Naughty by nature!

Asian Sirens

2005-10-11T07:33:33Z

I realize I don't post here very often. For those who are interested, I am one of the bloggers at the free website http://www.asian-sirens.com which recently relaunched. It is not porn but there is nudity so it is NSFW.

Best sex stories of 2004

2005-01-07T08:29:40Z

fleshbot.com has asked its readers to select the best naughty news stories of the past year, month by month

http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/straight/found/fleshbot-readers-choice-2004-028658.php (not work safe)

Exotic Erotic Ball 25th Anniversary

2004-10-23T02:27:14Z

It's a voyeur's paradise and an exhibitionist's dream -- a San Francisco original that has evolved from a drunken orgy in a Tenderloin penthouse to an international gathering at the Cow Palace, drawing everybody from CNN to dirty old men.

On Saturday night, the Exotic Erotic Ball turns 25 and, for better or worse, there is nothing like it anywhere else. Not New York, Los Angeles, Paris or even Amsterdam.

"Someone can come and see things for six hours that they've never seen or done," said Perry Mann, the ball's founder.

Besides a fetish hall and expo with more than 100 vendors, this year's ball is sponsoring a First Amendment panel for its silver anniversary -- returning the ball to its political roots, Mann said with a semi-straight face.

He concocted the ball as a way to raise funds for his friend Louis Abolafia, who ran for president every four years on the nudist ticket.

The Nudist Ball, a precursor, took place in Mann's Tenderloin apartment in 1978 and attracted a few hundred people. In 1979, it moved to California Hall on Turk Street and officially became the Exotic Erotic Ball, with 800 to 900 people paying $10 apiece.

The location changed over the years, attendance began to average 15,000 annually, and the price increased -- now it ranges from $49.95 for tickets bought way in advance to $200 for last-minute VIP passes.

"People who are coming to it are not, on a daily basis, exotic or erotic," said J.S. Gilbert, the ball's general manager. "I've been associated with the ball for 24 years, and people who know me would say I'm the least exotic or erotic person they've ever met. But I definitely become a voyeur that evening."

The visual overload can be relentless.

"I knew I was in for an interesting evening when, immediately upon entering the venue, I spotted a guy painting his penis green," recalled Redwood City resident Richard Marracq.
"You can't even tell what you're looking at sometimes," said ball producer Howard Mauskopf.

Dennis Hof, who runs the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Carson City, Nev., put it another way: "This is the epitome of Halloween in America."

He said the ball used to be very edgy but is now mainstream, spawning dozens of imitators popping up in places like Las Vegas, Chicago and Sacramento.

"It only works in this city," said porn star Ron Jeremy, sitting in a cafe in San Francisco's Union Square. "It's been an abysmal failure everywhere else."

It's a common refrain among longtime ball-goers. They point to the city's flamboyance, free-thinking ways, status as a gay mecca and libertine Gold Rush past.

"It's more open and more accepting here," said Tabitha Stevens, who's been in more than 300 porn movies and will appear at the ball with Jeremy. "If you held the ball in Los Angeles, it wouldn't be as successful. People in L.A. are more stuffy."

On the other hand, for a sex-saturated town like San Francisco, the bar is inevitably raised higher. What does it take to be erotic and exotic in 2004 and keep the ball going a quarter-century after its birth?

"Men are not jaded by sex," said Jeremy, who estimates he's had sex, personally and professionally, with between 4,000 and 5,000 people. "Not until they hit 50, and then they'll say, 'Maybe a nice steak dinner might be more fun tonight.' "

Jeremy is 51.

As for women, there are more and more at the ball every year, say the regulars.

"They've had work and they want to show it off. All these boob jobs. I'm amazed," said Susan O'Neil, a survivor of 20 balls -- including the first one.

"It was black-tie optional, so people showed up with black ties and that was it," she recalled. "People used to be in corners doing strange things.''

Another ball veteran, Joe Sahagun of Hayward, said, "The moral fiber has calmed down, the music has gotten worse and louder, and there's a lot of commercialization."

He's going anyway, just as he has for 15 years, usually dressed as Friar Tuck or Al Capone.

"Me and Speedos wouldn't look great," Sahagun said. "I didn't spend 20 years building my body. I spent 20 years eating."

O'Neil will wear a girdle dress, thigh-high stockings and a short red wig.

She dug out other wigs from past balls -- platinum, magenta, burgundy and black -- and spread them on the dining-room table of her Sausalito apartment, along with hundreds of photos.

Except for the attire and the profusion of exposed genitalia, the ball could easily be mistaken for a photographers' convention. It's an extremely well-documented affair.

In 1983, a Hayward man and an San Anselmo woman filed a $10 million invasion-of-privacy suit when their photos ended up in Penthouse. The man had to quit his warehouse job because he was getting teased too much, and his fiancee's parents were threatening to call off the wedding.

The two plaintiffs lost.

"The judge said anything you do at a public event can be used," said their Oakland lawyer, Daniel Horowitz, on Thursday. "But once you're in there, you're letting loose, and I felt like I was protecting our San Francisco spirit."

In March, Republican legislators in California -- countering a move to outlaw gun shows at the Cow Palace -- sought to ban the ball as well.

They failed, too.

Much like sex itself, the ball seems destined to hang around -- even though some have found it more boring than bacchanalian.

"It was basically a playful carnal fest, populated by the intellectually underwhelmed and alcoholically overstimulated," said Guy Smith of Alameda, who went in 1996. "The most entertaining part, aside from an occasionally inventive costume, were the Christians out front preaching to everyone in line."

Napa resident Mark Hiza, who attended three years ago to provide medical aid, was struck by all the "horny, opportunistic older men looking for cheap fantasies."

"There were people who should never be naked in public, letting it all hang out," he said. "We noticed packs of men following women, grabbing them, taking pictures, and generally thinking with their 'other brain.'

"(And) one particular firefighter, dressed as a fairy, turned beet red when his captain literally bumped into him in the bathroom."

Despite the preponderance of alcohol and flesh, there is little trouble.

"It's actually a good event," said Lt. Eric Wollman of the Daly City Police Department. "I don't mind having it at the Cow Palace at all. Do we have problems with the people attending? No. They want to have a good time, and then they want to go home."

The lowdown

The Exotic Erotic Ball will be held Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m at the Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva Ave., Daly City.

Tickets at the door will cost $90 for general admission and $200 for VIP. Some of the proceeds will go to charity.

An expo will be open during the ball as well as from noon to 6 p.m., costing $10. For more information, call 415-567-BALL or visit www.exoticeroticball.com

2004 Durex Global Sex Survey

2004-10-13T00:55:25Z

Copied from http://www.durex.com/cm/GSS2004Results.asp where you can see the survey results in more detail:

More than 350,000 people from 41 countries
took part in the world's largest ever survey of
sexual attitudes and behaviour.

The research confirmed France is now officially
the sexiest state with the French having sex 137
times a year - well above the global average of
103 - with Greece and Hungary coming a close
second and third.

Europeans also win hands down in turning their
partners on. Topping the table are the British,
who spend 22.5 minutes on foreplay, followed
by the Germans.

And, in many countries, foreplay is increasingly
likely to include such sexual enhancers as
pornography, vibrators, pleasure enhancing
condoms and lubricants.

The survey also reveals the average global age
for first sex is now 17.7 and the trend is towards
losing virginity earlier with today's 16-20 year
olds becoming sexually active by 16.5.

And while more than three in 10 believe the
state should invest in sex education to help
prevent sexually transmitted infections, a
similar percentage acknowledge they have had
unprotected sex without knowing their partner's
sexual history.

Finally, on a lighter note, Hollywood stars Brad
Pitt and Angelina Jolie top the sexiest celebrity
charts taking over from last year's winners -
English footballer David Beckham and American
actress Jennifer Lopez.

They'll make you look

2004-06-23T01:27:10Z

The creator and nude dancers of 'Night Marsh' want you to think, too -- about the body, its frailties and our connection with nature.

By Diane Haithman
Times Staff Writer

Jun 16 2004

But what do you call the dress rehearsal?

Eric Kupers, co-director of Dandelion Dancetheater, acknowledges that the standard term for a final run-through doesn't quite apply when a dance company is performing completely nude. "It's a funny situation," he says, with some understatement.

Yet the problem of what to call the final rehearsal is dwarfed by comparison with the issues raised for both audiences and performers confronted with the naked truth in "Night Marsh," the culmination of a three-year undertaking by the Bay Area-based company that it dubbed the "Undressed Project."

"Night Marsh," which recently had its world premiere at UC Davis, will receive three performances this weekend at the Electric Lodge in Venice. And although choreographer Kupers says some spectators have shown up expecting titillation, both he and his dancers say the piece is less about sex than about slippery sweat and ice-cold floors, less about eroticism than the vulnerability of the human body.

Kupers has sought to include as many races, ages and body types as possible in the 16-member cast. One 25-year-old dancer, Jacques Poulin-Denis, had a foot amputated after an auto accident and performs using a prosthesis. He jokes that his disability seems to fade into the background when nudity takes center stage.

A key to the piece, Kupers says, is fat — a "body part" about which the dance world is notoriously in denial. "It reframes dance technique so it includes the soft parts of the body, wide hips and big breasts and big bellies," he says. "Fat can be a great partnering device — you can grab onto somebody's fat to guide them around or hold onto them. It's been a really interesting thing to explore."

Plus-size dancer Lucia August, 51, agrees. "Our culture says we are supposed to be thin and young, and I'm neither," she says. She adds that she felt liberated by a "fat improv" exercise Kupers took dancers through during the development of the work; the exercise became the inspiration for a solo piece by August. "Suddenly my fat had a voice," she says.

Although "Night Marsh" was created in residence at San Francisco's Jon Sims Center for the Arts — an organization that supports "artistic expressions of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer experience" — Kupers says the piece is not driven by homoerotic themes but, rather, challenges homophobia with some intimate same-sex partnering.

Kupers, 32, who co-directs Dandelion Dancetheater with Kamiko Guthrie, is not inexperienced in using socially or politically charged material in his work. A graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts, he met Guthrie when both were students at UC Santa Cruz, and the first dance they created together, in 1991, was an antiwar piece about the U.S. invading Iraq. They continued in the same vein when they formed their company in 1996.

Still, in the case of "Night Marsh," the choreographer's motivation was less political than practical. In a telephone interview, Kupers described himself as "recuperating" from a 2001 concert at Cal State Los Angeles when an idea for a new dance floated into his mind.

"I had some ideas movement-wise, but I couldn't figure out what costumes to use — costumes are always mysterious to me, how to come up with them," he recalled. "And I said, 'Well, why don't I do it without costumes, just do it naked?'

"At the time, I was doing a retreat at a Zen center in the middle of the woods [Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County] and feeling this real strong connection with nature, and thought it could be a way to bring nature into the theater," he continued. "And once we started working on it, gathering people for it, it became clear this was going to be a very loaded and charged project.

"Everybody has body issues," said Kupers, who also dances in the piece. "There were a lot of people whom I had always admired, and wanted my body to look like theirs — they wouldn't do it because they were 'too fat' or 'too hairy' or too something."

Kupers is quick to say that he is no exception to the rule. "I don't have a dancer body type — now, at least," he said. "Most of my dance career I spent in constant fear of gaining weight. And then when I started telling all the dancers they don't have to diet, I want their bodies just how they are, I said, 'I've got to do this too, I guess.' I felt like it really helped my dancing, because I just didn't care anymore."

Instead of working up to a "dress" rehearsal, Kupers says, he started the dancers off working in clothes, and they slowly peeled off layers as the project progressed. There were a lot of intense discussions about the intimate nature of the work — which, frankly, 23-year-old dancer Jezebel Lee could have done without. "How do I feel — at first I thought, 'This is so New Age-y. I hate this,' " she says. "But it kind of grew on me."

Still, Lee found nakedness a challenge for her own reasons: She prefers to dress in unisex or men's clothing, and often binds her breasts with elastic sports bras. When naked, she has no choice but to acknowledge her own feminine curves. She also sees some irony in the fact that some other company members choose to wear makeup so their faces will be attractive even as their bodies are exposed in all their natural glory — or lack of it.

Although "Night Marsh" is not about sex, some people have definitely perceived it that way. The police and the FBI had to be called to deal with e-mails that dancer Debby Kajiyama received from a man who threatened to bring a video camera to a performance and post the images on a porn website. "As a woman, I felt really vulnerable," she says.

Dancer April Taylor also felt vulnerable — but believes this chance to "bust out of the body" was well worth the experiment. "I think the piece stands up with or without clothes," she says. "It's also been hard and heartbreaking, to have the raw places exposed. What the physical body represents — nourishment and sex and elimination and contact and what we see and what we're told and what we want — whoa."

Adds Taylor, "It may at first be titillating or political, but once you see the piece you are just sort of moved and awestruck and humbled at what you've experienced in the landscape without clothes."

To China, a Canadian Is the West

2004-06-23T01:02:27Z

Mark Rowswell, who speaks Mandarin like a native, has become an advertising icon and a TV personality known to a billion viewers.
Rowswell’s fast-clipped, colloquial Mandarin has helped make him a curiosity to schoolchildren and adults as well as a media star.

By John M. Glionna
Times Staff Writer

June 21, 2004

BEIJING — The big, blue-eyed Canadian strides confidently into a concrete-floored classroom filled with disadvantaged students on the outskirts of this capital.

"Dashan! Dashan!" the second-graders shout in unison. Beaming, Mark Rowswell greets the children in a fast-clipped, colloquial Mandarin that even their teacher might have a hard time matching.

The students sit spellbound, listening to the near-flawless command of Chinese demonstrated by this 6-foot-tall cultural oddity, this outsider.

That's all it takes. Within moments, the unlikely homegrown celebrity known as Dashan, or Big Mountain, has won over yet another mainland audience.

Part curiosity, part domestic media star, Rowswell is China's most famous foreigner, enjoying a near-constant presence on Chinese television.

He appears regularly on nationally broadcast variety shows and is the host of his own programs. Officials of state-run TV and others estimate that Dashan is known to 80% of the population — more than 1 billion people — ranking him as one of the most recognized personalities on the planet.

Across this vast country, images of Dashan are everywhere. His smiling face flashes from billboards and buses from Tibet to Tiananmen Square, advertising alcohol and air conditioners, fertilizer and Western suits.

In the years since China fell for Rowswell in 1988, he has evolved from a mere lao wai, or foreign visitor, to a beloved public figure and cross-cultural ambassador, a celebrity with near-cult status.

The lanky Ottawa native, a virtual unknown in Canada, is most renowned for his Chinese TV appearances as the quick-witted foreigner who does amusing skits and the first Westerner to perform the ancient Chinese art of xiangsheng, or comedic dialogue.

The grandson of a former Anglican missionary in China, Rowswell, 39, is prospering in a society where TV performers work for minimal pay, earning his keep through lucrative advertising endorsements.

The Dashan character provides Rowswell with more than just a $500,000 annual income. Commuting several times each year between China and his home in Canada, he carries the personal satisfaction that his efforts may chip away at the Great Wall of cultural misunderstanding between China and the West.

"I try to bring to the Chinese a new image of foreigners that flies in the face of the stereotypes most have grown up with," he said.

Part of that public relations effort is to direct his star status toward social activism. Big Mountain appears in campaigns against smoking and suicide, and he has urged Chinese citizens to reduce global warming through energy conservation. The campaign included his recent visit to the elementary school on Beijing's outskirts to promote a government pilot program to bring regular education to the children of itinerant laborers.

Dashan's West-meets-East pitch is a natural sell all over China. In a place far from Hollywood, Rowswell is treated with a reverence reserved for the motion picture elite. Almost everywhere he goes, he is recognized by passersby — from cabbies and street vendors to government cadres who slow their limousines for a peek at Big Mountain.

He is mobbed in Beijing department stores. Passing bicyclists wave shyly. Some muster the courage to ask for an autograph or snap a picture.

Dashan is flooded with e-mail from admirers who want to become pen pals or insist that they know someone who resembles him. Mothers come bearing pictures of their daughters. Government officials call him on his cellphone to request guest appearances, and former President Jiang Zemin once commented on Rowswell's performances.

A former Canadian ambassador to China once was approached in Tibet by a waitress who gushed, "Canada, that's where Dashan lives!"

"Mark has done what few Westerners can: make the Chinese people laugh at themselves using their own language," said Ian Burchett, a spokesman for the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. "His appeal is phenomenal. It doesn't matter what their station in life, from peasant to city-dweller, everybody wants a piece of Dashan."

Big Mountain scaled the heights of Chinese celebrity almost by accident.

After numerous Chinese courses in Canada, Rowswell moved to China to pursue his language studies. Rowswell's teachers at Peking University volunteered the gifted foreign student to audition for a 1988 TV variety show. During the second performance of a skit before a university audience, he played a country bumpkin named Dashan.

The next day, a student greeted him by the stage name. Rowswell assumed the man had attended the performance. Then an elderly lady did the same thing. That's when Rowswell learned that the skit had been broadcast on government TV to 550 million viewers — an audience 15 times the population of his native Canada.

The opportunities multiplied. Rowswell winces now at some of those early gigs, such as the commercial pitching a tofu-based drink called dou zhir, known for its peculiar odor.

"It's basically fermented bean scum from the residue in the vat from making bean curd," he said. "And here was this foreigner saying he actually likes the stuff."

Rowswell got his big break after he hooked up with Jiang Kun, a celebrity master of xiangsheng, a centuries-old Chinese performance art. Rowswell became Jiang's apprentice, the first foreigner to train in the art form of "crosstalk."

Unlike Western comedians, Chinese performers don't tell a series of one-liners but prefer storytelling. Rowswell likens crosstalk to a Mandarin version of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine, based on rapid exchanges of puns and double-entendres.

"It's not quite on par with calligraphy or poetry, but crosstalk is a linguistic folk art, and I fell for it," he said.

The new xiangsheng team of Rowswell and Jiang debuted in 1988 on national television's New Year's Eve extravaganza, seen by 900 million people. Critics denounced Jiang for taking on a foreigner as a student, but they eventually came around.

"I was totally touched by his sincerity," said Jiang, who wrote a book called "My Foreign Apprentice Dashan." "He understands xiangsheng. He's not just a clown. He's doing real art."

Dashan's appeal seems to reach far beyond his mastery of an ancient language known for its falling and rising tones and seemingly indecipherable script.

For centuries, Chinese assumed that their closed culture was impenetrable to foreigners. Then came Dashan. Many joke that he is more Chinese than the Chinese themselves.

Close your eyes, natives say, and you'd think you were listening to a next-door neighbor who leans out his window to tell you a joke or ask about your mother-in-law — all in Beijing slang.

And the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, concluded in an article: "Although Dashan is a foreigner in China, he's not an outsider."

Saluting his gift for straddling two cultures, Time magazine in Canada once placed Rowswell on its list of people most likely to change the planet. Rowswell has consulted with Western businesses on the complexities of Chinese society and has hosted a national radio program introducing Western music to the Chinese.

"Dashan likes Chinese culture and seems to prefer it — he is even married to a Chinese wife," said Guan Shijie, an associate professor of cross-cultural communications at Peking University. "He came to China at a time when we needed a cultural bridge."

Tall, with blond hair and a high forehead, Dashan epitomizes for many Chinese what an attractive Westerner is supposed to look like.

"He's just got a face that Chinese people instantly feel comfortable with," Guan said.

Rowswell believes that the connection goes beyond language. It's his image as a Canadian, a refreshing blend of honesty, integrity and a down-to-Earth, nice-guy friendliness — qualities the Chinese revere.

"If all it took was being a tall, blond-haired guy who spoke decent Mandarin, there'd be 100 Dashans by now," he said. "Part of my appeal is that I'm a little nerdy, a bit too rounded at the edges. I'm Canadian. And to the Chinese, that means unthreatening."

Yet not everyone sees Big Mountain as benign. His mastery of Mandarin is the bane of other Westerners trying to decipher a difficult foreign tongue. Dashan often plays the scapegoat for their frustrations.

"His is probably the best Chinese ever spoken by a foreigner," said John Pasden, who writes a Shanghai-based Web log. "But it's aggravating to anyone seriously studying Chinese. You'll meet somebody and they'll say in a patronizing tone of voice, 'Oh, you speak Chinese. Ha! Ha! But have you heard Dashan?'

"It's like you're a high school sophomore who's decided to take up weight training and people say, 'Oh really? Arnold Schwarzenegger lifts weights too, you know.' "

Critics have labeled Dashan a sellout for his perceived close ties to the Chinese government.

Rowswell scoffs at such assertions, saying the government has never suggested he take political stances on issues such as the status of Taiwan or Tibet or on East-West relations. And he wouldn't do it, even if asked.

"China is full of democratic missionaries pressing their cause," he said. "Would we Westerners want the Chinese telling us how to solve our social and political problems? While I'm part of Chinese society, I'm not Chinese. I'm only a guest here, a visitor."

Even as he rides a steady wave of popularity, Rowswell works to keep his Big Mountain character fresh.

Dashan has evolved from a bumpkin to a foreigner who slowly becomes more Chinese and often uses his wit to turn the tables on his hosts.

He plays an Italian Renaissance artist in China in a new TV series. He has written children's stories and will host a Saturday night show in which he introduces Western movies such as "The Mask" and "Batman." Rowswell is also taking Dashan on the road to Chinese audiences in Malaysia and elsewhere.

And he has expanded his activist role. Amid a crush of TV cameras during his visit to the elementary school, he played pingpong, posed for pictures and read a nursery rhyme to students in both Chinese and English. He greeted each child and asked them to teach him a phrase in their own dialects.

Later, he did somersaults in the schoolyard in front of scores of students.

"Can we give Uncle Dashan a grade?" they shouted. "We give him 100!"

Rowswell hopes such visits blur the distinctions between East and West.

"All this mystery about China has been blown out of proportion," he said. "The human experience has become pretty universal. I think people should come and spend some time in China before making any judgments about the place."

Rowswell lives in Toronto with his wife and two children and travels to China for extended visits half a dozen times each year, when he tapes his TV shows and makes his appearances.

But the world is closing in on him.

Recently, a Chinese fan took a picture of him at a mall in Toronto, where he once was able to bask in anonymity.

"Not long ago, this Chinese guy e-mailed me his picture, insisting that we were look-alikes," Rowswell said. "I looked at the photo. I didn't see the similarity."

Naked students in rollercoaster world record

2004-06-05T05:11:05Z

I saw this a week or so ago but in case you missed it:

Around 100 students from 15 universities have stripped off to create a new world record for the most naked people on a rollercoaster.

Read the rest plus pictures at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_962823.html

Is monogamy natural? What is your opinion?

2003-09-13T18:46:42Z

Here is an interesting article about the subject http://slate.msn.com/id/2087897/

Do you think that monogamy is natural?

What is the definition of Asian Fetish?

2003-09-13T18:42:10Z

What is the definition of Asian Fetish?

Here is what I wrote:

I think that "Asian Fetish" is open to a lot of interpretation.

I have heard some people say that it only applies to non-Asians and it is not considered an Asian Fetish for an Asian guy to exclusively be interested in Asian women.

"Asian Fetish" also tends to have negative connotations associated with it especially from comments I have heard from Asian women who say they don't want to be involved with someone who is interested them in large part because they are Asian.

What is your definition of Asian Fetish? I would be particularly interested in Yuki's definition but also others as well.

Yuki reponded:

asian fetish.. as in sexually intrigued. or just that you like asian looking people. asian guys who only exclusively like asian girls (or the opposite) may not considered that they have asian fetish, but what word are there to explain that?

and then I reponded:

Yuki, thanks for your reply! :)

Okay, by your (Yuki's) definition, I have an Asian fetish but then again I am sexually intrigued by women of all races not just Asian. I am an equal opportunity perv (with the exception of most blondes which I find too fake)! j/k

It makes me wonder how many people do not find Asian women to be attractive. Outside of Asia, there does seem to be a lack of Asian representation in the modeling world, beauty pageants, etc. The discrimination may be due to height requirements in those cases but I think the tall skinny supermodel look is too unrealistic.

Playboy always claims to go for the girl next door look and I guess that most people in the US at least don't have an Asian girl living next door (outside of California, Hawaii, NYC, etc.). Then again, how many people have a busty blonde living next door?

I don't know what word to describe an Asian exclusively being attracted to other Asians since they claim that they are just normal but it seems a bit ethnocentric. For instance, there are still many Asian guys who do not like to see an Asian women with a non-Asian guy.

One theory says that people tend to look for a mate who reminds them of their Mom or Dad so that may explain why some people are only attracted to people of the same ethnicity.

Imagine

2003-09-11T09:16:44Z

I wasn't planning to post anything about 9/11 but thinking about it just now made me wish for a more peaceful world.

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one