For A Muse of Fire

horse bookie lingo

2009-02-22T08:32:00.000-08:00

try listening to these lyrics and picking up some lingo...

link to video
link to lyrics

2009-02-02T11:01:00.000-08:00

Fashion SAY WHAT?!?! The Topless Bathing Suit:

2009-01-29T16:44:00.000-08:00

Topless Bathing Suit

Underwater shot of actress Daphne Dayle (head not seen) clad in topless, one piece bathing suit by Amer. designer Ruben Torres (a Rudi Gernreich inspired fashion joke), surrounded by 3 swimsuit-clad males & a female (no heads seen) standing in swimming p.p. ool

Location:	Paris, France
Date taken:	June 24, 1964

Source

Virginity throught the decades

2009-01-22T22:20:00.000-08:00

Article about a girl who is selling her first time for millions:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/virginity.value/index.html

Katie Holms said no sex before marriage:
http://showbiz.sky.com/Katie-No-Sex-Before-Marriage

Red Rubber Ball... What you (maybe) didn't know

2009-01-21T09:20:00.000-08:00

Maureen loves this song:
was co-written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers
S&G sing "Red Rubber Ball"

The Seekers sing "Red Rubber Ball" also

it was actually first recorded by The Cyrkle : 1966 Recording which went to #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart

What's your favorite Simon and Garfunkel song?
Mine is The 59th Street Bridge

Barry Feinstein: Window to Dylan

2009-01-15T13:35:00.000-08:00

-Liverpool 1966

Hollywood photographer Barry Feinstein is a long time friend and collaborator of Dylan

lost poems and photos found in 2008

Barry took the photo on the cover of his 1964 album "Times They are A Changin"
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call...

There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'...

The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
lyrics

Feinstein and Dylan came out with a photo / poetry book together they had to fight to get published because of the content. Some pictures included were shots Feinstrin had taken of the actual bottle of pills Marolyn Monroe had killed herself with, Marlin Brando being called a Niger Lover, and signs outside bars warning "fagots" not to enter.

Gay Rights "Sip In" 1966

2009-01-15T13:12:00.001-08:00

When did the battle for gay rights start? Hummm who can say
We do know that 1966 was the first time a small group of homosexuals in New York City purposefully made a public scene and won their right to be served in any bar in NY. Certainly a turning point.

They took the idea of a sit in from the equal rights movement and put it to use to gain their own equality:

link to NPR segment
if you like to read more than listen

A glance at Life in the 1950s

2009-01-14T10:57:00.000-08:00

Homosexuals
Notice the language used...
- "Sick"
- "Dangerous"
- "Contagious"
- "Demands"

Marijuana

Sex Education Part 1
Sex Education Part 2

Going to a Party
This one is weird

What to Do on a Date

How to Plan a Party

Politics of Change: Kennedy Election in 1960

2009-01-13T16:18:00.000-08:00

1958 was the first major shift toward liberalism in the U.S. since the administration of FDR. Democrats held 64 of the 98 Senate seats and 283 of the 426 House seats running under issues like the economy, civil rights, urban problems, and education.

After making the decision to run Kennedy knew his New England / Harvard persona, Catholicism, and undistinguished Senate record were liabilities so choose Lyndon Johnson hardball Texas and Senate Majority Leader.

They don't make campaign ads like they used to: Kennedy Campaign Song

In 1960 Kennedy becomes the youngest President elected, he will also the youngest to die. The election results were so close Nixon did not concede his defeat till the next afternoon.
This Day in History Article

Leaps and Bounds: Civil Rights Legislation in the 60s

2009-01-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

February 3, 1870: The 15th Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote. However it was not till 1965 President Lyndon Johnson brought the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests and poll taxes, to a halt with The Voting Rights Act.

Early 1965 Dr King went to the White House to speak with LBJ about getting blacks registered to vote, he said there would be no peace till they got the vote. Johnson said he would not be able to pass a 1965 civil rights bill because there had already been one in 1964 ending segregation . King responded by hosting demonstrations in association with other organizations in Selma, Alabama:

Our "Bloody Sunday"
On February 18 John Lewis, a 25-year-old son of an Alabama sharecropper and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organized a demonstrative march to Selma to bring attention to the fact that only 2% of illegible blacks in Alabama were registered to vote. Govener George Wallace ordered the march be stopped without a go from higher ups. A young protestor, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot and killed. President Johnson and the nation watched state police attack the crowd on national television.
footage

Within 48 hours, demonstrations in support of the marchers were held in 80 cities and on March 7 some 500 demonstrators, led by SCLC leader Hosea Williams and SNCC leader John Lewis, began the 54-mile march to the state capital. They were, again, stopped by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with nightsticks, tear gas, and whips after they refused to turn back. Several of the protesters were severely beaten, and others ran for their lives.

On March 9, King more than 2,000 marchers, black and white successfully from Selma to Mongumary.

LBJ's speech
March 15, 1965, a week after deadly racial violence erupted in Selma, Alabama, as African-Americans were attacked by police while preparing to march to Montgomery to protest voting rights discrimination.
Quotes/ Summary:

"Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues; issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression. But rarely in any time does an issue lay bare the secret heart of America itself. Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved Nation....
The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation....
There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country....
Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome...
I want to be the President who helped to feed the hungry and to prepare them to be taxpayers instead of taxeaters."

In 2000 President Clinton was the first President to retrace their steps: link

*** Connection to this years election link: Bill Moyers modern day reflection on Selma

Other Sources:
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=613
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1032101
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/selma_3

songs show shifts

2009-01-05T22:21:00.000-08:00

(Source: http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/vietnam_music.html)

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" PETER, PAUL & MARY (1962)

"Masters of War" BOB DYLAN (1963)

"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" BOB DYLAN (1963; commercial release, 1991)

"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" PETE SEEGER (1963)

"The Times They Are A-Changin'" BOB DYLAN (1964)

"MLF Lullaby" and "Send the Marines" from TOM LEHRER's That Was The Year That Was (1965)

"Eve of Destruction" BARRY McGUIRE (1965)

"I-Feel-Like-I'm-a-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH (1965)

"Draft Dodger Rag" PHIL OCHS (1965)

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" PHIL OCHS (1965)

"Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" TOM PAXTON (1965)

"Viet Nam Blues" DAVE DUDLEY (1965)

got to start somewhere

2009-01-01T20:46:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome to my first post! In attempting to find important and noteworthy resources as a window into the minds and souls of college students and the US in 1966 I found a lot of potentially useless material and Ive decided to go ahead and gift you with some:

LBJ's 1966 State of The Union (first 5 min)
-Vietman
-Civil rights
-War on poverty
-World hunger
-Trade expansion to Russia

Watusi Dance Video
Similar to the twist, a popular bubble gum dance of the mid 60s. Origonated from the song "El Watusi" by Ray Baretto in 1965

Cryin Shames Video
Political pop

Miriam Makeba, aka Momma Afrika, singing "Khwleza"
- A strange cross with US '66 pop music and fashion with a highly charged political and cultural tone
-Makeba was a pop artist and civil rights activist

Nobel Prize Winners of '66

Hilarious movie Trailer to a 1966 flick "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini"

this could be you! 1966 college students playing cards. There was no facebook.

UFO 1966

Race Riots - Hough Riots in Cleavland Ohio