Your Mind Works in Reverse

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Uschi Obermaier photographed by Mehner, Germany, May 1969.🌺

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What we wore: pollock-style paint splattered shirts, fringed jackets, scarves (various), dark velvet, boots with heels worn down, voluminous hair.

What we read: Spike Milligan, George Melly, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, french symbolist poetry.

What we listened to: Coltrane, Ayler, Kirk, John Cage, Barbirolli conducting Vaughan Williams, Ewan Maccoll, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Doc Watson, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Tim Hardin, The Left Banke, The Byrds, Dylan (of course).

What we consumed: the best water-ices and lemon tea at Marine Ices, Chalk Farm; Danone yoghourt; exotic breads from Golders Green; free food parcels from Kingsley.

What we believed in: nothin’ that we could be sure of…

What we saw: Muswell Hill broadway and Fortis Green road free of glogging traffic, subtitled french films at Hampstead’s everyman cinema, Jimi Hendrix close-up, all-niter music clubs and milkmen starting their morning rounds, heads smoking a lot of dope, the inside of many an old BBC radio studio, the inside of an old van…

What we did to pass the time: sketched, painted and doodled, wandered the streets of London, north of the river, on foot, picked our spots, attended sundry music clubs like Cook’s Ferry inn, The 100 Club and The Marquee,acted like human blotting paper…

What we experienced: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE MOST COLOURFUL AND CREATIVE PERIOD OF BRITISH HISTORY (discounting the Elizabethans).

Ashley Hutchings. Summer 2002.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock // dir. Peter Weir

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Metropolis (1927) - Dir. Fritz Lang

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Metropolis (1927)

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Happy 78th, Faye Dunaway.

On the set of Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

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Françoise Hardy photographed by Steve Schapiro in 1966.♥️

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Brenda Lee, 1961.

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Cilla Black, London, UK, 14th August 1964. Photo by John Downing/Daily Express.🌺

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Uschi Obermaier photographed by Mehner, Germany, May 1969.🌺

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The Seeds

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Dom Kallar Oss Mods (They Call Us Misfits) 1968

Uncompromising Swedish documentary film following the friends Kenta and Stoffe, two teenage mods living in Stockholm during the 60’s.

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way before lisa frank, there was: Marijke Koger - and The Fool (late ‘60s) // marijke koger was one of the founding artists of the dutch design collective and psychedelic rock group known as ‘the fool,’ named after the tarot card. they influenced many and designed clothing, illustrations and cover designs for procol harum, cream, et others, including the album art for ‘sgt. pepper’s lonely heart club sandwich’.

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Mama Cass amongst the Fool and others.

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“When he gave up [Pink Floyd] he took up painting again for a bit, but he never enjoyed it. He didn’t really have a sense of direction. He used to lie in bed every morning, and I would get this feeling like the wall between our rooms didn’t quite exist, because I’d know that Syd was lying in bed thinking, ‘What do I do today? Shall I get out of bed? If I get out of bed, I can do this, and I can do that - or I can do that, or I could do that.’ He had the world at his feet, all the possibilities, and he just couldn’t choose. He had great problems committing himself to any action. As for committing himself to doing anything for any length of time - he was the kind of person who’d change in the middle. He’d set off, lose his motivation, and start questioning what he was doing - which might just be walking down the street.”

— Duggie Fields on Syd Barrett 

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Dom Kallar Oss Mods (They Call Us Misfits) 1968

Uncompromising Swedish documentary film following the friends Kenta and Stoffe, two teenage mods living in Stockholm during the 60’s.

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Grace Slick