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August 17, 2008

1661: "I sure as Hell do."

I've been watching that Woodstock documentary on and off throughout the day today on VH1 Classic. Certainly, some of the musical performances are interesting and I sincerely enjoy them; others... well, they're not quite my thing.

But perhaps the most interesting moments of the film are those in which we see people who didn't attend the festival, but whose lives were nonetheless impacted by it. However well-intentioned they were, the concert-goers managed to destroy the working fields of people whose livelihoods were/are intimately connected with the pastoral landscape these visitors briefly enjoyed. The locals, at least in the film, come across as irritated but surprisingly generous given the unexpected burden the festival proved to be for them.

At one point, we encounter this guy:

The spitting image of my maternal grandfather - right down to the slightly excessive use of his shirt's breast pocket as a storage space and the glasses contained therein. He even had a cigar in his mouth for most of this conversation. Awesome!

For the record, he wasn't one of the concert-goers.

Posted by ashley at August 17, 2008 05:34 PM

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