I don't believe in celebrity death conspiracies. I don't believe Elvis Presley is still alive somewhere in Arkansas pumping gas at some backwoods filling station, and I don't think Jim Morrison is carousing around Paris. (And if he did fake his death, all of his substance abuse has probably killed him by now, anyway.) Having said that, my girlfriend and I were behind a guy in line at Office Depot yesterday who looked exactly like John Lennon. And I don't mean Beatles-era Lennon, he looked exactly how he looked when he died, with maybe 10 more years on him. Like this, with more facial lines: Just imagine ("Imagine there's a Lennon, I wonder if you can...") a faded gray hoodie instead of that shirt in the picture. He was wearing jeans exactly like these, and even had Lennon's granny glasses. He was wearing hightop sneakers, which I could probably picture Lennon wearing if he was still around. I live in Texas, and it was even more freaky is that he didn't have a Texas accent, or any noticable accent whatsoever. It was very hard not to stare, but I did visually track him out to the parking lot, where he got into a yellow compact car only slightly larger than a VW Bug that was covered with bumper stickers on its rear. I didn't dare walk up to the car, but if I had seen any sort of peace-related message on it, I probably would've died.
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