Jimi Hendrix and His Vulgar Bejeweled Transvestism: Monterey Pop! - New York News - Runnin' Scared

 

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
June 29, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 37

The Hip Homunculus
By Richard Golstein

"MONTEREY -- It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips's living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly the phone rings and someone with a lot of bread is offering those present a share of what promises to be a very profitable venture -- a pop blast at Monterey, festival capital of the West. Everybody listens and yawns the way superstars do at the prospect of earning another line on next year's 1040, when suddenly some supercool Mickey Rooney, with a flower child June Haver nestled at his feet, comes up with the eureka idea: "Let's do a show of our own. A pop festival, with flowers and food and a trippy flippy cast of thousands. Yeah."

And they do. For once, the money men back off and with them that cardboard consistency the title "music festival" usually conjures. For the first time in anyone's memory, the scene exploits back."

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LuminoMagazine.com - Tales From Beyond: Johnny Cash’s Final Album

 

Written by SAMANTHA LESHIN

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

"Johnny Cash. Not much needs to be said about the iconic singer of the 20th century. The late Cash has been known to effortlessly mix themes of rock and country into a fusion all his own. The sixth and final installment in his American series, Ain't No Grave, is a mind-blowing exit. Recorded and produced by Rick Rubin in Cash's final days, this album is hauntingly spiritual.

From the first notes of the title song, Cash's signature warble and bass tones resound through ominous lyrics of spirituality and strength. His voice is clear and strong in unison the powerful chords of the acoustic guitar. The fear invoking words of the cover of “Redemption Day” is a clear plea for personal and societal freedom, while “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” is a pageantry wish for world peace."

LuminoMagazine.com - Tales From Beyond: Johnny Cash’s Final Album

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Dalai Lama preaches peace, compassion in Boca Raton talk

By MICHELE DARGAN

Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 24, 2010


"Updated 3 p.m. His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, spoke Wednesday about compassion and the benefits of positivity to 3,000 people at Florida Atlantic University's Arena in Boca Raton.
"Out of compassion brings inner peace, and out of inner peace comes world peace. Without inner peace, we cannot have world peace," he said."



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Psychedelic Therapy New research shows psychedelics might hold therapeutic potential for those dealing with death

 By Alex Liu | Posted February 24, 2010

"The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of psilocybin, the active ingredient of psychedelic mushrooms, in pilot clinical trials to treat end-of-life distress. [Credit: Rohan523, wikimedia.org]"

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From Woodstock to Bonnaroo, the music festival lives on

Author: Sara Mutnick Contributing Writer
Published: February 19, 2010


"Today's festivals are a far cry from the days of Woodstock, but the intensity and artistry are still present in full force. Festivals still bring out some of the biggest acts in rock, but they are especially good at exposing the world to artists that otherwise could go unnoticed. And it's not just rock acts at these festivals anymore.

Rappers, techno DJs and R&B stars are all welcome to share the stage with the rockers and folk singers that old festival goers are used to seeing. Headlining multiple fests this summer is rap's architect himself, Jay-Z.

The drug culture is another festival component still intact from the days of Woodstock. Many describe music festivals as having an "open air drug market," where you can find just about any way to get high, and trip and roll your way through the weekend. But you don't need to be high to enjoy this year's festivals." Sphere: Related Content

London Fashion Week – Charlie Le Mindu

"Charlie Le Mindu loves to shock – and this second collection from the eccentric French celebrity hairdresser does not disappoint. His Autumn/Winter 2010 collection is a celebration of everything ‘haute-coiffure’, particularly the wig, and has been inspired by religious mysteries, the occult and black magic."

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Medical Marijuana Benefits MS, Spinal Cord Patients: Report

"Marijuana helps ease muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis and pain caused by certain neurological illnesses or spinal cord injuries, says a report released Wednesday by the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego.

The document includes the findings of five studies that included participants who were randomly selected to receive either marijuana or placebos, the Associated Press reported." Sphere: Related Content

Woodstock creator announces Imagine Music & Arts Festival

By Alex Young on February 19th, 2010

"Update: The festival is now being billed as a two-day event, set to take place from July 10-11. Foo Fighters, Nickelback, and Lady Gaga are among the acts that have been contacted, Torontoist reports.

This summer, Artie Kornfeld, one of the promoters of the original Woodstock Music Festival, and artist David Kam have announced plans for a brand new, three two-day Toronto based music festival designed to draw some 350,000 attendees daily (yeah, 350,000!) in the name of peace and love.

The Imagine Music & Arts Festival, which is inspired by John Lennon’s song of the same name and his message of peace and love along with 1969’s original Woodstock Festival, will be staged at Downsview Park for three days this summer, CHARTattack reports."

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Patti Smith at Harold Washington Library

Posted by Jerome Ludwig on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:10 PM

"Punk-rock poet Patti Smith achieves a rare two-fer in this week's Reader: a Critic's Choice in both Music and Lit & Lectures.

The Lit part: Smith will read from Just Kids (Ecco), her remarkable new memoir of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York in the late 60s and 70s, on Sunday at 2 PM at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State."

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What Corporate America Can Learn from the Grateful Dead

By Cory Vanderpool | February 18th, 2010

"...While they sang about sunshine and daydreams, the Dead were no fools when it came to matters of finance. From incorporating the band, to forming a board of directors (recruited from band members and the crew, along with Deadheads), to stoking loyal customers by setting up a hotline to let fans in on the tour dates before they were published (the earliest Twitter feed?), the Dead showed striking business acumen, Green explains. They were rather prophetic, too, knowing they’d never be able to control their musical products–and so turning a blind eye to bootlegging–while understanding that selling merchandise and touring were the real money-makers.

“Much of the talk about ‘Internet business models’ presupposes that they are blindingly new and different,” wrote Green. “But the connection between the Internet and the Dead’s business model was made 15 years ago by the band’s lyricist, John Perry Barlow, who became an Internet guru.” In 1994, well before Chris Anderson made it a business buzz word, Barlow wrote in a Wired article that “the best way to raise demand for your product is to give it away.”" Sphere: Related Content

Eric Clapton, Paul Simon Join Yoko Ono Jam

By David Marchese on February 17, 2010 8:59 AM

"During the career-spanning video montage that opened Tuesday night's We Are Plastic Ono Band concert celebration of Yoko Ono at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a quote flashed on the screen: "There's a reason the coolest guy in the world fell in love with her.""

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Subculture Film Fest Alert: Video Punks, Drunken Hippies & Dangerous Robots

By Ian S. Port in Film, Music
Tue., Feb. 16 2010 @ 12:48PM


"It's amazing to realize how many historical subcultures San Francisco has hosted over the years. And while a full tally of them all would probably fill an entire boring-ass academic journal, YBCA has a better way to take in the doings of cultural rebels past. An awesome-looking new film series that kicks off this week, "Freaks, Punks, Skanks & Cranks" will explore offbeat communities and personalities, including do-it-yourself punk, egomaniacal Eurotrash, and eccentric comedy through four films that start Thursday and run through Feb. 27."

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Martin and other guitar makers go green

By Sidney Stevens

"Recently, Martin and others, including Taylor, Gibson, Fender and Yamaha, joined Greenpeace’s MusicWood Coalition to encourage loggers like Sealaska Timber Corp. (which owns some of Alaska’s remaining old-growth Sitka spruce forests) to harvest them responsibly and seek eco-certification through the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Guitar makers also have put some money where their emerging green values are. Gibson, for instance, was first with its eco-certified SmartWood Les Paul electric guitars. Martin has collaborated with Sting on certified wood signature models. It also produces guitars made of high-pressure wood laminate, a Sustainable Wood series using eco-sourced alternative woods, and last year launched 100 percent FSC-certified traditional-wood models, including the D Mahogany 09."

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Climate change will make world more 'fragrant'

 By Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News


"As CO2 levels increase and the world warms, land use, precipitation and the availability of water will also change.

In response to all these disruptions, plants will emit greater levels of fragrant chemicals called biogenic volatile organic compounds.

That will then alter how plants interact with one another and defend themselves against pests, according to a major scientific review.

According to the scientists leading the review, the world may already be becoming more fragrant, as plants have already begun emitting more smelly chemicals." Sphere: Related Content

Buenos Aires Lures Jet Set With Weak Peso

By Michael Martin

"Buenos Aires's affordability attracts expatriates and bohemian artists who can find rentals for $500 a month or properties for less than $100,000. For those looking to stay long term, companies such as Buenos Aires Habitat specialize in upscale apartments and lofts throughout the city. Those unfamiliar with the grit of urban living should stick to established neighborhoods like Recoleta, the Beverly Hills of Buenos Aires, instead of edgier areas such as San Telmo or Palermo Hollywood."

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Butch Trucks on Moogis, The Allman Brothers Band and More.

By: Dr. Matt Warnock

"The Allman Brothers Band is currently gearing up to begin their March 2010 concert series at the United Palace Theater in New York City. For those who can’t travel to the show, or even get tickets if they can be there, each concert will be webcast live from the theater through Moogis. What is Moogis you ask? Moogis is a subscription-based website that provides streaming webcasts of live and archived concerts. Currently the site features concerts solely by the ABB, but there are plans to expand to other bands and genres of music in the near future."

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Fit to be tie-dyed

 BY CAROLINE BERG | FEBRUARY 15, 2010 7:30 AM

"Tie-dye is usually associated with peace signs, long hair, and the psychedelic. However, the practice dates as far back as 500-800 A.D. pre-Columbian fashions, a little before the Grateful Dead took the stage.

“I don’t really know why tie-dye found renewed popularity in the ’60s,” said Christopher Roy, a UI professor of art and art history. “It must have been the LSD that made all those colors so appealing.”

It could have been the drugs. Or it could have been the tie-dye market in African nations that charmed the influx of U.S. Peace Corps workers during the era.

Heidi Anderson, who works at the Spot youth outreach center in Iowa City, spent last August visiting Kenya and Swaziland, where she came in contact with Africa’s rich assortment of patterned textiles. She will teach a class on the batik wax-resist dyeing technique in celebration of Black History Month. The Afro-American Cultural Center will host the arts and crafts night at 5 p.m. Thursday. Those who wish to participate in this free and open event must RSVP today."

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Mississippi's marijuana: Legal pot farm at Ole Miss

Chris Joyner • chris.joyner@jackson.gannett.com • February 16, 2010

"The University of Mississippi Marijuana Project provides marijuana by the bale to licensed researchers throughout the nation. They study the drug through a federal contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Marijuana is grown in a field, nurtured in an artificially lit "grow room," analyzed in labs and stored in drums in two bank-style vaults."

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Fog decrease harming California redwoods

By Doyle Rice
Feb 15, 2010

"A lack of fog in recent decades along the California coast could be stressing the region's iconic redwood trees, according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Based on the study, led by James Johnstone and Todd Dawson of the University of California at Berkeley, fog was 33% more common in California in the early part of the 20th century than it was in the latter half of the century.

Redwood trees rely on foggy conditions to help conserve water during the arid summer months. When there is less fog, the trees become more vulnerable to droughts and dry air, says Johnstone."

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The Seattleization of Washington D.C.

By Adam Vogt
February 15, 2010

"The nation's capital has been converted to the Seattle culture of recycling and caring. Guess which city now has a bag tax?"

"Anyone who has ever made the eastward migration from the Pacific Northwest to Washington, DC knows what a psychological challenge it is. Giving up mountains for monuments, coffee for congressmen (and women), microbrews for Michelob, are not even trade-offs. It is not just the quality of life changes that are difficult; nor the transition from stoic, aloof Northwest personality types to the self-promotional East Coast careerists. Rather, it’s leaving behind the culture of recycling and caring for the environment for the gritty, litter-strewn, rundown urban east."

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ET Water Systems Reigns in Water Consumption With Intelligent Green Irrigation Technology

Posted : Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:05 GMT
Author : ET Water
Category : Press Release

NOVATO, CA -- 02/15/10 -- ET Water Systems, Inc. has announced a new opportunity for businesses and municipalities nationwide to effortlessly establish water-wise landscaping practices that will dramatically reduce their water consumption rates and slash monthly water bills.

According to the EPA's WaterSense Web site, landscape irrigation wastes up to 1.5 billion gallons of water every day across the country. In ET Water's home state of California alone, irrigation-related water use is 8.7 million acre feet per year. A very modest 20-percent reduction in landscape water consumption would conserve 1.74 million acre feet per year -- enough water to serve more than 2 million families for a full year.

"Our platform integrates some of today's most advanced technologies to help solve the critical global need for water conservation," said Pat McIntyre, president of ET Water Systems. "Our customers' many controllers become a state-of-the-art, interconnected computer network with centralized control and internet access, allowing real-time control and the many benefits of a flexible, upgradeable network architecture."

Today, 97-percent of installed irrigation controllers utilize out-dated, non-intelligent controllers. Upgrading these properties to ET Water's advanced irrigation control technology is a quick and economical solution to maximize water conservation and reduce water bills by up to 50-percent while prolonging the useful life of legacy irrigation system.

Since 2002, ET Water has been at the forefront of "green" technology solving one of the world's most important environmental challenges through intelligent irrigation management. By integrating the power of the internet with the state-of-the-art in software, database technology, horticulture science and weather data, ET Water is perfecting the science of landscape irrigation with systems that reduce water consumption by 20 to 50-percent or more, simplify administration, improve landscape quality, and reduce runoff pollution. To discover why some of the largest commercial and municipal properties in the world entrust their landscapes to ET Water visit http://www.etwater.com/.

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The sensual literary salon

Posted on Wed, Feb. 10, 2010
By Lini S. Kadaba
Inquirer Staff Writer

"I want to mainstream erotica." 


"The Erotic Literary Salon pounds with words, those words, the ones not usually uttered in polite company - or in private without a blush.

But few at the Bohemian Absinthe Lounge at Time, a restaurant-bar at 13th and Sansom Streets, look particularly shocked."

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Del. teen found in igloo with pot, bongs, knife

The Associated Press
Thursday, February 11, 2010; 9:34 PM

Alamantra short version: Someone in New Castle called the cops to report a "suspicious man carrying a gun." The cops arrived to find an igloo with a teenager inside. The boy had a knife and hammer ...probably how he built the igloo... about a 1/4 ounce of weed, and a couple of pipes to smoke it with. The cops arrested him and charged him with 2 counts of carrying a concealed, deadly instrument, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. ...Build an igloo... that's a pot fueled inspiration if ever I saw one. A decent lawyer should be able to get the weapons charges dropped since the igloo demonstrates that they were used as tools. Sphere: Related Content

Where the Beat Goes On

Forty years after Jack Kerouac's death, Barry Divola tracks down the landmarks of a generation.

"Specs' has been a hang-out for everyone from strippers and sailors to poets and bohemians over the past 42 years and it is my last port of call on a long day of walking - and drinking - in the footsteps of the Beat generation. As the novelist, Jack Kerouac, came to the end of the road in October, 1969, dying at the age of 47, I'd decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his passing by making my own pilgrimage to San Francisco's Beat landmarks." Sphere: Related Content

Don Lattin: My Book on Acid

Don Lattin: My Book on Acid

By Don Lattin
Posted: February 3, 2010 02:12 PM

"You never know who will show up or what to expect when you face the folding chairs and start reading from your new book.
Especially when the book you just wrote is all about LSD.
On Tuesday night, I made my fourth bookstore appearance to promote my new book, and it happened again. Someone tried to turn me on."

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The Beatles or The Stones? with Warren Haynes | MusicRadar.com

The Beatles or The Stones? with Warren Haynes | MusicRadar.com:

"Plus: Gov't Mule's mainman answers your questions

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New Steam-Powered Environmentally-Friendly Super Engine.

Alamantra short version:
  Cyclone Power Technologies has announced that their new Cyclone Engine, which can run on almost any kind of fuel imaginable (including biofuels), will be used in an attempt to break the land steam record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah; perhaps as soon as August of this year. Cyclone Technologies states, "the Cyclone Engine is capable of running on virtually any fuel (or combination of fuels) including today’s promising new bio fuels, while emitting far fewer pollutants than traditional gas or diesel powered internal combustion engines."
  "The Cyclone Engine is a Rankine Cycle heat regenerative external combustion engine, otherwise known as a “Schoell Cycle” engine.  It creates mechanical energy by heating and cooling water in a closed-loop, piston-based engine system." See HERE for details.
  The vehicle, which is designed by Chuk Williams of the U.S. Land Steam Record Team, has to achieve a speed exceeding 148.308 mph but is anticipated to achieve 200 mph . ...Groovy.

Sources:
Land Steam Record Vehicle Attempt Gets Its Steam Eco Engine | EarthTechling:
by David Craddock, February 3rd, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies Website:
http://www.cyclonepower.com/
United States Land Steam Record Team Website
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Disruptive jet passenger ate marijuana cookies beforehand

Disruptive jet passenger ate marijuana cookies beforehand

The Alamantra short version: 30 year old dude from San Fransisco named Kinman Chan was traveling home from a conference in the Dominican Republic. This dude is an artist who creates "vibrant" and "abstract" works. He got to the last leg of the flight, which was from Philadelphia to San Fran. He ate too many pot cookies, got on the plane and had a freak out; kinda like that dude in the Twilight Zone movie. A 51 year old flight attendant named Lorin Gorman kicked his ass. It turns out she was a 4th degree black belt in tae-kwon-do. He was put in handcuffs and the plane was rerouted to Pittsburgh where Chan was taken into custody. He's being held on two charges and can't even make his $200 bail. ...Bummer. Kinda funny to think that a dude named Chan got his ass kicked by a tae-kwon-do dragon lady. Maybe this will be his most "vibrant" and most "abstract" masterpiece ...Performance art, that's the ticket. Have a cookie. Sphere: Related Content

It's hip to help, student says -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

It's hip to help, student says -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY:

By DENNIS YUSKO, Staff writer
First published in print: Tuesday, February 2, 2010

"BALLSTON SPA -- Ashlie Busone's tie-dyed heart is going international.

The Ballston Spa High School senior founded Hippies for Hope in Saratoga County two years ago. This summer, it is expanding into Africa, where Busone will teach language skills and agriculture at a girls school in Tanzania.

Busone, 17, has delivered thousands of tie-dyed T-shirts to hospitals and group homes across the Capital Region, the Northeast and beyond. She and other students dye nearly 100 shirts a week in her family's Ballston Lake garage, and sell them to the public for $10 each. Each shirt sold buys another for a hospitalized child or adult. Each shirt carries an inspirational message or quote, and Busone tries to comfort those she visits." Sphere: Related Content

Whales get Support on Sonar Ban - CBS News

Whales get Support on Sonar Ban - CBS News:

This article was written by Discover's Andrew Moseman.

"Whales and the U.S. Navy have tangled repeatedly over the past years over charges that the Navy’s sonar exercises disorient or injure whales and other marine mammals. Now, whales in the Pacific appear to have a new champion: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is considering limiting the Navy’s sonar tests in certain marine mammal “hot spots.”

The announcement was made in a letter (pdf) from NOAA head Jane Lubchenco to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. NOAA also called for development of a system for estimating the “comprehensive sound budget for the oceans,” which could help reduce human sources of noise - vessel traffic, sonar and construction activities - that degrade the environment in which sound-sensitive species communicate [Los Angeles Times]." Sphere: Related Content

San Francisco Music - Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album - page 1

San Francisco Music - Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album - page 1:

"Born Robert Kenneth BeauSoleil in Santa Barbara, BeauSoleil packed his bags in 1965 for San Francisco and found himself at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury. He was just down the street from where the Grateful Dead were holed up, loosening the knots on folk and blues and letting in more expansive jazzy improvisations. BeauSoleil performed a similar act with his own muse, moving beyond rock into weirder fields of play, drawing on Indian classical music, the works of John Coltrane, and avant-garde electronic fare. Trawling the basement of a music shop, BeauSoleil unearthed instruments like the Greek bouzouki and set about amplifying it onstage. A few like-minded travelers joined him, and while his original vision was for an 'electric chamber orchestra,' the group soon pared down to five members and the unmodified name of the Orkustra. They began to share stages with the Grateful Dead, the Charlatans, and Big Brother and the Holding Company.

This two-album set culls its music from rehearsal tapes and concerts performed during the Orkustra's brief existence. While the distance of four decades casts a murkiness over the proceedings, the interplay among its participants still entrances." Sphere: Related Content

Italians Seek Wizards’ Help During Economic Crisis (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

Italians Seek Wizards’ Help During Economic Crisis (Update1) - Bloomberg.com:

By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Flavia Rotondi

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- "Italians spend about 6 billion euros ($8.3 billion) on spells and astrology each year to help them with financial troubles, according to a Jan. 28 study by the European Consumers Association.

About 30,000 Italians spend every day between 20 euros and 600 euros each on sorcery, according to the report, which was conducted along with Telefono Antiplagio, an Italian voluntary service that collects reports from victims of con artists.

Italians living in Lombardy, where Milan is located, spend the most on the occult, splashing out 90 million euros a year on various forms of magic, including fortune tellers" Sphere: Related Content