Go Gonzo this July 4th
“What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom.”
— Raoul Duke, F&L in Las Vegas
Just something to perk you up — make you feel the rabid intensity, if you will, with which you should seek out an epic documentary this patriot’s day. As the Duke might say, it’ll be July 4th, and you should smear on the grease and let it ride.
(And to boot, an Alex Gibney film.)
