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Beatles-Butcher_Cover Originally uploaded by Doctor Noe Right now, at the Fullerton Museum Center (301 N. Pomona Ave, Fullerton Ca. 92832 (714) 738-6545), where Roy Buchanan’s Telecaster, which he called Nancy is on exhibit in the Leo Fender Gallery through 2010 in a show called “Solid Design: Leo Fender’s Telecaster,” the current exhibit in the main gallery is “The 100 Worst Album Covers.” You can also find this Beatles album cover along with Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, some Jackie Gleason LPs and more artifacts that may or may not be silly, disgusting or just plain pop culture kitsch. The nice thing about all this — for me, anyway — is that it all ties in neatly to my weltanshauung. I am such a weltanshauung kind of guy, you see. That’s why they call me Doctor Noe. http://www.cityoffullerton.com/depts/museum/calendar.asp You can find my Roy Buchanan Telly Talk DVD constantly playing on the far right of this picture (yup, that’s my boy Dylan glued to the tube watching his daddy’s creation) …

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About Me I have been features editor at the Hollywood Reporter and an editor and contributor to Variety, editor-in-chief of Movies USA, bikini and Guitar World and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. My company, noemedia, produced FX HEROES, a national newsstand magazine about big action movies. In television, I have served as the Managing Editor of VH1 and a writer/producer for Turner Broadcasting. My entertainment news column, The Daily Fix, was a regular feature of the AOL Entertainment Channel. My stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, USA Today, Premiere, The Movies and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. I am the author of articles and books on the music of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King and Jaco Pastorius, among others I recently revived what used to be known as a mail-order company, Guitar Galaxy, to market and distribute some of the artifacts I was known for when I edited and founded Guitar World magazine. The latest project is a DVD, ROY BUCHANAN, TELLY TALK. For more info and how to order the DVD, see "How to Order Roy Buchanan..." "cinema is truth 24 times a second" - JL Godard "I'm glad I don't like spinach, because if I did then I would eat it, and I can't stand the stuff." - JL Godard in "Pierrot le Fou" "Film is like a battleground. Love, hate, action, violence, death. In a word, emotion." - Samuel Fuller in JL Godard's "Pierrot le Fou"

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