So here we are on the very verge of the Eschaton, trillions of dollars in debt to boot, and what's going on in the mind of your old pal, LSP? I'll tell you, an evening in Oxford, which is a kind of city in England. It was back in the late '80s and there we were, maybe drinking Pimm's No. 1 or youthfully strong G&Ts, when all of a sudden "almost cut my hair" announced itself from the hi-fi. Maybe you remember the song.
After a few bars of jolly old CSNY singing about their ridiculous hair, a friend, I think a school teacher, commented, "Well, why didn't you?" I liked her for that, and thanks Wild, for bringing back the memory. What a lot of fun, there in Oxford in the late '80s.
There weren't bizzarro satanic pronouns then, trans drag shows for children, you could smoke wherever you liked, no one was getting locked up for mean tweets, countries having borders wasn't Fascist, everything was cheaper and we were so much happier. Calm, if you like, before the storm, and what a storm it is.
I blame it on CSNY and their monstrous cohort. If you think that's farfetched, expand cohort.
Cheers,
LSP
Why not? It’s permissible to speak poorly of CSNY. But it’s not permissible to speak critically of The Federal Reserve, Nuremberg, Second-Wave Feminism*, or the Civil Rights Movement, so yeah, sure. It’s gotta be because of CSNY, those rascals.
ReplyDelete* not long ago I was in Bella Abzug park. “Bella”. O! The irony.
Bella Azbug?!? Mike, you're a brave persyn, confronting such a demon. Of course I'm sure you were prepared. Then there's CSNY.
DeleteI understand the surviving members of CSNY are working on a sequel song entitled "Almost rubbed our free speech." Yes, ending free speech is what all the cool revolutionaries from the 60s are doing now.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Infidel.
Delete.......though to be fair, this was actually a pretty good album.
ReplyDeleteIt was, and we can still listen to it today, unlike so many others.
DeleteFirst - I'm of that generation this song was written for. I find it funny that so many of those "anti-government" types of the 60s/70s are now so much more restrictive of "freedoms" than the government they protested against so much back then. Neil Young/Bruce Springsteen come to mind as do so many others. (it's also interesting that the more "rights" everyone has, the less freedom we all have). I miss "back then" and not just because I recall my younger days
ReplyDeleteIt was better then Anon, and not just because of nostalgia. As for the aging Woodstock generation dictatorship? Time for that unholy beast to end.
DeleteGood rights call. In the X Ring, imo.
Gatsby, Steele, Gnash and Jung.
ReplyDeleteI hope Neil Young will remember what Coach Skynyrd's pupils said about needing him around, anyhow. Not my fav of the four.
My dear Wild, you did instigate this deep thinking mind-post. That said, yes, LS had a point and a GOOD one.
DeleteWhy, we wonder, is Neil Young, aka Old Shakey, still around?
He is playing Glastonbury on Saturday night. 10 until 11:45. The Horlicks slot.
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