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Apr 8, 2019 18:12:40 GMT -5
Post by Will on Apr 8, 2019 18:12:40 GMT -5
On the 8th anniversary of God is Dead, Hank Aaron hits home run #715 and breaks Babe Ruth’s record.
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Jun 25, 2019 0:47:21 GMT -5
Post by Will on Jun 25, 2019 0:47:21 GMT -5
The last time I posted this, Prince died within the hour. I've been dealing with cancer but am now cancer-free for the moment; the book is still happening and this excerpt took place 10 years ago today.
I wasn’t living a puddle; it was as if I turned around and saw a new sea. Maybe it wasn’t what I had been pursuing, but I think this was the sea I actually needed. But the mountain; the man vs. God quest I had been living, was now in the past and I had very little to do every day. Then one day a guy e-mails me on YouTube and basically tells me my channel is evil, and gave me all of the same arguments I heard when I was a kid, backwards messages and all of that. I looked at the e-mail, half surprised he didn’t call me Paco.
I walked around outside and thought about it; I didn’t buy into any of this anymore, the PMRC in the eighties turned out to be a caricature of any serious treatment of Rock, “look at the building, burn, burn” and all of that. Zappa had made them look absurd. Heavy Metal deliberately put all of this stuff out there sure, but it was cartoonish, a demon action figure at Target, nothing anyone ever took seriously and that had been true for 30 years.
I certainly didn’t take it seriously, I knew how important music was, even though I felt I had to avoid certain songs now out of respect it was still as important as anything in my life and I didn’t see anything evil in any of it. You don’t like something being said in a song, don’t do that thing. I mean that was my world, music was nothing compared to what I listened to in my own head 100 times a day, and it would have scared the hell out of anyone if it were.
CCM had evolved, Plumb certainly was competitive with anyone, Rock still ruled but unfortunately Rock now seemed to be dying. No power chords, no darkness in the riffs, it was turning into a bunch of stuff Donny and Marie would have turned down, rock music had much deeper problems than being evil, it was becoming irrelevant.
No, there was nothing to this.
Well, I responded to this guy and told him three things. That I thought all of the messages in music were simply marketing, there was no actual evil in the songs themselves; but if he wanted to really pursue something evil in rock he should look at the deaths of Elvis, John Lennon and John Bonham; which immortalized the biggest artists of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s in a span of 3 years.
Really I have no idea why I said what I did, it just popped into my head.
I sent the e-mail and 10 minutes later Michael Jackson, arguably the biggest star of the eighties, goes into cardiac arrest. He didn’t make it through the afternoon, but instantaneously this resuscitated his legacy. I was quite the prophet in this case apparently, and I had absolutely no idea why I had said what I did, I’d never really thought about it before that morning.
I was stunned, even with everything that had happened I didn’t believe there was any possible way that I could send an e-mail and cause something to happen to Michael Jackson, that seemed to be something beyond what I was willing to accept in my mind. I walked on the beach and stewed about it, how could this happen?
I couldn’t figure it out, but then Little Paul said something to me, and these days he not only wasn’t in charge he didn’t talk much anymore, and more troubling was I wasn’t sure how he knew what he said to me.
He said, you’re seeing this all backwards.
As soon as he said it, I understood what he meant and that answer to me was too far out, it was the point where I almost walked away from any notion of the supernatural or demonology for good. What he meant was, that someone knew what going to happen to Michael Jackson before it did, and baited my response.
I may have lost you on that one, and as I processed it I almost lost myself. That can’t be. I may believe in demonology, may believe that there is a good vs evil war that I somehow found myself in the middle of, that people and trucks and events may be scripted, but I didn’t believe in ghosts, I didn’t believe in space aliens, in a lot of ways I was still quite normal, and I just didn’t believe there was some sort of supernatural force out there that knew who was going to die before they did and gave people clues to that. I’d have been bowing down worshiping demons to get lottery numbers if I thought that was going on.
But the seed had been planted and now I was thinking about it, going to the Bible in my head and working it out. And I suddenly realized of course, Satan knew what was going to happen to Job’s family before it did, he had permission to cause it. He knew what was going to happen to Jesus, after all he knew why he had possessed Judas, right? God knew that everyone was going to die in a flood before he told Noah to build a boat obviously, now this made perfect sense. It didn’t mean it happened every time, because that took free will out of the equation, but the point is that it COULD happen.
And then I started thinking about another Bible verse, one that I had only applied to myself. Romans 9:22. The verse that talks about Objects of Wrath and Destruction. Romans 9 is the chapter that talks about God hating people. The chapter that most people can never actually ascribe to God.
It was all too easy for me, that was the entire point after all, while a Christian I felt that I had some sort of demonic horde attack me, and God most certainly had to be watching this whole thing go on, after all it was God that Little Paul flipped off that afternoon when that car suddenly came out of nowhere and forced him to the other side of the highway, at that point it was complete and total terror, so yes God does hate people if he wants. Its just that because of all of his other restrictions, he just hands those people over to demons, watches them do all the dirty work.
Michael Jackson had died on June 25th, exactly 6 months from Christmas; the same date that Rosemary’s Baby Adrian was born in the movie. Maybe Romans 9:22 applied to him for some reason. I kept walking around the beach, kept thinking about it.
I had said in the e-mail to look at Elvis, to look at John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, John Lennon of the Beatles. The biggest artists of the fifties, sixties and seventies, all immortalized in 3 years. Elvis couldn’t go on without Elvis of course, Led Zeppelin had broken up after Bonham’s death, the Beatles had been broken up but after Lennon’s death would never reunite.
Eventually I went back inside, I’ve got access to the internet of course I could look this up. The most interesting thing I found with Michael Jackson was simply the way public opinion about him immediately changed; he had gone from a comical figure back into the hero he had been in the early eighties in a matter of hours. I wasn’t sure necessarily what I was looking for, but I didn’t see anything else.
Then I looked at Elvis, the beginning of Rock and Roll. It was sort of interesting I guess that he died on the same date as Robert Johnson, who supposedly made a deal with the devil at the Crossroads way back when, but I didn’t see a whole lot else, what exactly am I looking for here?
I did that for a few days, at least I had found something interesting to do; the YouTube guy never wrote me back even though I was really interested in his reaction to what I had written and what had then happened, I never heard back from the guy; then I moved onto John Bonham and Led Zeppelin.
We all knew about Jimmy Page and the occult, that was low hanging fruit, this was where I expected to see something, yeah Stairway to Heaven says stuff backwards, we all know that too. I really didn’t see anything about John Bonham himself, I guess the most interesting thing that seemed to happen was the bad luck that Robert Plant had in 1975 and 1977 with the car accident and his son’s death.
That seemed a little suspicious I guess, seemed like he had been targeted a little and was interesting to me also because I knew that he had a problem with Stairway to Heaven, didn’t like to do the song anymore, did he think something was happening to him? I don’t know, nothing seemed to happen after ’77 until Bonham’s death and then he had a very successful solo career. I didn’t really feel like I was seeing whatever it was I was looking for; I was looking for the sort of stuff I had dealt with I guess, something more profound.
Then, somewhat reluctantly, I looked at John Lennon. In my mind, this was the least likely place to find anything, and I really didn’t want to go there. The Beatles were innocence, they were Little Paul territory, looking at the Beatles to me was kind of like looking at the Beach Boys, why would you want to mess with that? A little boy’s innocence, an entire generation’s innocence really. It was like the Amish kids dying in Lancaster, territory that should be off-limits and better left alone. I had written it though, so I’d better check the Beatles out too I reckoned, so I googled The Beatles.
Oh my fucking God.
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Jul 12, 2019 13:59:17 GMT -5
Post by Will on Jul 12, 2019 13:59:17 GMT -5
You talk about day I'm talking 'bout night time When the monsters call out The names of men Bob Dylan knows And I bet Alan Freed did There are things in night That are better not to behold
You dance With your lizard leather boots on And pull the strings That change the faces of men You diamond browed hag You a gutter-gaunt gangster John Lennon knows your name And I've seen his
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Aug 16, 2019 17:45:06 GMT -5
Post by Will on Aug 16, 2019 17:45:06 GMT -5
...I know what its like to be dead... was actually Peter Fonda. RIP.
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Aug 21, 2019 22:58:23 GMT -5
Post by Will on Aug 21, 2019 22:58:23 GMT -5
This is a pretty obscure one; but according to Dan Alice, author of Once a Man, Twice a Child, he was listening to the radio early in the morning of December 9th 1967 when the radio announcer broke in and said that "John" was dead and had died just before midnight on December 8th, and then proceeded to play this song: Note the Hawaiian reference. The John being referred to was actually John Mills who did indeed die on December 8th 1967.
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Sept 3, 2019 11:30:55 GMT -5
Post by Will on Sept 3, 2019 11:30:55 GMT -5
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions, Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon? There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
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Nov 27, 2019 7:20:27 GMT -5
Post by Will on Nov 27, 2019 7:20:27 GMT -5
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Dec 21, 2019 23:14:13 GMT -5
Post by Will on Dec 21, 2019 23:14:13 GMT -5
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down--Bob Dylan, 1963
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Jan 28, 2020 23:16:23 GMT -5
Post by Will on Jan 28, 2020 23:16:23 GMT -5
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Feb 25, 2020 20:24:10 GMT -5
Post by Will on Feb 25, 2020 20:24:10 GMT -5
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Mar 9, 2020 23:04:56 GMT -5
Post by Will on Mar 9, 2020 23:04:56 GMT -5
I thought I had posted this, although I can't find it. I saw a question posted on another forum referencing the line The one mistake you made was in your head. The line We were talking about the space between us all from Within You Without You in early pressings of Sgt. Pepper went right through Paul's head. However in pressings from after How Do You Sleep, the line is moved to where it no longer goes through Paul's head.
In my theory, in between the 4 Beatles on the front of the LP is the drum and ATL in Beatles, signifying God is Dead as being the secret.
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Jun 13, 2020 23:40:57 GMT -5
Post by Will on Jun 13, 2020 23:40:57 GMT -5
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Jul 24, 2020 21:09:48 GMT -5
Post by Will on Jul 24, 2020 21:09:48 GMT -5
The same date as the Ticket scene above, Walter Kurtz reads from Time Magazine on September 22nd, 1967. Attachments:
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Sept 4, 2020 22:57:43 GMT -5
Post by Will on Sept 4, 2020 22:57:43 GMT -5
An update, having survived Cancer for the moment I am now about finished with my book...it is on the final section now after working on it for 10 years. I will be taking it down again after a few days to finish it and publish but this is as close as I have been to being done with it....finally.
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Sept 5, 2020 10:46:36 GMT -5
Post by Will on Sept 5, 2020 10:46:36 GMT -5
An update, having survived Cancer for the moment I am now about finished with my book...it is on the final section now after working on it for 10 years. I will be taking it down again after a few days to finish it and publish but this is as close as I have been to being done with it....finally. P.S.--If you're expecting a book solely about the Beatles, its not; its a novel. I categorize it as a fictional memoir, which does have Beatles and Pop Culture references scattered throughout. If you're looking specifically for PID/Iamaphoney/Apollo/NIR references, they are in there, mostly towards the back of the book.
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