Moderately IV-related: Taking Woodstock

[Mark Kohut]

One way: In the brilliant touch of Bigfoot's crowd of children on his TV show screaming Freak Power!, Death to the Pig!....

'We'll be chums'.....

I can't get it out of my head. 

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Moderately IV-related:  Taking Woodstock
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 4:19 PM
> 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
> 
> 
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