just remembered, after watching this film years ago we looked up other films by the same director and ended up watching about 20 minutes of something that was … not in the same vibe. very disturbing from what I remember

very substantial.

Yeah he went through a “horror of the human condition” phase, and then came back we We Are the Best.

Although idk if Gerry Rafferty is/was a hippy but this is the second time he’s been mentioned in the thread, my dad’s band supported his band with Billy Connelly (the Humblebums maybe?) on a little Scottish tour back in the day.

I remember asking which bands he saw in the 60s and 70s when growing up and he basically just said none

oh cool thanks this looks worth a watch :+1:

Lilya Forever is great too, but really depressing. About a Russian girl tricked into coming to Sweden by people traffickers. They used it in an schools education programme in that region though.

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I didn’t get that from your first post at all

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Fucking love Papa K.

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There’s an overlap in the two parent threads atm because the most important of my dads rules were:

  1. Never trust a hippy

  2. Don’t vote Tory

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most trustworthy subculture:

  • Hippies
  • Punks
  • Goths
  • Beatniks
  • E-kids
  • Furries
  • Metalheads
  • Junglists
  • Mods
  • New Romantics
  • Rude Boys
  • Emos
  • Trekkies

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regional neckbeards

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Does a lot of that just cross over into furry territory?

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Why does the most massive hippy parent not simply eat the other smaller hippy parents?

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I think it might well have been on DiS that someone pointed out that the way history is written is that in 1967 everyone was just sitting in a field getting stoned and having a good time when actually, it was a small number of middle class students who had the connections for the drugs and the financial freedom to not work who were doing that. Most people were just getting on with their life of doing average, normal things. Then eventually the look got moved in to mainstream culture, thus the flares as mentioned.

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Same with punk, innit?

Juggalos

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Absaloutely not

I think it might actually be juggalos

Probably say the same for any “counter culture” movement since the 60s. It’s certainly arguable that the impact they had reached beyond the very small group of people that were involved originally though. Did they bring about any lasting change or would the world be largely the same place without them having existed? Dunno.

El Hopaness New Romtic

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