Sex and drugs and rock and roll
all it's cracked up to be?
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
21 May 2006
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
- Psylocybin
- Operation Julie
- Nostalgia
- Non-competitive
- NAKED!
- Mud
- Mother earth/back to nature
- Montessori School
- Kahlil Gibran
- Institutions
1 Comments:
I wouldn't have been without it but I wish I hadn't seen so many lovely people 'fucked up'. while the culture in west wales is very permissive I've still seen people get into states because sometimes there seems to be no upper limit and I am talking of experiences inthe 90s when I was in my late teens early 20s.I imagine there have always been people who have gone too far - very sad,when you see someone young and vital become unable to live and fit inside their own skin!
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