Blood Moon 2015

That's right, last night while i slept the blood moon came. 

And where i live, well it was hmm... well a bit of  let down.

I woke up this morning, and i got on the laptop wanting to see

this bright red beetroot floating in the sky, so i go on Facebook

to check it out. and what do i get greeted by, but photos of it 

around the area i lived. And it was very very disappointing....

Its color was Peach at very best, or maybe pastel orange...

NOT RED, NOT BLOOD RED AT ALL! lol 

Salvador Dali And John Lennon

Only two known meetings were ever recorded between

Dali and Lennon. One in Paris on 24th of March 1969

while Lennon was on his honeymoon with Yoko. 

Another was when Dali Visited Lennon in his New York

apartment, however there are no photos of this meeting

that i can find on the internet.  

He appeared to own a few Lennon items, i even found

out on one website that claims Dali Own posters, 

coat hangers, framed photos and even a bronze sculptures 

of a mop top lennon. However i am unable to find the 

photos to prove all of these. But it does seem believable. 

Lennon with a Dali Sculpture. And can i say he really does

look like he is thrilled to own it. (Just being sarcastic) 

And below is the photo of Lennon, Dali and Yoko in Paris 

on their honeymoon. 

Lennon Lived? 

Ok so sorry for the miss leading heading. But last night i finally

got a chance to watch this film by Peter McNamee. Its called

Let him be, and its the story of a guy and his girlfriend who go 

in search for a 65 year old John Lennon in Canada. The story 

Stars where this guy finds a tape of a guy looking like john lennon

playing guitar, and goes on a wild goose chase in a small town,

with god knows how many different video and audio gadgets.

When he gets to the town he just so happens to find out everyone

(near enough) knows who he really is and is hiding his identity.

In the end of the story Lennon takes off with this guys girlfriend 

and that's where it ends, without actually telling you if or if not

he is Lennon.  But with a very big hint that he has scars on his 

back where he got shot in 1980! 

Anyway, it got me thinking, what if this was real? What if this really

did happen? I'd just like to state that i know this didn't happen and 

that sadly Lennon is dead, but still, it gets you thinking. So i asked a

few beatles fan whats they thought about it, not the movie, but the

actual thought that he might still be alive. I asked 20 people.... 

Out of those 20, a large amount seemed to be angered and annoyed

that i had even mentioned such a thing. What i really Don't understand,

surely any Lennon fan would love to hear he is still here!

Others thought John would never fake his own death and keep out of 

the public eye, (even though he managed to do that very thing, keeping

out of the public eye in the mid to late 70's) And only a very small

number or people i talked to said they would be happy and would

love it to be true. This shocked me as i thought everyone would 

be happy by the idea of Lennon Back from the dead! (so to speak) 

But it seems not everyone agree's with me. Either way, dead or alive

the Lennon name and the music he made will live on forever! 

Interview with Beatles Fan Celeste 

Celeste is a Beatle maniac from North Carolina. She is also 

a drummer and plays piano. Oh and did i mention i'm dating her?

So Celeste who is your favorite Beatle and why?

Well John and because I just think he is the most amazing beatle and 

most inspirational one.

What made john stand out to you from the other three?

Well I think he's amazing and I just prefer him most.

What is your favorite beatle album and favorite beatles song at 

the moment?

Well my favorite is the white album and my favorite at the moment, it's 

kind of hard to choose because they are all wonderful songs.

If you could own one beatle item that the boys owned what would 

you have?

Hard question but I'd probably pick ringo's drum set just because it 

would be amazing to have and use once in awhile (since I wouldn't want 

to break it or anything)

If you you play drums and piano, so if you could go on tour with one 

alive who would it be and why?

well both but if I have to choose one I might choose Ringo but I don't 

know, not as big of a crowd I guess.

out of the two passed beatles who would you gig with and out of all four 

beatles who would you pick?

John Obviously and John of course. 

If you could marry one beatle, kiss another,hug another and spend a 

day with another. who would they be?

Marry John , kiss Paul but on the cheek or something lol 

I'd probably hug George and spend the day with Ringo. 

Although if I could choose all of those as John I would.

For people who didn't know who the beatles were how would u turn 

them on to the fabs? 

Well I'd try playing some of their music for them and seeing if 

they liked it and if they liked it, I'd try to get them a CD and if they kept 

on liking them, I'd expect them to get into the fandom and we'd talk 

about them. 

So if John is your favorite when did he look the best to you our of all of 

his years in your eyes?

well I think all the years.

If you could spend a day with john where would u want to go with him?

Liverpool probably

if you could go on holiday in Liverpool what would be 5 things you would 

hope to do? 

I see Beatles places and stuff like that.I can't exactly name 

five things.

John Lennon's Army Shirt!

The famous Lennon Army shirt that he wore on stage in concert at 

Madison square garden, was one of john's favorite to wear in the early 

part of the 70's Leaving hundreds of photos of him wearing it for 

us to look at.

Aswell as in concert and

around town John also wore it on his television appearance with Yoko 

Ono on the Dick Cavett show in 1971. He explains  how he got the 

shirt here: “It’s very funny, I was in the German Airport, I had an American 

Army mac on and a guy came up and said, I just got out of the Army in 

Vietnam and if you’d like these clothes I’d love to give them to you, 

‘I said alright’, and he sent  me all these Army clothes in the post, A few 

years ago it was.”

Although Lennon thought it came from Vietnam, it in fact was worn by 

U.S Army soldiers around 1970. and used during the Korean war. 

Although you can buy replica's the original shirt is on display in the 

John Lennon museum in japan. John gave the jacket to his girlfriend 

May Pang in 1975, and wrote a love message to may written inside it. 

And finally below i have added a photo of my very own replica 

jacket that i made.

Lennon Shoe

So i was looking on the web the other night and i found 

some shoes by PRETTY GREEN clothing! By Liam Gallagher!

You know, the guy from Oasis, wanted to be John Lennon.

Well these lovely shoes are for sale on his website, for those 

few beatles fans that know everything, they will instantly 

know that the band at the top matches the guitar strap john

lennon used on the rooftop concert with the beatles. 

LIVE IN LIVERPOOL With Estefy 

Today we welcome the return to our blog of Estefy Lennon

recently back from her line up of gigs in Liverpool for Beatle

Week, where fans gather year after year to enjoy tribute acts

from all around the world. 

So Estefy How was Liverpool? and your journey there?

wonderful.It's a dream come true you know.Everything was fantastic in 

Liverpool.

How many shows did you do while there with your band?

I made 14 gigs 12 with the band and 2 solo in the Royal Court theatre.

What was it like preforming at the cavern club?

It was great.I was really excited to be playing where the beatles began!!!

What was the highlights of your trip there?

The first gig was really excited because it was the first.We opened the 

beatleweek,we were the first band who played.So imagine how we were 

feeling.All the gist were fantastic not only for our emotion but people!! 

the public was just...no words!

Will you be coming back to england any time soon? 

Hope to come back next year.I loved it

Did you meet anyone beatle related when you were there?

I met lot of musician related with the beatles and Julia Baird,

May pang,Bob Gruen,David(lennon's cousin),Earl Slick,Donovan,

Mark Hudson,the quarrymen etc.

How was beatles fest and did you get to see many other acts?

It was a dream as I said before. And yeah sometimes we went out to see 

other bands playing beatles.

for anyone that hasn't been to beatle week in liverpool,  what would you 

say to them?  

I would say...GOOOO TO LIVERPOOL 

GO GO GO GO GO YOU'LL BE HAPPY AS I AM NOW FOR 

MEETING THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY AND BEATLEWEEK 

IS....HAPPINESS

A Discussion On Dali

With Dali Fan Anna Frawley.

posters by jay kelly, paintings by salvador dali. i dont own them

or the rights to them, i am just a big fan of his artwork and wanted

to share them (photos found on google) 

The Face of War

I will be sharing my views on these art pieces and so will Anna 

Frawley. And first she joins me to discuss this amazing painting. 

I personally think it shows the tortured spirits of those who fight at 

war, and it shows the metal and psychological effects war can have on 

someone as well as the the other effects and risks like dying....

show in the skulls. The snakes appear to be two different sides ready to 

fight each other and in a battle.

Well said, Jay. The endlessly repeating death and decay. The miserable 

face of the corpse sees only death. Death is reflected in the eyes are the 

corps. Brilliant take on the horror of war.

and in the corner the hand print.... do if you look carefully it looks like 

bodies are laying in graves? do you think that could be the case?

It looks like buried bodies?

yes but as you see it is a hand print and i think that kind of details are 

wonderful in his art... maybe he is saying that they died at the HANDS 

of war.

YES! This is what he said himself about it: "I was entering a period 

of rigor and asceticism which was going to dominate my style, my 

thoughts, and my tormented life. Spain on fire would light up 

this drama of the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a 

holocaust to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by 

moral and artistic anxieties - at one fell swoop, from the middle of the 

Spanish cadaver springs up. Half devoured by vermin and ideological 

worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a cathedral filled with the 

white dynamite of hatred. Bury and unbury! Disinter and inter in order 

to unbury again! Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that 

impatient Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering, of 

making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and resurrecting. 

It was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume tradition and to profane 

everything in order to be dazzled anew by all the treasures that the land 

was hiding in its entrails."

Lobster Telephone 

This time not a painting. but still very interesting.

A classic example of a Surrealist object. I believe Dali thought  that

 such objects could reveal the secret desires of the unconscious. Lobsters 

and telephones had strong sexual connotations for  him.

i personally love art like this,  it must have taken minutes to create, 

but the color of the lobster and the black of the telephone really is again in 

my eye his great use or light and dark don't you think?

It's striking, very symbolic, surrealistic and beautiful. I agree with you on 

the colour combination.

Christ of Saint John of the Cross

I personally think that the whole Jesus story is depicted in it? would you 

agree!

Yes, it was done by Saint John of the Cross himself after he had seen this 

vision of Christ and Dali had a dream of it. It is  Christ.I mean Dali 

based it on St. John's own drawing.

yes, it as if the fact that he has put christ and the cross looking down, 

its as if to say christ is always watching and also maybe it shows him 

looking down over his bed as it came to him in a dream?

It's magnificent!

it beautiful, i love how he appears to be coming out of the darkness and shining 

light down upon the would under him?

I love the texture Dali puts into his paintings. Here is so well done! Great painting.

Looking down it's a wonderful way to paint in this case.

he has a beautiful use of lightness and darkness in this painting, just the show 

alone on the cross as as much attention to detail as the rest of the painting.

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

this one is one of his great artworks,i just love it when he hides faces in 

other everyday things.

Again very much rooted in the Surrealistic feel. I'm not sure what the 

meaning of this multi image painting, but it's beautiful.

i think all of these painting he did lie this are all saying and showing 

that nothing is exactly what it seems and maybe the fact that people keep 

a lot of stuff hidden from each other?

Maybe you're right.

The Great Masturbator

Now to me this is the imagination of a male.

He seems to bare some of his inner thoughts, fears, personal anxieties and  

obsessions. The great masturbator. He liked this subject and he liked 

to shock, I've read his autobiography.

The hints to female body parts hidden in the painting, along with 

the two couples in each others arms.... along with the though of the woman 

appearing to be longing after the male body, seems to be the main focus. 

but i think the man walking alone in the corner is that actual main character.... 

maybe this is  all the mans own imagination of how life could have been?

What's Going On

I have an idea, and i wanted to share it here first. For years i have 

been drawing the beatles but i really want to do some art of paul

more. I'm Not sure what kinda of art yet, but i really am going to 

try ad do this. My goal is to get Paul to personally see my art!

And for him to display it, that would be even greater to me. 

So watch this space because you will soon see what i come up with

and i will try my best to get it into the hands of the best bassist in 

the world!

Lennon On Heroin

 

Lennon's Addiction to the drug was said to have reached it worst 

during the Let It Be Sessions. He had very little to do with the 

band creatively, and if you can go to YouTube there are videos 

of Lennon at this time, and he is clearly 'unwell' looking tired

and sick. I am not saying all the let it be documented photos and 

videos are him in this way, but there are a few photos and videos 

where you can see some sort of drug or another is at work on the

long haired, fur coated Beatle. He put his use of the drug (apparently)

down to how other people in the Beatles and the whole APPLE circle

was treating Yoko at the time. But if this was the real reason no one

would ever know. Even though LSD was a big part of the Beatles 

and the drug movement related to them, i feel that John's use to heroin

is just as important, after all if he hadn't have taken it, we would 

never have got the great Lennon song 'Cold Turkey'! 

John Lennon went on in 1970 to describe his time in the late 60's

on this drug like this:

"Heroin. It just was not too much fun. I never injected it or anything.

We sniffed a little when we were in real pain. I mean we just couldn't -

people were giving us such a hard time. And I've had so much shit thrown

at me and especially at Yoko. People like Peter Brown in our office, he 

comes down and shakes my hand and doesn't even say hello to her. 

Now that's going on all the time. And we get in so much pain that we

have to do something about it. And that's what happened to us. We 

took H because of what The Beatles and their pals were doing to us

And we got out of it. They didn't set down to do it, but things came 

out of that period. And i don't forget!"

He also went to admit that he was still taking the drug when he 

recorded'Cold Turkey' and when he preformed it in 

September of 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival! 

"We were full of junk too. I just threw up for hours till I went on. 

I nearly threw up in Cold Turkey - I had a review in Rolling 

Stone about the film of it - which I haven't seen yet, and 

they're saying, 'I was this and that.' And I was throwing up nearly 

in the number. I could hardly sing any of them, I was full of shit." 

The song Cold Turkey was released in October of 1969 and was 

rejected by Paul McCartney as a 'Beatles' song.  But Ringo did 

play drums for the track.  

MY 100th POST!

I'm surprised i got this fare! 100 posts, on next to nothing. So i'm

going to make this post about Celeste. She is my girlfriend as i'm 

sure you all know. We webcam every chance we get, and i love to

talk to her. I am not shy person i'm just quiet and i am never 

full relaxed when talking to people or being around people unless

they are close family. But i can be myself around Celeste, i don't

have to worry, or impress her, i feel like i have known her all my 

life. Her smile and her humor and her personality are really so 

cute. She really is so sweet, i know that she could do better, but 

no one would try as hard as me to make her happy. 

One day we will be living together and it will be a weird happy love

adventure, and NO ONE will understand it but us two. 

This photo was her on webcam earlier today, her smile is the 

most beautiful i have ever seen!  

My little 'Flower Power' Princess!

 Here comes Santa!

I KNOW! this is random as its only September. But i started 

making lists of things to get for my family on my birthday 

(1st Aug) And i have already got a lot of ideas. Now its the time

of year i will be cutting down on the massive number of gifts 

i have ear marked. and then i have to try and make some money, 

just enough to buy all the stuff i chose i will actually be buying.

Tomorrow i will be buying my first Christmas gifts of 2015! 

Is it wrong I'm excited? My girl Celeste decided when i asked her

what she wanted... to reply with "its to early!" No its not lol. This 

is a big deal to me, buying my family gifts is the thing i enjoy most

about Christmas!

Drive My Car!

Again i haven't been posting much again, I will start but it will be 

very random stuff, but it is my blog after all. Right so here i will

show you a little thing i found on the web. You can but a car

number plate, and have whatever you want put on it, (I think they

are mainly for decoration) Well you pick a plate you want, and then

you can put what writing you want on it. And you can make it out

of number or words. Here is the ones i made. They cost a bit to be

but they are worth it i think. I'd personally like one of each beatle

but it would cost over £100 for one of all four of them! 

Take a Seat

Its just gone 6 am on a Saturday morning, And i have been 

awake since 5:30 as i always am so i can talk to Celeste for longer 

(thanks time differences) Anyway, I found these on Twitter. 

There was a discussion about if you could really use them or not? 

I personally dont know why you would want to! they are beautiful

conversation pieces. Well to me they are. The Necks couldn't 

support the weight of someone anyway. But still imagine if

you had a game room... a mini bar in the corner, a pool table

air hockey, guitars hanging on the wall a big tv, the Wii 

connected to it, then these in there.... they would look so cool. 

Out There and Still Rocking. 

I recently saw a blog and it was on Paul McCartney's 'never ending'

Out there tour! It went on to say some very nasty comment about 

Paul and the tour.  

It even had a list titled 'Reasons Why Paul Should Give up'

Some of the reasons it listed was, His age, his singing voice, 

and a number of other things.  

I really think this is beyond stupid. It actually angered me, 

So i wanted to come here and just give my opinion on Paul still 

touring around the world. 

Paul Hasn't stopped since the days in hamburg. And his our there

tour in my eyes in the most successful venture since Beatles.

He comes out night after night touring for all his fans, sold out 

shows, and he give it his all, and he still is rocking and rolling. 

Even when he is taken away from his fans due to illness he still

makes sure that they get to see him! 

People keep bringing up his voice isn't like it was when he was

23! And that is stupid. He is now in his 70's and his voice isn't

going to be like it was when he was 23. But come on its pretty much

still the same. Even though over time i think his voice is more of 

a rock and roll singer then a mop top, i still think he is great. 

You get stupid people on talent shows (The X factor) And they

sing for a few weeks on live shows and they lose their voice. 

Paul comes out show after show and puts on a none stop action

show! 

So before some idiots start running Sir Paul Down, 

maybe they should compare him to some of todays bands,

and so called artists. They use auto tunes, cant write songs, 

cant play any instruments and cant sign live. Paul Does all these

things and very well and on top of this puts on a great show!

I cant imagine a world where Paul is told to stop touring by 

stupid nobodies, and rappers who lip sync to auto tuned

noise, and pop stars that twerk have sell out shows? 

Well it appears that is whats happening to the world!

Paul, John, Ringo & George are FOREVER they were not 

and never will be some fad pop craze. And i'm sure that

i am not the only person who will think this..... 

If Paul is still touring when he is 90 he will still be better then

any of today's nonsense music 'stars' are or ever will be.

Long Live Liverpool 

Keep Paul OUT THERE!

The REAL Smile

There are a million photos of John if not even more then that. 

But there are actually strangely there are VERY VERY FEW

photos of John giving a REAL unforced smile! And it truly is 

beautiful. I mean look at that face. Its just so cute. He really 

should have smiled more. And im not talked about mop top 

forced smiles for posters and magazine. I'm talking about naturally

smiling! And i really love it. 

5 STRING!

Yet me star by saying i'm not a massive bass fan, in 

music its great, but i'm not sure i'd ever choose to own

one over a normal 6 string guitar. 

But this one is one i'd love to own. I have seen a few 

guitars in the past painted with cubism, but the detail 

in the paint paired with the fact even the neck is painted

in the exact same style.