{"id":340,"date":"2005-01-01T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2005-01-01T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T17:56:06","slug":"new-year-in-woodstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"New Year in Woodstock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I missed the People’s Republic of Windsor Road<\/a> party, but Anique and I were both tired, and attending parties these days with Dorje is not that much fun – most of the time is spent running after him making sure he takes cigarette butts out of his mouth, and then leaving early when it all gets a bit much for him.<\/p>\n

So, instead we hired a couple of videos and settled back onto the couch. It turned out to be a great New Year, as one of the videos was Woodstock<\/a>. Anique fell asleep (the video is 3 and a half hours though, so she’s forgiven), but I made the whole thing. It even got me off the couch and doing some Dorje dancing. Dorje dancing is a slight modification from my normal style, which involves holding an alcoholic beverage in one hand. It’s become so engrained that if I dance with two hands free I’m unsure what to do with them. Dorje dancing takes it to extremes, with both hands occupied holding Dorje, who’s normally laughing hysterically.<\/p>\n

I’ve always been drawn to the sixties era<\/a> in the United States, or, to be pedantic, rather a certain understanding I have of that era. One of my favourite poets is Allen Ginsberg<\/a>, and I enjoy most of the Beat writers<\/a> (although from the 50’s, Ginsberg was one of the few respected elders amongst many of the hippies<\/a>). I’m drawn to the freedom, the pushing back of boundaries, the rejection of war, the exploratory spririt… Perhaps I see a strong parallel with the youth of that era and my own life, growing up in militaristic apartheid South Africa with a conservative and Christian upbringing.<\/p>\n

So, 210 minutes of Woodstock was sheer bliss, and yesterday ranks up there with my other memorable New Years (one being in Madagascar<\/a>, and the other a night alone on the slopes of Devil’s Peak and Newlands Forest). <\/p>\n

Hope everyone else had as good a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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