news from kintespace.com ::: Thursday, March 31, 2005
news from kintespace.com::: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Contents:
- ::: Gwyn Henry: Being with Mance Lipscomb in Norman, Oklahoma
- ::: Ron Whitehead: Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson Is Dead
- ::: rasx() Screenshots: The 1980 Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven
::: Gwyn Henry: Being with Mance Lipscomb in Norman, Oklahoma
Ms. Gwyn Henry and I decided to open her letter about music legend Mance Lipscomb to the public. This testament highlights the power and influence the force of human creativity can have and how it appears in unexpected places. Note that, due to the current state of email security technology, I am unable to publish Ms. Henry’s email address. We will be happy to forward messages to her and she will be at liberty to get back to you.
::: Ron Whitehead: Dr. Hunter Shaman Thompson Is Dead
“My friend and hero Hunter S. Thompson is dead. I followed his life and work from the release of Hell’s Angels till now. I will continue to follow it. My friend Gene Williams and I sold Hunter’s books we sold the first Rolling Stone magazines in the underground bookstore, For Madmen Only, and in the headshop, The Store, we operated on South Limestone in Lexington Kentucky. I never dreamed I’d eventually work with Hunter and with members of The Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Amram, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, and others. Their works changed my life. Dreams do come true.”
::: rasx() Screenshots: The 1980 Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven
This article about a campy science fiction flick, the 1980 Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven, is inspired by a more serious issue now archived at DemocracyNow.org under “How the Far Right Built a Media Empire to Manufacture Consent.” I am confident that pro-liberal voices can successfully argue that liberal bias in private, corporate media is almost entirely legendary. They might have a problem arguing for public media—namely, public television. I could see even as a latch-key kid of the late 1970s and 1980s that PBS was well-stocked with idealistic, condescending, undereducated hippies. And The Lathe of Heaven is a very fine specimen of such hippie media now long gone because of the revenge of the children of the Reagan revolution.