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Pop Culture guru Mike Marino looks at the '50s & '60s and beyond through his own kaleidoscope, where rock met revolution. Spewing quips like a psychedelic lawn mower run amok, he drags us, more than likely kicking and screaming, through a past few of us knew and even fewer would admit. This is Truth barred from the history books--- or as Marino would put it, the Red, White and Screwed. Could cause nausea, night sweats and loss of appetite. Void where prohibited. THE ROADHEAD CHRONICLES BOOKSITE - ENTER HERE Quote from Eva Pasco - Author Fifties & Sixties Pop Culture!
Classic Cars, Rock n' Roll, Elvis, Drivein Movies "Automotively sexy & wickedly wonderful!" ED REAVIE - DIRECTOR - ST IGNACE CAR SHOW THE ROADHEAD CHRONICLES BOOKSITE - ENTER HERE PURPLE HAZED & DOUBLE DAZED! MIKE MARINO ROADHEAD INTERVIEW ON TRAVEL HUB RADIO
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He's like Frederick Lewis Allen on Acid! His chapters bounce all over the place and that is part of the book's charm. It is as if he is saying that you don't have to have your history chronological, that the events themselves are history in themselves, and yet he loosely strings each chapter around a theme. He sets up the 50s with a look at what led up to them, then it's through the looking glass. From the James Dean cool to the sci-fi kitsch, he lays out the changing world of youth and hints at the probable horror felt by the parents of the time. From muscle cars to the (North) beach scene to the advent of drive-ins (both movie and fast food), he shows us what many of us missed as it happened before our eyes. The great thing is that he portrays them as seen through his eyes, for he has a vision of the recent past as seen while it happened. This is not a guy who looks back on his past. This is a guy who writes about his past as it happened. And the great thing is that his past is ours.


Like any good driver who takes you for a ride, Mike Marino knows how to hold the reader's interest by fast pacing and a built-in sexiness from start to finish on this road trip. I give you a man's adulation for his Tin Lizzy: "Lizzie lets her gown flow dreamlike from her shoulders and exposes her treasures for discovery. Her door opens wide and he goes inside, gentle and timid at first, and then grabs her crank and turns her over...she sputters and moans, then smiles and sighs, and her engine burns and roars to life." 
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Mike punches every pop culture button there is and then some. 400 pages of 100% Nostalgia! This belongs in every gear heads library!!
The Roadhead Chronicles has been described as automotively sexy and goes from the Cold War Fifties Pop Culture of classic cars and rock n' roll to the spaced out Spare Change Sixties of Vietnam and Hells Angels. Not the usual look at the era, instead It's written by someone who lived it and spent a life of being on the road from his beach bum days in Honolulu to the glitz and dangers of the Sunset Strip in LA, and his purple hazed and double dazed days in North Beach and the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. The Roadhead Chronicles also looks at the history of Route 66, Roadside Neon Culture and old diners and dives!

Cream, Zepellin, Traffic, Blind Faith, Janis Joplin, Savoy Brown, Tim Buckley, Dead, Country Joe McDonald and it's one, two, three what are we fighting for. Also Joan Baez, Flamin' Groovies, Pete Seeger, New York Dolls, Savoy Brown, Bob Dylan, The Band, Terry Reid, Tom Waits, Ramones, Doors, Lennon & Lenin, The Marx Duo, Karl & Groucho, Joan Jett, Steve Earle, Patti Smith,

Grapes of Wrath, Bound for Glory, Che, Ghandi, Dog Day Afternoon, Cuckoo's Nest, Scent of a Woman, Sin City, Easy Rider, Tombstone, Goodfellas, Resevoir Dogs, Scarface, Angels with Dirty Faces, Wild One,
Ernie Kovacs Reruns, Ice Road Truckers, History Channel, Survivor Man, Maher, and The Daily Show.

Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacks, Jack Kerouac, Rosa Parks, William Burroughs, Studs Terkel, Che Guevara, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Jack Parr, Upton Sinclair, Randall P. McMurphy, Tony Montana, Helen Keller, W.B. Dubois, Ghandi, M.L. King, Rusty Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Female President of the USA), Angela Davis.
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This compendium of illiterations, art, literature and journalism is a compost pile of fermenting illiterati to toss onto the garden of your imagination to further fertilize it to yield a bounty of ideas and free thought. It breaks rules as it does not recognize good grammer in some instances as the final authority over random thought. The words and art herein hopefully fall from an imaginary pinata as delightful and delicious candy
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Mike Marino is a freelance writer, journalist, rock n' roll broadcaster and author of The Roadhead Chronicles book...and a pop culture dumpster diver! THE ROADHEAD BOOK By: Mike Marino Pop Culture & Chrome Available in US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Netherlands & Japan! MIKE MARINO TRAVEL HUB RADIO INTERVIEW MIKE MARINO MAGAZINE INTERVIEW Pacific Left Coast author, freelance writer, journalist, broadcaster, indie filmaker and purple hazed & double dazed pop culture dumpster diver. I am the author of THE ROADHEAD CHRONICLES - Where Pop Culture & Chrome Meet Asphalt & Art and two collections of writings called The Atomic Hula & The Peyote Coyote. I also a member of the literary community called 20-Dissidents and am featured in The Neo Beat Anthology Collection and Literary Journal. I don't vote for Democrats or Republicans and consider myself politically a Tom Joadist. I also write for publications on subjects advocating the legalization of marijuana. Raised in the Fities, grew up fast in the Sixties, I left home at 15, lived on the beach in Hawaii and on the streets in LA and San Franciso for five years homeless with junkies, trannies, hookers, bikers, drunks, dharmabums, haiku hobo's, psychedelics and dopers, and staying alive by any means neccessary. I'll try anything once, and have, twice or more if I like it or have at least a passing interest. Today, I am a columnist, writer, broadcaster, author, and contributing writer for a variety of publications including classic car mags, pop culture mags, Route 66 publications and history & travel magazines in North America, Europe and Asia, and available for freelance writing jobs. Too many to list here but gives you an idea. Speed, Style and Sound Originally born and bred blue collar plaid and proud in the Motor City I've also lived in Hawaii, California, Colorado, Maine and now New Mexico where you don't have to search for the peyote, the peyote will find you amigo's and amiga's. ROADHEAD CHRONICLES BOOK REVIEW
The great thing is that he portrays them as seen through his eyes, for he has a vision of the recent past as seen while it happened. This is not a guy who looks back on his past. This is a guy who writes about his past as it happened. And the great thing is that his past is ours. As for the historical subjects? They were the true histories and not those spoonfed by educators strapped to corporation-accepted textbooks. The real history of the carhop, the fear created by the nuclear age, the very real effect of teen idol worship, the eccentric people and their odd worlds which touched us for a headline and maybe two. The stories are short and sweet, sometimes just a passing comment, but stated in such a way that we feel that, trivial though they may seem, they were after all important enough to be included and, dammit, who are these people to tell us what's important, anyway? I laughed through a large part of this and found myself heading to the computer to type in certain things in the old search engine, it was that interesting, but maybe I'm an old fuddyduddy. I mean, I read Frederick Lewis Allen in my youth and, in fact, still have three of his fine books on my shelves. Occasionally, I pick them up and leaf through them because damned if it isn't just plain interesting stuff. Marino's book will make it there soon, but I've placed it for the moment on the coffeetable. It's so much easier to roll over on the couch and reach out than to get up and walk to the bookshelves every time I want a quick Roadhead fix. I'm not getting any younger, you know.

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HE'S LIKE FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN ON ACID! His chapters bounce all over the place and that is part of the book's charm. It is as if he is saying that you don't have to have your history chronological, that the events themselves are history in themselves, and yet he loosely strings each chapter around a theme. He sets up the 50s with a look at what led up to them, then it's through the looking glass. From the James Dean cool to the sci-fi kitsch, he lays out the changing world of youth and hints at the probable horror felt by the parents of the time. From muscle cars to the (North) beach scene to the advent of drive-ins (both movie and fast food), he shows us what many of us missed as it happened before our eyes.
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