sites.google.com/site/pxlthis/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/pxlthis
and past festivals at http://willerokan.com/pxlthis.html

 
   
PXL THIS 20, the 20th annual toy camera film festival featuring Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder.  
   

PXL THIS 21, the 21st annual toy camera film festival

Councilmember Bill Rosendahl welcoming letter for PXL THIS 21 HERE
 
   

PXL THIS 22, the 22nd annual toy camera film festival featuring Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder

Beverly Gray on PXL THIS 22

 
   

Marshall McLuhan-FINNEGANS WAKE Reading Club and Robert Dobbs

Feedforward: http://blog.venicewake.org/  and http://www.mcluhanonmaui.com/ and http://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/

DREAM AWAKE - James Joyce & Experimental Film Screening/Workshop MORE, REVIEWS & FOLLOW-UP

 

 

Genuine Fake Films by Gerry Fialka

 

 

RIA (aka OUR EYE AYE = Resonant Interval Algorythmns) films & live cinema by Will Erokan & Gerry Fialka

 

 
Fialka in New Zealand 2008:
 
 
   
SUNNY WAR  - myspace page and 30 min. concert produced by Gerry Fialka on youtube: Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  

Read Michael Simmons' July 17, 2009 LA Weekly "Meet Sunny War" article
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-07-16/music/meet-sunny-war/

Check out SUNNY WAR - Social Suicide CD (2011) http://www.reverbnation.com/sunnyw4r
and the video Social Suicide Session http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlwrV7D3Nvs
produced by Gerry Fialka and Mark X Farina

View Will Erokan's experimental youtube for Sunny War Instrumentalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_8NbGp-wdE Peter Kubelka eat your heart out.

 
   
===San Fran events Oct 2010 - Suzy Williams & Gerry Fialka===  
   

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