Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
I'll be honest with you, it's making me feel sick.
I remember when I was very young and I asked my mother why anyone would want to kill John Lennon. She cried and told me that his murderer (she wouldn't use his name) had done it to get himself in the papers and be remembered.
To this day I have purposefully tried my very best to block out anything to do with this sick man. I only learned his name a few years back when I could no longer keep up the deliberate ignorance.
So all the fuss being made over the 25th anniversary of the shooting not only saddens me but it also angers me. There is no doubting the significance this event has had on the world, but the constant references to that man just infuriate me, presumably stemming back to that original conversation with my mum as a child.
The sad thing is, 25 years on and everyone is talking about him, and I don't want to remember him, I want to remember Lennon, his life and the effect he had on others.
I've never been one for celebrity and aside from John Peel last year I can't say I've ever felt any particular grief over the passing of a person in the public eye. The thought of John Lennon's death however, still makes me feel deeply emotional to this day and I wonder if we'll ever see a man have such an affect on so many people on so many levels across so many cultural divides and generations again. I think the death of Nelson Mandela will likely be the closest the world will ever come to such a loss again, as far as I can tell.
I remember when I was very young and I asked my mother why anyone would want to kill John Lennon. She cried and told me that his murderer (she wouldn't use his name) had done it to get himself in the papers and be remembered.
To this day I have purposefully tried my very best to block out anything to do with this sick man. I only learned his name a few years back when I could no longer keep up the deliberate ignorance.
So all the fuss being made over the 25th anniversary of the shooting not only saddens me but it also angers me. There is no doubting the significance this event has had on the world, but the constant references to that man just infuriate me, presumably stemming back to that original conversation with my mum as a child.
The sad thing is, 25 years on and everyone is talking about him, and I don't want to remember him, I want to remember Lennon, his life and the effect he had on others.
I've never been one for celebrity and aside from John Peel last year I can't say I've ever felt any particular grief over the passing of a person in the public eye. The thought of John Lennon's death however, still makes me feel deeply emotional to this day and I wonder if we'll ever see a man have such an affect on so many people on so many levels across so many cultural divides and generations again. I think the death of Nelson Mandela will likely be the closest the world will ever come to such a loss again, as far as I can tell.
who says crime doesn't pay?
