One can have fantasies

Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant

Hudley Flipside

ATTENTION well my fantasy came true the Saints are coming to Los Angeles and I have my tickets to see them. Bitchin’.

My T-Shirt Challenge

My Saints Challenge T-shirt… it is getting unbelievable real as we get closer…

The Saints ’73-’78 are carrying on the spirit of Aussie punk icons The Saints and feature original members Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay backed by an impressive trio of Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Mick Harvey (Birthday Party, Bad Seeds) and Peter Oxley (Sunny boys). (Original front man Chris Bailey died in 2022.) They play songs from The Saints’ (I’m) Stranded (1977), Eternally Yours (1978), and Prehistoric Sounds (1978)

Click on image to get a print on demand image… my little call in the wild.

Original post… nice foresight…

One can have fantasies. I am working with a Pluto Square (3^rd House) with natal Neptune (12^th House.)

All those feeling complexes are moving out into the world of imagination, writing, and speaking.

The resonance of the music of The Saints drills in my heart and soul as always but now it is not just bumping up against my fantasies but also a new reality. A probability that maybe The Saints are within my real touch of hearing and seeing.

I realize the truth is even though they are touring in Australia I can not afford to see them. Let alone endure the long journey to get there.

Punk Drummers Whose Heads Exploded with a Big Loud Bang… Flopside Bubble Gum Comics

It is comforting to think about them playing again in a new form.

I like to dream and think that something magical will happen and suddenly I will have all I need to go. Money, transportation, and places to stay.

I can do this, I tell myself.

All sorts of fantasies enter my brain and so I am happy to embrace this journey in my mind.

The summer is so hot, and my cave is cool enough to write this down. As taking off that pressure of a square that asks me to do just that.

The Saints are a band I have always experienced this way. Songs that never devoid me of interest. An addiction that fools me into my imagination.

My Pied Piper into the new world of a scene that still haunts my soul while addressing my spirit of a singing man now gone from this world.

So, I mention this post and apply depth psychology upon the subject.

I journey to the places of my precious subconscious, soul, spirit and psyche. A place I know well and have met The Saints many a time…

Moving slowly into Autumn is a positive move forward…

Hudley Watercolor

Chris Bailey’s psychic being is still very strong

Another New Edition to Strong Women Postcards

Grizzle Bears and Poppies 4 Kamala Harris

In Incongruence

Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant

Hudley Flipside

“Light art or the art of light is referring to a visual art form in which (physical) light is the main, if not sole medium of creation. Uses of the term differ drastically in incongruence; definitions, if existing, vary in several aspects.”

Barefoot and in the wilderness. This is a mighty image taken of me. The wonder of nature and a grandee waterfall.

I was “Born to Be Wild” supporting a punk rock scene that had value and authenticity. Yet we would often take breaks. Sometimes to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and other times here where I am standing.

Life was about reaching out and exploring. A time to be in a counterculture where love was my ambition.

This does tell a story of how I was then.

The other image is one I took recently on a look for magic in Los Angeles.

I found some extraordinary things.

Now in my senior years I reach more towards the inside. I don’t go on adventures as much and my counterculture days are over.

The punk scene is what it was once. The most important aspect of what remains are the songs. The songs and the individuals who are still here on the earth.

We were waiting for Dublin’s Irish Pub to open. It was part of the Fine Arts Building 1926.

Someone was giving an art tour. A small group of people. The door was held open. The one giving the talk let us in as well. We walked into a wonder beyond measure.

Out of the extreme heat and above the metro stands this remarkable building.

Along with the grandiose architecture of the room was an art exhibit by Michael Flechtner.

Light art.

I was taken with one called “Middle Ground.” I was wearing my “As Above, So Below” three eye black cat t-shirt. It was a wonderful example of magic, synchronicity and my personal spirituality coming tighter together in a moment’s time.

To realize that I am the middle ground between the above and the below.

Black Cat magic at it’s best in the city.

Middle Ground by Michael Flechtner at the Fine Arts Building 1926

http://www.flekro.com

As I drank my pint at Dublin’s Pub and thought about ordering some food. I saw my black kitty Whiskey looking at me, in my mind’s eye. She likes to watch me eat. She gets a lot of my food. We are alike. We are half wild and half domesticated.

We decided to split the next pint instead. My man and I don’t drink like we once did.

“Born to Be Wild” is a song written by Mars Bonfire and first performed by the band Steppenwolf. Although the lyrics do not specifically mention motorcycles, the song is often invoked in both popular and counter culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude since being featured in the 1969 film Easy Rider.

Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Mesa, Arizona. The band is composed of lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind. They have released ten studio albums, the last nine featuring the current line-up.

Joanna Spock Dean Some good Punk Rock Mythology.

This is what Punk Rock Mythology is all about and what is the best place than a local pub where we raise a toast, tell stories, and share memories.

Memorial For Joanna Spock Dean

This is what Punk Rock Mythology is all about and what is the best place than a local pub where we raise a toast, tell stories, and share memories.

I also include a song by Backstage Pass in Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine the Narrative Documentary / Film. Epeisodion Two.

Genevieve Schorr and Joanna Spock Dean so gracefully shared their song.

Interview is from Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine Issue greatest hits Vol.1. Original issue Flipside Fanzine # 5.

Women and Punk Rock Day. Bitchin’!

Featuring BACKSTAGE PASS

LOS ANGELES FLIPSIDE FANZINE THE NARRATIVE DOCUMENTARY / FILM. EPEISODION TWO. 2022.

Memorial For Joanna Spock Dean

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Flipside Video GOLDENVOICE Loop 1980s

So now this is for free viewing on my YouTube Channel at the end of the post.

Here’s a fun look back at the awesome bands that “Flipside Video” filmed at GOLDENVOICE shows in the ’80s. Gary Tovar hit me up to create a loop, and I just grabbed whatever was close by to pull together something super entertaining. It’s got that punk vibe that defined an entire era of music and artistic expression! Sure, the colors are all over the place and it’s a bit fuzzy sometimes with those crazy stage lights, but it totally sounds amazing, capturing the raw energy and chaotic essence of live performances.

You can really catch that youthful energy as the crowd bounces in unison, fists in the air, and the music blasts through the venue, creating an unforgettable atmosphere that still resonates today. Each band brought their unique flair, making the footage a true time capsule of punk rock’s vibrant history and the spirit of rebellion that thrived during those exhilarating times!

How it once was when we were a little more out of control and actually had a very tight scene. I am immensely proud of what is presented here as most likely my last creative endeavor to preserve the Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine narrative.

Flipside Video include Al Flipside, Pooch, Gus Hudson, Joe Henderson, Joy Akoi, and yours truly. Also, sidekicks Gary Indiana and John Crawford. A lot of work for the Flipside Crew. We often showed up early as the bands were sound checking, to leave after all the crowd had gone.

Yet to hang with the bands and the GOLDENVOICE crew contains some of my most endearing memories. Brought together via my home studio and long hours of editing. An emotionally rewarding experience for me…as punk rock needs to be.

It is a time when the punk scene still had the glamour and enthusiasm of a gleeful youth and was so charming. I miss the intimacy of this scene profoundly so. I know it can be found still and yes, I can still find it now and then. Be More than a witness, as we use to say….

Hudley Flipside

Produced by The Seminary of Praying Mantis Publishing

List of Bands on LOOP

Youth Brigade.

MDC

Big Boys

M.I.A

Toy Dolls

Suicidal Tendencies

Charged GBH

Heart Attack

Pariah

SUBHUMANS

Love Canal

UK SUBS

D.O.A.

Exploited

7 Seconds

Raszebrae

A cup for you drinking enjoyment… or T-shirt.

Click on Image to take you to my Tee Public Page.

Here it is for you viewing pleasure.

Come in under

Connecting to the soul energy in my handful of dust.

Burial of the Dead

T.S. Eliot

“There is shadow under this red rock,

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock.)

And I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. (9)”

“Fearing the shadow that strides behind us before the noon of life is as natural as fearing the shadow rising to meet us in the evening.

What is different in the fear that Eliot is describing is the pervading sense of loss in so many people in our twentieth-century wasteland- loss so deep that the vital spark goes out, leaving a hollow shell. Patriarchy is crumbling.

The values that were taken for granted for centuries are being questioned as we watch our raped planet wither under the pressure of acid rain, toxic waste, overpopulation.

We can choose to tyrannize our inner victims and deny our fear, as millions of addicts are doing, or we can try to connect to the soul energy in our handful of dust.

Oppressed peoples around the globe are hearing their inner victims and fighting for their freedom in whatever way they can.”

Pg. 121 Lover can you Spare a Dime? The Ravaged Bridegroom, Masculinity in Women. Marion Woodman

#marionwoodman

I like to find fabrics with lovely colors and designs. I place them around my home. Sometimes the cats sleep on the material of red or golden.

Sometimes I hang the fabric material on my windows, as this textured sunflower pattern, to see the numinous wonder of light and shadow patterns playing on the opposite side of the wall.

Whiskey Say Hello..

Yeah, that’s our philosophy

Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant

Hudley Flipside

“The philosophers teach everything except the Hermetic vessel, because that is divine and is hidden from the Gentiles by the lords of wisdom: and they who know it not, know not the true method, because of their ignorance of the vessel Hermes.

~ Pg. 240. AION C.G. Jung

“Summertime Blues” is a song co-written and recorded by American rock artist Eddie Cochran. It was written by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally a single B-side, it was released in August 1958.

“See You in September” is a song written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards. It was first recorded by the Pittsburgh vocal group the Tempos. This first version peaked at No. 23 in the USA in the summer of 1959.

“In the Summertime” is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry, released in 1970.

I must admit summertime used to be so cool. Total freedom as kids for so many summers. Barefoot and hanging with friends or going on vacation to Mammoth Mountains.

Then as I got older cruising up and down Van Nuys Blvd., any one of these three songs did come on the car radio. Going to the local mall was exciting because we rode our bikes there. The seventies with bikini tops and sunburns.

Then the years of getting a job and working… then finding the Punk scene … years of having children of my own and watching their cycle of summertime.

Now it is the heat, the fires and smoky air. I don’t enjoy summertime like I once did.

Yet the songs still bring back the good memories.

1958 sixty six years ago. Liberty Records INC. Hollywood Calif. U.S.A.

The Case of the Small Mushroom T-Shirt

Stormy Daniels T-Shirt

Today Mr. Fuck took a swim in the pool because it is so fucking hot.

So, I offered him a free shot of whiskey. As it is now a time to drift, he shared with me his thoughts about what he feels about the Biden Trump debate. He was so insulted that he is no longer running for president but will stand behind Biden, in a very friendly way.

Trusting Joe’s advice on these times. Yet this is what he wants to do after he saw a recent interview with Stormy Daniels. He said,

“We all grow up and move on in life. Having children changes us.”

He has watched how being a mom can bring out the best of a woman.

He feels that strong women should be admired and pulled up not down.

So, after he witnessed this quote from Stormy, he laughed aloud…

As she said in the interview,

“If Donald had a big mushroom, he would have shown it to us by now.”

And then Mr. Fuck went on….

“The fact is he has a cult. It is called the Case of the Small Mushroom Men and the Women Who with Extreme Ideocracy follow him.

Yet it is not just his small ‘mush but his lies and ability to manipulate people of power. He does not care about this country at all or you or me. He is corrupted to the core of his dark hole.

I hope you realize we are all Stormy Daniels… any of us who stand up to Trump are Stormy Daniels. We will be ridiculed, abused, death threats will be made, and we will be attacked by the Small Mushroom Men and the Women Who with Extreme Ideocracy follow him.

Deep down Trump is so embarrassed by his small mushroom he expands his insanity on a world that should not take it one minute more. His revenge, anger and shark attacks on dry land have got to end.”

We want to share this Flipside Art … one can stand with Stormy… a woman who needs our support.

Tee Public Designs by Hudley Flipside / Flopside Comics / The Semianry of Praying Mantis Publishing.