JokerJokerTV produced in Athens GA, is a weekly livestream show that airs every Thursday night at 6:30 (EST) on Youtube ...and features independent and underground artist"s music videos, short film, interviews with artists, performances and more.....
...in a sad dark winter playing with rainbows in the forest splitting light off icy pine needles.
A surreal fairytale and fable series based on Galician and Western European folktales transmitted orally through millennium. The original, disturbing folktales were re-written as dream-like fairytales with happy endings in the 17th century. Themes of truth prevailing, generosity rewarded, obstacles overcome, and love and kindness winning over evil appealed to later audiences. Despite this, the dark and violent, neolithic folklore of survival continues to influence culture to today. I decided to write my own tales. Project in process in film, postcard, book.
Film here:
Red Hood https://vimeo.com/1021234822
Moon Is A Dagger https://vimeo.com/980599103
https://www.youtube.com/live/93AqYd_jM7g
JokerJokerTV live-streamed every Thursday night @ 6:30p (eastern time) in Athens GA on 10-3-2024. Hosted by Mux Blank from www.jokerjokertv.com features the best music videos, short film, animations, interviews & performances from unknown and underground artists around the world.
Lydia Lunch poem below....
Existential Vacuum, based on a poem by Lydia Lunch, from I have Collected All the Writings of the Empire and Burnt Those Which Were of No Use
The mass neurotic triad of insufferable idiocy, infantile narcissism, and internet addiction has fostered a spiritual bankruptcy, an existential vacuum, a moral coma, a culture in crisis where all meaning has been leached from real life and replaced with Reality TV.
Kiss my ass Kim Kardasian, you overblown tool for having created a cult of celebrity devoid of talent and integrity whose only value is net worth generated by catering to the lowest common denominator.
A dumbed down society where everyone’s a star baby, circling around a galaxy formed by a black hole which centers around their own fucking asshole.
A nonstop circus side show littered with big titted half-wits pandering to dopey dicks as the theater of the ridiculous plays 24 hours a day…in perfect rotation, a pathetic ploy that pulls the brain dead public into spying on somebody else’s petty life…so that they can forget just how much they are being spied on and manipulated into becoming a victim of the surveillance state, a pawn in the game who willingly gives up their own privacy in order to play patsy on a public platform modeling their dirty laundry in an unending series of senseless selfies, while prattling off and babbling on about every petty detail of their self-obsessed existence thereby making it easier for Big Brother to track their every waking moment.
...from wolf land in north Portugal (Galicia) two wolf tales....
Wolf Queen 2022 tells the first century legend of Queen Lupa. It was her territory, where the body of St. James was carried 'in a stone boat drifting from the Mediterranean' to be buried by his disciples. A crazy story on both sides, Queen Lupa outwitted Romans, Visigoths, Catholic Church, local rulers, Muslim conquerers, and Spanish empire to remain unconquered. An 11th century monk writes about her in his travel book written for the Pope on the pilgrimage path to St. James' burial site in Santiago Cathedral. The monk tries to erase, propagandise and slander Queen Lupa at the same time. Meanwhile the Church was creating St. James patron of the crusades. Portuguese singer Tamara Pereira. Planet of Dreams
Red Hood is from MauMau Blood Dreams 2024, a film and print series. I became aware of the fairytales and fables that originated in Galicia's north Portugal while researching the 2022 Wolf Queen film. The Neolithic tales morphed through millennium, revealing dark truths about our nature. Today these stories are the narrative of film, fiction, and visual arts. And I decided I wanted to write my own...in process...MauMau Blood Dreams
"Like a fairytale, the further on, the more sinister…”
Как в сказке, чем дальше тем страшнее
Einstein is credited as having said: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
https://www.youtube.com/live/v3HaojX9VbY
https://www.youtube.com/live/jTYR9dUI91w
Two super early vids....WhisperWish from Signs, Wishes and Wonders 2008 with Grat Bodkin music. The Merry Go Round animals and ride was newly renovated, re-finished re-painted by San Francisco artists and art commission as I understand ...I can't stress how impossible to find such a beautiful ride anywhere in the US as this, even in Disneyland where artisans are paid well. This was a work of love and I stood in wonder at the detail like the hippo on the zebra saddle and the carving ....incredible.
And Rogue Con from Mr. E. 2008 with Christa Hunter performer and Jeff Crouch music. I am often intrigued by noir newspaper crime articles...mostly by women thieves and con artists and use their tale. Especially the ones who succeed eluding capture.
JOKERJOKERtv features the best music videos, short film, animations, interviews & performances from unknown and underground artists around the world. Join us every Thursday night @ 6:30p (eastern time) for the livestream. JOKERJOKERtv is produced by Mux Blank, T.Chodd, and Dain Marx. Livestreamed at JOKERJOKER Gallery in Athens GA. Hosted by Bryant Perez and Mux Blank.
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CONFIDENTIAL 0P 2017...considers the confidentiality of the post and our prospects for a Disney ending in the lost empire's attacks on privacy. With mail artist Rafael Gonzalez, composer Blaine Reininger, uber mechanic Brad Gigliotti and his getaway car, and longtime performer collaborator Christa Hunter.
A post and email collaboration. Rafael sent me cards and video clips from Tenerife and I filmed south of San Francisco. Music by Blaine Reininger of TuxedoMoon is American Buffalo Theme. Since wild buffalo have disappeared from our continent, It is appropriate music for the last act of American privacy.
JOKERJOKERtv features the best music videos, short film, animations, interviews & performances from unknown and underground artists around the world. Tune in every Thursday at 6:30p (eastern time) for some of the freshest, weirdest, and most awe-inspiring artists in 2024! Join the community in the live chat. Purchasing cool merch at www.jokerjokertv.com
Co-opting the Folk /Fairy tales format, not pleasant narrative often, not myth or legend, meant to entertain. Time-twisted tales of things people used to have to know to survive, metaphysical truths, long-lost, twisted reasons for natural phenomenon. There is dismemberment, enchanted animals, incest, shapeshifters, treasures, singing monsters, murder, beautiful women, abandoned children if they survived evil things. Some heroes....not-named-yet tales.....
https://www.videosoundarchive.com/archive-s10/12912732-cecelia-chapman
....mail collaboration with Jeff Crouch in Texas and myself, in Portugal....since 2006...
MauMau Blood Dreams 2024 follow the fairytale and fable story form, into the original, dark and primordial consciousness that brings us to our present world narrative. The first video is Moon Is A Dagger
The 2008 video series Signs, Wishes &Wonders draws on the same form to produce contemporary video fable: WhisperWish, Once Upon A Sign, The Wicked Witch Gets Her Wish.
....series in process...
https://www.youtube.com/live/c5g91jZ8xBQ. 6:30 PM EST USA - 11:30H EU
In the anti-war and vacation culture video Last Exit, the bleak, worker’s noir, 1945 Club Paradise film, released the same year Nagasaki/ Hiroshima was bombed and Hitler died, is re-mixed with poetry dialogue to become a romantic vacation advertisement that comments on perception, storytelling and propaganda. From the larger multimedia project Club Paradise: vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism and the selling of holiday 2019. Marketed vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. Only now the game pursued is a state of mind to produce a worker’s consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery. With Jeff Crouch music.
It's the last exit
meet me there
we have all night
under the moon
don't go too far
you'll pass the bar
I'll wait
by the gate
don't be late
I hate
to be alone
on a night like this
senses awake
skin tight sunburn
first day in the sea
I slept under a tree
until three
and swam again
what a memory.
Let's stay up all night
sleep until noon
the sea meets the sky
you can't tell where
the night meets eternity
you can't tell when
we'll be here again
on vacation
with friends
dancing
under the stars
swimming in the sun
having fun
feeling groovy
happy in love
moon up above
nothing to do
but sit and share with you
an incredible view
(sit and stare at you)
what a souvenir
our reverie
time free.
Memories live
someday we'll die
tonight is forever
a dream,
don't pass it,
at the last exit....
Club Paradise.