1) Favorite Yoko Ono song
Can I please do a top fifteen? I really sincerely love Yoko.
1. Walking on Thin Ice
2. What a Bastard the World Is
3. It Happened
4. Mind Train
5. I'm Going Away Smiling
6. Toyboat
7. Goodbye Sadness
8. Revelations
9. Nobody Sees Me Like You Do
10. Listen, the Snow is Falling
11. New York Woman
12. Have You Seen a Horizon Lately
13. Hell in Paradise
14. Yang Yang
15. The Sun is Down
2) Favorite John appearance in a Beatles movie
All of them, come on.
Ok...um when he's running at the beginning of
A Hard Day's Night and he turns and sees George has tripped and fallen and he laughs and keeps running, the You've Got To Hide Your Love Away performance in
Help, the spaghetti scene + I Am the Walrus performance in
Magical Mystery Tour (the only two things I liked about that film actually), the preconception that the John on
Yellow Submarine was such a characterization of the real John, all his ad-libs on
Let It Be but especially this:
3) Favorite Sean Lennon song
There are
soooooo many Sean songs I am in love with right now. I could easily pick Spaceship or Heart and Lung, or Dead Meat, Tomorrow, On Again Off Again, Headlights, everything by his new band, any random thing he did with Cibo Matto. But I am going to have to go with this piece of absolute stunning beauty:
4) Favorite Julian Lennon song
So many! I love Cole's Song, Crucified, And She Cries, Let Me Be, Take Me Home, Saltwater, and....yeah the list goes on. But here's the one I always go back to:
5) Favorite John song on Revolver
I'm Only Sleeping
6) Favorite John vocal on a song
um, no. I can't be required to answer this. Are you kidding? The man had one of the most incredible voices I have ever heard in my life. But just to be random, this song is my current favorite of his at the moment and he sounds amazing here so eat it up:
I simply can not. They are too different. I love each of them for different reasons but I suppose I'd have to choose Nobody... not because it's the more accessible but because I love the sentiment of this song, and the feeling behind it. He's not quite as sinister, though I dig that other side of him as well.
8) Favorite John quote
John Lennon was one of the most fascinating minds of the 20th century. I can't pull one quote by him and call it my all-time favorite because he said so many things over his lifetime that rang true and still ring true for me and millions of others who really felt where he was coming from. Here's one example I've always loved:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
9) Favorite book written by John Forever and always
In His Own Write. A literary classic.
10) Favorite John Lennon video from "Lennon Legend" video collection:
Mind Games, Instant Karma, Imagine, Love, and this one:
Yay! It took forever because I simply don't have that much time but after a month or so I finally completed your survey Mr. 3rd World Man.
