Popular Culture
- They are mentioned on the first page of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice.
- Characters in HBO's Generation Kill miniseries sing the song "Fixin' to Die".
- Country Joe and the Fish's 1967 performance at Tompkins Square Park in NYC's East Village is mentioned in the Don McNeill book, "Moving Though Here."
- They appear in issue 15 of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 (1969), apparently performing "Superbird" and "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" at a concert in Central Park.
- They appear in the 1971 movie Zachariah as an "inept gang of robbers".
- Country Joe is mentioned in the song "California Saga/California" on the 1973 album Holland by The Beach Boys
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“Why is it so difficult to see the lesbian—even when she is there, quite plainly, in front of us? In part because she has been “ghosted”Mor made to seem invisible—by culture itself.... Once the lesbian has been defined as ghostly—the better to drain her of any sensual or moral authority—she can then be exorcised.”
—Terry Castle, U.S. lesbian author. The Apparitional Lesbian, ch. 1 (1993)