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Having sent Stephen Fry the following direct tweet query:

I loved this and had to share:

"My dad never let me go to Lollapalooza," says Dhani, who recalls pleading with his father to go to the festival when he was 15. "He thought I was going to end up with a shaved head, tattoos on my face and pissed out of my head. I think he was just afraid I'd take a load of psychedelic drugs like he did. "He'd say, `You're only allowed to go to Lollapalooza if you're playing.'" Dhani pauses. "He'd still joke about that if he was around."

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Title:  Ecstasy
Fandom: The Beatles
Pairing(s): George/John
Rating: PG
Summary:  George travels across the universe…and there is John.
Disclaimer: Entirely fictional. No one should construe anything about the Beatles’ sexuality from me.  I know nothing....
Warning(s): Real Person Slash, though not explicit.
Word-count: 100
prompted by challenge #4 on kynxpirations :  ecstasy 
 

Knowing it was forever made it harder to leave his body.

He’d taken many astral journeys, some powered by meditation and some by acid, but always a spectral umbilical cord had connected his spiritual and physical selves.  Now, released from his tether, George plunged into and out of everything, deeper and higher than he’d ever been before.  His being expanded and contracted at the same time, becoming part of everything and nothing in an ecstasy that was beyond his earthly imaginings.   

It was beyond anything he’d ever experienced with one exception.  And that was John.  And now that was forever.

Title:  "It's a Good Song"
Fandom: The Beatles
Pairing(s): George/Eric Clapton, George/John
Rating: PG
Summary:  George Harrison is disappointed at John Lennon’s half-hearted performance in the recording studio.  He knows his composition, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is a good song….
Disclaimer: Entirely fictional. No one should construe anything about the Beatles' (or Clapton's) sexuality from me.  I know nothing....
Warning(s): Real Person Slash, though not explicit.
Word-count: 100
prompted by challenge #3:  “Somewhere between happy, and total fucking wreck,”
the lyrics of “Survive,” by Rise Against. 
Cross-posted at kynxpirations 

The official explanation of the famed Eric Clapton guitar solo: http://www.guitarworld.com/article/100_greatest_guitar_solos_42_quotwhile_my_guitar_gently_weepsquot_eric_clapton

 

“It’s a good song,” George insisted stubbornly. He passed the joint to the naked man sprawled on his bed whose head rested heavily on his stomach.

 “Are you kidding?  It’s a fucking great song,” his lover snorted in exasperation.  Turning on his side, hand beside his mouth as if sharing a secret, Eric mocked the man he’d replaced in George’s bed. “John’s a shit guitarist anyway.  I don’t know why you asked him.  Should’ve just done it yourself.”   Eric shook his head at Lennon’s perverse inclinations. “Man, what I could do with that solo…”

 In the semi-darkness, George’s eyes gleamed.

 

 

Title:  Creativity
Fandom(s): The Beatles
Pairing(s): John/George
Rating: R
Summary:  Sometimes ideas can get a little twisted….
Disclaimer: Entirely fictional.  No one should construe anything about the Beatles sexuality from me.  I know nothing....
Warning(s): Implied slash.  Language.   If you love Yoko, you won't like this. Not truly how they got the idea.
Word-count: 170
Prompt:  Ashes
Cross-posted and prompted by challenge #2 at  kynxpirations 

 

The album cover in question:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TwoVCover.jpg
A clip from Yoko’s 1967 experimental film, Film No. 4 (Bottoms) (1966/1967, 80 mins):  www.youtube.com/watch

( Oh, Yoko )

Title: "I, Me, Mine"
Fandom(s): The Beatles
Pairing(s): John/George
Rating: PG
Summary: Regrets, I've had a few....
Disclaimer: Entirely fictional.  No one should construe anything about the Beatles sexuality from me.  I know nothing....
Warning(s): If you love Yoko, you won't like this
Beta(s): harisia 
Word-count: 100
Prompt:  Bitter
Cross-posted and prompted by challenge #1 at 
kynxpirations 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXVEwU1aGo

Only freaks would dance to my song, they said.  Seconds later, the two biggest freaks in the Western world are swooping around the studio, waltzing in mocking circles.  Bitter laughter scalds, branding him as hers as indelibly as the needle tracks from the smack she administers. “Mother,” he calls her, clinging like a baby locked to his mother’s teat.  Her eyes flash triumphantly, “mine, not yours” as John whips her by me.  I could have owned him but I refused the karmic debt, his dead eyes remind me.  Too late, I relent.  The daughter of darkness has claimed her own.

Almost missed recognizing this important date.  Here it  is a day late:

Thursday, Nov. 9, 1961 marked Brian Epstein's first visit to the Cavern Club to check out the Beatles (with Alistair Taylor accompanying).

For all my friends who are totally into John Lennon, I thought I'd post this link that I happened across while looking for something non-Beatles-related:

http://www.sohoweeklynews.com/Book/LennonOno/index.htm


It could be that every John Lennon fan is already familiar, but ... if not, I think you'll like it.  It's Allan Tannenbaum's photography of John, Yoko and the two of them together.

Check out the other galleries as well, such as Music:  http://www.sohoweeklynews.com/Book/Music/index.htm   Nice photos of Springsteen, Tom Petty, Dylan, the Stones and many others.

Awesome photo site.

gloigloi  posted the following article on  johnheartpaul   about Dave Stewart opening a sex shop for the stars in West Hollywood  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2006/12/dave-stewarts-p.html :

Gacked from carrotcaper2007

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Take it if you want it.


"I claim birth-right, and blood right -- and death right!" So saying, he pulled both the swords down from above the fireplace, and passed one, hilt first, to his younger brother. "Now, guard you, my brother -- and may the best man win."

Steel flashed in the firelight and kissed and clashed and kissed again in an intricate dance of thrust and parry. At times it seemed no more than a dainty minuet, or a courtly and deliberate ritual, while at other times it seemed pure savagery, a wildness that moved faster than the eye could easily follow. Around and around the room they went, and up the steps to the mezzanine, and down the steps to the main hall. They swung from drapes and from chandeliers.

"Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves," by Neil Gaiman in "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders"

I loved this anecdote,which I found on an old entry in eppylover's blog: http://eppylover.livejournal.com/210033.html#cutid1

Great find, Christine!

Spinetti was discovered by the Beatles in 1963 when Lennon and Harrison saw him in Oh! What A Lovely War, for which he later won a Tony Award when the show hit Broadway.

It was when the pair visited him in his dressing room after the show that they seconded him to appear in their first movie.

After curtain down on Oh! What A Lovely War, Harrison and Lennon went backstage to persuade the actor to be in A Hard Day's Night.

"George said to me, 'Oh Vic, you've got to be in our film because if you're not in our film my mother won't come because she fancies you'. So I was cast in A Hard Day's Night, then later Help! and Magical Mystery Tour.

So rich was his association with the Fab Four that when his home was burgled in the '70s the thief took everything - save for four pens he'd had inscribed with the names John, Paul, George and Ringo.

"It was worth losing everything just for the laugh I got out of it," Spinetti muses

"This chap took it all and left the pens I'd put in the house ready to give the boys as presents as they were always borrowing my fountain pen to write autographs.

"And you know what? He left a note by the side of them saying that he didn't take them because he was a fan too.

A new comm has been created where know-it-all Beatles fans can provide answers to fic writers who actually care enough to ask questions:

http://community.livejournal.com/beatlesresearch/profile

It's just getting started so if you are a font of Beatles info., you should definitely friend the site. In addition to helping newer fans avoid egregious errors, perhaps we can get some good discussions going in the course of answering questions. Even those of us who are fairly well-read on the Beatles have our own questions and a community of people with whom to exchange information could be great fun.

Thanks for creating this, nemperor!

The comic answer to the toe-tapping crucifixion scene that ends "Life of Brian." I do think George would have loved this:

There are bad times just around the corner,
There are dark clouds traveling through the sky
And it's no good whining
About a silver lining
For we know from experience that they won't roll by,
With a scowl and a frown
We'll keep our peckers down
And prepare for depression and doom and dread,
We're going to unpack our troubles from our old kitbag
And wait until we drop down dead.

Noel Coward, 1953

Happy thoughts, happy thoughts! grins

"Pete Best! [pause] Good God! Has none of you ever read a history book? The original Beatles drummer! A bunch of nerves controls the tempo of the heart. They're all playing in time except one dude who can't keep the beat, wrecks the whole thing. So, we hire Ringo."

"Pete Best was actually a great drummer but I assume you mean the patient needs a cardiac sympathectomy (sp?)?"

"Probably should have just said that."

In what I hope will be the first of many posts under this heading, I offer you the following:

"It might be nice if I could fellate myself while farting the White Album, but I haven't been able to quite master that yet."

- Hank Moody (David Duchovny), Season 1, Episode 2 of "Californication"

01. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
02. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
03. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
04. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.
Tags: meme

I found this interview with Ringo and Nancy Andrews from People magazine, January 17, 1977 and I was startled to see a reference to Ringo being manic-depressive.  Anybody ever heard that factoid before?  Or is the term being thrown around as a rough equivalent to "normal" clinical depression?

In any case, enjoy!

( Is Ringo Bipolar? )

50-year anniversary of Harrison's career with Beatles

3 comments by Ed Masley - Aug. 29, 2008 03:43 PM
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I'm always the last to do these!   The origin of the whole thing is unknown to me but, really, does it matter?

Book discussion, anyone?

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