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Saturday, February 23, 2008
The Key To Subgenius Slack!
This site has grown very large, hey some of the stories have even ended! Eventually I suppose they all will. Here is an easy guide to the posts with links so you can surf the site at your leisure. Hopefully this will make your trips here more rewarding.
I use to have a running gag that I would write my life story and would have to be 20 volumes long and include the history of America's subcultures. From the Beats to the Compass Players, Psychotronic Film Society to The Nervous Set, the hippies to Bettie Page, punk rock to The Church of the SubGenius. It is a joke no longer and eventually I'll get to it all.
The introduction:
Prologue; Patti Petite, NEO and punk rock, John Belushi and the illegal Blues Brothers club:
A SOUTHERN BOY COMES NORTH: The Red Squad holds a gun to my head, moving to Chicago during winter, The Great Speckled Bird, a riot at my high school
A SEXUAL JAM SESSION: My sex with Patti reminds me of sex I had in the park years before as a hippie with Mona, why sex is like musical jam sessions, Patti reveals her mom turned her into a hooker at age 12. http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/6.html
CHAPTER 2: THE MONOLOG: The Road To "Bob", H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Anger and Big Al Crowley http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html
DEL'S INSPIRATION: What inspired Del to create the long form improv style? A French arts movement! (As far as I know, I am the only person Del discussed this with)
CHAPTER 3 MUSIC MAYHEM AT SUBGENIUS SLACK: I use one of the French techniques to create a song out of 25 songs! Must have been a slow day....
LSD'S JOHNNY APPLESEED : How rogue CIA agents spread LSD into the culture, Al Hubbard spreads the drug, an article from The Chicago Tribune on who I am
SEX, MOVIES AND MAGICK: I lie about my age to get in to see Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger movies, I meet George Ellis aka Bestoink Dooley
THE IMPACT OF SENATOR McCARTHY: Joe had a major impact on the times del grew up in, but after the fall of the Soviet Union we have discovered he was right!
BOB, TEXAS, THE CHURCH: I post a piece on the church, only to be corrected by Ivan Stang. Since I kept a diary during this period, it will be interesting to see how the origins have changed over the years! http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/48.html
I MET G. GORDON LIDDY AND TIM LEARY: Chicago backround: The Red Lion, John Dillinger, smoking pot with Del, Tim Leary in front of G. Gordon Liddy
DEL JOINS KESEY'S ACID TEST Del joins up with Ken Kesey's acid test and does the light show
THE 1969 ATLANTA POP FESTIVAL I see Led Zeppelin for the first time and meet Owsley!
JIMI HENDRIX IN GEORGIA Hendrix is the first national rock show I go to!
AS DEL LAY DYING The story of Del's last party
ATLANTA TURNS ON HIPPIES The Manson murders changes the way the police and public view us. I decide to become a writer
HOW TO SPEAK HIP - Hear the record Del did that taught hippies how to talk!
MARDIS GRAS 1970 The good, the bad and the ugly
DEL CLOSE DOES GET SMART! Del hopes for a recurring role on Get Smart!
A NIGHT OF COCAINE Partying in a motel on the way to Clovis, New Mexico
WHEN YOUR HERO DIES What happened during the maing of my first play, THE BETTY PAGE STORY? Now it can be told. I also say bye to Arthur C. Clarke, Bettie Page and Forrest J. Ackerman
HOW BUDDY HOLLY LED ME TO JAIL! Every Feburary I get to think of Buddy Holly dying, and the night I turned 16 in jail because I was a fan!
LINCOLN AND GROWING UP AT THE END OF THE OLD SOUTH
This is a talk I gave here in Chicago about growing up in the end days of the romantisized South and the Lincoln no one talks about today.
CALIFORNIA BABYLON My hitchhiking experiences and finding the cool people in California.
THE MAD WORLD OF SEVERN DARDEN The bravest comedian takes on 2 colleges, and follows a path leading directly to Del Close.
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