day of the dead...

dec 8, the feast of the immaculate conception, as i was reminded by some sheep on facebook. But those of us who have to live in this world know better...

sure, today is also Jim Morrison's birthday and the anniversary of Dimebag Darrell's murder, both seminal moments in rock music but this planet lost a true mind and heart 19 years ago today in John Lennon...

today is the day that decaying body of JD Salinger arises from its resting place and kicks Mark David Chapman in the balls over and over again. At least, i dream that this is the case. i've said it many times before, that in losing Lennon we didn't just lose a musician or a merely a member of the Beatles. We've lost musicians since with less than a ripple in the landscape, and, with all due respect, clocks didn't stop when George Harrison died. If you're my age, ask you mother or father if they know who Dimebag is or Kurt Cobain, or Ian Curtis, chances are they don't. But Lennon, they remember Lennon—your grandparents remember Lennon...

John Lennon was a thinker, and in a world increasingly devoid of such men and women and i save my tears for these individuals. So, if you please, allow me this requiem...

merry christmas John, we miss you...