Keanu Reeves, Ode to Happiness
Wow. $1500 for a used copy on Amazon
Keanu Reeves wasn’t trying to write a book.
It started as a joke.
Just Keanu being Keanu.
He was hanging out in his kitchen with his friend Janey, and the radio was playing an endless stream of horrible, depressing music.
So he grabbed a piece of paper and started writing a depressing poem.
As he was writing it, Janey was laughing at how absurd it was.
“I was in my kitchen hanging out with my friend Janey, and the radio was on — and this station was playing, like, an orgy of depressing, self-pitying, nostalgic music. You know: ‘I’m so lonely and I’ve been left and my heart is broken.’ It was so voluptuously horrible.
And I just started to write on this piece of paper, because I had this image of, you know, that moment when you take that bath, you light that candle, and you’re really just kind of depressed.
And it was making…
