The Ballad of John and Yoko
by John Lennon, from Skywriting by Word of Mouth
I’d always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheekboned, freespirited artist (a la Juliette Greco).
My soul mate.
Someone that I had already known, but somehow had lost.
After a short visit to India on my way home from Australia, [...]
“Out on the ocean, sailing away / I can hardly wait for you to come of age” (Beautiful Boy, John Lennon)
by Sean Lennon, Times Online
I don’t belong to that group of people who keep their childhoods neatly folded and tucked away, seldom seen, in a dresser drawer. My memories are scattered about the room like dust mites floating in sunlight. I’m unable to climb aboard even the tiniest steam train of thought without running over old origami animals in the Wild West of my youth.
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC
by Daniel J. Levitin
FAST FOOD NATION
by Eric Schlosser
THE SLAVE NEXT DOOR
by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind. Since our planet essentially moves to music, you might want to get to know a few things about music [...]
Seventy-six painters, sculptors, photographers, glass and conceptual artists from Ireland to Argentina, Korea to the United States, have come together in an inspiring book to answer a call by Dr. Seuss (in his 1971 classic, The Lorax) to: “Speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
The artists in this powerful new book, Speak [...]
In these times, everyone needs a 5-year plan.
In this era of awakening and change we see that we can be greater than the sum of our parts.
• 5 Year Plan was conceived in honor of Mahatma Gandhi, in response to the need for creative, unconventional solutions to the problems facing the world today.
• 5 Year Plan is [...]
Finally, photographer Allan Tannenbaum is releasing a new book of photographs: New York in the 70s, that will transport you back to NYC as it was in the ’70s. Sex, drugs, street gangs, disco divas, politicians, homeless, celebrities, musicians, hookers, and literally every other thing (and person) that went down during the decade are amongst [...]
The Cho-Do ii Book – written (in Japanese and English) and illustrated by Sean Lennon.
Available from Amazon Japan.
内容紹介
ショーン レノン、初の絵本。大人も子どもも読める内容。「”ちょうどいい”ってなんだろう?」と、ウサギの少年少女たちが疑問に思い、その意味を考えていくというストーリーの絵本です。「ちょうどいい」とは、小さな幸せを育んでいく、家族や回りの人たちを大切にしていく、人を思いやる気持ちを持ち続けていくこと。ウサギの少年少女は、そういった小さいけれど、とても大切なことを学んでいきます。「ちょうどいい」は「もったいない」と同じような語感を持っています。釣り人は、釣り上げた魚が小さい時には魚を放流します。人と自然とのちょうどいい距離感を知っているからです。夏や冬、冷やし過ぎず、暖め過ぎず暮らす。ちょうどいい温度でエコでいく。「ちょうどいい」という言葉は、時代に合った大切なことを教えてくれます。レノン&ヨーコ夫妻のDNAを引き継いだ作品世界がここにあります! [...]
This article originally appeared on Cara Kulwicki’s blog, The Curvature, a feminist perspective on politics and culture.
Introduction: Oh Yoko!
For J. I think you would have loved these five posts perhaps more than anyone. I wish you could have read them.
I’ve mentioned in passing before that I had intentions to write a feminist analysis of the culture [...]
The Iceland Post Company recently published a book on Yoko Ono’s
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in cooperation with the artist. The tower was
erected on Reykjavík’s Viðey island on October 9, 2007, in the memory
of her late husband John Lennon.
The 100-page book, simply entitled IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, contains a
wealth of information on Ono’s project.
In the book, the artist [...]
He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon’s secret bombing of
Cambodia and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in
Abu Ghraib … No wonder the Republicans describe Seymour Hersh as “the
closest thing American journalism has to a ‘terrorist.’” Rachel Cooke
meets the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington.
Every so often, a famous actor or producer [...]
Dear Friends
How I reacted the night Obama became president:
Just crying…like most people on the streets of N.Y, or in the world
that night, from joy…and other complex emotions which had to do with
the work we all did for the longest years trusting in miracles.
I had a strong urge for John to be here, physically, to give [...]
In a time when we are reaching the peak of world oil production and simultaneously facing a global environmental crisis brought on by a changing climate, the demand for alternatives that are energy efficient and ecologically friendly has never been higher. While environmental issues are everywhere on the dial, so far very few in the [...]
