Ah well...
Being Human fanfic rec:
The Vampire Lestat Lied To Me (And So Did Edward Cullen) . The content of which can't be described without spoilers for the s3 finale, so I shall hide it . In which the vampires successfully recruit Detective Nancy, Annie helps her stay off blood with the cunning use of tea, and being a vampire is nothing like it is in the films. Delightful to read, as is this author's wont.
60s anecdote to make you go faceapalm of the day: Bob Dylan's way of responding to being turned down. Quoth Marianne Faithfull:
“Apparently Bob Dylan spent days and days writing a poem for me in 1964 and I think it was understood in his circle that I would go to bed with him. I mean, I presume that’s the intention when you’re a very pretty girl and you go to a big star’s bedroom, isn’t it? But I didn’t realise this at the time because I was just a silly teenager and it was all a bit much. Actually I very much wanted to go to bed with him, but I was pregnant and about to get married [to John Dunbar] at the time. I told him all this and he was furious and ripped the poem up in front of me. We are still very fond of each other and still talk about that night. I’ll always say to him, ‘But Bob, I was only 17’ and he always says, ‘Yeah, but I was only 22 myself!’” The sad thing for me was not that we didn't go to bed together, but that I never got to see that poem."
Now, one could make observations about the sexual standards of the day and/or Dylan's passive-aggressiveness, but what I'd rather ask a question of conscience: would you, dear reader, have had sex with Bob Dylan at age 22 if you got your very own Dylan poem/song out of it?
Unsolved Beatles mystery of the day with theory of solution presented by yours truly:
What you see here, faithful viewers, is one Paul McCartney with Linda at one side and Denny Laine on the other, in 1975, holding... the John Lennon/Yoko Ono Two Virgins album from 1968 in his hand. (You know, the one with the nude cover and recorded during their first night together.) Now, Paul depicted holdling a new Lennon album would make some sense (they kept an eagle eye on each other's output post break-up at the worst of times, and by 1975 they were on visiting and hanging out with terms again). But Two Virgins? Which wasn't even released in large quantities so that by 1975, you really had to do some detective work to get a hold on a copy? The hell?
Boring solution: a fan gave it to him to sign. Either because the fan had a dark sense of humour or because, well, there is a Paul quote printed on the cover of this John/Yoko event. ("When two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience.")
More interesting solution: May Pang mentions in her memoirs that John had her go to Beatle conventions, specifically tasking her to buy up Two Virgins albums "to get them out of circulation". (This proved fortunate because at the first convention she visited, she encountered John's old Hamburg buddy Jürgen Vollmer who was selling his photos of the young Beatles in Hamburg. Thus Vollmer reestablished contact with John, and his photo of a young John Lennon leaning against a door became the cover of John's Rock'n Roll album.) Never mind fans having a wicked sense of humour, John definitely had one. Do I believe him capable of presenting Paul with one of those out-of-circulation albums? You betcha.
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The Vampire Lestat Lied To Me (And So Did Edward Cullen) . The content of which can't be described without spoilers for the s3 finale, so I shall hide it . In which the vampires successfully recruit Detective Nancy, Annie helps her stay off blood with the cunning use of tea, and being a vampire is nothing like it is in the films. Delightful to read, as is this author's wont.
60s anecdote to make you go faceapalm of the day: Bob Dylan's way of responding to being turned down. Quoth Marianne Faithfull:
“Apparently Bob Dylan spent days and days writing a poem for me in 1964 and I think it was understood in his circle that I would go to bed with him. I mean, I presume that’s the intention when you’re a very pretty girl and you go to a big star’s bedroom, isn’t it? But I didn’t realise this at the time because I was just a silly teenager and it was all a bit much. Actually I very much wanted to go to bed with him, but I was pregnant and about to get married [to John Dunbar] at the time. I told him all this and he was furious and ripped the poem up in front of me. We are still very fond of each other and still talk about that night. I’ll always say to him, ‘But Bob, I was only 17’ and he always says, ‘Yeah, but I was only 22 myself!’” The sad thing for me was not that we didn't go to bed together, but that I never got to see that poem."
Now, one could make observations about the sexual standards of the day and/or Dylan's passive-aggressiveness, but what I'd rather ask a question of conscience: would you, dear reader, have had sex with Bob Dylan at age 22 if you got your very own Dylan poem/song out of it?
Unsolved Beatles mystery of the day with theory of solution presented by yours truly:
What you see here, faithful viewers, is one Paul McCartney with Linda at one side and Denny Laine on the other, in 1975, holding... the John Lennon/Yoko Ono Two Virgins album from 1968 in his hand. (You know, the one with the nude cover and recorded during their first night together.) Now, Paul depicted holdling a new Lennon album would make some sense (they kept an eagle eye on each other's output post break-up at the worst of times, and by 1975 they were on visiting and hanging out with terms again). But Two Virgins? Which wasn't even released in large quantities so that by 1975, you really had to do some detective work to get a hold on a copy? The hell?
Boring solution: a fan gave it to him to sign. Either because the fan had a dark sense of humour or because, well, there is a Paul quote printed on the cover of this John/Yoko event. ("When two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience.")
More interesting solution: May Pang mentions in her memoirs that John had her go to Beatle conventions, specifically tasking her to buy up Two Virgins albums "to get them out of circulation". (This proved fortunate because at the first convention she visited, she encountered John's old Hamburg buddy Jürgen Vollmer who was selling his photos of the young Beatles in Hamburg. Thus Vollmer reestablished contact with John, and his photo of a young John Lennon leaning against a door became the cover of John's Rock'n Roll album.) Never mind fans having a wicked sense of humour, John definitely had one. Do I believe him capable of presenting Paul with one of those out-of-circulation albums? You betcha.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/670208.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.