Mohave

Mohave also Mojave (mo-hä´vê) noun
plural Mohave or Mohaves also Mojave or Mojaves
1. a. A Native American people inhabiting lands along the lower Colorado River on the Arizona-California border. b. A member of this people.
2. The Yuman language of the Mohave.
[Mohave hàmakháav.]

Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert also Mohave Desert
An arid region of southern California southeast of the Sierra Nevada. Once part of an ancient inland sea, the desert was formed by volcanic action and by materials deposited by the Colorado River.

Mojave Desert

Mojave Desert (mo-hä´vê) or Mohave Desert, arid area, SE California, part of the Sonoran section of the Basin and Range physiographic division of the western U.S. It is warm throughout the year, but with marked diurnal temperature changes, and receives an average annual rainfall of 5 in. (12.7 cm), mostly in winter. Joshua Tree National Monument preserves the region's unique ecosystem.

film _The Doors_ (vhs/ntsc) (1991) directed by Oliver Stone

Kyle McLachlan as Ray Manzarek: "what happened to you out there in the desert?"
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison: "ecstasy..."

Twilight Zone episode: _And When The Sky Was Opened_ (vhs/ntsc)

• first aired: 12/11/59
• face: Rod Taylor as Forbes
• "Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one-hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours... But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door."



Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling and calls his parents. They inform him they have no son. Harrington then disappears, with nobody remembering him but Forbes. When Forbes tells Gart what happened, Gart says he doesn't remember Harrington either. Forbes runs out the door screaming, "I don't want this to happen!" When Gart gets to the door, Forbes has disappeared. Then Gart and their ship vanishes, wiping the last evidence of their existence off the face of the Earth.

"Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington, a man named Forbes, a man named Gart. They used to exist, but don't any longer. Someone - or something - took them somewhere. At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man. And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar, this too does not exist. And if any of you have any questions concerning an aircraft and three men who flew her, speak softly of them... and only in the Twilight Zone."

• Full Moon Gathering

 

• techno track _Mojave_ MP3 (192k) by Bryan Zentz off of _All Terrain Versions_ 12" on Rotation ROT0126 (2001)
• 604 track _Desert Incident_ MP3 (192k) by Alien Project off of _Midnight Sun_ CD on Phonokol (2001)
• ethnic fusion track _Mojave: At The Tree_ MP3 (192k) by Steve Roach off of _Lost Pieces_ on Projekt (1997)
• free improvisation track _Mojave_ MP3 by Ikue Mori with Robert Quine & Marc Ribot off of _Painted Desert_ on Avant (1997)
• techno/tech-house release _Watch The Sun MP3 (192k)/Desert Power_ MP3 (192k) 12" on In-Tec (2001)
• track _All Your Tears_ MP3 by Mojave 3 off of _Out Of Tune_ on Sire (1998)
• psychedelic baroque pop track _Palm Desert_ MP3 (192k) by Van Dyke Parks off of _Song Cycles_ 12" on Sundazed (1968)
  • Parks was hired by Beach Boy Brian Wilson to write lyrics for the aborted _Smile_ sessions. this release was right after the project, and the bulk of the songs seem to be about Los Angeles
• The Blythe Giant (california desert's version of Nazca pictographs)
• resident: progressive art rock entity Captain Beefheart
  • Ry Cooder played in the first incarnation of The Magic Band in the late sixties. also, in the Mojave is where he befriended Frank Zappa, and eventually moved to Rancho Cucamonga to make a movie before Zappa played in the Mothers Of Invention in L.A.
  • track _Sue Egypt (Live - 1:41)_ MP3
• Edwards Air Force Base
• The Babalon Working - Jack Parsons, on February 28, 1946, went out into the Mojave Desert in order to invoke Babalon, thus taking down 77 clauses of what came to be known as his Book of Babalon.
• Interstate 15 to Tempe, Arizona

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