Hippies C or D

but there's no denying that there's something that still resonant today in those desires

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.

we had that in london too, kind of independently of what was happening in san francisco (and kind of not).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle

I can get behind this "toplessness" aesthetic, most of the time.

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

first pic, not hippies

Also, pls to post a photo of yourself for comparison

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/355781246_b869e2a3e4_o.jpg

AAAAAAAAAAA!

Sorry, you scared me. You can't just sneak up on people like that! I could've had a heart attack!

what would you call them in the first pic if you're not calling them hippies?

Dandies.

Fops, psychedelic post-mods

i look like a marine now though. a really gay one. i know, are there any other kind? but still...

i think there's gray area here

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they just wanted to look spiffy for their album cover! i think they generally just looked like the pictures below the album cover.

i don't think fops are allowed in texas.

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.

I move to Asheville, NC on Sunday.

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.

i don't think fops are allowed in texas.

-- scott seward, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:13 PM

this is true! my short lived fop got stares.

idea of hippies = +
actual experience with hippies = -

My girlfriend used to be a hippie, sort of. We went to Schwagstock together a few years, ostensibly for her to do a photo story, and god it SUCKED ASS, all of the time.

I'm not sure what makes a hippie in 2007, but the originals were never big on philosophical consistancy or staunch adherance to a cause. They were very big on personal freedom. Avoiding hypocrisy, in the sense of whatever they did this minute being inconsistent with whatever idea they may have espoused a half hour ago wasn't seen as all that important. Freedom trumped everything. Freebies were mighty big, too.

Yeah, that's something I realize now. But as a kid in the early 90s immersing himself in the written history of the sixties, it was really easy to conflate the social progress achieved by grassroots groups with the new-agey acid-era crap espoused by Leary, etc.

I'd bet that a good portion of young hippie-types in the 90s were in it for this same reason.

Yeah I've lived in Asheville before, and can't wait to get back. Look forward to seeing the hippies, beats the conservative homogeneity of central TX. But I echo the sentiment so oft expressed here, hippies are better in theory than in practice/personal encounter. They can often seem so thick/hypocritical/smug/downright amoral/evil.

lol @ "they're not hippies, they're psychedelic post-mods!"

I don't know if he's trying to compare hippies and beats but I see them as near opposites. I find beatnik rhetoric much more attractive than what I've come to recognize as hippie rhetoric.

there was a lot of crossover. the transition in san francisco from beat to hippie was smooth-ish.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/68448_542354555790049_817769286_n.jpg

looks like the hippie got killed by some kind of greaser

"The Birth of Sha Na Na"

worst hippie fashion atrocity has to be the across-the-forehead headband, as seen here in olivia newton-john's retro stylings:

Really hate that this is a trendy thing nowadays.

yes, much hate that

Oh for real? That's totally classic.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cktyTQe_Sv0/TDvnpBc-m5I/AAAAAAAAAYc/cx9CAJ8eQuQ/s640/william-rast-fall-fashion-beauty-hair-model-240sd02182010.jpg

I'm really starting to hate hippies, sorry.

you need to get out of western mass then

also i love the across-the-forehead headband

you need to get out of western mass then

Yeah...although this thought also occurred to me a few weeks ago when I was in Cali (Joshua Tree). They're everywhere!

so apparently ken kesey's son is parking his dumb bus outside of my house all weekend :(

I'm trying to figure out which parts are figurative and which literal in your post, Jordan

BTW Hippies are classic if only for coming up with the wonderful, mind-blowing yet oddly pragmatic mess that was the Whole Earth Catalog.

unfortunately my post is all too literal

thank kickstarter, OF COURSE
https://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

Omg I had no idea that was going on Jordan.