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Happy Bicycle Day!

2024/4/17
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Brooke 和 Micah:本期节目以 Bicycle Day 为契机,回顾了 Ken Kesey 的生平和创作,以及他与 Tom Wolfe 的合作,探讨了 LSD 对美国文化的影响以及嬉皮士运动的兴起。他们还采访了 Tom Wolfe,并分享了采访的经历和感受。 River Donahay:Ken Kesey 的故事始于他在斯坦福大学期间参与的 CIA 药物试验,LSD 对他的思维和创作产生了深远的影响。他创作了《飞越疯人院》,并与 Merry Pranksters 进行了一次著名的公路旅行,这段经历被 Tom Wolfe 记录在《迷幻巴士》一书中。他认为 LSD 帮助人们打破常规,探索新的可能性,但最终意识到 LSD 的局限性,并试图寻找一种更可持续的精神体验方式。 Tom Wolfe:Tom Wolfe 在节目中分享了他对 Ken Kesey 和嬉皮士运动的看法,以及他写作《迷幻巴士》的经历。他认为 Kesey 是一个典型的美国式人物,既有 P.T. Barnum 的商业头脑,也有精神导师的魅力。他著名的说法“要么上车,要么下车”体现了他对迷幻运动的理解。 Brooke:本期节目回顾了 Ken Kesey 的生平和创作,以及他与 Tom Wolfe 的合作,探讨了 LSD 对美国文化的影响以及嬉皮士运动的兴起。节目中还分享了对 Tom Wolfe 的采访经历,以及对 Kesey 的 Acid Tests 的解读。 River Donahay:Ken Kesey 的经历和思想对嬉皮士运动产生了深远的影响,他的作品和行为体现了对社会规范的挑战和对精神自由的追求。他通过 Acid Tests 等活动,试图创造一种超越常规的集体体验。 Tom Wolfe:Tom Wolfe 的《迷幻巴士》对 Ken Kesey 和嬉皮士运动进行了深入的记录和分析,他的作品对后世研究嬉皮士文化和美国社会变革具有重要的参考价值。

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April 19th, which is this Friday, marks an odd holiday known as Bicycle Day — the day, now 81 years ago, when Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann rode his bike home from work after dosing himself with his lab concoction, lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The first acid trip.

Hofmann’s wobbly ride is what launches us into an exploration of a moment, when Ken Kesey, an evangelist of acid would emerge from a Menlo Park hospital lab, and plow through the nation’s gray flannel culture in a candy colored bus. Some know Kesey as the enigmatic author behind One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — others, as the driving force in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), Tom Wolfe’s) seminal work in New Journalism. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of Acid Test, Brooke speaks with Wolfe and writer River Donaghey) about how acid shaped Kesey, spawned the book and de-normalized American conformity.

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Holidays B by Ib Glindemann)Im Glück by Neu!)Apache '65 by Davie Allan and the Arrows)Selections from "The Acid Tests Reels" by The Merry Pranksters & The Grateful Dead)Alicia by Los Monstruos)The Days Between by The Grateful Dead (Live 6/24/95)

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