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Got a date with this girl Alicia Steinkirchner. I knew her over the year but never hung out only talked in passing. But we hung out at her parents place Monday and watched the season premier of House. Got there a little late though 8:20. But no matter easily caught up. We talked and stuff and took a walk around the back roads near her parents place. I asked her to dinner as I told her it was customary that when I enjoy someones company very much so that I would like to take them out to dinner and she bought it! hahaha just kidding, I do that because not too many people usually take that qualifying place). She said she wanted to pay for my dinner because she looked at me and said that she was certain that most people don't buy me dinner (outside of family obviously). Which was kinda cute. I told her that Melanie did but she said that didn't count (we called her mayo which was from a story I told). But it was funny I apologized severely for taking up the time because she listened to me tell Melanie's brother my story on the phone for some amounts of time. The story below is the suffix of the conversation that transpired and lead to it's demise. Fuck it I say. We'll see about the date. She picked out the place too. "California Rollin" Never had sushi personally.
Now Melanie was a different story. That ended because she drinks way too much and when she told me she was going to quite she was at a bar with a coworker of ours the next day. To my astonishment. Oh well. after a bunch of stuff I was told by her neighbor that she was at the bars and I figured which one it was but didn't bother going there because I didn't need to and then she called me and by the "sound" of it sounded like she was going home. So I went home and stayed there but my friend Kyle wanted to take a walk with me because he figured it was better that I was walking with him and stuff and wanted to tell me some things that all the guys were talking about me (for the better). But Kyle had to pee when we were making our way down to one of the bridges so we went to the mainstreet part and he peed in the bushes near the canal off to the shadows. And on the way back I saw the cowowkrer of ours and Melanie in the bar so I stopped in and said his. Now I do mind you at this point (like I said when it "sounded" like she was going home) she wasn't, still at the bar. So I stopped in and said hi to them and introduced my friend and said I thought you guys had left. Whatever. And took that as stalking. So boy oh boy. Called her house and wanted to make sure they got home all right. because it was late and they were drinking. Called and nothing. Called again and left a message. And she called right back screaming at me asking what the hell I was doing. I just said I was concerned and wanted to make sure. Yeah yeah yeah. Telling me that her brother was going to beat the shit out of me. I don't care too much. But I got that call from her brother (he actually just wanted to know my part of the story). Told him the jist of it. But what I forgot was the part when I stopped over and talked to the neighbor and asked if they knew which bar they were at. Didn't concern me too much. Yakety yake. BECAUSE! I had my own thing to do. Well any other quetions ask me. But the short end of it. I thought she was all ready walking home and probably in bed. So when i was taken to the canal by my friend so he can pee. It was just my surprise to see her there. Hahaha. Big joke. I laugh at most things. This is funny to me.
Now Melanie was a different story. That ended because she drinks way too much and when she told me she was going to quite she was at a bar with a coworker of ours the next day. To my astonishment. Oh well. after a bunch of stuff I was told by her neighbor that she was at the bars and I figured which one it was but didn't bother going there because I didn't need to and then she called me and by the "sound" of it sounded like she was going home. So I went home and stayed there but my friend Kyle wanted to take a walk with me because he figured it was better that I was walking with him and stuff and wanted to tell me some things that all the guys were talking about me (for the better). But Kyle had to pee when we were making our way down to one of the bridges so we went to the mainstreet part and he peed in the bushes near the canal off to the shadows. And on the way back I saw the cowowkrer of ours and Melanie in the bar so I stopped in and said his. Now I do mind you at this point (like I said when it "sounded" like she was going home) she wasn't, still at the bar. So I stopped in and said hi to them and introduced my friend and said I thought you guys had left. Whatever. And took that as stalking. So boy oh boy. Called her house and wanted to make sure they got home all right. because it was late and they were drinking. Called and nothing. Called again and left a message. And she called right back screaming at me asking what the hell I was doing. I just said I was concerned and wanted to make sure. Yeah yeah yeah. Telling me that her brother was going to beat the shit out of me. I don't care too much. But I got that call from her brother (he actually just wanted to know my part of the story). Told him the jist of it. But what I forgot was the part when I stopped over and talked to the neighbor and asked if they knew which bar they were at. Didn't concern me too much. Yakety yake. BECAUSE! I had my own thing to do. Well any other quetions ask me. But the short end of it. I thought she was all ready walking home and probably in bed. So when i was taken to the canal by my friend so he can pee. It was just my surprise to see her there. Hahaha. Big joke. I laugh at most things. This is funny to me.
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Kanye West is set to headline a concert in his hometown of Chicago, in which he will encourage teens to stay in school until graduation.
The rapper will perform the second "Stay In School" event in honor of his mother, Dr. Donda West, who passed away in 2007 after a cosmetic surgery procedure.
The idea for the concert came from teenager David Abrams, who approached West seeking his assistance. West then decided his Kanye West Foundation (KWF) would be the sponsor, reports allhiphop.com.
The concert takes place at Chicago Theatre on June 11. Tickets are priced from $49.50, and go up to $500 for VIP tickets. They go on sale on Thursday (May 21) at Ticketmaster.
(Buy Randy Meek Homes : Saturday 08 July 2006)
After a four year break, British singer-songwriter David Gray is set to return September 22 with "Draw The Line," his first set of all new songs since 2005's "Life In Slow Motion." While the final track list is still being finalized, fans can expect at least eleven new songs and guest vocal turns by Annie Lennox and Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Jolie Holland. A twelfth song, tentatively entitled "Indeed I Will," is also under consideration. This will be Gray's first release on Mercer Street Records, the sister label of Downtown Records.
Aside from a new label, Gray says "Draw The Line" is marked by a handful of other necessary changes he found himself needing creatively - in particular, a new band. Joining him is Keith Prior on drums, Robbie Malone on bass and Neill MacColl on guitars. "I've known for some time I've needed a change; a need for a challenge," Gray tells Billboard.com. "My appetite for everything was undiminished. But I needed to find new people and make a fresh start. It's very easy to get jaded and I wanted some new blood and new ideas."
"Draw The Line" was written and recorded while Gray was without a record label, something that he also says worked to his advantage. "Just like with "White Ladder," which was a different set of circumstances, this one I made out of contract. Every little tiny detail, I feel strong about it all. I feel completely bulletproof with this. I think it shines the light on facets of me as a performer, a writer and a singer that I haven't perhaps illuminated as brightly enough for a long time."
"This has been a phenomenally creative period for me," he adds. "I've produced a huge amount of material and this is just one lot of it."
Gray is very fond of his guest vocalists, too. Regarding Annie Lennox, he says she "absolutely transformed the track," the album's closer "Full Steam Ahead." Holland performs on "Kathleen," one of the quieter tunes on the set. "It's got some charm to it, that one," he says. "It's just held its own amongst these bigger numbers. Holland's vocals just lifts the song out. She's a star; she's a rare thing."
Gray will return stateside this fall in support of "Draw the Line." The lead single will be the album's opener, "Fugitive."
(More About Randy Meek Homes : Tuesday 10 April 2007)
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Kanye West is set to headline a concert in his hometown of Chicago, in which he will encourage teens to stay in school until graduation.
The rapper will perform the second "Stay In School" event in honor of his mother, Dr. Donda West, who passed away in 2007 after a cosmetic surgery procedure.
The idea for the concert came from teenager David Abrams, who approached West seeking his assistance. West then decided his Kanye West Foundation (KWF) would be the sponsor, reports allhiphop.com.
The concert takes place at Chicago Theatre on June 11. Tickets are priced from $49.50, and go up to $500 for VIP tickets. They go on sale on Thursday (May 21) at Ticketmaster.
(Buy Randy Meek Homes : Saturday 08 July 2006)
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After a four year break, British singer-songwriter David Gray is set to return September 22 with "Draw The Line," his first set of all new songs since 2005's "Life In Slow Motion." While the final track list is still being finalized, fans can expect at least eleven new songs and guest vocal turns by Annie Lennox and Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Jolie Holland. A twelfth song, tentatively entitled "Indeed I Will," is also under consideration. This will be Gray's first release on Mercer Street Records, the sister label of Downtown Records.
Aside from a new label, Gray says "Draw The Line" is marked by a handful of other necessary changes he found himself needing creatively - in particular, a new band. Joining him is Keith Prior on drums, Robbie Malone on bass and Neill MacColl on guitars. "I've known for some time I've needed a change; a need for a challenge," Gray tells Billboard.com. "My appetite for everything was undiminished. But I needed to find new people and make a fresh start. It's very easy to get jaded and I wanted some new blood and new ideas."
"Draw The Line" was written and recorded while Gray was without a record label, something that he also says worked to his advantage. "Just like with "White Ladder," which was a different set of circumstances, this one I made out of contract. Every little tiny detail, I feel strong about it all. I feel completely bulletproof with this. I think it shines the light on facets of me as a performer, a writer and a singer that I haven't perhaps illuminated as brightly enough for a long time."
"This has been a phenomenally creative period for me," he adds. "I've produced a huge amount of material and this is just one lot of it."
Gray is very fond of his guest vocalists, too. Regarding Annie Lennox, he says she "absolutely transformed the track," the album's closer "Full Steam Ahead." Holland performs on "Kathleen," one of the quieter tunes on the set. "It's got some charm to it, that one," he says. "It's just held its own amongst these bigger numbers. Holland's vocals just lifts the song out. She's a star; she's a rare thing."
Gray will return stateside this fall in support of "Draw the Line." The lead single will be the album's opener, "Fugitive."
(More About Randy Meek Homes : Tuesday 10 April 2007)
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Imagine ( Updated /reprint from Sunday )
Imagine Peace ,
For Lennon's birthday Oct 9, this seeks to rebirth
the peace movement he helped to thrust into the public conscience.
While the mainstream media played John Lennon as a once
great entertainer turned hippie wacko,
the real John Lennon became enlightened to the truth.
John Lennon had an incredible feeling for the world and
he wanted to see the world become better for all of us.
He began speaking truth to power and aligned himself
with the leading voices of reform and radical change
to the corruption of day.
He realized his iconic star-power could be
the greatest venue to create social change
without complete anarchy... and so did the Nixon administration
(including the young Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfelt)
Only they didn't want a change.
Just like today only they've become much more insidious.
We need more Lennon-like leaders
from the entertainment business.
Speak truth to power...
its not all about the brass ring and the benjamin's.
If everyone stands up they can't character
assassinate us all! Thank you John and Yoko!
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s
67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating
a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland
in the memory of her husband.
There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes
buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower
of light extending up to the sky above us.
Forty years ago, in 1967, John Lennon predicted that the
conceptual light tower envisioned by Yoko Ono in 1965,
would one day become a reality. Now, it will be unveiled
as a permanent landmark for peace.
The tower will be lit each year from
Oct. 9 to Dec. 8, so it has the feeling
of the shortness of life, but the light is eternal.
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine peace....
What would a world at peace look like?
What would a world at peace be like to live in?
John Lennon called his song Imagine an “anti-religious,
anti-nationalism, anti-conventional, anti-capitalist”
sort of a “Communist manifesto.”
It is a Utopian vision of a perfect society that
unfortunately can not be achieved by imagining,
and probably could never happen, at least not all of it.
But how close can we get to this world ?
How much sacrifice will a world at peace
take from each and everyone of us?
Imagine a world with no religion.
A world where sick and evil people could not manipulate
the masses into believing that the set of myths and
beliefs that they profess are more important or powerful
than the other’s set of myths or beliefs.
Imagine no countries.
The worship of banners made of mere cloth, along with
the arrogant nationalism that gives leaders
the right to kill other human beings just because
they do not happen to live within the same borders
that were drawn many years ago by empires
that have long ago fallen.
Is it right to kill other people if they are not
the same religion as the religion of your state ?
(Don’t kid yourself the US does a state sanctioned religion).
Imagine no armies that really kill and get killed
for the imperialistic reasons, Imagine that.
Imagine no possessions.
This is the real problem.......
To live the American dream we all go out
and buy stacks of stuff! Never considering
the true implications and impact it all causes.
The human sacrifices pain and suffering it all causes
around the world just to get junk that falls apart
after a few uses, How totally irresponsible is that?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
It is so hard to imagine or envision peace, when we should
all be terrified of Bush and Company Inc contemplating
even more slaughter in the Middle East in Iran, and when
Congress is busy supporting a murderous status quo that
hurts humans within all borders, even our own.
On the day that George vetoed the health of over
six-million children here in America, 16,000 children
around the world died of starvation.
In a week that we saw murder on a horrendous scale in
Burma, hundreds, if not thousands of Burmese monks and
other humans being slaughtered for protesting against
their oppressive government.
Iraqis are being killed or forced from their homes by
violence: to wander in the desert, or probably off to
Syria where their daughters may be forced into prostitution
to help support the family which should be able to live
in peace and relative prosperity in their own country.
Imagine that.
Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is
guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not
happen when we here in the US can’t even get off our
asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and
hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now.
We can imagine peace all we want....
but until each and everyone of us is willing
to sacrifice some of our prosperity
(Because we have already had our
security and liberty's robbed from us)
Until then, true peace, not just the absence of war, will be
as elusive as truth coming out of Washington, DC.
The world is going to hell in George’s hand basket.
What are we doing staying the course,
conducting business as usual in America ?
With genocides in Darfur and Iraq,
(The conflict in Darfur began in 2003 and involves rebel groups,
government troops and government-backed Arab militias
known as Janjaweed. The rebels accuse Khartoum of ignoring
the impoverished south and west of the country.
The United Nations estimates the fighting has killed more than
200,000 people and displaced more than two million others
.The U.N. says that by now more than four million people
rely on humanitarian aid.)
The mindless destruction of the environment, education along
with many other things, is this really the best use
of all that money of our children and our children's
children that we have already spent?
So you say you want a revolution ? Imagine that.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here
in the United States of America.
Truth seeks to provide a fixed point in a changing
universe and supports humanity’s efforts to remake
the world, both our personal worlds and our planet.
A beacon of light in the smothering darkness with
which we seem to be engulfed, as we experience the
life/death/rebirth process inherent in the realm of
our current reality.
( Just putting that out there )
Go ahead an hate you neighbor.
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it it the name of heaven !!!
You can justify it in the end....
On the bloody morning after.....
Imagine Peace ,
For Lennon's birthday Oct 9, this seeks to rebirth
the peace movement he helped to thrust into the public conscience.
While the mainstream media played John Lennon as a once
great entertainer turned hippie wacko,
the real John Lennon became enlightened to the truth.
John Lennon had an incredible feeling for the world and
he wanted to see the world become better for all of us.
He began speaking truth to power and aligned himself
with the leading voices of reform and radical change
to the corruption of day.
He realized his iconic star-power could be
the greatest venue to create social change
without complete anarchy... and so did the Nixon administration
(including the young Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfelt)
Only they didn't want a change.
Just like today only they've become much more insidious.
We need more Lennon-like leaders
from the entertainment business.
Speak truth to power...
its not all about the brass ring and the benjamin's.
If everyone stands up they can't character
assassinate us all! Thank you John and Yoko!
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s
67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating
a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland
in the memory of her husband.
There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes
buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower
of light extending up to the sky above us.
Forty years ago, in 1967, John Lennon predicted that the
conceptual light tower envisioned by Yoko Ono in 1965,
would one day become a reality. Now, it will be unveiled
as a permanent landmark for peace.
The tower will be lit each year from
Oct. 9 to Dec. 8, so it has the feeling
of the shortness of life, but the light is eternal.
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine peace....
What would a world at peace look like?
What would a world at peace be like to live in?
John Lennon called his song Imagine an “anti-religious,
anti-nationalism, anti-conventional, anti-capitalist”
sort of a “Communist manifesto.”
It is a Utopian vision of a perfect society that
unfortunately can not be achieved by imagining,
and probably could never happen, at least not all of it.
But how close can we get to this world ?
How much sacrifice will a world at peace
take from each and everyone of us?
Imagine a world with no religion.
A world where sick and evil people could not manipulate
the masses into believing that the set of myths and
beliefs that they profess are more important or powerful
than the other’s set of myths or beliefs.
Imagine no countries.
The worship of banners made of mere cloth, along with
the arrogant nationalism that gives leaders
the right to kill other human beings just because
they do not happen to live within the same borders
that were drawn many years ago by empires
that have long ago fallen.
Is it right to kill other people if they are not
the same religion as the religion of your state ?
(Don’t kid yourself the US does a state sanctioned religion).
Imagine no armies that really kill and get killed
for the imperialistic reasons, Imagine that.
Imagine no possessions.
This is the real problem.......
To live the American dream we all go out
and buy stacks of stuff! Never considering
the true implications and impact it all causes.
The human sacrifices pain and suffering it all causes
around the world just to get junk that falls apart
after a few uses, How totally irresponsible is that?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
It is so hard to imagine or envision peace, when we should
all be terrified of Bush and Company Inc contemplating
even more slaughter in the Middle East in Iran, and when
Congress is busy supporting a murderous status quo that
hurts humans within all borders, even our own.
On the day that George vetoed the health of over
six-million children here in America, 16,000 children
around the world died of starvation.
In a week that we saw murder on a horrendous scale in
Burma, hundreds, if not thousands of Burmese monks and
other humans being slaughtered for protesting against
their oppressive government.
Iraqis are being killed or forced from their homes by
violence: to wander in the desert, or probably off to
Syria where their daughters may be forced into prostitution
to help support the family which should be able to live
in peace and relative prosperity in their own country.
Imagine that.
Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is
guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not
happen when we here in the US can’t even get off our
asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and
hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now.
We can imagine peace all we want....
but until each and everyone of us is willing
to sacrifice some of our prosperity
(Because we have already had our
security and liberty's robbed from us)
Until then, true peace, not just the absence of war, will be
as elusive as truth coming out of Washington, DC.
The world is going to hell in George’s hand basket.
What are we doing staying the course,
conducting business as usual in America ?
With genocides in Darfur and Iraq,
(The conflict in Darfur began in 2003 and involves rebel groups,
government troops and government-backed Arab militias
known as Janjaweed. The rebels accuse Khartoum of ignoring
the impoverished south and west of the country.
The United Nations estimates the fighting has killed more than
200,000 people and displaced more than two million others
.The U.N. says that by now more than four million people
rely on humanitarian aid.)
The mindless destruction of the environment, education along
with many other things, is this really the best use
of all that money of our children and our children's
children that we have already spent?
So you say you want a revolution ? Imagine that.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here
in the United States of America.
Truth seeks to provide a fixed point in a changing
universe and supports humanity’s efforts to remake
the world, both our personal worlds and our planet.
A beacon of light in the smothering darkness with
which we seem to be engulfed, as we experience the
life/death/rebirth process inherent in the realm of
our current reality.
( Just putting that out there )
Go ahead an hate you neighbor.
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it it the name of heaven !!!
You can justify it in the end....
On the bloody morning after.....
Imagine
Imagine Peace ,
For Lennon's birthday Oct 9, this seeks to rebirth
the peace movement he helped to thrust into the public conscience.
While the mainstream media played John Lennon as a once
great entertainer turned hippie wacko,
the real John Lennon became enlightened to the truth.
He began speaking truth to power and aligned himself
with the leading voices of reform and radical change
to the corruption of day.
He realized his iconic star-power could be
the greatest venue to create social change
without complete anarchy... and so did the Nixon administration
(including the young Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfelt)
Only they didn't want a change.
Just like today only they've become much more insidious.
We need more Lennon-like leaders
from the entertainment business.
Speak truth to power...
its not all about the brass ring and the benjamin's.
If everyone stands up they can't character
assassinate us all! Thank you John and Yoko!
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s
67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating
a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland
in the memory of her husband.
There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes
buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower
of light extending up to the sky above us.
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine peace....
What would a world at peace look like?
What would a world at peace be like to live in?
John Lennon called his song Imagine an “anti-religious,
anti-nationalism, anti-conventional, anti-capitalist”
sort of a “Communist manifesto.”
It is a Utopian vision of a perfect society that
unfortunately can not be achieved by imagining,
and probably could never happen, at least not all of it.
But how close can we get to this world ?
How much sacrifice will a world at peace
take from each and everyone of us?
Imagine a world with no religion.
A world where sick and evil people could not manipulate
the masses into believing that the set of myths and
beliefs that they profess are more important or powerful
than the other’s set of myths or beliefs.
Imagine no countries.
The worship of banners made of mere cloth, along with
the arrogant nationalism that gives leaders
the right to kill other human beings just because
they do not happen to live within the same borders
that were drawn many years ago by empires
that have long ago fallen.
Is it right to kill other people if they are not
the same religion as the religion of your state ?
(Don’t kid yourself the US does a state sanctioned religion).
Imagine no armies that really kill and get killed
for the imperialistic reasons, Imagine that.
Imagine no possessions.
This is the real problem.......
To live the American dream we all go out
and buy stacks of stuff! Never considering
the true implications and impact it all causes.
The human sacrifices pain and suffering it all causes
around the world just to get junk that falls apart
after a few uses, How totally irresponsible is that?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
It is so hard to imagine or envision peace, when we should
all be terrified of Bush and Company Inc contemplating
even more slaughter in the Middle East in Iran, and when
Congress is busy supporting a murderous status quo that
hurts humans within all borders, even our own.
On the day that George vetoed the health of over
six-million children here in America, 16,000 children
around the world died of starvation.
In a week that we saw murder on a horrendous scale in
Burma, hundreds, if not thousands of Burmese monks and
other humans being slaughtered for protesting against
their oppressive government.
Iraqis are being killed or forced from their homes by
violence: to wander in the desert, or probably off to
Syria where their daughters may be forced into prostitution
to help support the family which should be able to live
in peace and relative prosperity in their own country.
Imagine that.
Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is
guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not
happen when we here in the US can’t even get off our
asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and
hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now.
We can imagine peace all we want....
but until each and everyone of us is willing
to sacrifice some of our prosperity
(Because we have already had our
security and liberty's robbed from us)
Until then, true peace, not just the absence of war, will be
as elusive as truth coming out of Washington, DC.
The world is going to hell in George’s hand basket.
What are we doing staying the course,
conducting business as usual in America ?
With genocides in Darfur and Iraq, the mindless
destruction of the environment, education along
with many other things, is this really the best use
of all that money of our children and our children's
children that we have already spent?
So you say you want a revolution ? Imagine that.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here
in the United States of America.
( Just putting that out there )
Go ahead an hate you neighbor.
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it it the name of heaven !!!
You can justify it in the end....
On the bloody morning after.....
For Lennon's birthday Oct 9, this seeks to rebirth
the peace movement he helped to thrust into the public conscience.
While the mainstream media played John Lennon as a once
great entertainer turned hippie wacko,
the real John Lennon became enlightened to the truth.
He began speaking truth to power and aligned himself
with the leading voices of reform and radical change
to the corruption of day.
He realized his iconic star-power could be
the greatest venue to create social change
without complete anarchy... and so did the Nixon administration
(including the young Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfelt)
Only they didn't want a change.
Just like today only they've become much more insidious.
We need more Lennon-like leaders
from the entertainment business.
Speak truth to power...
its not all about the brass ring and the benjamin's.
If everyone stands up they can't character
assassinate us all! Thank you John and Yoko!
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John Winston Ono Lennon
October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980
On October 9th, on what would have been John Lennon’s
67th birthday, his widow, Yoko Ono is dedicating
a peace tower in Reykjavik, Iceland
in the memory of her husband.
There will also be almost a half a million peace wishes
buried in capsules around the tower which is a blue tower
of light extending up to the sky above us.
Close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine peace....
What would a world at peace look like?
What would a world at peace be like to live in?
John Lennon called his song Imagine an “anti-religious,
anti-nationalism, anti-conventional, anti-capitalist”
sort of a “Communist manifesto.”
It is a Utopian vision of a perfect society that
unfortunately can not be achieved by imagining,
and probably could never happen, at least not all of it.
But how close can we get to this world ?
How much sacrifice will a world at peace
take from each and everyone of us?
Imagine a world with no religion.
A world where sick and evil people could not manipulate
the masses into believing that the set of myths and
beliefs that they profess are more important or powerful
than the other’s set of myths or beliefs.
Imagine no countries.
The worship of banners made of mere cloth, along with
the arrogant nationalism that gives leaders
the right to kill other human beings just because
they do not happen to live within the same borders
that were drawn many years ago by empires
that have long ago fallen.
Is it right to kill other people if they are not
the same religion as the religion of your state ?
(Don’t kid yourself the US does a state sanctioned religion).
Imagine no armies that really kill and get killed
for the imperialistic reasons, Imagine that.
Imagine no possessions.
This is the real problem.......
To live the American dream we all go out
and buy stacks of stuff! Never considering
the true implications and impact it all causes.
The human sacrifices pain and suffering it all causes
around the world just to get junk that falls apart
after a few uses, How totally irresponsible is that?
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
It is so hard to imagine or envision peace, when we should
all be terrified of Bush and Company Inc contemplating
even more slaughter in the Middle East in Iran, and when
Congress is busy supporting a murderous status quo that
hurts humans within all borders, even our own.
On the day that George vetoed the health of over
six-million children here in America, 16,000 children
around the world died of starvation.
In a week that we saw murder on a horrendous scale in
Burma, hundreds, if not thousands of Burmese monks and
other humans being slaughtered for protesting against
their oppressive government.
Iraqis are being killed or forced from their homes by
violence: to wander in the desert, or probably off to
Syria where their daughters may be forced into prostitution
to help support the family which should be able to live
in peace and relative prosperity in their own country.
Imagine that.
Peace will only happen when every member of humanity is
guaranteed prosperity, health and security which will not
happen when we here in the US can’t even get off our
asses to protest a war that is four and a half years and
hundreds of thousands of bodies old, now.
We can imagine peace all we want....
but until each and everyone of us is willing
to sacrifice some of our prosperity
(Because we have already had our
security and liberty's robbed from us)
Until then, true peace, not just the absence of war, will be
as elusive as truth coming out of Washington, DC.
The world is going to hell in George’s hand basket.
What are we doing staying the course,
conducting business as usual in America ?
With genocides in Darfur and Iraq, the mindless
destruction of the environment, education along
with many other things, is this really the best use
of all that money of our children and our children's
children that we have already spent?
So you say you want a revolution ? Imagine that.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono Lennon
Voluntary sacrifice is truly a revolutionary concept here
in the United States of America.
( Just putting that out there )
Go ahead an hate you neighbor.
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it it the name of heaven !!!
You can justify it in the end....
On the bloody morning after.....
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