Amazing photo gallery of the “new American Beatniks”. Surely the girl pictured to the left below is a Zappa fan…
Fun Diversions
Zappa Related
- Arf Dot Ru
- Arf Society
- Balint’s Zappa In Hungary
- Bogus Pomp
- Chrome Dinette
- Crush All Boxes
- David Ocker’s Mixed Meters
- FredUnzel
- FZ Lyrics
- Here Comes The Flood
- Jazzappa
- Lamarr Bruister
- Naurin’s FZ Shows
- Planet Of My Dreams
- Planet Zappa
- Planeta Zappa
- Project/Object
- The Grande Mothers
- The Idiot Bastard
- The Scott Thunes Effect
- Ugly Radio Rebellion
- United Mutations
- Zappa In France
- Zappa In Germany
- Zappa In Holland
- Zappa In Sweden
- Zappa Internet Jam
- Zappa Patio
- Zappa Scrapbook
- ZappaLinks.co.uk
- Zone Luco
August 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm »
I actually saw these photos a few weeks ago and did some internet sleuthing. Apparently the “Poodle-Free Montana” thing has nothing to do with FZ (at least directly). It was created by some nutty artist in Montana named Greg Leichner.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm »
‘Food gathering in post-industrial America’
August 20th, 2007 at 4:32 pm »
Choice or predicament? It did cross my mind…
August 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm »
are tattoos the new mod-a-go-go-stretch-elastic pants?
film at 11:00
August 20th, 2007 at 6:57 pm »
I love the smell of terminal cynicism in the morning!
August 20th, 2007 at 8:13 pm »
My impression was more along the lines of “New American Vagrants” rather than Beatniks. To paraphrase Patton Oswaldt:
I agree with the Hippie ideal. I’m all for peace. I just want peace that smells like…
soap.
August 20th, 2007 at 8:13 pm »
and tatoos are DEFINATELY the new MaGGSEP
August 21st, 2007 at 3:15 am »
Hmmmm… what goes best with terminal cynicism in the morning… I’ve got it! Bacon Fat from last Friday’s boot! Yum, yum, good…
August 21st, 2007 at 4:21 am »
Didn’t anyone ever tell ya ’bout soap ‘n water, darlin’?
August 21st, 2007 at 10:30 am »
Wow… these pictures somehow frighten me…
August 21st, 2007 at 10:49 am »
Ugliness.. Ugliness!
August 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm »
A distinction should be made regarding the difference between Hobo & Beatnik…
August 21st, 2007 at 6:45 pm »
The big question with me is always: why do people spend their last money on cigarettes?
August 21st, 2007 at 7:47 pm »
I admit “beatnik” is an overly ambitious term, and I probably shouldn’t have used it. At the same time, judging from the pictures, these people — at least some of them — do not strike me as braindead hobo’s.
They show an awareness of, a pride even perhaps in their way of living.
Oh and as for the call for “soap”, which seems to be a recurring theme in this thread’s comments: take a time-machine, travel back to NYC’s Garrick Theatre and smell some armpits. That’ll teach you a lesson or two…
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:18 am »
They look more like Freaks ala ‘Freak Out’ than hippies or Beats.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:40 am »
I rode freights once in 1986 w/ a sibling, all the way from Saskatchewan to BC & back … very dirty loud & dangerous but the fare is right.
Folks doing it in an open-bottomed car is just plain Championship-Stupid.
Got to be some meth or crack “logic” afoot there.
Soap implies water, which’s a constant plight for ANY nomad, voluntary or otherwise. Phew!
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 am »
It strikes me as a tad perverse that these people have apparently adopted the hobo/vagrant/bum lifestyle as a fashion statement. Unless of course it’s some bizarre post-modernist joke.
The sweaty armpits etc of the Mothers was a by-product of their choice to be starving musicians working for Zappa! Ref: “If we’d all been living in California…” track 3 side 3 of Uncle Meat.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:31 am »
hadn’t seen all the pics until now
why do these people always own dogs?
with a rope for a collar
i guess it’s ok if you choose to be this way
some of them seem happy
i like the guy eating a banana with hot sauce
but there is not enough hot sauce in the world
to entice me to eat that possom
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:23 am »
WTF ? Did they let Manson out of prison ?
They look like the Charles manson auxillary leauge.
Fucking hippies. Who is passing the new red crabs ?
who is passing those crabs these days ?
Are we supposed to be impressed ?