[Landline] Over the hill, up the holler
Golden Apples of the Sun's 20th anniversary, Lord Buckley's acid revelation, Golden Brown and Weils, dream data maps, the original Amphenge, more
I am collecting my thoughts regarding the recent passings of Marian Zazeela and John Sinclair, which I hope to share with Landline readers later this weekend.
In the meantime, here’s some stuff sitting around my office.
ITEM! Lord Buckley, recounting an LSD trip, 1958: "I thought to myself, 'I'm not mad at anybody. I have the patience of a rose.'"1
ITEM! Just launched: another infinite repeater from Golden Brown. Kindness? Yes. And also: calming gorgeousness, backwards and forwards.
Here’s a good interview by Brad Rose with Golden Brown dude Stefan Beck from 2021: Foxy Digitalis
ITEM! Dream data maps to puzzle over from Morning Life, via Rick Veitch2:
(Teeth falling out is No. 1 across much of the Western world?!? Dentistry anxiety? Orthodontic trauma? Simple bruxism?)
ITEM! "Thinking is overrated. I’m not a smart guy—you may have figured that out. I don’t have good thought processes. The more I think about things, the more trouble I get into." — Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers, in a fresh longview interview at Tone Glow.
ITEM! Proper amplifier worship set-up (shorthand: “Amphenge”) demonstrated in this vintage Hawkwind print ad from 19703:
ITEM! This is awesome:
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ITEM! I thought this might become some kind of a slow hit to the future heads but it appears to have eluded the vapers. Shared it recently with a friend in need and within minutes I was assured that I am (still!) a friend indeed. What Weils does here is deserving of a deep non-think piece (titles: “Kind Boogie”? “Blueslessness”? Agh!); I’ve tried to write one for (checks calendar) almost a year and a half and come up with nothing that approaches this thing, which may be fitting. Anyways. 23 minutes goes a long way, 95 minutes is a major glide with no wrong turns. Incredible.
ITEM! Seems impossible, but this album was released 20 years ago (!) this week:
Golden Apples was a big part of a lot of good things that were happening during that time4, and something I’m still extremely proud of to be associated with in any way. Once again: thank you, Devendra, and to everyone who participated.
Let’s help the wild ones,
Jay Babcock
Arizona
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Page 252, Dig Infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley by Oliver Trager (2002), which is sadly out of print. RJ Smith wrote a tremendous extended feature on Lord Buckley in 2005 for Los Angeles magazine that’s good to check out if you’re in need a refresher on the hip messiah.
Genius cartoonist and dreamwork enthusiast Rick Veitch is active on facebook. Old Arthur heads may remember him from when I interviewed him for the mag; that piece was accompanied by an appreciation for Roarin’ Rick, “Cartographer of the American Dreamtime,” written by our mutual friend (and longtime Veitch collaborator) Alan Moore.
First saw the scan of this old print ad in Fuz No. 2 (2000), an incredible, sadly impossible-to-find glossy zine by The Seth Man. I located an image file online at (of course) Joe Banks’ exhaustive Days of the Underground.
Golden Brown’s output is incredible. Kindness is an easy favorite. I’ve been listening to Blood in the Machine audiobook from Brian Merchant. Highly recommend!
snakes!