VLVL 24fps and "the Movement"

[Ghetta Life]

Nice synopsis!  Very nice.

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>Meanwhile,  Back in the text,  Rex is obsessed with his research subject
>and comes to believe that the men and women of the BLGVN are a kind of
>romantic lost tribe with a failed cause.  His zealous desire to record
>their history is described in religious terms (bottom 207-208). Fear of
>reprisal doesn't prevent this scribe from telling Weed to preach the
>good word to the Steering Committee of the newly formed ADHOC. Weed
>doesn't take up the cause and Rex is frustrated. The daisy chain turns
>and turns. His quoting Talleyrand has been discussed.
>
>Weed, more interested in life style changes than politics and lost
>causes is busy listening to The Wolfman on XERB, getting hip, getting
>girls. The Conservative kids at the College of the Surf, tune into to
>Johnny Come Late Late Late Show's hip-cat program, it's all innocent and
>festive, nothing  defiant or subversive, nothing desperate or urgent,
>"not much by Berkeley or Columbia standards, maybe,"  but Rex places
>Weed in the emerging junta.
>
>The Conservative kids are just having a bit of fun. The 1960's are about
>finished and these kids are just growing their hair a bit, checking out
>the new rock and roll (Zeppelin 69 ain't exactly revolutionary),  a
>little pot, some sex. But hiking up the skirt and growing facial hair so
>close to San Clemente could make the locals wonder what the heck is
>going on at their college.
>
>Meanwhile, the kids are doing research. Not like the kids at Columbia at
>all they discover a real estate deal that's nothing like the one at
>Columbia. The College of the Surf isn't what it seems (top 209). Their
>discovery undermines their faith in the system. So the kids, not like
>those radicals in NYC, but more like Ortho Bob, turn away from the usual
>channels and plug into an alternative program, a program they can count
>on to be there for ever and ever ...  youth without end,  amen.
>
>And look who comes rolling into town right after the kids have painted
>the campus a paler shade of innocent white with a hint, just a hint of
>pink.  Why it's the Berkeley crew. Not like the Berkeley crew at
>Berkeley, not them. No, this is that band of camera wielding film
>makers, well ...  one photographer with a  Scoopic and her girlfriend, a
>pair of big mouth NY City Jews in army fatigues, a Black dude named
>Sledge, a surfer-looking pot head with pink eyes, a hippie that does
>star charts.
>
>Rex's martyred saints ...  jesus judas  ...  lost cost ...  lost tribe
>... mary martha lazarus come back from the grave, come back to shoot you
>all.
>
>Frenesi, following her pussy, her Mother's example, her old man's light,
>has Turned.
>
>The boat back to America has foundered but nobody has bothered to tell
>this kids at the Surf. They march onto stages and up to microphones,
>clamoring confusion about a great coup or maybe just some revenue
>sharing.
>
>Prairie could look it up, Sale's book is out of print, but she could
>look it up, but she is caught up in the flashing lights of her Mother's
>movie. (VL 210)
>
>It's like a rock concert or a sporting event in another country, the
>crowd calls out for WEED.
>
>Something is burning ...
>
>You guys didn't. No, no, not my plants.

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