Latest Articles: Retro 50s 60s
Diver Dan
Post Date: 2010-02-05 17:21:39 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Jack Kerouac: 30 Cool Writing Tips
Post Date: 2010-02-04 20:11:41 by Deasy
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Jack Kerouac was one of those writers who reinvented literature. He climbed in James Joyce’s stream of consciousness car then careened down the streets of Beat poetry and the alleyways of Bebop jazz, creating such novels as The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and the landmark On the Road. He influenced countless writers and, some say, helped usher in the 1960s counter-culture movement. Fellow writers were always asking Kerouac how he did what he did. So Kerouac set down 30 essentials in something he called “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose.” These tips may or may not make sense to you, but that’s Kerouac, man: Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for ...
Bankers Are Behind The "Counter" Culture
Post Date: 2009-12-15 00:13:52 by Coral Snake
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Bankers Are Behind The "Counter" Culture May 7, 2005 By Henry Makow Ph.D. We assume large corporations have economic objectives. But we don't expect them to have a secret social and occult agenda as well. For example, we don't expect them to engineer arrested development and family breakdown. We don't expect them to use pop culture to foster alienation and dysfunction. Central bankers based in the City of London control the cartels that dominate the world. They finagled the right to print money based on our credit and quite naturally used this advantage to buy control of everything worth having. This might be tolerable if limitless wealth was all they wanted. But ...
William S. Burroughs -The Junky's Christmas, Part One
Post Date: 2009-11-21 19:08:13 by Dakmar
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
The Beast from 20000 Fathoms
Post Date: 2009-09-26 23:11:20 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Jack Ackerman Passes
Post Date: 2009-09-23 00:52:59 by sizzlerguy
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Jack Ackerman Passes Horseman John M. 'Jack' Ackerman, prominent in Michigan racing for many decades, died in early July at age 83 after a long illness. He drove his first race at age 13, then served in World War II. Ackerman gained national prominence in his 20s racing the stock of the Brown Valley Farms from Lavonia, Michigan. The stable was owned by Ford dealer Bob Brown, jr. He had Royal Blackstone for a while, says Doug Ackerman, his Hall of Fame brother. His best horse was probably Royal Melody, a son of Royal Blackstone. In 1957, after the wonder colt Torpid had won the Little Brown Jug and 36 of his 39 lifetime starts, it was Jack Ackerman and Royal Melody that upset ...
The Greatest Song Ever
Post Date: 2009-09-17 20:39:10 by Turtle
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The God of Frolic
Post Date: 2009-09-13 07:21:30 by Turtle
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The Trouble With Women (Or, the decline of America)
Post Date: 2009-09-08 22:02:23 by X-15
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Poster Comment:Brad's problem (see the film ending) is that he rolled over for political correctness back in 1959 and it's been all downhill from there......
The Past Is A Strange Foreign Country
Post Date: 2009-09-04 20:19:02 by X-15
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Sing for your father!
Post Date: 2009-08-21 22:01:55 by Prefrontal Vortex
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The Scariest Movie Turtle Saw as a Kid
Post Date: 2009-06-27 15:47:20 by Turtle
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Are you still not convinced we've lost our heritage?
Post Date: 2009-06-05 19:59:08 by Itistoolate
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Thursday, June 4, 2009 Are you still not convinced we've lost our heritage? Jamie Foxx set to play Frank Sinatra on the silver screen A biopic based on the life of Frank Sinatra is on its way to the silver screen, but even the guy who “didd it his way” couldn’t have imagined the cast of characters being lined up to possibly play him. While early reports had entertainers like Justin Timberlake, Harry Connick Jr., and Leo DiCaprio tapped to tackle the part of Sinatra, some Hollywood insiders now believe Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx would do an excellent job of portraying the Rat Packer. Are we being punk’d? You read right, ladies and gents. According to The ...
"Everytime" by Oi Va Voi
Post Date: 2009-05-06 07:29:21 by Elliott Jackalope
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"Everytime" by Oi Va Voi Oi Va Voi "Everytime" from Katarzyna Kijek on Vimeo.
if You Go Away
Post Date: 2009-05-06 00:13:10 by Artisan
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Poster Comment:nice version of a beautiful song by Dusty Springfield.
Phineas Gage
Post Date: 2009-05-02 12:37:10 by Turtle
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When I was a kid the only magazine my father had a subscription to was True magazine, which was a men's magazine that went out of business around '74, I think. I only remember two stories from it: one in which some guy shot a charging grizzly two or three times with his .45 and killed it about two feet from him, and the other was about Phineas Gage, Gage I remember vividly. He was the train worker tamping gunpowder in a hole when a blast sent his tamping iron through his skull, giving him a partial lobotomy, He got up a few minutes later and started talking and walking around, even though some of his brains were leaking out of his head. He lived another 11 years, changed to ...
"I Love How You Love Me" - Nino and April
Post Date: 2009-04-30 19:00:48 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:I had forgotten all about these two until I heard "Deep Purple" on the radio today.
"Indian Love Call" - Slim Whitman
Post Date: 2009-03-29 16:50:39 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:I think my mother had every record this guy put out. One day, driver insane, I destroyed al of them and imprisoned my mother in a pit in the basement. As far as I know she's still there. Apparently my dad has never let her out, saying he enjoys the peace and quiet.
Jimi Hendrix - Angel (acoustic) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-03-27 22:50:05 by X-15
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Beach Boys - Luau
Post Date: 2009-03-19 06:26:51 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Rock is my Life and This is my Song [BTO]
Post Date: 2009-03-06 19:24:57 by noone222
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Rock Is My Life, And This Is My Song - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Poster Comment:I heard this song on a trip to Red River, New Mexico a few years ago and hadn't heard it since, but thought it worthy of remembrance ... and posting. I hope it plays.
The Turtle Theater Saturday Matinee: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die"
Post Date: 2009-02-14 14:43:13 by Turtle
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The First Record Turtle Ever Bought
Post Date: 2009-02-04 19:15:31 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:Turtle got a little record player for Christmas when he was a little Turtle.
"I own a famous knife..." (Austin/blast from the past)
Post Date: 2009-01-27 00:54:45 by X-15
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"How would I go about authenticating something like this. Long story short, my grandfather had a shoe repair shop in Austin for many years, at the corner of Oltorf and South 1st. Charles Whitman's wife used his shop for shoe repair. She dropped off some shoes right before her husband goes on his rampage. My grandfather picked up one of the shoes to work on it, and this pocket knife fell out of it. He stuck it away, meaning to give it to her when she picked up the shoes. He always said it was common for men to toss their pocket knives inside their shoes. She was killed the day Whitman went on his rampage, so the shoes were around a while. The police department came in a week or so ...
"The Cheater" - Bob Kuban and the In Men
Post Date: 2009-01-25 21:09:59 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:Turtle used to live across the street from where the singer of this song, Walter Scott, used to go to high school. Scott ended up murdered in a love triangle, and was dumped in a backyard well for several years, where the cold water essentially turned him to soap. Scott was quite popular with the women and apparently a bit of a cheater himself.
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