Unlike L Ron, Ahbez did not generate a cult, or was a cult of one (with maybe his wife and kids thrown in). Also didnt really have a doctrine. Apparently he did get kinda messianic and cracked in his dotage, but still...more of a freethinking freak of the first degree methinks...
Right on. I was familiar with some of this material from Kennedy's book, but I really appreciate this nice short slant. I also really wonder about that older, grey-bearded man who is sitting to the far right of Ahbez in that famous Nature Boy photo: what's his story?
GAH. The layers hit hard and fast. For the love of fire retardant, are you writing or playing a musical instrument?
"His name is Eden Ahbez, and he's bringing his bicycle onto our Gulf Oil stage, right now."
Oh, California. All hail the Burning Shore! Most Westest of the West. The meta is deep, man. Loops tripping in loops tripped. The enlightenment endgame sausage!
When will Disney make a live-action PeopleMover movie? Remember THAT Tomorrowland ride? The wiki page for it is psychedelic meta-dive all its own... "When Disney asked Ford Motor Company to continue sponsorship by sponsoring Disneyland's new PeopleMover, they declined, because Ford was reluctant to support technology that appeared to replace the automobile.[6] Goodyear was then approached to sponsor it, and accepted. The wheels used in the WEDway system were replaced by Goodyear's tires. The PeopleMover's logo was then fashioned after Goodyear's logo, sharing a similar typeface."
All stimulated and simulated roads and minds lead here, smooth and ever-widening. Algorithmically, infrastructurally. What a terrifyingly magical land we share. Whee!
I love comments that take the form of surreal feedback, and yes the meta and the ironies, both bleak and brilliant, go deep. We should never forget that California too is a "petro state," with LA destroying the Red Line, etc. See There Will be Blood, also Fritz Leiber's absolutely required SoCal mediation on oil demons in Venice Beach, entitled "The Black Gondolier."
I have never written extensively on Disney, perhaps Burning Shore will pull something out of me, something about being a kid obsessed with the optical distortions of the Haunted House and the sex-n-death grotto phantasmagoria of the (pre-Depp) Pirates of the Caribbean, something about Phil Dick's Lincoln android, or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, plunging towards hell in an automobile driven by a mad person, like the bus in Gravitys Rainbow: "Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide…" Loops and loops, like Kejule's oroboric serpent: https://biblioklept.org/2015/05/02/the-great-serpent-holding-its-own-tail-in-its-mouth-gravitys-rainbow/
WOW. That link. Haven't read GR, but it's now on the list.
We're all in the surreal oroburrito. Always were. Once you see, you always see. It changes everything. It's wonderful, and terrible. I'm kinda glad the actual psychedelics came late for me. There was validation.
Wizard eyes. Not sure if you got into the animated series Adventure Time, but...
Freak of the first degree? Or L Ron Hubbard with a zither?
Unlike L Ron, Ahbez did not generate a cult, or was a cult of one (with maybe his wife and kids thrown in). Also didnt really have a doctrine. Apparently he did get kinda messianic and cracked in his dotage, but still...more of a freethinking freak of the first degree methinks...
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/how-nudist-vegans-sparked-a-jazz-classic-and-a-movement/96399/ As a lifelong naturist, I was familiar with the nature boys. Here is another perspective
Right on. I was familiar with some of this material from Kennedy's book, but I really appreciate this nice short slant. I also really wonder about that older, grey-bearded man who is sitting to the far right of Ahbez in that famous Nature Boy photo: what's his story?
GAH. The layers hit hard and fast. For the love of fire retardant, are you writing or playing a musical instrument?
"His name is Eden Ahbez, and he's bringing his bicycle onto our Gulf Oil stage, right now."
Oh, California. All hail the Burning Shore! Most Westest of the West. The meta is deep, man. Loops tripping in loops tripped. The enlightenment endgame sausage!
When will Disney make a live-action PeopleMover movie? Remember THAT Tomorrowland ride? The wiki page for it is psychedelic meta-dive all its own... "When Disney asked Ford Motor Company to continue sponsorship by sponsoring Disneyland's new PeopleMover, they declined, because Ford was reluctant to support technology that appeared to replace the automobile.[6] Goodyear was then approached to sponsor it, and accepted. The wheels used in the WEDway system were replaced by Goodyear's tires. The PeopleMover's logo was then fashioned after Goodyear's logo, sharing a similar typeface."
All stimulated and simulated roads and minds lead here, smooth and ever-widening. Algorithmically, infrastructurally. What a terrifyingly magical land we share. Whee!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeopleMover
I love comments that take the form of surreal feedback, and yes the meta and the ironies, both bleak and brilliant, go deep. We should never forget that California too is a "petro state," with LA destroying the Red Line, etc. See There Will be Blood, also Fritz Leiber's absolutely required SoCal mediation on oil demons in Venice Beach, entitled "The Black Gondolier."
I have never written extensively on Disney, perhaps Burning Shore will pull something out of me, something about being a kid obsessed with the optical distortions of the Haunted House and the sex-n-death grotto phantasmagoria of the (pre-Depp) Pirates of the Caribbean, something about Phil Dick's Lincoln android, or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, plunging towards hell in an automobile driven by a mad person, like the bus in Gravitys Rainbow: "Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide…" Loops and loops, like Kejule's oroboric serpent: https://biblioklept.org/2015/05/02/the-great-serpent-holding-its-own-tail-in-its-mouth-gravitys-rainbow/
WOW. That link. Haven't read GR, but it's now on the list.
We're all in the surreal oroburrito. Always were. Once you see, you always see. It changes everything. It's wonderful, and terrible. I'm kinda glad the actual psychedelics came late for me. There was validation.
Wizard eyes. Not sure if you got into the animated series Adventure Time, but...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vv0we
faaascinating. thanks, erik.
https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=105491&archive=204049
WFMU's Gaylord Fields did almost an entire program on the album this past July 4th. The interviews are great as is the music.
Thanks Terry! I will definitely check it out -- the experiences around this music is as appealing as the music itself.