"Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man." --Travis Bickle, TAXI DRIVER (1976) This is a blog for California, guns, rock n roll, motorcycles, Bob Dylan, rebellion, James Dean, gangs, punk, freight trains, tattoos, Tom Waits, 1960s, vintage, beatniks, Nevada nights, black highways, leather jackets, endless stars, abandoned places, India, bohemia, John Lennon, Taxi Driver, Guns ‘n Roses, psychedelia, surrealism, enlightenment, Buddhism, the 1950s, greasers, Joe Strummer, art, sacrifice, late nights, the lip of insanity, altered states of mind, spirituality, war, Catch-22, loneliness, Twin Peaks, old factories, the Catskills in 1968, classic cars, social revolution, bonfires, campfires, tents, bleak winters, the cold frozen roads of the midwest, love letters, nostalgia, Americana, cassette tapes, Coney Island, Bruce Springsteen, and incense. / Main Blog: STARRY MESSENGER //