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Wonder
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Yoko Ono is planning to make music until she is at least 96 years old.
The 76-year-old musician - the widow of Beatles singer John Lennon - is currently "focusing" her creativity in preparation for a "few decades" of frenzied recording.
She said: "I'm glad I didn't die when I was 70. I haven't done enough even now. It's going to be fantastic. I don't have another 50 years so I'm getting more focused because I really want to hammer it in."
Yoko is convinced she has "a lot to add" to the music industry, but admits the biggest "musical revolution" of recent times was sparked by her late husband and the rest of The Beatles - George Harrison, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
She explained: "When John was trying to put the group together, only a few people could play guitar. Now there's not one boy who can't play guitar. The first revolution was started with John and his three friends and it really spread."
YIKES !!!
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aguacaliente
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Somebody upthread said Yoko Ono was evil. That's a little rich. I mean there are murderers and torturers and committers of genocide and even boulderers in this world - at worst, Yoko is annoying.
I saw her do a cameo guest performance at some concert in Central Park once and it was actually quite cool. Yes, it was noisy. I like some noisy music. Even some noise that may not qualify as music to most people's ears. I probably wouldn't listen to a record of that performance - some things are just better live. Anyway there are plenty of records by people like John Zorn that have heinous noise on them; maybe they're even influenced by Yoko.
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John Moosie
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How is it we come to regard some art ( visual, music or performing ) as "worthy" and other as less than worthy or through that spectrum to worthless?
It almost sounds like you are saying that anything someone calls art, should have value. The only person lots of art has value to is the artist. I think of the guy who put dog sh#t on the floor and called it art. I guess that makes my friends hound Van Gogh. Some art isn't art, its dog sh#t.
That doesn't mean that the person has no value, but when someone produces crap, I don't pay them for it. You likely have no problem not paying your auto mechanic if they don't fix your car. My auto mechanic is a friggen genius and I consider him to be an artist, but if he doesn't fix my car, then I want to know why. It is usually because he just doesn't want to do the work that it needs, or he doesn't have the equipment, and he sends me to someone who does. And I pay him for the diagnosis. But I don't pay him for fixing it, if he didn't fix it.
The same is true for art. If I don't think its art, then I am not going to buy it. Some times the only person who thinks something is art, is the artist.
I do wish that we as a society supported the arts a bit better, but I don't know how to do that, except go to more performances, and pay.
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John Moosie
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Beautiful California
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Nice, moosie. Thanks for intuitively knowing who my auto mechanic is.
Errr.. You??? Or your hubby??? Sorry sista, should I go sit in the car?
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John Moosie
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Beautiful California
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"............almost sounds", eh? But doesn't.
So what were you saying?
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Mimi
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Wow Tami.
As Dylan once revealed, 'she gives off a bad vibe.'
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Mimi
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He totally loved her. An intense relationship.
But as Mr. Garrison said in the succubus episode; never let poontang come between you and your friends.
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Captain...or Skully
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Transporter Room 2
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Hey, I'm sure Yoko is a cool gal & all, But she needs to explore a new direction, maybe a silent one.
You'd tell your friends that, right? If they really needed to hear it?
Maybe?
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Mimi
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Yes, the movie Spinal Tap totally exposed that.
State the definition of a succubus, AC.
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Mimi
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AC, you would fall for that. You're busted as usual.
John fell for her at one of her openings while on a ladder pretending she was hammering invisible nails. Or something like that.
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Mimi
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Turn it up to 11.
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Mimi
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Totally knott surprised you'd have a Yoko fetish AC.
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Mimi
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hahahaha! Some things never change.
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Wonder
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Whoo, @ 76 she still looks like trouble.
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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The Wicked Witch o' the Whatever...
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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LOL^^^ Wicked witch of whatever
The quote by Tami pretty much sums up Yono's "art" "Frankly I think Ono's work is hilarious. Is it a big joke to fulfill Andy Warhol's comment that art is what you can get away with ?
Love it or hate it... it has it's place in history.
As for the singing... where's that ranger with the tazer when you need him?
As for the "breaking up the Beatles-thing" I'll defend her a bit since I've heard some first hand accounts from a couple of folks... the general consensus is that personal and artistic differences were brewing long before Yoko came along. Her presence merely accelerated an outcome that was an absolute inevitability- with or without her.
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Toker Villain
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I'm not so sure that they don't give her a little jolt just to get started,..
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Dr.Sprock
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I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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hey, enuff with the tazer crap already.
yoko is weird, but when you pick on a guy's ol lady, i mean,
somebody finish this thought, i just felt a brain bubble, stroke, anuresim, left side...
now i can't feel my right nut,
i must be half nuts, no, thats lance armstrong.
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