Notes on a hippie theme
... Much of the hippie aesthetic that would dawn on the San Francisco scene in the late sixties can be traced back to the Merry Pranksters who openly used psychoactive drugs, wore outrageous attire, performed bizarre acts of street theater, and engaged in peaceful confrontation with not only the laws of conformity, but with the mores of conventionality. ... ROCK MUSIC BECAME the most important medium for defining and coalescing the new hippie aesthetic, and the style that emerged with the brilliant, swirling colors and hallucinogenic imagery was called psychedelic. ... " Woodstock came to symbolize all that was right and good about the hippie movement, but also that the movement was to be short-lived. ... Some poeple who have lived the hippie lifestyle also believe that the first hippies or the beginning of the hippie movement was with the Native Americans who would wear feathers in their hair . ... I know where Hippie Heaven is.