New Words
of the 1960s
H to Z
happy hour, hatchback, high technology, hiphugger, hippie,
hit man, humongous, immunosuppressive, in-depth, in-joke, incentivize, inner city, insider
trading, instant replay, intensive care, jet lag, jetport, job action, jump jet, junk art,
kilobyte, kludge, klutz, kung fu, launch vehicle, lib, lip-sync, love beads, love-in,
macrobiotics, mainframe, margarita, maxi, megabyte, meltdown, microchip, microprocessor,
microwave oven, mini, minimal art, miniskirt, mondo, monetarism, nacho, narc, newbie,
no-fault, no-win, nose job, nunchaku, Obie, one-liner, Op-Ed, op art, pantsuit, pantyhose,
paparazzo, pecs,
peacenik, plate tectonics, plea-bargain, poor-mouth, prioritize, porn, pro-life, put-down,
quark, quick fix, raunch, repo, reverse discrimination, ripoff, roadie, scam, schmear,
scumbag, scuzzy, sitcom, security blanket, sexism, skinny-dip, skyjack, soft-core, soft
lens, soul food, space shuttle, spacewalk, sports medicine, streetwise, stun gun,
tae kwon do, third world, tchotchke, time frame, tokenism, tradecraft, trendy, unisex,
videocassette, vroom, workaholic, workfare, yakitori, yucky, zilch, zit.
Next month, some new words from the 70s
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INTRODUCTION
& MUSINGS
CONTRIBUTIONS
COOL LINKS
COOL LISTS
QUOTES
COOL GOODIES
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.
To SUBSCRIBE, e-mail subscribe@vipgrafx.com
To UNSUBSCRIBE, e-mail remove@vipgrafx.com
(Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.)
To POST to the newsletter, e-mail hippy@vipgrafx.com
This month's question.
What was your favorite concert, happening, or cool experience from those days, and why?
I would like to hear from as many of you as possible - perhaps if I had enough feedback, I
could cut some of the boring stuff out... yea, right... Time to get over being shy - it's
time to spill the goods.
Send your submission to hippy@vipgrafx.com
I realize that many of the subscribers to KOTRV were not around during this time so I am
working on a question for you in next month's issue.
Get Your Quotes Here!
Folks seem to enjoy the quotes a lot, so I have compiled a file from all
the past issues and wow! because of the magic of the internet, that file is now available
via an easy to use autoresponder.
In order to check it out, all you have to do is just send a blank email to: quotes@vipgrafx.com
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Comments
More comments submitted by you wonderful and gentle people that have
subscribed to the newsletter via the sister KOTRV web site. Thanks for your participation.
comment: let the 60,s and 70,s live forever
comment: I don't get a lotta time on the net-but this
newsletter's so groovy I HAD to sign up
comment: This sight is so cool It brings back so many
memories of my past. Those are days I never want to forget. Thanks to you, I don't have
to.
comment: I love being a hippie, I should have been born
earlier.
comment: Good day there ladies and gents, I just found my way
home here and wanted to say hi. Have a Grateful Day, Mike.
comment: I would like to subscribe to the keep on truckin
newsletter. I love the sixties. I think it was the greatest decade in the history of the
human race.
comment: WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! THE PSYCHEDELIC HIPPISM, IS
GONNA CAME BACK, IF WE DO SOMETHING!!!!
comment: Hippies live on forever we are even coming back in
our own kids... i love it
comment: We are just freaks with open minds, open hearts,
free spirits, healthy souls, nonconformist ideas, and a need to be nomadic!
... and my personal favorite.
comment: I'm still stuck in the 60's, don't send help.
More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, get into the Rocky Mountain Way with
Joe, 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.
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
From: "John Spear" <jspear@global.co.za>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Intro
Date sent: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:46:45 +0200
Yebo!
Greetings from sunny South Africa.
*sigh* I'm home!
I guess I never did develop beyond the 60's, and now I find myself trapped outside my era.
Somewhat like the country song "Old Hippie" (Waylon Jennings??)
Still wear blue jeans an' long hair, still wear my beard and beads, still long for the
Good ol' days (formally "these trying times")
I didn't get into drugs, though I was curious. Just scared to destroy what little mind I
had, I guess.
For that matter, didn't get much "Free Love" either. *sigh*
The Vietnam war? Well, I was WAY out of that one, not involved at all. To me, it was only
another news item.
That's not to say we didn't have our Causes. We did our fair share of
"anti-whatever" protesting in one way or another.
Bad times and good times they were! But in retrospect, "Even the bad times were
Good" (Who sang that?)
And those smoky basement Folk clubs, where the air was so thick you could cut it with a
knife (*sniff-sniff* is that a whiff of sweet Mary Jane I smell?) As a non smoker, even in
those days, I must have inhaled a pack a night.
Uh-oh! Now you've got me started! Beware an old man trapped in nostalgia.
Vincent, you did say >short< intro, right? - Well too late for that now!
About me:
Everyone calls me Boots (never mind why, they just do, OKAY?)
I'm a 56 year old semi-domesticated, recycled hippie, trapped in suburbia with a tribe of
7 kids (no typo), 2 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits, and at last count, 36 white mice, and, of
course not forgetting the light of my life, my wife Helena, who sometimes actually seems
to understand me.
Because of my appearance, I'm sometimes (hell, mostly) considered to be a bit
"eccentric". P's me off at times, but I've learned to use it to my advantage
*chortle-chortle* Amazing what you can get away with sometimes.
I'm a pacifist at heart, and I'm finding it extremely hard to adapt to the violence that
has erupted in this beautiful country. There is no "normal" crime any more.
Every crime is accompanied by what seems completely gratuitous violence. Murder, Rape and
torture seem to be the object of all crimes, while anything that may be gained in the
process seems to be just a little something extra.
Guess it's true what they say, "There can be no growth without change, but there can
be change without growth"
Looking forward to the newsletter(s), and it's nice to know I have some Kindred Spirits
out there.
Anyone want to drop me a line? Feel free.
Till then, Peace man.
TTFN
Boots :-{)>
jspear@global.co.za
http://home.global.co.za/~jspear
From: MJBramham@aol.com
Date sent: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:35:01 EST
To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Intro
Hi Y'all,
My name's River, I just signed up to this newsletter. I myself am 15 years old and do not
believe that you had to be there to know what it was all about. I admit to wearing the
clothes, listening to the music etc. but it goes a lot deeper. My thoughts and feelings
mirror those of my brothers and sisters who lived to see the times. The reason I signed up
was to learn more about the generation of flower children who went before my own. This
newsletter is the greatest thing, and I hope it can work to bring us all together!
Peace out,
River
Date sent: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:28:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Karen Eutsler <keutsler@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mother Earth News for Sale
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Greetings,
I have a complete set of Mother Earth News, issues #1-#125, including indexes through
issue #90. Any interested buyers out there? Please e-mail me!
Thank you,
Karen
From: "William Erwin" <erwins@hughes.net>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: newsletter post
Date sent: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:53:07 -0800
Hi! I'm doing a research project and would like some information about life in the late
sixties, specifically from people who spent some time living nomadically. I'm interested
in relatively wholesome stories of your experiences, where you camped or stayed, how you
provided life's basic necessities, etc. Please email me at this address: erwins@hughes.net
Thank you very much. Peace!
COOL LINKS
Cool links to sites from the outer
recesses of the Cyber Cosmos
DazedHippie's Corner of the Web
Lots of fun graphics and nice links.
Garden
Guides
Wow, tons of info here on all aspects of gardening. Check out the Guide Sheets on items
such as annuals, bulbs, perennials, vegetables and herbs. Also look at all the TIPS AND
TECHNIQUES covering, just to mention a few, ground cover, raised beds, rock gardens,
starting seeds and much more.
Companion Gardening
This site presents concise, easy to read tables organized by name of plant for proper
companion planting.
Urban
Agriculture Notes
by City Farmer
Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
This non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation from
a small office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia and from their demonstration food
garden in nearby Kitsilano, a residential neighbourhood.
Urban Agriculture is a new and growing field that is not completely defined yet even by
those closest to it. It concerns itself with all manner of subjects from rooftop gardens,
to composting toilets, to air pollution and community development. It encompasses mental
and physical health, entertainment, building codes, rats, fruit trees, herbs, recipes and
much more.
There is much excellent information located at this site. Take some time to explore it and
learn more about urban agriculture.
Robman76
Just interesting...
**Moderator's Comment**
Sorry, I got a bit carried away with the gardening stuff this issue. Seems the season is
almost upon us and the smell and touch of fresh earth is becoming a wondrous prospect.
The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
COOL LISTS
Cool Lists from around the net!
List name: Earthworm growers
Title: Earthworm growers of the world
Purpose: Inform and educate
Benefits: Interact with others who share the same interest
URL: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/earthwormgrowers
To subscribe: Go to above website
List owner: Robert Holt
Email: Bobarooney@aol.com
This list just started a couple of months ago but the first two issues were pretty good.
Cool Web Sightings
To subscribe go to http://coolsights.listbot.com/
Cool Web Sightings is a weekly newsletter containing links and short reviews of cool web
sites, Day in History (with links for more information) for the upcoming week and recipes.
Check this list out - John does a great job finding some awesome web sites from across the
net!
Contact mailto:comments@dailyalmanac.com
John Reese
Quincy Illinois
http://www.virtualquincy.com/
QUOTES
Food for Thought
One of the illusions of life is that the
present hour is not the
critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year. He only is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with worry,
fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have
done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have
crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good
and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to
waste a moment on yesterdays.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is
no
path and leave a trail.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and
in that I learn from him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson-
A little nonsense now and then,
is relished by the wisest men!
Willy Wonka
Laughter is the sun that drives winter
from the human face.
You don't stop laughing because you grow
old,
you grow old because you stop laughing.
Life does not consist mainly, or even
largely, of facts and
happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is
forever flowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
The only man who behaved sensibly was my
tailor; he took my
measurements anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went
on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
COOL
GOODIES
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I developed the ABCard system not long ago to be able
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their own, and same for the poetry and audio.
Pre-set text can be in English and/ or Castellano (Spanish), the text is read in the
language chosen by the recipient, not by the sender, hence the name ABCard (A Bilingual Card).
The system allows you to send one card to one recipient at a time or to multiple
recipients through a "mailing list file" in a personalized way.
Private ABCard pages remain always in the ABCard server, where as the images/text and audio
remains in the owners server.
To send a card, go to the main ABCard site:
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and find your way to "Send Card"
Or to create a page, find your way to "Create Page"
If you have any question, or need any assistance when creating your page please do not
hesitate in contacting me.
martin@atelier.demon.co.uk
warm regards
Martin
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FEATURED
WORDS & TUNES
FEATURED BOOK
1,001 Old-Time
Garden Tips : Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good
Old Days When Everyone Did
by Roger Yepsen (Editor)
Hardcover - 352 pages (February 1998)
Rodale Pr; ISBN: 0875967663
Get your hands dirty!
Synopsis
Discover the secrets of old-time gardeners and their time-tested organic techniques to
make a garden grow more beautiful and bountiful. "1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips"
features an incredible selection of advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early
20th-century gardeners on everything from how to read weather signs to how to improve soil
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FEATURED ALBUM
Greatest
Hits: Little Did He Know
Joe Walsh
Was wanting to use "The Smoker you Drink, The Player you Get" album, but
Joe had so many great songs that were scattered over several albums that I figured a
Greatest Hits would be much better.
After seeing Joe on the Drew Carey show, it brought back many memories of his music and
situations I was in when I heard them (mostly good). This is some great classic music from
a classic artist.
Album Notes:
Personnel: Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); Joe
Vitale (vocals, flute, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Dale Peters (vocals,
bass, percussion); Waddy Wachtel, Joe Murcia (guitar); Kenny Passarelli (guitarone,
trumpets, bass); Paul Harris (piano); Jay Ferguson, Rocke Grace (keyboards); Tom
Stephenson (organ); Rick Rosas, George Perry, Mark Andes, Bryan Garofalo, Willie Weeks
(bass); Jim Fox (drums, percussion); Jim Keltner (drums); Bill Szymczyk (marching cymbals,
background vocals); James Gang (hand claps); Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, Bob
Webb, Mary Sterpka, Jody Boyer (background vocals).
Joe Walsh's blues-edged guitar riffs helped define the `take no prisoners' approach to the
rowdy rock & roll party of the seventies. His vocals and guitar work were a call to
arms to cut loose and get down. Prior to his well-received service with the Eagles, ,Walsh
headed the James Gang, writing and singing their hits, "Walk Away," "The
Bomber" and the Beatles-influenced "Midnight Man." All of these and more
are contained in this best-of compilation. Along with a healthy portion of his work with
the James Gang, this disc also features selections from his solo releases of the '80s,
including the sardonic "Life's Been Good" and the rocking "All Night
Long."
Track Listing
Bomber, The (Medley): 1 Funk #49 - 2 Tend My Garden - 3 Closet Queen - 4 Cast Your Fate To
- The Wind - 5 Bolero - 6 Walk away -7 Midnight Man - 8 Mother Says - 9 Turn To
Stone - 10 Meadows - 11 Rocky Mountain Way - 12 Help Me Thru The Night - 13 Life's Been
Good - 14 All Night Long - 15 Confessor, The - 16 Life Of Illusion, A - 17 Ordinary
Average Guy - |
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FEATURED VIDEO
Easy Rider (1969)
Oh yes, the wind blowing through your hair and bugs plastered to your bright smile,
the life on the road following your heart and your head to the freedom that is yours.
Another one of my favorite movies that to me captures some of the essence of that time -
for good or for bad.
Nick, nick, nick....
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Starring: Peter Fonda, et al.
Director: Dennis Hopper
Synopsis
The ultimate paean to 1960's countercultural life, featuring a rock score that includes
The Byrds, The Band, Steppenwolf and Jimi Hendrix. Two dropouts, hoping to understand the
meaning of freedom and the land that is America, hit the road on their motorcycles and
head to New Orleans. Their freewheeling journey, filled with psychedelic drugs and
encounters with a variety of outcasts, teaches them tragically more about the United
States than they'd ever expected to learn... |
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I have put together several pages on the sister web site for
KOTRV with a selection of books, CDs, and videos that I feel
in some way relate to the 60's and 70s.
Follow these links -
Books - Music - Videos
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