Out of Order Post on OPB's John Lennon Special

I am was watching a special about John Lennon on OPB. It was really quite fascinating.
I am not the biggest Beatles fan but they had their day. They were a tight group, their songs were a bit silly but they were simple and straight forward and had a certain energy.
Then came Yoko.
A couple things stuck in my head. First, while the Beatles were a bit simplistic and perhaps a bit silly but it was good honest music.
After Sgt Peppers the Beatles degenerated into utter silliness and at best, pretentiousness. This was about the time Yoko and her pretentious and stupid art projects captivated John and then there was the LSD and heroin and more art.
There was footage from the famous New York concert with John and Yoko and I cringed. I'd never seen it was quite surprised at how genuinely unattractive she was. I was horrified at the strange noises which came from her mouth.
And how ridiculous the whole production was. The stupid hard hats. Yoko...
The documentary went into how the Nixon Election and the bad concert reviews upset everyone and then John ditches Yoko for a hot groupie and she kicks him out. Oh, yes! Even as a wee lad I remember this tears following the Nixon election. (He did end Johnson's war however!)
So John goes to LA, finds a much better looking and acting girl friend, and did some sessions with Phil Spector in LA. They have been playing the songs that he was doing with the soundtrack of the documentary. I've been thinking how bad the songs were and then I hear Lennon doing these early rock and roll songs (that he didn't write) as warm up songs. They are good. There is energy, the lyrics are simple, and it is real rock and roll.
Then he came back to New York for Walls and Bridges which they say was not that great an album (although I liked it) and it just got sadder and sadder.
The man could have had just about any woman he wanted and he chose Yoko. Good grief, we are our own worst enemies.
Then they talked about his concert with Elton John and Elton John comes on and says the best thing was that Lennon got back with Yoko. If he could have just completed the Yoko withdrawals perhaps he could have become a real rock and roll artist again.

Then we have an album with Yoko and John together. Oh my goodness is she bad! I didn't like her because she always seemed very manipulative and so completely full of crap. I never realized how horrible she was as an artist. Wow! Ouch... Painful... make it stop!

I looked up Yoko on Wikipedia or something, I went to sleep in my chair and now I've lost the link. The article described her art projects. My memories of the 1960's and 1970's are from when I was a little kid. I remember seeing programs on modern art in what must have been second grade and all I can remember is my conviction that it was a scam to get status and money by people who couldn't do real art. Now, I find it all pretty funny as here you had this whole group of people, who were all congratulating each other on being smart and witty and oh so hip and they were all totally full of crap! Read about Yoko and her art projects here and here, pretty funny!

I think the word is sophomoric.

My favorite comment on Yoko follows this article:

I've heard the joke before- someone called "datruth" posted on February 27, 2009 at 3 p.m. "You want to know why there is no god? 5 shots, not one hit yoko. Still believe in god now?"

Of course she is celebrated as a great feminist. Not that she actually accomplished anything on her own. No, she had to latch onto John Lennon to burn her horrible shrieks into the record of history. The whole discussion of how she stood of to John's sexism and abuse (he was mean to his hot first wife) is a bunch of BS. It was not so much "standing up as a feminist" no it was the classic pattern of manipulation used by women throughout the ages. Get the man hook with sex and perhaps drugs, deny him affection, Give him more sex, be strange and remote, make demands, deny sex, set him up for humiliation, reel him back in. Pretty much classic manipulation.
True Feminism would have meant she would have made her own way on her own terms. As in Yoko needed John like a fish needs a bicycle.
Wow! That was a rant. Don't even know what that all came from.
Note, I don't claim to be anything but a poorly educated lout who believes representational art.
And who doesn't like to proof-read.
Good night!