Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, receives heroin intravenously for the entire 60's and lives to be older than God. | Kurt Cobain, guitarist for Nirvana, takes some heroin and blows his head off at age 27. | ||||
Kent State has violent anti-Vietnam protests, chants of 1-2-3-4, we don't want your fucking war. | Stanford has three people participate in a hunger strike for the Asian-American Studies Program; no catchy slogan. | ||||
The Beatles record Helter Skelter. | Bon Jovi covers Helter Skelter. | ||||
Whiskey | Snapple | ||||
Rev. Jim Jones violates the law by assisting in an impressive 900 suicides. | Dr. Jack Kevorkian violates the law by assisting in a mere 26 suicides. | ||||
Motorcycles | Rollerblades | ||||
Haight-Ashbury: a Mecca for hippies; home of the Grateful Dead and proprietor of the Acid Tests. | Haight-Ashbury: a Mecca for alterna-kids; home of the Gap and proprietor of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. | ||||
Easy Rider: Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda are two bikers travelling cross-country with a money-filled gas tank. They dream of finding freedom. | Dumb and Dumber: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are two imbeciles travelling cross-country with a money-filled briefcase. They're just imbeciles. | ||||
Huge cars that hold everything. | Tiny back-packs that hold nothing. | ||||
Woodstock I: a free festival of peace, music and love featuring no less than three performers who would die of drug overdoses within two years. | Woodstock II: a $500/head marketing scheme sponsored by Pepsi and featuring no more than three performers with two good albums. | ||||
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Russ Meyer combines three beautiful, buxom, unknown women, sports cars, and double entendres to create an instant cult classic. | Showgirls: Paul Verhoeven combines the not pretty one, a pick-up truck, and third-grade bathroom humor to create a movie not good enough to be called B. | ||||
Charles Manson and his family kill two women as revenge against the music industry. | A deranged fan stabs Monica Seles as revenge against the tennis world. | ||||
Jim Morrison is The Lizard King. | James Earl Jones is The Lion King. |
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