Willy and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always iWilly and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always in a hurry Call it a watchpocket book Look at these buildings What are they DOING here This arroyo & that sand I last saw Amarillo as a soldier smoking my first cigar & Roosevelt died
Roosevelt had a dirty asshole so we had Pearl Harbor Hitler had a dirty ass so we had Buchenwald Senator McCarthy had a dirty asshole & he died Not one cowboy in Texas has a clean asshole But there is one in Las Vegas Alexander Pope had a dirty asshole T S Eliot prays for the dirty asshole T S Eliot's fog had a dirty asshole The last time I saw Paris I had a dirty asshole Pres Eisenhower plays golf with a dirty asshole No insult intended to his partner"
There are several pages scribed over hundreds of miles on the trip across America
What a History book. Always good to look through and reread the text which relates to each iconic graphic cover and images that span the twentieth cenWhat a History book. Always good to look through and reread the text which relates to each iconic graphic cover and images that span the twentieth century to early 2000s. There's the LIFE magazine cover May 1970 of the Tragedy at Kent State. The TIME cover of a multiple identical photo of Richard Nixon interspersed with images of the Vietnam War, the headline asks the question, "What if we just pull out?". There is the 1965 Sunday Times Magazine cover image of Dunkirk in 1940, the photo by German photographer Hugo Jaeger. His colour pictures lay buried for years in a tin box in Baveria, published for the first time in 1965. So, so much history in this book....more
"Some thing only dimly remembered tells us something interesting about ourselves. Something only dimly remembered tells us that the secret point of mo"Some thing only dimly remembered tells us something interesting about ourselves. Something only dimly remembered tells us that the secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy, nor power for power's sake. American's are uneasy with their possessions. Guilty about power. All of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power, but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy, it is the instinct that drove America to the Pacific all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, to live by one's own rules. Of course we do not admit that. The instinct is socially suicidal and because we recognize that this is so, we have developed workable ways of saying one thing and believing quite another."
From the essay, '7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38'. Slouching Towards Bethlehem...more
Freaking gold. What an absolute gas. A stone groove. Classic pulse of the 1970s. Radical Chic sets the scene, and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers deliverFreaking gold. What an absolute gas. A stone groove. Classic pulse of the 1970s. Radical Chic sets the scene, and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers delivers. It takes it home. Nostalgie de la boue is a thing, or should I say thang. Nostalgie de la boue, as a term was coined in 1855 by Émile Augier in France. An eternal human instinct that found fertile ground after World War Two, in America. America? Yes America. Think about it. It flourishes in prosperity. The '50s and '60s it found its light in the Arts and the zeitgeist in the 1970s. Nostalgie de la boue is referenced in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, (1971) and in Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow, (1975). Nostalgie de la boue, taking a leading role in Western Culture and the Arts is ironic timing for early in the Cold War....more
The Road to Woodstock: From the Man Behind the Legendary Festival
The festival didn't just happen. A lot of planning went into realising those three daThe Road to Woodstock: From the Man Behind the Legendary Festival
The festival didn't just happen. A lot of planning went into realising those three days. A mammoth logistical exercise against considerable local conservative opposition, which is ironic in hindsight considering the unknown music careers it kick-started like CSNY and Santana, and future global album sales into the U.S. economy, and the film Woodstock a great cultural ambassador at a time when the U.S.A. was on the nose with the Vietnam War. The festival was a success because the motivation wasn't money but to show a different alternative spirit of living.
Saturday August.16, Second day P. 204: 'At some point during the afternoon, a New York Times reporter grabbed me for an interview. I quickly told him, "It's about the best behaved five hundred thousand people in one place on a rainy, muddy weekend that can be imagined." A state police official told the same reporter he was "dumbfounded by the size of the crowd. I can hardly believe that there haven't been even small incidents of misbehavior by the young people." '
"We'll all die in Hollywood." Journey Power Awareness Infinity Energy Horizon Abyss
"It's only when the mortar hardens that the loose bricks become a structur"We'll all die in Hollywood." Journey Power Awareness Infinity Energy Horizon Abyss
"It's only when the mortar hardens that the loose bricks become a structure."
Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda "Don't admire people from afar, that is the surest way to create mythological beings."
"Our victories are fleeting. Sorcerers, however do have the upper hand; as being on their way to dying, they have someone whispering in their ear that everything is ephemeral. The whisperer is death, the infallible advisor, the only one who won't ever tell you a lie." "Human beings are beings that are going to die," don Juan said, "Sorcerers firmly maintain that the only way to have a grip on our world, and on what we do in it, is by fully accepting that we are beings on the way to dying. Without this basic acceptance, our lives, our doings, and the world in which we live are unmanageable affairs." "But is the mere acceptance of this so far-reaching?" (Carlos) asked in a tone of quasi-protest. "You bet your life!" don Juan said, smiling. "However, it's not the mere acceptance that does the trick. We have to embody that acceptance and live it all the way through. Sorcerers throughout the ages have said that the view of our death is the most sobering view that exists. What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we were never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it; the sense that we can engulf this inconceivable universe with our minds."
"To recount events is magical for sorcerers" don Juan said, "It isn't just telling stories, it is seeing the underlying fabric of events."
"The universe has no limits, and the possibilities at play in the universe at large are indeed incommensurable. So don't fall prey to the axiom, "I believe only what I see", because it is the dumbest stand one can possibly take". Don Juan. ...more