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I'm not much of a guitar player, but I really love this version of the Tolkien poem. Summer would definitely have a copy of LotR in his pack. I wasn't alive then, but I really wonder what it felt like when fantasy was new? When 'Gandalf for President' and 'Frodo Lives' buttons circulated. The very first Ren Fairies popped up in California where Mark Hamill worked as a performer and Harisson Ford Shot film for the Doors. Ozzy was writing songs about Fairies wearing boots, Pink Floyd was singing about a gnome named Grimblecrumble and Gollum and the Evil One stole Robert Plant's girl.
This is also seemed to be the same cultural force that gave rise to nerd conventions, DnD and the furry community more broadly. The convergence of psychedelics, fantasy literature and rock music (electric guitars had been invented only a few decades before!) lead to people thinking they could make their own culture from scratch. Displaced from cultural landmarks older then a few hundred years and most americal cities being build up in the 1950-60s it was a moment of confidence.
Gay liberation is born in that cruibal, when people thought not just about what role they had in society but about what a good sociaty's role in their life would be. I feel like this time has a lot of similar forces and familiar opposition.
I don't know about you, but I'd love to return to the Shire
Sorry for the long ramble, but if any of you have any insights about the time period, or things you connect to, I really am curious to know. History can tell us a lot about what happened, but not a lot about how it felt.
This is also seemed to be the same cultural force that gave rise to nerd conventions, DnD and the furry community more broadly. The convergence of psychedelics, fantasy literature and rock music (electric guitars had been invented only a few decades before!) lead to people thinking they could make their own culture from scratch. Displaced from cultural landmarks older then a few hundred years and most americal cities being build up in the 1950-60s it was a moment of confidence.
Gay liberation is born in that cruibal, when people thought not just about what role they had in society but about what a good sociaty's role in their life would be. I feel like this time has a lot of similar forces and familiar opposition.
I don't know about you, but I'd love to return to the Shire
Sorry for the long ramble, but if any of you have any insights about the time period, or things you connect to, I really am curious to know. History can tell us a lot about what happened, but not a lot about how it felt.
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You got a hell of a good singing voice.
I guess I'm sorta a grey muzzle since I turn 40 in ten days. I've got some fun stories if you ever want to hear a cat blab on.
LOTR is awesome though, it really was sort of the first domino in the popularity of fantasy.
Didn't know that about Hamill and Ford either.
I guess I'm sorta a grey muzzle since I turn 40 in ten days. I've got some fun stories if you ever want to hear a cat blab on.
LOTR is awesome though, it really was sort of the first domino in the popularity of fantasy.
Didn't know that about Hamill and Ford either.
Yeah! I’d love to hear any stories you have, I think tracing the impact of fantasy on people’s lives and how it shapes our world is so cool. It’s like sci-fi is about how technology shakes society and fantasy is more about how traditions shape society? But what’s so cool about modern fantasy is it often is meant to provide a fictional tradition that we can use as a pseudo-historical framework to build our new society. Like the age of Aquarius or secret locators like the masons. It’s a fake tradition based on speculations of lost traditions, to try to orient our future based on an invented past.
Hell yeah, I'm a huge fan of folk stuff as well. Shanties, Trad music, Irish and Scottish folk songs, all that stuff. It's awesome to hear new music that has some traditional sound and heart mixed into it and to compare what they were inspired by
I've recently been obsessed with the songs "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Loch Lomond"
I've recently been obsessed with the songs "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Loch Lomond"
It's funny because I've been listening to Irish folk for so long, when the Irish songs started playing, I was like "Shit, I don't even need to be assimilated to know these"
Loch Lomond is really somber and beautiful. It's about a soldier not being able to return home to his love and see the beauty of the Loch again
Loch Lomond is really somber and beautiful. It's about a soldier not being able to return home to his love and see the beauty of the Loch again
You are an incredibly talented individual goat, this is lovely. Simple and stripped down, but that's exactly what this kind of thing is supposed to be.
Not old enough to remember the 70s by far. Just old enough to remember watching the Rankin/Bass movie on VHS. I like the new trilogy, but as goofy as the animated stuff is, I feel like it did a better job of capturing the true spirit of the books. LOTR is not an action movie, it's this long, strange, mystical meandering road trip that sometimes ends up in vicious armed conflicts or world-changing events, but spends most of its time just wandering and taking in the landscape, some beautiful, some ancient, some blasted and toxic. With that in mind, it's not hard to see why it appealed so much to people in the 70s, despite being written earlier, by someone from a very different era. From what I've read, many of them, like Frodo, were forced out of their cultural comfort and complacency and sent wandering in search of a new fortune, equal parts excited and terrified for the possibilities.
Now this has me thinking of the Last Unicorn too, book and movie. Very similar spirit, an aching for something somehow familiar even though you've never known it, somewhere out over the hills. And some really wonderful music; would love to hear you cover something from that if the spirit hits you.
Not old enough to remember the 70s by far. Just old enough to remember watching the Rankin/Bass movie on VHS. I like the new trilogy, but as goofy as the animated stuff is, I feel like it did a better job of capturing the true spirit of the books. LOTR is not an action movie, it's this long, strange, mystical meandering road trip that sometimes ends up in vicious armed conflicts or world-changing events, but spends most of its time just wandering and taking in the landscape, some beautiful, some ancient, some blasted and toxic. With that in mind, it's not hard to see why it appealed so much to people in the 70s, despite being written earlier, by someone from a very different era. From what I've read, many of them, like Frodo, were forced out of their cultural comfort and complacency and sent wandering in search of a new fortune, equal parts excited and terrified for the possibilities.
Now this has me thinking of the Last Unicorn too, book and movie. Very similar spirit, an aching for something somehow familiar even though you've never known it, somewhere out over the hills. And some really wonderful music; would love to hear you cover something from that if the spirit hits you.
Oh excellent then! Glad to recommend, and I hope you do. That intro song by America always...really does something to me.
Also, something interesting I found while looking it up, via a Youtube comments: Hayao Miyazaki scooped up TopCraft to do Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind after Rankin/Bass's demise, and supposedly it was at least in part seeing the Last Unicorn that convinced him to do so.
Also, something interesting I found while looking it up, via a Youtube comments: Hayao Miyazaki scooped up TopCraft to do Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind after Rankin/Bass's demise, and supposedly it was at least in part seeing the Last Unicorn that convinced him to do so.
Yeah! That song definitely isn’t about drugs lol! Honestly, it’s a really good song to bring up because if Summer sings songs about sex, it’ll have to be hidden, like puff the magic dragon or Alice in wonderland. They used to call gay guys “friends of Dorthy” because the Wizard of Oz has a lot of gay themes in it.
So heartfelt and beautiful. I'm not exactly a grey muzzle but getting up there, and I've always had respect for the people that came before me. I really wish I could speak with some older folks, particularly in the queer community, who had to go through hell so the new generation didn't have to be as afraid to be themselves. There's never been a queer community where I grew up, and I wish I had. Though now that I say that, you're right that some aspects of the past generation are cycling back around. Time is a wheel.
Your guitar work is just fine, certainly did the poem justice. And I second Adallah's comment about "The Last Unicorn" by America, very pretty with a tragic lilt. Even the club mix to that song makes me tear up.
Your guitar work is just fine, certainly did the poem justice. And I second Adallah's comment about "The Last Unicorn" by America, very pretty with a tragic lilt. Even the club mix to that song makes me tear up.
I agree, I've always been drawn to history, I've been working on a Summer and Freedom comic for a while and I got inspired to make it after watching Ken Burns Viet Nam and he talks about his work as 'emotional archeology' and that really resonates with me. People are always the same, the challenges change, but I love finding the lines through culture that connect meaning. Gay liberation, the Shire, folk music, it's not the culture you buy off the rack, it bubbles up from experience and I feel like I need that grounding more and more.
I just listened to the club remix of the Last Unicorn and that hits me in the furry trash g-spot haha! I feel like furry culture is one facet of our generation's sexual revolution. It's so weird how just being yourself with other like minded people, feels like a kind of rebellion. I've always been really proud of being part of the community, even though I know it's sappy.
idk, thank you for the thoughtful comment~
I just listened to the club remix of the Last Unicorn and that hits me in the furry trash g-spot haha! I feel like furry culture is one facet of our generation's sexual revolution. It's so weird how just being yourself with other like minded people, feels like a kind of rebellion. I've always been really proud of being part of the community, even though I know it's sappy.
idk, thank you for the thoughtful comment~
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