Dedication of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER..
I DEDICATE this light tower to John Lennon
my love for you is forever...
YOKO ONO...
"EVERY MAN HAS A WOMAN WHO LOVES HIM
In rain or shine or life or death
If he finds her in this life time
He will know when he presses his ear to her breast...."
JOHN LENNON
"JOHN LENNON" truly came into being....
HIS LIFE as a work of art in which every act shimmered with POTENTIAL MEANING for the world at large.
IT WAS A MESSIANIC ATTITUDE, to be sure, but one that was tempered by an innate inclusiveness and generosity.
IF WE SAW HIM AS LARGER THAN LIFE, he also yearned for a world in which his ego managed at once to absorb everyone else and dissolve all differences among people, leaving a ZEN-LIKE TRANQUILITY and calm.
"YOU MAY SAY I'M A DREAMER, BUT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE," he sang in "IMAGINE,"
Which has become his best-known song and an international ANTHEM OF PEACE.
"I HOPE SOMEDAY YOU'LL JOIN US, AND THE WORLD WILL LIVE AS ONE."
MUSIC IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE that transcends boundaries and bond people even thousands of miles apart...
THINGS WE SAID TODAY..."
"You say you will love me if I have to go,
You'll be thinking of me, somehow I will know,
Someday when I'm lonely, wishing you weren't so far away,
Then I will remember things we said today..."
THE BEATLES...
WELL... I have many interests...Music, specifically
BEATLES MUSIC is my Number One interest.
COLLECTING MEMORABILIA is also a BIG one. BEATLES, pop culture, and action figures are my biggies. I collect action figures of all kinds, sports figures, entertainers, and GI Joes represent the bulk of my collection.
I ALSO COLLECT newspaper and magazine clippings, I'm sure I got this from my beloved POP...
From my Artist father I love art, both making art (WATERCOLOR PAINTING!!) and art appreciation, Christa and I love to explore "THE CITY'S's" amazing museums.
The outdoors, also is a Major interest.
My wife and I love to go tent camping.
We plan to someday own a canoe that we can take along, in the meantime firebuilding, hiking, and working on a new-putting-up-our-tent time record will have to do!!
Along with the above, I love to go to Kings and/or Rivercats games, and have the monthly lunches with my family.
Music
AS HALF OF THE BEATLES, JOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEY were one of the most successful songwriting teams of the century. Together they wrote dozens of hit tunes, ranging from "HELP!" and "TICKET TO RIDE" to "PENNEY LANE" and "LET IT BE."
Lennon's romance with Yoko Ono was a major influence on his post-Beatles career, and he collaborated with her on everything from the modern pop hymn "IMAGINE" to avant-garde noise and poetry.
THE BEATLES broke up in 1970
and Lennon followed with a solo career marked by uneven recordings and public pleas for world peace. After a reclusive five years as a family man, Lennon released an album with Yoko in 1980, DOUBLE FANTASY.
As their new song "JUST LIKE STARTING OVER" was reaching the top of the charts, Lennon was shot to death outside his New York home.
DECEMBER 8,1980
WORKING CLASS HERO:
AS SOON AS YOU'RE BORN they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all...
A "WORKING CLASS HERO" is something to be
A working class hero is something to be....
"WHEN REAL MUSIC COMES TO ME - the music of the spheres, the music that SURPASSES THE UNDERSTANDING...
that has nothing to do with me, cause I'M JUST THE CHANNEL...
THE ONLY JOY FOR ME is for it to be given to me, and to TRANSCRIBE IT LIKE A MEDIUM...those moments are what I live for."
-- JOHN LENNON
"I BELIEVE IN GOD, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.
I BELIEVE that what JESUS and MOHAMMED and BUDDHA and all the rest SAID WAS RIGHT. It's just that the translations have gone wrong...."
JOHN LENNON
"IF BEING AN EGOMANIAC MEANS I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
JOHN LENNON
The BEATLES recorded their first full length album, live in the studio, on FEBRUARY 11, 1963 in one 12 hour session.
ON FEBRUARY 22, 1963 the Beatles' second single, "PLEASE PLEASE ME" went straight to No. 1.
MEET THE BEATLES, the first Beatles album in the United States, was released on January 20, 1964.
ON FEBRUARY 7, 1964 THE BEATLES TRAVELLED TO NEW YORK for a number of U.S television appearances and performances.
"THE DAY THAT CHANGED AMERICA AND THE WORLD"
UPON ARRIVING AT JFK AIRPORT, The Beatles noticed thousands of kids screaming and awaiting the plane's arrival.
FEBRUARY 7, 1964..."THE BEATLES ARRIVAL AT JFK
THEY ASSUMED that there must have been someone important on the plane...
WITH THEM AND WERE A BIT SHOCKED to learn that the crowds were actually there for them...they never imagined the IMPACT that they were about to CREATE...that these "FOUR LADS from LIVERPOOL" where about to "CONQUER AMERICA and the WORLD.."
The LENNON-McCARTNEY Songwriting Partnership
JOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEY are considered by some to be the greatest songwriting team ever. LEAD SINGERS OF THE LEGENDARY BAND, The Beatles, and close friends, they wrote many hit songs together and helped create popular music as it is today
THE BEATLES are among the MOST INFLUENTIAL popular music ARTISTS of the SECOND HALF of the 20TH CENTURY,
AFFECTING THE CULTURE of BRITAIN and AMERICA and the postwar BABY BOOM GENERATION,
and the entire ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, especially during the 1960s and early 1970s.
CERTAINLY THEY'RE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL, with global sales reaching past 1.2 thousand million records sold as of 2003.
THEIR INFLUENCES ON POPULAR CULTURE extended far beyond their roles as recording artists, as they branched out into film and even semi-willingly BECAME SPOKESMEN FOR THEIR GENERATION.
THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP John LENNON, Paul McCARTNEY, George HARRISON and Ringo STARR (Richard Starkey), all from LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.
THE EFFECT OF THE BEATLES on Western culture (and by extension) on the rest of the world HAS BEEN IMMEASURABLE.
ORIGINALLY a high-energy pop band (typified by the early singles "TWIST and SHOUT" and "PLEASE PLEASE ME"),
AS THE BEATLES PROGRESSED
THEIR STYLE BECAME MORE SOPHISTICATED,
INFLUENCED in equal measure by BOB DYLAN....
and CHUCK BERRY.
THEIR POPULARITY was also aided by their attractive looks, distinctive personalities, and natural charisma;
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particularly on television where they appeared on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW and others.
This was the beginning of..."BEATLEMANIA"
IN WHICH THE COMMITED pop-music band found itself turned into...
"A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON..."
WITH WORSHIPED FANS, hysterical adulation...
"LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM"...1965
AND DENUNCIATIONS BY OTHERS such as Frank Sinatra. None of this had much to do with music and was regarded by the band members WITH INTERMITTENT AWE AND RESENTMENT.
"WE'RE MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS.."
John Lennon..1966
TWO YEARS after they first invaded America...
THE BEATLES... were used to being accosted by SCREAMING TEENAGE GIRLS -- not by screaming middle-aged Bible thumpers.
THAT CHANGED on the eve of their third U.S. tour when American teen rag DATEbook printed John Lennon's comparison of his band to a somewhat more revered pop-culture figure.
MASS PROTESTS ensued: "THE VATICAN" denounced John Lennon's remarksand the love-song-singing lads even received death threats.
TWO WEEKS INTO THE TOUR -- at an Aug. 11 press conference in Chicago that found the Fab Four hanging their heads like reprimanded schoolboys -- Lennon explained that he had merely been referring to the worldwide frenzy of Beatlemania and that his words were "NEVER MEANT TO BE A LOUSY ANTI- RELIGION THING."
" THE VATICAN accepted his apology, but the death threats -- and, of course, all those screaming girls -- had taken their toll.
THE BEATLES' Aug. 29 concert at SAN FRANCISCO'S CANDLESTICK PARK would be their last.
"CANDLESTICK PARK...1966"
"THE DARK SIDE OF BEATLEMANIA.."
We may never fully understand THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF BEATLEMANIA to sweep people away in a sea of emotions.
BUT AT THE HEIGHT of their popularity in the spring of 1966, a segment of the American public demonstrated how that overpowering love could turn to hate very quickly.
MAUREEN CLEAVE in 1964
ON MARCH 4, 1966, this quote of John's was printed in an interview by reporter Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard:
"CHRISTIANITY will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. WE'RE MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS NOW;
I DON'T KNOW which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
He was, as she reported, reading extensively about religion. It was a small part of the article. No notice of it was taken in Britain. Read the entire original article here.
JOHN REMEMBERS the original interview.
Then, almost five months later, on July 29, a teen magazine in the US,
DATEbook, reprinted the quote out of context, not submerged in an article, but as a part of a front cover story entitled "The Ten Adults You Dig/Hate The Most".
Movies
"STUDIO STYLE EVOLUTION.."
BY 1966 THE INFLUENCE of the PEACE MOVEMENT...
PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS and the studio technique of
PRODUCER
GEORGE MARTIN....
RESULTED IN THE ALBUMS: Revolver... Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band... Rubber Soul... Magical Mystery Tour... Abbey Road and Let It Be... still widely "REGARDED AS CLASSICS."
PARTICULARLY NOTABLE,
along with the use of
STUDIO TRICKS such as sound processing,
UNCONVENTIONAL MICROPHONE PLACEMENTS, and vari-speed recording, WAS THE BEATLES...
USE OF UNCONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS for POP MUSIC,
INCLUDING string and brass elements, INDIAN INSTRUMENTS
such as the SITAR, and EARLY ELECTRONIC INSRUMENTS.
AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR FAME...
in the mid-sixties, bolstered by the two films HELP and
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, the band discontinued touring.
THE INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED ARRANGEMENTS of their songs were difficult to perform in front of thousands of screaming fans
who typically made such noise that the music could not be heard anyway.
BY THEN, THE STRESS OF THEIR FAME was beginning to tell and the band was ON THE VERGE OF SPLITTING at the time of the release of The Beatles (the "WHITE ALBUM"),
WITH SOME TRACKS RECORDED by the band members INDIVIDUALLY...
AND STARR TAKING A TWO-WEEK HOLIDAY in the MIDDLE OF THE RECORDING SESSION.....
BY 1970 THE BAND HAD SPLIT, with each of the members GOING ON TO SOLO CAREERS with varying degrees of success....
JOHN LENNONS.."WALLS AND BRIDGES"
PAUL McCARTNEY'S (WINGS)..."BAND ON THE RUN"
GEORGE HARRISON'S..."ALL THINGS MUST PASS"
RINGO STARR.."AND HIS ALL-STARR BAND
The PSYCHEDELIC YEARS...
IN EARLY 1965, Lennon and Harrison were dosed with LSD by their dentist.
IN THE ENSUEING YEARS, the Beatles met with PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRECULTURE icon TIMOTHY LEARY, experimented extensively with LSD
AND RELEASED two heavily LSD-influenced albums, REVOLVER and SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.
ON JUNE 12, 1965, THE BEATLES were individually awarded the ORDER OF MEMBER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (MBE) by the Queen.
SINCE IT WAS UNUSUAL FOR ROCK STARS to receive the MBE, some previous recipients complained and protested, and a small number went so far as to return their own honours, complaining they had been "DAVALUED". (Some had received the award for military heroism.) Lennon would return his own in 1969 with the note...
"YOUR MAJESTY, I am returning my MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of AMERICA in VIETNAM and against "COLD TURKEY" slipping down in the Charts.
"With love,
"JOHN LENNON"
THE MURDER OF JOHN LENNON, who in so many ways represented the HEART AND SOUL not just of the Beatles but of all '60s rock'n'roll, was perhaps the most emotionally felt of all rock deaths.
CERTAINLY there was an equal outpouring of emotion for ELVIS PRESLEY, and perhaps as much in some quarters for
BUDDY HOLLY, JIMI HENDRIX, and JANIS JOPLIN. But John Lennon's death was more stunning than any of them.
HE WAS JUST EMERGING from a long period of silence with a vigor as surprising as it was refreshing, AND HE SEEMED IN COMMAND OF HIS POWERS AS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, at a time when rock'n'roll and THE WORLD DESPERATELY NEEDED HIS VOICE.
RETROSPECT,it seems absurd that the United States government felt so threatened by the presence of John Lennon that....
THEY TRIED TO HAVE HIM DEPORTED. But that's what happened, as chronicled in directors DAVID LEAF and JOHN SCHEINFELD'S "THE U.S. vs. JOHN LENNON."
THE FILM STARTS SLOWLY, with a familiar look at the former Beatle's troubled childhood, his outspokenness as one of the Fabs ("We're more popular now than Jesus Christ," etc.), and his EVENTUAL HOOKUP WITH YOKO ONO,
paralleled by the GROWTH OF POLITICAL PROTEST IN '60s
AMERICA, particularly against the VIETNAM WAR.
JOHN and YOKO went on to stage their own PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS, like the CANADIAN "BED-INS,"
BUT THESE WERE largely harmless media stunts. It was when the LENNONS MOVED TO NEW YORK IN THE EARLY '70s and took a more active role in the ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT...
making friends with RADICALS like ABBIE HOFFMAN,
JERRY RUBIN,
and BLACK PANTHER PARTY founder BOBBY SEALE
GOVERNMENT got interested--and PARANOID--and men like
PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON,
DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER, and RIGHT-WING Sen.
STROM THURMOND....
began actively LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SILENCE HIM (it was Thurmond who came up with the deportation idea). That's also when the film picks up.
AN ARRAY OF TALKING HEADS weighs in, ranging from ONO and OTHERS SYMPATHETIC TO LENNON'S PLIGHT
WALTER CRONKITE,
Sen. GEORGE McGOVERN
TO THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE, including WATERGATE CONSPIRATOR
G.GORDON LIDDY.
THOUGH THE U.S. vs. JOHN LENNON is hardly impartial, it's safe to say that although Lennon was more an IDEALIST than an ACTIVEST,
HE WAS AN INFLUENTIAL CELEBRITY whom NIXON viewed as a potential nuisance in an election year.
AND EVEN ONCE NIXON had won the '72 presidential race, the IMMIGRATION and NATURALIZATION SERVICE refused to drop its case.
"ANYBODY WHO SINGS ABOUT LOVE, AND HARMONY, AND LIFE, IS DANGEROUS TO SOMEBODY WHO SINGS ABOUT DEATH," says author
GORE VIDAL.
"LENNON... was a born enemy of the U.S. HE WAS EVERYTHING THEY HATED."
IT WAS THE TIME IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING the first landslide election of RONALD REAGAN
discouraging prospect to so many who had embraced all that Lennon seemed to STAND FOR AND BELIEVE IN.
IF THE TWO EVENTS WERE UNRELATED, and clearly they were, they are indelibly linked on an emotional level. Not only had RONALD REAGAN BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT..
WITH ALL HIS COLD, BRUTAL VALUES COMING TO ASCENDANCE -- but the one rock star who SEEMED THE WARMEST AND MOST HUMAN (much of that merely public image, as it turned out) HAD BEEN SUMMARILY SLAIN A MONTH LATER...
ASKED ABOUT LENNON'S DEATH within days of its happening, Ronald Reagan cupped a hand to an ear and then shrugged and grinned, saying something affably inaudible toward the crowd of reporters. HE OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T CARE.
BUT WE DON'T GET MIXED UP ABOUT JOHN LENNON. His TRUE GENIUS, which he practiced all his life, WAS TO MAKE PEOPLE LOVE HIM. AS A HUMAN BEING, he was seriously troubled, THE RESULT OF A LIFETIME OF FESTERING PAIN.
SEPERATED FROM HIS PARENTS as an infant (his father went off to sea and his mother on to good times, the next relationship, and eventually an early death), he was raised by his aunt, MIMI SMITH, in a middle-class British setting.
HE WAS A BEHAVIOR PROBLEM all through school,
but early on found something like salvation,
or at least, in U.S. rock'n'roll
he loved. HE FORMED HIS FIRST BAND AT
AGE 16...
Paul McCartney attended a performance in 1957 and shortly afterward became a member. McCARTNEY'S MUSICAL SKILLS IMPRESSED LENNON -- and Lennon's savvy impressed McCartney.
SOON THEY HAD AGREED that everything written by either would from that point on be credited to "LENNON-McCARTNEY," a promise they kept for nearly fifteen years.
GEORGE HARRISON eventually joined and, later, PETE BEST, who was replaced on the brink of the group's breakthrough by RINGO STARR.
JOHN: "I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ or anti-religion. I am not saying we are greater or better.
I BELIEVE that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what JESUS and MOHAMMED and BUDDHA and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. I wasn't saying whatever they are saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it, really. I apologize, if that will make them happy. I still don't know quite what I've done."
THE BEATLES officially broke up in 1970 after the chemistry between the band had been deteriorating for some time and they were ready to explore the type of music each wanted to explore.
PREVIOUS to the break-up JOHN and YOKO released the album "TWO VIRGINS",
JOHN and YOKO'S first album collaboration, "TWO VIRGINS," was released. The cover showed nude photos of the lovers front and back, and WAS BANNED.
"Life with the Lions", "Wedding Album" and "The Plastic Ono Band/Live Peace in Toronto".
AT THE END OF 1970 John released his first true solo album called simply "JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND" which reached 6th on the charts. His second album released contains one of the greatest songs ever written and a song that defined John's idealism, the album was "IMAGINE"...
THE SONG THE ALBUM was titled for was a simple song, with JOHN and his White Grand Piano, that moves the Mind and Soul to Dream the Dream he longed for the the earth.
ON MARCH 20, 1969, THE COUPLE wed in GIBRALTAR. The following week, the two master media manipulators used their celebrity for good, hosting a honeymoon "BED-IN"
for Peace in Room 902, the presidential suite of THE AMSTERDAM HILTON.
THE PRESS avidly pursued them, assuming that the FAMOUS NUDISTS would make love for their cameras.
Instead, the pajama-clad newlyweds spoke out about WORLD PEACE. It was the honeymoon as performance art, interlaced with a PROTEST AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR.
Lennon's "THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO" chronicles the week in song: "Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton /
Talking in our bed for a week / The news people said / 'Hey, What You Doin' in Bed?'/ I said... 'WE'RE ONLY TRYIN' TO GET US SOME PEACE MAN!"
IN 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named JERRY LEVITAN, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in TORONTO and convinced John to do an INTERVIEW ABOUT PEACE..."
For a week, JOHN and YOKO give interviews, Ignoring the Mockery...
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Peace is not cessation from war but something higher transcending the contention between warmongers and pacifists, who badly need each other to exist.
As Silence, the Primary Sound, includes noise but noise does not include Silence, similarly Good includes and understands evil, yet is not understood by it.
The best way to avoid evil is to proceed vigorously towards Good, something higher and better, our ideals, our Dreams.
"The best way is to throw our kite and run after it..."
FIORELLA DOROTEA GENTILE
AND IN THE BEGINNING....
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VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO VISIT THIS PAGE...
WE WILL.. all take responsibility for the country we love and the men and women who protect it. We will volunteer, we will pray, and we will speak out. We will take action to support our troops, end the war....
bring them home to the heroes' welcome they deserve. And we will honor and remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
Each of us has a responsibility to act, a duty to our troops and to each other. Support the troops. END THE WAR!
Neil Young - Shock Awe
I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, "You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give” GEORGE HARRISON....
AS JOHN LENNON would later recall his decision to welcome GEORGE HARRISON into the fold, "We asked George to join because he knew more chords, a lot more than we knew. We got a lot from him."
To say the Beatles got a lot from George would be, if anything, an understatement.
Often overshadowed by the untouchable songwriting prowess of Lennon-McCartney, George's contributions to the Beatles legacy were actually quite huge, from his guitar work to the original songs he was able to carve out a space for in the Beatles' catalog....
"OLD BROWN SHOE"...1969 , George Harrison
"Now I'm steppin' out this old brown shoe
Baby I'm in love with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same
Now I'm telling you..."
"We're playing those "MIND GAMES" together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic the SEARCH FOR THE GRAIL.."
"SERVE YOURSELF"
by John Lennon:
You say you found Jesus Christ
He's the only one
You say you've found Buddha
Sittin' in the sun
You say you found Mohammed
Facin' to the East
You say you found Krishna
Dancin' in the streets
Well there's somethin' missing in this God Almighty stew
And it's your mother (your mother, don't forget your mother, lad)
You got to serve yourself
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you
You got to serve yourself
Ain't nobody gonna do it for you...
Well you may believe in devils and you may believe in lords
But if you don't go out and serve yourself, lad, ain't no room service here
It's still the same old story
A bloody Holy War
A fight for love and glory
Ain't gonna study war no more
A fight for God and country
We're gonna set you free
We'll put you back in the Stone Age
If you won't be like me - get it?
In the 60s WE FOUGHT FOR PEACE, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? So I thought, not this time, it's too complicated a situation. We cannot enjoy the machoism of fighting for peace. I felt that I wanted John's fans to know that.
YOU CAN STAND FOR PEACE,
BUT NOT FIGHT FOR IT.
...the people who are fighting today, probably think that they are fighting for peace, too. Probably we are all imagining the same thing in the end, but we have different ideas of how to get there.' - YOKO ONO
ORIGINALITY, it is said, usually means coming from somewhere else. "Somewhere else" can be many places: another time, another culture, the other gender, despair, madness-- anywhere, except familiar here and everyday now. John Lennon has told of his first magical meeting with Yoko Ono, when he wandered into her one-woman show at the Indica Gallery in London on November 9, 1966, a pivotal date in the ferment remembered as the Nineteen Sixties, and was intrigued, as well as mystified, by what he saw.
INVITED BY ONO to pay five shillings to hammer a nail into a piece of plain wood shown as artwork, Lennon made a counter-offer: "Well, I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in." "That's when we really met," Lennon later recalled. "That's when we locked eyes and she got it and I got it, and, as they say in all the interviews we do, THE REST IS HISTORY."
"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."
..JOHN LENNON
"I BELIEVE in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
...JOHN LENNON
Who I'd like to meet:
"INSTANT KARMA..."
Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead...
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you...
Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me
Who in the hell dyou think you are
A super star
Well, right you are....
"THE DREAMERS..."
Mother Theresa, Muhammed Ali,Jesus,Dalai Lama,Buddha, Ghandi, Martin Luther King,John Lennon, Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez,Matt Garcia,George Harrison
CHANGE WILL NOT COME if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek..."BARACK OBAMA" 44TH PRESIDENT U.S.A
"LIFE IS ONE BIG ROAD with lots of SIGNS. So when your RIDING THROUGH THE RUTS, DON'T COMPLICATE YOUR MIND. FLEE FROM HATE, MISCHIEF AND JEALOUSY. Don't bury your thoughts, PUT YOUR VISION TO REALITY . WAKE UP AND LIVE" ...BOB MARLEY
"A NATION THAT HAS FORGOTTEN THE QUALITY OF COURAGE which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten..."
JOHN F. KENNEDY
"THERE IS NO BETTER THAN ADVERSITY. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time..." MALCOLM X
A SMALL BODY OF DETERMINED SPIRITS fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history..."MOHANDAS GHANDI"
I SAY TO YOU TODAY, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream....
I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...."
I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able TO SIT DOWN TOGETHER at the table of brotherhood....MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
"FEW WILL HAVE THE GREATNESS to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation..." ROBERT KENNEDY
"WE ARE TIRED OF WORDS, OF BETRAYALS, of indifference...the years are gone when the FARM WORKER said nothing and did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. THROUGH OUR STRONG WILL will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard..."
"CESAR CHAVEZ"
CHAMPIONS... aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - A DESIRE, A DREAM, A VISION. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill......
MUHAMMED ALI... "The Greatest"
"MY ROLE IN SOCIETY, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader but as a reflection of us all..." JOHN LENNON
OUR SOCIETY IS RUN BY INSANE PEOPLE FOR INSANE OBJECTIVES. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
YOU'RE JUST LEFT WITH YOURSELF with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate...
JOHN LENNON
' GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, AND REMEMBER LOVE. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together.
"BAGISM" - According to John, it is a form of total communication, and others cannot judge you by the color of your skin, the length of your hair, or any other such attributes. John and Yoko answered interviewers' questions wearing a large white bag, during a press conference for their avant-garde film "Rape (No.5)" at the Hotel Zach in Austria on March 31, 1969 and when appeared in the television news program in England on the following day, April 1, 1969. This is the beginning of a lot of Bagism performances after that.
YOU'RE ALL GENIUSES, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like." - JOHN LENNON
"UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE..."
AMERICAN SYSTEM of private medical insurance is a disaster, and that a state-run system, such as exists nearly everywhere else in the industrialized world, would be better.
THIS ARGUMENT is illustrated with anecdotes and statistics terrible stories about Americans denied medical care or forced into bankruptcy to pay for it...
GRIM ACTUAL DATA about life expectancy and infant mortality; damning tallies of dollars donated to political campaigns but it is grounded in a basic philosophical assumption about the PROPER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A GOVERNMENT AND ITS CITIZENS...
SIMPLY PUT, OUR HEALTH CARE SYTEM IS BROKEN and every day it gets worse. We spend more than any other nation, but get less. Some of the problems are due to our aging population and the rise of expensive new treatments, but most of the BLAME can be pinned squarely on HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATIONS.
BLUE CROSS, HUMANA, AETNA. These are just a handful of the American health insurance companies that Michael Moore accuses of OPERATING ON GREED and trampling ON THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC...
HEALTH INSURERS ENCUMBER our health care system with a Byzantine bureaucracy that is most efficient at confusing consumers, hassling doctors, and driving up costs. Insurers have done little to improve customer satisfaction, healthcare accessibility, or the overall quality of our medical system; these things just aren't profitable.
"GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS..."
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY ingenuity to reduce the threat of global warming today. Solutions are already available that will stimulate the American economy by creating jobs, saving consumers money, and protecting our national security.
BY INVESTING in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and increasing the efficiency of the cars we drive, we can take essential steps toward reducing our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels that cause global warming.
USING ENERGY MORE EFFICIENTLY and moving to renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, and bioenergy) would significantly reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases. The United States currently produces 70 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas, and oil, but only two percent from renewable sources...
Since the burning of fossil fuels releases large amounts of carbon dioxide the leading cause of global warming but renewable energy does not, increasing the share of our electricity generated from renewable resources is one of the most effective ways to reduce global warming emissions....
HAS BEEN WORKING FOR THE PLANET SINCE 1971. We've played a pivotal role in big wins for the environment:
- Commercial whaling moratorium
- Ban on toxic waste exports to less developed countries
- Bans on dumping radioactive and industrial waste at sea
- 50-year moratorium on mineral exploitation in Antarctica
- An end to large-scale high-sea driftnet fishing
- Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
- Ban on all nuclear weapons testing
GREENPEACE is hard at work and you can help.....
"FREE TIBET"..
BACK IN 2001, China promised that it would improve its human rights record for the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympics. Instead, China's human rights violations have increased in the months leading up to the games.
THEIR ACTIONS HAVE INCLUDED a crackdown on peaceful dissent in Tibet, the rounding up and jailing of prominent human rights activists, and increased censorship of the media. Together, the abuses constitute a fundamental violation of the letter and spirit of the Olympic charter - and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms...
I BELIEVE...that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
CULTVATING A CLOSE, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of SUCCESS OF LIFE. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop INNER PEACE...DALAI LAMA
INSTANT KARMA - SAVE DARFUR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL...
Is keeping with our tradition of combining music with activism harnessing the power and reach of both to stop the violence and horrific human rights abuses happening each and every day in DARFUR...
DARFUR HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN A DEADLY CONFLICT for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 MILLION INNOCENT CIVILLIANS...
have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad;
AND MORE THAN 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of DISPLACEMENT, STARVATION, RAPE, and MASS SLAUGHTER.
SINCE EARLY 2003, Sudanese armed forces and Sudanese government-backed militia known as Janjaweed have been fighting two rebel groups in Darfur, the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The stated political aim of the rebels has been to compel the government of Sudan to address underdevelopment and the political marginalization of the region.
IN RESONSE, the Sudanese government regular armed forces and the Janjaweed largely composed of fighters of nomadic background have targeted civilian populations and ethnic groups from which the rebels primarily draw their support the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION has recognized THESE ATROCITIES carried out AGAINST CIVILIANS primarily by the government of Sudan and its allied Janjaweed militias as GENOCIDE.
ANTONIO GUTERRES, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has described the situation in Sudan and Chad as the largest and most complex HUMANITARIAN PROBLEM ON THE GLOBE. The Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias are responsible for the burning and destruction of hundreds of rural villages, the killing of tens of thousands of people and rape and assault of thousands of women and girls.
WITH MUCH INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE, the Darfur Peace Agreement was brokered in May 2006 between the government of Sudan and one faction of Darfur rebels. However, deadlines have been ignored and the violence has escalated, with in-fighting among the various rebel groups and factions dramatically increasing and adding a new layer of complexity to the conflict. This violence has made it dangerous, if not impossible, for most of the millions of displaced persons to return to their homes. Humanitarian aid agencies face growing obstacles to bringing widespread relief. In August 2006, the UN's top humanitarian official Jan Egeland stated that the situation in DARFUR IS "GOING FROM REAL BAD TO CATASTROPHIC." Indeed, the violence in Darfur rages on with government-backed militias still ATTACKING POPULATIONS WITH IMPUNITY.
ON JULY 30, 2004, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1556 demanding that the government of Sudan disarm the Janjaweed.
THIS SAME DEMAND is also an important part of the Darfur Peace Agreement signed in May of 2006. On August 31, 2006, the Security Council took the further step of AUTHORIZING A STRONG "UN" PEACEKEPING FORCE for Darfur by passing resolution 1706. Despite these actions, the Janjaweed are still active and free to commit the same genocidal crimes against civilians in Darfur with the aid of the SUDANESE GOVERNMENT.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS AGREE that the United Nations Security Council must deploy a peacekeeping force with a mandate to protect civilians immediately. Until it arrives, the under-funded and overwhelmed African Union monitoring mission must be bolstered. And governments and international institutions must provide and ensure access to SUFFICIENT HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THOSE IN NEED...
"WHERE EVERYTHING FLOWS...."
Looking through the bent backed tulips..."
"To see how the other half live...
Looking through a GLASS ONION..."
"I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE WALRUS AND ME MAN...."
"YOU KNOW THAT WE'RE AS CLOSE AS CAN BE-MAN..."
Life is grand, but what if this was all there was? Just to be born, then what? Go and just die, maybe your family would think about you for what a month, a couple of months, a year, maybe even a few years!!! But, then the memories would start fading away!!! That's not all life is about! It's about loving each other, it's about showing others how much God does love us! Let's all don't let this world decieve us, and man it's trying hard! I've had God in my heart for a long time now, he is working on me, for what I'm not sure yet!!! But, I sure hope that in these hard times we're all going though right now, that some how I can show the glory he has in his heart for each one of us!!!
God bless you and the family Thomas! Have you heard the rumor about Paul playing the Mexican pyramids in 2011? we should all go and receive the vibes and rock!
.. "PEACE... is the only battle worth waging..."
WELL... I have many interests...Music, specifically
BEATLES MUSIC is my Number One interest.
WE WILL.. all take responsibility for the country we love and the men and women who protect it. We will volunteer, we will pray, and we will speak out. We will take action to support our troops, end the war....
bring them home to the heroes' welcome they deserve. And we will honor and remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
"INSTANT KARMA..."
Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead...
INSTANT KARMA - SAVE DARFUR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL...
Is keeping with our tradition of combining music with activism harnessing the power and reach of both to stop the violence and horrific human rights abuses happening each and every day in DARFUR...
DARFUR HAS BEEN EMBROILED IN A DEADLY CONFLICT for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 MILLION INNOCENT CIVILLIANS...
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