Moderately IV-related: Taking Woodstock

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Damn!  You take even a bathroom break from the p-list at your own peril these days.  Take the weekend off and find hundreds of p-list e-mails clogging the works.  Is it me, or does it seem this latest book has generated more discussion than ATD?

Anyways, saw the new Ang Lee movie, Taking Woodstock.  Kind of a take on the thing that IV is describing the death of.  It's a forgettable but sweet look at the "finding yourself" aspect of the '60s.  That's long gone by the (apparent) spring of 70 when IV takes place.  But Woodstock (and the Woodstock Nation) really happened.  The movie whitewashes the sexist and homophobic attitudes of the times.  Or does it? There are lots of naked chicks romping around, but none of that Pussy-eaters Special/stewardii, etc. mentality that we're immersed in in IV.  But even if the movie's being dishonest, there was a spirit there that one misses in IV.

Also got me thinking about how, in addition to being killed by Altamont (which the movie references) and Manson, the Woodstock Nation was murdered by rampant co-optation.

[such as, which I've previously posted]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOEU87SBTU 

Question:  How does Pynchon portray this co-optation in IV?  Or does he?

(Guess references to The Mod Squad are one example)

Laura