I Wish, I Was … #2
September 22nd, 2006 | Published in I Wish I Was | 2 Comments
For just a single day, I would like to be Iggy Pop. The Godfather of Punk. A living legend with an active recording career going back to 1969. I would have done it all many times over and never sold out in the name of money. Not that I would feel a need to talk about any of that, really. I did the drugs and lived the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, so what.
Maybe I would give my old friend, David Bowie, a call and see if he’d be up for a jam-session. Or maybe a thrown-together club gig in Berlin. And if Bowie didn’t have time to play, I’d just take my guitar and play a while on some sidewalk, somewhere. But no matter what, I would definitely play some music. How could I not?
But for a while, I would just walk around in that gangly body of mine. A body that has seen so much punishment but which still works better than many other bodies of the same vintage. I’d stop at a decent, but not too posh restaurant. Being Iggy, I would be able to do all of that without a million bodyguards or fear of being stalked to death by paparazzi. In spite of the name, he is not a pop-icon who will be featured in the next issue of People magazine, where they will wonder who he is secretly dating. Iggy is a wild one. As in untamed and free from bullshit. I would feel what that would be like. I wish, I was Iggy Pop. Just for a day.
September 25th, 2006at 3:52 am(#)
It is enough good that you are not usual, ordinary. If you’d like to be him, you can follow his ideas,manner of dressing,appearance, but don’t forget that imitation is a self-destruction. However you may answer with the words of Diane Ackerman - I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. I think you know what to do, but the last advice - Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely. - Chinese Proverb (from http://www.allsydneyhotels.org/hotel/countries/catal_hotels.php?status=4)
September 25th, 2006at 10:49 am(#)
I don’t think you really got the point of my post. But thank you for sharing a good quote and a very troe proverb as well.