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.
Source: collections.evergreen.edu
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.
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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