the dharma blog

i’m almost outta here for the weekend. no blogging on the weekend. be back on monday morning with:

1. pictures from honeymoon which should prompt some stories from the trip
2. thoughts from hike at afton state park
3. reflections on whatever else strikes my fancy

ing revelation: i like the mid-70s.

i’ve never thought the 70s were my thing. it was about the post-60s, when people cared more about the drugs than the revolution, more about rocking out than rocking the world.

but then today i started thinking about the music i like. i was downloading some neil young bootlegs and a bob marley bootleg. the neil young was a show from 1976 in chicago, the bob marley was 1975 san francisco. and then there’s bob dylan’s blood on the tracks, a work of widely-accepted genius. the last waltz and the music and musicians on it is definitely about as good as music gets in my opinion. i love The Band as represented on that film. and hell, dazed and confused is a great movie.

so, i guess it’s just coming to terms with the fact that i like the music of the mid-70s as much as pretty much anything. but the lifestyle in dazed and confused is shaped by the music and i love it too. i’m not a big kiss fan, but i have to say that sometimes i do just want to rock and roll all night and party every day, or something like that.

i’ll have to mull this over this weekend, but all i can think at this point is that at least i haven’t discovered that i have a subconscious 80s fetish.