Alternate Reality Beatles: John Lennon Never Died.

Last night a couple of buddies and I frequented our local shisha haunt. We usually talk about meaningless fluff; football, music, films, last night's events, women (sorry girls)...but for some reason topics last night took an altogether different tone; the downright bizarre. So there we were, discussing 'science'. I know this sounds ambiguous, but even I couldn't tell you exactly what on Earth we were talking about (although Earth was discussed). All of a sudden my friend pipes up; "What do you guys think of alternate realities?". Fair question. We shrugged. I told him how much I liked the TV show 'Fringe', and my other mate, a physics graduate, pondered the theory of their being an infinite amount of dimensions and whether alternate realities are self-propagating within each 'alternate universe'. Kinda like those Russian babushka dolls. So my friend patiently listens for us to finish before saying; "Here's a funny story. My friend linked me to this website about a man who claims to have 'fell down the rabbit hole' into one of these alternate realities where the Beatles were still touring". I responded "link me to that shit".

Well, he didn't, so I had to Google it myself. Sure enough, I found the website in question. The address is thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com and the dude that wrote it makes some pretty outlandish claims. Anyhow, the gist of the story is that this man was out driving in the desert one day and got out to pee. Somehow, he managed to tumble over and hit his head, rendering him unconscious. He awoke, apparently, to find that he had been taken in to a man's house whom, through commercially available alternate dimension technology, saw that the man on 'our side' was injured and crossed over to help. They chatted about music, and he found out that the Beatles were actually alive and well; John Lennon hadn't been assassinated in this reality and was still touring with the band. So they listened to Beatles albums which were never released and this dude's saviour fed him purple ketchup. I shit you not. When it was time to leave he asked if he could take one of the Beatles' cassettes with him, to prove that he'd crossed over (apparently CDs hadn't taken off in this universe) but the man forbade him for some reason. Cut a long story short, this guy managed to nab one of the tapes and take it back with him. He then uploaded it on his website with his story.

So all of today I've been listening to the Beatles from an alternate reality, and actually they're pretty good. If you too wish to hear what the Beatles might have sounded like in the future go to the link above and you can find the download link on the left. But our random philosophical conversation over shisha was pretty surreal. I was half expecting the creepy voice from the 'Outer Limits' to chime in with the obligatorily vague yet frightening analysis. "Perhaps the descent into madness...is not a solitary journey...after all...".