Too Hip for Woodstock
By Ron Jacobs
... who is too lazy to post a slide show
and ain't into flashy FTP upload software
bells and whistles
for anyone to see.
Besides,
this is a friendly interruption of the usual
PREDICTABLE BULLSHIT EMAILS
No ... just a little trip with a cool song
and some pictures of paradise.
The real deal, from da inside,
my bras and seestas.
I dig doing it like this,
mostly for the way~back~folks
who can dig the first blitzed stoned sessions
laid back chilled out fractured sodden tightly cackling
acid soaked lady horning potheads of Laurel Canyon.
1965.
Doing it in the hills on weekends
with some fine shooters
like Allen Daviau
and Henry Diltz
and Tom Rounds
with hot mid-60s SLRSs,
Armpits hung with hundred-frame 35mm rollers
for "friendly" communal showings at
Me & Lenore's pad
hooked to the the mountainside
big hangover lanai lookin' over the San Fernando Valley.
Later ...
None cooler, right at the top.
Greenvalley summers of love.
Music lifting up through and above
the green pine trees of Mullholland.
Samurai slide/stoned/showings
MMA-vicious, shuffling, focused and hustling
(no one would admit it)
just to impress others, mainly the wahine.
Sixties USDA chicks were the
youngest, loosest, goofiest, hippest, hottest
sweeties of the day, you know?
Sucked into Hollywood primo kind head there.
Being on top makes it Kosher
Yeah any chick that powdered my dick
did it because I was the cool
Jewaiian dude from Waikiki, yeah sure.
Barracked in the Melrose
Boss Boiler Room of Rock and Roll
"Where History Was Played and Made"
Off duty, up from the studios
Coupe DeVilling into winding eucalyptus hills.
Authentic hippies we were,
going nuts with ideas flashed
over bongs and bottles of pure discovery.
On shiny silver screen from Sears
erected on an extractable tripod
supporting vision-triggered flickers
brain-strobing cinematic frames.
Cool. No fucking microchip detritus
ADD in da DNA.
Toxic electron inhalations
Lordy, these kids today.
Remember
when things were better,
we, America,
finer?
It was Old School,
in your facelook
myspace is your space
twitter your clitter.
Lookin' at the mighty blue Pacific
past Kamehameha Highway
Kaneohe Bay, Mokapu, The Marines,
and East, beyond the horizon ...
choomin' for the season to kickoff.
Aloha note me and my mac.
Inspiration: These Are The Days by Van Morrison
For Allen Ginsberg & 1959
Renais "Ratte" Faryar & Ron Jacobs
Photo by Henry Diltz
$25,000 OBO
© 2009 Ron Jacobs
Kane'ohe, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Obama Administration, Day 200
"Cool Head, Main Thing"
THE ONLY PERSON AUTHORIZED TO RECORD THIS WITHOUT PERMISSION IS
MICHAEL C. GWYNNE, Mt. Kisco, NY
