buZ 63
Stencil portrait of Brakeman of Time Stoppages, August 23rd, 2006.buZ blurr turns 63.
posted by buZ blurr at 2:45 PM
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
About Me
- Name: buZ blurr
- Location: Surrealville, Principality of buZ, United States
I'm a retired railroad man who indulged in the folk art tradition of making chalk drawings on the railcars as an announcement of presence, and diversion from boredom. Although against the rules of the railroad, it was a common enough practice by the employees and hobos, by ignoring enforcement it was de facto tacit approval, for I dispatched drawings for 32 years of my 41 years of employment without interference. The initial purpose of this blog is to record the language used in my frequent boxcar icon dispatches.
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4 Comments:
Dear Mr. blurr,
Through a series of interesting connections, I discovered your site and you...it all started on a boring day at work, daydreaming about trains, when I thought about those drawings on freight cars. I thought, "who is Bozo Texino?" and decided it was worth punching into the machine. Lo and behold, a movie of the same title as my thought. So I bought it, loved it, and also recognized your drawings. It is all very interesting to me, but even more so to find you are a widely unknown dadaist who has created some amazing stamps and other things. Funny, when you were translating the Italian for "alternative postage stamps" I visualized the stamps on Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal album.
Now I see you are a Beefheart fan too. What else? Kurt Vonnegut!
I recently acquired another film on DVD, something I saw on TV about 35 years ago called "From Time to Timbuktu" which I had dreamed of for a long time and never could get a copy of until this summer...it features several Vonnegut stories. It starts out with Stony Stevenson who wins an advertising jingle contest and the prize is a trip to the Chronosynclastic Infindibulum. He has several adventures from various Vonnegut stories. It is just great, which is probably why they never showed it again or released it as a video...but I found somebody who made DVDs from old video tape off the TV. I'll send you a copy.
This really is one of the oddest inhabited planets I've ever seen!
Yes, thank you. You listed a number of cultural inspirations and influences, among many, I can blame for my fragmented personality flaws. Dull Odd buZ
mcsproing, do you have any contact information on that copy of "From time to Timbuktu" ? I have been searching for that for years.
I too have been looking for "From Time to Timbuktu" for years. If you have info on how to download a copy, please let me know.
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