SAVING BARNEY'S WALL the film
A project in New York, NY by Sandy Gotham Meehan000days
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Defying censors and political and sexual taboos, radical publisher Barney Rosset unleashes the 60's counter-culture rebellion
Backers: 118
Average Pledge Per Backer: $208
Funded: $24,562 of $22,000
Dates: Dec 5th -> Jan 4th (30 days)
Project By: Sandy Gotham Meehan
Backers: 118
Average Pledge Per Backer: $208
Funded: $24,562 of $22,000
Dates: Dec 5th -> Jan 4th (30 days)
Project By: Sandy Gotham Meehan
$24,562
current pledge level
Last Updated: January 4 @ 12:01 -0500 GMT
111%
of goal
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Latest News
THE SNAIL IS ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE...ONE HOUR TO STILL PLEDGE!...SHUT DOWN 11:04 AM 
January 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Do pledges still count even though we've exceeded our campaign goal? YES! Rescue the snail! Help us speed up from 118 to 120 backers! You have gotten us to the Santa Fe Film Festival but we will still need to cover future film festival and... (Read More)
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful —Mae West
January 4th - via: kickstarter.com
We have received emails asking if pledges still count even though we've exceeded our campaign goal and our campaign will end at 11am today EST.YES! You can still pledge! Bring it on! Give twice and doubly support freedom of artistic expression. Or... (Read More)
"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.” ― Samuel Beckett
January 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
We're dancing here at Barney's Wall HQ! You, our 115 backers, have collectively pledged $24,326, which means we are SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED!! Your pledges are your valentines to our film and freedom of artistic expression This is what your pledges will... (Read More)
SOS
January 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
There are ONLY 39 HOURS LEFT of our Kickstarter campaign. This final stretch is incredibly important—we will lose ALL the funds raised to date if we don't bring in another $799.00. That's how Kickstarter works. All or nothing. It could go either... (Read More)
“Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
January 1st - via: kickstarter.com
That's from HOWL, by Allen Ginsberg, one of Barney Rosset's legendary Beats. On this first day of 2019, all of us on Team Barney raise our voices and our glasses to the brilliant kindness of your collective souls, for believing as our backers in the... (Read More)
As of this moment, we're just $1,652 short ... with 67 hours left. We must make our goal by this Friday at 11AM!
January 1st - via: kickstarter.com
It's countdown!! Help us cross the finish line before 11 am this Friday. Inspire others to donate. Consider upping your pledges. We're almost there! Together, we can do this! Help us in these next two days to cross the finish line! Otherwise we... (Read More)
Thanks to your 70 generous rebel hearts, almost but not quite there, we're up to 83% funded ... with 3 days until shutdown ... and the First Amendment in peril
December 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Mae West famously said, "A woman without a past has no future." Mae: "I used to be Snow White. And then I drifted." And was jailed. Given the past year, some of us fear there won't be a future for freedom of artistic expression. Dear Barney... (Read More)
SMUT in 1967. Freedom of artistic expression in 2018. Thanks to your rebel hearts we are 78% funded with 6 days to go!!!!
December 29th - via: kickstarter.com
That's Harvard professor and louche after-hours cultural satirist Tom Lehrer in 1964. D.H. Lawrence's racy novel Lady Chatterley had been banned by Congress under 'obscenity' laws (shivers yet?) but found not-guilty in 1960, after a fierce First... (Read More)
"Some people think my chief claim to fame is having published the first book to be sold over the counter in this country with the word fuck printed on its pages."
December 28th - via: kickstarter.com
"Perhaps to the mainstream that's all there was to Lady Chatterley's Lover––just fuck, fuck, fuck. I saw the publication of Lawrence's masterwork somewhat differently––as a major victory against ignorance and censorship." –– Barney... (Read More)
"Rebellion runs in my family's blood. The repression of imposed conformity has always been something we fought against, no matter what the odds." ... And the odds are good! We're up to over 60% funded. ONE WEEK to go.
December 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Tonight we're deeply grateful to all of you fellow rebels who have jumped in these last three weeks to back our campaign. You who are, in the words of Barney author Jack Kerouac: "... mad to talk, mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything... (Read More)
Mere hours until Christmas, 55% funded (!), and understandably nothing tonight is stirring, not even a mouse...
December 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Except here at Barney Kickstarter 2 HQ. This is our short and long term strategy: We got this guiding principle from Barney Rosset, fierce warrior for the First Amendment and freedom of artistic expression. Our helmets are strapped. : We're taking... (Read More)
Halfway to our goal and on our way to Santa Fe ... Halfway funded!
December 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Kickstarter has just sent us congratulations: If your project were running a marathon, it’d have run over 21 kilometers (or 13 miles) so far! We're taking their advice and passing it on to you, our stalwart backers: Take a deep breath, keep your... (Read More)
BE STILL MY HEART ... JUST IN: BARNEY'S WALL AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL ... screening on Valentine's Day!
December 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
According to legend, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his judge and before his execution he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell. The day first became associated with romantic love in the 14th century, when... (Read More)
How to hang on.... when 45 % pledged
December 20th - via: kickstarter.com
14 days to go ... No vertigo yet! That's silent film legend Harold Lloyd above. He was killed by sound. Contemporary silent stars Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton continued to move along. Keaton became the star of the (single, in 1965) film... (Read More)
2019 is the new 1959 ...
December 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear generous backers and patrons, A huge thank you! You've gotten us now over a third of the way to a successful campaign and we've still got as of tomorrow 14 DAYS to reach our funding goal. NOTE JANUARY: especially the THIRD, when our Kickstarter... (Read More)
First week, 1/3 funded, ALL OF YOU DID THIS!
December 13th - via: kickstarter.com
sfsffs In one week your philantropic rebel hearts have gotten us 35% closer to saving Barney's Wall and Barney Rosset's legacy. Thank you. YOU did this! Many of the most generous of you did not even leave your names attached to your pledges.... (Read More)
5 DAYS UNTIL GOV'T SHUTDOWN. DAYS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER: 22. KEEP US KICKING DEAR BACKERS!!
December 12th - via: kickstarter.com
"SHUT DOWN definition: (Noun): A closure of a factory or system, typically a temporary closure due to a malfunction or for maintenance".Well, here at SAVING BARNEY'S WALL HQ, we are certainly not malfunctioning. BECAUSE:: Yes, the cockroach guy,... (Read More)
THANK YOU OUR LOYAL BACKERS! WE ARE ALMOST 1/3 FUNDED WITH 26 DAYS TO GO ... SO WE CAN DO THIS! Don't stop believing...or encouraging your friends to pledge!
December 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Samuel Beckett: “Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. " And for you Beckett fans out there, here is the whole quote from Beckett's iconic play Waiting for Godot : "Not indeed that we personally are... (Read More)
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth — not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
December 6th - via: kickstarter.com
THANK YOU, ALL YOU LOVELY, GENEROUS EARLY RESPONDERS WHO HAVE HELPED US GET STARTED ... We couldn't have better travel companions than you! That's a cover (only one of many) of Jack Kerouac's iconic novel. It's not one of Barney's Grove Press... (Read More)
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