K E E P O N T R U C K I N ' R E - V I S I T E D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Issue 12 ISSN 1097-4156 July 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: ** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS ** CONTRIBUTIONS ++ COOL LINKS ** COOL LISTS ** COOL GOODIES ++ QUOTES ++ FEATURED WORDS & TUNES ** SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO ***************************************************************** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS Welcome All! So, what's it all about man? Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited is a moderated newsletter/list about the time between the mid 60s and mid 70s. It was designed to examine and present a positive nostalgia of a time since past. It is also designed to provide a forum for you to share your feelings, thoughts and experiences from that time frame. Please participate and help this community grow. ---------------- New Subscription Info: Post message: kotrv@egroups.com or hippy@vipgrafx.com Subscribe: kotrv-subscribe@egroups.com Unsubscribe: kotrv-unsubscribe@egroups.com List owner: kotrv-owner@egroups.com URL to egroups KOTRV page: http://www.egroups.com/group/kotrv ---------------- Wow! I had a really hard time putting this rag together this time as you can kind of figure by the time it took to get it out. Once I got going I had a great time looking up the links, finding the quotes, etc., this sure can be fun.. he he.. Next month's issue will be the start of the fourth year - whew, I never expected to have this thing last this long. I would like to thank all of you for your continued support and for putting up with this mess every month - Thanks! Now what? I would really like to hear from more of you - I know you are out there and I know you have something to say about the era this newsletter covers - just drop a small note, write an essay, do a review of a book, video, or album.. anything. To start, who are you and how did you survive the 60s-70s? Well, it is time to move on to the rest of the newsletter - hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing it. ---------------- Comments: comment: hippies forever-even in the millenium! always love and peace.. comment: I'm looking for a "Flower Power" bumper sticker. Do you have any idea where I might find one? Any help is much appreciated. Ted Whitten (yoyotheo@yoyo-tricks.com) comment: i like it its really nice. but i want to know somthing was this done from a real hippy from the 1960's or is this from some one from right now? It still really grate or groove!!!! love vm victoriamartinez (tootsiy) ** Editor's Comment - good question? comment: I have been looking for the "Keep on truckin" logo for ever. I decided to surf the web and here, I find the perfect picture! On your web page!!!!..I would love to be able to print this, for I want to use this picture for a set up of a tattoo--- I also have an 83 Chevy Van with the license plates that read, "BOOGIVN" Thanks for your time. Dawn M. Thomas of Thomas Trucking Dawn M. Thomas (Thomasoilntrucking@yahoo.com) ** Editors Comment - Well, it started out innocent enough . . . check out the two shots of her tattoo at these locations http://www.vipgrafx.com/images/kot1.jpg and http://www.vipgrafx.com/images/kot2.jpg --> You can add your comments from the main page at the KOTRV Website: http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/hippy.html So please do! ++++++++++++++++++++ More fluff... less stuff... So, get a room at the Hotel California, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, then put on your love beads, your headband, bell-bottomed pants, put a flower in your hair, get yourself in the proper state of mind, kick back, and experience the rest of the newsletter. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= #1 Songs of 1972 (The year I graduated from High School) Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan American Pie (Parts 1 & 2) - Don McLean Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me - Mac Davis Ben - Michael Jackson Black and White - Three Dog Night Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) - Looking Glass The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack Heart of Gold - Neil Young A Horse With No Name - America I Am Woman - Helen Reddy I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers Lean on Me - Bill Withers Let's Stay Together - Al Green Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul My Ding-a-Ling - Chuck Berry Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond Without You - Nilsson +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CONTRIBUTIONS Please feel free to add your 2 cents worth - share your thoughts, feelings, and general good-times. We would all love to hear from you! Send your comments to: mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com +++++ Wrom: YXOEAIJJPHSCRTNHGSWZIDREXCAX To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Subject: Cool url Date sent: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:53 -0500 With all the recent press on the mapping of the human genome, I thought an animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes and heredity would be quite timely. This fascinating site examines the basic concepts of classical genetics (children resemble their parents) using animation, pictures, video clips and interviews. Additionally each concept has a problem solving area to help deepen your understanding. Very cool! DNA from the Beginning click here --hmc +++++ Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:03:20 -0400 Wrom: ZOWCONEUQZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIVOTQNQ Subject: Re: [sixties-l] Takin' It to the Streets I'm working on a collection of Women's Writings concerning the Sixties. I hope many of you on the list will distribute my call for manuscripts: FICTION, POETRY, essays, memoirs, journal excerpts, etc. by women are needed for an anthology entitled Women's Voices From the Sixties. Please submit quality work that deals with women's experiences during the Sixties. Enclose SASE, short bio. Deadline: December 1. Send to Maria Bruno, 608 N. State St., Alma, MI 48801. E-mail: bruno@pilot.msu.edu Sincerely, Maria Bruno Associate Professor Michigan State University +++++ Wrom: EMSFDULHPQQWOYIYZUNNYCGPKYLE To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Subject: FW: After Five: Boyz Will Be Idolz Date sent: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:55 -0500 Boyz Will Be Idolz Whether you're a closet Backstreet Boys fan or can remember an ancient affair with Bobby Sherman albums, Feelin' Groovy [http://www.vallee.simplenet.com/feelingroovy/feelingroovy.html] might rekindle your passions. Or confirm your embarrassment. From the early '70s through today, you'll find the debris from teen idol fandom, with history, photos, news, and even sound clips. http://www.vallee.simplenet.com/feelingroovy/feelingroovy.html ------------------------------------ H. Michael Cunningham, Ph.D. "If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen..." - Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower ------------------------------------ ** Editor's Comment - Thanks hmc! o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o Visit the Poster Pad http://www.vipgrafx.com/poster/ o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o COOL LINKS Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos ++++++ The CIA and Vietnam More B.S. - interesting reading if you can handle it. Drop In: http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/vietnam/index.html ++++++ The Sixties POP Diary -From the Website- The sixties pop diary is primarily a yearguide to the music of the sixties with some other stuff thrown in for good measure. Drop In: http://www.sixtiespop.freeserve.co.uk/ ++++++ Radio Scout -From the Website- RadioScout searches information shared by public radio producers and stations so you can easily find what's been on the air and what's coming up. Drop In: http://publicradio.org/servlet/RadioScout.MainPage ++++++ Internet Public Library Check out their mission statement to find out what all is going on here at the IPL. Tons of info here - and best deal yet, no library card needed. Drop In: http://www.ipl.org ++++++ Interactive Dead Trivia Dead fans will love this trivia game! You will be asked to get the latest shockwave player to play this game if you need it. Drop In: http://www.4inprint.com/neil/shock/dead.htm ++++++ Stuck in the 70s Cool site dealing with the 70s. Webmaster Julie Fidler's memories of the this time frame are wonderful and varied - this is a nice place to hang for a while. Drop In: http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/ ++++++ Nostalgia Central -From the Website- Nostalgia Central is centered around British, American and Australian TV, movies, music, toys and popular culture between the years 1960 and 1989. Drop In: http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/ ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! +++++ Splash! The Pond and Water Garden Newsletter Description: Pond and Water Garden fun and facts! Lots of information for pond building, pond plants, pond fish, pond product reviews and more! Subscription instructions: To subscribe to Splash! send an email to pond-subscribe@topica.com or go to http://www.topica.com/lists/pond ***************************************************************** COOL GOODIES ~%~%~%~ Drawing Hand Screen Saver: This is a way cool free screen saver! Watch as the artist's hand draws some wonderful art right before your eyes. Awesome! This file is a 2.1mb download and is for Win 95/98. http://www.drawinghand.com ~%~%~%~ Guide to Free Online Photo Albums Ok, so it's not exactly a freebie - but it tells you where you can get the best deal on a free online storage place for you photos and more. Very Nice! http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/photo/albums.html ~%~%~%~ Windows Media Player 7 Maybe you hate Microsoft but you need to check this new upgrade to Windows Media Player out - lots of cool neat goodies included. You may want to drop back a couple of pages and read the hype - maybe not.. anyway I have been having fun with this free package from Microsloth, er, ah, whatever... WARNING - Windows Media Player 7 should NOT be installed on computers running Windows® 95 or Windows NT® 4! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp ***************************************************************** QUOTES Quotes on Solitude ---------- "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden *-*-*-* "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." -Sir Winston Churchill *-*-*-* "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." -James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, 1870 *-*-*-* "Solitude is the playfield of Satan." -Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962 *-*-*-* "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." -Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950 *-*-*-* "There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire." -Jules Renard, Journal, December 1900 *-*-*-* "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." -Roger Rosenblatt, The Man in the Water, 1994 *-*-*-* "One can acquire everything in solitude except character." -Stendhal, On Love, 1822 *-*-*-* "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 *-*-*-* "Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude." -Miguel de Unanimo, Essays and Soliloquies, 1924 Get the archive of quotes - send a blank email to: mailto:quotes@vipgrafx.com ***************************************************************** Brings Back Memories......... Close your eyes.....And go back.... Before the Internet or the MAC, Before semi automatics and crack Before chronic and indo Before SEGA or Super Nintendo Way back........ I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk. Sittin' on the porch, Hot bread and butter. The Good Humor man, Red light, Green light. Chocolate milk, Lunch tickets, Penny candy in a brown paper bag. Playin' Pinball in the corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch Jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all! Mother May I? Red Rover and Roly Poly Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, Jolly Ranchers, Banana Splits Wax Lips and Mustaches Running through the sprinkler The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips.... Wait...... Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons, Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs, Or back further, listening to Superman on the radio Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar, Playin sling shot. When around the corner seemed far away, And going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime, Climbing trees, An ice cream cone on a warm summer night Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe butter pecan A lemon coke from the fountain at the corner drug store A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers, Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Sittin on the curb, Jumpin down the steps, Jumpin on the bed, Pillow fights Runnin till you were out of breath Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt Being tired from playin'.... Remember that? I ain't finished just yet... Eating Kool-aid powder with sugar Remember when... When there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys (Keds & PF Flyers) and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym." When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up, if you even had one. When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a miracle. When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks? When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When girls neither dated nor kissed until late high school, if then. When your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done, everyday. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, for free, every time. And, you didn't pay for air. And, you got trading stamps to boot! When laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries, and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed ... and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of em!!! Didn't that feel good.. just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that! There's nothing like the good old days! They were good then, and they're good now when we think about them. ***************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES FEATURED BOOKS Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama Hardcover - 237 pages (August 1999) Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573220256 Other Editions: Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged) Powerful message to be had from this book - I have found a new insight into living and I think anyone who reads this will also. Amazon.com In a modern society characterized by insensitivity to violence, ambivalence to the suffering of others, and a high-octane profit motive, is talk of ethics anything more than a temporary salve for our collective conscience? The Dalai Lama thinks so. In his Ethics for the New Millennium, the exiled leader of the Tibetan people shows how the basic concerns of all people--happiness based in contentment, appeasement of suffering, forging meaningful relationships--can act as the foundation for a universal ethics. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573220256/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) FEATURED DVD The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over (1994) Edition Details: • Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only) • Color • Audio only DTS bonus track: Seven Bridges Road • ASIN: 6305301107 Other Formats: VHS, DVD All I can say is, this DVD (one of the first music DVDs I have watched) brought a few tears to my eyes. Reunions are cool and these guys brought back a flood of memories - in a word - KILLER! Amazon.com The long-defunct, Southern California band regrouped for an album, an expensive tour (expensive for ticket buyers, that is), and this televised special, which features the Eagles in performance. Laid-back but sharp and even stirring during a longish acoustic set, the guys quickly get past the nostalgia element and sound truly viable. They even make it look easy: the sight of Joe Walsh wearing glasses and sitting in almost perfect repose as he effortlessly colors old hits "Tequila Sunrise" and new material such as "Learn to Be Still" may make you wonder why you ever stashed that guitar in the attic. But the band eventually gets off their stools and rocks out on "Hotel California" and other Eagles standards. All in all, it's an enjoyable and mellowing show. --Tom Keogh http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305301107/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hey, don't Bogart this newsletter! Please forward this copy to all your friends. Thanks! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO List Owner/Editor - Vincent P. Gearhart KEEP ON TRUCKIN' RE-VISITED E-mail Address - mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com or mailto:kotrv-owner@egroups.com Subscribe/Unsubscribe & Misc. Information: To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-subscribe@egroups.com To UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-unsubscribe@egroups.com (Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.) To POST to the newsletter, send e-mail mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com or mailto:kotrv-owner@egroups.com The sister web site for KOTRV is located at Please stop by and see the changes and additions. KOTRV has an archive of past issues available on-line at =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Copyright 2000, VIP Graphics. All rights reserved. ISSN 1097-4156 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Disclaimer: Disclaim THIS!!