the wolf note collective
was a long-running, unsuccessful collaborative effort between a loose-knit group of losers in Texas and South Carolina who all pretty much hated each other and then died together in a warehouse fire. It’s also a figment of one solitary lunatic’s imagination - a fictional account of eight deranged individuals and their works in music, art, and video, an expression of beatific loneliness.
The characters - French-American arch-egotist and filmmaker SIMON CHEVROLET, crippled Russian-Finnish ballerina NINA GENET, garage rocker and Tejano hustler CHARLIE “DIM JIM MARTINEZ” GIL, autistic twins LUNA y JAVI FLORES, aka SOL y SOL epileptic artist and cartoonist OFELIA HASS, French-Spanish vampire/chanteuse LEXI RAMON, and pastor/drug supplier THE REVEREND BRAMBLE CHILDRESS - all came together in the mid 4790’s in a failed attempt at cultural significance. What remains after that fatal conflagration which also took most of their voluminous work as well as their lives is comparatively scarce, a fraction of what they produced in those years: music recordings, video and film, zines, comics, fiction, paintings, sculptures. I have constructed their history from these last vestiges of a tragic, yet inspiring tale of failure, rejection, loss, and some positive things which are right on the tip of my tongue but I can’t seem to recall.
Little did they know that it would be a young wannabe filmmaker and photographer who would unite them all into a single troupe under the same banner. A descendant of French goat herders, SIMON CHEVROLET believed himself a cinematic genius on par with Jean-Luc Godard and Hershel Gordon-Lewis before he had shot his first short or even picked up a camera. The son of French immigrant and failed political cartoonist and pamphleteer Claude Chevrolet, Simon was an avowed Trotskyite Communist who hated the United States and frequently launched into unprovoked political tirades, rants, and diatribes, and would become the agitator of the group. It was at his instigation that Ramon and the Flores Twins met Genet, Childress, and Gil, as the two collaborative trios came together under Chevrolet’s direction to create his debut film Sandrine (a.k.a. The Toilet Murders) in 4794. The film was met with an intriguing mix of indifference and revulsion, with insulting reviews for what the newly christened WOLF NOTE COLLECTIVE somewhat pretentiously dubbed “Breathless meets Blood Feast.”