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"I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head," Bob Dylan howls toward the middle of his epiphanic 1965 album, Highway 61 Revisited, shooting out of a ragged harmonica solo during the rollicking "From a Buick 6" to diagnose his own condition. At that moment, the twenty-something Dylan-the unofficial youth poet laureate of the United States, as well as the sneering voice of an emergent counterculture-had a lot on his mind, and perhaps more on his professional plate.
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great taper history by @…. https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/how-a-macys-stock-boy-taped-four

How a Macy’s Stock Boy Taped Four Never-Heard 1960s Dylan Shows
Within a year Ray Anderson was a leading figure in the San Francisco counterculture

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counter-culture caper:
Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/17/one-battle-after-another-review-paul-thomas-andersons-thrillingly-helter-skelter-counter-culture-caper

now that i've seen "one battle..." & no longer fear spoilers, i should mention i was a guest recently on the slow learners #podcast, poking at the counterculture threads in "vineland," which was seriously fun.

VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/02/2025 · 1h 38m