What would John think?
I caught a clip of Paul's finale, with all the ex-counter culture stars singing "freedom, we will fight to protect our freedom…" Yech. It's a long way from All You Need is Love. The song sounded hastily composed, but without the spirit that animated Richie Havens' spontaneous Freedom at Woodstock. We had a war then, too, and funny ways of explaining it. The authorities said we had to fight so we could have peace, to which the hippies replied "fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity". Something similar is going on here, as I'm not convinced it's really our freedom that's at stake. What would John do? Stop and think, maybe? When revolution was a popular (if unrealistic) notion, John said "we all want to change the world…but when you talk about destruction you can count me out". It's important to qualify the bandwagon impulse. Maybe even more so when it's "right". John might have advocated sending bombers full of rose petals. Nonsense, of course, but I can't see him joining the ranks that were on that stage at MSG. Even when we "have to" fight, somebody "has to" say how awful that is.
i wrote that "WWJT?" during that awful freedom song. and then he followed it up with Let It Be which seemed a contradictory message. it was not a Give Peace a Chance crowd but Paul (as is often noted and at no time seemed more obvious) is no John. but he makes a good yankee fan if such a thing exists.
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I caught a clip of Paul's finale, with all the ex-counter culture stars singing "freedom, we will fight to protect our freedom…" Yech. It's a long way from All You Need is Love. The song sounded hastily composed, but without the spirit that animated Richie Havens' spontaneous Freedom at Woodstock. We had a war then, too, and funny ways of explaining it. The authorities said we had to fight so we could have peace, to which the hippies replied "fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity". Something similar is going on here, as I'm not convinced it's really our freedom that's at stake. What would John do? Stop and think, maybe? When revolution was a popular (if unrealistic) notion, John said "we all want to change the world…but when you talk about destruction you can count me out". It's important to qualify the bandwagon impulse. Maybe even more so when it's "right". John might have advocated sending bombers full of rose petals. Nonsense, of course, but I can't see him joining the ranks that were on that stage at MSG. Even when we "have to" fight, somebody "has to" say how awful that is.
- alex 10-22-2001 3:46 pm
i wrote that "WWJT?" during that awful freedom song. and then he followed it up with Let It Be which seemed a contradictory message. it was not a Give Peace a Chance crowd but Paul (as is often noted and at no time seemed more obvious) is no John. but he makes a good yankee fan if such a thing exists.
- dave 10-22-2001 7:05 pm [add a comment]
All I want to know is if my incessant
& spurious blather has kept Brother
Jim outside the gates of the dark satanic
baseball stadium.
- frank 10-23-2001 2:20 pm [add a comment]
yes, its true. it was a tearful revelation when jim shared his overwhelming desire to go to the game but his inability to do so out of concern for your opinion of him. sure, he says its about the money or maybe its a little guilt over abandoning his boyhood redsox but deep down, its all about frank. if he asks me once more, "what would frank do?" i might have to put him out of his misery.
- dave 10-23-2001 5:31 pm [add a comment]
heres a ticket jim surely could not afford although ballboy is still an option.
- dave 10-23-2001 7:08 pm [add a comment]
Frank of course would leave his prescription on Dave's kitchen table but would have already forgotten dave's address & would become one of those New York street classics standing around Bowery shouting "Dave it's Frank I left my pills on your table, man.." up at the wrong window wishing he had gone to the game with Jim.
- anonymous (guest) 10-26-2001 8:03 am [add a comment] [edit]
In any case, I didn't go.
I am accepting World Series tickets. I'll keep you all posted.
- jim 10-26-2001 5:52 am [add a comment]