I KEEP SAYING HE CAN’T GET ANY HOTTER AND I CONTINUE TO BE WRONG:  Jamie Fraser (Sam Hueghan in France for season 2 Outlander)  http://www.jamieandclairetour.co.uk/   Oh and check that site out for a 2016 tour they are setting up to go where Claire and Jamie have gone before.

 I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
“Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?”
He just grinned and shook my hand, and “No!”, was all he said.

Smith

Today I’m continuing with the People that helped shape my world in the late 60’s and continued into the early 70’s:

I will want to die beneath the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, she may argue with her logic
And then she’ll know the things I learned
That really have no value in the end she will surely know
I wasn’t born to follow   Birds

Peter Fonda was Captain America in the movie Easy Rider made 1969 (which also had Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson) where two young men head for New Orleans and especially Fonda’s character looks for some meaning to the trip and his life while also doing drugs and picking up hitch hikers.

When it came out in ’69 The NY Times had to say about it:  “With the exception of Nicholson, its good things are familiar things — the rock score, the lovely, sometimes impressionistic photography by Laszlo Kovacs, the faces of small-town America. These things not only are continually compelling but occasionally they dazzle the senses, if not the mind. Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It’s pretty but lower case cinema.”  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE0D91538EF3BBC4D52DFB1668382679EDE

If you want to be a bird
Why don’t you try a little flying
There’s no denying
It gets you high
Why be shackled to your feet
When you’ve got wings
You haven’t used yet
Don’t wait for heaven
Get out and fly

The Holy Modal Rounders

Course we all knew Peter—son of  Henry (who’s Grape of  Wrath was excellent comment on the country in  the  Depression  years) a legendary actor himself who expressed only confusion as to the meaning of his son’s  generation hit. His  mother  was Frances Seymour Brokaw, who committed suicide when Peter was 11. His sister Jane was always the more successful of the siblings and would become the more notorious rebel (she still is banned by some for her notorious trips to Viet Nam and her association  with the  enemy) in the early 70s.    ”

 And though he never was so big again he is still forever on our minds–those of us grew up in the  60’s who watch ourselves being betrayed by the powers that be…lied to by our leaders—lost in a world that was not what we wanted —we like Captain America and Billy were searching for where we belonged and what’s it all about and the aimless wondering…the people along the way and the destruction at the end felt so true to what we knew and what we feared that for me at least the movie will be admittedly far from the best (except for the sound track) I ever seen, but one that made a deep impression and will forever be on my mind.

; it captured the spirit of the times as it woke Hollywood up to the power of young audiences and socially relevant movies, along with such other landmarks of the late ’60s as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, and 2001. Shot on location by Laszlo Kovacs, Easy Rider eschewed old-fashioned Hollywood polish for documentary-style immediacy, and it enhanced its casual feel with improvised dialogue and realistically “stoned” acting. With a soundtrack of contemporary rock songs by Jimi Hendrix, the Band, and Steppenwolf to complete the atmosphere, Easy Rider was hailed for capturing the increasingly violent Vietnam-era split between the counterculture and the repressive Establishment. Experiencing the “shock of recognition,” youth audiences embraced Easy Rider‘s vision of both the attractions and the limits of dropping out, proving that audience’s box-office power and turning Nicholson into a movie star. The momentarily hip Academy nominated Nicholson for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and Fonda, Hopper, and Terry Southern for their screenplay. Though none of its imitators would match its impact, Easy Rider remains one of the seminal works of late ’60s Hollywood both for its trailblazing legacy and its sharply perceptive portrait of its chaotic times. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/15197/Easy-Rider/overview

Electric Prunes

Roger McGuinn

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all;
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall;
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call;
To call Alice, when she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go;
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low;
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead;
And the white knight is talking backwards;
And the red queen’s off with her head;
Remember what the dormouse said,
Feed your head, feed your head

Jefferson Airplane