Hanging out with Michael on his Back Porch!

Disclaimer: The Backporch Tapes is a private collection that is shown to very few people. It is kept in a secret location away from Michael's house. Please don't go trying to contact him asking for a tour. He will politely refuse.

Suffice it to say that Michael Channels doesn't have a Manson collection. He has a fucking MUSEUM! We spent all day with him in that room and I feel like we only scratched the surface. He was a gracious host and was extremely generous with his time, knowledge and experiences. We cannot possibly thank him enough.

His stories & memories of his visits with Manson were pretty fascinating, too. Some of it we can never repeat. LOL. You'll have to ask him yourself.

It was an honor to get to know him. He's a cool guy with his own Manson Museum. Afterwards he took us to George Spahn's grave where we sat around in the grass & shot the shit for a while about life in general. A great time!



 

 

 

Guitar strings & pics belonging to CM

 

Ouisch's autograph attached to her mugshot.

Original hard copy of Manson File signed by Charles Manson

You can see Manson wearing this sweatshirt HERE

 

This is a label inside the tongue of one of Manson's boots. Manson must have some pretty big dogs because I wear an 11 1/2 and my foot had room to swim in there!

Matt, walking in Manson's shoe!

 

Dice made by Manson from soap.

At one point Michael looked at me and said, 

"Do you have a comic book written about you from prison? 

No? Well I DO!" LOL. 

Well, he does...

George Spahn's grave.

As an added treat, here is an interview Mike just did with Manson. As a humorous footnote, at about 8:07 you'll here Mike's phone beep. That was me (Matt) texting him. Lol.

Westchester/Venice

Squeaky's childhood home.

Squeaky penciled her name in the concrete as a young teen.

28 Clubhouse Ave in Venice Beach (the Zero house).

Deb speaking: I Zillow'd the property when we got back to the condo and was shocked to learn it is now valued at $1,609,000. WOW!

The Saladin Nader apartment building (Liz with Max Frost).

The door where they entered.

Sorry, Vincent...

Polanski blames the Pill for 'masculinising' women

CANNES, France — Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski on Saturday blamed birth control pills for "masculinising" women, as he premiered what he called a satire on sexism.

Polanski unveiled "Venus in Fur" starring his wife Emmanuelle Seigner, which was the last movie in competition to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

Asked by a reporter how his views of women had changed over time, the filmmaker said he thought feminism and advances in contraception had blurred the distinctions between the sexes.

"I think that now offering flowers to a lady becomes indecent, that's how I feel about it," he told a news conference after a well-received screening of his film.

"I think to level the genders -- it's purely idiotic. I think it's a result... of progress in medicine. I think that the Pill has changed greatly the woman of our times, 'masculinising' her -- how would you say it?" he said, looking to his cast for a prompt.

He added: "I think that it chases away the romance from our lives and that's a great pity."
Polanski's latest film captures the friction between a theatre director and an actress which plays out as a battle of the sexes.

"It's the aspect of the sexism and the satire on sexism which was very seductive in this film. There's this macho element in his character which is really coming to pieces and that was quite enjoyable," Polanski told reporters, referring to the male character.

"Whatever people think and know about me, the ones that do know about me know that I am not this way," he said with a smile for Seigner.

Polanski won an Academy Award in 2003 for his Holocaust drama "The Pianist" but did not pick up the prize in the United States, where he faces an outstanding arrest warrant for sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

The festival this year featured a number of controversial comments about women.

French director Francois Ozon, who presented a film called "Young and Beautiful" about a 17-year-old middle-class prostitute, told trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter that lots of women dreamt of selling sex.

"I think women can really be connected with this girl because it's a fantasy of many women to do prostitution," he said.

When challenged by the interviewer, he insisted: "It is the reality. You speak with many women, you speak with shrinks, everybody knows that. Well, maybe not Americans."

Ozon later dismissed uproar over the remarks, saying he was only referring to women in his film.

Original Story HERE

Lotsapoppa

The actual spot where Crowe's apartment building stood is now the parking lot for The Magic Castle.

 

The Magic Castle

 

This building sits to the rear and to the right of  The Magic Castle boardering the parking lot.

The ghost of Bernard Crowe...

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UPDATE: Thanks, Trilby.

 Trilby, from the comments section:

What I'd most like to know is the documented date of the burn/shooting of Crowe. I've seen it both as the first week of July and the first week of August. Anybody?

Here's an article (a link to) that has a pic of what the Franklin Garden Apts. looked like during Tex's residence at Rosina's apt. It's my understanding their apt. was 2nd floor, left side, to the rear. Rosina had an off-on roommate (sp.?) who was a cast member of a production of "Hair". I'd better not name her, because she was extremely upset when I attempted to interview her awhile back. I was referred by a friend who "dated" her during that era, I'm fairly likeable and kind - yet her reaction was actually pretty hostile and proactively defensive. I found that interesting. Recently another name and e-mail address crossed my paws, another resident of the building in that era - hopefully she'll have some info. The trouble is, alot of the people I talk to remember specific details of the 60s about as well as I remember the 80s (the beginning and end, okay... The mid-80s not at all, really.).

http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-192-site-of-franklin-garden.html?m=1

El Coyote

Robert and Toby Hendrickson with Deb. Yes, we sat in "Sharon's booth".

ColScott, Matt, Heineken & Margarita

ColScott & Mrs. Matt

Jiri & Mrs. Matt

Stacey, Jiri sends out a big HELLO!

Los Angeles PD now has the Tex Tapes

Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney.

Detective David Holmes says the department has had the tapes for a couple of weeks and Robbery-Homicide Division and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office are analyzing them.

Read more:

http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/05/23/37393/lapd-analyzing-manson-disciple-s-tapes-for-evidenc/.