Vintage Annals Archive Podcast

Vintage Annals Archive
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We talk deep dives into any and all the subjects we research for the podcast. We tend to focus more on artists that dug deeper into the work and themselves in what they offered to the world. We tell stories of everyday people, visionaries, and outsiders. We also present histories of the past to help navigate the present. We present a unique form of interview, conversation, and storytelling in an organic manner and focus on art, culture, music, film, and more. Hosted by: 1) Rich Wexler, founder and curator of the @vintageannalsarchive Instagram Based in beautiful West Philadelphia.

  1. 2d ago

    Ep. 224: Incredible Dreamz and The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie (Recorded Live and Unedited)

    House of Guns – Gunslinger’s Ball - Incredible Dreamz Comedy, Digital, Film, Interdisciplinary Incredible Dreamz presents House of Guns: The Gunslingers Ball. For the first time ever, the House of Guns films are presented together as an epic anthology -  House of Guns, IHOG, and House of Guns 3: Time War.  When the world’s baddest bad guys converge at the House of Guns to pull off the biggest mafia gun deal ever, it’s up to the city gun squad’s bravest agents, Agent Cory and Detective Lutano, to stop them and save the mayor’s daughter. In order to survive, Cory and Lutano must fight through every room of the House of Guns, each with a badder bad guy than the next.
Shot on an iPhone in suburban New Jersey, House of Guns features an expansive cast of characters, all played by Jacquie Baker, Rose Luardo, Matt Schmid, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright aka the narsty performance art quadruple Incredible Dreamz.  The Gunslinger’s Ball also features live performances, never before seen footage, photo ops, and limited edition merch. Come as you are or come dressed as your favorite House of Guns character or create your own and win a prize! This is Lethal Weapon meets 48 Hours meets Norbit meets Coming to America with a movie festival and live performances. 2026 marks the 10 year anniversary (Wut?!? 10 years of breaking hearts and healthcodes while making absurdis comedy shows and films! We love each other, what can we say.) of the Incredible Dreamz performance group so be ready to scarf down some sheet cake, Agent Cory's favorite food.  Tickets for the Fringe Show Below September 10, 2026, 7:00pm through Sept 27th 844 North Broad St General Admission: $15 PWYC Options September 11, 2026, 7:00pm 844 North Broad St https://phillyfringe.org/events/house-of-guns-gunslingers-ball/ https://www.instagram.com/incredibledreamz The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie is a best friend sketch comedy duo from Philadelphia that consists of Matthew Schmid and Jacquie Baker. Matt & Jacquie’s dark, absurd, and surprisingly genuine sketches feature doomed idiots who are just doing the best they can. The Incredible Shrinking Matt and Jacquie’s video sketches have been featured in The A.V. Club, the First Glance Film Festival and the SketchFest Seattle Film Challenge, and they have opened for Emo Philips, Brent Weinbach, DJ Douggpound, McQueen, and more. Matt & Jacquie have performed in the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Toronto Sketchfest, Montreal Sketchfest, NYC Sketch Fest, Philly Sketchfest, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and a showcase for IFC talent scouts produced by Good Good Comedy. They are three-time winners of the Dirtiest Sketch In Philadelphia contest (2013-2015), and were nominated for Comedy Act of The Year at the 2015 Philebrity Awards. Matt & Jacquie are also members of the Philly Improv Theater sketch team The Flat Earth (SF Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, “Producer’s Pick” Runner Up - Toronto Sketch Fest, “Best Newcomer” - Montreal Sketchfest). https://www.incredibleshrinkingmattandjacquie.com https://www.instagram.com/theincredibleshrinkingmandj Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Podcast Episode Page www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html Please join our Patreon https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive

    Ep. 224: Incredible Dreamz and The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie (Recorded Live and Unedited)

  2. Aug 18

    Ep. 223: Jason C. Chapin (Son of Harry Chapin)

    Ep. 223: Jason C. Chapin (Son of Harry Chapin) Mr. Chapin is Director of Workforce Development at The Westchester County Association, an economic development organization. He previously worked for The City University of New York, The State University of New York and The WorkPlace, Inc. and has managed programs that have provided education, training and employment services to 25,000 unemployed and underemployed individuals.  Jason received his B.A. from Colgate University and his M.B.A. from Fordham University. He previously served on the boards of The Harry Chapin Foundation and Child Care Council of Westchester and is currently on the Westchester Putnam Workforce Development Board.  Mr. Chapin was a producer of “Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something”, an award-winning documentary film about his father’s musical career and humanitarian work. He is a producer of “Cat’s in the Cradle 50th Anniversary Celebration”, a documentary film about the #1 hit song that continues to impact countless lives around the world. Jason lives in NY with his wife and has three children. About Harry Chapin Harry Chapin was born on December 7, 1942, and grew up in New York near the Hudson River Piers and then Brooklyn Heights. In 1957, influenced by The Weavers at Carnegie Hall album, he started to learn guitar and banjo, and in 1958 he and his brothers, Tom and Steve, started a band, playing in the neighborhood. In the mid-1960s he entered the film industry and received an Oscar nomination for his documentary Legendary Champions. In the late 1960s, he started writing narrative songs, and in 1971 he started his own band with cellist Tim Scott, lead guitarist Ron Palmer and Big John Wallace, a friend from Brooklyn Heights, who would remain in his band for the rest of Chapin's life. Chapin's first album was Heads & Tales and included what was to become his signature song, the now classic "Taxi," which became the most requested song in America for 10 weeks in a row and earned Chapin a Grammy nomination as best new artist. His next hit was "W*O*L*D," and then in 1974 his wife Sandy wrote the words for his breakthrough hit "Cat's in the Cradle" which reached number one on the charts and helped him earn another Grammy nomination as best male vocal performer and a gold record for the album Verities and Balderdash. Altogether, Harry Chapin produced 11 albums including Sniper and Other Love Songs, Short Stories and Sequel. He also won an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC television's children's series Make a Wish and his Broadway show The Night That Made America Famous earned two Tony nominations. Harry Chapin is remembered by a generation of music fans as one of America's greatest musical storytellers and troubadours, but as Ralph Nader said, "To talk about Harry Chapin only as a singer-composer is like viewing Theodore Roosevelt as a state assemblyman or Babe Ruth as a pitcher. More than any other entertainer in his generation, Harry was a citizen-artist." Chapin performed more than 250 concerts every year and donated the proceeds for half of them to charity. After his concerts, he would go into the lobby and sign autographs and sell records, T-shirts and songbooks, and every penny he took in would go to charity, especially the battle to end world hunger. He spent four months nearly single-handedly successfully lobbying both Congress and President Carter to form a Presidential Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition, actively serving as a member of the commission. https://www.instagram.com/harrychapinmusic https://harrychapinmusic.com Foundation mission found here https://harrychapinfoundation.org/about/ https://www.instagram.com/harrychapinfoundation LIC info. here -  https://www.licares.org https://www.instagram.com/long_island_cares

    Ep. 223: Jason C. Chapin (Son of Harry Chapin)

  3. Aug 8

    Ep. 222: Jim Jocoy (Photographer)

    Ep. 222: Jim Jocoy (Photographer) In 1969 the family settled in Sunnyvale, California, and in 1976, at the start of the San Francisco punk scene, Jocoy became a student at UC Santa Cruz. By 1977 he had dropped out of school and spent his nights immersed in the bourgeoning San Francisco club scene. In full embrace of the culture, Jocoy and his friends explored art in every way they could: forming bands, making photographs and films, writing poetry and publishing zines. Jocoy obsessively photographed what was in front of him. In bedrooms, bathrooms, strip clubs, at punk shows, alleyways and bars. Jocoy found outlets for showcasing his photos in his own punk/art zine, Widows and Orphans, as well as in seminal SF zines Search and Destroy, REsearch, and Punk Globe. During this time Jocoy’s photos were shown in public only twice, the first, a show held at San Francisco State University featuring the Xerox color prints he’d produce during off hours at the photocopy shop where he worked, and later as a slide show presented at William Burroughs’ 70th birthday party. It wasn’t until 20 years later, through a series of serendipitous events, that Sonic Youth front man, Thurston Moore, and fashion designer, Marc Jacobs, collaborated to produce what would become Jocoy’s first and highly praised book, We’re Desperate, (Powerhouse, 2002) widely regarded as a celebration of the scene’s influential fashion. https://www.instagram.com/jimmyjocoy Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro Podcast Episode Page www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html Please join our Patreon https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive

    Ep. 222: Jim Jocoy (Photographer)

  4. Jul 24

    Ep. 221: Mena Suvari (Actor/Author/Activist)

    Ep. 221: Mena Suvari (Actor/Author/Activist) MENA SUVARI made her film debut working with director Gregg Araki in the cult-classic Nowhere (1997). That was soon followed by the back to back blockbuster successes of American Pie (1999) and the five-time Oscar?-winner American Beauty (1999). Her genuine and moving performance as ‘Angeles Hayes’ in the latter iconic film, directed by Sam Mendes, earned her a BAFTA nod for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Suvari also won a Movieline Award for Breakthrough Performance. She reunited with Jason Biggs in Amy Heckerling’s romantic comedy Loser (2000) and continued to showcase her range in projects as diverse as Jonas Akerlund’s cult classic Spun (2002), Rob Reiner’s Rumor Has It (2005), Tony Scott’s Domino (2005), Beauty Shop (2005), and Factory Girl (2006), amongst others, while also contributing sequels to the American Pie franchise (American Pie 2 in 2001 and American Reunion in 2012).   Suvari had critically acclaimed roles in the independent films Becks (2017); Don’t Tell a Soul (2019), starring opposite Rainn Wilson, which was accepted and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival; and Grace and Grit (2021), starring opposite Frances Fisher and Stuart Townsend, based on the best-selling book, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which garnered her an award for best Actor.  Mena stars in the film Ick (2024) which premiered at TIFF and recently released Fireflies at El Mozote (2026) starring opposite Paz Vega and Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) starring opposite Dichen Lachman and Rosa Salazar.  Some of her upcoming credits include Down the Arm of God (2026) starring opposite Caleb Landry Jones, Strobe (2026) starring opposite Grace Van Dien and Kill Me Now (2027) directed by Michael Polish.   On the small screen, Suvari reteamed with American Beauty scribe Alan Ball with an arc on the award-winning HBO series Six Feet Under (2004), which garnered her a Screen Actors Guild nomination, played the iconic Black Dahlia in Ryan Murphy’s television series American Horror Story (2011 and 2018), appeared on the hit series Chicago Fire (2013), and continued to work in the medium as the lead in the Amazon pilot Hysteria (2014) and WeTv’s miniseries South of Hell (2015), executive produced by Eli Roth and Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions.  Suvari also tried her hand at sketch comedy, taking successful turns on the series Inside Amy Schumer (2016) and Hot Date (2017), co-starred in the highly anticipated television series American Woman (2018), produced by John Wells for the Paramount Network and the Lifetime film House of Chains (2022) which had the highest viewership of the year and was critically acclaimed for Mena’s performance.  Most recently, Mena received a 2024 Primetime Emmy nomination for her role as Detective Thompson in the short-form sci-fi series RZR, specifically in the category of Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. The series is known for being the first Web3 entertainment project to be Emmy-nominated.   Suvari penned her autobiography: The Great Peace: A Memoir (2021), which was published by Hachette Books and released internationally in 2022.  Additionally, Mena has also fronted several clothing and beauty campaigns, chief among them being tapped as one of the faces of the Lancome global campaign and being shot by the late Richard Avedon for Harry Winston’s Winter advertising campaign. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. https://www.instagram.com/menasuvari

    Ep. 221: Mena Suvari (Actor/Author/Activist)

  5. Jul 9

    Galaxy Brain (An Audio Memoir) Gutbusters Story about Rich Wexler (Vintage Annals Archive)

    A HUMOROUS SPORTS STORY ABOUT A BAD NEWS BEARS TYPE TEAM AT JEWISH SUMMER CAMP SOMETIME IN THE LATE 1980'S SLIGHT TRIGGER WARNING WEIGHT ISSUES *BY TODAY'S STANDARDS THIS STORY IS PROBLEMATIC. BUT IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE IT TOLD IN THE SPIRIT OF MAKING FUN OF ANYONE. IT'S REALLY ABOUT NON-CONFORMING IN A SENSE. IT DEALS WITH WEIGHT AND MIGHT TRIGGER SOME FOLKS About Galaxy Brain AUDIO MEMOIR IN STORY FORM BY VINTAGE ANNALS ARCHIVE CREATOR RICH WEXLER TOLD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ABOUT MY PATH FROM BEING A KID IN SPECIAL ED, TO THEN WORKING IN PSYCH AND SPECIAL ED FOR 30 YEARS, TO SELF IDENTIFYING AS BEING ON THE SPECTRUM, TO FINALLY BEING DIAGNOSED AT 55 YEARS OLD AS AUTISTIC. ALSO IDENTIFY AS DYSLEXIC AND AUDHD. I PURELY AM SHARING THESE PERSONAL STORIES IN HOPES THAT OTHERS MIGHT BENEFIT FROM HEARING THEM. THEY AREN'T MEANT TO GIVE ANY ADVICE OR FOR SELF HELP PURPOSES. HONESTLY I'VE BEEN HOLDING ON TO THIS STUFF FOR DECADES AND HAVE BEEN PROMISING TO DO THIS FOR YEARS. I REALLY NEED TO GET THIS STUFF OUT SO I CAN UNDERSTAND IT BETTER. MY GOAL IS TO KEEP THESE STORIES HUMOROUS AND LIGHT FOR THE MOST PART, BUT I'M SURE I'LL GO A BIT DRAMATIC, I'M A MUSICAL THEATER KID AFTER ALL. IT'S DESIGNED TO BE AS IS AND UNEDITED. FOLLOW MY VINTAGE ANNALS ARCHIVE PODCAST TO KEEP UPDATED ON NEW STORIES. I PLAN ON DOING A FEW A MONTH. IF THIS ALL GOES WELL MAYBE I'LL TURN INTO A BROADWAY MUSICAL. INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/vintageannalsarchiveandpodcast PODCAST www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html

    Galaxy Brain (An Audio Memoir) Gutbusters Story about Rich Wexler (Vintage Annals Archive)

  6. Jul 9

    Ep. 220: Donna Kerness (Kuchar Brothers featured actress, dancer, filmmaker, and visual artist)

    Ep. 220: Donna Kerness (Kuchar Brothers featured actress, dancer, filmmaker, and visual artist) About Donna Kerness I have been producing art of various kinds over the years. Much of my inspirations have emerged from my past as a Modern Dancer at the Henry Street Playhouse with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, as a Poet, and an Underground Cinema Star in Movies of the Kuchar Brothers during the Sixties in New York.. After relocating to San Antonio from Brooklyn , New York, and raising a family I am currently passionately working with all kinds of mediums, mostly Acrylic, pastel, and various multimedia materials in my creative path. Donna’s Art Page https://donna-kerness.pixels.com Donna’s Book Hold Me While I'm Naked: Autobiography of DONNA KERNESS Star of the 1960s Underground Film Era Book overview I was afraid to write a memoir because it was like facing a hospice at the end of a life. And I can’t write one when I’m dead. After many queries from my movie fans and friends who asked if I was writing a Memoir, I realized now because of the pandemic and lockdown I have time to remember and capture memories that were held hostage in my mind and are revived through the vehicle of some poetry, tawdry excerpts from my diary when I was a teen, passionate letters from George Kuchar and close friends, happenings and uncontrolled outbursts of ideas. The reader is invited to an adventure through the realm of memories, and a dance through the doors of consciousness.This memoir is not held to the constraints of a linear narrative such as in the form of traditional chapters. Instead it moves in many flowing directions through time spewing forth recollections in its own moments. Even now, I tend to think in imagery. As my memories and stories pop into my head, I imagine them as words being tossed up into the air. Words and Images and stories that seem to be thrown up into the air like Scrabble squares that dance around jubilantly and land onto vacant pages that will become a Memoir of an Underground Cinema Super Star of the notorious, 1960’s. https://a.co/d/00AvwKqw About The Kuchar Brothers In the early 1960’s, alongside Andy Warhol, the Kuchar brothers shaped the New York underground film scene. Known as the “8mm Mozarts”, their films were noticeably different than other underground films of the time. They were wildly funny, but also human and vulnerable. Their films have inspired many filmmakers, including John Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all are interviewed in this film). Despite having high profile fans, the Kuchars remain largely unknown because they are only ambitious to make movies, not to be famous. Credit It Came From Kuchar bio page https://www.instagram.com/kucharbrothers About Guy Maddin Guy MADDIN (1956, Canada) did not attend film school. He studied Economics at the University of Winnipeg and then earned his living as a house painter. During the late 1970s and early ’80s he cultivated his interest in cinema. His first feature, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, appeared in 1988 and became a midnight-movie classic. In 1995, Maddin became the youngest winner of the Telluride Silver Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Together with Isabella Rossellini, he directed Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (2008). He has also made installation works and published several books. https://www.instagram.com/guy.maddin Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer/Editor https://www.instagram.com/vintageannalsarchiveandpodcast https://www.instagram.com/vintageannalspodcastinfo ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Podcast Episode Page www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html Please join our Patreon https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive

    Ep. 220: Donna Kerness (Kuchar Brothers featured actress, dancer, filmmaker, and visual artist)

  7. Jul 5

    Ep. 219: Marcia Bricker Halperin (Photographer)

    Ep. 219: Marcia Bricker Halperin (Photographer) Marcia Bricker Halperin is a New York-based photographer who has spent over 50 years documenting the ever-changing city streets. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brooklyn College and developed her eye under the tutelage of former Photo League photographers, including Walter Rosenblum and Lisette Model. They inspired her to document the city’s transformations. Bricker Halperin is drawn to personal, long-form storytelling, which allows her to turn everyday sights into poignant moments. Her photography has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography, and is represented in several private collections. She recently had a solo museum exhibition at the Edward Hopper House Museum in Nyack, New York. Her debut book of photographs, Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria, was published by Cornell University Press in 2023 and won a National Jewish Book Award and a gold PX3 Prix de la Photographie for documentary book. A second photography book, Bagels & Balalaikas: A Return to Brighton Beach (Fordham University Press, May 2027), will feature color photography documenting changes to the seaside Brooklyn neighborhood over 50 years. Website www.marciabricker.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marciabrickerphoto Credits Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro Podcast Episode Page www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html Please join our Patreon https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive

    Ep. 219: Marcia Bricker Halperin (Photographer)

  8. Jun 28

    Ep. 218: Karlheinz Weinberger Foundation (Photographer) w/ Bruce Hackney 

    Bruce Hackney, US manager of Weinberger estate and co-author of the Weinberger monograph Rebel Youth.  Karlheinz Weinberger was a Swiss photographer, whose work mainly dealt with people on the margins of society, with outsiders and outlaws. Between 1943 and 1967, under the pseudonym JIM, he published photographs of men from the working class, athletes and motorcyclists in the internationally known gay magazine Der Kreis.Since the late 1950s he photographed the so-called half-strong, later biker, rocker, tattoo, etc. As a freelance sports reportage photographer, he was mainly interested in wrestling, swinging and motorcycle racing. All in all, Weinberger portrayed the back of the bourgeois world in Switzerland during more than 60 years of his photographic work.The photographer, who has been working as an amateur all his life, has received international attention only with a major exhibition and a first book in 2000, six years before his death. https://www.instagram.com/karlheinzweinberger https://karlheinzweinberger.ch/ Credits Stephen Bluhm - Sound Engineer and episode editor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stephenbluhm.fun⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rich Wexler Producer/Interviewer ⁠⁠⁠http://www.vintageannalsarchive.com Episode Editors Otter Castro https://www.instagram.com/ottercastro Podcast Episode Page www.vintageannalsarchive.com/vintage-annals-archive-podcast.html Please join our Patreon https://patreon.com/VintageAnnalsArchive

    Ep. 218: Karlheinz Weinberger Foundation (Photographer) w/ Bruce Hackney 
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We talk deep dives into any and all the subjects we research for the podcast. We tend to focus more on artists that dug deeper into the work and themselves in what they offered to the world. We tell stories of everyday people, visionaries, and outsiders. We also present histories of the past to help navigate the present. We present a unique form of interview, conversation, and storytelling in an organic manner and focus on art, culture, music, film, and more. Hosted by: 1) Rich Wexler, founder and curator of the @vintageannalsarchive Instagram Based in beautiful West Philadelphia.

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    Vintage Annals Archive
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    239
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