2024-04-29T17:31:49Z http://www.valleyartshare.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=drugs&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:www.valleyartshare.com,2009-03-15:2537144:Video:2938 2009-03-15T02:07:18.465Z Marc Israel http://www.valleyartshare.com/profile/MarcIsrael

<a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/video/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="120" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1511005953?profile=original&amp;width=160&amp;height=120" width="160"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>This is a trailer for Phenomenal World Cinema's first feature-length documentary. I'm proud to now offer it on DVD. By 1997, I'd been a traveling musician for 5 years. May thru October were spent on the road, hitchhiking, street-performing as a one-man-band, criss-crossing the USA &amp; Europe dozens of times, In winters, I'd stay in New York City, often at the apartment of…

<a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/video/how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1511005953?profile=original&amp;width=160&amp;height=120" width="160" height="120" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />This is a trailer for Phenomenal World Cinema's first feature-length documentary. I'm proud to now offer it on DVD. By 1997, I'd been a traveling musician for 5 years. May thru October were spent on the road, hitchhiking, street-performing as a one-man-band, criss-crossing the USA &amp; Europe dozens of times, In winters, I'd stay in New York City, often at the apartment of poet Allen Ginsberg. He was a good friend, a great teacher, &amp; I'd accompany him on guitar for various performances. In April of '97 I witnessed his passing. With a mind now pondering Death (and my other usual obsession, sex!), I hit the road again, only this time I brought a videocamera!<br /> <br /> Get on the road and discuss deathbed manners with urban speculator Geoff Manaugh (mastermind pioneer of bldgblog . blogspot . com) in Chapel Hill, sample drunken ecstatic southerners at the Memphis Blues Festival, stay the night at the World's Most-Cluttered Home in Oklahoma City, visit close Ginsberg friends Steven Taylor (of The Fugs) and poet Anne Waldman in Boulder, share in a titillating liaison in Pocatello, Idaho, alight upon naked hippies singing in an Olympia, Washington shower, savor the vibrant musical flavors of Seattle's Folklife Festival, verse yourself in drug-addled philosophy from Portland street kids, discover the true identity of Bigfoot in Ashland, then head to San Francisco to meet Frank Harrison, a man intent on blowing up the White House. Back east in Vermont, spend a month in group retreat at Karme Choling Buddhist Meditation Center before returning to the Big Wormy Apple. All this, while getting to know a multitude of car &amp; truck-driving cattlemen, immigrants. prostitutes, river rats, paleontologists, ex-cons, &amp; reg'lar blue-collar men who tell often-hilarious stories to filmmaking hitchhikers!<br /> Music by Marc Israel.<br /> For more information please visit: myspace.com/marcisraelfilms