The Real St. John Smythe

Fast Exits

Administrator — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:43:17 +0000

A number of you whom have already had the chance to see Come Fly With Me Nude wanted to know why I up and left so quickly at the end of the interview with Dom & Bella.

I hadn’t really thought that it was even slightly unusual, and I can’t help but start to see Dom & Bella’s point about the film’s negative representation of its subjects.
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Film Arts Festival

Administrator — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:17:59 +0000

On Saturday, 5th November, I made yet another visit to San Francisco. This time it was for the a “work in progress” screening of the soon to be legendary film “Come Fly With Me Nude”. Not wanting to upstage my dear friends, I snook in after the initial announcements and left before the titles finished crawling by.

Much as I can see my friends’, Dom & Bella’s, point about being cast in less than serious light, I have to say that maybe OD TV’s editorial choices are not so far off the prescribed mark. For, though I did laugh until it hurt, I also felt moved to tears and a deep connection to the muses and their art.
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Furnishings

Administrator — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:26:25 +0000

So very many of you, my show’s fans, write on a daily basis to ask about my furnishing. Well my faithful readers, here is, as they say, the skinny:

Lets start with the chairs. Those beautifully eligant curves of white polymer, sculpted to the seated body’s form. If they didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent them. They were brought into the world out of the mind of Danish Designer “Verner Panton”, and can be bough for ready cash — make that bucket loads of cash, but then that’s OD TV’s concern rather than mine.

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My First Interview with Dom Casual & Bella Hagen

Administrator — Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:55:55 +0000

1997: Stereophonic Acrimonious Nudity

This duo have been each other muse for a good many years, but it is only recently that this intimate, artistic support-group have grown beyond their subtle tacit singularities; Following near identical orbits around the body of California’s performance arts circuit; Disturbing Middle-America’s mental myopia with highly individual acts of auricular adversity. Since ‘95 the sum became greater than the parts; The melding of man/woman, yin/yang became complete and “Come Fly With Me Nude” was released upon a totally unsuspecting public. Continuing they’re unrelenting assault on the people of the world, they have now announced the imminent release of a new textual corroboree which promises to surpass all other literary works of recent times. So, who are these entities that have been likened to a tsunami of Byronian Ferlinghettis? How did they find each other, let alone themselves, amidst the detritus of pop USA?

Discussion:
INTERVIEWER: What catalyst caused this big-bang?
BELLA: Its genesis was almost eerie. I was returning home from my Rolfing for Creative Personalities class, when I was struck by the beauty of the flowers outside a small florist. I was inspired to indulge myself, and couldn’t decide between the Phlox Drummondi and the Delphinium Consoldia.

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My Home by Joe Colombo

Administrator — Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:45:22 +0000

This titan of tenacious techno trappings once said, “The possibilities presented by the extraordinary development of audiovisual processes are enormous … Distances will no longer have much importance; no longer will there be any justification for the ‘megalopolis’ … Furnishings will disappear … the habitat will be everywhere… Now, if the elements necessary to human existence could be planned with the sole requirements of maneuverability and flexibility…,then we would create an inhabitable system that could be adapted to any situation in space and time…”
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