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[dark_phoenix54]

Another Little Piece of My Heart, by Richard Goldstein. Bloomsbury 2015 In 1966, twenty-two year old Goldstein walked into the Village Voice and invented the job he wanted: rock critic. During his time doing this, he had some amazing adventures and met a lot of the great rock innovators. He became friends with Janis Joplin, was a passenger in a car

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[rhodielady_47]

Sorry, but that little moving picture of yours needs to be taken down.
Strobby, throbby flashy pictures like that can trigger a lot of people into have seisures.
I'm not one of these people, but even so, it makes me uncomfortable looking at it.
:^{

[dark_phoenix54]

According to a librarian I know (who is long since retired), 'On the Road' was the single most stolen book, so apparently a lot of people love it! I didn't love it but I liked it. Which is more than I can say for a lot of Kerouac's work- I read 'Dharma Bums' and liked it, then read another of his books... and it was the same story, just told slightly differently. And then another one that was the same...

Have you ever read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe?

[dark_phoenix54]

It's about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters as they make their way around the country doing Acid Tests, where they make Kool-Aid in giant trash cans, spike it with acid, and hold a psychedelic light show where they give it away. One of the people, who drives the painted up bus, is Neal Cassidy, who was the inspiration for Dean Moriarty.