From airplane to starship...

[rich]

huh?

guess i was on the wrong kinda drugs.  put obama on that hog and dang
if some redneck in a white pickup wouldn't blow'em away today thx to
all those right-wing scumbags in this country.
things haven't changed in middle america after all.

rich

On 10/23/08, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> The only way I could see _Easy Rider_ being
> worth the price of admission, and it didn't
> occur to me until years later- maybe about
> the time Ginsberg went on ?Dick Cavitt?
> with a briefcase full of documents- was seeing
> Billy and Wyatt as figures for the CIA. The link
> begins at the beginning- raising huge amounts
> of off the books cash via SoCal drug sales. The
> vamping of traditional American archetypes and the
> "penetration" and destabilization  of "alien"
> cultures, followed by taking themselves too
> seriously, also came to mind. I don't think any of
> that is what Hopper had in mind, but with
> Southern on board, who knows?
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bandwraith at aol.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:56 am
> Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
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> Call me a traditionalist. I prefer Butch and Sundance to Billy and
> Wyatt.
> Slim Pickens = Billy, Henry Green = Wyatt? I'm not familiar with Green.
> Terry Southern- unique.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malignd at aol.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 4:24 pm
> Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...
>
> I seem to recall Crosby saying once that his relationship with McGuinn
> was the model
> for the relationship between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy
> Rider although,
> as the screenplay was written by (wasn't it?) Terry Southern, more
> likely the models
> were Henry Green and Slim Pickens.
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