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May Pang's book on Lennon's "Lost Weekend"

2008-03-13T03:14:17Z

From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/music/12pang.html (with photos)

March 12, 2008
A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’
By ALLAN KOZINN

If there’s one thing that May Pang has been fighting for the last 28 years, it’s the idea that John Lennon was depressed, isolated and out of control during the 18 months she lived with him, from the summer of 1973 to early 1975, when he reconciled with his second wife, Yoko Ono.

Lennon himself fostered that notion by referring to the time as his “Lost Weekend” in interviews he gave in 1980, when he released “Double Fantasy,” a joint album with Ms. Ono that was his return to music-making after five years’ silence. And lurid, oft-repeated tales of a drunken Lennon’s being evicted from the Troubadour, a nightclub in Los Angeles, seemed to support that image.

But to Ms. Pang, now 57, the “Lost Weekend” was a remarkably productive time, during which Lennon completed three albums — “Mind Games,” “Walls and Bridges” and “Rock ’n’ Roll” — produced albums for Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson, and recorded with David Bowie, Elton John and Mick Jagger. And having already detailed these experiences (along with the Troubadour expulsions and other dark moments) in “Loving John,” her 1983 memoir, Ms. Pang has returned with the photographic evidence.

Her new book, “Instamatic Karma” (St. Martin’s Press), is a 140-page collection of casual photos that Ms. Pang took during her time with Lennon. Apart from a handful included in “Loving John” — cropped and in black and white, but mostly printed in full and rich color here — she has kept them in a shoe box in her closet, occasionally pulling them out to show friends.

“I began to think about publishing them just in the last couple of years,” Ms. Pang said on Monday at her publisher’s office in the Flatiron Building. “A friend of mine kept saying, ‘You tell all these stories about John, and when you do, you say, “Wait a minute, I have a photo to go along with that!” How come we never see these photos in a book?’ So, I thought maybe it’s time to put them out. It would let people see John in that world, through my eyes. And it would get rid of that whole ‘Lost Weekend’ thing, where everyone says he was always down and looked terrible. I don’t think these photos appear that way.”

They don’t: in the pages of “Instamatic Karma” — the title is a play on Lennon’s song “Instant Karma” — Lennon looks relaxed and happy, and is seen spending time with his first son, Julian, as well as with some famous friends, among them Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Nilsson and Keith Moon. He is shown working in the recording studio, swimming in Long Island Sound, clowning around in Central Park and visiting Disney World.

“They are personal and unique and very touching,” said Cynthia Lennon, Lennon’s first wife, who flew to New York from her home in Mallorca, Spain, to be the host of Ms. Pang’s publication party at the Cutting Room on Tuesday. Ms. Lennon got to know Ms. Pang when she escorted her son, Julian, on two of his four trips to visit his father while he was living with Ms. Pang.

“It’s lovely for me to look back, especially with Julian in these photographs,” she said. “But I’m here just because May is a good friend of mine and has been since we met.”

Ms. Pang arranged her book by subject instead of chronologically, with four chapters labeled “At Home,” “At Play,” “At Work” and “Away.” To her regret, she did miss a few famous moments. The March 28, 1974, Los Angeles jam session that included Lennon, Nilsson, Mr. McCartney and Stevie Wonder, for example, was not documented.

But Ms. Pang did capture one momentous event: Lennon’s signing the agreement that dissolved the Beatles’ partnership on Dec. 29, 1974.

After four years’ negotiation, the Beatles had agreed — or appeared to have — on the terms governing their formal split, and a meeting had been arranged at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan on Dec. 19. George Harrison was performing at Madison Square Garden that night; Mr. McCartney had flown in from London; and Mr. Starr, having signed the document earlier, was on the telephone.

At the last minute, Lennon objected to a clause that he felt would create tax problems for him (as the only Beatle living in the United States), and decided not to attend. Harrison, furious, canceled plans for Lennon to join him onstage at Madison Square Garden, but Mr. McCartney turned up at the East 52nd Street apartment that Lennon and Ms. Pang shared to discuss the sticking point.

Ten days later, when Lennon, Julian and Ms. Pang were at Disney World, a lawyer bearing the revised contract turned up, and Lennon asked Ms. Pang to take out her camera. As Ms. Pang describes the scene in “Instamatic Karma,” Lennon had a last-minute telephone conference with his own lawyer

“When John hung up the phone,” she writes, “he looked wistfully out the window. I could almost see him replaying the entire Beatles experience.” Ms. Pang then photographed him signing just beneath the clearly legible signatures of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey (Mr. Starr’s real name), the shutter clicking between the “h” and “n” of his first name.

Given that Lennon had been particularly militant about leaving the Beatles in 1969, it might seem odd to learn that he did so wistfully. Not to Ms. Pang.

“Everybody changes,” she said. “With John things changed on a daily basis. It’s a question of time. Five years earlier was not the same situation. In 1974 he had just seen everyone. The friendship was still there. They were brothers. There was no animosity. And even though they all felt they had to break up to get to the next level of their musical careers, John had started this band that changed the world. It changed pop culture. It changed how we live and how we dress. And he knew that. So when he sat down to sign, he knew that this was it. His was the last signature. As he had started the group, he was the one to end it.”

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from Liongates ... a documentary

2007-11-11T12:36:55Z

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/us_vs_john_lennon.php

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Photos and story released by photographer Allen Tannenbaum

2007-11-10T23:51:43Z

Pix were shot before and after John's murder: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16145480&ps=bb1

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Supersonic Zen 2008 WORLD Music Gatherings

2007-11-05T09:31:35Z

I have been thinking how the two Beatles with the deepest message, John and George, left us early.

In late October 2007, in a hotel in Scotland, Dave (singer, guitarist) and myself (cameraman, part-time guitarist) both felt a sitar influence and the - believe it or not - soul of George Harrison when we recorded this piece of music:'SUPERSONIC ZEN / SAVE US':
www.worldgathering.net/2008/music.html

I have been running worldwide gatherings of various themes since 2000, but suddenly after this zen / sitar / George Harrison / etc. / influence and experience, this is what has come about ....

IF THIS SEPAKS TO YOU, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, THANKS

2008 WORLD MUSIC GATHERING
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http://tribes.tribe.net/worldgathering
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Worldwide Celebration of Music, Truth, Harmony - and all the things which make life Good. Gatherings and Music Events Around the World throughout 2008 in association with 2008 WORLD GATHERING.

Welcome to the Project - A Worldwide Celebration of Music and Life in 2008

In celebration of the magical music, great hopes and life-filled ideas which were born during the late 1960's explosion in popular music, we propose musical events and gatherings are held around the world during 2008 to celebrate 40 years on from the late 1960's popular music revolution.

Theme for 2008: ‘2008 World Gathering for Music, Truth and Life'.

JOIN US in 2008 - David, Michael, and Friends

Send us details of YOUR 2008 music event, or holistic gathering which includes music, and we will add your details to our event/gathering listings for 2008. Contact: http://www.worldgathering.net/2008/contact.html

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Theme music for 2008 WORLD GATHERING - Supersonic Zen: http://www.worldgathering.net/dave.html

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Peace Beacon

2007-10-19T19:28:12Z

Did anyone see that wonderful memorial in Reykiovick ( hope I spelled that right ) ? I saw it on the BBC, and it started me weeping all over again. I sure miss him - especially now.

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Two Virgins

2007-05-20T00:21:52Z

Anyone have a copy of "Two Virgins"?
And if so, what do you think of it?

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Quoth the Walrus

2007-05-15T03:29:44Z

I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus, but now I'm John
And so dear friends, you'll just have to carry on
The dream is over.

"God"

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Earl Slick plays on my new song

2007-05-13T22:55:11Z

"HUMuN" by eddy dyer and The Walking Shoe Revival

GUITARS BY EARL SLICK

www.myspace.com/eddydyer

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The Indigo belly dance

2007-04-20T18:19:47Z

Cheque out this tribe.
They have two pictures in there Rachel Brice dancing , in the background a poster of John Lennon, watching her.
It is creepy in a sense because it feels like he is alive standing in the background watching Rachel dance,

I am not computer savvy enough to move the picture over here. so you all have to go and take a look.

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Youtube

2007-04-20T15:03:20Z

I saw the most amazing video of John on Youtube today.
It's a home movie he shot in 1980, he sings and plays guitar the tune "Dear Yoko".
It's very wild, it's moving and strange at the same time, as it looks just like something he would have filmed on a lap-top just for the internet.
He gives a nice performance and he's very humerous as well.

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Plastic Ono Band

2007-04-06T09:35:12Z

Hi group,
What was your first reaction when hearing John's "Plastic Ono Band" album?
I first heard it in 1980, not long after John was killed. I loved the record, but the pain within it was too close especially since hearing it soon after he died. So many years later, I can hear more of the raw power in it, the cleansing, as well as the wonderful and stark compositions.
What do you think of the record?

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Last of Lennon FBI files released after 25 years

2006-12-20T18:31:20Z

Said Rosenbaum of the ACLU: "The ultimate lesson of these documents is that the head of document classification for the FBI must be Stephen Colbert."

(hahahaha!)

Link:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-lennon20dec20,0,5975625.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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RIP Peter Boyle - John Lennon's pal

2006-12-16T22:00:09Z

Posted on Wed, Dec. 13, 2006

`Raymond' dad Peter Boyle dies in NYC

DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press

NEW YORK - Peter Boyle, the actor who transformed from an angry workingman in "Joe" to a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and finally the comically grouchy father on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.

Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.

"It's like losing a spouse," Doris Roberts, who played his wife on "Raymond," said in a statement. "I'm going to miss my dear friend, so unlike the character he played on television. He's a brilliant actor, a gentleman, incredibly intelligent, wonderfully well read and a loving friend."

A member of the Christian Brothers religious order who turned to acting, the tall, prematurely balding Boyle gained notice in the title role of the 1970 sleeper hit "Joe," playing an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the emerging hippie youth culture.

Briefly typecast in tough, irascible roles, Boyle began to escape the image as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate" and left it behind entirely after "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The latter movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."

It showed another side of Boyle, one that would be best exploited in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which he played curmudgeonly paterfamilias Frank Barone for 10 years.

"He's just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs," Boyle said of the character in a 2001 interview. "It's a very sweet experience having this (success) happen at a time when you basically go back over your life and see every mistake you ever made."

When Boyle tried out for the role opposite series star Ray Romano's Ray Barone, however, he was kept waiting for his audition - and he was not happy.

"He came in all hot and angry," recalled the show's creator, Phil Rosenthal, "and I hired him because I was afraid of him." But Rosenthal also noted: "I knew right away that he had a comic presence."

Boyle had first come to the public's attention more than a quarter century before, in the critically acclaimed "Joe." He met his wife, Loraine Alterman, on the set of "Young Frankenstein" when she visited as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine and Boyle, still in monster makeup, asked her for a date.

On television, he starred in "Joe Bash," an acclaimed but short-lived 1986 "dramedy" in which he played a lonely beat cop. He won an Emmy in 1996 for his guest-starring role in an episode of "The X Files," and he was nominated for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and for the 1977 TV film "Tail Gunner Joe," in which he played Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

In the 1976 film "Taxi Driver," he was the cabbie-philosopher Wizard, who counseled Robert DeNiro's violent Travis Bickle.

He did dozens of other films, including "T.R. Baskin," "F.I.S.T.," "Johnny Dangerously," "Conspiracy: Trial of the Chicago 8" (as activist David Dellinger), "The Dream Team," "Monster's Ball," "The Santa Claus," "The Santa Claus 2," "While You Were Sleeping" (in a charming turn as Sandra Bullock's future father-in-law) and "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed."

The son of a local TV personality in Philadelphia, Boyle was educated in Roman Catholic schools and spent three years in a monastery before abandoning his religious studies. He later described the experience as similar to "living in the Middle Ages."

He explained his decision to leave in 1991: "I felt the call for awhile; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh."

He traveled to New York to study with Uta Hagen, supporting himself for five years with various jobs, including postal worker, waiter, maitre d' and office temp. Finally, he was cast in a road company version of "The Odd Couple." When the play reached Chicago he quit to study with that city's famed improvisational troupe Second City.

Upon returning to New York, he began to land roles in TV commercials, off-Broadway plays and finally films.

Through his wife, a friend of Yoko Ono, the actor became close friends with John Lennon. "We were both seekers after a truth, looking for a quick way to enlightenment," Boyle once said of Lennon, who was best man at his wedding.

In 1990, Boyle had a stroke and couldn't talk for six months. In 1999, he had a heart attack on the "Raymond" set. He soon regained his health, however, and returned to the series.

Despite his work in "Everybody Loves Raymond" and other Hollywood productions, Boyle made New York City his home. He and his wife had two daughters, Lucy and Amy.

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Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16230527.htm

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save innocents and stop war !

2006-12-13T19:19:40Z

... I am sorry, it is not directly connected with John Lennon ... but as having been a big fan of John and Yoko for a quite while with honor, and believing the members here honor who John ( and Yoko ) is and what he/they have done for our world and to raise our awareness even now, please allow me to post this here in this tribe ... we must stop the abuse of any power and position.

this was posted by the mother of Suzanne at
http://tribes.tribe.net/freesuzanne/thread/2d5f4113-f531-40a1-b160-fc7831802fb1

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A friend of mine wrote this today:
Suzanne's Summary Court Martial tomorrow 12-13-06

This is what is happened:

There was a girl who was in the Army.

She was stationed in Iraq as a Security Policeman.

She was raped repeatedly by her superior officer in the US Army.

He told her either she could sleep with him or he would put
her on the most dangerous duty of all and may end up dead.

She valued her life and chose the lesser of two evils.

When she returned to her base in the states she tried to
tell people what happened and they made fun of her and
called her a liar.

They said: You brought this on yourself. You have no
proof.

She tried to use her chain of command but the chain
was broken and no one would listen to her.

At her new base in Fort Lewis, Washington, word had
gotten around that this girl could be taken advantage of.

When she asked her new boss where she should report,
he said: In my bed. Naked.

When she reported this to her chain of command,
she was ignored again.

Then they told her: Pack your bags. You're going back to
Iraq.

She packed her bags but did not show up for her deployment.

She was about to walk out the door but she couldn't do it.

She was afraid so she said: Mom I can't go back there.
I don't want to be raped again.

She waited for a few days at home and the Army came to arrest her.

She was Absent Without Leave (AWOL). She chose to go
AWOL because she was afraid of being raped again by her boss.

They detained her at Fort Lewis.

Her baggage went ahead to Iraq.

A big suitcase that included her baby blanket arrived in Bagdhad.
When some soldiers found out it was hers they rifled through the
contents and threw her baby blanket in a trash heap.

They said Suzanne was guilty of missing a movement and going
AWOL.

Suzanne said: But this is what happened to me and I don't want to
go back.

Then they asked some of the guys: Did you rape her?

And the guys said: No.

There was no trial.

Only a questioning where it was her word against theirs.

Rep. DeFazio (D-Oregon) said he would open a Congressional
Investigation. But this never happened.

Suzanne started to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) which happens after you've survived a battle or a sexual
assault or a natural disaster.

PTSD makes you really depressed. Most of the times you want
to kill yourself.

When you aren't depressed, you are numb with alchohol or drugs.

I know this because I was sexually assaulted when I was
in the military too.

That happened a long time ago.

When I was first attacked I didn't speak up.

And then the man went and raped another girl.

It took me years of therapy to deal with the emotional
pain of not speaking up and of being attacked.

Unfortunately, no one talks about sexual assault in the military
because very few victims actually speak up.

This is what is happening:

Suzanne is speaking up.

She is saying: I was raped by this man, can someone please help?

The Army says it didn't happen because they asked the guys and the
guys said: We didn't do it.

The Army is offering her a Summary Court Martial today.

This means that Suzanne can be sent back to Iraq. It also means
she will be in confinement for 30 days.

Today they are packing her belongings and will not tell her where she is going.

The Army is making an example of Suzanne.

The Army is saying if you go AWOL, you will be punished.

The Army is saying: the needs of the military always come first, including
the sexual needs of some of our commanders.

They are also saying, if you rape someone in America's Army,
we will protect you.

If you join the Army, you will have permission to rape
women and then return to society.

Suzanne needs our help.

Suzanne needs an Honorable Discharge and intense therapy just to survive.

Ask yourself: Could go on doing your job if all this had happened to you?

Ask yourself: If this happened to my daughter or son would I find the way the
government is handling this, acceptable?

Please Call your News Stations, Newspapers, Congresspeople and Senators today.
Just one call could make a huge difference for Suzanne.

Their info is here:

www.congress.org

Info about Suzanne is at:

www.suzanneswift.org

Thank you.

April Fitzsimmons
USAF Veteran (1985-1989)
true2selph@aol.com

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In Memoriam: “John Lennon and Tomorrow Never Knows”

2006-12-10T02:40:28Z

"So play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning, of the beginning."

--John Lennon
"Tomorrow Never Knows

http://people.tribe.net/justiceputnam/blog/0a9b1f88-8964-4390-a1ce-c798bb344802

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26 years ago

2006-12-09T13:25:51Z

26 years ago the world lost a poet a musician and a humanitarian.
John you are gone but not forgotten.
I love you.

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John and Yoko on David Frost, 1968

2006-10-24T18:02:07Z

A very amusing, early interview with John & Yoko, talking about art & vibrations, on David Frost's show:

link:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob14.html

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CODEPINK ~ Pledge Your Peace Vote

2006-10-23T20:51:14Z

Dear Friends:

Aren't you ready to let the politicians know that we, the majority of Americans, want an end to the ongoing war in Iraq? Then please join me, along with Yoko Ono, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, Dolores Huerta, Cornell West, my friends at CODEPINK, and MANY MORE in signing Give Peace a Vote.

This is a Voters Pledge that we will only vote for candidates who publicly call for a speedy withdrawal from Iraq and will keep us from engaging in future unjustified wars. Let's send a clear message this November and beyond, that we believe in international law and diplomacy over aggression.

Please sign the Voters Pledge and ask at least 10 of your friends to sign as well. With millions of peace voters, we can elect leaders who will Give Peace a Chance. That's all we are saying.

Simply copy and paste this url in the address bar of your web browser to sign up NOW: www.givepeaceavote.org

Thank you for taking action!

PS. I committed to getting 100 peace pledges, so when you sign up, please put WENDY NOLAN in the box that says "Peacemaker"

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"Grapefruit" exhibit in Berkeley, Oct 2006

2006-10-21T00:51:36Z

Yoko Ono's "Grapefruit" show is up / recreated at the UC Berkeley Museum... I was just going to go to see a bit of history, and then I read this on the JL Museum site:

"Grapefruit" ... created the opportunity to write "Imagine": The collection of art works by Yoko Ono published in 1964 that contains instructions with poetical phrases. Art is created by readers' imagination and actions. John drew his inspiration from the instruction "Imagine" that arouse imagination, and it was set to one of the causes for the song "Imagine" to be produced.

Now I'm really excited to go. Whatever you may think of Yoko, John mentioned many times how aspects of her work inspired him (so I'm really curious to see the re-created show...)

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John Lennon Museum / his sself-published newspaper

2006-10-21T00:26:03Z

Interesting link to the John Lennon Museum, and its display this year of the newspaper he created & self-published when he was 17...

http://www.taisei.co.jp/museum/news/news/060419_e.html

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imagine by President Bush

2006-10-18T07:31:39Z

how about this ... many of you might already know ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ-RbyOgo5o&search=bush%E3%80%80imagine

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video clip - John plays w/ Chuck Berry

2006-10-17T23:00:34Z

Here's John playing Johnny B. Goode w/ his idol, Chuck Berry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw4K7YB5Wo&mode=related&search=

(trivia: years later, John's son Julian also went onstage w/ Berry to do the same song -- that clip's on YouTube as well...)

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Imagine all the people (celebrities remember meeting John)

2006-10-17T01:34:14Z

Fascinating story in Salon.com, where a number of people recall meeting John Lennon:

http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2005/12/08/lennon25/index.html?pn=1

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A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead (funny!)

2006-10-16T22:29:45Z

A bit of fun for Halloween, on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWsMKZt3Eg&mode=related&search=

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Happy birthday John

2006-10-10T18:40:54Z

I have just been to Mathew street, beside the statue of John were candles, flowers and messages of love. He would have been 66 years old today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN XXX

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Not affiliated - but found cool ringtone site :)

2006-10-10T16:53:24Z

OK, not trying to spam, but this was cool - samples of the actual songs to use as ringtones -- imagine if everyone's phone went off with "Power to the people" or "All we are saying is give Peace a Chance" -- haha!!

Plus, it kind of makes him current again, there are even ringtone ratings in Billboard now :0

Link:
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Lennon,_John/Ringtones/

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It's Amazing How he made us all imagine on and on and on

2006-10-10T07:48:22Z

John,
Wherever you are man,you deserve a lot more than just these lines. There's so much of you in every line of intelligent music,that it would be impossible to hear or play two bars of it without tripping on any of your fabulous music. And it's avery positive trip too. Thanks John.
Tom
(Ranjan ET---India)

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John Lennon's cats (link)

2006-10-06T21:50:06Z

A very cute link abotu John's affection for cats :)

http://www.catanna.com/johnlennonscats.htm

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New here ... long time John Lennon fan...

2006-09-28T09:12:38Z

Hi all
The world lost a great deal when we lost John Lennon, but he lives on in our hearts.
I'm so happy to see a tribe dedicated to him.

Nice to meet you all.
anni

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Lost John & Yoko interview

2006-09-28T04:52:56Z

Those delighting in Lennon's politics will find much to admire in this chat with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn...

http://www.counterpunch.org/lennon12082005.html

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Oct 9th, 2006 - John's birthday - Yoko's Peace grants

2006-09-19T18:00:15Z

Link:

http://www.a-i-u.net/johnlennon66.html

Press release (September 9th 2006)
"Legendary artist, musician and peace advocate, Yoko Ono, announced today she will be holding two events in Iceland on October 9th to promote peace throughout the world. On this highly anticipated date, which is the birthday of her late husband John Lennon, she will award the LennonOno Grant for Peace and will initiate the ceremony for the dedicated site of the IMAGINE PEACE Tower.

The LennonOno Grant For Peace, will be awarded during a private ceremony at the historic Höfdi House, in the city of Reykjavík. The two $50,000 grants will be given to the international medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the non-profit legal and educational organization, Center for Constitutional Rights for their global commitment to peace, truth and human rights.

In recognition of this year's grant recipients Ms Ono states, "These two groups look beyond today's conflicts and destruction and envision a positive future for our society, while working selflessly and tirelessly towards establishing a more peaceful environment for our planet. They are strong representatives of the many groups who are working in the same direction, today. They need and deserve all of our support and respect."

The IMAGINE PEACE Tower, which was envisioned by Ms Ono over 40 years ago, has plans to be constructed in Reykjavík. Through the collective efforts of the Reykjavík Art Museum and the City of Reykjavík the dedication of the site for this tower will be held on the picturesque Icelandic island of Videy. The base of the IMAGINE PEACE Tower will be filled with prayers and wishes from people of all nations and will serve as a beacon of light for all people who dream of world peace.

"Each one of us was born at this time, not by chance, but to fulfill a mission. Our work is not yet done. I know that John's spirit will be joining us on that day, October 9th, in Reykjavík and I look forward to seeing you there to celebrate this exciting day.
WAR IS OVER, if you want it. I love you."
- yoko ono

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Médecins Sans Frontiéres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters. From Guatemala to Zimbabwe, the MSF extends its efforts in over 70 countries worldwide.

Center For Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights has continually been at the core of the most noted cases involving the protection of human civil rights. CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. Noted for their 2004 victory in the infamous Guatánamo cases in the Supreme Court, the CCR further commits itself to cases involving International Human Rights, Racial and Social Economic Justice, Civil Liberties; Government Misconduct and Human Rights after September 11th.

LennonOno Grant For Peace background

Four years ago, the LennonOno Grant For Peace was created as a way to promote peace, truth and humanity in the world, and to help people who promote these values to continue their work. This year, Ms Ono has changed the ceremony's venue from the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to Reykjavik, after discovering the very unique beauty of this Nordic country. Past Grant For Peace recipients have been, Israeli artist Zvi Goldstein, Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah, Israeli nuclear inspector Mordechai Vanunu and renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. While future grants may be given to peace activists, artists or other deserving individuals, Ms. Ono specified, that the LennonOno Grant For Peace will always focus on issues of healing, humanity and support for a more peaceful world."

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John Lennon still a security threat

2006-09-19T17:22:33Z

(From the "Politic's" tribe)

this is almost bizarre.
(John f*cking Lennon? gimme a break!)

as for "silly secrecy" (see the last paragraph) - i'm not sure if "silly" is the right term - i think "obstruction of justice" would be a better definition. especially considering that they keep "re-classifying" everything, from JFK to Shrub Sr. files.

John Lennon, Still a Security Threat
The Bush administration, obsessed with secrecy, is busy reclassifying government documents -- from 1971

By Jon Wiener
(JON WIENER, a professor of history at UC Irvine, is the author of "Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files" and was the historical consultant on the film "U.S. vs. John Lennon.")

September 10, 2006 (Los Angeles Times)
www.latimes.com/news/opini...45137.story

WE ALL know that a key to preventing future terrorist attacks is sharing intelligence with foreign governments. When Justice Department attorneys urge courts not to release national security information provided by a foreign government under a Freedom of Information Act suit, they argue that the courts should defer to the experts in the Department of Homeland Security and the White House.

But what if such intelligence isn't about today's terrorist threats? What if it's about the antiwar activities of a British rock star during the Vietnam War?

That's precisely what's at issue in a Freedom of Information Act suit pending before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case of John Lennon's FBI files illustrates the federal government's obsession with secrecy, which it justifies with appeals to national security.

Lennon's story, told in the documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon," opening this week in Los Angeles, revolves around his plans to help register young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election, when President Nixon was running for reelection and the war in Vietnam was the issue of the day. Lennon wanted to organize a national concert tour that would combine rock music with antiwar protests and voter registration. Nixon found out about the plan, and the White House began deportation proceedings against Lennon.

It worked: Lennon never did the tour, and Nixon was reelected.

Along the way, the FBI spied on and harassed Lennon — and kept detailed files of its work. The bulk of them were released in 1997 under the Freedom of Information Act after 15 years of litigation. I was the plaintiff.

But the agency continues to withhold 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file on grounds that they contain "national security information provided by a foreign government." The name of the foreign government remains classified, though it's probably not Afghanistan. The FBI has argued that "disclosure of this information could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national security, as it would reveal a foreign government and information provided in confidence by that government."

U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi rejected this argument in 2004 and ordered the documents released. The FBI is appealing that decision.

The Lennon FBI files vividly illustrate the administration's problem. "Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their government" — those are the words of President Bush in his 2003 executive order on classified information. And he is right.

The Freedom of Information Act is necessary because Democrats and Republicans alike have secrets they want to keep — secrets about corruption and the abuse of power. But now the White House wants to shield information from with a new rationale for secrecy — protecting the homeland from terrorists.

The administration acknowledges that it has dramatically increased the number of documents classified "confidential," "secret" or "top secret." Between the time Bush took office in 2001 and 2004, the most recent year for which figures are available, that number has nearly doubled. In 2004 alone, 80 federal agencies deemed 15.6 million documents off-limits. And that figure doesn't include documents withheld by Vice President Dick Cheney, who refuses to report to the National Archives the number of documents his office classifies even though Bush's executive order requires him to do so. Cheney claims his office is exempt.

The administration's frenzy on secrets has led to documents being reclassified after having been in the public domain for decades — for example, the number of bombers and missiles the U.S. had in 1971. The same year that the FBI began its surveillance of Lennon, Nixon's secretary of Defense testified before Congress and displayed a chart showing the U.S. had 30 strategic bomber squadrons and 54 Titan and 1,000 Minuteman nuclear missiles.

Thirty-five years later, Bush officials blacked out that information in the public version of the secretary of Defense's 1971 report, claiming it is now a national security secret. About 55,000 pages of previously declassified material in the National Archives were edited this way, mostly by the Air Force and CIA. (In response, the U.S. archivist announced last week that a declassification initiative would eventually return 85% of the withdrawn CIA materials to the shelves.)

The justifications for such decisions are often ridiculous. In the Lennon FBI files litigation, the government claims that our national security would be damaged if it discloses the sharing of intelligence between the U.S. and the unnamed foreign government. But Bush himself declared in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair that "relations and cooperation between our intelligence services are essential to secure the people of our respective countries."

That makes me wonder: Could it be that the same British intelligence service provided Nixon with information about Lennon in 1972? All this suggests that the time has come to end what Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, calls "silly secrecy."

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The US v John Lennon

2006-09-19T17:12:42Z

Here's the link to the film.
http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/site/

Here's a link to the Grudge Report with links to other articles re: the film.
http://www.theusversusjohnlennon.com/

Here's the link to the trailer website.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/theusvsjohnlennon/

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Favorite John Vocal Moments

2006-09-15T19:23:43Z

Probably my favorite vocal moment on any song, by anyone ever, belongs to John. On Abbey Road, on I Want You (She's So Heavy), in the middle he sings "heavyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!" and trails it into a scream that just goes up an up and disappears into a shriek of passion and torment. God!!!

Speaking of God, on the song of that name, from Plastic Ono Band, i looooooove at the end where he finishes, singing, "The dream is over-r-rrr . . ."

Also, i think i've mentioned this before, but on Happiness, how he begins, "She's not a girl who misses much . . . do-do-do-do-do-do . . . oh, yeah." When he says that "oh, yeah" it seems so incredibly the perfect center of the universe. I swear, it's like everything in the universe revolves around that "oh, yeah". There seems to be so much truth and strength in it, so much simple conviction, that the whole universe just submits to its authority.

there are so many others. anyone else?

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The Struggle To Save John

2006-08-30T13:34:20Z

I read an interesting article in Guitar World recently. I thought I'd share it with everyone. It's written by a guy named Christopher Scapelliti.

Twenty-five years ago, Frank Veteran was chief resident in surgery at Roosevelt Hospital on New York City's west side. At 30 years old, he was in his fifth and final year of surgical training. Between the pressures of medical school and his job, he'd had little time to keep up with current events, let alone the comings and goings of his childhood heroes.

"I was into the Beatles, and I followed them," says Veteran. "But by the time I was the chief resident in surgery, I wasn't listening to them anymore. I was too busy. I didn't even realize that John Lennon lived in New York City."

One of three chief residents at Roosevelt, Veteran was on call for emergencies every third night. There, he attended to the routine injuries of city life: "Gunshot wounds, stab wounds. You wouldn't have to be in the hospital all the time, but if anything happened, you'd have to come in and take one of the younger residents through the procedure. When you were chief resident, you were the primary head doctor. You ran the whole show.

On the night of December 8, 1980, the show was unlike any Veteran had seen before.

He'd spent the evening at his girlfriend's apartment, on 10th Avenue, across from the hospital. Around 11 o'clock, as they were getting ready for bed, his beeper went off. "They said, "We have a gunshot wound to the chest," I asked,"What's the status of the patient?" They said,"Well, Dr. Halloran ~ one of the younger residents ~ "is opening his chest." I said, "Well, if Dr. Halloran is opening up his chest, you don't need me."

Opening the patient's chest is a last resort, performed when the heart has stopped and the patient is unlikely to live. "But they said to me, 'No, we need you now!'"

Puzzled by the call, Veteran dressed quickly, took the elevator down to the lobby and ran across 10th Avenue to the hospital. As he walked upstairs and down the hall to the emergency room, he encountered a pair of nurses. "One of them looked at me and said, John Lennon." I looked at them and thought, John Lennon? What does John Lennon have to do with it? It made no sense to me. It was so ridiculous that it didn't even register."

As Veteran entered the ER, the significance of the nurse's remark became vividly clear. "I walked in, and there was John Lennon, on the table, with all these people around him." Just minutes earlier, Lennon had been shot while returning with his wife, Yoko Ono, to their home at the Dakota, a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Bleeding heavily, his vital signs quickly ebbing, Lennon had been sped to the hospital by officers who responded to the shooting.

"Standing there, suddenly, everything just hit me," says Veteran. "For some reason, I thought of John Kennedy and Jesus Christ [I'm not on dangerous ground here, am I Mike?] It was just a weird thing that flashed in my head."

The doctors had already been trying to resuscitate Lennon. "His chest was open," Veteran says. "They were doing everything to save him."

He stepped up to the table and took a grim assessment of the patient. Lennon had been shot four times from the left at point blank range with a .357 magnum revolver. Two bullets had passed through his upper left upper arm and entered his chest; two more entered his chest just behind the arm. Travelling through his torso, they ripped through his lungs and arteries. Three of the bullets exited the front of his chest: one under his left clavicle and two on the left side of his sternum. The fourth remained lodged inside his body.

According to Veteran, the worst injury was to Lennon's subclavian artery, a major branch of the aorta, the heart's main artery: "He was bleeding heavily." For 20 minutes, Veteran and his associates worked to get Lennon's heart beating again.

"Once your heart stops, you have five minutes, basically, to resuscitate it before lack of oxygen causes brain injury," says Veteran. "So how long does it take to get from the Dakota to Roosevelt Hospital, get into the emergency room, get stripped, get your chest open? Well, it takes longer than five minutes."

Lennon's heart never beat again ~ "And had we got it going, he would have been brain dead. It would have been a disaster anyway."

Veteran recalls a conversation he had with an officer on the scene at the Dakotas. "He said the last evidence of any life was a groan when they put him in the backseat of a police cruiser."

At 11:15 pm, Lennon was pronounced dead. Chief medical examiner Dr. Elliot M. Gross said after the autopsy that Lennon died of shock and blood loss and that no one could have survived more than a few minutes with such injuries. (THE END)

Much too young; too too sad. D.T.

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New here...

2006-06-17T01:58:06Z

Hi group,
I'm glad I finally joined this tribe.
My name's Eric and I'm from Atlanta.
I'm 41 years old, and I've been a Beatles fan since I was 12 years old.
I love so many different kinds of music, my tastes vary all over the map, but The Beatles have always had a very special place in my heart.
They'll never be anything like them ever again, and I'm always happy to see that more and more people continue to love their music.
John Lennon is my favorite Beatle, and he's my favorite Rock musician of all.
As James Lipton says on the Actors Studio "If heaven exists, what would you say as you arrive at the Gates?" If it were me, I'd immediately say "Where's John Lennon?"
I'm looking forward to the discussions, you all look like a nice bunch of people!
-Eric

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What actor could play John if his life story were made into a movie?

2006-06-15T03:51:44Z

I saw some made for TV movie awhile back called "Two Of Us" or something like that. The guy who played John Lennon looked more like one of the brothers from the band Oasis. His accent was terribly wrong and I could not enjoy the movie because of those two points.

Now that Jamie Foxx won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the movie "Ray", I'm wondering which actor might be able to pull off an Academy Award winning performance portraying John Lennon. I can't think of anyone at this moment. I'll see what you have to say first.

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In the mind of Mark David Chapman

2006-06-01T05:49:33Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051104/us_nm/leisure_lennon_dc

This looks interesting. But Lindsay Lohan? I don't know about that.

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hi! new member!!

2006-05-21T17:08:35Z

hi. i LOVE john lennon!
he is so awesome!!!! he lives on forever......

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Janet Williams

2006-05-17T00:11:29Z

DID ANYONE ELSE GET A MESSAGE FROM JANET WILLIAMS?
cOMPELLING OR SCAM?!
Christine

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JOHN LENNON DIED FOR WHO?

2006-05-16T20:42:02Z

A short while ago I posted a blog that entertained the divinity of John Lennon. The title of the the blog 'John Lennon Died For Your Sins' I stole from the film 'Rude Awakening' starring Eric Roberts and Cheech Marin. Robert's character, a hippy in exile who has returned to Manhatten after hiding out in a South American jungle for 20 years, is sitting on a bench in Central Park, reading this incredulous grafitti, John Lennon Died For Your Sins. He is heartbroken and stunned at just dicovering, 7 years too late, that the voice of his beloved culture and generation has been silenced. This was a profound scene and it stuck with me all these years. I want it reflected for the record and for the benefit of the members of this good tribe that one) I am not a nutcase or a flake and two) I do not believe that John Lennon died for any other senseless reason than some sick person extinguished him. I was merely ruminating on this film, "Rude Awakening,' when I came across this particular Lennon blog and what I was attempting to do was ignite a conversation on that particular scene in the movie when Eric discovers that Lennon has been killed. Obviously, it backfired and our good moderator brought it to my attention ~ and then was absolutely silent on the matter. I apologise to anyone regarding anything I may of said about Lennon's divinity or about him dying for anyone's sins. And please disregard any "God" or "Jesus" remarks I have made. This particular apology sound familiar Mike? How ironic that I'm making it on a Lennon site of all places. Thanks for your response.

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Gomez!!

2006-05-02T21:45:15Z

Hey everyone!!! The wonderful band GOMEZ has a new album coming out TODAY!!!- called "How We Operate" Go check it out cause I heard it and its really really good. You can go to www.gomeztheband.com to sample a few songs and look at tour dates.

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"A Day In The Life" lyric sheet up for auction

2006-02-11T00:09:10Z

[The neat thing about the song, which I didn't known until reading it in this article, was that John Lennon penned it in on my birthday.]

Lennon Lyric Sheet to Be Auctioned

02/09/2006 6:10 PM, AP

John Lennon sat down at his piano on Jan. 17, 1967 and used a black felt-tip marker to start writing the lyrics to a song called "A Day In the Life."

He revised the song on the same sheet of paper that afternoon with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney and it became the centerpiece of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Now, nearly four decades later, the two-sided lyric sheet is expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction.

"It's absolutely the finest rock and roll artifact to survive the 20th century," Martin Gammon, a book and manuscript analyst at Bonhams & Butterfields, said Thursday.

Bonhams is auctioning the Lennon lyrics along with manuscripts that include correspondence from Gandhi, checks signed by Marilyn Monroe and a letter from author John Steinbeck to Martin Luther King, Jr. The lyrics and other rare books and manuscripts are on display in San Francisco through Feb. 12.

San Francisco hippies were among the first Beatles fans to hear "A Day In the Life," which trumpeted a new psychedelic sound and features Lennon's memorable lyrics: "I read the news today, oh boy." George Harrison brought an early demo tape of the song to California and played it on the radio during his much publicized visit to Haight-Ashbury in 1967 during the so-called Summer of Love.

The album was a radical step for the Fab Four and is now regarded as perhaps the most important rock album ever.

Gammon said Beatles manuscripts, especially those from the often-reclusive Lennon, are increasingly rare finds. Many Beatles songs were written on paper bags or scraps of paper and most were thrown away, he said.

"It's a window in time. You can imagine him (Lennon) coming up with the musical ideas that everyone now knows," Gammon said.

The value of the manuscript has increased exponentially in a little more than a decade, Gammon said. An unidentified American collector purchased the lyrics for "A Day in the Life" for roughly $100,000 in 1992 — considerably less than the likely winning bid in 2006. They originally belonged to former Beatles road manager Mal Evans.

Gammon concedes it's ironic that the lyrics will sell for such a hefty price, considering that Lennon and Yoko Ono dropped off a closet full of possessions at a Salvation Army in 1977.

Beatles fans can view the lyrics at Bonhams San Francisco office before they move to Los Angeles and New York.

Final bids on the manuscript are due March 7.

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Incident at the Dakota

2006-02-02T22:16:42Z

So this weekend I met up with some friends in Manhattan and we took a walk around Central Park...at one point we went over to John and Yoko's home, the Dakota.

We walked over to pay our respects at the site where John was killed, only to be greeted by a police line and people in head-sets telling us to please move along...then it hit me; they were filming for the movie being made about the assassin.

I had read that Yoko, who still lives there, has been very vocal in her objections to the incident being recreated at her doorstep, understandable to say the least....so before I knew it, there I was yelling at the director, the actors and everyone within earshot about how what they were doing is so absolutely morally irresponsible, that they were rewarding a murderer with another fifteen minutes of fame and that their presence was an affront to everything John Lennon stood for.

After an exasperated call of "Cut!" a wall of security gaurds appeared....my girlfriend said laughingly, "can't take you anywhere, can we?"...we went over to Strawberry Fields and sang "Hey Jude" with a street musician...yeah, I know it's a Paul song, but the refrain of "Take a sad song and make it better" really stuck with me....rock and roll baby!

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Remembering John Lennon

2005-12-08T21:37:43Z

“That much he knew. He had fallen into darkness.
And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.”

--Jack London
" Martin Eden"

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?topicid=10e3659a-4914-46d9-aa44-e0a546e22741&plugin=blog&inst=2521

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John Lennon Day

2005-12-04T14:44:01Z

I signed this a few weeks ago and thought i'd share.

http://www.johnlennonday.com/

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What would John be doing...

2005-11-29T22:42:39Z

...if he were still among us (oh, if only!); would he be spending most of his energy on being a husband/father/homemaker, a musician, a protester, or some combination of the above?

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Beatlesarama

2005-11-29T13:44:32Z

i'm sure most of you have heard of this station. but i have just recently found it.
it plays beatles 24 hours a day.
it also plays alot of the solo stuff they did, as well as outtakes and demos.
i'm enjoying it now.

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Lennon Birthday Show; Thanks!

2005-11-22T03:41:38Z

"One thing that I know is, we're gonna raise hell in New York City tonight!" - GG Allin

Que Pasa, New york! All of us in the Walking Shoe Revival want to send a great big 'THANK YOU' to all you wonderful people who were at CBGBs for our debut in the fabled land of NYC...it was a rush to play to a packed house at arguably the most famous club in New York, especially to be there in honor of John Lennon's birthday...

Thanks to Sean Yoxovic, David Peel, Tommy Doyle, Jan Owen, Kent, Mahogany and everyone who helped us rock the village...

the show was shot by NBC will be broadcast sometime in December, we'll let you know more when we do..."John Lennon knows your name and I've seen him"....rock!

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Lennon's Birthday NYC

2005-10-04T15:52:26Z

Sunday, October 9th

John Lennon 65th Birthday Celebration

at the legendary CBGB's

315 Bowery St., NYC, NY www.cbgb.com

featuring David Peel and The Lower East Side

Eddy Dyer and The Walking Shoe Revival

8:00pm

come on out to Strawberry Fields in Central Park during the day for the John Lennon Birthday Reunion!

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a modest Sun King translation

2005-10-04T15:46:51Z

Here comes the sun king
Here comes the sun king
Everybody’s laughing
Everybody’s happy
Here comes the sun king

Quando paramucho mi amore de felice corazon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel

and now, an attempt at translation...

"When there is much of my love filling my heart,
Paparazzi world, my love.

When same amount of windiness as can eat it,
carousel."

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Imagine

2005-08-22T00:31:07Z

hi folks...i just joined this tribe and i thought i might share a blog i posted a while back concerning John...

I was over in Ireland back in April, traveling with three good friends; one night we were negotiating the high-speed labrynth that is the main highway eastward into Dublin city when I began to tell a story about being in London and almost getting into it with a police officer for spitting on a statue of Oliver Cromwell...for those of you who may not know, Cromwell was a genocidal maniac who invaded Ireland during the Occupation.

Anyway, my friend Jessica A. asked my why I would put all that energy into doing something as inconsequential as spitting on a statue and almost coming to blows with a cop over it...at first I laughed and chalked it up to being a Lowell boy, or my punk-ass Scorpio nature, but it kind of got me thinking, wow, she's quite right...as funny a story as it is (to some of us anyway), it was a HUGE waste of time....not that things always have to have a point, but it does seem, in retrospect to have been an energy drain for all involved.

I was reminded of the John Lennon song "Imagine"....that song was written at a time when John was writing alot of really angry music..."Working Class Hero", "Give Me Some Truth", "How Do You Sleep" and soforth....I mean the guy had plenty to be pissed about, what with the Vietnam War, that asswipe Nixon, a severely fucked up childhood among other things...and, being free of the Beatles, he was able to put out music that reflected that it was okay to be angry and things were not always okay and love love love...

Anyway, this particular song came about when Yoko Ono challenged him to write down a vision of a better world, put forth in a loving way...something that spoke to the higher self in us, not just another angry tongue-lashing to the forces of oppression.

John went to one of Yoko's "word paintings" for inspiration; one that simply read (I'm paraphrasing here);

"Imagine the clouds dripping from the sky;
dig a hole in your garden to catch them."

From there, John Lennon wrote what became not only his biggest hit as a solo artist, but what is widely recognized as one of his most poignant contributions to our collective psyche;

"Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
and no religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

you may say Im a dreamer
but Im not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
and the world will live as one.

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you (we) can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one."

truly amazing what power comes from the ability to turn energy around...anyone who has those people in their life that can challenge them to rethink their approach is very blessed.

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December 8, 1980

2005-08-18T17:56:45Z

To those who still mourn, 23 years later, welcome. Tell us how John's life and work has affected you.

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Why Lennon Lives On

2005-08-18T07:34:51Z

Why Lennon Lives On

John Lennon was the voice of a generation, yet now many young people cannot identify a picture of him. A quarter of a century after his death, Sean O'Hagan reassesses the legacy of the world's first modern pop star

Sunday August 14, 2005
The Observer

On the western edge of New York's Central Park, a sun-dappled mosaic circle on the ground contains the single word 'Imagine'. This is the still, calm centre of Strawberry Fields, a rechristened corner of the park that has become a mecca for the curious and the faithful who come daily in a constant stream of murmuring devotion to remember John Lennon, the city's most famous adopted son.
Today, like every day for the last 14 years, the 'Imagine' site is tended by a native New Yorker called Gary, a 41-year-old self-appointed keeper of the Lennon flame in ragged ponytail, baggy shorts and faded Led Zeppelin T-shirt. 'John came to me in my sleep and told me to do it,' he says, when I ask why he has covered the circle with petals. 'I do it every day, man. I've done it with rose petals and leaves. I've done it with pumpkin seeds and pine kernels. One time, when I couldn't get no flowers in the winter, I covered it with bagels and green bananas. I think,' he says, without irony, 'that John would have liked that.'

Gary bids me sit on a nearby park bench beside his wife, who shares his devotion to the late Beatle. 'I'm a hippy, man,' he says, as if that explains everything, even the bagels. 'I used to be a regular guy, watching the Monday night football game, until Howard Cossell came on and told the world John Lennon was dead. It was too much to take in. Then, years later, John visited me in a dream and I've been here every day since.'

It is almost 25 years since Lennon was shot dead in front of his wife Yoko by Mark Chapman, a deranged fan, on the doorstep of the nearby Dakota building where he lived. It happened on the night of 8 December, 1980, shocking the world and provoking scenes of silent, numb grieving among the New Yorkers who had taken Lennon - the toughest, mouthiest, most cynical, and therefore the most New York Beatle - to their bosom when he was finally granted full residency after a long legal battle with US immigration.

As Chapman nears the end of his prison term (he was sentenced to life but has so far made three unsuccessful parole requests since becoming eligible in 2000) there is little sense that Lennon fans in New York have forgiven him for his senseless slaying of the man who wrote and sang the two most enduring odes to pacifism and eternal optimism; 'Give Peace A Chance' and 'Imagine', the latter having now attained the currency of a humanist hymn. 'It would be safer for everyone, including Mark Chapman, if he stays inside,' the barman in my New York hotel had reasoned the night before when I brought up the thorny topic of Chapman's mooted release. 'He would not last a week on the streets of New York.'

At the 'Imagine' shrine, though, on this humid Sunday in late July, the talk tends towards the hippy-dippy as Lennon pilgrims of every age queue to have their picture taken beside Gary's ongoing artwork. 'It's kind of Buddhist,' ventures one pale and model-thin teenage girl to another as they stare at the petal-strewn shrine. I ask them what Lennon means to them. They look bemused. 'He was the first pop singer who got shot, right?' says the taller of the two, as if there has been a slew of rock and roll assassinations since. 'He was in the Beatles!' says her friend, 'We learnt about them in school.' It is my turn to look bemused. 'You learnt about the Beatles in school?' They both nod. 'When we did the Sixties,' says the tall one. I feel suddenly ancient as it dawns on me that the Sixties are now as distant to these girls as the Thirties were to me at their age.

Do they listen to Beatles music? 'Um, not really,' says the taller of the two. 'We like 50 Cent - 50 Cent rocks!' They stroll off, bobbing and nodding to the thump of an invisible hip-hop beat, the Beatles, the greatest pop group the world has ever known, a vague historical artefact in their already overcrowded teenage minds.

It seems that the legend of the Beatles, whose greatness was of such sustained singularity and inventiveness that nothing since in pop music has come close, may finally be fading. In a recent survey by OMM, The Observer's music magazine, 56 per cent of the music-mad 16- to 24-year-olds polled could not put a name to a photograph of Lennon. Perhaps, as the baby boomer generation that spawned him slips into late middle age, his iconic status too is under threat.

And yet, three years ago, Lennon was the only musician to make it into the Top 10 Greatest Britons voted for by BBC viewers, taking his place alongside Churchill, Darwin and Shakespeare. And back in 1999 his most well-known - and, some would say, most asinine - song, 'Imagine', was voted the nation's favourite pop lyric in another BBC poll. As the 25th anniversary of his death approaches, Lennon is destined once again to be feted as arguably the greatest rock star of them all, a position that only the equally iconic figures of Bob Dylan or Elvis Presley have the historical clout to contest. His commercial resurrection is already under way in the unlikely environs of Broadway where a multimillion dollar musical, called simply Lennon, has just opened with the blessing of Yoko Ono. If it signals Lennon's late commodification by the showbiz mainstream, it shows too, in its hamfisted way, how Lennon and his songs defy this kind of reductionism. 'He's too big for that kind of treatment,' as Paul McCartney succinctly put it recently.

Among today's pop stars, Lennon remains one of the touchstones of greatness, both as a songwriter and social commentator. U2's Bono, lead singer of the biggest pop group since the Beatles, and one of the few contemporary rock stars to run with Lennon's notion of the rock lyric as slogan, as a catalyst for capturing, then igniting, the public consciousness, acknowledges him as his prime influence. 'I remember listening to the Imagine album when I was 12,' he tells me from a car en route to a U2 concert in Madrid. 'It changed the shape of my bedroom, it changed the shape of my head and it changed the shape of my life. It just widened the aperture so much it was as if I was seeing the world for the first time. I learnt off the lyrics to 'Just Gimme Some Truth' and that, in a way, was the template for all that followed.'

What Bono admires most is 'that daring-to-fail courage that often backfired. Even though he had a mouth full of spite and spleen, he always had a deep vulnerability and a huge heart. He was a true artist insofar as he wasn't afraid to fail.'

It was the mouth full of spite and spleen, though, that undoubtedly led Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis to worship Lennon above all others, Liam once claiming that 'John Lennon and Johnny Rotten were the only two that mattered in rock and roll'. Likewise, Primal Scream, a group named in homage to the self-exorcising therapy invented by Arthur Janov that Lennon underwent prior to writing his first, and most rawly confessional, solo album, Plastic Ono Band. 'As a singer he's up there with Jerry Lee (Lewis) and Little Richard in my book,' says lead singer Bobby Gillespie, who has just finished recording a version of Lennon's scathing 'Just Gimme Some Truth'. 'But there was also this fierce instinctual intelligence at work in his songs, and in his whole attitude. That's a lethal combination. It gave the Beatles the edge they needed. He was the abrasive one, the one you could never quite be sure of.'

It seems then that, even as he is fading into folk memory like Elvis before him, Lennon lives on, too, though in a different, perhaps more meaningful, way. Despite the ubiquity of his most softcore and impossibly utopian ditty, 'Imagine', as the ultimate Desert Island Disc choice, despite the mainstream's collective memory of the Beatles as the ultimate tousle-haired, all-grinning epitome of Swinging Sixties fabness, despite the happy-clappy inanity of Lennon the musical, there is something about the least-loveable Beatle that resists our attempts to posthumously canonise him, something to do with what that never-quite-abandoned abrasiveness and unpredictability.

Of all the new breed of British pop stars who emerged in the Sixties, Lennon was the one who harked back most to the Angry Young Man archetype of Fifties writers like John Osborne and Keith Waterhouse. His anger was undoubtedly class-based, a working class Northerner's response to the stultifying conservatism that held sway in the Fifties and early Sixties. It ran deeper than that, though. Born John Winston Lennon during a German air raid on Liverpool in 1940, his childhood was materially stable but emotionally uncertain. His father, Fred, a seaman, was only a fleeting presence throughout his youth, and his mother, Julia, perhaps overwhelmed by responsibility, entrusted her son's upbringing to his now fabled Aunt Mimi.

His mother's death, in 1958, left the teenage Lennon traumatised to the point where he never spoke of it, though his anger at the world was increasingly vented against those he perceived as weaker and more vulnerable than himself, particularly the disabled, whom he mocked relentlessly in his jokes and his fitful writings. Though he would later cloak that anger in an often cynical sense of humour and a gift for surrealist word play, Lennon was easily the most volatile British pop star, at least until that other John - Lydon aka Rotten - came spitting and scowling out of north London squat-land in the late Seventies.

He also possessed in the early Sixties' the first credible white rock'n'roll voice - what the late Beatles historian Ian MacDonald memorably described as 'that brassy Northern roar, flecked with bluesy moans'. You can hear echoes of his style in every disaffected rock singer since, from the guttural whine of Kurt Cobain to the more obvious Lennonesque signature that Liam Gallagher stamps on every Oasis song.

'In a very real way, Lennon was the first modern pop star,' elaborates the music writer and historian of punk, Jon Savage, who is currently writing a history of youth culture. 'He had the anger and drive of the misfit, the outsider, that is such a key element in the defining pop music of the last 50 years. He grew up in a Liverpool that was nowhere really, and in a postwar environment that did not suit his personality, nor value his particular kind of natural intelligence. That drive was unstoppable, though, and it helped the Beatles break down all those doors, and create that tidal wave of energy that swept all before it.'

While the Beatles are generally accepted as the greatest pop group ever by critics and public alike, Savage sees their importance as much more than simply musical. 'I don't think it's overstating the case to say they almost single-handedly kick-started the eradication of Victorianism in Britain. Put simply, the Beatles didn't just change pop music, they changed everything.'

It has been 35 years since the Beatles' great adventure ended not with a bang but a protracted whimper, their messy and protracted break-up signalling the death knell for all they stood for: the bright, brief flaring of pop as the defining cultural determinant of the second half of the 20th century, and the attendant, and equally brief, flowering of a radical, countercultural community whose rise and fall was soundtracked by their songs. In short, the Beatles were pop in excelsis: young, innocent, and cool, then brilliantly, beautifully ambitious, every record a leap of faith and experimentation, waited for with bated breath by an audience that grew with them, and came to expect nothing more from them than inspired pop perfection.

Because of that, Lennon was the first rock star to grapple with the often emasculating contradictions of the job: the tricky tightrope walk between celebrity and street credibility; the conundrum of how to sing with conviction about rebellion and injustice while inured to both by lavish and indulgent lifestyle. 'John Lennon offered an insoluble paradox,' wrote George Melly in one of the few trenchant pieces published in the immediate wake of Lennon's death. 'His huge fortune reduced the value of his gestures (he and Yoko once arrived in a white Rolls Royce to fast on the steps of a church), and yet without his fame those gestures would have passed unnoticed.'

From the early protest folk of Dylan to the grand philanthropic gestures of Live Aid, that same paradox has been played out again and again with the same uneasy undertow: can the self-centredness and egoism of celebrity really be aligned with genuine political idealism? The political Lennon did his best, and more than most, to straddle the contradictions of his celebrity. In the early Beatles days he was a natural iconoclast and rebel, constantly undercutting the clean-cut image insisted on by their manager, Brian Epstein. As MacDonald pointed out in his final book, The People's Music, Lennon's onstage persona - 'legs planted wide ... knees bent, grinning lasciviously as he strummed' - was 'defensive to the point of belligerence'. In nearly every bit of early footage of the group playing live, Lennon is the one undercutting the established performing ritual, mugging for the cameras, pulling silly faces and acting the monkey between songs. It is as if he already senses - and wants to alert us, the audience, to - the absurdity of his calling.

Though they were all natural wits, Lennon was easily the edgiest, most unpredictable Beatle, the one, as MacDonald puts it, 'who first knocked the door of propriety off its hinges'. It was Lennon who famously quipped during the Beatles' Royal Variety Performance in 1963: 'Will all the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? The rest of you just rattle your jewellery.' It was Lennon who sent back his MBE. And Lennon, too, who, at the height of Beatlemania, offered in interview the offending words, 'We're more popular than Jesus now', a self-evident truth that precipitated an orgy of record burning and recrimination across the American heartlands.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was Lennon who first tired of the prison of the Beatles, embarking with his usual all-consuming zeal on a new adventure, celebrated in a Beatles song, 'The Ballad of John and Yoko', in 1969, even as its very public acknowledgement signalled the group's end. In a way, though, Lennon had begun retreating from the Beatles - or, at least, their confining celebrity - at the very height of their popularity. In the mid-Sixties, after the group had stopped touring to concentrate on their groundbreaking studio performances, he would retreat between sessions to the big house in Weybridge he shared with his first wife, Cynthia, and their young son, Julian. There, he existed in a state of protracted domestic enervation, either staring out of the window in a stoned haze or playing with the expensive gadgets that littered every room.

'John's record for not speaking, just doing nothing and not communicating to anyone is three days,' wrote the Beatles' first biographer, Hunter Davis in 1968. 'I'm an expert at it,' Lennon told him. 'I can get up and start doing nothing straight away. I just sit on the step and look into space until it's time to go to bed.'

Lennon's retreat inside himself was precipitated by his regular intake of LSD, which he took almost daily throughout 1967. His mental state was fragile going on psychotic, and for a while he thought himself the reincarnation of Jesus. Yoko, as he constantly reminded the world when it blamed her for the break-up of the Beatles and his marriage, saved his life. After they met at one of her experimental art shows in London she became the new focus of all his energies, replacing even McCartney as his creative foil. Tellingly, his nickname for Yoko was 'Mother', and in a very real way her smothering devotion provided the all-consuming emotional environment he had craved since the loss of his mother.

Yoko, as MacDonald notes, 'pulled John out of self-absorption, introduced him to political art'. The results of this newfound late radicalism were mixed. They famously spent their seven-day honeymoon in bed for world peace, while the world's media beat a path to their Amsterdam hotel room, mistakenly believing they were going to make love on camera. The 'bed-in' was mocked relentlessly in the British press, where John and Yoko provided consistently entertaining copy as pop's reigning odd couple, but there was an underlying air of surrealism and even self-mockery in many of their pranks that went unnoticed.

In the early Seventies, Lennon embraced a more confrontational, and, given his commitment to peace, contradictory, radicalism. It produced some of his finest post-Beatles songs, including the anthemic 'Power to the People' and the incendiary 'Attica State', but led to some ill-advised liaisons with the more extreme end of late-Sixties/ early Seventies' activism, most notably the Black Panthers and the Yippies - basically radicalised hippies seeking anarchist revolution. He even turned up, with Yoko in tow, at a 'Troops Out of Ireland' anti-internment rally in London in August 1971, where, unbelievably, he held up a placard that read, 'Victory to the IRA Against British Imperialism'. This, just a few months before 'Imagine' was released. (The following year he released 'The Luck of the Irish', a hamfisted protest song that included the non-ironic line, 'If you had the luck of the Irish, you'd wish you were English instead'. It was outdone in its radical posturing only by McCartney's 'Give Ireland Back to The Irish', Wings' debut single from the same year.)

Lennon, then, more than any other pop star before or since, was a mess of contradictions. It is easy in these post-ideological times to poke fun at his invariably short-lived commitment to a variety of often seemingly paradoxical causes, just as it must be difficult for a teenager of today to even imagine a time when a rock star could be so politically active as to be perceived as a threat by the FBI. But Lennon was that rock star, even if he admitted later, with his characteristic candour, that he had never really been convinced by any of the causes that claimed him as a figurehead.

The cruellest irony of his sudden and brutal death was that it occurred at a pivotal moment when Lennon seemed finally to be making peace with the world, and, more pertinently, with himself. He had come though his fabled 'lost weekend', which began in 1973 when Yoko threw him out because of his drinking and philandering, and continued over several wild, bottle-strewn months, often in the company of celebrated rock reprobates like Keith Moon of the Who and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. Post-reconciliation, though, John and Yoko seemed stronger, more committed to each other than to their joint career as artistic provocateurs.

'He was calmer and more focused than I had ever seen him,' says photographer Bob Gruen, who befriended Lennon in what were to become his final years in New York. 'His whole thrust in life was towards the notion of family, towards his wife, Yoko, and their son, Sean. That was the message he was about to take to the world - that after all the questing for the big answers he had found real peace and love at home.'

Whether or not this would have made for great music is hardly the issue here; Lennon, like McCartney, had by then made more than enough great music, had redefined the parameters of pop music like no other songwriters. What Lennon might have found, though, had he been allowed to grow up finally, and grow old gracefully, was the kind of peace and contentment that had eluded him for most of his short, angry inspired life.

'Though he was a hero to many, his whole point was not heroic,' says Bono. 'He hadn't always been the man he wanted to be, yet he kept struggling to redefine himself and to find himself. His real strength was his raw honesty and vulnerability. This was the guy who sang "Help", don't forget. He dared to bare his soul, and he dared to fail. That takes real courage.'

Perhaps it's time we remembered John Lennon for what he really was: not just the first and greatest pop star but also the most vulnerable and messed-up. The iconoclast who dared imagine what global fame, useless of itself, might be used for. The upstart who stole the world, and tried, in his impulsively tough and compulsively tender way, to make sense of it. And, most courageous of all, to change it.

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this tribe is beautiful

2005-06-21T00:45:03Z

it is small

postings are sparse, but each one is meaningful

this tribe began with one member (me)

i have never promoted it

i have never invited anyone to join it or publicized its existence

and yet, little by little, beautiful people keep finding it

thank you

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Tomorrow Never Knows

2005-04-08T01:39:09Z

Tomorrow Never Knows

by

Justice Putnam

8 December 1980 was a Monday. I was a pedestrian-participant in the LA Poetry/ Performance/Art/Punk scene. I sat in a late-morning meeting with the Board of Directors for Beyond Baroque concerning a reading that the publication I was affiliated with was having. Jerry Danielson of Vol No Magazine was going to be at Gorky's in the afternoon. He wanted to introduce me to Mike Watt of the Minutemen and Henry Rollins of Black Flag. We were to meet for beers. After the meeting in Santa Monica I hung out in Venice until about 3pm and drove across town to Gorky's. When I got there, Exene Cervenca of X and Maria Talamantes (who was teaching dance at Cal Arts at the time) were there. The six of us had a few laughs and animated conversation, and then I had to go.

It was always an issue I never brought up with that LA crowd. But I liked Football. I still do. I have a relative that played as an Offensive Lineman for the Rams in the early 60's, I tried to play some at Cal Poly Pomona. But to say that Monday Night Football took precedent over flirting with Exene and Maria was inconceivable to many in that crowd.

I drove to Orange County. The events of that evening have become a blur. I cannot remember much of the game. I do remember I was in a red-neck bar in Westminster. Try as I might, I can only conjure snippets of memory that I can place in some loose time-frame, up to just before 9pm.

That was when the football game was interrupted for a news flash. The clunk and smash of the pool tables suddenly stopped. The whole bar turned eerily quiet.

"John Lennon shot dead in NY."

I looked around. Tears were welling up in the eyes of men I thought incapable of crying, let alone caring about a John Lennon. Not one voiced a discouraging word that Lennon had it coming. There was true and startled disbelief.

I couldn't stay. I drove home to Laguna Beach. I drove up Bluebird Canyon Road to the top of Arch Heights. I looked up the coast toward Huntington Beach. A steady line of headlights and tail-lights snaked around the point at Balboa. I was feeling sentimental. A poem/song came to me,

"... Tomorrow never knows
I cut my finger on the long-stemmed rose
The candles go out
When the winds blow
And tomorrow never knows... "

c 2005 Justice Putnam
and Mechanisches Strophe-Verlagswesen

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Anybody out there?

2005-01-19T18:52:04Z

Same rant. 10 people!!!! Nobody's posted since I did nearly 2 months ago??? Maybe we can talk about how to start his idea's again in a world of popular music dead to profound lyrics or meaning. I'm tired of hearing "I wanna fuck my mom", or "Wanna tap that booty bitch". "Slap my bitch up?"

The world is just a fucked up now as it was then or more. What gives? Where is the message in the music?

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"Imagine" & 9/11 as a failure of the imagination

2005-01-07T21:20:26Z

Any one else note this?

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December 8, 2004

2004-12-08T21:57:33Z

I was reflecting on Lennon's intimely death today, and I began to think of all the great things, seeds, if you will, that he planted in my mind. I feel very luck to have had him as an accidental role-model, as growing up in rural Arkansas at my age, there were few others to echo his thoughts.

Here are some of the seeds he planted that geminated into my current value system:

1. That violence is a bad thing that is always incrdibly diffcult (if not impossible ) to justify.

2. That I don't have to be supported in my views in order to follow through on them, and that it may be normal for others to reject me or my ideas if it challeges peoples' current belief system. It's OK. I can go on without the support of otheres, it does not mean that I'm wrong for living life in a way that is not always popular.

3. Realizing that unfairness is a part of me, which is why I hate it so much when I see unfairness. I don't know why but that somehow helps me understand myself and others.

4. Helping me to accept the way many people make money. For example, (I'm paraphrasing) he was asked what he thought about people making money off of selling t-shirts, etc, of him when he dies (much in the way that happened to Elvis at the time). He said that it didn't matter to him, that poor people had to feed their families some how.

That was way cool.

Are there any values you have that were influenced by Lennon? Please share.

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