January 2011
17 posts
Kesey's place... La Honda, 1965
I’d-a given anything to have been at Kesey’s place in La Honda back then. To slide in and out of the movies of Mountain Girl, Intrepid Traveler, Zelot, Hassler, Speed Limit, Mary Microgram, Mal Function, Gretchin Fetchin and the lot. Ah, but I WAS there, except the geography was different, and the names were… Ryan (“Walls, man, I need walls”), The Steckian, Tebh, O’Doyle, 2Pat, Stabone,...
“Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there’s not...”
– Ken Kesey
“Put your good where it will do the most!”
– Ken Kesey
“Our lives are like movies. Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie...”
– Ken Kesey
State of the Union?
What good are the empty words of a politician? They’ve been giving these speeches for years. When Obama was campaigning, his lofty, idealistic rhetoric had me thinking he could walk on water. I took a week of vacation time to campaign full-time for him in two states. I volunteered several times a week for almost a year. I gave him more money than I could afford, and hosted several...
You never know what to expect from life. If you...
Brand new song. Written & recorded while you...
Here’s my new recording of “If Only...
Just recorded this cover of The...
A case for the importance of the Grateful Dead in...
I’m always amazed to see the Grateful Dead’s overwhelming influence on so many modern artists, and I am not talking about the jamband genre. Not at all.
The Dead’s thumbprint is all over everything from Sonic Youth’s feedback jams and The Meat Puppets’ loose, slowly mutating vamps to the psychedelic-tinged freakfolk of Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Megafaun...
"All right, then, I'll go to Hell."
(From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 31)
Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’s got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his...
“I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.” - Ken Kesey
