Barney's Wall: The Documentary
A project in New York, NY by Sandy Gotham Meehan & Williams Cole000days
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How a free-speech warrior and radical publisher's censorship battles against the US government blew open America's culture
Backers: 188
Average Pledge Per Backer: $435
Funded: $81,797 of $75,000
Dates: Mar 24th -> Apr 23rd (30 days)
Project By: Sandy Gotham Meehan & Williams Cole
Backers: 188
Average Pledge Per Backer: $435
Funded: $81,797 of $75,000
Dates: Mar 24th -> Apr 23rd (30 days)
Project By: Sandy Gotham Meehan & Williams Cole
$81,797
current pledge level
Last Updated: April 23 @ 09:01 -0400 GMT
109%
of goal
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Latest News
THE BEGINNING IS IN THE END: NEXT 
April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to all of you who have made our campaign a resounding success: To all of our backers, who stayed with us and sent encouraging "Stay in there!" emails and messages. You kept us going. To our sui generis cast, who helped us decipher the... (Read More)
I MUST GO ON: LAST WORDS
April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Like life itself, Kickstarter campaigns demand resilience, obsession, delusional thinking,...and an inbred, mortal terror of humiliation. Yes, the cockroach guy, another iconic rebel published in Barney Rosset's counter-culture, in your face,... (Read More)
WHY YOU SHOULD MORTGAGE YOUR DOG...NOW
April 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
WHEN LIVES CONVERGE: KEROUAC, CHINA AND LADY CHATTERLEY
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Put together a Bangkok novelist, a legendary New York publisher, and a guy who writes military history… by Bob Bergin, originally published in "The Evergreen Review" I knew Christopher G. Moore for years before I met him. I was visiting Bangkok... (Read More)
BEHIND BARNEY'S WALL: A FEW SCENES
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Korean suicide knife vignette embedded by Barney in his wall Team Barney: David Leitner (cinematographer, with camera), Sandy Gotham Meehan (producer), Williams Cole, producer Side view of Barney's wall Barney crew and visitors Barney's pool table... (Read More)
LITERARY HOUNDS ... you have 48 hours in which to howl freely...act now!
April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Our film Barney's Wall" has just been profiled in "The Paris Review", as a tribute to Barney Rosset and his fierce battles for free expression. Barney’s Wall today on the Paris Review Daily: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/ Barney Rosset... (Read More)
ON SEX, MADAME de STAËL, NAPOLEON...AND CENSORSHIP...with three days to listen up
April 19th - via: kickstarter.com
"I would not have wanted to have been God because that for me would have been a dead end." - Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon: "You don't reason with intellectuals, you shoot them" What was censored in 1809 when Napoleon ruled France: Talk of the old... (Read More)
SPIDER WEBS, SEX AND MYSTERY
April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
“You might not know what’s going to fly into your web, but you put it where you think there might be flies. If you leave your web out long enough, you might have the option to pick only those flies that please you, and eventually you can discern... (Read More)
BARNEY ROSSET ON BECKETT, PINTER, MAMET, THE CIA…AND CENSORSHIP
April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
“Growing up, I belonged to nothing because in a city like Chicago there were two groups that I think really had great prejudice against them, and that was the Jews and the Irish—and I was both of them! And they didn’t like each other. I felt... (Read More)
WHY COMIC BOOKS SHOULD NOT BE BANNED
April 15th - via: kickstarter.com
"Because my brother Howie and I collected comics as poor kids in the Bronx, hoping to score a prized first edition of, say, Avengers #4 (which heralded the return appearance of Captain America) or Amazing Fantasy #15 (containing the origin of... (Read More)
8 DAYS TO EUCASTROPHE!
April 14th - via: kickstarter.com
"I liked the movie, but that deus ex machina of Catwoman blasting him with her Batpod was total crap." (Overheard yesterday, at Starbucks.) This what you are to us, wonderful backers You need to know this useful term, especially if you are... (Read More)
ZERO DARK THIRTY
April 12th - via: kickstarter.com
“Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, sweeping into history at the head of the toiling masses, and staking everything on their vast and simple desires. Already the machinery had been set up by which the land... (Read More)
Fail. Fail again. Fail better.
April 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Samuel Beckett... How did you feel in second grade when you lost the spelling bee contest to your frenemy? We dedicate the two typos (if you find any more let us know) in our last Update, "Waiting", to Sam. (Read More)
WAITING FOR..........???
April 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Waiting for Time Warner to replace your cable box? Waiting for a Tinder swipe? Waiting for your buzz cut to grow out? Waiting for an orgasm? Waiting for your cold sore to heal? Waiting for your boss to be transferred? Waiting for your script to be... (Read More)
US POSTAL SERVICE REVEALED AS A TERRORIST CELL
April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
In 1955, the Postal Service seized a rare volume of "Lysistrata," a 2,400 year old Greek play in which Greek women withhold sex to force Spartan and Athenian warriors to abandon war. The Postmaster General condemned the play as "obscene, lewd and... (Read More)
OUTLAWS...AND JACK KEROUAC
April 8th - via: kickstarter.com
The trite mythos of the outlaw; the self-conscious romanticism of the outlaw; the black wardrobe of the outlaw; the fey smile of the outlaw; the tequila of the outlaw and the beans of the outlaw; respectable men sneer and say 'outlaw'; young women... (Read More)
CONGRESS BANS GAME OF THRONES FOR SEX AND VIOLENCE
April 8th - via: kickstarter.com
FOUR REASONS WHY YOU ARE LUCKY TO BE A MILLENNIAL…AND A LATE BABY BOOMER #1 That headline is a joke...for now. #2 YOU CAN BUY COMIC BOOKS. In the 1950's, however, you couldn't read any comic books because...COMIC BOOKS WERE BANNED. There was... (Read More)
UPDATE #7: JAWS
April 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
We reveal the bloody truth of what it's like to be behind the scenes on Kickstarter This is the raw truth. We are shark bait. Only you can help us stay alive. So bring them in, all the as yet clueless who just need a shout-out from you on your... (Read More)
UPDATE #5: THREE REASONS WHY YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DAWG
April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
(CAT PEOPLE, LISTEN UP) #1 You ain't nothin' but a hound dog because you don’t regurgitate your food and you have no umwelt. According to an early-20th-century German biologist, to understand an animal you must begin by "considering their... (Read More)
UPDATE #4 THE LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN: BRAKE TO READ!!
March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers and Future Backers, Keep reading and you'll get to see luscious, pre-Tarantino Jennifer Jason Leigh topless. Our Updates are the most intriguing on Kickstarter so stay tuned and dial in your friends. This is your film now, and as... (Read More)
UPDATE #3: MISTAKEN IDENTITY TEST!!
March 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Yes, you clever readers! That photo of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin in Update #2 is from the movie, Henry and June, the Hollywood version of one of the hottest literary and sexual relationships of all time. Here's a reward for your keen eyes. First,... (Read More)
WHAT HENRY MILLER THOUGHT ABOUT ENGLISH LIT 101
March 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Kickstarter Backers and Future Backers!! Thank you for keeping us going with your generous contributions and shout-outs for free expression!! in the spirit of reciprocity we're going to be giving you regular behind-the-scenes looks at how... (Read More)
Lots of Launch-Day Love
March 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Beautiful "Barney's Wall" Backers, We're writing to say one thing: YOU. ARE. AWESOME. We enter our campaign's second day with 20 amazing backers—your combined pledges helped Barney's Wall raise $3,810 on our first day. Thank you so much! And thank... (Read More)
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