Bronze age easy rider

 America, in the midst of paranoia, bigotry and violence. Released in the year of the Woodstock concert, and made in a year of two tragic assassinations (Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King), the Vietnam War buildup and Nixon's election, the tone of this 'alternative' film is remarkably downbeat and bleak, reflecting the collapse of the idealistic 60s. Easy Rider, one of the first films of its kind, was a ritualistic experience and viewed (often repeatedly) by youthful audiences in the late 1960s as a reflection of their realistic hopes of liberation and fears of the Establishment.

The iconographic, 'buddy' film, actually minimal in terms of its artistic merit and plot, is both memorialized as an image of the popular and historical culture of the time and a story of a contemporary but apocalyptic journey by two self-righteous, drug-fueled, anti-hero (or outlaw) bikers eastward through the American Southwest. Their trip to, but also through areas where local residents are increasingly narrow-minded and hateful of their long-haired freedom and use of drugs. The film's title refers to their rootlessness and ride to make "easy" money; it is also slang for a pimp who makes his livelihood off the earnings of a prostitute. However, the film's original title was The Loners.

     The names of the two main characters, Wyatt and Billy, suggest the two memorable Western outlaws Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid - or 'Wild Bill' Hickcock. Rather than traveling westward on horses as the frontiersmen did, the two modern-day cowboys travel eastward from Los Angeles - the end of the traditional frontier - on decorated Harley-Davidson choppers on an epic journey into the unknown for the 'American dream'.

According to slogans on promotional posters, they were on a search:

A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere.

Their costumes combine traditional patriotic symbols with emblems of loneliness, criminality and alienation - the American flag, cowboy decorations, long-hair, and drugs.

Scared of Highway Riding

Blue_FairySeptember 12, 2006

I am scared of Highway riding, and still, daily street riding in Traffic. I have taken the MSF Rider Safety Course, and have only 212 miles on my new 800cc motorcycle.

I got on the highway last night at 3:30 A.M., and stayed to the right for awhile as I felt scared and then promptly exited. I couldn't get the bike to go faster than 50 MPH because of the fear I felt when the vibration and the wind took hold of me ...this at 50 mph, only, lol. I learned to lean into the wind, which helps, but the vibration and the whine of the bike and wind....everything seems so crazy fast and unstable kindof.....at 50mph, only....am I nuts? I have a death grip on the handle bars and am fearful of blowing away!

We Go Way Too Fast

A few motorcyclists just read that heading and thought something like "Fuck yeah, we go too fast! We're daredevils, bro. You suckers can keep your cages, we're free." (Yes, some bikers refer to cars as "cages," because literally everything has its embarrassing elitist jerks.) But I'm not talking about the reckless velocity of dudes without enough brain cells to comprehend mortality. I meant exactly what I said: "We all go way too fast."

American Pharaoh

In 1889 the lease on the house was taken on by Arthur Gustave Ravoux who transformed the business into an inn popular with the artistic community in Auvers. During Van Gogh’s stay, the rooms were all occupied by Dutch and American painters. The Cuban artist Nicolás Martínez de Valdivielso, who lived nearby, took his meals at the auberge with Van Gogh.^[4]

Van Gogh arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise on 20 May 1890. He had spent a year in a convalescent home in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and wanted to settle in the North, closer to Paris. Camille Pissarro, a friend of Van Gogh's, suggested that he go to Auvers-sur-Oise where Dr Gachet lived

Bob Baffert..Most of the serious horsemen on the scene remained silent and/or awestruck, consistent with a conclusion reached 100 years ago by Arthur Conan Doyle: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."

Though American Pharoah will attempt to become racing's first Triple Crown winner since 1978 in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, signs of his superiority were apparent long before he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. To have seen him on that misty morning in Florida was to imagine many memorable afternoons at the racetrack.

"When we first saw him, everybody saw what an efficient mover he was, just no wasted effort," trainer Dale Romans said. "I thought at the time he stood out more than any 2-year-old I'd ever seen. Everybody knew we were watching a great horse."

Story continues after the video ... under estimated the Belmont's Stakes' favourite..This '57 Chevy could beat American Pharaoh in time they reach the eighth pole down the back stretch  by photo finished..

A house on Samuel street..axcross the Samuel's cemetery

This manson is not very far from where I lived...

Vincent Van Gogh

1852 –March 30th : birth of the first Vincent


VINCENT

1853- March 30th 1853: birth of Vincent Willem
Economic crisis due to the potato disease.
The organ is brought into service 

1854- bad harvests

1855- February 17th : birth of Anna-Cornelia ( 1855-1930). 
Opening of the railway between Anvers and the Belgian border.

1856- Zundert School

1857- birth of Theo ( May 1st 1857- January 25th 1891)
The harvests are better.

1858: Vincent  likes animals and flowers.

1859: birth of Elizabeth (16/3/1859- 1936)

1860- enrolled in the municipal school. Collects objects: beetles, nests…

1861- another bedroom was made in the attic. He models an earthen elephant then shatters it.

1862- January : Birth of Wilhema.  
A governess is hired.
Dorus is opposed to the village fairs.

1863- a new governess for the children.

1864- May 2nd : a new governess.

1865- October 1st : his first private boarding school in Zevenberger at M. Provily’s (6 Stationstraat). He will stay 22 months there.

1866- He is enrolled in Tilburg secondary school ( Stadhuisplein 130- HBS, Modern School), and will stay 18 months there.
Lives in the Hanniks’ family ( 19 St. Annaplein)

1867- birth of Cor, his youngest brother ( May 7th 1867-1900)
July 5th : a new governess.

1868- March 19th : He stops studying. Back to Zundert where he stays until August 69 (17 months).

1869- August 8th 1869- June 13th 1873: La Haye (44 months).
Joins Goupil, an art dealer (14 Plaats).
Lives in the Roos’ family (32 Lange Beestenmarkt).
Visits museums in La Haye.

1870- Learns the trade of art, makes quick progress.
Gets interested in painting and reading.

1871- His father is appointed in Helvoirt (47 Torenstraat)

1872- August: Theo’s visit. Beginning of the Vincent-Theo correspondence.

1873- January: visits the Goupil branch in Brussels.
 He is happy to be in London. Relaxed, he draws some landscapes.

1873- June 13th – October 1874: London (13 months).
Works for Goupil (17 Southampton Street).
Lives in furnished flats until August 1873 when he boards with Mrs Loyer ( 87 Hackford Street- Hackford Road).
Christmas with the Loyers.

1874- January: his salary increases, he likes his work, draws his boss’s daughter, Betsy.
He falls in love with his lodger’s daughter, Eugénie.
He declares his love in July but is turned down.
He is asked to leave.
At the end of July, he returns to Helvoirt, deeply depressed.
He spends the summer there, makes some drawings then goes back to London with his sister –(in Kensington).
He takes little interest in his work and reads the Bible.
In October, he is sent to Paris for three months (Goupil shop, 9 rue Chaptal).
He lives in Montmartre where he rents a room with Harry Gladwell, a young Englishman working in Goupil as well.
Mystic crisis.
In December, he goes back to Helvoirt for Christmas.
At the end of December (May 15th 75), he suddenly returns to London ( to see Eugénie again?)

1875- January: he resumes his work at Goupil’s and rents a room ( 395 Kennington Road).
He’s bad-tempered and has obsessions.
April: in Paris ( Avray city), a drawing.
May 15th (April 4th 1876). He is transferred to the Paris Goupil gallery for good (9 rue Chaptal) where he will stay eleven months.
He visits museums, worships Corot and the Dutch Masters.
August-September: he needs to talk about himself. His letters to Theo increase.
October: father appointed to Etten (4 Roosendaalseweg) where he spends Christmas.

1876- January: the Goupil gallery informs him that he is laid off and that he will have to leave within 3 months.
April 1st : He resigns from Goupil. He has no money left.