Popular Culture
- They are mentioned on the first page of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice.
- Characters in HBO's Generation Kill miniseries sing the song "Fixin' to Die".
- Country Joe and the Fish's 1967 performance at Tompkins Square Park in NYC's East Village is mentioned in the Don McNeill book, "Moving Though Here."
- They appear in issue 15 of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 (1969), apparently performing "Superbird" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" at a concert in Central Park.
- They appear in the 1971 movie Zachariah as an "inept gang of robbers".
- Country Joe is mentioned in the song "California Saga/California" on the 1973 album Holland by The Beach Boys
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
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“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing—he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
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