Amazing photo gallery of the “new American Beatniks”. Surely the girl pictured to the left below is a Zappa fan…
-
Archives
- May 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- January 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
- June 2002
- May 2002
- April 2002
- March 2002
- February 2002
- January 2002
- December 2001
- November 2001
- October 2001
- September 2001
- August 2001
- July 2001
-
Meta
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.
‘Food gathering in post-industrial America’
Choice or predicament? It did cross my mind…
are tattoos the new mod-a-go-go-stretch-elastic pants?
film at 11:00
I love the smell of terminal cynicism in the morning!
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.
and tatoos are DEFINATELY the new MaGGSEP
Hmmmm… what goes best with terminal cynicism in the morning… I’ve got it! Bacon Fat from last Friday’s boot! Yum, yum, good…
Didn’t anyone ever tell ya ’bout soap ‘n water, darlin’?
Wow… these pictures somehow frighten me…
Ugliness.. Ugliness!
A distinction should be made regarding the difference between Hobo & Beatnik…
The big question with me is always: why do people spend their last money on cigarettes?
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…
They look more like Freaks ala ‘Freak Out’ than hippies or Beats.
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!
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.
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
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 ?