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August 16, 2009

Cecilia Casals Sets Self On Fire In Mall #11 - Most Viewed (Today) News & Politics (as five of you know, my fave thing to do on Sunday, is F*** With YouTube Commenteers, and Post the F***ings)

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ANATOMY OF YOUTUBE COMMENTEERS

OR

HOW YOUTUBE DEBATES HOST THE NEW

JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS JEFFERSONS...
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(Generally, for a Viral Vid like this, it just takes one guy like stained...

YouTube 101 (free lesson) If you want your vid to move, comment back, like mine: i know...hot huh?   Try to social mirror. (Your intellect will complain, but ultimately your views will thank you).

Which means what?   It means that all other videos which you post that aren't inflammatory and topical (e.g. I was the first person to post this story...just by accident), will receive a larger viewership, not to mention a higher pole position in YouTube/Google Analytics (yeah, the fact that Google owns YouTube kinda has something to do with this).

As for my other YouTube Posting, Titling, Tagging, Linking, Tweeting...Tips, wait for YouTube For Dummies...or (How to Appeal to Subnormals by the Millions)--I should know, on my last channel, now sadly taken down for being too HOT (NICHOPOULOUZA--BUT A BETTER NAME DID COME OUT), I LEARNED by experience when I posted one of the one thousand Michael Jackson Ghost Videos, but mine saw over a Million Views in a week...How?  Wait for the book.)
stained18 (1 day ago)

shit
NICHOPOULOUZO (1 day ago)

i know...hot huh?
4wang2chung0 (1 day ago)

lol my friends mom just told me about this a while ago.
wtf man?
crazy ass lady...
Habbibz91 (1 day ago)


shes hot.
angie4josh (1 day ago) 

that fucking crazy bitch should have been left to burn.
jasonsadventure (23 hours ago)

yo, that guy torres is like completely hot.
ashleyboox (22 hours ago)

totally agreed ;)
mynameisbobtoo (23 hours ago) 

any one got a light? Oh wait I just got one from that chicks head
xxxIzekeIxxx (19 hours ago)

sounds like she did it to prove something to her daughter
therealburpingcat (17 hours ago)

must've been a heated argument.
akl3g (16 hours ago)

Why the fuck would you let lose a woman with mental problems AND a heavy criminal record alone in a mall?

You would think she would have a guardian, or something of that sort so she WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO LIGHT HERSELF ON FUCKING FIRE.
akl3g (16 hours ago)

Anyway, congrats to the guy who went to break for the fire extinguisher.
sisisinonono (16 hours ago)

well we are no one to judge...hope she survives

and john torres si so handsome..i feel bad to write this but he is a totall hotie and a kind soul for what we can see
wunderfool1973 (10 hours ago)

I think the people who were snapping pictures of her are sicker than she is. What the hell?!

rdelaware (9 hours ago) Show Hide

Wow, that woman looks hot.

HerculesRockefellerr (8 hours ago) Show Hide


Daaaahaha thats classsic, I get it!
TrueBloodTypeA (7 hours ago) Show Hide

All they had to do was kick her legs out from under her and quickly throw piles of the clothes in the store on her to smother the fire.
I do not think that they did not care. I think that they just did not know what to do. When I see stories like this I feel like I am stranded on planet Moron.

madmoddersparkler (2 hours ago) Show Hide

they didnt know what to do so... they took pictures?????? pardon my incredulity, but that sort of behavior is completely indefensable. If you dont know what to do yourself shout for assistance or use your cellphone to call for help. Personally i think everyone who used thier phones to take a picture is waste of oxygen.
DavosLogos (4 hours ago) Show Hide
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crazy spic whore.
First eating baby brain now setting yourself on fire.

(seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people?)

renijohn012270 (3 hours ago) Show Hide

This shows you how truly pathetic and ridiculous society has become! And I am not talking about Cecilia Casals!!

I'm talking about the 10 or so people taking fuckin cell phone pictures to post on YouTube!

What the fuck has society become when a person is left to burn to death while people watch and do nothing but take pictures?

Thank God for people like John Torres! We need more people like him in our world! He himself just said NOBODY WAS DOING ANYTHING!!

PATHETIC SOCIETY!!
ObiRawKenobi (1 hour ago) Show Hide

Most people are mindless scum, as evidenced by the comments on this video. God help us all.
NICHOPOULOUZO (1 minute ago) Show Hide

I AGREE, Obi Wan Kenobi. And if I knew more about Star Wars, I'd make a really funny joke (insert here). I'll try:

Perhaps if Luke and R2D2 had been at the Mall of the Americas, the Crazy self-immolating lady could have been saved by (the gold robot thing)...BTW, I AM JOHN TORRES' FATHER, DARTH TORRESS...SORRY, I TRIED. (how do you guys flirt with women with screen names like that?)
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The thing that should be the shocking part of this story is the fact that only three people stopped to help!
In a mall filled with people only THREE people stop to help? And they where outside the mall! WTF is wrong with people today!!!!
Wow, it's no wonder our country is in the shape it is.
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fire crotch?

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Jim Dickinson in Mojo Nixon 'ELVIS' Video--In other news: If @mrjyn Uploaded a #Mojo #Nixon Song, You Know I #love JD...






Jim Dickinson
Mojo Nixon
'ELVIS' VIDEO
634...SOMETHING ELVIS CALL...
1989

RT @mrjyn #youtube #video - http://bit.ly/3yekAo -
--if @mrjyn uploaded a #mojo #nixon song, you know i #love JD...cuz I sho do hate me some comedy rock...Dash Riprock and Mojo Nixon may be the two stupidest bands I know....but Jim, having recorded both of them, at least found a way to cash in...) via @mrjyn


Memphis music icon Jim Dickinson...died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, August 15. The 67 year old musician was recovering from triple bypass surgery.



MAKE SURE TO WATCH the incredible JIM DICKINSON 10-part interview Playlist HERE: http://www.youtube.com/user/#grid/use... FROM THE YouTube Channel HERE: http://www.youtube.com/user/Stagehand... OF THE Recording Website Stagehandspace HERE:
DESCRIBED THUSLY:

"Mississippi-based producer and musician Jim Dickinson has worked on hundreds of recordings over a career in music spanning five decades. In that time, he has worked at some of the most legendary studios in the southern United States (Ardent, Muscle Shoals and Sun), and contributed to a veritable whos who of the past fifty years of rock, blues and soul from playing keyboards for Aretha Franklin, Ry Cooder, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to producing records for artists like Big Star, Green on Red, The Replacements, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, as well as dozens more."
ABOUT WHICH I SAY THIS:
'If not for this Decalogue of DICKINSON...(After finding my tag list way too fucking long for YouTube's Tag Limit, in a very Dickinsonian mode, I'm improvising and using the Tags as my personal tribute, instead of the two paragraphs I just deleted)
R.I.P.
You Will Never Be Replaced...

Here 'tis:
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Jim Dickinson JAMES LUTHER PIANO Dixie Fried North Mississippi Allstars nma cody mary mudboy neutrons world boogie Jungle Jim Voodoo Tiger 67 hernando memphis R.I.P. chilton Tav jerry lawler
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I'll be updating this frequently...
Besides Stanley Booth, there are not very many people I can think of besides me, more qualified to keep you informed.
~ nichopoulouzo

THIS IS THE FIRST ARTICLE I READ, SO I'M INCLUDING IT...FROM 'THE EXAMINER' I THINK:


Dickinson was a sought after session musician who played piano on numerous albums including The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers, Aretha Franklins Spirit In The Dark, and Bob Dylans Time Out Of Mind. His production work on the Big Star album Third/Sister Lovers, recorded in 1974, but not released until 1978, made him an in-demand producer for many of the new bands who would soon top the college alternative charts in the 80s. In addition to The Replacements, Dickinson also produced Jason & The Scorchers, Willy DeVille, John Hiatt, and Houston favorite Joe King Carrasco.

Jim Dickinson also fronted a band called Snake Eyes and recorded several solo albums including the 2006 album Jungle Jim And The Voodoo Tiger featuring his sons Luther and Cody: North Mississippi Allstars.

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BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies

1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
 Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, has died.

Presley, 42, was discovered slumped in a bathroom at his mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday.

He was rushed to the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The Tennessee state pathologist, Dr. Jerry Francisco, said a post mortem examination of the singer's body had revealed he died of cardiac arrhythmia - a form of heart attack.

"The precise cause has not yet been determined for the cardiac arrhythmia," Dr Francisco said.

"It may take several days to several weeks to determine that specific cause and in some cases it never is determined."

The three-hour examination uncovered no sign of any other diseases or any drug abuse, Dr Francisco added.

Declining health

Presley was divorced from his wife Priscilla in 1973 but it was rumoured that he had recently become engaged to Ginger Alden, 20.

She was reportedly spotted wearing a $50,000 (£20,315) diamond engagement ring from Presley.

Ms Alden and other members of his entourage were at Graceland when he collapsed.

There had been indications of Elvis Presley's declining health for some time.

Earlier this year the singer had cancelled several performances in Louisiana and returned to Memphis suffering what his doctors termed "exhaustion".

No arrangements have been announced yet for his funeral which is scheduled for Friday.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
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MJ’s Wacky Afterlife : Top 100 Celebrities

LOS ANGELES

– MICHAEL Jackson’s outlandish life is being overshadowed in his death by events so preposterous they seem to come from a fiction writer’s overactive imagination.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
Jackson had his first two children, Prince Michael and Paris, when he was married to Debbie Rowe, an assistant to his dermatologist, between 1996 and 1999.

Ms Rowe signed over parental rights to the children to Jackson, who later had a third child, Prince Michael II, by a surrogate.

… more
GHOST, CLONE AND A NOBEL PRIZE?
Soon after Jackson’s death, a website opened nominating the singer for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for having ‘given of himself completely and selflessly in a lifelong effort to help better global conditions for children, and all of humankind.’

As of Saturday more than 31,000 people had signed the petition – even though Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.

… more
They include a petition to award him a Nobel peace prize; a growing list of people who claim to be the real parents of Jackson’s children; a lawsuit from an alleged ex-wife; and a sect that believes the ‘King of Pop’ lives on, albeit on another planet.

Jackson died in Los Angeles on June 25 at age 50 from an apparent cardiac arrest. His son Prince Michael, 12; his daughter Paris, 11, and seven-year-old son Prince Michael II – known as ‘Blanket’ – are the immediate heirs to the late singer’s music empire. Their legal guardian is Katherine Jackson, the children’s paternal grandmother.

According to a case filed recently in Los Angeles, a woman named Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise claims to be the children’s sole biological mother.

Documents filed by Ms Fields Cruise, and posted on celebrity website TMZ.com, also claim Prince Michael I was fathered by a man who lives in France, while Paris Jackson’s father was Fields Cruise’s ‘unofficial college sweetheart’. Ms Fields Cruise told a judge she gave birth to the children without being pregnant with them.

‘There is technology that is in existence,’ she told reporters after she filed the case, “to remove the conceived children from her body and insert them into the bodies of the surrogates who gave birth to them.’

Ms Fields Cruise also claimed that Jackson ‘always knew’ he was the biological father of Connor Cruise, the 14 year-old black child that actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman adopted in 1995, when they were still married.

One day before Ms Fields Cruise filed her case, British ex-child star Mark Lester said that he might be Paris Jackson’s father.

‘I gave Michael my sperm so that he could have kids – and I believe Paris is my daughter,’ Lester, who played Oliver Twist in the 1968 film musical ‘Oliver!’, told the British tabloid News of the World.

Jackson family spokesmen said the 51-year-old Briton was a friend of Jackson and is godfather to all three of his children, but denied Lester’s parenthood claim. — AFP

MJ’s Wacky Afterlife : Top 100 Celebrities
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Memphis producer, musician Jim Dickinson dies - Entertainment AP - MiamiHerald.com

Memphis producer, musician Jim Dickinson dies

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 11, 2008 file photo, Jim Dickinson stands outside his farm in Coldwater, Miss. Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in an influential career that spanned more than four decades, has died. He was 67.
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 11, 2008 file photo, Jim Dickinson stands outside his farm in Coldwater, Miss. Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in an influential career that spanned more than four decades, has died. He was 67.
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By CHRIS TALBOTT

Associated Press Writer

JACKSON, Miss. -- Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67.

His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems.

The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said.

Jim Dickinson, perhaps best known as the father of Luther and Cody Dickinson, two-thirds of the Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars, managed an outsider's career in an insider's industry. He recorded with and produced greats like Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Big Star, the Rolling Stones, The Replacements and Sam & Dave.

His work in the 1960s and '70s is still influential as young artists rediscover the classic sound of Memphis from that era - a melting pot of rock, pop, blues, country, and rhythm and blues.

"I think he was an incredibly influential individual," Big Star drummer Jody Stephens said Saturday. "I think he defined independent spirit in music, and I think that touched a lot of people."

Dickinson's music was informed by his eclectic and encyclopedic record collection - sold off and rebuilt a few times over the years, usually around Christmas - and his wide array of friends.

"As a producer, it really is all about taste," Jim Dickinson said in a 2008 interview with The Associated Press. "And I'm not the greatest piano player in the world, but I've got damn good taste. I'll sit down and go taste with anybody."

A dabbler in music while in college and later in shows at the famed Overton Park Shell in Memphis, Dickinson was on his way to becoming "a miserable history teacher." But his wife insisted he focus on his music after watching him play shows with the blues legends of Memphis.

"They were rediscovering Furry Lewis and Sleepy John Estes, Rev. Robert Wilkins, these talents that were like gods," Mary Lindsay Dickinson said in 2008. "They were street sweepers. They were yard men. They had no money, no fame, even though they'd invented this style, this musical style that was changing the world. When I saw what he could do with them - he thought he was gonna be a history teacher - I said, 'No, no, no, no, let's try music and see what happens."

Jim Dickinson moved around, traveling with both his own projects and as a sideman until his sons were born. He gave up the road and the lifestyle, built a home studio and settled in to the hard-scrabble life of the independent producer that he jokingly compared to hustling.

His sense of humor, gift for storytelling and open door kept musicians filing through his studio and kitchen as his sons grew up. He took an interest in the boys' music as another father might his sons' baseball career, even drawing Luther and Cody into his own bands. They last released an album together as Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger in 2006.

"Growing up he would play piano and electric guitar and it just always fascinated me, and I always had a little toy guitar of some sort around," Luther Dickinson said in 2008. "And I've really been blessed because I always knew what I wanted to do and it was totally because of my dad and his friends."

Dickinson's career touched on some of the most important music made in the '60s and '70s. He recorded the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" in Muscle Shoals, Ala.; formed the Atlantic Records house band The Dixie Flyers to record with Franklin and other R&B legends in Miami; inspired a legion of indie rock bands through his work with Big Star; collaborated with Ry Cooder on a number of movie scores, including "Paris, Texas;" and played with Dylan on his Grammy-winning return to prominence, "Time Out of Mind."

He credited his work with Big Star on "Third/Sister Lovers" with keeping his tape reels turning over the years, and Stephens found Dickinson's fingerprints all over the album when he listened to it recently.

"There's so many contributions from people that Jim either brought in or helped steer," Stephens said. "And sometimes a brilliant decision is to do nothing, allow space and that sort of thing. His keyboard part in 'Kizza Me' is this great fractured piano that kind of cascades, like the piano's falling down a flight of steps. I think it was all about the spirit and the emotion."

Dickinson's later work as a producer veered wildly across genres, skipping from Mudhoney to T Model Ford to Lucero and Amy Lavere.

"I'm not really a success-oriented person," Dickinson said. "If you look back at my records that I've made as a producer, they're pretty left-wing. It's some pretty off-the-wall stuff. Especially in the punk rock days. I literally took clients because I thought it would impress my children. I did work in the '70s and '80s where that was definitely my main motive."

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Jimmy Page My Les Paul Guitar is My Mistress and Wife | Parade.com

Jimmy Page: My Les Paul Guitar is My Mistress and Wife
by Jeanne Wolf
Three real-life guitar heroes rock the house in “It Might Get Loud.” Jack White (White Stripes), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and The Edge (U2) get together for an impromptu jam session in Davis Guggenheim’s documentary tracing the rise of the electric guitar and three legendary musicians who made it their own.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out some of Jimmy Page’s own rock memories and why he’ll miss the man who started it all, Les Paul, who passed away Thursday.

Jamming with The Edge and Jack White.
“What was so fascinating about it is that we are all really self-taught guitarists. We all have real interesting characteristics. It's not like we're part of an orchestra, where everyone has been taught the same way. But it turned out to be a great experience.”

Photos: Rock band reunions

Remembering Les Paul.
“He’s the man who started everything. He’s just a genius. He set the scene for what was to come as the pioneer of the electric guitar and new tape-recording technology. The Les Paul Gibson guitar that I got, I’ve played all the way through my career. It’s absolutely irreplaceable. I’ve had a marriage with that guitar. It’s my mistress and my wife -- and I don’t have to worry about paying any alimony. Of course, it has spawned some sons and daughters because I’ve acquired far too many guitars over the years. The blessed part is that I can’t play them all at once. If I just got back to my basic tools like the Les Paul, I suppose I could eliminate quite a few.”

Delivering newspapers got him started.
“I don't think my parents understood at all what I was doing, but they certainly didn't sabotage any of it. My dad bought me my first guitar, which was an acoustic. After that I wanted to pay for my own, so I got a paper route and got an electric one.”

Stars reveal what they would tell their younger selves

What he listened to as a kid.
“It was rock and roll and then the blues. It was just purely what was available to be heard in those days. I started listening to the radio and it was like this arm came out of the speaker and pulled me in. I was seduced. But for sure, I was influenced by all of those early rock and roll artists, the ones that came out of Memphis, Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. These days I've been listening to a lot of rockabilly.”

Hearing his influence in current performers.
“That's how music travels on. I mean that's how I learned. But as far as the record business goes, it's in a total change at the moment. I think kids want to get their music for free, but they are keen to hear live music. So I don't know how that's going to work out at the end of the day.”

The secret to making a great song like “Stairway to Heaven.”
“How it came about was just tinkering around on the guitar. It came from that. That’s exactly how it happens. You might have just tuned up, and you start playing and one minute you have nothing, or just a couple of chords, and the next minute you’re actually coming up with some new vision.”

Paul, Ringo Unveil 'Beatles: Rock Band'

Still finding new fans after all these years.
“I guess I was old before I got young. Whenever I think about it, I think you just get measured up by what you do, what you produce, as far as your music goes. For me, it’s almost like being in the same picture with a different frame.”

As for those blasted critics.
“You can just be sarcastic or you can try and look at the positive side of it and say, ‘Well, they just didn’t have a clue,’ Each of our albums was so radically different than the one that preceded it, I guess the reviewers had no point of reference. The people who bought our records and got into them understood what we were doing.”

Celebs reveal their first jobs

Don’t look for Led Zeppelin on Guitar Hero any time soon.
“Obviously, there have been overtures made to us, but if you start with the first track on the first Led Zeppelin album, ‘Good Times Bad Times,’ and you think of the drum part that John Bonham did -- how many drummers in the world can actually play that? It’s like if they opened their Guitar Hero and started dabbling, there could be a lot of alcohol consumed and they still wouldn’t come close to Bonham.”


 
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Film Review: The Manson Movie… unreleased | LA.CityZine.com - Los Angeles

manson-movie-poster.jpgLast September in Los Angeles, the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival took place at the Sunset 5 Theater in Hollywood. The festival was sponsored by Independent Film Quarterly, Independent Movie Channel - both owned by festival founder Stuart Alson - and Moli.com. The festival boasts showcasing the next generation of voices in independent film and video, wrong! I went there was to watch the one good film in the festival; “The Manson Movie” was the opening night headliner in the documentary category. “The Manson Movie” is fascinating, just for the access he was granted with the notorious Manson Family.

Hendrickson is the only person alive that can boast being Manson the family filmmaker.During the two-year period around Manson’s trial Hendrickson lived, played, traveled, and got high with the Manson family while rolling 35mm film the whole time. The documentary takes us from Viet Nam, and all the footage was shot by Hendrickson himself; the L.A riots, trail and life with the Manson family, as he lived with them at the Spahn Movie Ranch. Hendrickson films infamous family members Paul Watkins, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, Steve “Clem” Grogan, and more in the late 60’s, and early 70’s. In “The Manson movie,” the kids are doing anything from acting, playing, and singing at the Spahn ranch, to protesting, hiding out, and monologing for the camera in this eighty-five minute long film.

It’s like a Manson family reality show, as the footage takes us through the start of the Los Angeles riots that took the life of activist Rubin Salazar and Squeaky Fromme outside the Los Angeles courthouse as the Manson trial took place. Hendrickson and Sharon Tate had the same spiritual advisor, and his working in Hollywood gave him an insider’s view. He spoke-freely of the investigation of Tate/LaBianca murders, Hollywood, Roman Polanski and the LAPD detectives covering the case.Hendrickson said The (Lacy) Peterson case is the classic example, the husbands always the first suspect. I talked to a woman, a friend of Sharon Tate’s that said it wasn’t his (Roman Polanski) baby, and that they had an open ended marriage.

In “The Manson Movie” we see the family skinny-dipping, singing, cooking, smoking weed, dumpster-diving, but the tone often drifts to the dark side; its fear, suspicion, and psychotic-devotion to their beloved Charlie. He narrates the film as, telling us about how the girls make dumpster casserole (laced with pot) one-minute, and jump to jaw-dropping footage of the family’s secret Devil’s Canyon retreat, and Death Valley ranch, interviews and protesting Charlie’s trial.One of the more fascinating things is that Hendrickson went to the L.A jailhouse to meet with Manson to talk about the filming of his movie. Another interesting incident where he was told “in a few days” he’d go to the courthouse and film, and that Manson himself was expecting to be filmed. The end result for us, the viewer is a lot of new Manson footage in the film. We hear from the Hendrickson, the cameraman, about how it felt being there, living through being the one pointing the camera at Charles Manson.

The footage alone is enough for the movie to be released. I asked him why he would make this film, and speak out now. Hendrickson said the difference is he is 63
and he doesn’t give a ****. You know, what I really had to, what I’ve really done is for my Grandchildren, because years ago somebody said, and I had the idea then to make a film, make it like you’d make a home movie for your grandchildren.”

Hendrickson doesn’t leave out anything, or play to one-side or another in “The Manson Movie” he just uses this film-footage to document the times. The film is a fantastic documentary and a time capsule from the death of the sixties.

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