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Josh Frank is a critically acclaimed artist, entrepreneur, writer, producer, director and composer. whose current focus is spearheading his latest original project, <a href="https://www.silentsynced.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silents Synced</a>, an independent series where Frank remasters classic silent films with contemporary music. The latest iteration of this is Silents Synced Presents: A Woman of the World vs. Pearl Jam, a reinvention of the lost 1925 classic, re-soundtracked entirely to Pearl Jam&#8217;s Vs. and Vitalogym, which premieres in U.S. cinemas on November 7. Frank is the author of Fool The World: The Oral History of the Band Called Pixies and In Heaven Everything Is Fine – The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers. Other books include his novel, The Good Inn, co-written with Black Francis of the Pixies, and Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made, which was nominated for an Eisner Award. His list of notable works also includes authorized adaptations of Werner Hergoz’s Stroszek, Mark Vonnegut&#8217;s The Eden Express and The Jonathan Richman Musical. Over the past decade, Frank has collaborated with some of the most innovative figures in music, film, and the arts, including Black Francis, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He also runs the <a href="http://www.bluestarliteaustin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In</a>, which he founded in 2009, in Austin, Texas.

Josh Frank

Film

If It Weren’t for the Werner Herzog(s)

Kathy Valentine has been a working musician and songwriter for over 40 years, ever since she started her first band at age 16 in her hometown of Austin, Texas. After moving to Los Angeles, Kathy joined a band that would go on to make music history: The Go-Go’s. In this group, Kathy wrote or co-wrote some of the bands most renowned tunes, including the hits “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” She returned to Austin in 2006 and began finding new creative pursuits and career opportunities as a public speaker, spokesperson, producer, actor and author.
Signing with the esteemed University of Texas Press, her memoir All I Ever Wanted was released in Spring 2020. She put an academic degree plan on hold while finishing and promoting her book, and still finds time to play guitar with the Bluebonnets the all-female rock &amp; roll band she started in Austin.
Kathy’s greatest loves are her daughter, writing, music, and travel. Her hobbies are reading, computer graphics, digital recording, social media, politics, and natural based health protocols.

Kathy Valentine

Music

Kathy Valentine (the Go-Go’s, the BlueBonnets) Talks Blue October’s Sway

Austin Texas