Hippies Wanted!!!

Lady Ravyn · 03-08-2007, 08:47 PM

ok, i know i only seem to poke my head 'round here when i need some help on an english paper but... i need help on an english paper

i'm doing it on hippies and how they helped change society's view of authority. it needs to have an interview in it, so i'm looking for someone to interview... a hippy to interview, to be exact

so is anyone a hippy? would you be willing to be interviewed? if you are and you are (lol) reply to this or pm me and we'll set up the details... it would involve me speaking with you over the phone perhaps, or at least aim, just to warn everyone. (i'm not a serial killer or a stalker or anything i SWEAR!

)

so yeah any help would be extremely appreciated!
thanx guys!

GrayMouser · 03-09-2007, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Ravyn

ok, i know i only seem to poke my head 'round here when i need some help on an english paper but... i need help on an english paper

i'm doing it on hippies and how they helped change society's view of authority. it needs to have an interview in it, so i'm looking for someone to interview... a hippy to interview, to be exact

so is anyone a hippy? would you be willing to be interviewed? if you are and you are (lol) reply to this or pm me and we'll set up the details... it would involve me speaking with you over the phone perhaps, or at least aim, just to warn everyone. (i'm not a serial killer or a stalker or anything i SWEAR!

)

so yeah any help would be extremely appreciated!
thanx guys!

Don't know if I'd qualify- I was sixteen in 1970, so more of a suburban wannabe, though I did do the whole dropping out and hitting the road thing that year; lived in crash pads and on a commune, attended every protest going- anti-Vietnam, People's Park (Vancouver), the beginnings of what turned out to be Greenpeace- before hitting the Ol' Hippy Trail to Kathmandu in 1972; certainly had the drugs, long hair and rebellion bit down pat. Politically evolved from a Ghandian/MLK type pacifist to full-out Che Guevara/Maoist and back to Zen/environmentalist over about 4 years.

If that's close enough, send me a pm- one problem is that I live in Taiwan, so if you want a phone interview you'd better have Skype

Butterbeer · 03-09-2007, 06:19 AM

I sure as hell wouldn't mind readin a transcript if that interview!

You might also try Snowdog??? (??)

so ...you need a hippy ...
and you came to Entmoot?

*wipes tears away*

Quote:

you must actually have karma giving ability at this board, like other v bulletin boards, before spreading any more karma to Lady Ravyn

Lady Ravyn · 03-09-2007, 10:26 AM

where the heck is that a quote from, butterbeer?! lol...

and thanx, gray mouser, i may actually take you up on that...those are all the experiences i'm trying to capture in this paper, so that would be great... do you have aim? that may actually be easier than a phone interview (specially as i'm in new jersey and you're in taiwan, and i had to look back at your post to be able to even spell taiwan correctly

) but i'll probably be pming you about all those details.

thanks SO MUCH for goin' out on a limb for me! you're the best!!!

(see, bb? THIS is why i came to entmoot- not cuz i thought i'd find a goldmine of hippies, but because the people are just so groovy that they could be...aside from our conservative tendencies...and patchouli-lacking scents... o.O )

Lady Ravyn · 03-09-2007, 01:00 PM

found my hippy and interviewed him!

thanx though, gray mouser, you were my next choice!

*hugz* i appreciate the offer alot!

peace love and happiness, people!

Insidious Rex · 03-09-2007, 02:37 PM

Theres still hippies?

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-09-2007, 08:04 PM

Yep. They hang out at the nearby hot springs, in the nude.

Lady Ravyn · 03-10-2007, 02:31 PM

actually, this one is a teacher lol

not to sure if he was fully clothed, however; i did do a phone interview... o.O

he was great and very helpful though!

Kethavel · 03-10-2007, 02:59 PM

Does a Hippie-Wannabe count? I've always wanted to live in the mountains and have a garden and grown my hair long, become a yoga master... almost hermit-type... Aaahhh, that sounds good. (I would of course still have my laptop and cable hook up!! ha!)

Lady Ravyn · 03-10-2007, 03:11 PM

well, as far as that goes, my brothers are always calling me a hippy. i think this is rather uncalled for, as i am very conservative (despite some liberal leanings now and then) and the fact that i have no desire whatsoever to live in a commune.

i DO wish i had been born in the 60s though- very much! i ADORE the music of back then, and i love the look of clothing and just all the social revolutions going on then... *sigh* that would have been too cool

sisterandcousinandaunt · 03-10-2007, 04:49 PM

That era, even more than this, was subject to huge shifts in the social taboos. You could demonstrate for the right to wear open toed shoes to school (a right almost vanished now, like so many others) but if you were a girl you faced enormous pressure to be sexually "with it" at the almost certain cost of being seen as "damaged goods" if you went along with it. And it was a long time before any real choice about your economic life was possible. Mother, teacher, nurse were the top things to be.

As a boy, for many years the number that counted was your draft number. You could be plucked from your everyday concerns to slag through a jungle and, if you survived, more or less intact (not drug addicted, etc.) you came home to an uncertain welcome from so-called "peers" who had no idea what had happened to you, and maybe hated you just because you'd gone. If you didn't go, got a student deferment, tried for a CO, etc., you still faced prejudice as part of "the counter culture", even if you weren't, particularly.

People were very polarized. You were "with us or against us." You were "part of the problem or part of the solution." Very cliquish, the '60's and '70's.

Let alone race.

Records get scratchy. I-pods are a better way to listen to that music, anyway.

klatukatt · 03-13-2007, 05:54 PM

I'm anti-hippy. Does that count?

Lady Ravyn · 03-13-2007, 07:43 PM

anti-hippy? how so?
*gulps and ducks head when she relaizes what a loaded question that is...*

Butterbeer · 03-14-2007, 05:51 PM

maybe it is Shakespearian in magnitude?

03-08-2007, 08:47 PM	#1
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	Hippies Wanted!!! ok, i know i only seem to poke my head 'round here when i need some help on an english paper but... i need help on an english paper i'm doing it on hippies and how they helped change society's view of authority. it needs to have an interview in it, so i'm looking for someone to interview... a hippy to interview, to be exact so is anyone a hippy? would you be willing to be interviewed? if you are and you are (lol) reply to this or pm me and we'll set up the details... it would involve me speaking with you over the phone perhaps, or at least aim, just to warn everyone. (i'm not a serial killer or a stalker or anything i SWEAR! ) so yeah any help would be extremely appreciated! thanx guys! __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-09-2007, 10:26 AM	#4
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	where the heck is that a quote from, butterbeer?! lol... and thanx, gray mouser, i may actually take you up on that...those are all the experiences i'm trying to capture in this paper, so that would be great... do you have aim? that may actually be easier than a phone interview (specially as i'm in new jersey and you're in taiwan, and i had to look back at your post to be able to even spell taiwan correctly ) but i'll probably be pming you about all those details. thanks SO MUCH for goin' out on a limb for me! you're the best!!! (see, bb? THIS is why i came to entmoot- not cuz i thought i'd find a goldmine of hippies, but because the people are just so groovy that they could be...aside from our conservative tendencies...and patchouli-lacking scents... o.O ) __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-09-2007, 01:00 PM	#5
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	found my hippy and interviewed him! thanx though, gray mouser, you were my next choice! hugz i appreciate the offer alot! peace love and happiness, people! __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-09-2007, 02:37 PM	#6
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Theres still hippies? __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

03-09-2007, 08:04 PM	#7
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yep. They hang out at the nearby hot springs, in the nude. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-10-2007, 02:31 PM	#8
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	actually, this one is a teacher lol not to sure if he was fully clothed, however; i did do a phone interview... o.O he was great and very helpful though! __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-10-2007, 02:59 PM	#9
Kethavel Sapling Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: In my mind, I live in a wooded mountainous region. Posts: 10	Does a Hippie-Wannabe count? I've always wanted to live in the mountains and have a garden and grown my hair long, become a yoga master... almost hermit-type... Aaahhh, that sounds good. (I would of course still have my laptop and cable hook up!! ha!) __________________ Aa'lesser en lle coia orn n'omenta gurtha. (May the leaves of your life tree never turn brown.)

03-10-2007, 03:11 PM	#10
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	well, as far as that goes, my brothers are always calling me a hippy. i think this is rather uncalled for, as i am very conservative (despite some liberal leanings now and then) and the fact that i have no desire whatsoever to live in a commune. i DO wish i had been born in the 60s though- very much! i ADORE the music of back then, and i love the look of clothing and just all the social revolutions going on then... sigh that would have been too cool __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-10-2007, 04:49 PM	#11
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	"Too cool". Hum. Maybe. That era, even more than this, was subject to huge shifts in the social taboos. You could demonstrate for the right to wear open toed shoes to school (a right almost vanished now, like so many others) but if you were a girl you faced enormous pressure to be sexually "with it" at the almost certain cost of being seen as "damaged goods" if you went along with it. And it was a long time before any real choice about your economic life was possible. Mother, teacher, nurse were the top things to be. As a boy, for many years the number that counted was your draft number. You could be plucked from your everyday concerns to slag through a jungle and, if you survived, more or less intact (not drug addicted, etc.) you came home to an uncertain welcome from so-called "peers" who had no idea what had happened to you, and maybe hated you just because you'd gone. If you didn't go, got a student deferment, tried for a CO, etc., you still faced prejudice as part of "the counter culture", even if you weren't, particularly. People were very polarized. You were "with us or against us." You were "part of the problem or part of the solution." Very cliquish, the '60's and '70's. Let alone race. Records get scratchy. I-pods are a better way to listen to that music, anyway.

03-13-2007, 05:54 PM	#12
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	I'm anti-hippy. Does that count?

03-13-2007, 07:43 PM	#13
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	anti-hippy? how so? gulps and ducks head when she relaizes what a loaded question that is... __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

03-14-2007, 05:51 PM	#14
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	maybe it is Shakespearian in magnitude?

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