In the recent Associated Press obituary for the late actor and director, Dennis Hooper, is quoted as believing that, for him, the 1969 counter-cultural classic motorcycle film that he directed, "Easy Rider", was more a statement about the political landscape of the times than a male-bonding biker "road" movie. I agree with him, or at least that is how I have always viewed the film. The subjects of drugs, using and selling, dressing for "hippie' success, the hard road of rural communal living (or urban communal living, for that matter), and trying to cope with the "squares" and "rednecks" were all in a day's work back in the days for those of us committed to "seeking a newer world.".