Cooper Point Journal
USAFrom 1972 to 1977, Matt Groening attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, a liberal arts school that he described as "a hippie college, with no grades or required classes, that drew every weirdo in the Northwest." He served as the editor of the campus newspaper, the Cooper Point Journal, for which he also wrote articles and drew cartoons. (wikipedia)
“Yes,
ladies and gentlemen, touring can make you crazy”. That’s what
“200 Motels”, Frank Zappa’s new movie, is all about. Living
in cheesy motels, ordering magic cheeseburgers, making the scene
in fake nightclubs, ripping off groupies for spare change –
all these and many more of your and the Mothers’ favorite fantasies
about the life of a swinging rock group went into the making
of “200 Motels”. This is life straight from the subjective consciousness
of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. It’s all real,
if only in the minds of the musicians themselves. (read
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More
than 70 drawings and paintings by composer, musician, and poet
Don Van Vliet (better known as Captain Beefheart) and graphic
artist Cal Schenkel, are on display in the Library Art Gallery
until April 16. The works, which range from pencil sketches
for animated films to large acrylic paintings, are being shown
publicly for the first time.
The exhibit features 22 drawings and six paintings by Van Vliet. Schenkel, who has designed record album covers for Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, is exhibiting about 50 works in the show, including the original art for the Zappa albums Uncle Meat, We're Only In It For the Money, One Size Fits All, and The Grand Wazoo.
Posters for the exhibit, which were designed by Cal Schenkel, will be on sale throughout the exhibit, which is free and open to the public. The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
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The
exhibition of over 70 paintings and drawings by Don Van Vliet
and Cal Schenkel now on display in the Library Art Gallery is
simply astounding. Van Vliet's playful, free-form images and
Schenkel's carefully controlled and developed works are distinctive
examples of intuitive art and graphic design. (read
more)
Source: collections.evergreen.edu
The
essence of 200 MOTELS is very difficult to capture.
Frank Zappa's 1971 feature-length movie operates on so many
levels that isolating any element will not do it justice. It
is a musical/visual/comic extravaganza that compresses time
and space into a 99-minute pulsating lump, combining real incidents
and Zappa's fantasies into a surrealistic documentary unlike
any other movie ever seen. (read
more)
Source: collections.evergreen.edu