Turn on, tune in, happy birthday! Dr. Timothy Francis Leary, the revolutionary philosopher, “most dangerous man in America” (as per Richard Nixon) and High Priest of LSD was born on this day, October 22, in 1920.
More Timothy Leary on Dangerous Minds
Burroughs reads Morrison’s ‘Is Everybody In’ on this track from Doors tribute album ‘Stoned Immaculate’ released in 2000. The surviving Doors provided the music.
Bill Burroughs, the originator of the mashup.
Fitness-Gymnastik 2 - Aerobique mit Erobique und Katharina - Kunst und Sportverein
When I first saw this video I didn’t know what the fuck to think. Was it for real? A joke? Performance art? Well, it turns out the dude playing the keyboards and smoking the cigarette while leading the group in an aerobics workout is German musician Erobique. And based on this video, I think he’s some kind of genius. Check out his Facebook page here.
36 Years old. Played piano from the age of 8 until today. Member of International Pony (with DJ Koze & Cosmic DJ), Tex & Erobique (Just Drums and Piano Improvisation), Songs for Joy (yearly Songproject at the Gorki -Theater in Berlin with Jacques and Chris Dietermann).
Did Music for Theatre for Schorsch Kamerun and Studio Braun, Remixes for Justus Koehncke, Comercial Breakup, the Happy Couple, etc…
A truly inspired piece of weirdness and one of my favorite videos of the year. Watch it all. I think you’ll dig it.
Via misterhonk.de
This coloring book, which was purported to be from the Black Panthers, had actually been rejected by them when it was brought to them by a man later revealed to have intelligence connections. Not to be troubled by the fact that the Panthers found the coloring book revolting, the FBI added even more offensive illustrations, and mass mailed it across America.’
If Glenn Beck gets his pudgy white hands on this, he’ll go apeshit.
To view the coloring book in its entirety click here.
Almost a year ago, I got the opportunity to interview the late Ari Up of pioneering punk/reggae band the Slits for an article I wrote for the SF Weekly. I can’t overstate how kind and animated she was on the phone. She was just as she was onstage—chaotic and full of life. Just talking to her put a huge smile on my face.
In these excerpts, Ari spoke on the controversial cover of the album Cut, the Slits as “women’s music”, and the Slits imagining a free place for women. The visuals include live footage that I shot of the Slits performing live in San Francisco in 2006.
It’s hard to believe this dangerous mind is gone so suddenly and long before her time. May she rest in power.
In 1967, I hitchhiked from Washington D.C. to the Haight-Ashbury to get in on some groovy hippie shit.
As a former acidhead who took multiple trips in many different settings, I never encountered anything remotely like ‘Blue Boy’. But, I’m glad that I didn’t see this episode of Dragnet when it aired in 1967. Talk about a bummer. This probably triggered a few bad trips.
I remember the anti-acid hysteria that dominated the media of the time, from chromosome damage to people jumping out of windows to kids staring at the sun until they went blind. All of which were lies. It seems there’s a renewed interest in LSD and MDMA among psychologists and therapists. I’m looking forward to the day when pharmaceutical grade LSD is made available to those of us who respect it. I haven’t done acid since 1970 and I’m about due. But, it’s gotta be the real deal.
Warning: this video could trigger flashbacks and/or serious injury due to laughter-induced hyperventilation.
Starring Michael Burns as Benjie “Blue Boy” Carver.
Ad in toy trade journal - circa 1960. Every kid must have one! Play real tunes with your nose.
Didn’t Roland Kirk play one of these?
I wish I’d had a Snoot-Flute in my old coke snorting days. Snorting and Snooting. I would have killed at the Mudd Club.
Via History Will Absolve Mike
Psychedelic cumshot.
Lab footage of human sperm cells transformed via Adobe After Effects.
This short interview with Ari Up, conducted by Jonathan Ross for the BBC, captured some of the singer’s vitality, exuberance, and sheer joy, especially when she told Ross “to follow the poom-poom.” R.I.P. Ari Up
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally, directed by Steve Gebhardt is a filmed document of the John Sinclair benefit concert held in 1971.
John Sinclair managed the MC5 and was the founder of The White Panther Party. His uncompromising radical political stance made him a target of the U.S. government. He was busted in a sting operation for selling two joints to undercover cops. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Musicians, politicians, artists and friends organized a rally to bring attention to Sinclair’s unjust sentence. It worked. Three days after the rally, Sinclair was released from prison when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state’s marijuana statutes were unconstitutional.
Ten For Two was produced by John and Yoko, who also perform in it, and features Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, Leni Sinclair, David Peel, Jerry Rubin, Ed Sanders, Bob Seger, Archie Shepp, Bobby Seale, The Steve Miller Band, Commander Cody, Stevie Wonder and more.
The rally was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. John and Yoko came on at 3 a.m.
Why hasn’t this been released on DVD? Rumor has it that Yoko owns the rights to the film and won’t release it. In the meantime, this funky video is all I’ve been able to get access to.
Here’s an in-depth article on the concert here.
Part 1 kicks in at the 15 second point.
Part 2 after the jump…