Born Freak

Remember this weekend? I was waiting for my old boss o drop by and drop off a CD about people with disabilities called “Born Freak” a piece developed by a lad named Matt Fraser, a gnarly little gimp from the Australia but making a little splash( I could not help the pun) who has a lot to say. Fraser was the last thalidomide kids from the 60’s. The guy has a self image, I swear is the size of Texas and bullet-proof self esteem. Fraser is a born actor and show man.

The professor, Dr. C who brought over the tape was a bit concerned that the Fraser material might be too much for students in her graduate level classes and wanted to run the material past me before she ran with the project.

Dr C. burned the CD from a DVD and I was not sure if the C had taken because I slipped the CD into my laptop and nothing happened. This concerned me a little but still this CD was burned by Dr C- so I decided to check and undid the DVD I got for Christmas—Batman. The Dark Night and nothing happened so so where along the lime I have lost the DVD player in my laptop. Loosing the DVD laptop is a bother but may also be a blessing, one with the DVD no working maybe I can settle down and get some work done or , better yet, maybe with the DVD not working maybe its time to invest in a new laptop—one with DVD and a DVD burner.—maybe as the economy continues to ebb South price on new laptops will get even better. So, I drug the CD into the “computer room” where I keep my heavy duty desktop. This machine has tons of power and a great DVD/CD player and of course played “Born Freak” no problem and for the next 45 minute I got a pretty good dose of Matt Fraser.

First, Born Freak is a pretty good piece of work as documentaries go but the document is pretty refined. Born Freak is a fairly cutting edge but nearly as cutting edge as I was led on to believe. The documentary essentially is a piece made for commercial television English as well as for the US markets one can even see where the commercial breaks have been built into the piece. The piece explores the last American Freak shows as Matt Fraser does this he also explores his own life a an person with a disability in the entertainment industry. But still this is OK, just not as raw as I would have liked to see it done. Actually, the piece is done with enough good taste that American networks may even pick it up for one reason or another.

I was surprised when I started Googling Matt Fraser’s name how much work this guy has done and I have never heard of him , Lizz Carr and other fairly significant names in the European disability universe. I can tell I have lots of research to do.