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!
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― 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
xp
― 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
I can get behind this "toplessness" aesthetic, most of the time.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
hippies rule as long as they are bubble puppy
http://www.recordresearch.com/Album_Photos/images/Bubble%20Puppy.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/david709/lavinghouse2.jpg
http://home.austin.rr.com/david709/parlament.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
first pic, not hippies
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, pls to post a photo of yourself for comparison
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/355781246_b869e2a3e4_o.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAA!
― kenan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, you scared me. You can't just sneak up on people like that! I could've had a heart attack!
― kenan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
what would you call them in the first pic if you're not calling them hippies?
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Dandies.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Fops, psychedelic post-mods
― Ed, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i look like a marine now though. a really gay one. i know, are there any other kind? but still...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i think there's gray area here
x-post
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
they just wanted to look spiffy for their album cover! i think they generally just looked like the pictures below the album cover.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think fops are allowed in texas.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
10s of thousands are currently en route to arkansas's ozark national forest for the annual rainbow family gathering. the towns up there are worried.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I move to Asheville, NC on Sunday.
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I love and miss Asheville. I spent a few months in that area back in '01 and have been aching to get back there since. Mellow Mushroom downtown is a great place for pizza, but there's a restaurant in Black Mountain whose name I've forgotten that rules also.
As an avowed ex-hippie (90s version), I have to say that "it felt good at the time." But last summer I encountered a number of Rainbow types who had migrated to southern California afterward. They impressed me with their hypocrisy about the sort of social issues that hippies are supposed to care about.
The prime example was one of them standing outside of an organic food co-op, whining about Babylon and The Man, then going over to a nearby supermarket chain to buy ground beef and Con-Agra potatoes to make dinner that night.
I'm moving to the Bay Area next week, so I'm really curious about the varieties of hippiness I'll run into.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 June 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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