Off Topic: Sean

[Mindy]

I don't think anyone would mind going out with Sean Lennon

[ColdKarmaGrl]

Nope nope nope!

[ringoswhore]

ColdKarmaGrl said:

Sean could take me out if he wants...

But I don't know if I'd be able to handle Yoko.....

Oh Dear Lord! Could you imagine Yoko as a mother in law? Dont think I could handle that!

[Mindy]

I wonder if she has changed with age, maybe weaker? I don't know, I would feel odd around Yoko.

[CrowDish]

I think I could handle her. She's a little over the top but I think she's a nice person, you know? I dunno if I should stick up for her as much as I do, but John obviously saw something in her, so someone needs to stick up for her.

[Emma]

I agree. I've always figured, John obviously loved her so much, she must've been pretty awesome. At least, that's the way I see it.

[ColdKarmaGrl]

I suppose......

I don't know *shrugs* sometimes I feel as if Yoko only comes out of the spotlight for her benefit. I changed my P.O.V. after the John exhibit came to the Rock Hall.

Went for my birthday, and I was horrified pretty much.

The glasses John was wearing when he was killed were in this glass thing, and the blood was still on them. The clothes he was wearing were in the hospital bag on the other side of the glass display.

I mean, everyone knows it happened.....but I thought it was almost disrespectful to John to be showing such personal things...especially things he was wearing when he died.

Maybe she saw it as a way to deal with his death or she felt it was a way for John's fans to deal with it. But most of the people that were around me were shocked and started crying. Some people even wanted to leave.

They were right at the end too, so all the happy memories of John were just blown right out of your memory and bam! there is the shocker.

Maybe that's what Yoko was going for?

[Lucy]

Thats very sad!

[Emma]

Oh, that sounds awful. I'm sure I would've cried. Carrying over that Beatle dream conversation fromt he other thread, I've had more than one dream where I've witnessed John's death.. they're always very disturbing and I always wake up so sad.

[ColdKarmaGrl]

Wow...

I can't imagine what it would be like to dream of John's death.

I can't even handle watching the ending of Imagine without bawling.

And I was having a cool George dream tonight when some of my drunk friends stormed into my room and slammed on top of me...*sighs* Where's the George love?!

But yeah, back to the glasses thing too...

There were billboards all over Cleveland with a picture of John's glasses on a table, and the NYC skyline in the background and it was an ad for gun control.

[CrowDish]

I didn't go for the exhibit, I just saw the... uhm... aftermath of it? The permanent exhibit, I mean, just two walls but pretty nice stuff - probably the highlights of the exhibit? Very clean, bloodless glasses, and some report cards and stuff that I had fun reading, and a guitar... oh, and postcards to Julian - "PS: Your brain is a muscle. It needs excersize (to keep it strong.) Love, Dad"

The full exhibit seems... traumatic, and I too would have ended up bawling at it, but... uhm... I think I can see what Yoko was going for. Maybe she didn't realize how horrific it would be, but I think she was trying to give the people the whole story, you know? Like, he got shot. It was simple, and not sugar coated. She gave everyone the simple, not sugar coated story. To show that, it was blunt, but it was what happened, you know? To ignore that when it's there, would be to ignore the past, and even if we don't like what happened in the past, we're not learning from it if we ignore it. Even though it was upsetting, it was honest. This seems like a stupid thing to say, but even though I would have cried and cried and had nightmares at it, I almost wish I had been there, to experience the full story, you know? It's hard to explain.

And she did care what people thought. I was there last year, like I said, at his little exhibit, and I got into a conversation about Yoko with one of the people who worked at the Hall of Fame, and they said that while his exhibit was there, Yoko called in every single day and asked if the people were interested in her husbands' things.

[ColdKarmaGrl]

I completely get where you're coming from, Crow..

I know Yoko thinks differently than most people, that's why I posed a few questions when I first posted about the glasses.

Like you said, she probably didn't want to candy coat the story, but people know the events that occured.

*shrugs*

That's pretty cool though that Yoko called the Rock Hall every day. Of course people enjoy John's stuff.....

[Mindy]

John and Yoko were always brutally honest. Which was terrific. So maybe Yoko was doing that, yes, I have to agree with you.

Also I heard that at Mark David Chapman's prohibation meetings or whatever they are, Yoko always attends to make sure he will not be released. I'm not 100% sure about that, but when I heard it my whole idea of Yoko Ono changed. I always hated her because she was a negative influence on the beatles, I never really noticed, until then, that she was a positive influence on John's life. And in the end life is more important than a band.

[ColdKarmaGrl]

I heard the same thing about Yoko with Chapman...

I know she really doesn't want the man out of jail.

[CrowDish]

I don't blame her for wanting to keep him in there. I feel the same, and I'm sure you all do too, but especially in her shoes, I can hardly imagine.

I didn't like Yoko at first, but now I'm really starting to like her. She had some interesting ideas, and it's cute to read about how John reacted to them. It's just cute how much in love they were. I love seeing pictures of them together. This one's my favourite, it's so adorable: