Dern Hippies (podcast 37)

The second recorded on that same day is up.

This time, we cover two dirty crazy hippie movies, Psych-Out and The Trip, which meant that Circulatory System provided great bumper music, with their psychedelic, swirly, pretty sounds. The song at the intro is "Lovely Universe" (a live version from Southern Shelter) and the one at the end is "Yesterday's World," both off of their self-titled album available from Cloud Recordings. Here's their official record-label page and here's their myspace page.

So, Psych-Out (1968) stars Susan Strasberg as the deaf gal, Jack Nicholson (with ponytail) as Stoney, Bruce Dern as a wacko, Dean Stockwell as a different kind of wacko, Garry Marshall (very briefly), and a couple of bands, one of whom is The Strawberry Alarm Clock. It was directed by Richard Rush.

I'm pretty sure Susan Strasberg never wears a bikini in the movie. Nor does she strip to her underthings. But it's kind of a great poster anyway.

You can see a little of Nicholson's ponytail in this still/promo shot:


And here's a zombie hand:

Yeah. It really is in the movie. Pretty gross, too.

And, finally, here's the trailer, which is online. Yay!

The Trip (1967) doesn't have any fun zombie hands in it, sadly, and Bruce Dern is pretty sedate in his role in this movie, but it does have a lot of Peter Fonda ass in it.

Nicholson wrote this one, and Strasberg's also in it, but less. Dennis Hopper shows up for a good bit, though, as you can tell from this still:

Yes, it's a dream/trip sequence. How on earth did you know that? Here's Dern, bearded out:

And here's the other poster, which I like slightly less, despite its existentialist acronym:


And here's the trailer for it. Thank you, webbernets.

Oh, and there's a book here with a very long and complicated title that seems to discuss the connection between psychedelic drugs and psychoanalysis, taking it much more seriously than I did.

Anything I forgot to link?