Weed Atman's spirit

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 06:45:43 CDT 2009


Joseph Tracy wrote:
> I may not get a post up on CH 13 until Sunday,  a day late and a dollar
> shot.
>
> I want to look back first at Weed Atman because i think he is a hinge that
> is very  carefully chosen

I've had that thought; thanks for putting substance into the notion!

atmen is also a German verb meaning "to breathe"
which goes along with "conspiracy" which is literally "breathing
together", right?

(when They come after the pranayama classes, we're really in trouble)

The thing that I want to stress, is that
a) 24fps goes around turning the camera on the establishment to show
how fucked up it is
b) when, as at College of the Surf, it turns that searching light upon
the workings of what may be presumed to be an emerging counterculture,
it discovers how fucked up that thing is too...
Weed falling into the leadership role as insouciantly as an "innocent"
in a Hitchcock film stumbles on a plot but lacks the resourcefulness
to climb up Mount Rushmore and the helicopter mows him down while
running across that wheatfield (that makes Rex the helicopter, I
guess)

-- 
 - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff



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