I'm sick of Woodstock nostalgia

Aug 15, 2009 17:50

Just as I am sick of images of thuggish Che Guevara, I am sick of Woodstock nostalgia:

Woodstock: Generation Idiot

-By Warner Todd Huston

Sickeningly, an effluvium of nostalgia over the debacle concert near the town of Woodstock, New York in August of 1969 is everywhere. It’s the big 4-0. We should take this anniversary to remember that the ( Read more... )

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imps85 August 16 2009, 19:35:27 UTC
lol Some people have real problems huh? I think it was jsut a great Festival I mean lots of great music really :D.

and who know if V festival, Glastonbury etc would be here today without Woodstock.
lol funniest Antiamericanism- lol whats their problem xD. I dont know a German word saying antideuschimus, or antifrenchism and antieuropism and still people complain and what to change things xD

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kincsem August 16 2009, 21:48:30 UTC
500,000 standing around in mud, not enough toilets, not enough food, bad drug trips--I don't care how good the music might have been, it doesn't sound like fun to me. I've camped out a lot, and this is not camping out--this is squalor. I remember when Woodstock happened, and it struck me as just damn strange.

One thing hardly any of the nostalgia peddlers goes into is how foul the hippies, the real ones, stank. They didn't bathe much; they were usually reeking of body odor and incense.

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imps85 August 17 2009, 08:41:04 UTC
haha lol It is still happening and I would love to be at a festival once especially glasto ^^

http://www.uulyrics.com/music/pulp/song-sorted-for-es-and-wizz/video-pulp-sorted-for-es-and-wizz-glastonbury-1995/


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