Say the word I'm thinking of

[austin_dern]

There's been a weird little Internet glitch at work; most of the Internet radio stations don't work at all, or after a long time spent making a connection, play out about three seconds before disconnecting. The only exception, among the stations I've tried, has been Beatlesarama, which is entirely Beatles and ``Beatle-esque'' tunes. I had no idea there were so many covers of ``Got to Get You Into My Life.'' And some mad genius created a grunge-y cover of ``Yesterday,'' which actually works pretty well. Still, it is all a bit too narrow a selection and I'd like to get hear what's happening with Lum and Abner. (Lum, believing himself about to be prosecuted for running an illicit post office and underselling the main post office on stamps, tried to flee to Mexico, which didn't work out at all.) Plus their definition of Beatle-esque includes the theme to Friends, which, you know, in the right mood, if you're thinking of the chipper earliest teen pop stuff, no, really doesn't work.

Word from home is my mother's gotten her new, fresh-weaned and farm-raised, kitten. I know nothing further about it except that at one point I was told she's a calico, and my mother wanted me to suggest a name (sight unseen), and my mind kind of locked up on ``Calico Dave,'' which my mother didn't get because inexplicably she fails to instantly memorize every Get Fuzzy strip ever printed.

Is it petty of me to be glad the basketball finals have gone on to a game seven just because of the really cute way the Channel 5 news anchor says ``Michigan'' with a hard ``ch''?

Trivia: Keystone Studios produced at least 140 short movies in its first 15 months of production. Source: Keystone: the Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett, Simon Louvish.

Currently Reading: Cosmic Time Travel: A Scientific Odyssey, Barry Parker.

Comments

[bluerain.livejournal.com]

"Somehow someway" being a lyric that only appears in the "Anthology 2" version of the song. Impressive.

Paul also said that no one had ever figured out that was what the song was about, and that that surprised him. He said this immediately after revealing that, well, of course "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was about LSD.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually got the ``Anthology'' sets -- I like the original-album compilations -- but checked a couple online lyrics sites to make sure I had the words right, and they went for ``Somehow someway''.

I'm glad he finally admitted about ``Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,'' but heck, my seventh grade music history teacher (really! I can't explain why I'm so ignorant of it now) taught us that. And played the end of ``Strawberry Fields Forever'' on a huge reel-to-reel machine really slow so we could try figuring out if Paul was, in fact, buried in it. (We couldn't tell.)

and Strawberry Fields

[reptilemammal.livejournal.com]

is about an orphanage!

Re: and Strawberry Fields

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd heard that somewhere ...

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

It says "cranberry sauce." That's what Paul and John have said, and that's definitely what registers in my ears too. It's even more obvious in the non-distorted version on Anthology.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, it is, but that wasn't nearly so clear in a mid-80s reel tape of the song, and the teacher was trying to explain the ``Paul is Dead'' phenomenon and how people could leap to it despite Paul's repeated public denials of being dead. So we had a day or two of going through and looking and listening for ambiguous clues.

[reptilemammal.livejournal.com]

Okay this is a common misnomer that has lived through the ages about Beatles, let it be known not all Beatles songs are drug related.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was not about LSD, even though the acronym fits.

I have it on a die hard beatle fan who has researched these things that LSD was actually written by John Lennon when Julian showed him a picture he drew which had a picture of a girl (Lucy) in a Sky full of Diamonds.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Every song since ``Love Me Do'' has been explained as a drug reference of some kind; it's pretty hard to figure which is which, particularly with all the stray psychedelic references that would be dropped in just to spruce up a song.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Lennon always maintained that 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was about a picture that Julian drew of his friend Lucy. Sadly enough, Lucy died a few weeks ago. http://www.entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,15627577-7484,00.html

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of Lucy dying, although I do think I remember hearing the story of Julian and a picture of Lucy. Sometimes it seems like the Inspiration Story for any Beatles tune is, if it seems like a drug reference, it was based on kid stuff; if it seems like a romance, it was a drug reference; if it seems like a kid's song, it was based on a romance.

[bluerain.livejournal.com]

John used to claim that, yes. But Paul contradicted him recently. I believe Paul.

Do not challenge me on knowledge of Beatles trivia, bee-yatch. I got skillz. :>

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dare challenge you. I've been disoriented since all the Original Star Trek trivia got rewritten a decade or so back.

You are....

[reptilemammal.livejournal.com]

Hey I am not challenging yah, but my pardner is baby! John Lennon wrote the songs, so he gets first priority bro and he said otherwise, even if Paul is contraire mon ami.
So as much as Paul had a part in the music John's words neither can be defended or denied. So the most we can do is agree to disagree, since John is dead. Curse him for not bein able to speak for himself.
Now would it not be the thang, that perhaps each of them thought they were talking different about the same songs, hence that is why they connect to such a wide audience?

Re: You are....

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

That could be, sure. Things mean different things to different people.