'Imagine - The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson'
Posted by: J.N. on 26 November 2015
Anyone else see this delightful film/documentary in the 'Imagine' arts strand on the Beeb? He's a fascinating, well-read and erudite man our Mr John Wilkinson. The film is visually beautiful too.
It's available on iPlayer.
John.
Yes, it was very good. Nice to see Charlie Chan (his real name), hi-fi lover, a regular contributor over on the fishy place, and now the saver of Wilco's life.
The film even managed to make Canvey Island look interesting - no mean achievement!
Excellent really enjoyed it. Even Wilco was a little tongue tied over his great fortune, of being given a second "go".
Missed it. Bugger! Hopefully to be repeated.
iPlayer is your friend.
Missed it. Bugger! Hopefully to be repeated.
I'm sure it'll be on iPlayer.
Yep. Thanks guys. That's one to watch this week end.
I would have enjoyed it had it not been for yentob popping up every now and then and the arty farty Bergmanesque way it was shot and edited.
The funny thing is I understand where Wilko is coming from even though I myself am not terminally ill. my accident and the subsequent disability/illness problems that have left me bed bound for the last 7 years has been the making off me. It has completely changed my outlook on life and the way I live it.
I had suffered for decades from depression, Its gone, completely, my GP was stunned into silence when she read the shrinks report, she just can't understand how a guy who is confined 24/7 to a bed in a 14ft x 10ft space, relying on others to care for him whilst dealing with illness and chronic pain can be happy and content and not be depressed or lonely.
The answer is simple really, you hit a cross roads when something like this happens to you, you either go down the road of bitterness and anger, why me, etc etc, or you take the fork that leads to acceptance, this for me lead to the determination to make the most of what I can, while I can. I also found that in order to take that path I had to face myself, who I am, what I am and why I am and all the difficult questions we never want to ask of ourselves.
Now I find like Wilko, a new found joy in the smallest of things, its almost like looking at the world through a childs eyes, all that wonder and awe we found in everything around us when children has returned and along with it the ability to use my imagination as I did when a small boy.
There is delight and wonder all around us, often in the smallest and seemingly insignificant of things, we just have to learn how to see it again and sadly for me that meant like Wilko having a life changing event/incident. Isn't it a shame that it takes something like that to let us see the truth.
PS sorry for hijacking things a bit, I just felt I had to say all that.