If you're like us, you looked at the above photo of the Library, taken a few days ago, and said, "Why of course! The Big Sur location is like Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, while the new Barnyard location is more like the Phil Collins incarnation."

It's all pretty obviously, don't you think?

After all, the still-closed Big Sur location, like Gabriel-era Genesis, its inpenetrable, mysterious, and (at least temporarily), relegated to the sidelines of collective consciousness. The Carmel location's allure, on the other hand, is immediate, accessible, and TV ready (see video below)—heck, even its name, the Henry Miller LAB—is catchy. Just like "Invisible Touch!"

So while we revel in the Barnyard location and all its wonderful upcoming events, the photos above and below, taken by Ruby Dudley, should remind us to not forget where it all started. (It's also worth remembering that Collins played drums in Gabriel-era Genesis.)

A Driveway Moment in the Redwoods...

"There is no way I am going to get out of my car. I can't stop listening to this story! I need to find out how this story of courage, humanity, compassion, luck and coincidence continues. Perhaps I'll end up sitting here 'til it ends. Dinner will have to wait!"

I did listen to the whole thing and dinner was late. The listening experience inspired the creation of the Big Sur Sound and Story event. Perhaps some of you remember when we laid out all together on the lawn and listened to stories in the dark! This was a few years back and not surprisingly and to our delight that event further inspired one of that year's participants, The Dinner Party Download, to take it one step further: Check it out here.

But, listening to the story, it was from one of my favorite podcasts out of Australia, was incredibly intense and memorable so when, a few weeks ago, the grand-daughter of Big Sur Beekeeper and renaissance man, Franklin Peace, told me, completely non-apropos, that she had written a book called I Who Didn't Die about an Iraqi and Iranian soldier who met during the war and who...etc. I almost fell over backwards. It was the same story!!

Mr Peace's grand daughter is Meredith May and she will come to the Henry Miller LAB (Barnyard) on August 26 to do a reading, show a film and present her work! READ MORE HERE!

What a world!

Henry Miller's fifth and final wife was a young Japanese woman named Hoki Tokuda. Miller harnessed all of his verbal powers in an attempt to win her love, as evidenced in the collection of letters called Letters From Henry Miller To Hoki Tokuda Miller.  

Did Miller—to quote the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company—"humiliate himself" in the process? Click here and decide for yourself!

It may not be as MTV-ready as, say, "Land of Confusion," but nonetheless, check out the KSBW Action News' segment on the Henry Miller LAB!

It's weird, but there's this phenomenon in which a performer plays at the Library and then, say, 22 months later, ends up in the New Yorker.

The most recent example is Father John Misty, who, before gracing the pages of that venerable rag earlier this month, played an intimate fundraiser for the Library in 2013. (He also helped out in other ways.)

Here he is on that mild September night performing "Nancy from Now On!"

The BSISFSS is back...and it's fabulous

After a one year hiatus, the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series kicked off on June 6th. Unlike previous years, due to the closure of the Big Sur location (Peter Gabriel), screenings will take place at the Henry Miller LAB (Phil Collins) this summer.

The opening night included the following films: 90 Degrees North (Germany), Amnesia (Russia), Boris In The Forest (UK) and Cenizo (Spain). Seek them out!!!!

Latest news about our films include a surprise series starting on July 11th on deck at Nepenthe! Stay tuned for details!

Check out the trailer for 90 Degrees North!!

Henry Miller LAB (at the Barnyard)! Alisa Fineman will come back on July 16 to share stories and songs form her life in love with both! (Alisa is here, very appropraiately, to commence to a series of performances and talks coming up from creative people in out community!) Much more - including of course Short Film Series every Thursday! 

ALL EVENTS HERE!