Listening to Richard Brautigan

Would love to hear this album....Originally slated for release on Zapple, the avant sister label of the Beatles' Apple imprint, this lp of Brautigan readings ended up coming out on Harvest.

Suzan Pitt, 1973

Pitt's 1979 work "Asparagus" was often paired on the midnight movie circuit with "Eraserhead".

waylon

Wow. Never saw this clip before. I am assuming it's from the Johnny Cash tv show, late sixties? Jessi is playing a vox continental, looking like a Scandinavian super model, and Waylon's looking pretty sharp as well. And that shadowy man looking like a hillbilly James Bond with the double neck Mosrite in the background is none other than my Dad's songwriting pal Billy Ray Reynolds. This is putting the "class" back in classic country.

Charles Hugh Smith

http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html


I am grateful to my father for turning me on to self published essayist Charles Hugh Smith. While he is certainly a proponent of Peak Oil theory and the oncoming of what James Kunstler has dubbed The Long Emergency, Smith is by no means a doom and gloom peddler, nor is he a lone wolf survivalist paranoid, or even a....gasp..."conspiracy theorist".
And while we are on the topic, albeit briefly, let's pause a minute and reflect on the power of that term "conspiracy theorist". I feel that the more the mainstream media flogs the term, whether it may refer to the Iran Contra scandal coverup or the rapid departure of Lebron James, the more the term loses its sting of scorn. It's not that I hear the term thrown around more frequently, maybe it's just that I am taking notice of it more lately. I feel that it is becoming a semantic analog to "creative or independent thinker", and last I checked, that was something akin to a duty of American citizenship.

monti rock on merv griffin

The father of disco in an early appearance on the Merv Griffin show. Pretty daring hairdo for 1966 I think....

The Private Alphabet of JB Murry

Self taught artist JB Murry (1908-1988), who spent his entire life in rural Georgia, would compose paintings in what he called "spirit script". During religious trances he would channel visions from God into strange and wonderful paintings, adorned with a private alphabet that were much the visual analog of speaking in tongues. These visions began at the age of 77, after hip surgery had forced him into retirement. His use of color is striking but it is his bizarre writing system, the "spirit script", that intrigues me the most. Like all the great spiritual trance art of American folklore, from "Oahspe" to Howard Finster, the work of Murry is both mystical and innocent, almost recalling the childhood visions of angels William Blake famously recounted.

night train to adana

mostar to montenegro

Tirana

Happy America Day

A truly great moment in America, courtesy of the ever fiery Michael Ruppert.