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orangerful

another Beatle-ful weekend

Feb 16, 2014 23:16

Had my highly anticipated (well, by me) Beatles program on Saturday. Considering that we had our big snow storm on Thursday and Friday things were still a mess, I'm happy with the group I had on Saturday. I had about 18 people total, mostly parents and young kids. One little girl, about 9 years old I think, was a HUGE fan, had her t-shirt on any ( Read more... )

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poniesandphotos February 17 2014, 06:04:12 UTC

Wait...there is a conspiracy about Paul being dead?

Glad the program had a good group, sounds like that nine year old is an awesome kid. Take her under your wing and turn her into a mini-future-librarian!

orangerful February 18 2014, 02:30:32 UTC

Did you not know about that?? Or are you teasing me? Sarcasm can be hard on the internet!

LOL I should. She already has the skills - she loves the Beatles, she is a little bit bossy, and I have seen her at the local coffee shop. hahaha. At least i know her name now!

poniesandphotos February 18 2014, 23:21:02 UTC

To be honest I don't have much back-story info on the Beatles. I like their music but I haven't really read much about them or paid much attention. :( My bad.

orangerful February 19 2014, 02:53:25 UTC

ah okay :) I sorta immersed myself in Beatles for several years so I'm never sure what is common knowledge and what comes from being a crazy fangirl.

Short version: when Abbey Road was released, fans started to see "secret messages" on the album cover alluding to the fact that Paul was not Paul. They then went back and decided that, according to these messages, the real Paul died in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike (which is why the Beatles had to stop touring). It gets more and more ridiculous from there, as you would imagine. :)

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geekslave February 17 2014, 07:21:20 UTC

That would be cool to make it a yearly thing.

I think I'd heard something vaguely about the Paul is dead thing, but didn't realize people thought Paul McCartney was dead and the one walking around now is an impostor.

Stacey

orangerful February 18 2014, 02:32:12 UTC

oh yeah, it's CRAZY! Been going since "Abbey Road", though they say Paul "died" in 1966 in a car crash and that they hired a look-alike, which was why they had to stop touring. I just love that LIFE magazine went out and found Paul on vacation in Scotland and made him do an interview to "prove" he was alive. See, fandom has always been made of crazy. :)

geekslave February 18 2014, 05:32:48 UTC

LOL. Interviewing a guy just to confirm he's still alive. Yep, crazy. :)

Stacey

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orangerful February 18 2014, 02:33:56 UTC

We are halfway through Disc 3, just watched the Echolls Family Christmas, which I could NOT remember the twist to so I was waiting to see who stole the money!

Still can't stand Logan. Ugh. Was wondering if I just needed to rewatch the show to "get" the whole Veronica/Logan thing but...nope. Don't like him.

andy_wolverton February 17 2014, 12:35:42 UTC

Glad the program was good! Wish I could've been there. I remember my brother telling me about the whole Paul is Dead thing when I was a kid, showing me all the clues on Abbey Road. (My brother is 12 years older than me, so I was probably 8 and he was 20 at the time.) That was probably my first exposure to any sort of conspiracy theory... I'm just glad Chris Carter hasn't done anything with this (yet!).

I got TUNE IN for my birthday and hope to start it soon. Just finished the new Rolling Stones book, so I'll probably wait a few weeks. I know so little of the early *early* days of the Beatles, I'm really looking forward to reading it.

orangerful February 18 2014, 02:35:04 UTC

LOL it would make a fabulous episode of...something. Someone should do something on another show that homages the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy. It really would be easy to get sucked into it all.

I may make you write up Cliff Notes for me from Tune In. Seems like a HUGE commitment!!!

rhoda_rants February 17 2014, 16:13:13 UTC

That sounds like so much fun! I don't really buy into the Paul Is Dead stuff, but it is fascinating. People are very good at reading "signs" into ordinary minutia if they get an idea into their heads. I think you might be right about John though--he's the original Trolling Creator. "Well here's another clue for you all / The Walrus was Paul." Yeeeeeah, he was messing with fans' heads, definitely.

I was surprised how much of the Beatles facts were still buried in my brain.
Seriously. I watched my Ed Sullivan DVD with Mom last week, and there were these captions with the boys' names, and when it got to John it also said, "Sorry girls, he's married," or something. Mom said, "Wait, he was already married? Who came before Yoko?" And I busted out this bit of trivia: "Yeah, this girl Cynthia--they were in art school together back in Liverpool. [pause] Why the hell do I know that?"

orangerful February 18 2014, 02:37:27 UTC

The speaker said that art teachers LOVE his lecture because it teaches students to examine and interpret the art of the album and the art of the music, which I thought was a pretty cool approach.

LOL you didn't say "Yeah, this girl Cynthia that he knocked up back in Liverpool who gave birth to Julian who drew the picture that inspired 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and is the "Jude" of "Hey Jude"" ?? Or was that too much information? LOL. ;-)

rhoda_rants February 18 2014, 02:42:28 UTC

Dude, dude, DUDE, keep an eye on my page, because I'm shortly going to post a video dissecting the poetic meter of several Beatles songs that will BLOW YOUR MIIIIIND.

And lol, no, but I could have. I always thought it was sad that John didn't write any songs for his first son, and yet . . . Paul did.