Volume 2, Issue 3 ISSN
1097-4156 October 1998
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Welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined us over the last month!
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 to help this community grow.
To SUBSCRIBE, e-mail <mailto:subscribe@vipgrafx.com>
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If any of you get a chance and feel up to it, please send the list a small introduction of yourself letting others know a bit about you and your interest in the time frame we are visiting.
Check out this month's Sponsor - Charlotte's Gardens, who has allowed me to reprint an article on making Tie-dyed T-shirts, which she had in one of her Simple Pleasures Newsletters: This is a free weekly email newsletter with tips techniques and resources for gardening, cooking, and living a balanced life.
Please visit Charlotte's Gardens extensive web site for Gourmet Food & Elegant Gifts at http://www.charlottesgardens.com
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More Subscriber Comments!
comment: "REMEMBER LAUGHTER"
comment: Long life to Carol King!
comment: i am a new -age hippy of 15 who was born into the wrong decade - peace love and harmony
comment: LOVE your hippie site dude keep on rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!
peace be with you babe xoxo ~melody
comment: just a freeman lost in time
comment: I think it is really cool that there is a web site for hippies on the net cause it allows us to continue to learn about the flower peoples past. but most of all i see it as a opportunity to be able to come together as a whole again. But most of all i look at it as achance to meet other new people out there who live near me that i may get a chance to meet someday that i never knew was even there. i am a flower child who lives in woonsocket, rhode island, and i still like to do a lot of the old things such as living in a school bus and listening to the grateful dead. sincerely: joe nixon (aka) boy scout
comment: Greetings and Salutations!! Hook me up with that ole time feelin' It's one of those things that make you feel all groovin again, still, some more. You get the pix. PEACE!~pass it on~
comment: All ya need is love!!!
comment: I think this is a good newsletter. We need more people who spread the word of love, passifism and peace.
comment: remembering a pass time when I was free
comment: Proud to be an "old" hippie chick. :)
Peace
Drop in to Let's Talk!
It would be cool to have some conversation on the war, communes, music, equal rights, ecology, free love, or anything else you might want to share.
Please Drop In: <http://www.vipgrafx.com/talk_toc.htm>
Note:
In the process of losing my main harddrive, I had to rebuild the website and it seems that I lost all the conversation that had started to happen so, please visit and re-post if you can.
Thanks.
More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, try to get some satisfaction from the Stones, 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.
The Unknown
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is
unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
René Magritte
Please feel free to add your 2 cents worth - share your thoughts, feelings, and general good-times. This is also a good place to introduce yourself to the list. We would all love to hear from you! Send your comments to:
<mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com>
From: "mike+kelli price" <m2p2b2@infinet.com>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Contest.
Date sent: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:42:39 -0400
well, when I was alive in the sixties, It wasn't as interesting as everyone makes it out to be. (for me anyway) I wasn't that much of a hippie, though I dressed like one. I wanted to go to woodstock, but my parents thought tickets were too expensive and I was too young. (16) I really wish that I had gone, though. My daughter is always getting on to me about not going, doesn't she have a lot to learn? I'm really entering this contest for her, and also for myself and others. The kids also need to know that the sixties wasn't all about love, and that some of us had parents that just didn't let us go out tripping on acid. thanx for your time.
hippie mom,
Eve
From: Michael Loret de Mola <ml7z@server2.mail.virginia.edu>
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Intro
Date sent: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:59:08 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Priority: NORMAL
Hi. I guess this is my somewhat formal introduction.
First, I am a child of the 70's, and the tail end at that. I was born during the final weeks of President Ford's faltering (in more ways than one) presidency. I am now a history student at the University of Virginia, and my area of concentration, as you might guess, is the 60's and 70's. I'm particularly interested in the politics, culture, music, etc of the time period. I must say, I am particularly interested right now in LBJ, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and how the 3 were linked. If anyone has any thoughts on this matter, please feel free to expound. Otherwise, I'll go. Thank you.
Michael Loret de Mola
ml7z@Virginia.EDU
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
Date sent: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 17:45:19 +0200
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: Rinaldo RASA <rasa@gpnet.it>
Subject: why i'm not buddhist
Copies to: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com
I am puzzled for years cause of the attraction of the counter culture for the mistical oriental religious background in his light form. This is a very dangerous feeling because the root of fascism or nazi-fascism is in the himalayan mountains. When I was teen I considered the metempsycosis (or migration of the souls from a low being to another high being in an endless wheel) a good idea. But considering the other side the religion is not a good chance to help the people (or the individual one). For instance the submisiveness of the women is an uniform rule in _every_ religion. pls tell me only _one_ religion that give
freedom to the women. In this respect Buddhism is not different. Thinking of fundation of the Buddhism Siddharta was a warrior. In short there's a clear violation of the egalitarianism to the peace loving people and feminine feelings. It seems to me that a young man are lesser sensible than the older to the hidden violence. Re-thinking the gone period of life is sometime a stressful experience, re-reading books or re-watching the movies of our youth it's surprising to notice the violent antiegalitarianism in the beliefs of these times.---Rinaldo.
Date sent: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brittany <jude_23_98@yahoo.com>
Subject: Introduction
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Hi,
I joined this list not so long ago but this message was lost in my mailbox and that's why I haven't written an intro yet. Well, lets see, I'm 14 and my name is Brittany. I live in Minnesota with my parents. (college brother) The town I live in is real small and the area I live in is extremely boring. It's really flat and is basically just farms. You may have heard of it it's called the Red River Valley and there was some big floods and fires around here a year or so ago.
I joined this list because none of my friends understand how beautiful life in the sixties was. I really am a true believer in PEACE. And I think that if we all could just accept each other there would be a lot less hurt feelings in life and less foreign conflicts. Another thing I love about the sixties are the music. My favorite group is THE DOORS. I also enjoy Mamas and Papas, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, etc. THe music of today is so blah and uncreative. It's very repetitive and all it talks about is "getting it on" and has all these gross and violent ways of percieving the world. I really disagree with the ways of the '90's and think the sixties were so open and so tolerant. I also think the clothing of the sixties were creative with a little bit of ethnicness to them. I'm so jealous of my parents for getting to experience the sixties for themselves, and frankly I think they took the sixties for granted. They lived in this area so they didn't go to WOODSTOCK but at least they probably recall reading about it and going to the theater to see the movie.
thank you all for listening,
Peace,
Brittany
From: "Steven Monteleone" <stevem@trib.com>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Hello, It's Me
Date sent: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:57:29 -0500
Hi There,
Thanks for creating the forum "Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited". I'm Steve Monteleone, a born-again hippie. After joining the establishment for twenty years to raise my kids, I'm having my second childhood. My hair is getting long again (except for the part on top where it's gone!) and I'm relearning to not care what other people think of me. I think the glory days of the counter-culture are grossly misrepresented as self indulgence to the nth degree. Granted indulgences did occur, but for me it was a time that allowed me to see what was going on around me. I understood it then, because I was able to look inside my self and really see what was there. People today don't seem to always know what's really going on, on the inside, and I think it gives them a clouded view of what's going on, on the outside. I think that's enough soap-boxing for now.
More Later,
Steve Monteleone
From: "Joe Chasse" <jtruck@willapabay.org>
To: "Vincent Gearhart" <vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Re: subscribe
Date sent: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:38:39 -0700
Hi...Your email response to my subscribing asked for me to send a brief note of my interest in the time frame referenced...
HA! If I coulda been a beatnik, I woulda, but was only about 14 or so when hearing stories of sitting on apple crates at the Purple Onion and listening to poetry and freeform jazz in a smoke filled room...lower middle class pacific northwest kid with eclectic parents. Of course I went into the Coast Guard instead of the army. THAT took some scrambling! Fast forward here to Blue Cheer and Quicksilver Messenger Service...got out of the service in '69 and bought a '49 Dodge panel truck,cut a hole in the roof for the stovepipe, and left Captain Pissgums for the life of Mr. Natural.
Now (late 1998) am a 52 year old semi-retired part time woodworker, part time (small potatoes) antique dealer....the 60 acre hippie mountain homestead is history and I collect groovy old wood windows and doors...maybe I'm crazy...compared to whom, eh??
May I suggest incorporating N.W. Ecosystem Alliance into the website? These are the people who BUY logging contracts from the gov. to save ecosystems. It works!
<http://www.ecosystem.org/~nwea>
Peace from the garden planet
Joe
From: DancnBers@aol.com
Date sent: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:02:30 EDT
To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Re: subscribe
Hey now!
How is everyone this fine evenin? i'm doin very good. no, i wasn't alive in the 60's (even though i wish i was), but i still love to hear stories about those times. i think the 60's will always be the greatest decade ever, no matter what happens in the future, ya know? i am very much a flower child, hippie chick, and a deadhead (and i will be till the day i die). i hope the grateful dead and their music live on forever. they have to be the best band.. concidering what they did for the fans. they kept goin no matter what. (and well, the music is totally groovin =) ) i am 13, and i hope you guys don't look down on me cause i'm young or anything like that..WE ARE THE NEW GENERATION OF DEADHEADS, folks ;)... When I'm buried six feet deep, Place the speakers at my feet. Put the earphones on my head, and always play The Grateful Dead!
Peace, love, and sunshine, Shari
Links to sites from the outer recesses of the Cyber Cosmos
KTAO.COM
Proclaimed to be the worlds strongest solar powered radio station.
As I try to visit Taos at least once a year (it's a great healing place) this station keeps me up on the activities going on there. You all may like it due to the diversity of its programming - eclectic, entertaining and just down right cool - from C & W to Mexican to New Age to Alternative, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Also check out some of the other cool links on this site - I highly recommend the Earthship link for starters.
Drop In: <http://www.ktao.com>
Bearded Wolf
An interesting site by an individual who has been on the medicine path most of his life and now shares it with others.
Drop In: <http://www.erols.com/brddwolf/wolf.html>
About Living
A wellness community providing interactive resources, mindful articles, balanced links, and centered channels while providing resources for surviving in today's world and building a better tomorrow.
Drop In: <http://www.aboutliving.com/>
HerbNET
In their own words -
"You have reached the most comprehensive site on the Web for those seeking information on herbs, herb products and remedies, herb publications . . . in fact everything herbal can be found here!"
And yes, they pretty much cover it!
Drop In: <http://www.herbnet.com/>
The Hair Pages
Did someone say "Freak Flag"?
THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL!
Drop In: <http://www.stanford.edu/~toots/Hair/hair.html>
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Don't know why I've been holding back on this one?
Check out this years inductees:
The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Mamas and the Papas, Lloyd Price, Santana and Gene Vincent.
Drop In: <http://www.rockhall.com/>
70's Preservation Society
This site is dedicated to the Music and Memories of the 70's.
Drop In: <http://www.70ps.com/>
Orlando Museum of Art: Digital Americana show:
There is always time for art - find your way to the art of Rick Doble - some great stuff.
Drop In: <http://www.omart.org/artech/index.html>
This month's sponsor is Charlotte's Gardens who publishes the Simple Pleasures Newsletter. BZ (the editor) has allowed me to reprint an article about Tie-dyed T-Shirts that has run in one of her excellent newsletters. Please visit the website and subscribe to the Simple Pleasures Newsletter.
Reprinted from the Simple Pleasures Newsletter: A free weekly email newsletter with tips techniques and resources for gardening, cooking, and living a balanced life.
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Simple Pleasures is published by Charlotte's Gardens.
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Tie-dyed T-shirts:
Here is a great lazy day in summer project. It is a good idea to make several tie-dye items, since there are endless color combinations and patterns that you can create on white or other light-colored clothing items. Ages: 8 and up. (Younger children with adult supervision. You could also have adults with child supervision for a fun project to do together)
- Materials needed:
- 4 packages of fabric dye in assorted colors. Rit is a good brand
- bucket
- water
- White or a light-colored T-shirt
- Assorted sizes and thickness' of rubber bands
Follow the package directions and mix the dye with water in the bucket. Twist handfuls of the T-shirt into points or mounds of assorted sizes, and wrap them tightly with the rubber bands. The wrapped areas will appear as rings on the T-shirt once it is dyed. Vary the design by to wrapping large and small areas of the clothing with thick and thin rubber bands. Wrap some areas very tightly and others loosely. If you wrap several rubber bands in a row you can make concentric circles.
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CONTEST
No contest this month - but we have a winner by default for the contest I ran a couple of months ago for the Tie-Dye T-Shirt donated by Budda Bear Wear
<mailto:buddhabearwear@hotmail.com>.
And the WINNER IS..... the hippie mom, Eve!
See her post in the contributions section - the first one.
Wilderness
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Cool Lists from around the net!
zappapals - ZappaPals
New e-mail group available from jc103896@oak.cats.ohiou.edu.
Welcome Message/Description:
Anyone who is as obsessed with the music of Frank Zappa, please JOIN IN! We can discuss his music, his life, his influences, or those musicians influenced by him. I own 51 of his albums and plan to buy the rest this year. I'm interested in those who also are very familiar with his music, or maybe someone who wants to know a good place to start.
Group Moderator: zappapals-owner@egroups.com
To subscribe, send a message to:
mailto:zappapals-subscribe@egroups.com
or go the this e-group's home page at:
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herb - Discussion of medicinal herbs and herbal medicine
Henriette Kress <HeK@HETTA.PP.FI>
herb on majordomo@MyList.net The medicinal herblist
The medicinal herblist has moved? The new address is herb@MyList.net , and the old trearn -list is now defunct. An info -file is available, just send "info herb" to majordomo@MyList.net . With 700+ members the list has lots of interesting discussions on herbal medicine and medicinal herbs, with a very low noise level.
To subscribe to herb, send the following command to
majordomo@MyList.net in the body of your email:
subscribe herb
Owner: Henriette Kress <hek@hetta.pp.fi>
ZMM Discussion Group
ZMM Discussion Group provides a forum for the readers of Robert M. Pirsig's bestseller "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Some did not understand the book, most praise it highly, maybe of different reasons. I myself as moderator and owner of the group am interested in the quality aspect with
respect to everyday life in general and practicing art in particular.
Subscribe via mailto:zmm-subscribe@makelist.com
Dr. Werner Stuerenburg, owner
On Reality
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Serge Daney
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
FEATURED BOOK
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
I selected this book by suggestion from a member of the list.
Paperback (June 1979)
William Morrow & Co Paper; ISBN: 0688052304
Review by Amazon.com
Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a cross-country trip on a motorcycle by a father and son, it is more nearly a journey through 2,000 years of Western philosophy. For some people, this has been a truly life-changing book. --This text refers to the audio cassette edition of this title
Paperback or the Cassette edition
FEATURED ALBUM
Out Of Our Heads
The Rolling Stones
Ok, so there's Baseball, Homemade Icecream, Apple Pie and the Stones!
Original Year 1965
Producer Andrew Loog Oldham
Album Notes:
The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals), Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums).
Engineers: David Hassinger, Ron Malo, Glyn Johns.
Early Stones recordings don't get much better than this. Firmly established as celebrities, the band began to feed off the pandemonium they inspired as an artistic source. Nowhere is their reaction to fame and music business drama more apparent than in the humorous, mocking "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man," in which the Stones effectively skewer the sleazier side of the record industry. Naturally, this will always be known as the album that features the original version of "Satisfaction," which would remain the band's signature tune throughout their career, but that's really just the tip of the iceberg.
Track Song Title
1 Satisfaction
2 Good Times
3 Spider & The Fly, The
4 One More Try
5 That's How Strong My Love Is
6 Play With Fire
7 Mercy Mercy
8 Hitch Hike
9 Cry To Me
10 Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
11 Last Time, The
12 I'm All Right
Check out the other Stones Albums!
I have put together several pages on the sister web site for
KOTRV with a selection of books, CDs, and videos that relate
somehow to the 60's and 70s.
Follow these links -
Books - <http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/books.html>
Music - <http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/tunes.html>
Videos - <http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/videos.html>
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Thanks!
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