bring down The Wallrus side of the--

[Ian Livingston]

Michael sez:

"you're out there with your thumb out, and some young person with hip
accoutrements pulls over and they turn up the radio once you tell them
where you're going...man oh man...a-and of course they don't mind if
you smoke..."

And I have to agree. Man, there was nothing like it when you got that cool
ride, the one that takes you into Yellowstone along Phaedrus' track through
Red Lodge and up over the Top of the World listening The Right Music all
the way, passing doobies and a whiskey flask in the back of the van.... Or
the guy who picks you up just after dawn in San Simeon in his pickup, but
the first guy he picked up is in the cab so you sit in back with your gear,
and then he picks up the next guy and the next guy, all the way through Big
Sur and you're all going on about how hip Dylan's lyrics are and how Marx
is badly misunderstood and Trotsky was right, passing j's around in the
back of the truck and fog is breaking and the ragged coast foams under the
cliffs and crazy sky all morning.... Just nothin' like it.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, i know you mean in terms of quality, but i wouldn't mind being 2nd
> rate at their level...
>
> and yes, i am the dude who says their high-water mark, their GR
> (although in my book it'd be their Vineland - or perhaps their M&D or
> AtD, not sure yet) if you will, was Ummagumma -- although...
>
> run like hell, off of the wall? sez wikipedia? (1979)?  darn, i could
> utterly swear some dude had that on his eight-track when he picked us
> up hitchhiking to Cass Lake in 1970 -- is there anything on Meddle
> that sounds like that?
>
> it was one of the great "gratuitous grace in the Aldous Huxley sense
> music while hitchhiking" songs of my adolescence, gosh i miss
> hitchhiking (but not quite enough to start again) -- others were "give
> the fiddler a dram" and Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire"
>
> you're out there with your thumb out, and some young person with hip
> accoutrements pulls over and they turn up the radio once you tell them
> where you're going...man oh man...a-and of course they don't mind if
> you smoke...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOoPQ1NFQT0
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QghwNqlCRE
>
> --
> "...and with all life throws at you, why oxidize needlessly?" -
> Jonathan Kellerman, _Dr Death_
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20130122/4fdc2c42/attachment.html>