walk on the fucking moon by a million fucking miles
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
The moon. Though if the option had been there to have been in Can...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
funny, when i was 7 years old the astronauts and Beatles were large in my life.
voted moon
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
no groupies on the moon
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
no fucking Beatles either, bliss
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
moon, no contest
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
just to get away from the rest of you savages
I'd rather have mooned a Beatle.
― Elvis was a hero to most but he never her (ledge), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
walking on the moon seems like it would get boring after like 5 minutes
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
a rat done bit my sister NellAnd Shakey's on the moon
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
like okay, you're on the moon, now what, bounce around for a while, take some pictures, hit a golf ball
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
if emil.y goes to the moon with shakey she can have her can wish too
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
what if we had mass transit there which was so *efficient* that all the seats were always taken?
xp
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
there is no moon downtown to take that mass transit to
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
the moon will be cool when we have a space city
take acid and listen to the Beatles
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
i would hijack the moon and crash it into liverpool in 1962
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
you can take acid and listen to the beatles while on a vacation on earth too, and it's cheaper and you are less likely to die
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
like the way Nick is thinking
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
yes but the view is not as good and like I said, savages abound
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
listening to the Beatles >>>>>> being one
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure thinking about space stuff >>>>>>>> actually being an astronaut
― wk, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
not if the experience is transcendent?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
the experience of writing and playing good music is pretty transcendent to me and I suck compared to the beatles.
― wk, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
it seems dumb to me to fantasize about going to the moon if you haven't even done something like go scuba diving. like who am I kidding, I would probably never go to the moon, even if space tourism were relatively inexpensive.
― wk, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I understand that but I think shouldering the adulation and creepy fixations of the full range of the human scrum would be a bigger pain in the ass than anything astronauts had to put up with (aside from spending all that time in Texas and Florida).
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
there was that conspiracy dude that Buzz Aldrin punched that time
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
idk if it's fair to call going to the moon an experience rather than an accomplishment; i mean, i get that they didn't do it alone (all those george martins back at mission control) but, like, it's a lot of dangerous work to go to the moon! they didn't just buckle up and put in earphones and then pile out when they got there.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm assuming the choice includes guarantees that 1) We survive the flight or 2) Some crazy guy doesn't shoot us in front of the Dakota.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Interesting discussion. I just want to jump in and say that dylann's point, upthread, about groupies is basically irrelevant. I'm sure Buzz Aldrin had/could have had his share of effortless sex.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
u hv read or seen The Right Stuff?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
It's interesting you bring up the stress and drawbacks of fame, Morbs. I was talking about this with a friend recently and he said that extremevfame and the corresponding lack of public anonymity is so fundamentally different from his experience that be couldnt say for sure how bad the drawbacks would be. In this way its like goung to the moon: i will never really know what its like, so its hard to say how great/powerful an experience it would be.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I suspect the life of a Beatle incorporated more freedom and more fun than being an astronaut. Look at Ringo. Walking on the moon would be beyond awesome.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Morbs otm.
George Harrison got stabbed and John Lennon was shot and killed due to their Beatles fame, I would not want to deal with the unrelenting creepiness of obsessed fans every day. I think that would be a paranoid and sad way to live.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Thats true, the type of obsession the Beatles inspired was unique and put them in danger. It wasn't just that they were super famous.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
I'd probably choose to be Ringo, since he didn't really have much to do with the legal shit towards the end. And he hung out with Keith Moon.
But if you've read Peter Doggett's You Never Give Me Your Money, you're likely to come away thinking that being a Beatle was an endlessly frustrating ordeal.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
it seems to me that walking on the moon is one of those things that's only awe inspiring because nobody else has done it. like being the wright bros vs. some schmuck on a commuter flight. obviously there must be something inherently amazing about being on the moon, but how great could it really be compared to acid?
drop acid on the moon obvs
― Mordy , Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Be s beatle, buy a trampoline
― i gave ten pounds and all i got was a lousy * (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
michael jackson did the moonwalk & bought the beatles catalogue, I wonder which he enjoyed more
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
fucking little boys, presumably
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
ON ACID
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
It's amazing that just three weeks after Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon the Beatles successfully walked across Abbey Road. Things happened so fast in the '60s.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
it's amazing that both walks were accompanied by speculation of fakery
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
The real Paul McCartney was on the moon while his double crossed Abbey Road iirc
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
Thankfully none of the later moon missions landed four men on the moon, because only that fact spared us the inevitable "funny" recreation of the Abbey Road cover.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
(The photo of Jason Spaceman crossing Abbey Road seems not to exist...)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
I'd rather walk on the moon than be Paul McCartney.
― beingcutesince1980 (captain rosie), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
THE MOON THE MOON THE MOON THE MOON wtf how is this even a question jesus christ some of you people itt
i am going to FP every single one of you jerks who does not vote walking on the moon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
there is nothing that the Beatles ever did in their career that is as REMOTELY as cool that compares to being able to have a photo LIKE THIS taken in your career
http://www.stvincent.edu/uploadedImages/SVC_Pulse/Blog/John_Smetanka/young_neil_armstrong.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
It seems so weird to me but then I remember what ILM is like. xp
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
If no one wanted to be a cowboy anymore, then why was this a hit?
Such a big hit that I've never heard of it despite having spent my childhood reading rock encyclopedias, tbf
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
And yes, Phil Collins's collection of Alamo memorabilia is legendary.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
I am relieved that nobody posted the awful Dallas Cowboys record from the 90's.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
lmao at “I wanna be a cowboy” wowww
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 04:42 (three years ago) link
Heh, apparently "peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986 and charted around the world." I definitely heard it in the radio as a kid around the same time stuff like Falco was on the radio, too. A little more than ten years later, Paula Cole was asking "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", so I guess, yeah, the cowboy resurgence failed to take off. Of course, a couple of years after *that* "Dances With Wolves" won seven Oscars, but two years after *that* Unforgiven won four, and given "Unforgiven" was kind of about the death of the cowboy myth, pretty certain that it killed off cowboys for good. I remember seeing it with a bunch of goons I was working with over the summer on a day-off, and I recall all of them complaining it was not the kind of Clint Eastwood movie they wanted to see. You could say they metaphorically threw in their hats after that, because not a single one of them ever mentioned wanting to be a cowboy ever again.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
Lonesome Dove had a lot to do with it
― beware the ídes of mairt (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
But let's not forget the role "Urban Cowboy" and of course the huge, ubiquitous, never forgotten Disney Robert Redford smash "The Electric Cowboy" played keeping cowboys a thing in the early '80s.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
And of course the "You Shook Me All Night Long" music video.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
how soon we forget...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
Were they cowboys, or just hillbillies?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
JiC, I assume you mean The Electric Horseman? not a Disney movie, but a pretty good "where have all the cowboys gone" movie, though politically suspect with its a proto-Reaganist, Marlboro-manny "what America and its Career Women need is some rugged cowboys" energy
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
yeah, that one, lol
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
xp to myself: To be fair to Bruce, his interest in cowboys/desire to be a cowboy goes all the way back to his pre-E. Street days when he wrote songs like "Cowboys of the Sea" (what it sounds like, they live underwater and herd the fishes and also rob banks, idk what he was on either.) And then there's "This Hard Land," his epic gay cowboy fantasy from the eighties, and "Black Cowboys" from the nineties, and most of Western Stars, and all in all, Bruce's cowboy dreams clearly go deep, it wasn't fair of me to imply he was some jumped-up, fly-by-night, johnny-come-lately cowboy wannabe.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
wait, no, Black Cowboys was from Devils & Dust. Point still stands.
Also, the "little Texas" aspect of Freehold.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
In Forest Hills, Queens, where I lived for a year in 2009-2010, there's a stable called GallopNYC where anyone may schedule 30 minutes to visit the horses regardless of ability to pay. Most of their horses are retired and tend toward a mild temperament in their old age, so they are prized as therapy animals. They have lovely names, like 'Popcorn'. Ordinarily, the place is crowded, loud and chatoic, but during the pandemic it's been blissfully tranquil.
Since my last visit, I've imagined a colony of these gentle horses in a bucolic place where they are free and undisturbed, like a utopia, a world of only horses. That's what I try to think about when I go to bed at night.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 12 March 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
I think my initial post made it fairly clear that I couldn't care less about actual cowboys, you know, it's the loss of all those cowboy dreams.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 12 March 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
I Couldn’t Care Less About Actual Cowboys (It’s the Loss of All Those Cowboy Dreams)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 12 March 2021 04:41 (three years ago) link
It's the companion horses who maybe only existed in the imaginations of children, who were cruelly cast aside when they saw those spectacular images of the moon landing and changed plans.
Honestly, i think i'd be ok with them deciding to dream about going to the moon if they'd wanted to bring their horse.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 12 March 2021 05:00 (three years ago) link