biographical info
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.
Specifically, jody is an award-winning experimental filmmaker,
co-founder/editor of MungBeing magazine, a musical/performance art
experimentalist working in July Fourth Toilet and Rubaboo, an author of
literary fiction and cultural criticism, a co-founding editor/publisher
of The Misfit Library literary journal, a comedian and a Cacophonist
propagating the “Santarchy As Postmodern Saturnalia” meme.
While rejecting the term "outsider artist," he nevertheless considers himself an "outsider human being."
influences
outsider music
audio anomalies
my friends & collaborators
MungBeing/MungBeat! artists
Amarillo Records catalogue
the languid culture of Lotusland
experiential, experimental, eclectic, esoteric, eccentric music
collage, improvisation, performance art
psychedooolia, remodernism, raw art
Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Suckdog, Dame Darcy
Daniel Johnston, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt
Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono
authenticity, intuition, feeling
shamanism, ritual, magick, sex
novelty