Do It Yourself Video for Poets(1987)
In a sarcastic mood, EZTV's founder John Dorr makes fun of the extensive aspiring Los Angeles spoken word scene of the 1980s and the enormous number of people who routinely approached EZTV asking for free service in getting their project made
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