The Shakespeare Lebowski

              https://www.discogs.com/release/2158602-Mickey-Newbury-Harlequin-Melodies The Fun Facts: As mysterious as the song itself, there are a number of stories floating around as to how Newbury came to write what may be the first psychedelic country song. It’s not an anti or pro-drug song, it just is what it is, claims Mickey, who said,  “I wrote this number one night after waking up in hell.”  Seems that back in the 60s, when the man was still struggling, he frequently found that he didn't have enough gas money to take him from one gig to another. When that would happen, which was more often then he’d like to consider, he would jump a freight train and ride for free. Out past Beaumont, Texas one night, while jumping a boxcar, he swung back, hit the side of the car, fell and fractured his back. It was the middle of the night when he found himself in the hospital in relentless pain, despite being given copious amounts and types of pain ...

  Thanks to LSD, psychiatrists were able to put themselves in their patients’ shoes. They could experience, in a controlled environment, the conditions faced by people with incurable mental illnesses. Many orthopaedists have shared the experience of a patient with a broken arm or leg. But how can someone relate to the condition of a person with severe schizophrenic delusions if they themselves do not experience any mental health issues?  https://przekroj.pl/en/society/a-communist-lsd-trip-aleksander-kaczorowski              Many participants of the psychedelic sessions, especially artists, recalled their explorations of LSD as unique, even formative experiences.  However, others experienced so-called ‘bad trips’. Suicides soon followed. In several main centres – especially the psychiatric hospital in Sadska, near Prague – research was carried out on a mass scale.  According to unconfirmed reports, one of the...

Rolling Stones...and 'All the Young Dudes' [Mott the Hoople/Bowie] 'Sympathy for the Devil' 'Brown Sugar' 'Goats Head Soup' 'Bridges to Babylon' [Albums] and 'Can't get no Satisfaction'... are all Musical Memories. but none of above were Americans. James Morrison however was the Son of  a Navy Father...   www.discoverwalks.com/blog/paris/top-10-fun-facts-about-jim-morrison/ Before the summer he founded The Doors, he had been living on canned beans and LSD for several months.           I used to like listening to this as I drove around Liverpool's deserted Streets at 4 am....I even thought the Guy was Poetic.. but...It's not quite original.. just the Drugs Talking.. arrested for Onstage Masturbation in Miami.. Morrison obviously had untreated problems... Pythagoras the Greek Philosopher advised against eating Beans.. ha hah...some People never learn.. in the 'Square World'...Man.. Morrison was somewhat 'confused...

Mr Jeff 'Mullet' Bridges is an American Acting Icon with a Colourful Career that not too many People realise 'stretches back ' a long way - looking at Pictures of Jeff gives a wrong idea of the inner workings of this gifted Actor the one above is 17 yrs out of date but in the mind of the Public He is always Jeff 'the Dude'.    Current Pictures available show an Older Wiser Visage But Copyright stops Me Posting them here. In 1974/5 Bachelor Jeffrey  met His Beautiful , Patient and Highly intelligent future Wife Susan whilst filming the now largely forgotten Movie 'Rancho Deluxe' which is about Cattle Rustling and Itinerant Thievery. In many interviews the Old Mullet recounts 'Parrot-like' His Scripted version of events but seldom mentions the fact that He and a Pal travelled around in a Van on the lookout for potential Female Companionship and after Playing the Part of the 'Nervous Suitor' eventually persuaded Black Eyed Susan [ for some r...

                      Karl Hungus ? 50 years ago.. Man Tempus Fugit indeed.. Sobchak? or John Candy?...guess We'll never know.. Dude lol...! Maybe 'Rooster' Cogburn  would? 'Rummy' 'Blackjack' or good 'ol Poker...You play Your games and I play mine.. Chess just bores Me shitless even tho 'Dude' I have shown is 'The Knight'[errant] and 'Maude' is the Queen etc Kung Hei Fat Choi to all my Cantonese readers! Year of The Tiger begins!.. This mid-19th Century game is laid out like Game of Goose, with an inward spiral of 63 spaces, but it is based on the 1844 novel Le Juif-Errant (The Wandering Jew), by Eugene Sue. The starting (lower-left) corner of the board has an impage of Sue at work writing the novel. The other corners and each space on the track show a character or incident from the 1400-page book. The center of the board shows the Wandering Jew arriving in Paris, and also includes the rules. As in  Game of Goose , player...