http://sacredclone.com/2009/11/05/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/ We are all exactly the same, only different. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://sacredclone.com/2009/11/05/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 s.r.g. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:48:58 +0000 http://sacredclone.com/?p=1062#comment-1040 I felt the same as I was looking over the lyrics to his songs earlier. It had been soooo long since I had heard them, just hearing snippets and samples took me back to awkward youthful moments. Memories (again with the remember motif, sheesh) reasserted amidst the newer intellectual and emotional flotsam and jetsam as what I guess is my current aesthetic sensibilities. Still, I've got to admit some of the material I found ignorable if hardly bearable back then actually meant more musically these days. But overall, the lyrics do visit inanity planet as frequent fliers. That's pretty much the nature of rock'n'roll, oh, baby, baby, bay, bee, yeah, do you know what I mean, it's gonna be alright, uh, huh. I was disappointed to learn today that he was submitting himself to Primal Scream Therapy, which explains a few things, but reveals once again his lifelong tendency toward edgy, experimental and even trendy approaches to understanding his life, life in general. I feel pretty strongly this lack of understanding made him the artist he was as he expressed his explorations, discoveries and disappointments, giving voice to our similar experiences, articulating much of what we felt in the contemporary zeitgeist. The thing is, we don't feel that way these days. Knowing now what we didn't know then... it's just not as relevant. The easy answer about this new development in your personality is that you are getting old. But that's the easy answer. John Lennon would have turned sixty-nine a few weeks ago, like we discussed back then. Whether or not he is or is not alive, his music has absolutely no relevance to him in this moment. I felt the same as I was looking over the lyrics to his songs earlier. It had been soooo long since I had heard them, just hearing snippets and samples took me back to awkward youthful moments. Memories (again with the remember motif, sheesh) reasserted amidst the newer intellectual and emotional flotsam and jetsam as what I guess is my current aesthetic sensibilities. Still, I’ve got to admit some of the material I found ignorable if hardly bearable back then actually meant more musically these days. But overall, the lyrics do visit inanity planet as frequent fliers. That’s pretty much the nature of rock’n'roll, oh, baby, baby, bay, bee, yeah, do you know what I mean, it’s gonna be alright, uh, huh. I was disappointed to learn today that he was submitting himself to Primal Scream Therapy, which explains a few things, but reveals once again his lifelong tendency toward edgy, experimental and even trendy approaches to understanding his life, life in general. I feel pretty strongly this lack of understanding made him the artist he was as he expressed his explorations, discoveries and disappointments, giving voice to our similar experiences, articulating much of what we felt in the contemporary zeitgeist. The thing is, we don’t feel that way these days. Knowing now what we didn’t know then… it’s just not as relevant. The easy answer about this new development in your personality is that you are getting old. But that’s the easy answer. John Lennon would have turned sixty-nine a few weeks ago, like we discussed back then. Whether or not he is or is not alive, his music has absolutely no relevance to him in this moment.

]]> http://sacredclone.com/2009/11/05/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/comment-page-1/#comment-1039 Susan Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:36:16 +0000 http://sacredclone.com/?p=1062#comment-1039 I heard John Lennon's Christmas song today and realized with a shock that it's quite an inane song. I don't ever remember thinking that about it before. I wonder what that says about me! I've always been a John Lennon fan but I have to say that there are several of his songs that just don't appeal to me any more the way they used to. I'm trying to understand how I feel about this new development in my personality. I heard John Lennon’s Christmas song today and realized with a shock that it’s quite an inane song. I don’t ever remember thinking that about it before. I wonder what that says about me! I’ve always been a John Lennon fan but I have to say that there are several of his songs that just don’t appeal to me any more the way they used to. I’m trying to understand how I feel about this new development in my personality.

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