Showing posts with label Jack Kerouac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Kerouac. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Sugar Magnolia blossom's blooming (The Grateful Dead)


Wie geht's?

Caterham's high street, like most high streets from what I can see, has a profusion of charity shops and that means loads of quality DVDs and CDs on offer.

Problem is that many of the DVDs are available on Netflix. But once in a while I come across an interesting one that probably isn't.

Magic Trip (Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place) was gobbled up for a quid!

Of course, I had to watch it when the LOML was otherwise engaged because it was mos def not her cup of Kool.

But I loved it - Ken Kesey (of Merry Prankster/ Further/ One Flew Over...fame) was left of centre and so were his mates: Neal Cassady comes across as a complete nutter; Jack Kerouac severely a fish out of water; Allen Ginsberg a star struck kid and the Grateful Dead as acid head doodlers.

So yeah, I guess there's an element of truth to the film - these people existed and the times were what they were.

Given my love of the beat poets and the Dead it was great viewing.

Love and peace - Wozza