who wants to go back to the sixties?

[HEX]

long before i even knew what a spaghetti western was
i was always fascinated by that little era everyone calls the sixties.

unfortunatly i was never able to experience what life was like back then. but i sure would have liked to. i have always felt that i dont belong in my generation.
in fact my "friends"(if i can call them that) are lightyears apart from me. they have different interest(which is always the same interest among them) and i have different interest. as far as music and movies go and clothing style. i just dont fit. i dont think i ever have.
a couple of years ago when THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS craze was on a rampage(at least where i live i know taste are different in other parts of the country and the world) all my friends were into it, while i would prefer to watch HERBIE THE LOVE BUG as opposed to that crap.

rap music  and reggaetone(or however the hell spell it. its basically rap music in spanish, another abomination)
is the craze with my friends now and with all kids for that matter. i love listening to the BEATLES, THE DOORS, THE BEACH BOYS, CAT STEVENS, BUDDY HOLIDAY, THE BEE GEES, DAVID BOWIE, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, PINK FLOYD and just about everything before the 80,s including swing music and jazz. I try getting my friends to listen to that stuff THEY GO ON TO THE NEXT SONG AFTER JUST LISTENING TO ONE FOR ONLY 10 SECONDS. 10 SECONDS! they say that there is no "good part" to that particular piece. ah i see. so every song has to have a "good part" within the first 10 seconds in order for it to be a good. so heres my question to them... when is there a good part in a 50 CeNT song? cuz i sure as hell havent found it.

movies are the same. even worse so probably. can u believe that if u were to ask a child under the age of 19(even now the eppidemic is growing into the 20 catergory) if "he or she has seen any OLD movies" their is a 90% chance u will get an answer along the lines of "oh yeah i saw TITANIC the other night".

so according to my generation a movie before the years of 2002(and probably 2004) is labeled as an "old movie". i hope u dare not go into the realm of mentioning something from the 50' or 60's for u will only get puzzled looks from the children of today.

and i try to get my friends into films that they dont normally see(which isnt hard since apparently for them cinema began with THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS). GOD knows i try so damn much. i have shown films like THE FRENCH CONNECTION(which i am not a very big fan of but still it is  a good film anyway) ROSEMARY'S BABY, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND(some kids have actually thought i was joking when i mentioned the title on that one, and asked wheather that was a real film or if i was pulling there leg). so more recently i have gotten into trying to show this sad generation SPAGHETTI WESTERNS. what a horrible idea that was...

i showed FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE to about three friends and the only reaction i got out of them was wondering eyes through the whole picture. i saw them looking up and down and in all different directions except for the damn screen! only times they seemed half interested was when there was shooting going on.
i even showed it to a self proclaimed "MOVIE BUFF"(who had never heard of sergio leone) and his reaction was much the same as everybody elses.(only difference was I showed him THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY).
the last time i tried before i completely gave up was today when i showed a friend BLINDMAN. same bull****
looking around aimlessly. in fact the only remark about the film was "whoa i didn know there was tits in this movie!".


anyway this is the sad generation i live in. nobody even reads books anymore, unless there made too(for example schools and colleges). the only pleasure read any one does is HARRY POTTER. i have a theory that after the HARRY POTTER series is over and when are generation is the leading generation bookstores will go out of bussiness.

i just wish that i could have been born in the 50's that way i could have enjoyed the sixties and seventies. and i am sure those decades are glorified more then they should be,(nothing is that good) but it sure beats the hell out of this.









and that incomprehensible SLIPKNOT band  sucks donkey dung. SLIPNUTS MY ASS!

[KERMIT]

eloquently put HEX.  it wasn't all fun and games... a
hell of a lot o stuff went down.  i didn't really begin to understand it all ' til it was over.  OR, as the man said, you don't miss your water til your well runs dry.

my finest hour was getting to see hendrix on a very good night.   

don't start me talkin', i'll tell you everything i know, lol 

[HEX]

and i would like to hear it all kermit. anything to...

"teleport me off this rock" as luke skywalker would say.

i know it wasnt all fun in the sun. what with the war going on(and a lot more). those were tough times

that is why i said it is glorified way to much but it must have been quiet the experience.

an experience i would have loved to live through.










but i am a dreamer(and a child of the sixties,acurate or not) and i hope one day u will join me.

[spag fan]

uh.. nevermind.

[HEX]

uh.. nevermind.

why did u change it?

u did a fine contribution.

[spag fan]

It felt a little corny in retrospect.

[HEX]

well if u say so....

[KERMIT]

It felt a little corny in retrospect.

i felt corney mice elf, but i've got a new posting rule
i just go from the gut post, and move on. so it's corney.
corney is  hip bro. it ain't no big deal.

....on the other hand forget i ever posted this, lol 

[cigar joe]

As the saying goes if you remember the 60's you weren't really there.... .

But, it was a very cool decade, the 50's were fairly staid & straight laced, the 60's had this irresistable wave of foreign influences wash over us and completely change things forever. Mini skirts, see-through tops for girls (for a teenager like myself this was like going to "candyland", just walking down the streets of NYC was an education, lol), foreign films, flower power, Spaghetti Westerns, Beatles, Hendrix, Stones, Pink Floyd, it was a lot of fun on one side and a bit scary on another with all the political stuff, civil rights, assainations, Vietnam, nuclear war, etc., etc.

[Alan Shearer 9]

You sound like a bruised romantic HEX  I'm the same I guess, far as my tastes go, massive Stones fan, the early Stones that is although they seem to have somewhat found the original spirit of the group again now to a small extent, the only art I see released atm (films, music etc) is shite except for the very small minority of it. I also think politically we live in very conservative times, my own politics are like that of Tuco, ie I DON'T GIVE A ****!  most of the people I know waste their time with politics and even worse they are conservative types and that really is not sexy at all. But yeah most of my taste in film and music is from the late 70s and backwards, the 80s was completely rubbish, glad I was born in 88 so I didn't have to suffer that decade. You can count the good things from the 80s on one hand, Raging Bull, and ermm...... that's it I guess  I feel a cultural/social revolution coming though at least I hope one happens because living in these times is very VERY boring.

[Juan Miranda]

Post deleted. I was talking to a troll.

[The Peacemaker]

Wish I grew up in the 60's. Funny story Hex, I had shown a few of my friends For a Few Dollars More and they all had the same reaction but besides looking up and down they were talking too.    Plus a lot of movies today suck ( they have no quality at all ), and we live in a very scared time. Everyone today is afraid of everything ( though I'm not brave either ). But everything is terrorism this and terrorism that, everybody's afraid to walk outside and live for God's sake! I agree with you HEX, I wish our generation had some damn patience for life! Nobody can sit through a movie anymore without seeing millions of people dead in the first ten seconds! But I'm also believe strongly in progress and I'm optimistic so, let's hope for a better tomorrow!

[HEX]

Wish I grew up in the 60's. Funny story Hex, I had shown a few of my friends For a Few Dollars More and they all had the same reaction but besides looking up and down they were talking too. 

i for saw that to happen. so i made individual viewings of the film not all at once. the only person who was in the room with them during the film was me, and i am certainly not going to talk.


though i did have to stop the movie quite a few times to explain a few things.

for example...

"why do they shoot off there own hats when they could just kill eachother?"
followed by a wonderfully immature reply
"this is f***ing stupid"

[Alan Shearer 9]

I aint scared of nothing or no one! 

[dave jenkins]

I aint scared of nothing or no one! 

That's because you haven't met me yet!