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About Me

I live in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles with an orange 12 year old cat named Spider, AKA The Orange Flash. My claim to fame is a 1967 record called "If You're Going to San Francisco, Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair", certainly the longest song title in pop-music history. It was composed by my old high school buddy, the great John Phillips, and was used as the theme song for the Monterey International Pop Festival in June of 1967.
What does all of this mean? It means I'm a sexagenarian flower child, which is an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
My good friend Gary Hartman in Perth, Australia is nowhere near as old as I am. Young Gary maintains a site in my name, where people from all over the world leave messages: SCOTT MCKENZIE

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The great TV comedians of the 1950's - Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason, Steve Allan, Ernie Kovaks, Sid Caesar, who conspired to keep at least one frightened teenaged boy laughing, no matter what happened. Except for Caesar, all of these giants have left us. I'd like to meet them so I can thank them for giving me so much laughter and joy.
And my father, who died before I was three years old.

My Blog

Old

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.  -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:49:00 GMT

People Like You

While I have remained the awkward childfighting a clumsy war against demons invisible,others have become adults,raised children,become grandparents. They have been busy,going with the flow everyone al...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:57:00 GMT

For Denny Doherty

I'm feeling blessed and grateful to be alive after recording some lovely songs for a documentary about my late friend, Denny Doherty.  With me were Denny's two beautiful children, Emberly and John, as...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:05:00 GMT

On Turning Ten

On Turning Tenby Billy CollinsThe whole idea of it makes me feellike I'm coming down with something,something worse than any stomach acheor the headaches I get from reading in bad light--a kind of mea...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:41:00 GMT

MY MONDRIAN PATIO FLOOR

Dear MySpace Friends,I'm sure quite a few of you enjoy working on and renovating houses, and some of you have wondered what I was doing to my patio floor that could possibly take so much time. ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:16:00 GMT

Brian Wilson’s New Album

By Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 30, 2008 COULD there be a more intimidating musical task than the one Brian Wilson took on five years ago ...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:30:00 GMT

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Advice to would-be poets

Invent a new language anyone can understand. Climb the Statue of Liberty. Reach for the unattainable. Kiss the mirror and write what you see and hear. Dance with wolves and count the stars, including...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:20:00 GMT

Acronyms

Acronyms suck.  (For all I know, "suck" is an acronym for a phrase that cannot be repeated on MySpace without resulting in banishment.  If it doesn't, it should)Take "ABS".   In a...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 13:02:00 GMT

The Earth Belongs to the Living

The University of Virginia has a complete collection of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, as well as excellent links to all things Jefferson. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/index.html&.. .
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:56:00 GMT

The Lad and The Maiden

Last night I dreamed of a meandering lad, a lad who awakens early each morning by himself in his bed on an island called Man.  You know this lad; this lad is familiar, forever familiar, forever m...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:55:00 GMT