Bay 2 Broken. NSFW.

In the midst of helping to defile our fair city of San Francisco, my pal Hilldawg managed to capture a few pics that sum up the Bay 2 Breakers festivities in one succinct "nut" shell. You cannot unsee these images. Be forewarned.

From Hilldawg:

"While the booze-fueled shenanigans at B2B are usually more PG and college coed in nature, one crusty gentleman really took his shit next level."

Because of this type of untethered debauchery, I chose to drive far, far away from the city and grunt through a 14 mile hike in the wilderness. It was either that or set up shop with piss filled water balloons on my roof, sniper style.

Let your freak flag fly, bro.

Deershark.

My pal Rikesh just finished shaping his surfboard, The Deershark. Here are some photos of the process. Pretty fucking cool.

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Coven. Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls. 1969.

The entire 1969 debut album from Coven, the most underrated acid/doom bands of the late 60's and early 70's.

They are recognized as the first band to introduce the "Sign of The Horns" to rock culture. They opened every concert with it. They also signed their first record contract for Mercury in blood.

According to lead singer Jinx Dawson:

"The satanic thing actually was something we were interested in and were studying at the time. When you're younger, you're looking for answers, and a lot of members of the band were looking into the same books at the same time. We studied it, we practiced it."

In the late 60's Coven opened for heavy hitters like Jimmy Page's Yardbirds, Vanilla Fudge and Alice Cooper.

Lone Wolf Boy.

Al Stewart. The Elf. 1966.

Al Stewart of "Year of the Cat" fame released this little ditty in 1966 on Decca records. The interesting note? Jimmy Page is the guitar player. The blueprint for some of Zep's folkier tunes is certainly prevalent here.

The 45 of this is song is currently listed on Ebay for $739.39 American dollars. Holy shit.

Culture Is Not Your Friend.

Culture is not your friend, it's an impediment to understanding what's going on. That's why to my mind the word cult and the word culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is a cult and if you feel revulsion at the thought of somebody offering to the great carrot, just notice that your own culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic and unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.

I mean the American family is what keeps American psychotherapy alive and well. This is a cauldron for the production of neurosis.

Part of what psychedelics do, is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato, since all culture is a kind of congame, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is candy that makes people start questioning the rules of the game.

From the lecture: "Into the Valley of Novelty."  - Terrence McKenna