Ken Kesey the 'Acid Christ'
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-christensen/acid-christ-ken-kesey-psychedelic_b_764629.html
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Gus Van Sant is bringing Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" to the screen.
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" told the wild-edging-to-unbelievable story of Ken Kesey, the "undisputed King of the Counter Culture" who during the early 1960s became America's top new literary light, then -- fueled by Sandoz 25 LSD -- abruptly ditched his day job as the next Norman Mailer to become a sort of proto acid Christ. This is the title, not incidentally, of my new book, the story of multi-talented Kesey's spectacular rises and falls.
Kesey changed everything, exploding on the American literary stage with two critical and commercial blockbuster novels, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion," a feat unequaled by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and John Updike. So why had Kesey abandoned literary lion-hood to become an LSD evangelist whose self described job was to “save the world” by blowing its mind? Stay tuned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-christensen/acid-christ-ken-kesey-psychedelic...
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" told the wild-edging-to-unbelievable story of Ken Kesey, the "undisputed King of the Counter Culture" who during the early 1960s became America's top new literary light, then -- fueled by Sandoz 25 LSD -- abruptly ditched his day job as the next Norman Mailer to become a sort of proto acid Christ. This is the title, not incidentally, of my new book, the story of multi-talented Kesey's spectacular rises and falls.
Kesey changed everything, exploding on the American literary stage with two critical and commercial blockbuster novels, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion," a feat unequaled by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and John Updike. So why had Kesey abandoned literary lion-hood to become an LSD evangelist whose self described job was to “save the world” by blowing its mind? Stay tuned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-christensen/acid-christ-ken-kesey-psychedelic...
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