― Maria, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The food is good, too. My hippies are ace at cooking. So am I!
― 1 1 2 3 5, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Of course, those who only bought into the culture because it was The Thing and never took it seriously have often become horribly right- wing, but I don't think we should take responsibility for those people.
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
So overall I guess hippies are dud, but cutish hippiechicks who always know where to get pot and don't give a fuh about the environment are truly classic. It'sa shame about the chain (fag) smoking though.
― squirlplise, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
All the punks are gonna scream yippee'Cause it's the thing that only eats hippies
First it cruised on out to MalibuAnd ate a couple a' surfersWho where too tough to chewSo it slithered it's wayOut to old IrvineAnd ate a couple a' hippiesAnd they tasted just fine
Now its got a sweet tooth for long hairSo Bob and Greg and Grant you should beware
Followin' the Dead is how it gets it's kicksShame it wasn't born in 1966Listens to the music and begins to swayDreamin' acid dreams of a hippie souffleHey hey hey
What do they taste like -Some kind a' treat?How many hippies can this monster eat?It ate Stills and Nash before they could shoutAnd then it chewed on David CrosbyBut it spit him out
There it goesGonna send 'em all to that big Folk Festival in the skySo long suckers!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― SARAH ANN SCHOFIELD, Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link
― JESIKA M GARCIA, Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― SARAH AND JESIKA, Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link
― SUGER METH, Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), January 18th, 2004.
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itsthe protagonistthatscallingwildfire. thisspacebar is fucked. gaz you're two year old is funny. when myniece was two, my dad taught her how to say "i'm a little ocker." laughs ensued. her parents weren't impressed. -- The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylure...), January 18th, 2004.
properly tend to the horse, i mean. -- Eisbär (llamasfu...), January 18th, 2004.
tad you don't like hippiesmuch do you? -- The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylure...), January 18th, 2004.
did u go to mr. murphey's webpage, though? -- Eisbär (llamasfu...), January 18th, 2004.
no. -- The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylure...), January 18th, 2004.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 17 April 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
dud: pretty much everything else
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
"destroy," that is (but "dud" too obv)
revive
― get bent, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
what a weird thread
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
nickalicious pretty otm though:
(That said, hippies = just like everyone else, equal parts UBERDUD and SUPERCLASSIC.)
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
btw check out this awesome book i got at a garage sale this wkend
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/216/519991584_985178b0e6_o.jpg
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Wendel brought it to life in his guest room bath tub It was a special project for his 4-H club But it broke loose out in the middle of the night And now it's eatin' flower children left and right
All the punks are gonna scream yippee 'Cause it's the thing that only eats hippies
― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.rateitall.com/itemimages/859863.jpg
― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the simon pegg sitcom was quite rubbish if i remember.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ok xpost i googled dude and his latest book is about his cat! yeah i don't know, i mean, i get it, but it is also slightly flakey not to mention wacked out. i can deal with wacked out/slightly nuts way more than i can deal with flakey though.
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
lol hippie drum circles again, i get it, but why does it have to be so bad? there is this thing here in mtl called the tam tams that happens every sunday at a big park and which i try to stay v far away from b/c it fucks up my vital chakras something awful - and i wonder if this is b/c i am being a judgemental asshole or if the whole drums in the park thing is just plain wrong - the beats are always off and annoying and seem to come from no place at all
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i also believe in the all-natural healing gaia seven-petals power of a fucking bath
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I was 16 in 1970. I knew actual hippies, spoke with them, shared meals with a few. Ultimately they were dud, but for a short while they seemed to hold out hope when hope was in short supply.
What later generations often fail to appreciate about the most fucked-up aspects of the Sixties youth culture was that they were reactions to an enormously fucked-up world. And as fucked-up as the USA is today, it was distinctly more fucked-up in 1967-1974 than it is now. Really. I know that is hard to believe, but it was. Oh boy, was it ever! You probably can't imagine.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the inter-generational battle over who is more fucked up seems to have been going on for a v v v v long time
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The assassination scene nowadays just isn't what it was.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of the aesthetic side of hippiedom but I've never gotten knee-jerk hippie hate.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
there was actually some great stuff in the hippie aesthetic if you think of, you know, swinging london and such.
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Old school hippies pretty awesome. New neo-hippies, total shit.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.leather.com/images/clearance/f200_front_leather_suede_jacket_fringe_216.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
a real let-down after 'father ted'
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Swinging London isn't really hippies is it? Not all youth culture/counterculture in the '60s was hippie culture.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-- acrobat, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:30 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
lol obvious jokes amirite
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah mod != hippie!
xpost
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
worst hippie fashion atrocity has to be the across-the-forehead headband, as seen here in olivia newton-john's retro stylings:
http://www.olivia-newtonjohn.com/images/photos/8a9f5057.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:50 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
london hippies sort of came after the classic mid-sixties 'swinging london', which was aesthetically very un-hippie, more mod (but not quite real mod). they were sort of a part of it, sort of not. by 1969 david bailey looked like a hippy.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
basically "was syd barrett a hippy"?
semantic problem. aesthetically, "hippie" tends to denote too much sloppiness.
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
if you think of swinging london as meaning the opening scene of 'austin powers', then that's not hippie.
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
or cliched tie-ins with more spiritual and natural cultures
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― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
but there's no denying that there's something that still resonant today in those desires
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Based on the "Summer of Love" exhibit at the Whitney museum, the hippie aesthetic had a lot to do with saturated colors, amoeba-shapes, toplessness, and swirling lights.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
we had that in london too, kind of independently of what was happening in san francisco (and kind of not).
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle
― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
there was a lot of crossover. the transition in san francisco from beat to hippie was smooth-ish.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/68448_542354555790049_817769286_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
looks like the hippie got killed by some kind of greaser
― wk, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
"The Birth of Sha Na Na"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
Really hate that this is a trendy thing nowadays.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 October 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
yes, much hate that
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
Oh for real? That's totally classic.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cktyTQe_Sv0/TDvnpBc-m5I/AAAAAAAAAYc/cx9CAJ8eQuQ/s640/william-rast-fall-fashion-beauty-hair-model-240sd02182010.jpg
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really starting to hate hippies, sorry.
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
you need to get out of western mass then
― marcos, Monday, 16 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
also i love the across-the-forehead headband
― marcos, Monday, 16 June 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah...although this thought also occurred to me a few weeks ago when I was in Cali (Joshua Tree). They're everywhere!
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Monday, 16 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
so apparently ken kesey's son is parking his dumb bus outside of my house all weekend :(
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 21 July 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to figure out which parts are figurative and which literal in your post, Jordan
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
BTW Hippies are classic if only for coming up with the wonderful, mind-blowing yet oddly pragmatic mess that was the Whole Earth Catalog.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
unfortunately my post is all too literal
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 21 July 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
thank kickstarter, OF COURSEhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/furthur50/furthur-bus-50th-anniversary-trip
Here's some vintage Kesey for you Phish Phans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqUqsqBqnE
― how's life, Monday, 21 July 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Omg I had no idea that was going on Jordan.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link