Rob Corddry

Rob Corddry Instagram – I was nine, in bed sick when I heard my family reacting to something on TV. Soon after, my mother (I assume, but I don’t remember) told me that John Lennon had been killed outside his home. It didn’t make sense then and it still doesn’t. Every time I’m reminded of it there’s a fraction of time I have to spend organizing reality. It happened this morning when my wife reminded me what day it was and it happened again just now when my 11yo daughter told Alexa to play Imagine. I tried to explain to her why it doesn’t make sense and she was very polite but in the end, it does make sense to her. It’s history. Then she played the soundtrack to that movie Yesterday where the Beatles don’t exist, and I suddenly wondered if the reason I had spontaneously burst into tears when the kid shows up at John’s house was because that world made more sense to me than this one. Maybe that’s the right world! And if that’s the right world, ours is wrong and if so, I’m happy to shoulder my way through this janky timeline if it means John gets to live. It makes me happy to think about it… all the potential worlds with their potential Johns living out some particular shade of his character. So many John’s is more fun to imagine than no Johns. I tried, and it was in fact easy. | Posted on 09/Dec/2019 11:16:37