[Mb-civic] Remembering John Lennon

[Ian]

Cheeseburger:

Thank you for your wonderful sentiments.  I, too, was a long-time "follower"
of Lennon's.  And I, too, was living only blocks from the Dakota that night.
As soon as I heard it, I biked over furiously.  I was among the first 50
people to get there.  We were kept behind a police barricade across 72d
Street.  When I got there, the police car with John in it was just pulling
away to go to the hospital.  Chapman was sitting - hand-cuffed and virtually
surrounded by policeman - a few feet away from the entrance.  He still had
the book in his hands.  (We all know what book.)  Someone had a radio tuned
to WNEW-FM, at that time the #1 "Beatles/Lennon" station in the U.S.  They
were playing Lennon's music and Beatles music.  Less than an hour later,
when John was pronounded dead, the DJs - who were unabashedly crying -
played Imagine, All You Need Is Love and Give Peace a Chance.  As you infer,
it is a night that anyone who loved Lennon cannot possibly forget - perhaps
as vivid as knowing where you were when JFK was shot.

As you note, were John still alive, he would undoubtedly have led Sunday's
rally up to Central Park himself, and dared law enforcement to do something
about it.  He probably would have paid for a simple stage and P.A. set-up as
well.

Anyway, thank you for again for your tribute.  It may a little early (his
birthday is not until October, and the anniversary of his death in
December), but there is nothing wrong with reminiscing about him at ANY
time.

Which, among other reasons, is why I end every one of my communications
with...

Peace.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
To: <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:40 AM
Subject: [Mb-civic] Remembering John Lennon


> Remembering John Lennon
>
> http://www.lyricscafe.com/l/lennon_john/workingclasshero.htm
>
>
> I just had to pause for a moment and remember John Lennon.
>
> Breathe in.....   Breathe out.....  Breathe in.....  Breathe
> out....  Relax....  Relax more....  Breathe in.....   Breathe
> out....   Ahhhh....   peace.....   the real thing....
>
> I got tired of listening to all the maggots of politics playing songs,
> putting on shows, promising illusions out of their butts, and bilking
> another generation out of their money, health, time, and lives.
>
> John just seems so much more real.
>
> And of course, like so many others, his music and lyrics live on.
>
> I'm so glad geniuses don't have 4 year term limits.
>
> I was living about 9 blocks from him when he got whacked and walked
> over.  It was night I seem to remember.  I walked to the bandshell that
> night I think, whenever it was, sat down right in the center, drank wine,
> etc, with another guy, fell asleep all night, woke up in the morning,
> turned around, and it seemed a million people were there.  I turned back
> around and there was a barricade 2 inches in front of me with lots of
> police and a picture there I think.  Some people spoke.  Maybe they played
> some music.  It's hazy.  It was a long night.  It was a hard day's
> night.  And the story rambles on...
>
> If he had still been alive today, he would have led a couple of million
> people, at least, onto The Great Lawn, just to "hang out", just by walking
> there with an acoustic guitar over his shoulder and Yoko by his side.
>
> "Conan, what is best in life....!!??"
>
> "To crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations
of
> their women.....!!!!"
>
> In John's case happiness was not a warm gun.
>
> He stood up to assholes, madmen, politicians, systems, ideologies,
> illusions, destruction, etc.
>
> They shot him in the head because they were out of trees.
>
> http://www.lyricscafe.com/l/lennon_john.htm
>
> You'll always be so much more warm to my heart than them, John.
>
>
> Can you imagine, John.......??
>
> Them saying "Keep Off The Grass" a couple of blocks from where you
live...??
>
> LOL...........
>
> And a Republican Billionaire who bought his way into the Mayorship of
NYC...
>
> LOL............
>
> I know... heh...  I feel exactly the same way.
>
> LOL.................................!!
>
> What an asshole the guy must be.  Among others, heh...
>
> :|
>
>
> But you know, John, a working class hero can be of some value we hope to
> God still.  I found out that if you hold on you can escape the isolation
of
> freedom that the madness mandates.  Ah, Love.  My mother used to...  Well,
> I remember when you sang "Daddy don't go....  Mama come home....".  Now
> they're both gone.  But I remember them.  You're gone.  But I remember you
> too.  I imagine them standing on The Great Lawn with me watching you play
> the guitar for a few million people, John.  Oh, my love, that Bush is such
> a jealous guy.  So are his pals.  How do you sleep, John, when you wake up
> in a cold sweat century after century shouting "I don't want to be a
> soldier..!!"....??  You stared into that microphone, and that camera, and
> that face of the world watching you, sat in your bed, and whispered "Give
> Peace A Chance", and it shook the earth.    Ahh...  But look at me.   I'm
> gettin all reminiscent and mushy stuff like that, and you in the ground
for
> 24 years now, and the world still being led down the toilet by assholes
> from chickenshitville.
>
> John...  I know you're out there.  I know you're listening.  I just
thought
> I would write you a note in the middle of all this death, destruction,
> madness, and smiling faces greeting us as they keep shoving us down the
maw
> of extinction and send it out into space as a last SOS for our planet
> streaking across the universe.  You always did say thinking was the best
> way to travel.
>
> If you get it, you don't have to say anything, just wink.  I'll know.
>
> Wow...!!      That was quick, John.    LOL.........!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Well...  I feel much better now, John.  I'm glad I got that off my chest.
>
> Nice talking to you again, John.
>
> Next time I take the lawn...
>
>
>
> Cheeseburger
>
> - Where has the sparrow gone now that I need its song.
>
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