“HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION” – Hitchhiking Documentary!
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 & 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, & 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! 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 …
Tags: Documentary, Hitchhiking, Spent, summer, vacation
March 12th, 2010 at 5:22 am
Thats how I spent my youth…cool idea and flashback…keep on filming
March 12th, 2010 at 5:36 am
bIg Up!
March 12th, 2010 at 5:46 am
this looks good.. wish i could get it
March 12th, 2010 at 6:25 am
This….is good.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:01 am
I was taking a drink and laughed cola out of my nose when he said that!
March 12th, 2010 at 7:55 am
“The easiest thing in the world would be to blow up the White House…what does this say? Well, it says…nobody reads Noam Chomsky!”
LOL!!!
March 12th, 2010 at 8:16 am
that old man was going to rap you if you said no hahahaha
March 12th, 2010 at 8:59 am
lol “have you been raped yet?”
March 12th, 2010 at 9:06 am
please send $12 in check or concealed greenbacks to:
Phenomenal World Cinema
62 West St. #3
Northampton, MA 01060
in return we shall send you this lovely DVD.
Or send $20 and we’ll also include the latest feature-length film “A Balancing Act”, full of adventure & wisemen & fools & humour.
thanks for your interest!
March 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am
hey id like the film what do i need to do?
March 12th, 2010 at 10:26 am
download who? these are not animated computer henai. they are real as the elastic in your underwear. but you can easily obtain a DVD by emailing me thru youtube or myspace.thanks!
March 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am
It is out on DVD, available thru Phenomenal World Cinema. If you like travel, sex, truckdrivers. dope fiends, prostitutes, & Buddhism then this is definitely the film for you!
March 12th, 2010 at 11:28 am
what’s the name of the song at the beginning of the video?
March 12th, 2010 at 11:45 am
we wanna review at elephantjournaldot com
March 12th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I got my DVD copy in the mail today and I can’t wait to go home and watch it! Bless ya forever Marc Israel!!!
March 12th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
awesome man when does this come out?
March 12th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
is there anywhere i can download them?
March 12th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
All songs in the trailer & movie were written & recorded by Marc Israel & His Graveyard Ramblers. A Greatest Hits CD is available from Phenomenal World Cinema.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
what are the songs in the trailer???
March 12th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Rock on!!! Looks like a great documentary!
March 12th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
awesome
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