Cassady in the Backhouse (1972)

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Intrepid Trips Production

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Cassady in the Backhouse (1972)

The film was shot on the property of writer Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”) in La Honda, CA, in 1965 and depicts Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady high on amphetamines and speaking in a stream of consciousness.

An Intrepid Trips Production. Camera: Page Browning. Sound: Mountain Girl. Editors: Ken Babbs, John Babbs.

Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc, Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory. Special thanks to Zane Kesey.

Complete Record: Cassady in the Backhouse (1972) The film was shot on the property of writer Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”) in La Honda, CA, in 1965 and depicts Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady high on amphetamines and speaking in a stream of consciousness. An Intrepid Trips Production. Camera: Page Browning. Sound: Mountain Girl. Editors: Ken Babbs, John Babbs. Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc, Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory. Special thanks to Zane Kesey.

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thank you [Music] they're raising the flag it's Monte Carlo yes well you only circuit on the course but they only allow 18 cars to the usual 21-2 you know 16 they cut it down to in fact as I recall for one year at least that's right the last big engine no even though it's true struggling manfully but really bitter in a way like show off as his resentment as it were is the fact that Phil Hill more manfully wrought than a yacht um the last of the front engine Ferrari in the 61 as I say but he managed to finish eight on that tight chorus anyway 1.9 miles can I come then down through this machine or out of the Harbor tunnel and uh down to the longest street that go along the harbor of course which is still only five eighths of a mile that we're going out again the transmission of a 27 Buick into second gear around the corner at 34th and Dearborn or wasn't Clark somewhere along there uh trouble with Jack was he knew that when he threw the dang thing through the jewelry store window he'd been oh oh same what if that gearbox would know what if son we're going to pause one more time and remember if you've only got 20 seconds to grab them and run quite what my conjun I've won what no man epiphany and uh and Miles Ahead again last blue to go but Goshen what a news what do they mean by Notions five and ten Notions the seven Dime Store damn grind one more time so I took the transmission out of that Essex I mean what I mean [Music] how many Stars [Music] 921 that's how many cars been made since the beginning but I know the one that rhymes with the Jews the new back Essex it's a tailgate that's what I was trying to think all the time so what was it was duck no it was it was a big thing Turtle That's the word Turtle Back ethics the ethics of Ethics the Lord of oh not him isn't that interesting not only the given the grace of like say an ascetic we can go 20 times faster [Music] exceeding seven times the speed limit [Music] 20 20 why even 10. that's 70. so we take five 35 [Music] 10 70. that was it the 1070 Dodge brother Imperial address Greeks confusing the Romans again I'll take deal Clinton 254 or something local um you wait Constantine isn't it interesting how we have these impressions in history like Builders and more Hammers and all contemporary and history at the same time 33 oh I see it's PC Alexander [Music] the coversmith that's what was Dad said actually Romans 12 12 I still don't know it wouldn't be that darling but the Romans and the Greeks well they couldn't even go 35 except one of the fastest horse for only shorter stretch is 36 something like that I guess wise Drive about 36 miles to mention the word to work every morning from uh to Kimball Nebraska from uh yeah above in there you know the town of course doesn't matter much because it was alignment lemon yeah lemon not Lyman in the South but oh gosh good old granny somebody he wasn't playing but I mean his car was it was a side by side 36 month 6 a.m straight North every morning finest thing I was driving the target actually you know what I was driving a 35 Ford and I had uh yeah so we're going about some other time but that's why I always liked in the parking lot those backward doors spinning it out I speak climb 14 000 201 no what Dino six nine something along that line but the actual course is 13 611 is our corner that's right almost three miles now I've climbed that mountain many times myself not as many Buffalo Bills look out but uh they're mostly 63 percent of outside hairpin curves is over the Shelf you know what I mean you can't make your time cutting off damn corners without making a straighter line so going wrong on this curve set up for that right unless well like a flat or suspension change or too much gas even sensitive 38th and Galapagos underpass that truck came through there and I heard this scraping you know what it was 10 8 and he was 11 foot cleaners your garden hose I got on cam last time ever this happens any expensive flowers somewhere up in the country as I recall not sliding down colder now but I mean I freeze all night foreign [Music] give me a little dread I'm so mad that grass I learned cars why that old Buick in fact for that time I know ahead couldn't get the stamp the certificate so I think I was only 13 of us hitchhanked into um 39 that's right Kansas and stove repair plates let me attacking back hot day and all that sure local time what you got on the events there boy and I said well that's just my chest there the best and it just work right no eight days so Buick's gone reminds me later on the model A H didn't that break one on it no you know what I did over the floorboard I nailed a pedal on it now I used to hit curbs like when I was on my first job with bicycles bouncing off because it was a single no brakes on it I'd hit cars bounce between them throw my feet out just like they throw out the feet to grab yourself on the rocks and man I tell you sliding right through real estate [Music] the model A what I always had to stop going into something but now it's not cribs nothing to it but you know what really a Man Too I found out that you could throw into reverse anything under 10 miles an hour yeah that transmission nothing like the Essex why that 27 Buick just like it has six straight six exercise I lived on the streets in L.A right there on Wilshire same place like I grew today almost by seventh and Universal guidance drive better in there without even taking your eye off the hemisphere uh the unisphere New York back there you know who actually designed that that's true same bad seventh up I'd say and I don't mean the other one but you know his first name too that's who it was okay it's a World's fair 65 Robert Moses USD will put it up 73 today I suppose he is and I don't mean steel cyclone and hurricane force winds later on today now you come over here missing you when I say they know what's behind it's going up that ground the Grapevine all the way out really I was on Figaro at the time right out of that tunnel in fact first time I ever bought a rose Cummins I was so excited I made him I actually knew what it was the other fella bet me ten dollars it was a man tell you out of your mind yep man uh well at least that is now it begins husbands little Filipinos she's big tall natural blonde got a redhead you know got out of bed sparkling like sort of like you might take a um and share it in a little too dark but a little later on like actually the first one should be there he was as a red hair that sort of a Sheen boom nice and clean but anyways maybe almost anything's better than being judged by Roy being as giving understanding but right now you're hanging on this one with me climb that tree faster than you can sit in the cab oh well no wait a minute now uh something else there I didn't want to see it quite that way but when you get a cat and skin the name disaster Missy Lou don't know that's quite what to do now the d8 nine and the biggest of the commercial line to you well twin sixes I'd rather that than a V16 196 is going when I took off there and it sounds Daytona that day about that oh yeah certainly 7-Eleven before 10 I'd say 196. hmm mistaken Fitzgerald would seem to be concerned about and I mean yes and stupidity in the last scene is some stupidities in between I don't know you heard that finger come down on that string there let's change it in between twelve nine I think it would be six too that's been Eight's the most popular one Manila anything the most versatile range like the third gear box on International and five miles faster with a new motor [Music] [Music] capital ship for an ocean trip with a 27 Buick 8. no winded blue dismayed well now wait a minute that side curtain too wind all the time you couldn't tell anything but what's before behind actually I'll be confess our grind going down again hardly even mattered to what was behind because when you go over past like birth out rabbit ears and all but only second and third I mean a person said without only with the with low and high you know how that second gear needs it I tell you 27 Essex no transmission nothing there on LA that's what I say on lhd one day same time I had a 37 Dodge during the war well I was about 43 I'd say I sold it because the tires and now that sort of thing one doesn't want to do a headline Brisa across a bridge playing for two like whether whoever's at it Cincinnatus heredities or other but roadblocks now that's something else I'm going the wrong side of the bridge right now and of course an issue is I mean really weird in fact the first thing I did going forward Colorado Springs Pike speaks in rail I hardly know of course that I mean who's to say it on the first curve first stops I'm gonna have blocked through I mean sure twofer but I didn't go too far I went too fast one too you know what happened right there that's true right front wheel came off well what are you gonna do at that point all you can do is blast so you see right then it don't matter much what are you doing let's choosing this side of the curve that's how the curve you've got to go on the other side of that railing or else now I mean to tell you the truth smash that Master smashes well after a curlicue or two around in the orchard there you know that was the second post to Bastion and all to be missed but the cloud of dust I'm telling you it raised more than 40 miles but actually I felt more sheepish you know my face was was ready to talk about Crimson uh Crimson I never did a proverb Ferrari red especially now I've been modified into the Flaming orange there because I see that nothing much there it's a natural condition anyway unless you go on the wrong side of the railing of the bridge either it when the wrong time come or at least in that day whatever's in the way is going to join you they ain't fighting against you remember that son all they can do is make you look cheap you should unless of course you feel a little something else kind of creation I don't mean like they say on the railroad what if you got one always tell by the fear in the belly how limited y'all [Music] brethren Hernando's Hideaway indeed Fernando's fight away make no Spade drivers out there I say ain't even anybody but they're mad like Mexicans they're all heart and cockles boys [Music] but he resulted to think of not being afraid why there no Spade or even economic and I don't know what I mean to say but many suicides are those boys anyways why [Music] my brethren bearing your bangers today as well as Aborigines along the way these drums are going to tighten up sums and we get to kill ahead uh just about the right way brethren we've gathered here today oh [Music] wow 42 it was I'd say it wasn't 43 at all because that I had seven pairs of shoes and I can still recall no tires I don't choose [Music] brethren today the music will take over most of the way [Music] um I'll start listening to it [Music] I'm going to tell you something about them Arabian slave Traders anyway the air-conditioned Cadillacs say yenon all that mess and I don't mean just poke otherwise what we need is more that Tennessee Jack Daniels you uh something that uh first time they've been seduced by and I tell you [Music] or is it my first jealousy 15 anyway he opened the package upside down that camels man you even impressed me but I didn't know why I'd never think that way you see the first time I noticed because what I tell you was my first wife they were out for another matter no by coincidence we happened to choose the same cabin that night's what it was and all I recorded or something like that but anyway it doesn't quite that way but that's true she had to serve a term in court you know make an appearance or so when the parents come along and they they didn't know think that they did [Music] as with you know we've seen I'm in love with you honey honey now how can you have a sound like money old dog anything but the right color to it [Music] honey honey now how do you have a sound like money all dogs anything but the right color to it [Music] a head-on collision of second awe and Lush and Neil Cassidy was dead ironic that the fastest man alive should perish of bad breaks yet done some sacred Salt Flat his Effigy keeps driving round and round while the ashes of his mind report to action Central 400 years hacked into 40 fast ones I deny cremation neo-cassidy is alive in San Diego incarnate in a tortoise egg [Music]


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