On The Road
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
There’s no place like an American music festival. And to be in Chicago, right in the middle of the east and west, it’s so apropos. Soldier’s Field to boot—just the metaphoric beauty of a music festival being at Soldier’s Field: all of us heads are warriors. This is a community we have here, another world,… »
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
I recently read this story. It’s a work of Fiction. I like it a lot. It’s called “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” You know I always have love on my mind. Anyway, I’m going to send it to KC. I think she’ll like it, and then we can talk about it… »
ABOUT BEING A HEAD
Someone might ask me what a head is. I’d reply someone who is willing to take the leap. What is the leap? It’s the leap of discovery, of adventure, of the warrior’s way, of the exploration of the self, of the quest for truth, and the ability to resist the mainstream’s urge to try and… »
KEITH TALKS ABOUT HIS BAGGAGE
The baggage thing is a quasi-interesting story, dude. On the flight from San Francisco I came to the simple conclusion that all I needed was a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Here was my logic: to the old monks, clothes were cast off rags and even when they fell to pieces they’d find a… »
POEM IN KC’S MEAD NOTEBOOK
AN UNREVISED POEM IN KC’S MEAD NOTEBOOK (written on the drive from South Bend, IN to Chicago, IL, while Shore Morris was driving, the day before the show, a day as sunny as can be.)
Making its presence known, The Sun, in its noontime glory, took center stage for a blazing seven hour set that included… »
THE BEAUTY OF SUMMER TRAVELING
Good-bye, like the computerized voice when you log off of AOL. You’re out, logged off, unplugged. It’s the kind of out that will let you in. You’re on your way. You don’t know where you’re going except for the festival. You’re on your way, taking your time. It’s always a mission. Stop off at… »
THELONIOUS LEAVING LAST MINUTE
Last minute steez. That’s how we do it. Wake up in the morning and your day is your day then somewhere along the line you’re Audi five-thousand. I’m not saying it’s the only way to do it. Just my favorite. It certainly ain’t the best way—you know—not having a ticket for a music fest. If… »
WHAT ALL THE HEADZ THINK OF THE ON THE ROAD EXODUS
Kristen Chastity: “Car window down looking in the rearview mirror—that’s what it means to me.”
Sky Tyler: “It’s all about letting a different part of the jet stream tickle your skin.”
Melody Rain Morgan: “I just like driving into the desert hella cluttered.”
Keith Lipsiznowaz: “Feeling connected, like you’re not alone, like you’re plugged into yourself and your… »
THE PRINCESS AND SHORE MORRIS ON RAINBOW GATHERINGS
“Rainbow gatherings occur in the middle of the woods on National Park land.”
“How many people gather?” The Princess asked.
“I’d say the number could swell to ten thousand during the weekends.”
“That’s a lot. They can do that?”
“The first Amendment grants us the right to assemble.”
He put a burrito to his mouth, wanting to take a… »
SHORE MORRIS’S TAKE ON THE DECRIMINLIZATION OF DRUGS
The whole system kills me. The American policy on drugs. Don’t buy em on the street. For heaven’s sake, no. Arrest the motherfuckers that buy drugs on the street. Lock-em up. Lock-em up before they spread their disease to the rest of society. God forbid drugs became legalized. No, that wouldn’t work, even if the… »
SHORE MORRIS BACKGROUND
The Shore Morris story. You want to know the Shore Morris story? My story’s just like everyone else’s story, I’ll tell you that. There’s nothing special about my story. Nothing monumental. I’d rather talk about The Washington Monument, a huge white phallic symbol, a giant American penis, the United Cocks of America, one of America’s… »
THELONIOUS ON THE CITY OF CHICAGO
The Chi-town fest is mid-city chillin. Sometimes the music fest is a big farm thang…dust clouds cough cough…tent city—Ewok Village in the trees—claim your land pitch your tent say what’s up to your neighbors. If it starts to rain let it rain smiles—let smiles reign—it’s that positive at music fest, on the real for real. Whether in Tennessee… »
