| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| floop |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 20:22:33
in an effort to bring Surfer Rosa back, i offer oversized pictures of Big Sur
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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| danjersey |
Posted - 10/21/2009 : 15:41:16
from npr - Zigzag Bugs And 'A Sea Like God': Kerouac's Big Sur
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113938373 |
| floop |
Posted - 11/27/2006 : 21:03:50
was in the sur again this weekend
at least that's what your mom said |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 10/20/2006 : 00:58:40
I missed this topic first time round. Dammit I'm now desperate to go back. Long live Big Sur indeed.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. |
| floop |
Posted - 10/19/2006 : 22:11:50
i've been there several times.. he spent the last part of his years in Big Sur.
long live Big Sur
at least that's what your mom said |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 23:37:37
I confess I didn't even know there was one. Did you visit it?
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| floop |
Posted - 06/04/2006 : 23:14:46
i'm assuming you guys have been to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 07:53:47
mmm, smog-a-licious
forum ebook: end of miles |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 07:37:25
what you on about.
FAST_MAN RAIDER_MAN - June 19th |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 06:55:36
The song was awful, I don't think I liked the Kerouac book (I only really got on with 'On The Road' I found everything else to be a bit disappointing), I liked 'A Confederate General From Big Sur' although I prefer 'The Abortion - A Historical Romance 1966' by Brautigan.
People want to stop with the photos though, it's making London feel distinctly un-glam.
forum ebook: end of miles |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/03/2006 : 00:25:43
the song was ok
FAST_MAN RAIDER_MAN - June 19th |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 20:44:08
quote:
Originally posted by benji
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
quote:
Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right?
nope. i actually mean 'Big Sur' by Jack Kerouac
i really enjoyed almost all of his books - it's been a fair while since i read any, but from memory, big sur was a goddan. my favourite was 'desolation angels' tho.
Alright then. I've neglected Kerouac. Thanks though for the visit to the Brautigan site. Hadn't thought about him in ages.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| benji |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 18:41:13
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
quote:
Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right?
nope. i actually mean 'Big Sur' by Jack Kerouac
i really enjoyed almost all of his books - it's been a fair while since i read any, but from memory, big sur was a goddan. my favourite was 'desolation angels' tho.
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 15:40:28
BTW, some really nice photos there. The bridge pic is fabulous.
They Sur are nice. ;)
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 11:33:45
quote:
Originally posted by floop
Big Sur is interesting because from highway 1 it seems like there's nothing really there. but then there are all these secret houses and places tucked away in the hills beneath the trees.
Yes. And much of those higher hills seem like the Ozarks, populated by old freaks. Lucky I didn't stumble onto somebody's pot farm and get my sorry ass shot. Half the people living up there are as rich as rich gets and the other half are simple sixties throwbacks scratching out a living in heaven.
One morning I was somehow motivated to start a hike upward from the highway. After hours of innumerable switchbacks I discovered a long-abandoned hideaway made out of cast concrete originally featuring huge plate glass windows that had long since fallen shattered. I could see forever out onto the ocean. That place was so remote that I assumed much of the structure had been flown in by heavy helicoptor. And yet there it was, decaying on a bald hillside, without a soul in sight.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 11:08:14
quote:
Originally posted by beckett trance
I've got family there so I have a place to stay whenever I can get up there. (I know, ridiculously lucky) I'm actually going to try to go there in a couple weeks. I'm probably going to SF, so I'll see if I can make it to Big Sur, too.
Here's one more of the Bixby Bridge looking south.
Don't we know that at Amazon we could find a coffee table book full of "Bridges of the Pacific Coast Highway". Lord knows I've taken my share of bridge pictures, from Big Sur to Astoria. Steady. Get the horizon level. Good fun.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| floop |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:51:44
that's cool beckett. Big Sur is interesting because from highway 1 it seems like there's nothing really there. but then there are all these secret houses and places tucked away in the hills beneath the trees. there was one for sale for 2.5 million. maybe we could pool our resources and start a commune.
and Erebus, yes, you could say that. we camped, then went to dinner at Nepenthe, then had a massage and went to hot springs at Escalen. i like to really rough it when i camp.
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:46:54
quote:
Originally posted by benji
i liked the book.
benji, we're assuming that would be Brautigan's "A Confederate General from Big Sur", right? About frog ponds and life? Don't know which made me laugh more, that or "Trout Fishing in America". You prompted me to visit http://www.brautigan.net/brautigan/
I had forgotten that while I was playing soldier he was playing god, though I still remember the day I read the news: "Die Young Stay Pretty"
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| beckett trance |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:46:06
I've got family there so I have a place to stay whenever I can get up there. (I know, ridiculously lucky) I'm actually going to try to go there in a couple weeks. I'm probably going to SF, so I'll see if I can make it to Big Sur, too.
Here's one more of the Bixby Bridge looking south.
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** feeling deluxe for just a couple of bucks ** |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:28:39
quote:
Originally posted by floop
nice pics you guys. erebus and beckett, were have you stayed when you were there? some day i want to stay at the Post Ranch Inn (and then declare bankrupcy). we camped at Ventana instead..
denis, the red thing is a carrot. i don't think i ate it actually, so i can't tell you how it was. the sandwich was excellent (grilled chicken). the bean salad was ok, but i kind of wished i had gotten the mixed greens like my girlfriend did.
the picture is really about the view though, not the lunch. that picture doesn't do justice to the view from this place..
I mostly stayed in the weeds, hiding from myself. Wouldn't be a bad idea today. However, I do recall a wonderful day spent in a suite at one of those swank inns with friends who had flown in from Austin. We debated economics and balancing the budget. What fools we were.
Carrots ain't what they used to be.
floop, reading between the posts, I'm guessing you went on date package number N with a cosmic lady friend. Yes?
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| vilainde |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:09:10
In case you go there, it could be useful to know that "torta" also means "bum".
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:08:06
quote:
Originally posted by GypsyDeath
Where did surfer go?
"I'm not much like my generation,
Their music only hurts my ears" ~ Kasey Chambers
She's on sabbatical.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 10:03:25
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"?
That's how they call these sandwiches down there in Mexico.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath!
Thank you Denis. Torta. Please excuse my crude language.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| floop |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 09:45:37
nice pics you guys. erebus and beckett, were have you stayed when you were there? some day i want to stay at the Post Ranch Inn (and then declare bankrupcy). we camped at Ventana instead..
denis, the red thing is a carrot. i don't think i ate it actually, so i can't tell you how it was. the sandwich was excellent (grilled chicken). the bean salad was ok, but i kind of wished i had gotten the mixed greens like my girlfriend did.
the picture is really about the view though, not the lunch. that picture doesn't do justice to the view from this place..
http://www.nepenthebigsur.com/
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:38:25
Where are you??!
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| vilainde |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:18:26
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"?
That's how they call these sandwiches down there in Mexico.
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 05:11:53
Where did surfer go?
"I'm not much like my generation,
Their music only hurts my ears" ~ Kasey Chambers |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 04:55:04
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Screw Surfer.
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid
Is that an order?
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 03:36:43
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
What's a fucking "torta"? And what is that red thing? Ain't no carrot or pepper.
I must say that if floop's camera were properly (mentally) focused, we'd be talking about a freighter lazily chugging up the coast, or at least my non-gastrogum self would be.
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 03:19:44
Damn, beckett, do you live right there? Whenever I've visited in the past twenty years I've had to take the notoriously unsettled coastal weather as I've found it, whereas back in the day when I had ready access I often had the sun but no camera. I've travelled those forty or so miles south of Monterey at least a hundred times. Those cliffs can be intense. Talk about an intimate thread!
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| beckett trance |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:49:17
Ha! Same photo a year earlier:
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:46:22
View from similar roadside turnout, about six months prior on a stormy day:
Same day, hazy something along the lines of what Stevenson was talking about, five miles south of Monterey, along Asilomar:
Bridge, same as pictured above  , same day, cast into sun:
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:24:56
Screw Surfer, I want to go there now.
I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
| vilainde |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:20:39
The torta looks great, but what's the long red thing in your plate?
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
| Erebus |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 02:15:12
A couple of shots from March 15, 2002, courtesy of a Frank show sidetrip I think:
"Projectile management is the essence of the quality of life" - Ted Nugent |
| benji |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:43:53
i liked the book.
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
