In my research of sixties lore (despite having lived through it, I’ve had to do extensive research to renew my grey cells) I was able to add a term to the lexicon of the sixties. 🙂
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Jacob, Tony, Indie Gypsy and Stephen. Appreciate your Likes and dropping by my page.

I’m collecting interesting and intriguing quotes with the word NAKED in in them to use at the beginning of chapters in A Naked Car Thief. If you have any that you’d like to contribute please let me know. You can post it here or email me at larry@larrydunlap.com

Now just because the word is Naked, not really interested in salacious quotes, unless of course they are really funny or profound or have some redeeming quality. Quotes from famous people, funny people, from books, speeches, or movies would be good.

Also, music lyrics. I found one that I really like that I’ll definitely use. So if you know of any songs lyrics or poems with the word Naked in it, please let me know.

Best of all, if you feel the inspiration, write me a quote of your own. If it fits I’ll use it in the book. That would be the most fun.

Thanks.

Memoir is a fascinating proposition, definitely from the inside, and hopefully on the outside. I continually finding myself re-evaluating backwards as I move through the story. I see motivations and cause and effect that I would never have realized before.
The self-evaluation has caused me to visit the earlier chapters on a regular basis, sometimes for a subtle change, and sometimes to move, edit, or even delete whole paragraphs to get it right. It’s extending the time to do get the thing done, but worth the effort to try and grasp the entirety of the experience.

When Stark Naked and the Car Thieves came to play the Pussycat A’ Go Go in 1966, there were twelve major hotels on the Las Vegas strip. The Cat was behind a race book, on ground that is now covered by the Wynn Hotel, south of the Desert Inn. It’s sign was a slyly smiling silhouette of a cat that stood high above the boulevard. …more

Actually, Jim Morrison had driven to Las Vegas from Orange County with a friend who wrote for the New York Times magazine, and they came to see Stark Naked and the Car Thieves who were appearing at the Pussycat A’ Go Go rock club. Unfortunately, it was their night off. Jim was pretty loaded and got into a beef with the bouncer, who didn’t like his long hair, or hippies in general. As the incident escalated, Morrison was sapped a couple of times, which seemed to enrage him rather than subdue him. The Las Vegas police were called who empathized with the club as Morrison went ballistic. The writer wrote extensively about this night and felt they were lucky to have posted bail, when there was a threat of a severe beating from the police after their shift was up. So no, the Doors never played the Cat, but the groups were known to each other from previous engagements in Hollywood.

After numerous attempts to create a user name with A Naked Car Thief, even now too suggestive for public use, Facebook included, the page has now been named http://facebook.com/LookBackInLove.

Pleased to announce that “The Nook at Caesars Palace” was published in the Inlandia’s Literary Journal anthology, “2012 Writing from Inlandia”, last week. “The Nook” is an advance excerpt from “Look Back in Love, memoir of A Naked Car Thief.” At the end of 1966, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves became the first rock band to play in a major Las Vegas strip hotel. Of course it wasn’t without controversey; we weren’t allowed to use our own name (too suggestive) and had to appear as the Big Spenders, and oh, we weren’t supposed to play songs that actually rocked, just sing our harmony and soft rock ballads. To top it off, one of the other five acts on the bill opening the new Nero’s Nook lounge, was our nemesis, the Checkmates Ltd., a group from our home state who had haunted us almost from the moment our singing group had become a band. Something had to give, and it did.

It was my first public reading and I was nervous, but thankfully the story was well received. I’m grateful to Inlandia for publishing “The Nook” in the 2012 anthology. It will help immensely as I attempt to bring the book to completion over the next few months.

Updated copy and new working title: LOOK BACK IN LOVE, Memoir of A Naked Car Thief. Drop by for a look, and if you’re not already, join the mailing list. Announcement of excerpt being published by Inlandia Literary Journal, and new first chapter rewrite coming later this week. Once again, thanks for all the support. http://ANakedCarThief.com.