“Junk turns the user into a plant. Junk is a pain killer. Junk replaces the sex drive. ”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky
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On this day in music history: September 9, 1971 - “Imagine”, the second solo album by John Lennon is released (UK release date is on October 8, 1971). Produced by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector, it is recorded at Ascot Sound Studios, Ascot, Surrey, UK, Abbey Road Studios in London, and The Record Plant in New York City from February 11 - 16, June 23 - July 5, 1971. Recorded mostly at Lennon’s Ascot, UK estate Tittenhurst Park, the album also features musical support from former Beatle band mate George Harrison, Klaus Voorman (bass), King Curtis (saxophone), Nicky Hopkins (keyboards), Alan White, Jim Keltner and Jim Gordon (drums). The album goes on to be one his most popular and critically acclaimed works, featuring Lennon classics such as “Gimme Some Truth”, “Jealous Guy”, How Do You Sleep?“ and “Crippled Inside”. The latter two are directed squarely at Paul McCartney during a time when Lennon’s relationship with him is at a low ebb following the break up of The Beatles. They are written in response to the songs “Too Many People”. “3 Legs” and “Dear Boy” on McCartney’s “Ram” album, that John feels are directed at him. Also in a not so subtle additional dig at McCartney, the album comes with a postcard of Lennon holding a pig by the ears parodying the cover of the “Ram” album where McCartney is holding a male sheep by the horns. The title track (#3 Pop) becomes John Lennon’s signature song and an anthem for the world peace movement. The single of the title track is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999. In 2000, a newly remixed and remastered version of the album is released , with another reissue featuring the remixed version issued by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab on gold CD and 180g vinyl in 2003. To commemorate the albums 40th anniversary in November of 2011, a boxed LP edition of “Imagine” is released for Black Friday Record Store Day featuring LP pressed on white vinyl and comes packaged with an additional disc with tracks from the “Lennon Anthology” set, and also comes packaged with a poster. And in January of 2014, hi rez releases of the album featuring a 5.1 surround mix are issued on Blu-ray disc and as a digital download. “Imagine” spends one week at number one on the Billboard Top 200 on October 30, 1971, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.
little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won’t flinch and
I won’t blame
you,
as I drive along the shore alone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do not leave,
I won’t blame you,
instead
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.
little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife, the knife is
mine and I won’t use it
yet.
Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love" (via funeraryfaerie)
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
Janis Joplin~ (via lovepeacexxoo)
Don’t hold on to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia (via quotemadness)
You’ve got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Thomas E. Sniegoski (via quotemadness)
If I can’t learn a lesson through beauty then I damn well deserve the pain I invite.