Good Vibrations

Engaging biopic of punk pioneer Terri Hooley, who opened a record shop in 1970s Belfast and helped foster the city's underground music scene.

Good Vibrations is a 2013 comedy-drama film written by Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson and directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn. It stars Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Adrian Dunbar, Liam Cunningham, Karl Johnson and Dylan Moran. It is based on the life of Terri Hooley, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk rock scene. The film was produced by Chris Martin, with Andrew Eaton, Bruno Charlesworth and David Holmes. Holmes also co-wrote the soundtrack score.

The Naked Zoo (1970)

A seductive matron lives in Miami with her wealthy, wheelchair-bound husband. Frustrated, she beds a young author. The gravy train abruptly derails when her husband finds out, and murder ensues.

Canned Heat perform in the party scene, playing "One Kind Favor", from the 1968 record Living the Blues.

A cracker of an album:

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg is a 1993 film by Jerry Aronson chronicling the poet Allen Ginsberg's life up to that point, along with his views on death; Ginsberg was in his mid 60s when the movie was first released, and died at age 70. The film has been completed and released a number of times due to changing technologies and world events. The first release of the film was in 1993 at the Sundance Film Festival after which it enjoyed an international festival run and USA theatrical run. When Aronson showed him the film the poet is reported to have nodded his head thoughtfully and said, "So, that's Allen Ginsberg."

After Ginsberg passed in 1997, Jerry Aronson decided to update the ending of the film to include the poet's passing, added a shot of Ginsberg's headstone in New Jersey, and added a new recording of Paul Simon singing Ginsberg's "New Stanzas for Amazing Grace" for the closing credits.

Liquid Crystal Vision - Documentary about Goa Trance

Liquid Crystal Vision (2002) is a 60-minute cult documentary exploring the spiritual and cultural roots of the global Goa trance movement. Directed by Omananda, the film features interviews with pioneers like Raja Ram and Goa Gil, featuring footage from Goa, India, and global parties, highlighting themes of dance as a, "global peace prayer," and personal evolution.

Features insight from key figures, including Goa Gil, Raja Ram, System 7, Youth, Swami, and Alex Grey. Features music by artists such as Shpongle, Irresistible Force, Banco De Gaia, Space Tribe, and Nick Doof and includes scenes from Goa (India), Portugal, Cambodia, Laos, and Burning Man.

The film explores the freedom to dance, the psychedelic experience, and the connection between ancient rituals and modern technology.

(פצצות בדרך לסוף העולם) Psychedelic Zion

"Psychedelic Zion" follows the ups and downs of three rave organizers who operate under the banner "Peace and Love Production." Filmed over the course of two years, director Isri Halpern follows the trio from their first ecstatic parties on the hillsides of the Galilee, into the living rooms of their religious, working-class families, and deep into the fray of their eventual and sometimes violent clashes with the police. In the midst of a public furor, they take their case to the government and the Supreme Court, fighting for the right to live out their psychedelic dreams. Full film in Hebrew with English subtitles.

Music Is My Drug : Psychedelic Trance

A documentary from 1995, and therefore one of the earliest attempts to document the scene that centered on Goa in the 1990s. It focuses on the movements between Isreal and India, which was huge when I was in India in the 90s. The thing is, the Isrealis I met were not interested in the politics of the region. In fact they were against the whole bloody thing. But they had no choice. Isreal is a machine that eats its own young. The Trance scene was a higher plane. Here is a window on it.

The Scandalous Lady W (2015)

An 18th-century drama detailing the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Jessica Gunning, Aneurin Barnard.

Lady Worsley was rumoured to have had 27 lovers. In November 1781 she ran off with Bisset, a captain in the South Hampshire militia, who had been Worsley's close friend and neighbour at Knighton Gorges on the Isle of Wight. In February 1782 Worsley brought a criminal conversation case against Bisset for £20,000 (equivalent to £2,918,500 in 2025). Lady Worsley turned the suit in her favour with scandalous revelations and the aid of past and present lovers; and questioned the legal status of her husband. She included a number of testimonies from her lovers and her doctor, William Osborn, who related that she had suffered from a venereal disease which she had contracted from the Marquess of Graham. It was alleged that Worsley had displayed his wife naked to Bisset at the bath house in Maidstone. This testimony destroyed Worsley's suit and the jury awarded him only one shilling (2015: £5.28) in damages.

Bisset eventually left Lady Worsley when it became apparent that Worsley was seeking separation rather than divorce, meaning Seymour could not remarry until Worsley's death. Seymour was forced to become a professional mistress or demimondaine and live off the donations of rich men in order to survive, joining other upper-class women in a similar position in the New Female Coterie. She had two more children: another by Bisset after he left her in 1783, whose fate is unknown; and a fourth, Charlotte Dorothy Hammond (née Cochard), who she sent to be raised by a family in the Ardennes.

Lady Worsley later left for Paris in order to avoid her debts. In 1788, she and her new lover, the biracial composer, conductor and champion fencer Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, returned to England, and her estranged husband entered into articles of separation, on the condition she spend four years in exile in France. Eight months before the expiration of this exile, she was unable to leave France because of the events of the French Revolution and she was probably imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, meaning she was abroad on the death of her and Worsley's son in 1795. In early 1797, she returned to England, and she then suffered a severe two-month illness. Owing to the forgiveness of her mother, her sister and her sister's husband, the Earl of Harrington, she was then able to move into Brompton Park, her previous home, but which the laws on property prevented her from officially holding.

On Worsley's death in 1805, her £70,000 jointure reverted to her and just over a month later, on 12 September, at the age of 47 she married 26-year-old newfound lover John Lewis Cuchet (d. 1836) at Farnham. Also that month, by royal licence, she officially resumed her maiden name of Fleming, and her new husband also took it. After the armistice of 1814 ended the War of the Sixth Coalition, the couple moved to a villa at Passy, Paris where she died in 1818, aged 59. She is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.