Laughtears.com Events 2024
Visit THE SUZY WILLIAMS YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH4UmJ2G9vU
AND https://suzywilliams.bandcamp.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Williams
Visit THE 15 Gerry Fialka youtube channels- see the “about” at Gerry Fialka Archives GFA channel
https://www.youtube.com/@gfa1930/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Fialka
JOIN IN UPCOMING Live events and Zoom events — rsvp Gerry Fialka pfsuzy@aol.com for links & info
NOTE: some of these facebook events have from past years, the descriptions are basically the same,
the ACTUAL 2024 Date is in this following list:
***Saturday, Jan 20, 2024–21st Annual VENICE FILM FEST https://www.facebook.com/events/2435070883341314
***Saturday, Jan 27, 2024–14th annual POETRY OF VENICE PHOTOGRAPHY
https://www.facebook.com/events/467383918857504/
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/poetry-of-venice-photography-jan-27-2024-laughtears-com-c100ad3b3024
***EVERY FIRST TUESDAY of EVERY MONTH is Marshall McLuhan-FINNEGANS WAKE Reading Club (aka VeniceWake Reading Club — James Joyce https://laughtears.com/McLuhanWake.html — Tuesday, Jan 2, 2024 is page 5 https://pfsuzy.medium.com/marshall-mcluhan-finnegans-wake-reading-club-by-gerry-fialka-e90829d2c2c6
*** Feb 2, 2024 — ReJoyce James Joyce Birthday & Reading Club Reunion at 1pm at Venice Public Library — Let Them Eat Wake !!!
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/marshall-mcluhan-finnegans-wake-reading-club-by-gerry-fialka-e90829d2c2c6
*** Feb 25, 2024 FRANK ZAPPA tribute at Venice West stinkfootorchestra.com and https://fb.me/e/77WPZR1PL
Gerry Fialka is the opening act at 6:30pm telling the history of Zappa in Venice CA. GET TIX IN ADVANCE, this will sell-out.
With original Zappa singer/sax Napoleon Murphy Brock and 16 piece orchestra.
Fialka’s annual Zappa Dan Rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN4PNCNL1VQ
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/frank-zappa-art-laboe-rant-by-gerry-fialka-10-30-22-f733f7ac3db1
*** March 7 — Suzy Williams, Michael Jost and friends at The Trip 2101 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
*** Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 11:30am Gerry Fialka presents the interactive salon CAN ART STOP WAR? at the KickstART Gallery for the Greater Farmington Film Fest (GFFF) https://www.gffilmfest.com/films More: https://pfsuzy.medium.com/thanks-for-your-dedication-to-art-film-and-activism-2050966f9546
***March 26–31, 2024 Gerry Fialka on Super8MM panel on March29 at 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival https://www.aafilmfest.org/
Gerry Fialka in book Frank Uhle book https://www.cinemaannarbor.com/
***April 14, 2024 at Venice West Suzy Williams & Gerry Fialka — Venice Beats III
https://www.facebook.com/events/7399017806789722/
Venice music, poetry, art, fun history . . .
Pull My Daisy -Suzy sings Jack Keroauc& Allen Ginsburg = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZHNx5qWIY
GF’s Venice BeachHead Beats article: https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2022/09/02/our-story-by-gerry-fialka/
Venice West Tour VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9vsPk1iSts
*** Sat, May 25, 2024 https://www.facebook.com/events/1313610749340160/
It’s All Write Ma — Zimmy Zoomin’ Could it be RobbMe Zimmer as Noel Coward? and/or: “I don’t like propaganda in the theater unless it is disguised so brilliantly that the audience mistakes it for entertainment.” When asked “Are you a poet?” Bob responded “I’m a trapeze artist.” Bob says: “Don’t ever tell anyone everything you know.” and ““I didn’t create Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan has always been here.” “Are you going to play yourself?” Bob: “No, I am gonna play my mother.” TANGLED Up in EVERYawareNESS.
*** Sat, July 20, 2024 The 17th ANNUAL LIT SHOW with SUZY WILLIAMS & BRAD KAY is a LIVE EVENT at Beyond Baroque, 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/7889216867771468/
*** SUNDAY, Oct 13, 2024, 6pm-live music, 7pm-films at Beyond Baroque -
An Evening of Music Films with Mark Cantor: “I’ve Just Gotta See It But It Ain’t On YouTube Blues”
https://www.facebook.com/events/1085379399144737/
*** Sun, Nov 17, 2024 PXL THIS 34 Toy Camera Film Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/204689762710343/
PXL THIS 33 Toy Camera Film Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/850945209382236/
PXL THIS 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37t6IFU5jQ&t=3811s and
PXL THIS 31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOnxqgFnMrU&t=5230s
PXL THIS 32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcMoSC7idY&t=1325s
The annual toy camera film festival features Pixelvision — Fisher Price PXL200. PXL THIS, one of the oldest film festivals in LA, celebrates visionary moving image artists from seminal experimental filmmakers to 10-years-olds to homeless to professionals. Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx
*** Every SUNDAY (except 2nd sundays) BRAD KAY, SUZY WILLIAMS and MEWS SMALL & HER FABULOUS FEMALES play music, for free, at THE UNURBAN CAFE 3301 Pico lvd, Santa Monica, CA from noon to 5pm.
We welcome your reactions to Fialka & Bartram’s funk song MMF by BSP
(same song on two youtube videos, one with still photo and one with an experimental film)
1= MMF by BSP still photo version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLG0k84bwA&t=0s
2= MMF by BSP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0StWuiBqnQ
film version with strobe effect, viewer discretion
NEW MIKE SAKAMOTO FILM https://gerryswake.com/
and two new channels:
The Secret Waters https://www.youtube.com/@thesecretwaters8558/videos
GFA Gerry Fialka Archives https://www.youtube.com/@gfa1930/videos
Fialka’s essay and performance for CRAIG BALDWIN: AVANT TO LIVE book https://pfsuzy.medium.com/craig-baldwin-reel-mutha-foya-by-gerry-fialka-21a28c1292aa
“…I say let the poets run the country, we’ll be better off with books and pens, instead of the misery of weapons…let the poets run the country who speak from the heart…we will have a country filled with rhymes and justice if for once, we let the poets run the country.” — Quique Aviles https://pfsuzy.medium.com/thanks-for-your-dedication-to-art-film-and-activism-2050966f9546
Norman Klein in this film https://danielrsmall.com/Future-Continuous
talks about Bauderlaire, and (at the 2:50 point ) says “If you try to make a statement long, deep, and rich, it will age very fast. if you try and only own the day you’re talking, it will last forever.”
“I have been forced to observe that most of the effects of any innovation occur before the actual innovation itself. In a word, a vortex of effects tends, in time, to become the innovation.” Marshall McLuhan 1971 letter to Muriel Bradbrook
*** GERRY’s ZOOM SALONS: Online discussions LZS — Laughtears Zoomin’ Salons every Monday, Tuesday & Wed, at 1:30pm Pacific time. And occasional Saturdays we go from 1 to 2:30pm. Probe the hidden psychic effects of human inventions and how they shape behaviour. Arts, literature, film, activism, new media, poetry, funk, jazz, avant-garde, new media, performance art, politics, cosmic wisdom, jokes. Ask about: Carl Jung Reading Group, Ulysses Reading Group, and more
***** DEDICATED to MARY JANE SHOULTZ https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/mary-shoultz-obituary?pid=205940082
2024 marks 44 year of Gerry Fialka in Venice, California
As well we celebrate the following:
PXL THIS Film Festival, established 1990–34th annual Nov 17, 2024
Marshall McLuhan — Finnegans Wake Reading Club since 1995–29th year Oct 3, 2024
Venice Film Fest since 2003–21st annual Jan 20, 2024
The Lit Show (Suzy Williams & Brad Kay celebration of song and literature) since 2005–17th annual July 20, 2024
The Poetry of Venice Photography since 2010–14th annual Jan 27, 2024
MESS (Media Ecology Soul Salon — interview series) since 1992
Documental (film series) since 1995
7 Dudley Cinema (film series) since 1998
RIA (live cinema performances) since 2005
M.O.M. (Meditations On Media) since 1990
Laughtears Salon (discussion group) since 2015
BSP — Black Shoe Polish — avant funk blues jazz music collective — since 1982
LZS — Laughtears Zoomin’ Salons since 2020
Gerry’s ZappaDan Rant Music for Nimrods since 2008 — Dec 2024
Bob Dylan Celebration — It’s All Write Ma since 2000 — May 25, 2024
Marshall McLuhan/Finnegans Wake Reading Club (aka Venice Wake) celebrates our longevity and the 2023–2024 press coverage:
“Fialka brings his own distinctive approach. My phone interview with him lasted one hour and eight minutes, and its zigs, zags and sheer velocity were unmatched in my nearly 20-year journalism career. Was I writing about Finnegans Wake, or was I suddenly inside it?” — Lois Beckett, The Guardian 11–12–23 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/12/california-venice-book-club-finngeans-wake-28-years
and The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11/16/finnegans-wake-book-club-california/
and
https://finwakeatx.blogspot.com/2023/11/guardian-observer-celebrates-galaxy-of.html
and
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/book-club-reading-james-joyce-finnegans-wake-30-years
and NEW YORK TIMES
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/books/finnegans-wake-james-joyce-venice-book-club.html
and RADIO:
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/venice-book-club-humperdinck-indigenous/finnegans-wake
and
and
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/finnegans-wake-book-club-1.7028252
and TV:
CBS Evening News and more https://www.youtube.com/@gfa1930/videos
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/laughtears-com-2023-info-events-44168e475550
Read articles by/about Gerry Fialka:
Venice BeachHead
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2023/10/04/venice-jazz-is-jumpin-by-gerry-fialka/
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2023/08/21/tribal-jive-here-wow-by-gerry-fialka/
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2023/06/07/the-story-is-not-over-by-gerry-fialka/
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2022/09/02/our-story-by-gerry-fialka/
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2023/02/07/george-winston-interview-by-gerry-fialka/
https://freevenicebeachhead.com/
https://twitter.com/venicebeachhead?lang=en
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2023/01/17/but-did-you-die-by-gerry-fialka/
Gerry article on George Carlin =
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2022/06/05/george-carlin-is-home-by-gerry-fialka/
https://thevenicebeachhead.com/2022/08/01/theres-no-place-like-home-by-george-by-gerry-fialka/
Death in Venice as Be Nice Beachtown
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/death-in-venice-as-be-nice-beachtown-by-gerry-fialka-ed6c1d19ca5 8
The Streets Make the Canvas — Culture jamming
McFinn Salon https://pfsuzy.medium.com/
ReTylerize As Musical MashUp https://pfsuzy.medium.com/retylerize-as-musical-mashup-by-gerry-fialka-cb39c0d23fd c
Da Boardwalk https://medium.com/@ pfsuzy/boogaloo-up-da-boardwalk-by-gerry-fialka-june-july- 2020-c7105b105cb2
Cure for the Common Codebreaker https://medium.com/@pfsuzy/cure-for-the-common-codebreaker-by-germy-folkways-73e92782b7be
V for Venice https://medium.com/@pfsuzy/v-for-venice-by-gerry-fial ka-venice-beachhead-august- 2020–487a39d2283e
MESS — Media Ecology Soul Salons — Gerry Fialka interview series
Interviews are listed and posted many places, including YouTube and
https://archive.org/search.php ?query=fialka%20gerry
https://www.youtube.com/user/c lintonthegeek (includes McLuhanMashUp series)
https://docs.google.com/spread sheets/d/1EtuhFDTB2KCI7E2INxg VCg7Cc0cYX4OsvOw8ZxeAv0Q/edit# gid=0
Tune in, Watch out and Drop In to Gerry Fialka’s two Interview/Salon podcasts on two different channels:
MESS & McLuhanMashUp
on Clinton Ignatov’s channel CONCERNED NETIZEN: https://www.youtube.com/user/clintonthegeek
and
INNERVIEWS & LAUGHTEARS SALONS
on Rob Grant’s channel — I’m Probably Wrong About Everything
https://www.youtube.com/@improbablywrongabouteveryt6781/streams
Please send us your reactions to the feature film
The Brother Side of the Wake (aka BroSide)
free on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYixmuJyjI&t=18s
https://pfsuzy.medium.com/brosiding-by-gerry-fialka-laughtears-com-cc69e3d43fb5
https://broside.wordpress.com/
ONE MINUTE BroSide preview trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBj0UdpFEWo
and MoSide https://laughtears.com/moside.html
Check out the book https://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html
Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation — Compelling interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema offer insights into moving image art — its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects. Through interviews with George Manupelli, Larry Gottheim, Chick Strand, Tom Gunning, Jay Rosenblatt, Martha Colburn, Evan Meaney, Mike Hoolboom, Robert Nelson, and Nina Menkes, Lynne Sachs, Strange Questions links powerful personal stories with the contemporary media-scape. Available here in paperback and kindle from Amazon
Check out: Fialka Book Release by Morgan Agren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72kx9UQdt-A
and Fialka Book Release! (Redux) by Morgan and Tyler Bartram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWq5dyLETE
and Bartram&Fialka Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@rondopandit/featured
Franky & Zimmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASGJUwl8dks&t=39s
Stay tuned — Gerry Fialka pfsuzy@aol.com 310–306–7330 (landline)
