William S. Burroughs on the cut-up technique and meeting Samuel Beckett & Bob Dylan
“It’s the stink of death, citizens!” (Photo by Peter Hujar) This hour-long BBC Radio special opens with “Old Lady Sloan,” the Mortal Micronotz’ interpretation of…
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Ho ho ho! Here’s Andy Warhol as Santa and Truman Capote with a lollipop on the cover of High Times
It won’t surprise anyone to learn that the December 1978 issue of High Times went with a holiday theme. More surprising might be the identity…
‘The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook’: Useful guide to your white lines is the most ’70s thing ever
The heyday of cocaine in our nation’s history was arguably the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In the summer of 1980 Richard Pryor set…
‘The Inhibition,’ the ‘frozen’ dance Charles Manson taught Beach Boy Dennis Wilson in 1968
via Sunset Gunshots I thought I had long ago digested every crumb of gossip about the Beach Boys-Manson family connection, but one of the Charlie…
One for the Road: Street photographs of drunk Japanese people
Tokyo-based photographer Lee Chapman has been documenting life in Japan for almost two decades. Originally from England, Chapman went to Japan on a one-year work…
Elvis Presley’s adventures in yoga and Eastern mysticism
Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and Larry Geller on the set of ‘Spinout’ (via Bodhi Tree.com) In the spring of 1964, Elvis’ hairdresser, Larry Geller,…
Hip Smirnoff Vodka ads from the 60s with Groucho & Harpo Marx, Woody Allen, Eartha Kitt & more
Julie Newmar, 1966 Everyone gives George Lois huge props for his attention-getting use of celebrities and his sharp eye for an arresting image, but he…
Salvador Dalí goes in search of a psychedelic mushroom in ‘Impressions of Upper Mongolia’
Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…
Grateful Dead seen in San Francisco local news footage at famous ‘Death of a Hippie’ ceremony, 1967
In the spring of 1967 a tourist bus to transport curious gawkers through the new “hippie” district of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco sprang into existence.…
Man has hilarious reaction to Ketamine while in hospital, now everyone will want to break their foot
Everyone, meet Neil. Neil is in the hospital for a fractured ankle that needs to be manipulated back into place. In order for the doctors…