{Monday, February 05, 2007}
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2 Upcoming Films With Links To The 60s  Neal Cassady - From the bars of Denver to the Steel Mills of Utah to the avant-garde parties of Manhattan, across a nation whose heart is calling for a role-model, a leader, a hero... Neal Cassady's on the road again, and all his old pals are there with him--Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, The Merry Pranksters. They're searching for Neal's long-lost father, who holds the key to the great unwritten American novel. But in the end it's Neal alone, and in the rear-view fast-approaching are cops, groupies and the dark chimera of his own vanity.Release Date: To Be Announced link   Across The Universe - A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other. I don't know if I would like this one or not. I've read that it's more like a series of punctuated scenes and characters each represented by a Beatles song - 32 in all. Too much of a musical for me...maybe it has more of a story. Now the Neal Cassady film sounds promising because the people are interesting. Cassady, Kesey, Kerouac, the the Pranksters, of whom I thought were the end-all and be-all of the universe when I was growing up. Release Date: September 28, 2007. View trailer Link Labels: 60s, antiwar, Beatles, counterculture, films, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, music, Neal Cassady, protest, psychedelia  |
{Friday, March 31, 2006}
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Friday Random Ten - Shuffle 'em up and show us your ten. if you wanna...! 1. She's Not There - The Zombies 2. Daffy Duck - Animal Collective 3. Goodbye & Hello - Tim Buckley 4. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel 5. Can't You See That She's Mine - Dave Clark Five 6. Aquarius - Boards of Canada (anyone care for an orange?) 7. Kid For Today - Boards of Canada 8. Such Hawks, Such Hounds - Dead Meadow 9. I Call Your Name - Beatles 10. Smile - String Cheese Incident I need some new tunes. Still listening to the same old stuff. {Quote} With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~ William Shakespeare too late -- they're already here Labels: Beatles, Friday Random 10, music |
{Saturday, December 03, 2005}
 » Introducing: The Beatles (or Retirement Plan #7129)Release Date: July 22, 1963? That's disputable. There are at least 3 different back covers of the album. I have the "Titles On Back" cover. While visiting my old home place I looked through some of my old albums I asked my Mother to keep safe for me; after a few too many methaqualone do si dos and drinking games had left many vinyl treasures broken and spent. I pulled out a few albums from their covers and researched them on Ebay with one eye towards my dream of sailing around the world and the other eye on it's ugly step-sister, reality. With so many variables on this particular Beatles' record-- (cover, sleeve, song selection and label,) and it's 'lovingly listened to' condition, I think I'll just hang onto it.  » Only $2.99 for Zappa's 200 Motels Soundtrack from 1971? But Ringo Starr is Larry the Dwarf. 2 lps and a booklet, too, and the booklet is priceless. 2 by gawd dollars and 99 frickin' cents. » Blonde On Blonde and Ebay asks $7.49 for my favorite Dylan album. That's always the way. Captain, unhoist those sails. Stuff I think should be worth more is given away while I'm amazed at the high prices on some generic crap. Labels: Beatles, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa |
{Saturday, October 15, 2005}
 In 1967 the Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At one point Paul McCartney wandered down the corridor and heard what was then a new young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then came rushing back. "Hey guys" he reputedly said, "There's a new band in there and they're gonna steal our thunder". With their mix of blues, music hall influences, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd was one of the key bands of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock, before sweeping through film, literature, and the visual arts. The music was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called 'mind-expanding' drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), and attempted to recreate drug-induced states through the use of overdriven guitar, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. This psychedelic consciousness was seeded, in the United States, by countercultural gurus such as Timothy Leary, a Harvard University professor who began researching LSD as a tool of self-discovery from 1960, and writer Ken Kesey who with his Merry Pranksters staged Acid Tests - multimedia 'happenings' set to the music of the Warlocks (later the Grateful Dead) and documented by novelist Tom Wolfe in the literary classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) - and traversed the country during the mid-1960s on a kaleidoscope-colored school bus. Suzy Hopkins, formerly *Suzy Creamcheese, a dancer and inspirational figure on the underground scene in Los Angeles and London, remembers the visceral way psychedelic culture affected the senses. 'There's a difference between a drug and a psychedelic. Drugs make you drugged and psychedelics enhance your ability to see the truth or reality' she says. For her, LSD and music created a kind of alchemy. Many psychedelic bands explored this sense of abandonment in their music, moving away from standard rock rhythms and instrumentation. * She's ONE of the Suzy Creamcheesees. MORE Labels: Beatles, drugs, films, Ken Kesey, lsd, marijuana, music, Pink Floyd, psychedelic, Timothy Leary |
{Wednesday, October 12, 2005}
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Web Trails  Aleister Crowley, British occultist born on October 12, 1875. He was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug addict (especially heroin).Other interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging (he was a chess master, mountain climber, poet, writer, painter, astrologer and social critic). We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. ~Aleister Crowley Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. ~Aleister Crowley MORE Psychedelic Sunday - Berbati’s Church of Psychedelia is a free event organized by Point Line Plane’s Josh Blanchard. It has been going strong every last Sunday of the month since its inception last January. Link Exciting material relating to rock greats Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to lead Christie's annual sale of Pop and Rock Memorabilia at Christie's Rockefeller Center, 21 November 2005. Link Psychedelic Books for Independent Minds Leary Library, Lilly Library, Fringe Series, Entheo-Spirituality, Psychedelic Library and more. Part of The Psychedelic Ring which has 29 sites, which may or not be surf-worthy. Link Faster Firefox - Speed up your Firefox browser by tweaking settings. Installs into Firefox Options if you can’t find it. Anybody tried this yet? Mitch? It's different from the tweaking we did last year on Firefox; it's a download. Thanks, Devon. Is anyone watching Lost? I'm trying to watch it, especially after I heard someone talking backwards, reminiscent of Twin Peaks, which brilliantly stands alone in tv series innovation. 4 8 15 16 23 42 is keeping the secret. British Library Online Gallery - Turning The Pages. Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the details. Very nice. Thanks, Carol. Link I noticed Salon has a new design and read this piece: Thousands of men are shelling out $6,500 for hyper-realistic dolls that answer all their needs -- and don't talk back. Ask Davecat about Sidore. How fucked up ARE these guys anyway? Let me count the ways.Link Go get 'em, BDM. Big Daddy Malcontent takes the banks and christians to task. Link Labels: addiction, Aleister Crowley, art, Beatles, Bob Dylan, firefox, Jimi Hendrix, psychedelia, psychedelic, Rolling Stones, Timothy Leary |
{Saturday, June 05, 2004}
 Best way to evoke an argument between music fans? Top Ten Lists.
Aarrggghhh - these lists again. So subjective, so arbitrary. So apt to piss me off. #7 is Sticky Fingers; a fine choice. Both it and TSMR could've been higher to suit me. I love the Abraxas cover and the feeling it gives me just to see it. And the trippy King Crimson cover brings back so many fine memories of chocolate-y goodness at the beach after graduation. It surrounded a defining moment in my life which later proved I'd never, ever be the same. I suppose you can read between the lines there. The Top Ten Album Covers: 1) Sgt. Pepper – The Beatles 2) Whipped Cream and Other Delights – Herb Alpert (wtf?) 3) The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson 4) Their Satanic Majesties Request – Rolling Stones 5) Abraxas – Santana 6) Escape – Journey 7) Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones 8) Fragile – Yes 9) London Calling – Clash 10) Led Zeppelin One "Hindenburg Cover" – Led Zeppelin I could never narrow it down to just one favorite or best. I'd have to give my ten favorites in no particular order. Because album covers are much more than graphics and packaging to sell music. They not only set the tone for the music, they define generations and cultures and set the stage for the background music of your life. Link Labels: Beatles, Led-Zeppelin, music, Rolling Stones |
{Tuesday, February 03, 2004}
 More icy conditions close local schools again today. Shouldn't winter be over by now, or does it just seem to go on forever?
Here's a silly song about cats and chinese food parodied to Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Cradle" you may enjoy. [thanks. quanu] The Grammy's will have a Warren Zevon tribute (who is nominated for 5 grammys) and a 40th anniversary of Beatles Ed Sullivan appearance tribute. That ought to be good and cheesy. I can imagine Barry Manilow singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". Prince is also nominated. Now there's one mysterious little fucker. Mike Finley notes CBS' virtuous nature regarding their refusal to air the MoveOn ad vs the Peep Show they ended up with. Can you say Karma, CBS? {today's quote} Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert Heinlein  I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. |
{Saturday, January 24, 2004}
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Good Saturday Morning to you.
 Just for fun, what does the cheesy Mood Ring and the Stars have in store for you today? What color is your Mood Ring?
Read Your Loserscope Look, Gemini ? unless you drop the self-love routine and take a stiff shot of reality, you're going to end up a total nobody. The kind of nobody who lives in ranch house, or works at the IRS, or drowns in their own puke at a frat party. Take my advice, Cancer: medicate yourself ? heavily ? with whipped cream propellant and gin. Here's a simple resolution for you Leo: stop being such an asshole.  Hello! My name is Lisa, I'm 15 and I live in New York City. Welcome to my website about THE BEATLES - the best group in the Whole Wide World! Reading this will take some of you back in time. I was in a car on my way to Fort Lauderdale, FL, when I first heard a cut from this album; asking my Father to please, please, turn up the radio. It was 40 years ago, Feb 9, 1964, that they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.
{today's quote} "CBS announced it will not air MoveOn.org's winning anti-Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying they don't air so-called 'issue ads' unless the issue is that girls are sluts for beer." -- Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update saturday morning me// 
espresso, mebee two/marlboro by the fistfull/ bloodshot eyes peeking out from under my old bucket hat/ black sweats/blue houseshoes/ dream: quiet morning to myself/ reality: hubby yammering at record speed/ have i mentioned he's a big talker?/ so how's about you?/ Putting the "ass" in classy.Labels: Beatles, radio, Saturday Morning Me |
{Saturday, December 20, 2003}
 [pic via: the always shiny and wunnerful chapel perilous]
»Good Morning to you. I've got an inch or two of lovely snow this morning. Very beautiful. Did my Canadian friends send it down to me? »See Saddam Photoshop Entries - Very good. [via: jwalk] »The Greatest Week In Rock History - 34 years ago today, Billboard Charts had a outstanding album lineup. This I'll have to agree with. Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Santana, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and more. [via: mefi] »{local} Warren Haynes, famed guitarist and Asheville native who splits his time between playing with the legendary Allman Brothers and the band he founded, Gov't Mule. Ebrahim and Rezvan Ebrahimnajad, an Iranian couple of the Baha'i faith came to United States two years ago with their two sons as refugees seeking religious and political freedom. They now have a new home from the money Haynes and his fellow musicians raised at last years Christmas Jam. The 15th annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam is at 7 tonight at the Asheville Civic Center. Maybe I'll see you there. I hear it's sold out. »saturday morning me//
1 cup of joe/oj/1 nasty cig/black hat/ navy sweatshirt/black sweatpants i slept in/ moccasin houseshoes-i'm a vision I tell ya/ watching: flurries outside/ listening: husband picking out "Blackbird"/ did someone get tish some tea?/ who's wearing frogshoes this morning?/ so hows about you?/  I won't disclose my age, but let's just say it's between twenty and Wal-Mart greeter.Labels: asheville, Beatles, Led-Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Saturday Morning Me, tea |
{Sunday, June 29, 2003}
 Hope you're enjoying your Sunday.
Is there a song, probably an older song, that stops you dead in your tracks whenever you hear it? That takes you back to another place and time? The "Long And Winding Road", by the Beatles, is that song for me. We were moving that summer of 1970 from Tennessee to Asheville, NC,; about a 60 mile trip. My sister and I drove over in my VW bus behind my parents over a very steep, long, and winding road. I had just graduated from high school a few days earlier, and had left behind Billy Stanton, my boyfriend. I knew this was a turning point in my life and I cried most of the way over the mountain road thinking about leaving my childhood home behind, impending college life, and Billy.
 After years of lobbying, Renee Zellweger finally gets to play Janis Joplin in Piece Of My Heart. Brittany Murphey and Melissa Etheridge had also tried for the role. Hmmmm. I'll reserve my comments until I see the film. Shooting doesn't begin until early 2004.
What if you could see screen captures of your web pages as they're going to look on any operating system platform? On any browser? Now you can, with Browser Cam. I've not tried this yet. Free trial period. [via coudal] surf these waves You Live Your Life As If Its Real::Serving up fine political satire. See Jun 23's Presidential Jeopardy post. Coudal Partners:::Beauty & Design Tagline::A Movie Weblog Quote For Today I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. ~Kahlil Gibran  If you can't laugh at yourself, allow me. |
{Wednesday, June 18, 2003}
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Emotions overwhelming as families are reunited
Back in April, this story about the dozen or so black citizens were arrested on the word of one undercover agent that they had sold him cocaine. He had no proof at all. Just his word. It's taken these people 4 years of being locked up to finally get to the truth and set them all free. Can you even imagine the injustice of it? To be stripped of four years of your life from a racist narc? (In April, I gave one of my Dickhead Awards to the undercover agent.)  Happy Birthday! Paul McCartney is celebrating his birthday today. He's 61. Was he your favorite Beatle? He was definitely mine. Or did you like John, George, or Ringo better? I remember where I was the moment I first heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on the radio. I was on a family road trip to Florida, and we were driving down a south Georgia backroad on a hot sticky summer day. The DJ announced that the Beatles' song was coming up and Robin and I started squealing so loudly that my father lost his usual unflappable cool. But we convinced him to turn it up loud (or is it loudly?) for us just this once. Then in February 1964, they were on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was rated rock's top TV moment. We were sitting about 2 feet from the tv watching that, too. You knew something huge was happening with music that us kids loved and the world would never be quite the same.
Quote For Today If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. ~Henry David Thoreau I better be going. I have to get up sometime tomorrow. |
{Wednesday, April 30, 2003}
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My First Album story in Rolling Stone magazine is a fun read. My first album was "Meet The Beatles" my Dad bought for me when I was Janeane Garofalo won't back down. Alternet has a new piece on her. It isn't enough for Neal Pollack to be The Greatest Living American Writer. Pollack wants more. What a surprise. Quote For Today "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice." ~William James Putting the "ass" in classy. Labels: Beatles |
{Tuesday, February 25, 2003}
 From the Easy Bake Coven files
»Police field complaint about a busty snow woman in Ohio. [via: daypop] »Proxycomm, a new DSL service that Yahoo! is promoting sounds too good to be true. Has anyone heard anything about it? It's $8.95 a month----so you know something's not right. »Howie Epstein, a former bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died of what authorities suspect was a drug overdose. He was 47. He played on some of Bob Dylan's albums and also worked with Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, John Hiatt, Stevie Nicks and Eric Anderson. »Camp Freddy Rock supergroup Camp Freddy turned in a 21-song set rife with classic tunes Saturday in New York during MTV's Rock the Vote Awards show. I would have rather seen this show televised than the Grammys. »According to Peggy Noonan: "Two of our former presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, have been talking a lot about their views and feelings on Iraq. It would be nice if they took to speaking less and thinking more." I suppose if they were both against the pending war, she'd be fine with them speaking out. »Demonstrators in Italy have squatted on railway tracks and organizers are planning a full-scale assault on similar convoys this week. They're vowing to block all movement of US arms by rail between American bases in Italy, dubbing the convoys "trains of death". »During the Feb 15 Peace Rally here in Asheville, NC, the emcee called out: “Support our soldiers!”. “Bring ‘em home!” came the response from two thousand voices. “Support our soldiers!” “Bring ‘em home!” A Vietnam vet in a wheelchair signaled for attention. “Tell them”, he said, “tell them to bring them home in an airplane, not in a body bag, or like me, in a wheelchair.” »Iraq Peace Team members travel to Demilitarized Zone yesterday along the Iraq-Kuwait border to establish a Peace Tent. We will only achieve success when we show the same courage for peace as soldiers do for war.  George Harrison's Birthday today. He would have been 60. Although he'd written many songs early on, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", his All Things Must Pass album was my favorite. It was a triple box set my sister bought me for my 18th Christmas and contained “What Is Life,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Beware Of Darkness” “I’d Have You Anytime”, Dylan's “If Not For You”, and “My Sweet Lord”. Full of great memories of my first year in a college dorm; me in my full-blown hippie glory. My album is still at my Mother's house for safe-keeping. His first guitar went on display at the Beatles museum in Liverpool today. Happy Birthday, George.
Quote For Today Always be a first rate version of yourself; instead of a second rate version of someone else. ~Unknown I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one. 
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{Saturday, August 17, 2002}
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Get Over It Already So says Lorraine over on the Mousetrap. She's referring to the onslaught of media attention paid to Elvis' 25th death anniversay. ... "was a pretty good singer, but he died a fat, drug-addicted hillbilly of his own excesses. Well, to each their own of what constitutes their ideal "hero". It's just beyond my comprehension." I was talking about him to someone this week recalling how I never did "get" Elvis when I was young. Of course, I was small, but after 1962 and the Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", there was no turning back for me. And Elvis was just some big ol' redneck in my hippie girl frame of mind. |
