i fucking love this song



the late 1980s saw a kind of neo hippie movement.  the indigo girls rode this wave of hippiedom.  some of my punk friends grew their hair and followed the grateful dead on that band's peregrinations.  still, i was a little skeptical of hippiedom perhaps because my friends and i rebelled against it.  we cut our hair, ripped up our jeans [yes, i know the indigo girls look pretty punk in this vid.  i said it was a neo hippie moment.  there were some changes in hippiedom such as the allowance of a punk's anger at society], penned angry/ironic anthems of the state of the state, and the state of living our american lives.  we have all failed at changing the world, both punk and hippie alike.  and yet, i think perhaps maybe we can revisit hippiedom.  the music is fucking rad.  the philosophies of peace, love and understanding are, if naive, at least admirable.  so this song, 'Closer to Fine', is, to my ears, a return to self-inspection, and a corrosive indictment of the state of the state.  we would do worse if we were to rediscover hippiedom, from its first flowering and up to the present state of the state.