THE DISTURBERS: SECTION 4
When we’re caught up, flying, things are not what they seem, neither as far nor as near, this colour or that. The light is
constantly changing and the shadows shifting. We’ve found something with its own life. So what does that make us?
Improbable, giddy and brave. The drama is spilling out everywhere and we’re in it. No one is immune to power. But
neither are we immune to disease, subversion, humour and rhythm and blues – things that can start and finish anywhere.
All of them are ways of bringing the truth out. Yes, it’s a kind of distortion – but discovery and destruction always go together.
Jane
(L) as Barbarella (R) mug shot
I’d have included a pic of her in her
Workout video days – you know, when
she exhorted women to excesses of effort
and exultation while she was gorging,
throwing up and pretending (a bit
like the military, really).
But I don’t have the room.
Terry Southern
Q: Why do you think Dennis Hopper
and Peter Fonda downplayed the
fact that you had written the
screenplay for Easy Rider?
A: Well, just vicious greed is
the only explanation.
Tom Hayden & Jane Fonda
after their return from North Vietnam in 1972
Nixon will never be able to break the spirit of these
people. They have taken power into their own hands
and they are controlling their own lives. They are
not about to compromise their freedom and
independence, and I think Richard Nixon would
do well to read their history and their poetry,
particularly the poetry written by Ho Chi Minh.
from a radio broadcast by Jane Fonda from
her hotel in Hanoi, 22 August 1972
Easy Rider
Terry
Southern
Barbarella
Abbie Hoffman
Jane Fonda
1968
Democratic
Convention
Tom Hayden
Chicago 8
Yippies
Abbie
Hoffman
Chicago 1968.
The closest to a mug shot of Pigasus
that we’re going to get.
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Pigasus
Jimi
Hendrix