It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

[Mark Kohut]

I might argue---the new one will add more circumstantial evidence---that TRP sees the Shambala of America---very so to speak---- in his lifetime as when Oedipa is waiting for the Crying to 1969, yes, on the evidence of the two sixties books? 



----- Original Message ----
From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 1:17:09 AM
Subject: Re: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

I watched the whole thing - all of them.  Lots of memories there.  Thank you,  Robin!  That's my times and I loved that album.  (And I saw Yellow Submarine more than 13 times.)

But I'm not sure how much 1967 has to do with Vineland - it's a kind of background for it, for sure,  but Vineland takes place in 1969 and that was a world of difference.  The clips from your post are from 1967 for the most part with 1987 remembering them - great stuff.  The Summer of Love in 1967 was so free and new and beautiful.  No one was calling anyone else a "hippie bum"  because the term was barely invented (disputes here, I know). The hippies were pretty much being peaceful in San Francisco at the time although there were anti-war demonstrations.    In 1969 (Vineland) the  anti-war people were splitting into the faction demanding more militant activism.  The 1969 break (Country Joe) with the flower-power of 1967 ("Are You Going To San Francisco?")    is exceptionally well done in Vineland.    The flower-people  of the Haight dissolved into the Weathermen of 1969 or went other ways.    (Maybe y'all don't see the difference now.) 
 The  Beatles split in 1970.  :-(


1969 was these old favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeCxJmcAo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenV9Din7K4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvs4j4IniA&feature=related

Bekah


On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> Stumbled across this looking about fro Timothy Leary's quote about Baby Boomers being the first generation to be "demand fed," and was overjoyed to see most [if not all] of this scorching epochal sensation. "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" came out in [surprise, surprise] 1987, coinciding with the first issue on CD of Sgt. Pepper. While ostensibly concerning itself with "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", this documentary opens up to include Allen Ginsberg, Abby Hoffman, some of the original Diggers, Timothy Leary and various and sundry artists and anarchists, including a number of anarcho-artists. Essential viewing, great background for Vineland:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_dI5vVFRc
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ5sZ7S-fo&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtayyf4lX2Y&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DVbugM60k&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WBgSCCdGgg