Talk:The Trip (film)

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I eliminated the following trivia as being only tangential to this film.

• The house used as one of the primary shooting locations for The Trip was located on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, California. It was the home of Arthur Lee of Love where he was living while recording the Forever Changes LP sessions.

• Lee stored 25-pound bags of Purina dog food for his dog "Self" in a closet in his house, which was rigged with lighting effects as seen in The Trip. According to the book by Love drummer Michael Stuart-Wise "Behind The Scenes of the Pegasus Carousel with the Legendary Rock Group LOVE," Lee was quoted as saying, "Yeah, I hide in that closet myself sometimes." Band member Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer also used the closet as a "freak out" setting.

• Nicholson also appears with Susan Strasberg in the Dick Clark-produced Psych-Out (1968), set in San Francisco, California, sporting a prosthetic ponytail.

• One of the movie's promo posters is featured on the back cover of the cult 1980s compilation LP of obscure 1960s garage rock 'Wavy Gravy', on Beware records (BEWARE 001). Swinterich 04:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

• George Lucas listed The Trip among the films most influential to him as a young director. The film's dream sequences, where Paul finds and understands himself, were a base for the landscapes in the [Star Wars] films. Namely the progression from Nothingness (Sand -> Tatooine), Seclusion (Snow / Cold -> Hoth), Consciousness of Ignorance (Swamp / Jungle -> Dagobah), to Content (Forest -> Endor). The dress and persona of Paul Groves was a model for that of Luke Skywalker. Swinterich (talk) 04:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)