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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · Film · documentary · 107 min
Directed by Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
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I can't say Kerouac does much for me as a writer, but he's interesting as a pop cultural phenomenon.
If you're interested in the Beats and the Hippies, you'll enjoy thus documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Trip
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6q8qlsx8tdA