CSNY, wish this would have come out sooner

It’s a shame that this rockumentary couldn’t have come out earlier in the Bush administration but as it stands, it ought to be a pretty interesting piece. I was raised on the music from these guys and can attest to the chord that is struck internally on songs like “Wooden Ships” with it’s calming sense of urgency that something needs to be fixed in this world.

It often seems that while the reality of the situation may be very much the same today for my generation as it was for my parents with the paralells of a war where innocent kids are dying for the objectives of the few, the hype of the media and the disconnectedness of intrinsic values and tangibility in it all with our plastic lives has left the glass to be translucent and thereby numbed the impact value.

We raise our kids on countercultures of materialism and stardom with emphasis on being not the best but the shiniest and most insultingly selfish, it’s a disease that started decades ago and the one time a single generation attempted to think outside of that populist box, we quelled it with consumerism. So I suppose the CSNY lyric still stands and some of us are still trying to figure out how to get back to woodstock.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/csnydejavu/