Tag Archives: John Lennon

veggie: strong Swallowing Impulse

Pursuing health in the promised land. Our unprecedented passion and intensity with which we appear to be pursuing the holy grail of perfect health has a long tradition… Sylvester Graham’s dietary reform views, imbued as they were with ideas of … Continue reading

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will the original paint job please own up

by Art Chantry: this is john lennon’s infamous psychedelic Bentley. supposedly, the Rolls Royce corporation attempted to buy it back and re-paint it. actually, i’ve never seen this version of that famous car before. i’ve seen at least 5 different … Continue reading

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ono no no songs

Mourning has broken. Feed the hungry ghosts. The appetite is whetted but never sated. Feed the little beast. Appease. Or it will eat you whole and spit you out. Add this to the idea of The Lost Object. the inability … Continue reading

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see how they run

by Art Chantry: a rare publicity still from the ill-fated and aborted, but legendary cinema classic “Godzilla vs. The Beatles.” sadly, only a few pull-frames like this still remain to give us some idea of what may have been truly … Continue reading

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the look of culture falling apart

by Art Chantry: i’m no expert on FLUXUS or the main man behind it (“Mr. FLUXUS”), george maciunas. in fact, FLUXUS is even difficult to describe. maciunas called it ‘aganst art’ or something to that affect. the bottom line is … Continue reading

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plastic pre-Ono Spaniard

by Art Chantry: if we know the name ‘robert freeman’ it’s because of his photos he took of the beatles from the years 1963-66, when he was essentially their house photographer. his images of the early “fab four” are the … Continue reading

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into a dharma sun

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) A Happy 90th Birthday remembrance to the Beat Generation icon and one of the great post-war American writers. The impact that Kerouac—and the Beats—had on both American literature and pop … Continue reading

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tin roofs

Jesse Marinoff  Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In 1955, Tennessee Williams’s now-immortal play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cover design is by the incomparable Alvin Lustig—New Directions’s house designer/art … Continue reading

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church supper

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On  July 6th, 1957, two teenagers—John Lennon and Paul McCartney—are introduced to one another at a fête at the St. Peter’s Church Hall in Woolton, England, where Lennon’s band … Continue reading

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don’t look back

walk away and don’t look back. Posted without comment.

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