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...because my parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip on girls' toes spratfalling yahoo who entered the polevault once that spring and cleared nine feet coming down, joints locked, like a pinwheeling walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond the landing pit and rolling over and over until I bumped into a car, which was owned by my friend Frank, who was sitting in the front with...
WOODSTOCK was an important event, but its importance didn't lie in ad slogans like "three days of love, peace, and music." Or rather it did; at Woodstock, hip culture proudly announced that it was just a young Yahoo America, that those long hair types you folks been fearing out there just want their drugs and music, courtesy of MGM or Warner, it doesn't matter. The ballgame was over for the Vulgar Marxists; that's what Peter Townshend was saying as he clubbed Abbie Hoffmann off the stage (no, it's not in the movie). The game metaphor...
WOODSTOCK was an important event, but its importance didn't lie in ad slogans like "three days of love, peace, and music." Or rather it did; at Woodstock, hip culture proudly announced that it was just a young Yahoo America, that those long hair types you folks been fearing out there just want their drugs and music, courtesy of MGM or Warners, it doesn't matter. The ballgame was over for the Vulgar Marxists; that's what Peter Townshend was saying as he clubbed Abbic Hoffmann off the stage (no, it's not in the movie). The game metaphor...
...free of what? Certainly not of American yahoo aspirations-Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy "We blew it" what they're really saying is that they're no different from the two guys in the truck. That's true, but that's not what the film says at all. The good guys are portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys...
...Hopper, Fonda, and Terry Southern, arch prostitute at large, Easy Rider inherits from the Western a large quantity of corn, what intellectuals like to call folk poetry, and a simplistic moral schema. There are good guys, like Captain America, drooled over in infatuated close-ups, and bad guys, the yahoos of the South and over-thirty America in general. The good guys are warding off the yahoos (a young commune member prays to God "Thank you for a place to make a stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They're scared...