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december 17. 2004 z J l l S t O U t r* Imagine that Yoko Ono visualizes world peace n the last issue 1 quizzed readers on Beatles songs with gender-bending references. Shamefully, I left out “The Ballad o f John and Yoko,” which features the lyrics, “The newspapers said she’s gone to his head/They look just like two gurus in drag.” Christ, you know it ain’t easy. So 1 decided to call up Yoko to apologize for my embarrass ing omission. Private Club 18+ Open 2 4 /7 mmwmmmmm I e Selection of v « mm, v * 3 F u l l - l e n g t h F e a t u r e s E v e r y d a y in 2 T h e a t e r s R e g u l a r A d u l t F i l m s in O n e A L L M A L E in O t h e r Jim's Closet t turns out she’s pretty queer-savvy for a 71 -year-old. Sure, she was tight with Andy “ It was getting OK, and then this year it Warhol, Allen Ginsherg, William S. was very difficult for some reason,” she said. Burroughs and Keith Haring, hut she’s become “I’m just being my best every day, being alive, quite the fag hag in her golden years. searching inside o f my soul more than search Last year Yoko and Yo La Tengo collaborat ing outside.” ed on the rousing “ Hedwig’s Lament/Exquisite Corpse” for the Portland- produced charity album Wig e never did get around in a Box. And last month she to talking about “The reached the top of the dance Ballad o f John and charts with a same-sex Yoko,” but as a man from the version o f 1980’s “ Every Man psess, I’d like to borrow a line Has a Woman W h o Loves from the 1969 classic: “ It’s Him.” good to have the both o f you “Suddenly, the adminis hack.” tration started saying that Happy Xmas, Yoko. JH they’re going to change the Constitution?” Yoko told me Arts and Culture Editor from her New York office. J im R a d o s t a needs “They thought that would he your feedback. Write to* “War is over...if you want it" very hot to put it in there so jim@justout.com. that people had to deal with that instead o f any other issue. It’s a good political move, hut it was used for that, in a way. It’s really a human rights issue, so then I . ■ Another counterculture figure from had to stand up— I felt that I really had to.” i the ’60s seems to he everywhere As if that’s not enough reason to win our these days. Bob Dylan is the subject hearts, she recently updated “Give Peace a o f a new autobiography, Chronicles, V d. I ; Chance” for Wake Up Everybody, a compilation an exhibit o f music, rare artifacts and film at to benefit America Coming Together. Could it Seattle’s Experience Music Project through be that, more than four decades into her career, Sept. 5; and a display at Portland’s Photographic one of pop culture’s most misunderstotxJ artists Image Gallery through Jan. 31. is finally getting her due? The legendary musician, who has reinvent “ It was funny because when I made ‘Walking ed himself repeatedly throughout his career, is on Thin Ice’ and I just finished the track, John also the focus o f queer director Todd Haynes’ said, ‘It’s your first No. 1, Yoko.’ I thought after recently completed screenplay— a nonlinear, wards, ‘Well, you were wrong,’ ” she said. “We nonliteral biopic that tells Dylan’s life story were both kind o f people who saw the future.” through seven separate characters. Portland That’s an understatement. I told her how gets to take some credit for the project: I’ve been obsessing over John Lennon’s 1984 The man behind Far from Heaven and Velvet release “Nobody Told M e” since the “re” Goldmine was on a cross-country road trip from election o f President Bush, hut even spookier is New York to Oregon when he found himself the single’s flip side, where Yoko sings, “ I don’t craving Dylan’s music. know what to do with my sanity when the “ 1 associate it with adolescent energy, where world’s at the verge o f calamity.” I wondered if anything’s possible,” Haynes said Dec. 15 at a she still feels this sense o f looming doom. taping o f OPB’s sketch-comedy show Live Wire! “Yeah,” she said bluntly. “ But I think we can “So much can happen when you’re alone in still hack it. I think we can move it and survive.” your car.” But how, Yoko? Haynes moved here in 2000 to join his “Visualizing— that creates reality. This is an sister, Wendy, frontwoman for the band Sophe age where it’s very difficult to focus on some Lux. Listen in on the creative sibs when Live thing because there’s so many gadgets around Wire! airs Christmas Day. (See Page 28 for out there, hut we just have to, even if it’s for details.) two seconds a day. Just focusing on that— that we are going to he all right, and we are going As an editor o f Just Out, I’m normal- to survive, and we’re going to have world ly the tine exposing others, so the peace. It’s going to he a beautiful world.... tables were turned on me during a “Ninety percent of the world is really wanting Strip Jeopardy! face-off with world peace, and they’re peaceful people. Only The Portland Mercury Dec. 9 at the gay-owned 10 percent is messing up the whole place with N o Fish! 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