Tagged: kenkesey

Okay, I am a sloth. It was 11 o'clock before I woke up this morning. Granted, I didn't go to bed until nearly two, but I was shocked at the time when I finally got out of bed. Fern and Gracie too were sloths as both were with me. They are now on the den couch taking their afternoon naps so they are the slothest (a new word coinage). Gracie is even snoring. Last night we celebrated Chinese New Year, a couple of days late but it was our first opportunity. My friends and I made lanterns first [...]

In an effort to attract younger audiences to the theater, producers of Broadway musicals have looked at past Hollywood movies to stage a number of new shows over the last decade or so to various degrees of success. The latest film to be mined for The Great White Way, is one near and dear to my heart, as yesterday it was announced that Sheryl Crow will be teaming up with Barry Levinson to turn his 1982 coming of age movie Diner into a musical that is set to debut in the fall of 2012. According to a [...]

Even if you don't know Don Fleming by name, chances are you own a ton of records he's helped make. As a producer, he's collaborated with the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, the Posies and Hole, to name just a handful. He works for the Alan Lomax Archive and has done [...]

In 1964 Ken Kesey and his cohorts collectively known as the Merry Pranksters headed out on an acid-fueled, cross-country journey to the World's Fair in New York aboard an old converted school bus that they painted in day-glo paint and dubbed Furthur. Kesey & Co. shot the famous journey on 16MM film with the intent of making a documentary, which was started but never finished. Now some 47 years later, the footage, which had been virtually unseen, has been turned into a new documentary by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood called Magic Trip . Magic Trip will be released on-demand [...]

Voici un morceau que vous avez peut-être probablement déjà entendu. De qui est-il ? C'est justement cette grande question qui l'a rendu populaire (ça et le fait que ce morceau soit vraiment top). On a longtemps pensé qu'il s'agissait d'un morceau caché des Grateful Dead . D'ailleurs, pour qui aurait l'idée saugrenue de vouloir la télécharger ailleurs que sur P-Y-N, il la trouverai quasiment que sous le nom "Eggshells-Grateful Dead". D'autres personnes ont voulu croire qu'il s'agissait peut-être d'un live exceptionnel réunissant les Grateful Dead , Bob Dylan , Neil Young et bien d'autres, mais [...]

"The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society" is being presented between now and July 4th in NYC. If you have the chance to visit be sure to check it out, it looks fascinating. From the New York Times , by Larry Rohter: The Grateful Dead performed the last of their more than 2,300 concerts in 1995 and thus belong increasingly to history, not the present. Two related events make that reality clear: a new exhibition about the band that has just opened at the New-York Historical [...]

This blog's full name is pinched almost word for word from the excellent Tom Wolfe book 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. In it (if I recall correctly) Ken Kesey urges his gang of Merry Pranksters to descend on towns and infiltrate their mentality like 'Cougar microbes marching in like army ants...' It feels like for the [...]

• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Om Nashi Me

Dan Deacon's current tour, in support of his new album, Bromst, is to electronica what a live performance by the Roots is to hip hop. Times ten. Rather than turning knobs and tickling a keyboard over ... Continue reading "Concert Review: Dan Deacon, Future Islands, and Teeth Mountain at the Foundation Room, May 1, 2009" >

Woah, I just looked back over the last bunch of posts I put up here. Things got a bit creepy on 'the heap in October. I probably indulged my weird inner-rabbit-at-the-controls a bit too much. It's time to put him back into hibernation until next October and let all the other animals take over again. Ribbit. Miaow. Oink. Me-eh-eh-eh. Whinny. Good to have yis back lads. Since I started writing here over year ago, I've spawned a bunch of abortive 'number-so-and-so-in-a-series' blogs. I'm not the only one. Lots of other music blogs do it too, and [...]

• Jack Nitzsche - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest