Posts Tagged ‘Easy Rider’
YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT…JUST DON’T LITTER
…also in honor of Thanksgiving, here’s a link to the complete words for Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice Restaurant Massacree,” courtesy of arlo.net:
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml
Guthrie’s 18 1/2-minute talking-blues classic has become a Thanksgiving day standard. It also inspired the full-length feature film Alice’s Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Guthrie himself, which hit screens in 1969.
I examine Alice’s Restaurant, Easy Rider, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in the chapter “Shaking the Cage” from 1969: The Year Everything Changed.
‘EASY RIDER’ ROAD TRIP
Check out this interactive road trip on Slate from film critic Keith Phipps, who recreates the archetypal journey of Captain America and Buffalo Bill from Ballarat, California to New Orleans, Louisiana in Easy Rider:
TALKING 40TH ANNIVERSARY BLUES – ‘1969′ ON ‘ALL THINGS CONSIDERED’
Okay, so turns out I was on NPR’s All Things Considered afterall. It’s kind of a funny little skit on 40th anniversary burnout. You can hear it and read the transcript at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120652963
I don’t know that I would cite the Wendy’s burger as a huge anniversary moment, but to each his own…
Thanks again to Travis Larchuck at NPR for including me in the spot.
- Rob
‘1969′ IN THE SUMMER OF ‘09
Be on the lookout this summer for 1969: The Year Everything Changed at Barnes and Noble, where the book will be featured in a special promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of that eventful “Summer of ‘69″!
The moon landing…Woodstock…the Amazin’ Mets…Easy Rider…Charles Manson…and more. The stories from that summer grabbed the headlines and left indelible impressions upon an entire generation of Americans. As the subtitle implies, 1969 left our nation forever changed.
- Rob