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LFDW has a connection to the city of Los Angeles. Personally it's one of my favorite places on earth. If we've ever talked about LA I've probably told you about how great the Pacific Palisades are. The entire neighborhood is now gone.
Both me and Hannah know and work with a lot of people in the city. In October we were out there for an event. Our warehouse and fulfillment center is in Hollywood, on Santa Monica not far from Hollywood Forever Cemetery. One of the fires, which is now contained, was blocks from there.
The city defunded the Fire Department. We will be donating all profits from two products, our Outlaw Shit Los Angeles Trucker Hat and our LFDW On The West Coast event shirts to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.
You can buy them below:
OUTLAW SHIT TRUCKER HATS
LFDW ON THE WEST COAST SHIRT
I've been looking for people to do interviews with for the magazine. We have some pretty cool ones lined up but, I wanted to bring attention to someone that isn't as well known. I decided John Buck Wilkin would be the way to go.
Wilkin put out two records. 1970's In Search of Food, Clothing, Shelter and Sex and 1971's Buck Wilkin. I found his personal Facebook page, and after not hearing back I starting looking up how to get in contact with him. It turns out he died last April. It made no news. His former Nashville roommate and friend died in September and we're still hearing about it.
Wilkin met Kris Kristofferson when Kristofferson sent his demo's to Wilkins mother, a music publishing exec. Wilkin picked Kris up when her first got to town in 1965 and they lived together for a while. Through Kris, Wilkin met Dennis Hopper. He provided much of the soundtrack to Hopper's Easy Rider follow up, the art-house feature and studio nightmare The Last Movie (Trailer). Wilkin sums up the The Last Movie in a song that only exists in the documentary The American Dreamer (Watch), which loosely follows Hopper going crazy in Taos while editing the film.
"Here's to Mr. Hopper, who's traded in his Chopper for a gamble in the South American Sun/Got some heads from Hollywood who think things might be pretty good, if they can figure out what Denny's done"
-Screaming Metaphysical Blues (Listen)
The Last Movie was Kris Kristofferson's first time on camera and John Buck Wilkin's last. Wilkin's presence plays a larger role in the film that Kristofferson's. His songs soundtrack major moments and provide the only real continuity of the whole experience. It's possible that if the studio, critics, and audiences hadn't hated The Last Movie, Hopper had to go work in Europe for almost a decade, John Buck Wilkin may be a household name. We'll never know.
After his two records and his experiences with Hopper, Wilkin existed as a studio musician, working with Waylon Jennings, Kinky Friedman, and others. He wrote and released demos of his music himself until he died.
I came across his work, unsurprisingly, at the same time I really dove deep into what Hopper. How else do you end up watching The Last Movie? His two records and his soundtrack evoke emotions and memories in me I won't try to explain. Half the memories aren't mine anyway.
After coming up together John buck Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson died months apart from each other. One was honored over and over and memorialized around the world. The other died in obscurity. I'm a fan and I'm just finding out, 9 months later. I feel as if the least I can do is tell some more people about him.
Below are some links to his work. Of course, most of it can't be found on Spotify. But, please, give it a listen. If you like it half as much as me, you'll still love it.
SONGS:
My God and I
Apocalypse 1969
Only When It Rains
Sun Moon and Stars
ALBUM:
In Search of Food, Shelter, Clothing and Sex
John Buck Wilkin in the glasses on the set of The Last Movie
Wilkin on stage in the early 2000's
This is a list from my phone it's mostly complete. All of these are good, some are better than others but I like them all a lot. You'll notice a lot people being involved in multiple movies, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Peter Sellers, Karen Black, Al Pacino...etc. It's because they are very good at acting and make a lot of good movies. There's also multiple scorcese, coppela and kubrick and Sydney Lumet movies, they are very good at directing and make a lot of good movies. Watch any of these and you'll have a good time, at least I did.
Once upon a time in Hollywood (My favorite movie ever made)
Psych out (Jack Nicholson plays a hippie lol it's good tho)
Beyond the valley of the dolls (Russ Meyer boobie movie that is shockingly good)
Cisco pike (Kris, Karen Black, Gene Hackman, Harry Dean Stanton, yes)
-both of these following movies I watched and fully understood why they are considered some of the best ever made-
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
Easy Rider (No shit)
Being there (Like if Forrest Gump was a good movie)
The American Friend (Dennis Hopper was banished to europe for a bit in the '70's he made this movie with Wim Wenders, its perfect)
Dicky Robert’s (Yes with David Spade)
Dr Strangelove (Yes)
A woman under the influence (John Cassavettes starring Peter Falk and Genna Rowlands)
Killing of a Chinese bookie (John Cassavettes with Ben Gazzara)
Chinatown (John Huston is so fucking good)
Five easy pieces (Nicholson and Karen Black, nothing gets resolved but it's very good)
Electric horseman (Robert Redford steals a horse)
Variety (Time's Square 1980 porno theaters and all)
La story (Steve Martin is the best)
The killing (Early Kubrik)
Rancho deluxe (Goofy ass 1974 Jeff Bridges rustling cattle)
Dirty Harry (you'll find our why they call him dirty harry)
Thunderbolt and lightfoot (If you haven't seen it you should, Clint Eastwod and Jeff Bridges)
Three days at the condor (Good spy shit with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway)
The last movie (Dennis Hopper's follow up to Easy Rider, very clear why the studio hated it, I love it)
The shooting (Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson acid western)
Rolling Thunder (A vietnam vet with a hook hand and a shotgun goes on a mission to avenge his wife and sons murder)
Leon the professional (1990's Taxi Driver kinda)
Smokey and the bandit (Obviously)
Fisher king (Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams it will make you cry maybe)
What’s new pussycat (Early Woody Allen, Peter O'toole and Peter Sellers are very funny)
Magic Christian (Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr)
The Full Monty (Ugly british men take their clothes off)
Walk Hard (Literally never gets old)
horrible Bosses (Yes the comedy from 2011)
My cousin Vinny (I saw this when I was 12)
Dead men don’t wear plaid (Steve Martin and Humphrey Bogart)
Hell or high water (A modern western)
Deep red (Dario Argento the king of Giallo)
Bird with the crystal plumage (Also Argento, look up Giallo)
Mean streets (Better than later scorcese and it's only like an hour and a half)
Death wish (Bronson at his peak)
The Player (I don't even like Tim Robbins)
Targets (shots and music)
Eyes of Laura mars (An American Giallo)
The Graduate (Clearly a good one)
Escape From NY (Kurt Russel is the shit)
Phantom of the paradise (Rock and roll phantom of the opera)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma's best)
Breathless (French bullshit)
Joe (Peter Boyle is fuckin fantastic)
Maltese Falcon (That's Chinatown Jake)
The Pawnbroker (Rod Stieger plays a holocaust survivor, it's very good and a bummer.
The Bikeriders (A new movie???)
The Great Beauty (One of the absolute best things I've ever seen in my life)
The Birdcage (robin Williams Nathan Lane Hank Azzaria)
King of Comedy
Crusing (Pacino goes undercover in the NYC gay S&M scene to find a killer, no one liked it at the time, a lot of people still don't including Al Pacino. I like it)
Roadhouse (It's fucking roadhouse
Phantom of the Paradise (Just nuts)
God Told Me To (Also nuts)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Bill Murray plays Hunter Thompson)
Dog Day Afternoon (ATTICA, second Sydney Lumet movie on the list)
New York Ripper (Daffy Duck sounding serial killer)
Coogan’s Bluff (Sexy young Clint Eastwood)
