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Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream

Link for this Post:We Can Be Together': American Countercultural Music, Film and the trappings of the mainstream Mike Leader on the Wild Tyme Blog Here is an excerpt from Mike Leader's insighful essay: The counterculture of the 1960s featured important...

The Sarah Palin National Anthem (Armageddon Annie)

Links for this Post: Ralph Buckley Website Sarah Palin National Anthem embedded below Among the many comments on his website comes one from a woman named Quetzie MacDonald. She says: A breath of fresh air is Ralph Buckley...an excellent musician...

Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - Features, Music - The Independent

Link for this Post: Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world - - The Independent. According to this article in The Independent from the UK: It's the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped...

McCain's Hundred Years War -- YouTube Music Video

Links for this post: embedded video and blog link credit below While the two remaining Democrats continue to debate issues such as their record of opposing the Iraq War, Health Care, leadership, experience and changing the course of the nation,...

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation This fun adventure has some fascinating features. Richard Albert (Ram Dass) is having a featured workshop: Be Here Now with...

The Trips Festival Film Provides a Time Tunnel into the Sixites

Links for this Post Listen to Panel Discussion on the Trips Festival MP3 Download (this comes via KPFA's Dead To The World Radio Program broadcast Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 which also streams on the KPFA website) Trips Festival Movie Website...

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Golden Gate Park 9/2/07 YouTube Video Updated with Stream Information

Links for this Post: Summer of Love Home Page YouTube Video embedded below I'm posting this as part one of two updates of my post about the Summer of Love celebrations this March. Here is the latest info about the...

Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker Is Back Up

Link for this Post: Podtropolis - The iPod Tracker. Podtropolis is a torrent tracking and search site dedicated to downloadable movies and other content for the iPod. according to Digg where I found the site, " The popular torrent site...

Miss Live Earth? Watch the Videos on MSN -- Concerts For A Climate In Crisis

Link for this Post : Live Earth on MSN: The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis. If you missed watching Live Earth live, then you can do the next best thing -- watch it on video at MSN. According to...

It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated

Links for this Post Updated: 'Sgt. Pepper' at 40 Summer of Love saw release of Beatles' landmark album By Jim Harrington, InsideBayArea.Com "A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40" by Jon Wiener, Nation "Musical Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

Pandora's Box Closing

Links for this Post Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening by Michael Arrington on Techcrunch Closing Pandora’s Box: The End of Internet Radio? - 10 Zen Monkies Webzine -- RU Sirius Interview with Tim Westergen from SaveNetRadio.org Back...

Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour + Festival Info

Links for this Post: Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour. Summer of Love Festival Website I found this information in the process of getting my Island Web Voyages Elsewhere directory cleaned up and online (more about...

Become a Politically Correct Raver

Link for this Post: Musikal Resistance: A Short History I found this short tract (I suppose that is what you call these things) via eBlips "emergent culture metafilter." eBlips correctly qualifies it he describes it as a paper "... by...

The 1960s "single, precise climax" -- New York Times -- Video

Links for this Post: "Folk-Rock Memories, Psychedelic but Clear" By Ben Sisario - New York Times. (Also accompanying video embedded below) This combo article and video feature from the NY Times is about remembrances of music producer Joe Boyd whose...

Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco

Links for this post Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco - A+E Interactive Your Gonna Miss Me (1983 version of current documentary) on You Tube: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Who were the 13th Floor Elevators? There...

Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick - New York Times

Link for this Post "Hope You Saved Your Glow Stick" by Sam Knight - New York Times. Why keep your "glow stick? According to this NY Times article, the good old fashioned rave has been resurrected in London. I was...

Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys

Link: Paul McCartney On Drugs - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine). Paal McCartney who has had more than a few troubles recently is given another shove by RU Siriuses "tell-all" about McCartney sloppy housekeeping and penchent to keep drugs out...

U B U W E B Advent-Garde Poetry Website

Link for this post: U B U W E B. According to the people at U B U W E B: UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over...

Pandora by the Music Genome Project Creates Custom "Radio Stations" Based on Choice of Artist

Link for this Post: Pandora by the Music Genome Project Creates Custom "Radio Stations" Based on Choice of Artist According to the creators of this cool web app: Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:...

WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles Partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas

Link for this Post: WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas Two of the Beatles may be dead but their business enterprises live on. I wrote in a previous post about the lavish Beatles tribute production:...

Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed

Link for this Post: Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed Here is a site with potential. Its just starting out so a but spartan but promising. Here is some excerpts from how it works: BuzzFeed distinguishes what is actually interesting...

SharePod: Install Freeware on Your Ipod from PC Copy Music To & From Your Ipod Share With All

Link for this Post: Free Windows Software SharePod. You liked by recent post Peter Gabriel's Free iTunes Filter Windows Software Creates "Intelligent Playlists whcih makes me think that there may be a lot of Vision Thing readers with IPods. So...

Peter Gabriel's Free iTunes Filter Windows Software Creates "Intelligent" Playlists

Link for this Post: Rediscover Your Music with The Filter Software Free Download My friend Sean Kearney over at his patternHunter blog posted about this great piece of free software endorsed by musician Peter Gabriel/ According to Sean's post Peter...

"Stop The Madness" (1985, 1986) Nancy Reagan Anti-Drug Music Video YouTube

"Stop The Madness" 1986 Nancy Reagan Anti-Drug Music Video YouTube This is the weekend clip from Rolling Stone Magazine Rock&Roll Daily. Here is what they say about this retro music video: We were extra-stoked to hear about Jimmy Buffett’s recent...

Revealed: Dentist Who Introduced The Beatles To LSD

Link for this Post: "Revealed: Dentist who introduced Beatles to LSD" by Ian Herbert in The Independent Here is a bit from the beginning of the article: Few of those many momentous nights enjoyed by the Beatles at the height...

Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content

Link for this Post: Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content. One of the nice things about the web is how it is making things that were either hard and time consumptive or impossible for the small...

Updated with Torrent Video Download --Sundance Channel Premiers Documentary "The Drug Years" -- Also on VH1

August Update: You can download the entire program as a torrent by visiting Mininova here. Let me know the status of the link. Updated: I just got finished watching the entire 3 hour documentary. The author Martin Targoff reflects at...

Remembering Siyd Barrett

Links for this Post: BBC" Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60" Associated Press in the New York Times: "Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd Co-Founder, Dies" Syd Barrett on Wikipedia "Barrett: the dark archangel" The Observer "See Emily Plays by the Pink...

Download a Free I'M Media Player & Tune Into Torrent Powered TV Channels Via RSS Feeds

Link for this Post: Download Torrent RSS feeds with Instant Media - Free! This free media player has a lot going for it. It uses the new Internet High Definition - iHD format to deliver TV programs to your desktop...

Love and Beatles in Las Vegas

"Revved-Up Magical Mystery Tour" Toronto Star "Love is All You Need" The Observer Cirque Du Soleil: Love Tickets Tickets for All Shows Beatles producer Martin mixes it up for "Love" Love has come to Las Vegas. Love is a Vegas...

"Contemporary Psychedelia: From Transcendence to Immanence" Peter Bebergal on Zeek.Net

Note: The above picture is from the article cited below Link for this Post: "Contemporary Psychedelia: From Transcendence to Immanence" Peter Bebergal on Zeek.Net This piece is about "psych-folk" a genre of new psychedelic music that has been part of...

"Deadhead" Summer Festivals -- Rex Foundation

Link for this post Rex Foundation" Summer Festivals 2006 . The non-profit Rex Foundation lists three Summer Festivals in the tradition of the "Deadhad." The three are Grateful Fest June 30 – July 4 Nelson Lodges Quarry Park, Nelson, Ohio...

Remix David Byrne and Brian Eno's Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Link for this post: Remix David Byrne and Brian Eno's Life in the Bush of Ghosts According to the Album's website: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts came out in 1981. Over the last decades, hundreds of artists in...

Yahoo Launches Yahoo! Go TV Beta -- Free Software Download

Link for this post: Yahoo Launches Yahoo! Go TV Beta I bought a Westinghouse LVM-37W1 37" TV Monti-or last week and moved my second computer into my study where I set it up and hooked it to the TV. The...

Digital Be-In 14 "Planet Code" The Earth Day Be-In Updated -- Live Webcast Tonight!

Link for this post: "Digital Be-In 14: Planet Code: The Earth Day Be-In" Updated: email from Michael Gosensy Digital Be-In NetCast & Live Bloggingf or the many people who can't make it in person, we will be uploading video and...

More on Allen Ginsberg -- Free Video Library

Link for this post: Allen Ginsberg Trust: Video Library After I posted the The Ballad Of The Skeletons by Allen Ginsberg in the previous post, one of his fans emailed me to tell me that the ballad was on video...

The Ballad Of The Skeletons Music by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass & Paul McCartney -- Free Download Updated

Updated: Video of Allen Ginsberg performing the Ballad of the Skeltons at AllenGinsberg.Org Links for this post: The Ballad Of The Skeletons Music by Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass & Paul McCartney -- Free Download at the Lorto Martin Time is...

REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of Age Rak Razam in Undergrowth

Link for this post: REBIRTH - The Psychedelic Movement Comes of Age Rak Razam in Undergrowth. My friend Will Penna describes this account of the recent LSD conference ... " this is the 'Fear and Loathing' gonzo journalist's account of...

Guru Guru Plays LSD March for First Time in 25 Years Live in Basel, Switzerland

Link for this Post: LSD Conference Official Homepage of Swiss Psychedelic Band Guru Guru Guru Guru, the Swiss Psychedelic Band of three decades ago played their noteworthy "LSD-March" for the first time in 25 years (the number is appropriate). According...

Consumer Electronics Show Vegas

Link for the post: Consumer Electronics Show 2006, Las Vegas I am adverse to websites with Flash intros, so the above link is to the sitemap of the Consumer Electronics Show 2006, Las Vegas. I have several friends coming in...

"Star Light" Song Performed by Doctors Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary

Links for this post: Fiorella Terenzi Website Download "Star Light" MP3 by Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary by clicking this link On several different occasions I watched my friend Timothy Leary perform with an Italian physicist turned musician Fiorella Terenzi...

Free Video: Happy Christmas (War is Over) Remake of John Lennon Song by John Romano

Links for this post: Happy Christmas (War is Over) remake of the John Lennon song by John Romano Be sure to have Flash 8.0 installed and the above link will get you to a page with a video of John...

Time Travel & Prosolarmechanics.Com

Link for this post: PDB. Typepad, the web application that drives Vision Thing has been going through some serious problems the past few days. So if you do not see some images in the posts below this one, they are...

Video: John Lennon and Bob Dylan in a Taxi (1966)

Links for this post: Video: John Lennon and Bob Dylan in a Taxi (1966) My friend Clay (his blog Ten-Cups) and I have different heroic figures from the 1960s music scene that inspire us. He likes Bob Dylan and my...

Remembering The Voice of John Lennon

Link for this post: The Voice of John Lennon on Hearing Voices via Transbudha.Com As many of you know, last Thursday December 8th marked the 25th Anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. I lived in Santa Barbara on the...

Team Counterculture To Appear in Greater DC Area

Dan Joy, my pal and all-time favorite editor and his co-author Ken Goffman (aka R. U. Sirius) will be talking about and signing the new, paperback edition of their Counterculture Through The Ages at 7:30 PM on Thursday, December 15th...

1960's Nights on the Sunset Strip

Link for this post: 1960's Nights on the Sunset Strip For most of the readers of my blog, this post will either have little relevance or at the most evoke some historical curiosity for those interested in the counterculture. For...

Listen to the Project Eleusis CD Cool Psychedelic Mix Music in Honor of Albert Hofmann's 100th Birthday

Some cool psychedelic mix music on Project Elusius, a CD which will be released January 9th 2006 in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Albert Hofmann. You can listen to the CD online now by visiting Dropout Productions. The dedication...

Updated: Merry Pranksters Celebrate 40th Anniversary of the Acid Tests in Vegas on Halloween!

Link for this post: Merry Pranksters hosting acid test revival Las Vegas Oct 31 Update: I will be on a "special panel discussing the influence of the Acid Tests on art, music, and culture" at 6:30 at this event. The...