VLVL II: Surfadelic

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* Shambhala Publications sent me their new catalogue all the way from
Boston. The announcement in the middle of page 45 reads as follows:


DANCING THE WAVE

Audacity, Equilibrium, and Other Mysteries of Surfing

Jean-Étienne Poirier


This unique book interweaves history, mythology, and
personal experiences to introduce the reader to the
sublime and spiritual art of surfing. The author gives
a short history of surfing, demystifies its dictinctive
culture and language. He also muses on impermanence,
humility, and other spiritual lessons of surfing.

I-59030-060-2 ° 176 pp., 25 halftones ° $12.95 paper 


Anybody already checked this out?

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"Everything in nature, every living being on the hillside that day,
strange as it sounded later whenever Zoyd tried to tell about it, 
was gentle, at peace --- the visible world was a sunlit sheep farm.
War in Vietnam, murder as an instrument of American politics, black
neighborhoods torched to ashes and death, all must have been on 
some other planet./ Musik was by the Corvairs, these days calling
themselves surfadelic, though the nearest surf at the moment was 
at Santa Cruz, forty miles away over farm roads and murderous 
mountain passes ..." (38)
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KFL + 


Playlist Addition: "The Quiet Surf" (John Zorn)