Post #102973 by Unkle John on Tue, Jul 20, 2004 10:16 PM

On 2004-07-20 12:13, tiki mick wrote:
Man, it's so nice to bash the hippies!!!!!!!!

I am glad I am not the only one who can't stand those self-satisfied little snots!!!!!

I am glad that more then a few people find them to be irritating, annoying and just plain stupid...

I really liked the comment about hippies having no rythem in thier dumb little drum circles!!!! it's so true!!!

In Berkeley, they have a drum circle that plays near the bartstation also near the college....the most god-awful noise I have ever heard!!!

These people don't take the time to study and appreciate anything at all....they just buy a 400 dollar djembe and now think they are really cool....they have this fake look of "spritual bliss" on thier faces, as they pound away...mindlessly, endlessly!!!!

They don't understand what Zakir Hussein, or any of the other great percussionists are really about: Learning, listening, practicing, studying and having RESPECT for ethnic music and the people who invented modern percussion like Tito Puente and others.....it's more then just buying a 400 dollar djembe, and "getting into the groove"

And to answer Mr McDougal...dude, we bash hippies around here because hippies stand opposite to most of the values we tiki people hold dear...it's 180 degrees the other way from what people like me enjoy....that's what McDougal can't seem to figure out!!!! He thinks there is a tie- in between tiki and hippy because both respect mysticism and the enviromment, and the laid back attitude....

Mc Dougal, at one time there may have been a few slight similarities, but the hippies of today are not your parent's hippies!

And before you get your birkenstocks in a knit, I was raised a hippie, by hippie parents....I know what I am talking about!!!!!

Hippies, for the most part, are fake, fake fake!!! They are like Eminem..the otherman ripping off the brotherman!!!! Poseurs and spoiled rich kids!!!

Just because some WASP offspring listens to hip hop, or wears baggy clothing, it does not make him really "ghetto" at all...he's copying..and so are you hippies!!! How many of you have actually read the beat poets, or people like Camus who came before??

I find myself felling pretty intelligent (I don't know all the awnsers but I'm always learning). I don't feel "self-satisfied". I would never spend "$400" on something I can make and feel something of self-accomplishment on my ability to create something. Again why would I spend $xxx on birkenstocks when I can get a knock off brand. I'm not spoiled nor rich. I never asked for anything that was trendy (unlike my sister), I wear "baggy" jeans, not because I'm "ghetto" (personally can't stand that look) , because I feel confortable in them. I wear bowling shirts and tie-die. I wear patchwork pants and jackets. I also collect items from the 1940s - 1970's. I respect other peoples views, and other cultures beliefs, but I also respect our planet. I'm a reader of many things, I'll be honest though I don't read alot of poetry. But what I do read I do enjoy, beat and non-beat. I love to listen to jam-bands, psychedelic, blues, surf, rock, classical, swing, big band, etc.
Ienjoy the tallents of Duke Ellington, Dick Dale, Grateful Dead, 13th Floor elevators, Lightning Hopkins, Choplin, etc.

I dont think I'm a hippy of yesterday, but I try my best to live each day hoping that what I do is peaceful. I enjoy pretty much most of what you "dissed" above. I feel I have contributed alot to TC, and I enjoy every minute of it. I don't care for stereotypes, because most of them have a negative tone to them. But by liking what I like, what type of person do you think that makes me? I can tell you. Me.