Gerry Fialka
@laughtears.bsky.social
🎥 Experimental Filmmaker | Curator | Writer
🎟️ Events + 💬 Salons + 🎬 Screenings
📖 FINNEGANS WAKE Group • Venice, CA
🌀 Free Minds. ❤️🔥 Wild Hearts. 🌴 LA Soul.
🔗 Laughtears.com | 2026
🎟️ Events + 💬 Salons + 🎬 Screenings
📖 FINNEGANS WAKE Group • Venice, CA
🌀 Free Minds. ❤️🔥 Wild Hearts. 🌴 LA Soul.
🔗 Laughtears.com | 2026
Happy birthday, James Joyce 🎉📚
Born on February 2, 1882, 144 years ago today! and still rewriting how we think about
#JamesJoyce #144YearsYoung #LiteraryLegend #Ulysses #Dubliners #FinnegansWake #IrishLiterature
Born on February 2, 1882, 144 years ago today! and still rewriting how we think about
#JamesJoyce #144YearsYoung #LiteraryLegend #Ulysses #Dubliners #FinnegansWake #IrishLiterature
February 3, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Happy birthday, James Joyce 🎉📚
Born on February 2, 1882, 144 years ago today! and still rewriting how we think about
#JamesJoyce #144YearsYoung #LiteraryLegend #Ulysses #Dubliners #FinnegansWake #IrishLiterature
Born on February 2, 1882, 144 years ago today! and still rewriting how we think about
#JamesJoyce #144YearsYoung #LiteraryLegend #Ulysses #Dubliners #FinnegansWake #IrishLiterature
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On Joyce's birthday, one can ponder improbable things, like ineluctable modalities or sighs in shockings. Or one might grab a Guinness and watch an interview that Igor, our very own Master Matrix Builder, gave to @laughtears.bsky.social, talking Joyce and beyond:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJul...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJul...
InnerViews#746 Igor Belokrinitsky
YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
On Joyce's birthday, one can ponder improbable things, like ineluctable modalities or sighs in shockings. Or one might grab a Guinness and watch an interview that Igor, our very own Master Matrix Builder, gave to @laughtears.bsky.social, talking Joyce and beyond:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJul...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJul...
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@wake-in-progress.bsky.social We must go deeper! Much like in the movie Inception, @laughtears.bsky.social and I went several clicks down into Joyce, Darger, Pynchon and Schwarzenegger. Thanks for the great conversation, Gerry!
www.youtube.com/live/TJul5tW...
www.youtube.com/live/TJul5tW...
InnerViews#746 Igor Belokrinitsk
YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
@wake-in-progress.bsky.social We must go deeper! Much like in the movie Inception, @laughtears.bsky.social and I went several clicks down into Joyce, Darger, Pynchon and Schwarzenegger. Thanks for the great conversation, Gerry!
www.youtube.com/live/TJul5tW...
www.youtube.com/live/TJul5tW...
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Gerry Fialka interviews Mary Mackey
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gerry Fialka interviews Mary Mackey
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
Part One https://tinyurl.com/355vmjt3
Part Two https://tinyurl.com/36nmasdj
#AuthorInterview #creativity
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Tonight on KXLU: Music For Nimrods, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Radio Show!": Zappadan Continues! Featuring the 1971 Montreux Casino show and the annual Zappadan rant from Gerry Fialka! Listen late Friday, early Saturday, 3am-6am pst, KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9fm & kxlu com.
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Tonight on KXLU: Music For Nimrods, "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Radio Show!": Zappadan Continues! Featuring the 1971 Montreux Casino show and the annual Zappadan rant from Gerry Fialka! Listen late Friday, early Saturday, 3am-6am pst, KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9fm & kxlu com.
🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Join us tomorrow night celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films.
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Join us tomorrow night celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films.
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
January 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Join us tomorrow night celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films.
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
SUGGESTED DONATION: $10
Join us tomorrow night celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films.
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
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🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
🎬✨ 23rd Venice Film Festival ✨🎬
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
📍 Beyond Baroque | 681 Venice Blvd
📅 Sunday, Jan 11
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Join us for an evening celebrating Venice culture, live music & powerful films
#VeniceFilmFestival #BeyondBaroque #VeniceCA #FreeEvent #ArtAndActivism
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During this session, we discovered that once you mention about The Magic Mountain, you keep seeing it everywhere, like a pertinacious mirage. It seems to feel rather cosy in the Wakean landscape, that mountain.
Art by Linda Lotiel
Art by Linda Lotiel
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
During this session, we discovered that once you mention about The Magic Mountain, you keep seeing it everywhere, like a pertinacious mirage. It seems to feel rather cosy in the Wakean landscape, that mountain.
Art by Linda Lotiel
Art by Linda Lotiel
Reposted by Gerry Fialka
HAPPY MAYBE NIGHT!
Our Winter Solstice celebration of Finnegans Wake has begun :))) www.maybeday.net/night/
Our Winter Solstice celebration of Finnegans Wake has begun :))) www.maybeday.net/night/
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
HAPPY MAYBE NIGHT!
Our Winter Solstice celebration of Finnegans Wake has begun :))) www.maybeday.net/night/
Our Winter Solstice celebration of Finnegans Wake has begun :))) www.maybeday.net/night/
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One more mindmap. Does it have a Christmas vibe? It must, since it contains a bubbling place of alcohol. And a bit of fairy-tale logic. Once upon a time... there was a Viconian cycle. Once, twice, thrice upon a time, and counting.
Happy Christmas, everyone! (HCE, you again?)
Art by Linda Lotiel
Happy Christmas, everyone! (HCE, you again?)
Art by Linda Lotiel
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One more mindmap. Does it have a Christmas vibe? It must, since it contains a bubbling place of alcohol. And a bit of fairy-tale logic. Once upon a time... there was a Viconian cycle. Once, twice, thrice upon a time, and counting.
Happy Christmas, everyone! (HCE, you again?)
Art by Linda Lotiel
Happy Christmas, everyone! (HCE, you again?)
Art by Linda Lotiel
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Last meeting this year - the Question 1 of the Quiz is done! Perhaps no new heads have grown on old shoulders, but definitely new light bulbs have lit up in old heads. Thanks @kenjihayakawa.com for joining us again and kudos to our Matrix Builder @augustinealoysius.bsky.social for the crossword.
December 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Last meeting this year - the Question 1 of the Quiz is done! Perhaps no new heads have grown on old shoulders, but definitely new light bulbs have lit up in old heads. Thanks @kenjihayakawa.com for joining us again and kudos to our Matrix Builder @augustinealoysius.bsky.social for the crossword.
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It's been quite a year for the Ukrainian FW group! This year we held 22 sessions and read 73 pages. We've become international and gave interviews. Many Russian generals shot, rivers of whiskey set on intellectual fire. The rest is poetry.
Text by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social, art by Linda Lotiel
Text by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social, art by Linda Lotiel
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It's been quite a year for the Ukrainian FW group! This year we held 22 sessions and read 73 pages. We've become international and gave interviews. Many Russian generals shot, rivers of whiskey set on intellectual fire. The rest is poetry.
Text by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social, art by Linda Lotiel
Text by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social, art by Linda Lotiel
Reposted by Gerry Fialka
Check out the latest podcast of InnerViews#726 with John Fugelsang! It’s a good one!!
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
InnerViews#726 John Fugelsang
YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Check out the latest podcast of InnerViews#726 with John Fugelsang! It’s a good one!!
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
Check out the latest podcast of InnerViews#726 with John Fugelsang! It’s a good one!!
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
InnerViews#726 John Fugelsang
YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Check out the latest podcast of InnerViews#726 with John Fugelsang! It’s a good one!!
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
#ImProbablyWrongAboutEverything
www.youtube.com/live/HUVK0BH...
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
Reposted by Gerry Fialka
Reposted by Gerry Fialka
Reposted by Gerry Fialka
Incoming from Gerry Fialka 📣✨
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Incoming from Gerry Fialka 📣✨
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
Incoming from Gerry Fialka 📣✨
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Incoming from Gerry Fialka 📣✨
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
I just dropped a short promo video petitioning for a chance to get inside the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Check out the video, please spread the word, and help me make some noise.
#GeorgeLucas #LucasMuseumofNarrativeArt #GerryFialka
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Part One of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4gtQOOt
Part Two of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4hlAeli
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
https://buff.ly/4gtQOOt
Part Two of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4hlAeli
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Part One of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4gtQOOt
Part Two of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4hlAeli
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
https://buff.ly/4gtQOOt
Part Two of Gerry Fialka interview with Mary Mackey
https://buff.ly/4hlAeli
#PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky
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An Oldie but a Goody! Better Beyonds Public-Access TV Show by Suzy Williams & Gerry Fialka (available on YouTube) Original Air date Date 9-6-97
#laughtears #finneganswake #jamesjoyce #marshalmcluhan
#laughtears #finneganswake #jamesjoyce #marshalmcluhan
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
An Oldie but a Goody! Better Beyonds Public-Access TV Show by Suzy Williams & Gerry Fialka (available on YouTube) Original Air date Date 9-6-97
#laughtears #finneganswake #jamesjoyce #marshalmcluhan
#laughtears #finneganswake #jamesjoyce #marshalmcluhan
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The digital version has a missing paragraph from the print version (where I first saw it). I vaguely recalled the name Gerry Fialka in connection to Frank Zappa, and yes, it's him: archivist, production manager, ran the Barfko-Swill mail order operation in the 80s.
November 16, 2023 at 9:55 AM
The digital version has a missing paragraph from the print version (where I first saw it). I vaguely recalled the name Gerry Fialka in connection to Frank Zappa, and yes, it's him: archivist, production manager, ran the Barfko-Swill mail order operation in the 80s.
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Gerry Fialka has just done a second interview with me on YouTube.
Hear about why, in 1986, a New York editor rejected California Burning, my (still-unpublished) novel about wildfires and climate change) by saying: “No one cares about California.”
Hear about why, in 1986, a New York editor rejected California Burning, my (still-unpublished) novel about wildfires and climate change) by saying: “No one cares about California.”
InnerViews#488 Mary Mackey Part Two
TUES Sept3 at 2:30 PDT for 90m min live on YouTubeInnerViews#488Mary Mackey Part Twohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mackey9-3–24 interview byGerry Fialka ...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Gerry Fialka has just done a second interview with me on YouTube.
Hear about why, in 1986, a New York editor rejected California Burning, my (still-unpublished) novel about wildfires and climate change) by saying: “No one cares about California.”
Hear about why, in 1986, a New York editor rejected California Burning, my (still-unpublished) novel about wildfires and climate change) by saying: “No one cares about California.”
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Der kalifornische Filmemacher Gerry Fialka setzte sich deshalb mit Freunden zusammen, um das Megawerk Seite für Seite gründlich zu lesen und zu verstehen. Das war 1995. Jetzt, 28 Jahre später, hat der Leseclub die letzte der gut 600 Seiten durchgearbeitet. Was kommt als Nächstes?
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December 18, 2023 at 6:56 AM
Der kalifornische Filmemacher Gerry Fialka setzte sich deshalb mit Freunden zusammen, um das Megawerk Seite für Seite gründlich zu lesen und zu verstehen. Das war 1995. Jetzt, 28 Jahre später, hat der Leseclub die letzte der gut 600 Seiten durchgearbeitet. Was kommt als Nächstes?
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