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Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law,
starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-illustrated-version-of-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant.html

The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965.

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