Woodstock

Woodstock was an incredible event. Myself, and I assume Conor, both stand for everything it originally stood for. Peace. Love. Anti-Establishment. Music that meant something, either artistically, politically, or socially. Notice how in there "commercially" doesn't appear. This is what made Woodstock 99 (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, and Insane Clowne Posse) the shitfest it was. Commercialism is all that is wrong with America, but I digress... This new Woodstock revival, the features on TV and the new movie with Dmetri Martin, Taking Woodstock, is commercially driven, and creating more of a black spot on the Woodstock name. How so? Well here we go...

This new Taking Woodstock movie is being distributed through Focus Features, a subsiderary company of Universal, who is owned by NBC. Subsiquesntly the reviews in the trailor are from Access Hollywood, a show on NBC.
All of these new Remembering Woodstock 40 years later specials have been shown primarily and increasingly on NBC. NBC had an hour special, they have been having features on the NBC nightly news.

So what, NBC saturates as many channels of its own media control as possible with Woodstock programming to make money in the midst of Woodstock's 40th anniversary. Who cares? Well guess who owns NBC and makes money when NBC makes money... GE. GE makes nuclear weapons. GE finances wars. GE are terrible, terrible people. GE, the establishment, has taken an anti-establishment event about peace and love and is selling it to you to fund thier weapons creation department. Sorry for the rant, but I really hate it when the man takes our counterculture, packages it, and sells it to the mainstream to finance things our counterculture is fighting against.

Masters Of War - Bob Dylan