Had a good weekend and Columbus day. The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour was remastered and re-released, and a theater nearby was doing a screening, so The Dude, The Dude's folks, and I went to witness the monstrosity in all its glory. It was better than I remember! Even entertaining!

Seeing Paul McCartney tonight! The god descends to the mortal realm!


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Ok, this is the greatest skit and song ever, even without the awesome that is Paul McCartney.

And on a related note, I have successfully converted Pete, who now is rapture of Paul McCartney's sex appeal. Oh you foxy grandpa you. It makes me so happy that Paul's still a goofball.

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Here's one of the Beatles' music videos - They called them promo videos back then, but the premise is the same (and yep, another first - the invented the music video). This one's one of my favorite - John and Paul are adorably goofy. He keeps mugging at the camera and making faces at Paul, who giggles back. The camera has to keep cutting over to ( Read more... )

A day late - I was crazy sick last night when I got home from school and just lay on the couch and tried not to die.

Anyway, here's another quote from when they were just starting to get big. I love how honest and modest they are here; no one expected them to be big, especially not the lads themselves. From October 3, 1963 for BBC Radio (Beatles ( Read more... )

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"Yer Blues" is a kick ass rock and roll jam that illustrates John Lennon's darker side. He suffered from depression his whole life, an illness that stemmed from his fear of abandonment. He had good reason for this insecurity: as a small child, his parents took him down to the beach and then made him decided between them. After he chose his ( Read more... )

From an interview from August 28, 1963 for the BBC (Beatles Interviews DatabaseJOHN: "'How long are you gonna last?' Well, you can't say, you know. You can be big-headed and say, 'Yeah, we're gonna last ten years.' But as soon as you've said that you think, 'We're lucky if we last three months,' you know ( Read more... )

John's birthday's coming up - He would have been 70 this year. There are all sorts of memorial concerts and shows going on this week in celebration; and not one to miss a chance to proclaim my love of him and the Beatles, I'm going to post quotes, videos, songs, whatevers to mark the 8 days leading up to his birthday ( Read more... )