my therapist says weird things about hippies

When I wanted to learn to play ukulele and get this cool songbook of sixties songs for ukulele,she went on about how she lived next to a commune in the sixties and the hippies were always working hard and not playing guitars and ukuleles and she hates the media stereotypes of hippies.""What does playing a ukulele have to do with being a hippie?" :guitarist:
When I got this AWESOME Woodstock memorabilia thing,she was down on that too.That's she
really went on about hippies not being lazy and the sixties weren't always great.
I KNOW the sixties weren't all rainbows and flowers:daisy::daisy:,and I don't think hippies were lazy either,but I don't get her being against me being happy with the
Woodstock stuff or wanting to play sixties songs on a ukulele or guitar?
I was born in the sixties so I don't know everything everybody was up to,
so could some old hippies please let me tell me about their instruments that were played and about communes,etc.
peace
Delfynasa
confused

 

you should give her this web address http://www.hipforums.com so we can all rip her a new asshole..

I mean have a sensible discussion..

 

Well I was under the impression hippies where just people who didn't want to bomb, poison, burn, and shoot the living shit out of french indochina.... The "counterculture" has always bound together people of all stripes....

 

Not a hell of a lot. Marilyn Monroe famously played one in Some Like it Hot. And that was many years before Woodstock. Also, Mia Farrow is guilty as charged: In The Purple Rose Of Cairo. And that film was released in the early 1980s. I guess most folks only remember Tiny Tim?

QP

 

I Believe George Harrison had a love affair with the ukulele. Mine was the guitar. Started playing after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and never put it down. Still playing in a band with my retired buddies.

 

She ranted against the stereotypes of hippies, by offering HER stereotype of hippies?

You PAY this woman? lol

 

Your therapist needs a therapist. She's all screwed up when it comes to hippie culture. Sounds like she was on the outside looking in. She should have been on the inside looking in like so many of us. Hippies played what ever they could get there hands on if the spirit moved them - from air guitar to coke bottle.
She needs to try some acid.

 

There are many different types of hippies. I mean, really, I associate the beat culture, yippies, and etc. more closely with the real deal; so I guess I would agree with your therapist in that regards.

I find the Woodstock "listen to music for peace"-style of people to be the later breed of hippies, a separate breed (though I'm sure there are many mutts), and the stereotype that hippies have become known for.

 

Acid-exactly-excellent idea
surprisingly, my therapist tells me I am normal

 

If You Are As You Say Normal, Why Waste Money On A Therapist...



Cheers Glen.

 

When I read what you wrote I had a little bit of a different take on it. I felt she was making sure that you have a realistic view of the era rather than a romantic one.

While there was love and peace and flowers and music there were also social changes and reform.

The general feeling of those who were not hippies was more along the lines of they were dirty usless bums who did nothing other than drugs and free love. It is not accurate but it was also what many felt.

I really think she was simply making sure you are grounded in your reasons for wanting to play or collect memorabilia. I do not think she is opposed rather more thorough in making sure you know that the movement was about far more.

 

I like the fact that your therapist respects the fact that the hippie movement was not all peace and love. Other than that, I think your therapist is a retard. Playing an instrument has nothing to do with being a hippie, it has to do with self expression, which is therapy in and of itself. I suggest dropping your therapist and playing your ukelele more often.

 

Perhaps the therapist has convinced the OP that normal is a condition that requires an intensive series of therapies in order to maintain.

 

There is this herb... cures 'normal' in just a dose or two...

 

Mia Farrow is a communist...just sayin:2thumbsup:

 

Now, THAT is a victory garden... not to mention a cure!

Normal is overrated.

 

Sounds like most of the shit I rail against on this very forum. Hmmmmm. Maybe I'm in the wrong line of work.

I keep seeing advertisements on tv for some over the counter product that will help me become "regular" and I don't think I can trust it. Who want's to be regular when being unique is so much more fun?

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

she was asking what I could 'do' for myself-trying to get over a lot of grief and abuse-so I thought music and she didn't like it 'cause I couldn't make money with it...
yeah, its time for a different therapist, I think!
peace
Delfynasa

 

Tell her that hippies are saying weird things about her.

 

i'd advice her to get therapy.