Jimi, Beatles, Basquiat, Burroughs, Baez and More
A new energy drink doesn't promise to give you the juice to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix, but it does hope to give you a "Liquid Experience." 
URGENT THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY WHEN THEY'RE TALKING LOUD ON THEIR CELLPHONES WHILE THE PLANE IS BOARDING. "I had a tuna fish sandwich in the airport. Tuna fish. Tuna fish. TUNA FISH. Yes, right, tuna fish. But they didn't toast the bread. No, no, they didn't toast the... THEY DIDN'T TOAST THE BREAD. Right. They didn't toast it." I know you've heard this person before...! link The Twyla Tharp musical that uses songs by pop superstar Bob Dylan will close Nov. 19 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, after a brief run. Halle-fuckin-lujah. How could this NOT have been a real suckfest? Bob Dylan on Broadway? Come on. I don't care what he said in the interviews, he hated it, too. He WILL bullshit an interviewer. Truth - Full Of Shit And Dangerous Subterranean Cinema is back online with more film goodies all You-Tubed up. Does anyone remember the Loud Family on PBS? I loved every minute of this groundbreaking series of a family self-destructing live. And there's Andy Kaufman, the El Topo screenplay, Mad Magazine's parody, "A Crockwork Lemon", the Doors, The Rolling Stones have some clips there, although they had to take down Cocksucker Blues, which I still haven't seen. link Is he experienced? Supernaturally, yes. Until Leon Hendrix, younger brother of rock legend Jimi Hendrix, had a prophetic dream a few years ago, he had not pursued music himself. Now he's readying his first domestically available album, due out early next year. link Amy Goodman, of Democracy Now, has a new nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column called "Breaking the Sound Barrier." link "On the afternoon I toured the Vixen Creations dildo plant I got much more than I bargained for. Sure I got to see acres and acres of erect, happy and proud colorful phalli waiting patiently in rows before being plucked, packed and sent to their final orgasmic destinations." Another fine SFGate.com article from Violet Blue. Read more about Violet and the Dildo Factory here. Today's Quote
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The website has stories of the current residents, like musician Tim Sullivan, who's lived there since 1982 and former residents as Rufus Wainwright, Patti Smith, William Burroughs, Arthur C Clarke, Mark Twain, Jimi, Janis, Dylan Thomas, and many other writers, artists, and musicians. Aleister Crowley, British occultist born on October 12, 1875. He was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug addict (especially heroin). Psychedelic Sunday - Berbati’s Church of Psychedelia is a free event organized by Point Line Plane’s Josh Blanchard. It has been going strong every last Sunday of the month since its inception last January. Exciting material relating to rock greats Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to lead Christie's annual sale of Pop and Rock Memorabilia at Christie's Rockefeller Center, 21 November 2005. Psychedelic Books for Independent Minds Faster Firefox - Speed up your Firefox browser by tweaking settings. Installs into Firefox Options if you can’t find it. Anybody tried this yet? Mitch? It's different from the tweaking we did last year on Firefox; it's a download. Thanks, Devon. Is anyone watching Lost? I'm trying to watch it, especially after I heard someone talking backwards, reminiscent of Twin Peaks, which brilliantly stands alone in tv series innovation. 4 8 15 16 23 42 is keeping the secret. British Library Online Gallery - Turning The Pages. I noticed Salon has a new design and read this piece: Thousands of men are shelling out $6,500 for hyper-realistic dolls that answer all their needs -- and don't talk back. Ask Davecat about Sidore. How fucked up ARE these guys anyway? Let me count the ways. Go get 'em, BDM. Big Daddy Malcontent takes the banks and christians to task. 
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Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I will show you some fucktard who can't get his pants off.
The world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia (over 20,000 items) are to be sold from next year at what is being billed as the world's biggest rock auction. It includes up to 300 hours of video footage, 60% of which has never been seen before. 
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If you're a Blogger user, you can now add an audio link to your Profile page. They've also improved the 'Edit' page. 
In "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," by Martin Torgoff, he refers to his own drug use and abuse throughout the book. Besides using his own story, he fuels the book with a polyphonic spree of supporting characters, among them storied beats Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac; psychedelic superheroes Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna; fallen jazz greats Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie; tragic rock stars Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison; cult figures Ram Dass and Wavy Gravy. The result is a sweeping epic that bounces between orgiastic nostalgia trip and cautionary tale -- and, at times, like the drugs themselves, can assault the senses.
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It was as if someone suddenly flipped a switch on. People were charging towards Jimi and diving off the balconies onto the floor below to get a closer look at our new guitar God. He played from his Are You Experienced album with his teeth, behind his head, and setting the guitar on fire and playing it between his legs. When we could get our bearing, our stoned selves ended up face to face with the stoned-face riot cops by the stage, which happened to be the best view in the house, while the crowd was still surging forward just to be as close as possible to the great and powerful Jimi. 
Orlando's Hard Rock Cafe's Vault is a museum. Collectibles include a snakeskin coat from Keith Richards; a purple suit from Jimi Hendrix; John Bonham's (Led Zeppelin) drums, and Bob Dylan's typewritten lyric sheets for "I Want You," "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again," songs from his landmark Blonde on Blonde album, in the Vault. There's also a wall-sized quilt depicting Frank Zappa as a playing card constructed from ladies' underwear thrown on stage during some long-ago tour. [link] [see gallery]
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Sad time in Spain with Thursday's horrible terrorist attacks, and the weblog community weighs in as the world feels your pain. 
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Styles Checks - Order checks with Ozzy, Rob Zombie, Hendrix, and more.Kicking Ass and Leaking Gas.Please remain seated until this ride has come to a complete stop.
Still driving each other insane after all these years. Freshly brewed coffee, truffles, cards and flowers were waiting for me on my desk this morning. And here I thought we weren't even speaking to each other. I made him a carrot cake for his Valentine's treat. But he just gets a nibble. Of cake. [picture: capnwacky via: presurfer ]
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Legendary Pretenders' singer, Message to Presidential hopeful, John Kerry: Quit playing Jimi Hendrix music at your rallies. It's total sacrilege and I may soon tell Joe where he should go with that gun in his hand. Mind like a steel trap - Rusty and Illegal in 37 states.
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