Yeah, seems like the same ol' song, just a different tune, but I thought it was well done and, I am sorry to say, it resonates with me. So, I thought I'd throw it out here.
Thanks for yor response.
I love you, lulu. I am serious. I can't wait to discover who made the video. It was like hearing john trudell, or my hero, aabbie hoffman. My husband and i have been discussing this all week. Last week on the chris matthews show, the panel of four conservatives+ were discussing how the new ang lee woodstock film would flunk out, and put the final nail in the coffin concerning the Woodstock nation. I so violently disagree; my husband and i are still proud hippies, and learned many of our core values in the 60s and early 70s. Thank you so much for the video. We were right, and are still right. We learned the organice nature of the planet, and the value of peace, and not working for The Man. Or taking his pharmeceuticals. Or eating his processed foods. Etc., etc.
I have been thinking about doing a piece on defending Woodstock nation from the Control Freaks of the World Who Really Have No Faith Ultimately; but i am also caught up in Leonard Peltier's parole being denied. There is almost too much to comment/share about, so little time.
Thank you, dear lulu.
The political goals and social justice concepts of the sixties always loom large, sometimes diminished by creeps, sometimes embraced by all, and everything Woodstock interconnects.
Thanks for saying what you did! I love John Trudell too. Remember “Born 18”
and “But This Isn’t El Salvador.”
Long live the Hippies!
And for Godsakes Free Leonard Peltier!
Wendy, please do consider writing that blog post! I think it would be awesome.
Great video. I favorited it.
If you'd like to embed the video in your blog
1. copy the "embed" url at Youtube (right below the Url on the right.
2. In the above the text entry area in the Blog Now box, choose the "none" text editor option, rather than the "rich text option" which is the default.
3. When the interface changes, paste the embed url into the text window.
You can switch back and forth to write comments simply.
This works unless the person who uploaded the video has disabled embedding.
Play it a hundred times in a row...send it to your loved ones. Oh, buffy.
My most favorite line ever: If the bad guys don't get ya, then the good guys will..."
(Homage to one of the "Indian-lover" politicians from the east coast; i sadly forget which one...seemingly trying to help, but, uh...not so much.
And her "We're dying from their (corporate) Gravy Spills." Jeez. Yet. Again. Still. Encore
Wendy, I am replying again because it seems that my first did not go through. I had never heard the song you linked too or much of BSM. It is a really good song and also a really good album cover photo. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
I am sending the link to the person who sent me the one on my blog.
Hey don't the wars come easy
Hey don't the peace come hard
A painful truth.
Now that's news you want to wake up to! The only problem is, where are those dirty fucking hippies now? We sure do need them! Something, buried deep in the dark crannies of my brain keeps whispering they're not with us any more because as the years moved on, they too moved - politically. But where? That little voice keeps hinting one needs only to look at the conservative base and I'll find my answer. I can't believe they would have sold their soul to the very establishment they so despised, but change is like erosion - it chips away little by little until over the years it breaks down even the most solid objects in its' path. I sure do hope that little voice is wrong.
Well that's a crock! Maybe the wanna bes became conservatives, but many of us DFHs are still around. I have always believed that the reason people like Dick Cheney hated the hippies so much is because we didn't admire, respect, aspire to, or even buy into all the establishment bs.
Rummy used to have several safe havens of long standing in Taos. He and the wife hobnobbed a bit with what would have been considered the gringo business elite and enjoyed being anonymous @ local parades and the like. Cheney used to fly in to hang out with his bud.
Then came the war and the dirty fuckin' hippies found Rummy's places of refuge and when he was due back in town. Such was the nature of access to his main pad that the one road in and out made fine opportunities for loud, obnoxious, flamboyant protests that were impossible to avoid.
Rummy may have been in a Pentagon bubble and protected by a fawning DC-press-corps-with-a-crush everywhere else he went, but the Taos hippies turned his serene little hide-a-way into a cage.
Good on you all! "Ta-os new mexico, home of radio KITT, Kiit Carson radio." My husband and i spooked around the area for awhile in 1973, and landed in Truchas for a bit. It was right toward the end of the Spanish-Hippie war, when anglo intruders were still being burned out. One night in our house, we had a visit from the infamous Sheriff Emilio Naranjo and some of his thugs; scared the wee-wee out of these two Peace and LOve hippies. We soon high-tailed it back to Colorado, but my goodness, northern new mexico is quite a place; so beautiful, and so much textured history!
The hippies aren't gone, but the methods and doctrines of the hippies have been marginilised and ridiculed. The Reagan Bush era has been a referendum upon and counterstrike against hippies, yippies and assorted lifestyles.
What hippies craved on the surface has been commodified. Forrest Gump was a watershed (flimsy yet brutal) critique of US counterculture. The simple values of a southern idiot triumphs over the conterculture by rising within the system. All the while the music and iconography of the movement is skewered and subverted.
In my opinion, dirty fucking hippies represent a variation on a cultural theme. The US has a particular spiritual current that appears in permutation over centuries. Poets like Whitman, writers like Conrad, and painters like Pollock all communicate and authenticate this side of our nation.
It won't be the hippies this time, but I guarantee it will be something else. You will know the tree by its fruit.
Cool info, thanks! Most of my political activist friends are hippies; we have not disappeared; some of us are still qusi-back-to-the-landers. We just got out-paced by capitalism, and have to have jobs besides. Thanks for googling melton; i put it up because beetlejuice was so convinced we all "sold out" to the other side's base.
Hippies rawk!!
Thanks for this, Lulu!!!! It's a must-see!
August 22, 2009 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Luvit!
☮
August 22, 2009 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, seems like the same ol' song, just a different tune, but I thought it was well done and, I am sorry to say, it resonates with me. So, I thought I'd throw it out here.
Thanks for yor response.
August 22, 2009 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love you, lulu. I am serious. I can't wait to discover who made the video. It was like hearing john trudell, or my hero, aabbie hoffman. My husband and i have been discussing this all week. Last week on the chris matthews show, the panel of four conservatives+ were discussing how the new ang lee woodstock film would flunk out, and put the final nail in the coffin concerning the Woodstock nation. I so violently disagree; my husband and i are still proud hippies, and learned many of our core values in the 60s and early 70s. Thank you so much for the video. We were right, and are still right. We learned the organice nature of the planet, and the value of peace, and not working for The Man. Or taking his pharmeceuticals. Or eating his processed foods. Etc., etc.
I have been thinking about doing a piece on defending Woodstock nation from the Control Freaks of the World Who Really Have No Faith Ultimately; but i am also caught up in Leonard Peltier's parole being denied. There is almost too much to comment/share about, so little time.
Thank you, dear lulu.
August 22, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
The political goals and social justice concepts of the sixties always loom large, sometimes diminished by creeps, sometimes embraced by all, and everything Woodstock interconnects.
Thanks for saying what you did! I love John Trudell too. Remember “Born 18”
and “But This Isn’t El Salvador.”
Long live the Hippies!
And for Godsakes Free Leonard Peltier!
August 22, 2009 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wendy, please do consider writing that blog post! I think it would be awesome.
August 23, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great video. I favorited it.
If you'd like to embed the video in your blog
1. copy the "embed" url at Youtube (right below the Url on the right.
2. In the above the text entry area in the Blog Now box, choose the "none" text editor option, rather than the "rich text option" which is the default.
3. When the interface changes, paste the embed url into the text window.
You can switch back and forth to write comments simply.
This works unless the person who uploaded the video has disabled embedding.
Give it a try. It's kind of fun.
August 22, 2009 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
And buffy: And The bigs Ones Get Away....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjaVyyveig
Play it a hundred times in a row...send it to your loved ones. Oh, buffy.
My most favorite line ever: If the bad guys don't get ya, then the good guys will..."
(Homage to one of the "Indian-lover" politicians from the east coast; i sadly forget which one...seemingly trying to help, but, uh...not so much.
And her "We're dying from their (corporate) Gravy Spills." Jeez. Yet. Again. Still. Encore
August 22, 2009 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wendy, I am replying again because it seems that my first did not go through. I had never heard the song you linked too or much of BSM. It is a really good song and also a really good album cover photo. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
I am sending the link to the person who sent me the one on my blog.
August 22, 2009 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey don't the wars come easy
Hey don't the peace come hard
A painful truth.
August 23, 2009 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's news you want to wake up to! The only problem is, where are those dirty fucking hippies now? We sure do need them! Something, buried deep in the dark crannies of my brain keeps whispering they're not with us any more because as the years moved on, they too moved - politically. But where? That little voice keeps hinting one needs only to look at the conservative base and I'll find my answer. I can't believe they would have sold their soul to the very establishment they so despised, but change is like erosion - it chips away little by little until over the years it breaks down even the most solid objects in its' path. I sure do hope that little voice is wrong.
August 22, 2009 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well that's a crock! Maybe the wanna bes became conservatives, but many of us DFHs are still around. I have always believed that the reason people like Dick Cheney hated the hippies so much is because we didn't admire, respect, aspire to, or even buy into all the establishment bs.
August 22, 2009 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rummy used to have several safe havens of long standing in Taos. He and the wife hobnobbed a bit with what would have been considered the gringo business elite and enjoyed being anonymous @ local parades and the like. Cheney used to fly in to hang out with his bud.
Then came the war and the dirty fuckin' hippies found Rummy's places of refuge and when he was due back in town. Such was the nature of access to his main pad that the one road in and out made fine opportunities for loud, obnoxious, flamboyant protests that were impossible to avoid.
Rummy may have been in a Pentagon bubble and protected by a fawning DC-press-corps-with-a-crush everywhere else he went, but the Taos hippies turned his serene little hide-a-way into a cage.
August 23, 2009 1:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good on you all! "Ta-os new mexico, home of radio KITT, Kiit Carson radio." My husband and i spooked around the area for awhile in 1973, and landed in Truchas for a bit. It was right toward the end of the Spanish-Hippie war, when anglo intruders were still being burned out. One night in our house, we had a visit from the infamous Sheriff Emilio Naranjo and some of his thugs; scared the wee-wee out of these two Peace and LOve hippies. We soon high-tailed it back to Colorado, but my goodness, northern new mexico is quite a place; so beautiful, and so much textured history!
August 23, 2009 7:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
The hippies aren't gone, but the methods and doctrines of the hippies have been marginilised and ridiculed. The Reagan Bush era has been a referendum upon and counterstrike against hippies, yippies and assorted lifestyles.
What hippies craved on the surface has been commodified. Forrest Gump was a watershed (flimsy yet brutal) critique of US counterculture. The simple values of a southern idiot triumphs over the conterculture by rising within the system. All the while the music and iconography of the movement is skewered and subverted.
In my opinion, dirty fucking hippies represent a variation on a cultural theme. The US has a particular spiritual current that appears in permutation over centuries. Poets like Whitman, writers like Conrad, and painters like Pollock all communicate and authenticate this side of our nation.
It won't be the hippies this time, but I guarantee it will be something else. You will know the tree by its fruit.
August 23, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummm. You edited the name of your post.
Love it!!!! Thanks!
August 23, 2009 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Quintessential Dirty Fucking Hippies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7awIdDcwrqU&feature=related
(my husband said it was rumored that barry melton DID become a stock broker...) (smile)
August 23, 2009 8:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Barry Melton became a lawyer in 1982. He currently works for the Yolo County Public Defender. Quite a lot of public defenders are old hippies.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=104700
August 23, 2009 12:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool info, thanks! Most of my political activist friends are hippies; we have not disappeared; some of us are still qusi-back-to-the-landers. We just got out-paced by capitalism, and have to have jobs besides. Thanks for googling melton; i put it up because beetlejuice was so convinced we all "sold out" to the other side's base.
August 23, 2009 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink