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NEWS!: Check out this glowing review of Will Peragine's documentary "Public Access Hollywood," in which the reviewer describes "The Threee Geniuses" as "an improvised mish mash of music and colorful imagery that takes the limited technology of their public access studio and twists it into a throbbing explosion of visual stimulation."

The review also features the following sentence: "Peragine paints the pair [Dan Kapelovitz and Giddle Partridge] as the Sonic Youth of television, passionate defenders of low tech entertainment that are knowingly on the fringe and loving it."

OLD NEWS: The Threee Geniuses Live performance at "The Thing?" was a mind-blowing success! It was the kind of event that people will still be writing about 20 years from now. People came from all over the world to experience this rare live appearance, which included all three of the original Threee Geniuses (Dan Kapelovitz, Jon Shere and Tim "Mr. X" Wilson). Plus, Go Go Giddle Partridge, Don Bolles, Puppy Boy, David Nkrumah Unger Liebe Hart, Larva, Dan Oxenberg, Francine Dancer, Rich Polysorbate 60, the Sodomite, Stanton Lavey, Szandora the Satanic Hula-Hooper and many, many more were involved in the audio-visual freakout.

A couple of people went into epileptic seizures from the strobodelic light extravaganza, but fortunately, no one was hospitalized as a result of the show (which is a first for us).

David Hart, who spends the majority of his waking hours trying to get people to watch his public-access show by dropping off tapes all over Southern California and mailing episodes around the country, was angry that we were playing a tape of his show at the club. "You don't have permission to show my videos," he screamed over and over again. He sang a couple of religious songs and brought along his puppet Doug the Dog. Alas,
Here's the original piece: Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered

He was recommending the documentary "Public Access Hollywood" as a last-minute Christmas gift. (Check out www.publicaccesshollywood.com) for more details.

"Public Access Hollywood" is just one of two documentaries that feature the Threee Geniuses currently making the film-festival rounds, the other being "Access Nation."





More media: Check out this L.A. Weekly write-up when reporter Pleasant Gehman visited The Threee Geniuses in the TV studio. Click here or scroll down to the bottom of this page.

MORE NEWS: The Threee Geniuses have just directed a music video for Paw Tracks recording artist Ariel Pink. The video will be on a bonus DVD included in Ariel Pink's next CD, which should hit stores in April 2005.

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What is (are) the Three(e) Geniuses?

The Threee Geniuses has been rightfully dubbed "The most psychedelic television show in the history of television." It utilizes no pre-production, no post-production--just pure unadulturated production. The show is conceived, written, acted, edited, sound-mixed and shot in real-time. Yet after 30 minutes, it magically becomes a mind-blowing televised freak-out.

It all started in May of 1996 when three geniuses--Dan Kapelovitz, Jon Shere and Tim Wilson (a.k.a. Mr. X)--decided to make a television show. With no ideas of what to do, and without even a name for the show until mere seconds before air-time, they somehow created television history. And the rest is history. The cameramen were stunned. They couldn't handle such pure psychedelia, and the Threee Geniuses were actually banned from the studio for six months (although, their banning had more to do with pepper spray being released during one particular, out-of-control taping than with the mind-expanding aspects of the show). Then, through a major loophole of the cable company's policy, the geniuses were allowed to seize the means of production. They became the cameramen and the subject matter of the camera simultaneoulsy. The wall between behind-the-scenes and the scenes themselves were forever blurred. Television became Reality and vice versa.

They also seized the switcher which enabled them to cut the show live, producing the highest cuts-per-minute average of any show on television. Many a non-epilectic has gone into epileptic convulsions watching 3G. The 3 Genii also aren't afraid to let the show glitch-out or go way beyond the FCC allowances for blowing out of the color spectrum. They therefore often broadcast illegal signals. Some episodes go so far beyond the technical conventions of video that they cannot even be recorded. The show is known to descend frequently into octuple exposure. They even created the first 3-D public-access television show.

The sound of the show is run through the cutting-edge of used, outdated audio equipment by master Revox-ist Don Bolles (of Germs fame). Bolles also performs live mixes of 1,000's of obscure albums from his record collection of Christian ventriliquism, privately pressed sound-effects records, song-poems and many more. The entire show is then outputted back into the Revox to create the ultimate in tape echo. One TV critic compared the show's sound to "sniffing large quantaties of glue."

But the form of the show isn't all that makes it psychedelicalistic. The Threee Geniuses's content is as mind-bending as its style. The show has featured such performers as Stangelyne, the Aryan Transvestite Body Builder with Tourette's Syndrome; Francine Dancer, the wheelchair-ridden, sometimes homeless go-go dancer; Go-Go Giddle Partridge, the high priestess of the Partridge Family Temple; David Nkrumba Unger LIebe Hart, the host of the Jr. Christian Science Bible Lessons puppet show along with his puppets, Doug the Dog, Orangee the Cat, Orville the Frog and his alter ego Chip the Black Boy and much much more. The revolution has been televised. Dig it.

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This is only existing photo of all three of the original threee geniuses together.



Rare transcripts of past Threee Geniuses telecasts are available for $1,000 per show.

Although we cannot legally sell Threee Geniuses episodes for profit, we do offer them to our fans for the cost of dubbing, shipping and handling. For $20 we will send you a 1-hour tape featuring 2 episodes of 3 geniuses. For $15 we will send you a half-hour tape featuring one episode. You may request the episode(s). Stay tuned for more-detailed descriptions of all the episodes and for descriptions of the past 100 or so episodes. Unless you request otherwise, we will send you the shows of our choosing. We can now burn shows onto DVD minus-R format (same prices apply). Limited time only: buy 100 episodes for $1,000.

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Three Geniuses
P.O. Box 480775
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 980-7995

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The following are stills from the show. These stills can be purchased on photo-plates for $100.00 each (includes shipping):

























AS THE GERM TURNS (from the January 14, 2000 L.A. Weekly)
When we were invited down to the set of THE THREEE GENIUSES ("The most intentionally psychedelic show on cable TV"), we thought it would be just another journalistic assignment. In the control room, we were greeted by GIDDLE, a blond in a neon faux-leopard parka and PokŽmon house slippers, a pair of Barbie dolls in one hand, the other working a board to make the camera zoom. We nearly tripped over another host, DON BOLLES (a.k.a. KITTEN SPARKLES, and drummer of legendary combos THE GERMS and 45 GRAVE), lying on the floor in a lace blouse and bellbottoms, scratching the albums for the soundtrack, including U.S. Airforce: A Portrait in Sound With Arthur Godfrey and Yanky at the Pesach Seder With Zeyde. In the studio, surrounded by thrift-store paintings and strobe lights, were three girls in '70s ho-wear doing aerobics. They were being led by "STANGELYNE," a bodybuilding transvestite with Tourette's syndrome who looked like a cross between the Terminator and Marilyn Monroe. Media One staffers tried not to stare. We were beginning to feel as though our coffee had been dosed. "When are you going to start?" we asked Genius DAN KAPELOVITZ, in a vintage Motley Crue T-shirt with a puppet on his left hand. "We've started!" he yelled. "Do you want to be on the show?" Feeling underdressed, we declined. Outside, in the Hollywood rush hour, everything seemed so quiet and orderly. (The Threee Geniuses can be seen Wednesday, February 2 and 9, at 11 p.m. on public access.)
--Pleasant Gehman