I always liked this song: Two of us riding nowhere spending someone’s hard earned pay You and me Sunday driving Not arriving on our way back home We’re on our way back home We’re on our way home We’re going home Two of us sending postcards writing letters on my wall You and me burningContinue reading “On “Two of Us””
Category Archives: Beatles
On “Now and Then”
A week ago I came across this on a Beatles blog I read occasionally — someone has done a video for the John Lennon demo of “Now and Then,” the song the surviving Beatles worked on in the 1990s and left unfinished. The version of the song in the video is intriguing. It’s a decentContinue reading “On “Now and Then””
On Martin Scorsese’s New Film
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has signed to make a documentary on the life of George Harrison. Olivia Harrison said: “It would have given George great joy to know that Martin Scorsese has agreed to tell his story.” As well as Harrison’s time in The Beatles, the film will look at his solo career and movieContinue reading “On Martin Scorsese’s New Film”
On the Across the Universe Soundtrack
Lunch break. Best Buy. The Across the Universe 2-disc soundtrack. Mine! My precious! Err… I’m listening to Bono doing “I am the Walrus” and it’s… good! Now, Eddie Izzard is doing “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” I am content. I am more than content. I am splendiforous! 🙂 This movie had so betterContinue reading “On the Across the Universe Soundtrack”
On Time and Music
I’ve recently added my John Lennon collection to the computer’s hard drive. How long is it? Try fourteen hours. It’ll be up to sixteen when/if I get the last two discs of the Lennon Anthology on the drive. When I do that, though, I’d then drop back to fifteen hours — there’s no need toContinue reading “On Time and Music”
On Today’s Exciting Find
Found today. Kinfauns. A CD of demoes the Beatles recorded prior to the White Album sessions. Some of these tracks appeared on Beatles Anthology 3, but there’s twenty-odd others that didn’t. I haven’t seen this CD in a year. A year! Ah, listening to “Child of Nature” now. There’s a flamenco style to John’s guitarContinue reading “On Today’s Exciting Find”
On Brian Epstein
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article on Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles. He died of a drug overdose, forty years ago today. He was thirty-three. You read a book on the Beatles, and he’s there, in the background. Usually, it’s something salacious about his personal life — Brian was a homosexual in aContinue reading “On Brian Epstein”
On Reading “The Twelfth Album”
I wrote earlier in the month about putting together “God,” the Beatles album from Stephen Baxter’s alternate history story, “The Twelfth Album.” The Wikipedia article on the story gave the track line-up, and it was easy to put together the playlist in Windows. But I hadn’t read the story. Thankfully, I found a used copyContinue reading “On Reading “The Twelfth Album””
On “God”
About ten years ago Stephen Baxter wrote an alternate history story entitled “The Twelfth Album.” Its premise? Two guys, going through a dead coworkers effects, discover a mysterious, impossible LP — a Beatles album entitled “God.” The cover was elementally simple: just a black field, with a single word rendered in a white typewriter fontContinue reading “On “God””
On Weird Fandom Questions
Stolen from novelist David McIntee: Name six of your fandoms without looking below the cut, then answer the questions. Okie-day! I’m interpretting “fandom” broadly—I like bands, I like books, I like television shows. So, broad definitions here. My six are: Hellboy The Beatles Doctor Who The Lord of the Rings Star Trek Boston Legal AndContinue reading “On Weird Fandom Questions”