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― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
why it's as simple as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28!
― Z S, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
28!
Blimey, that's 304888344611713860501504000000
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Doctor Casino, that's the one...I love when Paul sings John songs and vice versa
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Along those lines, I wasn't aware of this version until the last year or so, even though it appeared to be common knowledge for most everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5yzdCa2GE
That Richard Starkey's a helluva songwriter.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's my favourite Ringo solo tune!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
And then there's George changing the lyrics again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeP2713TRA
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for recommending You Never Give Me Your Money. Thought I could never read another Beatles book again but really enjoying this.
Yep. Can't recommend it enough. Reading it, you think, "Oh man, this band really got screwed...waitaminit...'this band' is the Beatles."OTM. I kept having this weird thought like "Oh I see, this is some sort of fan fiction: what if they Beatles had a really acrimonious breakup and... oh wait"
You may get a headache trying to keep the maze of lawyers and meetings straight ("On Tuesday, Ringo met with Paul's lawyer, who set up a separate offshore holding corporation for George's publishing, 2/3rds of which were under the control of Dick James, whose publishing company was a subsidiary of EMI and subject to tax withholding, but not if 4/5ths of it was buried under the third quadrant of Atlantis. Then John called Paul an asshole.")
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:22 AM (3 days ago)This is a pretty accurate description. For the purposes of telling this story this actually kind of works, as if all the lawyering is some kind of displacement for the internal turmoil going on between them and every once in a while a fact or proper noun from the waking life seeps into the legalistic dreamworld, for me it read like: Lawyer, lawyer, publishing, lawyer, Klein, lawyer, lawyer, All Things Must Pass, lawyer, Nilsson, lawyer, May Pang, lawyer, Eastman, lawyer, NIlsson, Chapman, Moon, lawyer, Isaac Asimov (!), lawyer ...
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
Suddenly, everyone became amazingly litigious. I remember I'd get up in the morning. Sue someone. Check in the papers that I hadn't been fired. Go to the office. Sue someone. Pick up the morning's writs. Sue the bank. Go out for lunch. Sue the restaurant. Get back in, collect the writs that had been received that afternoon. Read the papers. Phone the papers. Sue the papers. Then go home. Sue the wife.
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Isaac Asimov?
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Myonga quoting steve martin there?
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Had to look it up. It's from All You Need Is Cash, the Rutles movie, which I have seen many times, the art of pretend forgetfulness, embarrassed to say. Guess it's time to watch it again.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
lol it just reads like something from one of Martin's early books
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Have you never seen that movie, Shakey? You should, it might cheer you up. I would lend you my copy if you weren't on the other side of the country. I will have to lend it to Hurting instead.
Asimov wrote a film treatment on Macca's request. The story is kind of funny. Maybe I will type it in.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
'He had the basic idea for the fantasy, which involved two sets of musical groups,' Asimov recalled, 'a real one, and a group of extraterrestrial imposters. The real one would be in pursuit of the imposters and would eventually defeat them, despite the fact that the latter had supernormal powers.' Beyond that framework, McCartney offered Asimov nothing more than 'a snatch of dialogue describing the moment when the group realised they were being victimised by imposters'. Asimov set to work and produced a screenplay that he called 'suspenseful, realistic and moving'. But McCartney rejected it. As Asimov recalled, 'He went back to his one scrap of dialogue out of of which he apparently couldn't move.'
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah I've seen the Rutles, have the record etc
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know which is more very much in character, Macca scrapping the whole project because the line of dialogue wasn't used or Asimov's enthusiastic appraisal of his own work.
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
'suspenseful, realistic and moving' doesn't seem very Beatlesque frankly
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if that would've been better or worse than the rejected screenplay joe orton wrote for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Against_It
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently it's buried in some Asimov archive in the Library of Congress so we may never know.
(xp)Nor Asimovesque for that matter. Wasn't there some thread started by Tracer Hand about terrible over-expository first sentences in which the lion's share were by Asimov?
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
Have you guys read any reviews of the new Lennon letters collection? Some cherce nuggets here:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-10/john-lennon-savages-beatles-fans-mccartney-in-letters.html?cmpid=otbrn.muse.storycmpid=hash.test
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7xr3gu
^^ Documentary from BBC Radio 2's 'The Producers' series about George Martin, m4a format
― Gouty_Ted, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
Note item number 5:http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/750x970/documents/0418051beatles3_0.gif
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
The Beatles rule.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe they wouldn't perform before segregated audiences, but that didn't stop them from demanding a bowl of jelly babies in their dressing room with all the brown ones removed.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
You don't get brown ones.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
Jacko did have brown M&Ms removed from his rider, though - friend of mine did the catering when Uri Geller took him to an Exeter City match a few years ago.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
read Crazy From The Heat nick
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
You don't get brown ones.― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:52 (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Boy, did the Beatles have clout in those days!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
It was Mal Evans who had the job of separating them
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
wonder what flavour a brown jelly baby would be? Something kind of disturbing about the concept
― Number None, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i'm thinking gravy
Coffee jelly baby, anyone?
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Lewisohn book finally ready for October.
http://www.thebeatlesbiography.com/images/packshot2.jpg
http://www.thebeatlesbiography.com/
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
holding out for vol 3 drop out
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
such a terrible cover, it's making me really mad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah innit awful. also the title 'All These Years' is dull too.
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's a mess i hate it raagh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
also it looks like a cross between a new Singstar and Now That's What I Call Beatles
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
He should've called it "Fuck you, pay me." You know we're all going to.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
;_; true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
Let's just buy one (1) copy and pass it amongst ILXors. Think of the anticipation for the inevitable thread.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoa that's a cool idea
i vote you buy it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
:D
£120 for the deluxe edition 0__o
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
DO NOT TEMPT ME VG I AM DRUNK AND WILL PRE ORDER.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
cmon phil do it we'll be yr best friend
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Like I'm gonna fall for THAT again.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 11 May 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/files/2011/04/105754331.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
more complicated bollocks about the book
Also, the U.S. regular edition will be longer than the U.K. regular edition by 50,000 words (it's not clear if that is just due to endnotes, which are included in the U.S. edition but not the U.K. edition -- 50,000 words sounds like A LOT of endnotes). But the extended "author's cut" will be available only from the U.K. "for at least this year" because the U.S. publisher hasn't decided to take it yet.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mark-lewisohn-reveals-major-details-on-first-volume-of-his-beatles-bio-trilogy?CID=examiner_alerts_article
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 May 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link