(PUBLISHERS NOTE: THIS STORY TO BE INCLUDED IN VOLUME 2 OF THE COLE COONCE DRAG STRIP READER)
by Cole Coonce
Zukovic and I were kickin’ it in some rather trendoid hipster coffee klatch at Melbourne and Vermont in East Hollywood, drinking espresso and discussing the troubles with the age we live in. Zukovic is a failed [...]
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Jocko Johnson’s high-desert campaign to meld the arts and sciences in an age that shuns creativity.
by Cole Coonce
Strange and abstract notions oscillate in the desert. Out there, notions emanate from the minds of exiled artists, philosophers, musicians, and engineers. Their visions and their bodies of work are perpetrated in everything from abandoned Airstream [...]
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Tags: "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, airstream, Allen Ginsberg, Art Chrisman, Bauhaus, Bauhaus architecture, Carl Perkins, cole coonce, Connie Kalitta, Doug Kruse, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Ernie Hashim, funny car, Geodesic Domes, George Barris, George Van Tassel, Integratron, Jackson Pollock, jocko johnson, Jocko's Porting Service, John Cobb, John Coltrane, Keith Black Racing Engines, Land Speed Record, Link Wray, Malcolm Campbell, Mickey Thompson, Mojave Desert, nhra, nhra drag racing, nitromethane, Orange County International Raceway, PoweRRing 3 Cycle, Spaceport Earth, streamliner, the "Sour Sisters", the Spirit of 29 Palms, Thelonious Monk, top fuel, top fuel wormhole
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