Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream
by David McGowan · first published 2014
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David McGowan's book "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon" is one ridiculously deep and awesome rabbit hole. It's the history of everything bad, sinister, and just plain weird that went on in Laurel Canyon in L.A during the 60s and the birth of the hippie movement…
on “Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop” ↗…is a fan of long, hot showers. It's almost like the whole "crusty bearded geek weirdo" thing is just an act, meant to give Free Software a bad reputation. Reminds me very much of David McGowan's book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, in which he explains exactly who created the hippie movement and to what end. Exactly like that, in fact. Great thing so many open source projects have willingly donated all their copyright ownership…
on “Automatic Programming” ↗Worth a read for an alternative history of the counter culture: "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream"
on “The feminist was a spook: Gloria Steinem and the CIA (2015)” ↗https://vinylwriters.com/weird-scenes-inside-the-canyon-laur... > The following text is the first chapter of David McGowan‘s astonishing book “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon‘ The very strange, but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s…
on “The MKULTRA Evolutions” ↗