A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: How to write a blog headline
One email with the words A COMPLETE UNKNOWN EQUALS one more follower
šØNEWS FLASHšØ
The sole purpose of this Substack is to gain more awareness of Mike Porco and Gerdeās Folk City.
Dozens turn to hundreds, hundreds turn to thousands of people who donāt know GERDES yet, thousands turn toā¦you get the pictureš¤š¼š¤š¼š¤š¼
For those who think selling the best damn doc about MIKE PORCO AND GERDES is easy, give it a try yourself. Iāve got the goods. I know the amount of good information is in the doc released in June 2024. I know it will grow legs. I know the INFO in the movie is a future cult favorite. Donāt be the last to know.š„š„š„š„š„
Itās four hours long and I donāt care.
JIMMY CRACK CORN
Bob Dylan played a wrench to a drum beat on his microphone last night in concert. This is a living blog.
https://consequence.net/2024/09/bob-dylan-desolation-row-tiny-wrench/
š° Currently, the world at large doesnāt know much about Folk City.
Luckily for me, I donāt have to begin at DOZENS of people knowing Mike Porcoās name. He had THOUSANDS of friends by the time I was born. BOB DYLAN started there and his name is known by millions.
ā Iāll have one of those, please.
Let me start with a few hundred thousand views of my film which will lead to millions and you get it.š„
š If only there were FANZINES, websites or writers out there willing to publish a review of the doc?
YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS HAPPENING
BUT YOU DONāT KNOW WHAT IT IS
DO YOU, MR JONES?
I already know what šthe Gerdeās FolkCity Docš LOOKS like. I donāt need a review confirming that itās indie. Does the doc inform the viewer of anything at all? I also know that answer.šŗ
THERE ARE SOME SEXY PARTS!!!!
IT IS A COMPLETE UNKNOWN what Bob Dylan will publish about his relations with Mike and John Porco. He wrote about them on page 64 of CHRONICLES Volume One of 3.
Bobās bio-pic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is due out by Christmas. Itās very nice of Dylan to offer me such personal gifts. Tanks-a-lot. Gerdeās will be showcased in the movie. Fact. My Substack might be discovered by hundreds more by then. SUPER UNKNOWN.
What the public doesnāt know yet is HOW are THEY {GERDEāS AND MIKE} presented.
MIKE PORCO AND GERDEāS PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM
They are one. They are the same. Itās a complete unknown of how the directors and writers will work Folk City, the KING OF CLUBS, into the movie starring a bunch of fucking nobodies and Mike Porco.
Itās completely unknown WHAT Dylan might say about Mike Porco in his forthcoming completion of his original book deal. The autobiography will be a TRILOGY.
Foolishly, back in 2004 when Chronicles was released, I figured that the Porco Family at large will be VINDICATED for telling Grandpa stories and were asked about our relation to āthat guy in Dylanās WRITINGS/MOVIE/BOOKS/VIDEO.ā
Well, itās been 20 years. Bob is over due to spill his guts about Mike. Only two people would know about their personal conversations. One is dead. That leaves Bob.
There are only two people named BOB that can value it as much. Yet I already know how much Mike Porcoās friendships are valued. They email me, they tell me, they name exhibits after his place, they mention him in books, they mention Gerdeās online every week, they have shared their time with me. I am not me anymore on socials. I am HIM since heās been gone before the web.
āBob will lionize Mike one day,ā I said in 2004. I waited 5 years before I got off the couch to do it myself. Mike will have millions of minds opened up to him in 2024. Millions more in 2025.
šæTHIS SUBSTACK is solely for the purpose of using song lyrics in my titles for the remainder of the decadešæ
Below you may find some details on how to educate yo damn self and pay for viewing the GERDEāS FOLK CITY DOCš
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š¤š¼Do ya love Rock and Roll?
š¤š¼How about Folk Rock?
š¤š¼How about The Blues?
š¤š¼Americana?
š¤š¼Singer songwriter???
š¼š¼ Ever wonder where all that came from?
Try imagining a place where it was always safe and warm for the stray musician during the Folk Revival of the 1960s.
EVERYTHING was going on there. As long as you were the best at what you did, you got hired. Jazz and comedy were welcomed again in in later years.
Yet the Hootenanny on Mondayās allowed space for A COMPLETE UNKNOWN amateur to perform on the same stage.
Folk City became a good luck charm for artists and bands.
Into the 1980s, bands like Sonic Youth and 10,000 Maniacs call Folk City their first BIG booking. Lucinda Williams came. Suzanne Vega, Joan Osbourne, Shawn Colvin, Lucy Kaplanski, Carolyn Mas, David Massengill, Rod MacDonald, Frank Christianā¦ODETTA still came around. Folk City didnāt belong to anyone any more. It was EVERYBODYāS.
Mike Porcoās good karma has made its way into the modern day over two decades after his death. Because of his selfless effort, my task of making the definitive documentary film on Gerde's and Mike has been made a lot easier. IT IS ASTOUNDING AND AVAILABLE HERE:
https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/documentary-on-mike-porcos-folk-music