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In a message dated 7/12/99 1:31:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Aug.11,1999-----On this date, the last solar eclipse of the millennium
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>> occurs. The path of this eclipse is the same path of the 'rough line of
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>> water' Crowley wanted to produce in 1943. Furthermore, the shadow
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>> of the eclipse will first touch land at Cornwall,UK at 11:11am.(there
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>> is volumes to be found on the significance of the number,1111).
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>>
from:
http://www.registerguard.com/news/19990712/2b.cr.keseytour.0712.html
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--The highlight will be Aug. 11, when the final solar eclipse of the
millennium occurs over Great Britain. Kesey and the Pranksters, dressed
in onion sacks for chain mail, will do their ``Search for Merlin'' thing
portraying knights of the Not-So-Round Table in the dramatic outdoor
setting of the Minack Theater, perched over the Atlantic on the rocky
coast near Land's End.
The gig - starting at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day
of the 11th month - will feature the Thunder Machine, the melding of an
old Thunderbird fender, piano strings, smoke maker and remix gear that
is a Prankster standby and veteran of Grateful Dead concerts.
``We won't be able to bring the bus on stage, but this we will,'' Kesey
said, showing off a clip of a boisterous Thunder Machine jam session.
``Once that thing is playing, everything is up for grabs.'--
Om
K
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July 12, 1999
Kesey, Pranksters and bus set for U.K. gig
By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
PLEASANT HILL - A smile of dreamy delight plays over Ken Kesey's face as
he clicks a computer mouse to play home movies of his 1964 bus trip
across America, chronicled in ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''
Feeling dropped off in the dust by his publisher with no new bestseller
in sight, the author of ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' and
``Sometimes a Great Notion'' is undaunted.
He's hitting the road again with his band of pals, the Merry Pranksters,
taking the latest incarnation of his magic bus on a ``Search for
Merlin'' tour of Great Britain to celebrate the last solar eclipse of
the millennium. Along the way, he's creating an ending and a wider
audience for these old home movies.
``It's like (Jerry) Garcia said, `The '60s ain't over 'til the fat lady
gets high,' '' Kesey said with a laugh.
Sitting before a pair of video monitors where he edits the
reel-upon-reel of film transferred to tape from the bus trip that became
an icon of the '60s, Kesey, 63, still gets a kick out of watching the
stream-of-consciousness rap-babble of ``On The Road'' wheelman Neal
Cassidy.
``There's something about Cassidy that keeps this nation moving and
meeting itself,'' Kesey marveled as he watched the man immortalized in
Jack Kerouac's novel of another cross-country ramble get up from the
wheel, leaving the bus to find its own path through the desert for a
while.
``He's an avatar,'' the embodiment of those bygone times, he said.
For Kesey, the ``Search for Merlin'' tour continues the same journey,
though in a different light.
In 1964, the nation was mourning the death of President Kennedy. Kesey
was a literary lion fresh from the blockbuster success of ``Cuckoo's
Nest,'' and had just finished ``Notion.'' Filled with hope despite the
demise of Camelot, Kesey and pals painted an old school bus with
psychedelic swirls of color. The destination sign on the front of the
bus was inscribed with the word ``Further.''
They headed east to the New York World's Fair with jugs of LSD punch to
light the way. Using these same home movies, Tom Wolfe chronicled the
trip in his book ``The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.''
In the now, the nation mourns President Clinton's affair with Monica
Lewinsky. Kesey hasn't produced a solo novel since ``Sailor Song'' in
1992, and the only publisher he has ever known turned loose his longtime
editor. Camelot died with Kennedy and Kesey and his pals are looking for
the lost wizard. A documentary crew is wrapping the old home movies in
with the ``Merlin'' tour for a piece for British television.
Viking Penguin still has most of Kesey's titles in print, and plans to
bring out his jail journals from a 1965 drug bust in the fall of 2000,
said Paul Slovak, the vice president for publicity who has taken over as
Kesey's editor.
But the author feels alienated by the loss of editor David Stanford.
``It's like getting a divorce or buying a new tractor,'' said Kesey,
taking a break from mowing hay at his farm.
Stanford is still working on Kesey's manuscript for ``Seven Prayers by
Grandma Whittier,'' a fictional encounter with his grandmother as she
slides into Alzheimer's disease. An agent is promoting the manuscript.
Kesey also wants to write an autobiography told through the voices of
animals.
But there is no new novel growing inside his head or his heart.
``I am a homeless author since they fired my editor,'' he said. ``They
continue to want me to do another `Cuckoo's Nest.' It will just be
another `Cuckoo's Nest.' ''
With the subversive mind of ``Cuckoo's Nest'' hero R.P. McMurphy, Kesey
likes the idea of publishing on the Internet, bypassing the publishing
houses, and broadcasting smaller pieces of performance art on pirate
radio and television.
``It's just going to wash the foundation out from under L.A. and New
York and what they say,'' he said. ``If Shakespeare were writing today,
he wouldn't use a quill pen, he would use the best tool he could find.
Right now, the best tool is the video camera, and these pirate
stations.''
On bus trips, Kesey uses a little portable transmitter to broadcast
songs and commentary to passing motorists, letting them in on the gig by
flashing a sign telling them to tune to KBUZ radio.
``It won't be long before, from this little place, we will be able to
broadcast pirate TV,'' he said as he sat before the video monitors in
the cluttered former motel room that serves as headquarters of the
``Search for Merlin.'' ``We've already got the big antenna out there.
The stuff we need to do doesn't stand up under too close a scrutiny.''
For those interested in closer scrutiny, Cafe Productions Limited of
London, which specializes in anthropological subjects, is wrapping
together the 1964 bus trip and the 1999 ``Search for Merlin'' tour in a
documentary for British independent television Channel 4. Their
tentative title is ``Tripping.'' Kesey prefers ``The Pranksters Look for
a Cool Place.''
The original Further lies a-mouldering in the swamp on Kesey's farm,
replaced by a newer model that couldn't fool the Smithsonian when Kesey
tried to give it to the nation's attic.
When California Highway Patrol pulled his bus over 35 years ago, they
didn't bother to look for drugs, never suspecting the bunch of giggling
college kids on vacation. But before shipping the new Further to
England, Kesey hired a drug-sniffing dog to go through it to be sure
there would be no surprises at customs.
The Pranksters don't need drugs, anyway.
``It's like somebody said, all you have to do is start the bus and a
Prankster hallucinates like Pavlov's dog,'' Kesey said.
The merry crew - most of them still live near Kesey's farm - is
scheduled to board the bus in Brighton, England, on Aug. 6. The next day
they visit Stonehenge and give their first performances in the village
of Podimore. Then it's on the road for 17 more gigs around England,
Wales, Ireland and Scotland before returning home Aug. 31.
The highlight will be Aug. 11, when the final solar eclipse of the
millennium occurs over Great Britain. Kesey and the Pranksters, dressed
in onion sacks for chain mail, will do their ``Search for Merlin'' thing
portraying knights of the Not-So-Round Table in the dramatic outdoor
setting of the Minack Theater, perched over the Atlantic on the rocky
coast near Land's End.
The gig - starting at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day
of the 11th month - will feature the Thunder Machine, the melding of an
old Thunderbird fender, piano strings, smoke maker and remix gear that
is a Prankster standby and veteran of Grateful Dead concerts.
``We won't be able to bring the bus on stage, but this we will,'' Kesey
said, showing off a clip of a boisterous Thunder Machine jam session.
``Once that thing is playing, everything is up for grabs.''
Copyright � 1999 The Register-Guard
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