Do Our Early Seminal Moments Define Us Outright, Or As We Age, Do We Reconstitute Our Narrative to Fit Our Most Recent Version of Who We Are? Then She stood ever-so-elegantly on a rickety wooden chair, her slender arms reaching out to the top left corner of another Duck and Cover poster where she applied a … Continue reading The Autoharp by Gavin Lakin – Post 15
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1970s Counterculture: Misunderstood, Mystifying, or Merely Me, Me, Me? By Gavin Lakin – Post 14
I am a tail-end Baby Boomer, a late but card-carrying member of the club, with a consciousness that I assure you was fully formed when Revolver was on KHJ. I rocked to Motown, The Beatles, The Doors, Sly, Hendrix, and Janis. I’m the youngest kid brother of The Beatles touching down for The Ed Sullivan … Continue reading 1970s Counterculture: Misunderstood, Mystifying, or Merely Me, Me, Me? By Gavin Lakin – Post 14
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I am humbled by the generous and exceedingly professional team at BoomerCafe.com. Today, they have published my piece about the 1970s writing a poignant letter to 1969. I hope you enjoy reading it and it would be very meaningful to me if you could leave comments at BoomerCafe. Thank you to all my family, friends, … Continue reading *** Special Announcement ***
You Talkin’ to Me? I’m Mad as Hell, Stayin’ Alive, and I’m Gonna Fly Now; A Treatise on 1970s Cinema by Gavin Lakin – Post 13
Plush red carpeting surrounded by walls of art deco sconces dimming. Then total darkness. The curtain reveals the screen as if hiding an elegant silver gem. On your lap, an enormous tub of buttery, salty popcorn. Ushers with flashlights seat the late arrivals, careful not to blind patrons with their flashlights. Settled in, there follows … Continue reading You Talkin’ to Me? I’m Mad as Hell, Stayin’ Alive, and I’m Gonna Fly Now; A Treatise on 1970s Cinema by Gavin Lakin – Post 13
Between Groovy and Gnarly: A Letter from One Decade to Another by Gavin Lakin – Post # 12
Between Groovy and Gnarly: A Letter from One Decade to Another by Gavin Lakin – Post # 12 Dear 1969, I’d like to take a moment to say, what a year you were! Though you hail from quite the unique little decade - representing the final reckoning of the tumultuous 1960s - it just doesn’t … Continue reading Between Groovy and Gnarly: A Letter from One Decade to Another by Gavin Lakin – Post # 12
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