Flower Power!

[shiredancer]

Oh, I'm on quite the posting roll, I am... *is pleased*. Of course, it's mostly spammage, but it's colorful, fun spammage! Gacked from starwatcher307 and snailbones:

Your Hippie Chick Name Is:

Cinnamon

Hippie Chick Name Generator

I'm a cinnamon girl! Ooh, that just automatically set up a craving for cinnamon toast -- I used to love eating that. I remember eating stacks of it at my girlfriend's house in my teens, while we played cribbage together, or poker with her family. Real poker, where the dealer called the game, not this newfangled Texas Hold'Em that's all the rage...

I also remember 1977 -- the heart of my hippie days -- painting flowers and vines on faces at some kind of festival in Isla Vista (the site of the bank-burning in 1970, during the war protest years). The same girlfriend and I, and her boyfriend, had driven up to I.V. in 1970 to try to get in on the action (we were just sophomores in high school then and it seemed like a cool idea), but got turned back at the gate to UCSB and couldn't get through. I moved there after I graduated in 1972, when it was a sleepy hippie village, and lived there for six years. Looking back, it was idyllic -- hippies, street people, festivals, jugglers, and okay, mimes too (guess it wasn't entirely perfect!). I learned entirely too much about the drug scene, but I also learned about food co-ops and brown rice and herbs and tarot cards and belly dancing, and sundry other things that make me who I am today.

All that brought on by the hippie chick's flower on her face! Funny.

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

LOL - you at least got a nice hippie-sounding name *g* Nice memories too :~)

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

Neil Young!

*flashes peace symbol*

Cool

*wanders away in her Dr Scholls*

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll confess that it took me two tries to get the name. I used my ordinary first name (Sally) first, and got "Iris", and there was, liek, no way I was settling for Iris as a hippie-chick name! So I added my middle name (Jean) and got the cinnamon brass ring. Hee!

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

LOL! *flashes peace sign back* I completely forgot about Dr. Scholls shoes! Those were great, weren't they? I had about three pairs in different colors -- heh, they sure made my feet strong. Heavy suckers, but oddly comfy. I guess Birks sort of took over that market when they came in...

[monkeyfun1.livejournal.com]

Here ya go Hippie Chick!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/d5mels (http://www.sendspace.com/file/d5mels)

Some Neil Young to share with your Cinnamon Girl friends if you want to.

I was just telling [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] about Hair and how my older sister, born in 1955,kept me abreast of all the cool hippie fads... I had to be cool, or I couldn't hang with her and her buds.

LOL... I'm going to see what my hippie name would be.
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[aslowhite.livejournal.com]

Wow, man! Cool hippie chick name!!! Mine came up as "Allegra." Hey, wait. Isn't that an allergy medicine?!

Thanks for the memories!

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Ok, you have officially taken the place of my ex-fiancee hippie girl in the Cinnamon Girl association game. Better a friend with that song than an ex-lover. No baggage! Thank gawd she's out of my head with that song! Did I tell you I had a car named Heart of Gold for the song and also after the Hitchiker's Guide ship? That's the one with the bumper stickers that said Subvert The Dominant Paradgim and It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood.

Jealous of the hippie village time. BTW I hated Earth Shoes, so I wore hiking boots all the time, but now I love my Birks, one pair of which i am wearing as I type.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got the same name as you! ::hugs hippie sister tightly::

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link! And I have to laugh... your older sister was born the same year as my younger sister. "Hair" -- I still love that music and play the CD a lot in my car. I've never seen it performed, though *sigh*. Just the movie, much later.

I'll look for your hippie name when I start catching up on the flist!

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Hey, Allegra's not bad -- conjures up happiness, of which all hippie-chicks are made...

I cheated though, and added my middle name to get a better result. I firmly believe in manipulating meme's, yep. *g*

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of assistance, dispelling less-than-desirable associations.

Earth shoes -- I forgot about them! They were actually the precursors to Birks, weren't they? The lower heel and all that -- yeah, I never liked them either.

Cool bumper stickers! I do remember reading about your car(s) at some point. "Heart of Gold" is a *great* name. Did I ever tell you my first car was a 1968 green VW bug (semi-automatic, mind you) named Maxwell Griswald the Green? Gris for short. Heh, memories...

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo! I have a hippie twin! *Hugs you back and twirls with you* I'll have to catch up on my flist and see if you posted it...

[aslowhite.livejournal.com]

Meme manipulation! You ka-ray-zee kid!!!

OK, I did that, and it came up "Daydream." lol

[aslowhite.livejournal.com]

I never liked them either.

*sneaks in* Earth shoes hurt my feet!

My first car was Louie, a 1972 turquoise Super Beetle—whom I drove across the country, of course. Twice. :D Remember how the heat would always get stuck on—or off—and you had to crawl underneath them to open or close the little air vent thingie?...those were the days.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

I posted the one that gave me Dakota, but just my first name gave me Cinnamon. :oD

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, the heat problem wasn't part of my '68 model. I do remember that the heater worked *very* well, though, and I would get so terribly sleepy driving at night. I gave Gris a tune-up myself once, which made me very proud, and toward the end there he guzzled oil like nobody's business. It was the Camry, though, that I needed to hit with a hammer just so when it stalled. Boy, those cars sure do have their quirks, don't they?

[shiredancer.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go! "Daydream" is definitely a way cool hippie chick name.

Peace and love!

[aslowhite.livejournal.com]

They sure do! But at least you could work on them yourself; I even replaced Louie's clutch myself. No way would I try anything like that on today's cars.

Sorry for hijacking ur thread! :D