John Lennon

Today is John Lennon’s death anniversary. He was shot to death on December 8th, 1980. I always commemorate this day by listening to John Lennon’s music, smoking unfiltered Gitanes, playing guitar, and letting my hair grow long… for a day… ok, not really, but I do try to listen to Imagine, at least once.

At any rate, there is a website now to commemorate John. It has a letter from Yoko Ono and a video from John Lennon.

The goal of an artist is to elicit some kind of emotion from the audience through his art. You cannot see the video and feel nothing. I left it running in the background while doing other things as I’ve seen Lennon interviews thousands of times and can usually remember how they go, but the imagery at the end, after John stops talking, pulled my eyes and engaged me like nothing has for a long while. I literally couldn’t stop watching.

At any rate, here’s to you John Lennon. You were the Walrus.