Knox Bronson ~ Riding The Wild Bubble

The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I

Inspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week. I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this photo of them on the stoop of their apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966. I've always thought it hilarious that Pigpen is holding a rifle.

The Last Episode

I'm creating a new podcast channel ~ Knox Bronson, The True Hippie Chronicles. I won't be posting so much here anymore, but I hope you will join on the True Hippie Chronicles.

The (Not) Last Episode

I'm creating a new podcast channel ~ Knox Bronson, The True Hippie Chronicles.  I won't be posting so much here anymore, but I hope you will join on the True Hippie Chronicles.

The Milk of Human Kindness

I witnessed a stranger's kindness to another stranger the other night in a Safeway parking lot. It was lovely to see.

Pop Down The Years (acoustic)

It's been over four years since I posted a version of this song. I listened to the album the other night for the first time in a year or more. Inasmuch that I don't like the sound most of my vocals—I paid a guy a lot of money to mix the album who did not know how to mix vocals (live and learn!)—the arrangements stand up. They are amazing, I don't mind saying. Available on iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, and Bandcamp, and everywhere!

The Genesis of the Accomplished Roué

Someone wrote and asked what a roué is. A French term, a roué is many things, mostly bad. But an accomplished roué? That's another story.

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution ~ A History From Below

I'm halfway through this thoughtful and detailed biography of Candida Royalle, aka Candice Vadala, writer, singer, porn star, porn director. A renaissance woman gone far to soon.

Donovan/The Eternal Now/My Next Album

The title pretty much says it all.

Mindful Dopamine Reset/Lou Reed On Frank Zappa

Two half-baked thoughts in one podcast.

Happy Birthday, Stan Ridgway

Former frontman of Wall of Voodoo is 70 today, Yikes! A singular talent, super intelligent, great songwriter. Happy Birthday, Stan!

The Great American Solar Eclipse & Its Astrological Implicatioins

Here's the whole article at http://beyondthesoulsmeridian.org : https://beyondthesoulsmeridian.org/2024/04/07/the-power-of-aries-and-the-great-american-solar-eclipse-of-april-2024/ Definitely worth a read.

15 Best Psychedelic Songs According To SingersRoom

Definitely a number of essential songs on this list, but they missed a number of mind-bending classic psychedelic songs, just off the top of my head. Nonetheless, fun to think about.

Brief Thoughts Fifty Years Out From David Bowie's Diamond Dogs

Included: another old song snippet, very dark; thoughts on Gentlemanly Art of Spanking manuscript rejection; a snippet of lyrics from "Sweet Thing" on David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album. 

Love Lies Bleeding—Great If You Like Noir

I saw Love Lies Bleeding the other night. Really well done, but a little too noir for me. 

New song, very early mix ... "I'm Falling Down"

Working on my next, as yet unnamed, album. I'm getting up to speed on all the new production techologies, thought I would start with a relatively simple song. I still don't have lyrics for the two verses. They will arrive in their own time, as they always do. So far I'm very happy with the mix, still tons and tons to do, but it's okay as a glorified sketch. I hope you like it!

My Guidelines For Eternal Youth

It's very simple.

Trump says "I don't give a shit" from the podium at one of his rallies

Of course the audience cheered.

Here's a song for you: "Baby Knows." I mean, doesn't she?

It's rockstar Saturday night. I'm hanging out with my cat Monkey Blue. He's asleep on the bed. I might join him soon.  I thought I would play a song that will be on my next album, after I create an arrangement for it and record it properly. It's called "Baby Knows." Happy to see that my weekly newsletter from my website is working again. Please go to knoxbronson.com and subscribe! 

I Have Completed The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking Manuscript

So when we last encountered ort narrator, he had, having fled the loving bosom of his newly-redecorated Oakland flat under threat of death from the thugs up the street, landed, at last, in Los Angeles and had begun to explore this alien culture while trying to sell HoneyBun Spanking Kits. HoneyBun was the logical outcome of the hugely successful article, "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" on Salon.com. Los Angeles (and Las Vegas) was a culture and place he had been taught, as a fourth genera...

Apple’s Weird Billboards for the iPhone 15

Another example of why Apple, invariably, misses the without Steve Jobs there. In this case, the ad campaign for the iPhone 15 camera and it’s portraiture capabilities. Putting pictures of children on billboards that no parent would ever share with any other human being.

The Taste of Things Movie Review

 The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet who she has been working for over the last 20 years, a wonderful celebration of food, friends, romance. Starring Juliette Binoche.

Birney Jarvis, Police Reporter, Hells Angel, Legend

I knew Bernie back in the 70s and 80s. We drank in the same newspaper bar south of market in San Francisco. He was a legend. They don’t make them like Bernie anymore. Here’s a little little video about him and the TV show that was based on his real life story. https://youtu.be/wp8kBKAzUYQ?si=woNZ-rnCQjPEyo2V

Bambi, Superbowl, Taylor Swift, Cracked Crab

Extraneous thoughts about the big day. One cultural phenomenon interacts with another. Do all boats rise?

Eight uncomfortable signs that the universe is preparing you to receive your manifestation

February 7, 1964 – I want to hold your hand hits number one

It was six Ty years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play, wait, no …. it was the day “I want to hold your hand” hit number one on the billboard chart in the United States. And Beatlemania took over the world.

Jason Statham Is Back ~ The Beekeeper

I was so happy to see Jason Statham back in a big budget action movie. The beekeeper is right out of the John Wick mold, but with a better story, at least a better story than the third and fourth installments of the John Wick series. Jeremy Irons plays the inimitable, aristocratic monster as only he can. Great cinematography great editing, and clearly room for a second installment.

Remembering Judy Davis, Voice Coach to the Stars

The Frogs of Knickerbocker

A quick visit to Knickerbocker, and happy to discover that the frogs are back full force. I didn’t expect them because the pond is a little low still. There’s clearly enough for the frogs and their eggs and the pollywogs though.

1971—The Year That Music Changed Everything on Apple TV

"1971—The Year That Music Changed Everything on Apple TV" is an amazing eight-part documentary series on Apple TV, chronicling the end, or the collapse, if you will, of the Sixties and the birth of the Seventies. Culture, politics, and the music of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Sly Stone, The Rolliing Stones, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper, Tina Turner, the list goes on. Beautifully written and edited. Lots of footage I've never see befor...

Beaming To You From Podbean Now/True Detective Season 4

After two episodes of the new season of True Detective, I am underwhelmed at best. I'm going to give in one more episode. I wanted it to be great again (to coin a phrase)!

New Website Mycobiotas.com

Compendium and apothecary. http://mycobiotas.com

Paddy Wants A Spanking Part Two

A touching end, so to speak, for Paddy's quest to relive an episode from his teenage years in Ireland.

iPhonism Is Dead: Long Live iPhonism, 2009-2023

As David Bowie sang in "We Are The Dead," something kind of hit me today.

Paddy Wants A Spanking Part One

An Irishman wrote to HoneyBun for advice. Part one contains his first letter and HoneyBun's response. Part two will feature his follow-up letter.

Trump’s Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: A Modest Alternative Proposal

There is a movement afoot to remove Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It occurred to me that it could be used to fund much needed social services. Also: Trump sells $2.4M in cryptocurrency, the act of a "billionaire" who is dead broke and has no liquidity. #trump #urinal #hollywood #dumpingcrypto

Farewell, Jillian Ann, Renaissance Forest Sprite

Her old website seems to have been replaced by a memorial page. http://jillianann.com. You can see her fashion designs at https://www.ritual.fashion/. Listen to her music at https://jillianann.bandcamp.com/.

Merry Christmas Charles Bukowski

Trying to get to a church service on Christmas Eve, I was thwarted like Bukowski in his SRO hotel room, broke and doomed.

Do they even know it’s Christmas?

That clicking sound you hear in the background is my propane space heater. 

November Twenty Six Nineteen Sixty Three

Wendell Berry’s poem following that day sixty years ago.  Photo: X Marks The Spot (Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas) by Marty Yawnick

The One That Got Away/JFK

Happy Birthday to Me/What Scorpios Want

Onward.

David Sedaris, Lisping, and Tom Ford's Grey Vetiver Parfum

David Sedaris, Lisping, and Tom Ford’s Grey Vetiver Parfum

Trust Don Draper and Peggy at Your Peril

Bill Hicks said it better here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaD8y-CGhMw

AI Is Only The Middleman, Always the Thief, Cannot See the Future, Bores Us to Tears

{podcast} Happy Birthday, Dad

Photo by Baron Wolman, ca. 1969.

Reading: Prologue from the new "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking"

Reading: Prologue from the new ”The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking”

Back From The Abyss

Getting back in the game. It's all about momentum.

Hampstead Incident Revisited in B minor

It suddenly occurred to me I've been singing it in the wrong key (Bb minor) all this time. Thought I'd move it up a half-step. Yes, I've been doing it wrong!