the beat is alive

[SadLuckDame]

Gone Hallucinogen Freeway just arrived, looking forward to the experience. Recollecting how I'd got my start as a teenager, before I start this up, I went into everything superstitious, and with a tad of fear, but not just that also a resonating, "I want to eat you up inside my head." I'll get back to ya with two days free including today.

Liked the poem, too.
I'm always going off topic and messing up one's threads.

[revolutionrabbit]

oh cool Sad, ok, it's a poetic novel, a first novel, a novel written by a poet, written about a still taboo subject, there are other novels about teenagers in the late 60's , (or 50's, or 70's ect.) and this is autobiographical,and so but it tells about what it was like when psychedelic drugs hit the scene, and the psychedelic music along with it.It is really, as i see it a kind of novel within a novel, the action moves quickly from scene to scene, not much smooth transition, it jumps, i was influenced a lot by the magic realism style,science fiction, but my poetic style comes from hard core surrealism, which works interestingly with the psychedelic descriptions.But really it's just a lot of wild good fun.So, this novel is like a poem that needs to be savored, the more you read it, the more the scenes and the prose poetry interweave, and take on the life of the story.It moves from trip to trip, each one taking you deeper down the rabbit hole...deeper into 'The Gone Hallucinogen Freeway'.

try reading it while you listen to, Dylan, or Donovan, or the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, or last but not least Jimi Hendrix, or the great 60's psychedelic band Love.

"this is the best part of the trip...this is the trip...the best part, i really like" jm

[hester_prynne]

"Hester, what made you think of the global process?"

I'm reading an Arnold Mindell book called Year One, the Global process.
I was trying to point out the irony of reading that book in a sardine can.

The painful irony of trying to make sense of things.

H

[revolutionrabbit]

oh, yes, i was wondering what compelled you to read that, i checked it out, and it seemed interesting.And, as far as the irony part, and of the pain of irony ect. one thing i know, i started out on a journey as a poet.

[SadLuckDame]

It was really good rabbit, the flow was smooth and I liked how poetic it was, liked the characters mixed in with that cause though picturesque with the prose, it still carried the narration out beautifully. You put a lot of emotion and love into them, even though you jumped quickly to the next scene (worked good in simulating the hallucination effect). It all worked so nicely together. You found your voice in it.

Oh and I'd recommend the read.
Gotta get some sleep now.
Can give ya my thoughts on it tomorrow in more depth if you'd like.
But, I just enjoyed the experience you created.
I liked the girls most of all.

[judih]

thnx, SadLuckDame, for the review!
wow.
Very smooth recommendation.

[SadLuckDame]

Well, because it has a lot of poetic areas then I wanna go back through and spend some time hanging out in certain sections, sort of treat it like poetry and really let it absorb better.

But, truly it has that Jack K, effect to it and the way the characters are developed with the same sort of love and friendships Jack had for his crew. It'll really excite that up, or ignite.

[revolutionrabbit]

very intuitive Sad, i was attempting to do something that actually has a hallucinogenic effect, not just write about the effect, or the times, as twas said about those late 60's "if you remember it, your were not there" well let me tell you, it is almost like i went back in a time machine, i mean to remember it, but really, it is a writer/poet's blessing curse to remember the devil in the details, but also it is what you bring to the task, who you are, your identity as a poet, after all i have been at this since i was 19, as far as writing and reading poetry,literature,philosophy living the poet existence.There was a kind of grace period, i mean when i finally sat myself down to write this novel, and i did write it like a bat out of hell, kinda like Jack K, but i was not on bennies, it just kind of flooded out of me, but there is heck to pay.After i finished the book, that was the draft, i could not even look at the stack of writing for over a year.I will not go into the devilish details about the rest, about the actual long drawn out process of figuring out how to self-publish.Thank you Sad, you said what i could not even say, but yeah the love of the people and also to ignite that
feeling or reignite that 60's moment magic in the air, but also to really tell the story so as to make a deep impression of the changes, the times a changin.And to take a good hard look at the meaning of the psychedelic experience, along with all the media blackouts, and the on going saga, and controversy.