Grindhouse?

[thedelihaus]

Originally Posted by shrinkboy

but SM, the 70s gave us the New York Dolls, the Sex Pistols, Ziggy Stardust, the Ramones, Tangerine Dream (started in sixties, but best stuff in seventies); Taxi Driver, Vanishing Point, Star Wars; Gravity's Rainbow, uh too much else to list.

From Postwar flyboys in the late 40's on military cast-off Harleys, Beat Writers and train-hopping, through the 50's, hot-rodded parent's T buckets, simulacra and space-age modicum of a safety net while the fear of bombs and communism ran the kids wild, through the 60's, psychedelics, the coming of age for civil, women's and human rights in general, the musclecars, the avant films, men on the moon, the hippie movement and the dark days of the manson family and the helter-skelter shadow that fell, to the blaxploitation films, urban music, dangerous theme parks, and the birth of punk rock, new wave and hip-hop, we've had a wild ride.

I grew up in the 80's as an ignorant teen, and in the 90's finally hit the road, hit the big citys and small towns, and learned a hell of a lot. The 90s, and my 20s, were a great time.

But I've always been a fan of the late 40s through the early 80's.

As a child coming of age in the early 80's, the fear of AIDs, nuclear war with the USSR, the slow fearful creep of serial killers seeping into the threads of society, and then the 90's- admittedly decadent, but the poster childeren are pierced and tattooed disenfranchised youth called the generation X, Slackers, ect, force-fed re-packaged historical events like "Woodstock II", products like "New Coke" and "Pepsi Clear", and the like.

It's easy for one to romanticize a period they didn't grow up in, but give me a 1977 black Trans Am- or even better- a 1970 Ford Van with a pair of heart-shaped windows, 3" shag rug, and some Keystones, Jefferson Airplane on El-Kassette, a drive-in, a lady in a tube top and hotpants, and call it a day.