Bed Peace

last night we watched a documentary of john & yoko's 8-day bed-in during 1969. both virginia and i were hoping for more footage of them and less interviews, but the sweetness and intelligence came shining through, even considering the heavily john-centric focus. yoko has always been one of my favorite artists, and even early on when i was in high school i was pleased with her being in john's life. this was in direct opposition to my best friend joe, and many others i knew who were caught up in the dragon-lady myth and misogyny it represented. i certainly had my own issues with fear of women, fear of losing control over my life, especially in high school, but i think it was the story i heard about how john and yoko met, the ladder with the sign that said 'yes' at the top when you climbed it, the film with the flies, all of their hair and the 2 virgins album cover controversy... it appealed to one facet of my aesthetic and creative side that i had no direct awareness of at that age.

this photo was one of my favorites from the stills that were part of the media frenzy documentation. and the climax - the recording of "give peace a chance" with john in full voice keeping the energy high, biting into the lyrics in the verses, amazingly accomplished guitar from a sitting position on a soft bed - it was all so beautiful. and relevant to these very disturbing times we live in.

our administration and the corporate entities it works for, that it crafted the iraq war to feed profits to, are no less vile than the nixon administration and the vietnam quagmire. given that this is 2006, not 1966, and some folks in the world have actually taken the lesson of vietnam to heart, makes this iraq war that much dirtier. our hands are soiled with the deaths of 1/2 million or more innocents, our vice president and his cronies are dancing in the blood waving their fistfulls of greenbacks with giddy delight, this is hell, folks, and we are all three prongs of the 'axis of evil' rolled into one.

lets all go to bed for a week and see what happens. find someone you love, someone who you are kind to and who is kind to you, someone smart and compassionate, fun, ready to settle in with, vulnerable and snuggly. hit the sack for peace.