Portrate of a Scitzofrenic

We'll get to our title topic after the following news updates:

This is Tuesday October 6, 2009, and it’s evident I was wrong about dire predictions for today and nobody is gladder about that than am I. Still I think it might be prudent for a couple more days because the danger period could extend that far. They say the battle action is worse in Afghanistan now. Apparently our troops have made the classic mistake of quartering troops in a valley where they can be shot down on. Even if the President gets the additional 40,000 (?) troops he’s asking for, the idea is to move out of the country hamlets and protect the larger cities, using that term advisedly. VP Joe Byden wants to focus from ground anti insurgency action and instead concentrate on anti terrorism and specific, targeted missile attacks. This would be a compromise of sorts. Randy Rhodes will not attack Cindy Sheehan for her “belief” because we’re all on the same side in that we want to see a better life for Afghan women, but have different ideas how to accomplish that. My belief is if we are going to preach “peace” and “getting along” there is no better way than to practice it ourselves. If we spend the war funds instead for overtures of peace and helping out the common wage earner, in this way, like Hammas before us, we will be appreciated by the people and assured their loyalty.

Ron Reagan discussed the morality of these cat snuffing videos. Departing from my fair weather conservative friends (?) I would like to come down on the side of the puritans in this one. I believe that certain acts are held by society in such moral revulsion that allowing such videos to proliferate in a free society is degrading to all. I don’t care if it’s a woman crushing the skull of a small animal like a kitten or even a mouse, or other just as repugnant videos such as the use of children in pornographic scenes, or depictions of man on animal sex, like say the penetration of a dog, or anything involving gratuitous mutilations- particularly if done by a hate group against a racial minority, and put to the beat of rock music or whatever with flashing captions such as “Do It”.

What the Beatles thought of doing with Sgt. Pepper, we are going to do here, and that is to show the four-fold aspect of a personality. You people know that the individual we call Jesus Christ is actually a composit of four different personages, if you don't count John the Baptist, which makes five. Well today we are going to draw and quarter the mind of Guy Owens. So what we are going to do is cover the four alien personages that have inhabited his body at one time or another, so hand on to your hats.

The first personage I thought of calling Candidate X, to keep his identity secret, since he is a known entity. The Federation suggested the name of Johnny Rhythm, which may get confusing since John Lennon used that alies a few times. Johnny Rhythm grew up loving old rhythm and blues rock and roll in its pioneer days. He is one of those people who thinks of himself as "liberal minded" but also flirts with gospell fundamentalism and often openly criticizes evangelists. In this respect he's a lot like me. In March of 1960 he booked what then was a fairly new recording studio in Nashville, where in the log book he spelled his first and last name backwards. Later he had a very minor hit with what I found out later was a cover version of an old Clyde Mc Phatter song. This was released as a single around August of 1964. You may know candidate X better as Jim Cooper in a pre walk-in existance. It is he who coined the term BOSC and also said what the letters stood for. Guy Owens comonly referred to this "imaginary" person as "my imposter" and this "imposter" occupied his body sporadically from early 1965 through around March first of 1968. But he also posessed his body in latter 1960 when Owens was off in Hamburg with the Beatles.

Persona number two is Jess Ryder, of Stephen King fame. Posessions don't always have a direct reciprocity. Often it's a spiritual game of "musical chairs". Owens began occupying Jess Ryders body starting about March of 1976 but Jess Ryder did not occupy his body till perhaps the end of 1980, and we'll explain that later. "It will all become clear". Jess Ryder is the child of divorced parents and apparently an only child. His father was a pharmicist in New York City. Often Jess would visit him in New York, and Jess was in New York when John Lennon was shot. Jess' mother died of a long lingering illness for which there was apparently no cure and the doctors wern't even entirely sure what it was. Jess was born on April 9th. 1965, a key date to Beatles fans. This makes him an original "409". In a previous life Jess Ryder drove his car off a pier in New Jersey on November 9th. of 1964. Jess lived with his mother in Portsmouth, NH while she lived. Later Jess rented a house by the ocean in a town in southern Maine that starts with an "O". Jess was often with the bleah color of his hair and thought of dying it, perhaps jet black. Jess was by-sexual from an early age. But in the summer of 1983 had an affair with Fran Goldsmith, who was a tall, attractive, olive skinned brunette. She "whigged out" and began acting strange at the end of that summer and later on there were unconfirmed roomers that she was pregnent. Jess was into heavy metal, and his records include a lot of Judas Priest and AC DC as well as the Babys, and Def Lepoard's first album, and he was also a "Cult" fan. Jess continued to live in the New England area till the last Saturday in July of 1991 when in the early morning he got his car into a fatal car crash and died.

Our third personage is someone we call "Denise De Lovely". Many of the facts about her you won't get any place else. Of course you know she is a rather short blonde with blue eyes. The period of "posession" was from April of 1968 through about January of 1971. At this time it is believed she refused to posess Owens' body any more because "His life was getting too weird for me". Denise has two older sisters and one younger sister she called "Baby Pig" because of her pug nose. Her favorite color is light blue. She used to enjoy playing board games with her family, particularly "Candy Land" and "Shoots and Ladders". She was basically a lezbian. She liked women but in the early 1970's had her first physical relation with a boy, but the relation didn't work out and she resented him. In the summer of 1972 she moved to Phoenix and became a student at Arizona State University, and went to all the football games. She got her drivers license in July of 1970 and like to drive fast, like the girl in "T Bird". She had a big collection of eight track tapes. She prefered going on group dates, that way her sexual orientation could be better hidden. Later she is noted for the "Denise sightings" by Guy Owens in 1987 and 1988.

Candidate four, known for a long time as merely "Burt Lombard" is actually Mick Ronson, of David Bowie guitar fame, who later became a Mormon. He was a cagy person who liked to try new things and meet new people. He occupied Guy Owens' body from late March of 1976 through early September of 1977. Guy Owens never occupied his body. If it were not for Ronson, Guy Owens may have never made the fateful decisions he made in 1976 that inalterably changed his life. By the way, John Lennon refused to occupy Owens' body because he saw psychically what Owens' life was like and the whole idea made him really Paranoid, hence the song Los Paranoias.

THE MANY LIVES OF JOHN LENNON

Your Favorite versions of Beatles songs

Disc One (Red)

I’m Gona Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (BBC)

Too Much Monkey Business (BBC)

Some Other Guy (from Beatles BBC compilation)

Soldier of Love (BBC)

I'll Be On My Way (BBC)

I’ve Gotta Find My Baby (Brian Matthews: introduction)

When I Get Home (from "Something New")

Leave My Kitten Alone (Anthology)

I Just Don’t Understand (BBC)

I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party (original album)

Baby’s In Black (original album)

I'm A Loser (original album)

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Anthology)

Ticket To Ride (“Help”)

Bad Boy (Beatles VI)

You’re Gona Lose That Girl (“Help”)

It’s Only Love (Anthology)

Norwegian Wood (“Rubber Soul”)

Say the Word (“Rubber Soul”)

Beatles Twelve Bar Original (Anthology edit)

Girl (“Rubber Soul”)

Run For Your Life (“Rubber Soul”)

Disk Two (half Red half Blue)

Rain (original mono mix)

And Your Bird Can Sing (Anthology)

Dr. Robert (“Revolver”)

I’m Only Sleeping (original “American version”)

She Said She Said (“Revolver)

Tomorrow Never Knows (original mono mix with slower fade)

Beatles 1966 Christmas Message (fan club exclusive)

Sgt. Pepper inner groove track

Strawberry Fields Forever (final version on “Anthology”) with trailer

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (“Sgt. Pepper”)

Good Morning (Anthology)

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (“Sgt. Pepper”)

A Day in the Life (from the “Blue Album”)

I Am The Walrus (original US single release version)

Across the Universe (original version with birds)

Hey Bulldog (“Yellow Submarine”)

Glass Onion (White Album original)

Disk Three (Blue)

Happiness is a Warm Gun (Anthology)

I’m So Tired (version with weird overdubbed lead guitar – not previously - )

One of Nature's Children (unreleased track)

I Don’t Want To Be A Lawyer, Mama (“Imagine”)

Revolution I (new seven (?) minute edit with some R 9 stuff at the end of it)

It’s Johnny’s Birthday (from “All Things Must Pass”)

Helter Skelter (mono version as appears on “Rarities” album)

Give Me Some Truth (from “Imagine”)

Yer Blues (original White Album version)

Mailman, Bring Me No Bad News (from “Anthology”)

Sun King (Abbey Road)

Mean Mr. Mustard (Abbey Road)

Polytheme Pam (Abbey Road)

She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (Abbey Road)

Dig It (from the original "Let It Be" album)

Give Peace a Chance (original Single release)

Released in this somewhat revised line-up as of 4:00 PM PST or 7:00 PM Federation time, today, Thursday. Tital letters are red on black backdrop. The rest of the front cover is taken up with pictures –preferably in color – of John Lennon at various phases of his life. The back photo is one of these cryptic messages supplied by Mal Evans. It’s that Kite scene from last night’s Simpson’s where the red and the blue kites cross in the sky. The caption at the very bottom of the cover is in yellow saying “Ah, blue and red, the sign of friendship” in italic letters. The rest of the printing on the back is in bright lime green, which is the song listings. The inside of this album contains of course a sleeve for the middle disk (like “The London Years”) and also a booklet featuring the circumstances of the recording of the various highly biased and select choice of songs, with a few black and white photos for illustration.

John is part Bart Simpson and part Milhaus Van Hauten. He’s at the same time the happy go lucky, confident kid with a wise ass personality, and also the brooding, unattractive nerd with glasses who holds his feelings in, and a messed up family life.