jodymeme + Musician in Victoria, BC

SEEKING

ABOUT

New to Victoria, interested in hooking up with other artists for wigged out performance and audio experimentation. I'm especially interested in meeting people who have home recording studios (lo-fi analog, simple digital, whatever) or who would like to do musical performance art. Please listen to my music, watch my videos and investigate my history and influences before contacting me. Entheonauts, kraut rockers, non-musicians, persons with absolutely no interest in the "music industry," escaped mental patients, Euro trash, Japanese exchange students, cat lovers, occultists and weirdos encouraged to apply. Indie rockers who lack cynicism are okay, too.

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jody franklin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Victoria, British Columbia. He was once heralded a "renaissance man" by a contemporary trying to describe his forays into writing, film/video, performance art, music, visual art and various other media.

These days, he co-publishes and edits MungBeing, a unique online magazine of art, literature and ideas. He’s been performing and recording music with the legendary, lovable and eccentric band July Fourth Toilet since 1994. His soon-to-be-published novella I Was A Teenage Communist was a finalist in the 2006 3-Day Novel Contest. He recently joined Victoria’s notorious 30 Cent Players sketch comedy troupe as a performer and writer. jody is also an award-winning experimental filmmaker and film producer, a co-founding editor/publisher of The Misfit Library literary journal, a Burning Man acolyte, and a Cacophonist propagating the “Santarchy As Postmodern Saturnalia” meme.

While rejecting the term "outsider artist," he nevertheless considers himself an "outsider human being."

July Fourth Toilet
http://www.julyfourthtoilet.com
http://www.myspace.com/julyfourthtoilet
http://youtube.com/user/JulyFourthToilet

Me
http://www.myspace.com/jodymeme

Screen name:

jodymeme

Member since:

Aug 29 2007

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

20

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

July Fourth Toilet, Sun City Girls, Scott Walker, Yoko Ono, Caroliner, Suckdog, Dame Darcy, Three Day Stubble, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Daniel Johnston, Jandek, Wckr Spgt, Bonzo Dog Band, Eugene Chadbourne, Holy Modal Rounders, Fugs, Frogs, BJ Snowden, Jad Fair, Dagmar Krause (Slapp Happy, Art Bears, Henry Cow), Robert Wyatt, Canned Hamm, the Raincoats, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, Beach Boys, Jimmy Webb, Paul McCartney, Michael Nesmith, Lydia Lunch, Tiny Tim, Lee Hazlewood, Zip Code Rapists, Ian & Sylvia, Jacques Brel, Beat Happening, Gary Wilson, Nihilist Spasm Band, John Cage, Nico, Sun Ra, Carter Family, Guided By Voices, Klaus Nomi, Sparks, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Love, Neil Young's Trans album, Martin Denny, Tom Waits, Monitor, Sockeye, Billy Childish, Ennio Morricone, artists on the MungBeat!, Amarillo, Shimmy Disc and Shrimper labels, "outsider music," thrift store oddities, avant-garde and visionary music, experimental music, Fluxus, novelty songs, song poems, ad jingles, industrial sounds, the Beats, concrete poetry, Stuckists, Situationists, pornography, Gummo, Werner Herzog

EQUIPMENT

costumes and fabrics, kazoo, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica, keyboard, guitar, trombone, broken tape recorder, household items with which to make percussion instruments

MUSIC