You'd think I'd read tons of articles on something "educational" and enlightening, but no, I don't.
I read articles on the beatles all the time. I can tell you how Yoko met John if you just asked. I can tell you when Paul McCartney lost his virginity and why he liked his girlfriend more than all the other girls that fancied him. I can tell you all the fucked up shit he would make his girlfriends do. Brilliant is the British word for genius. anyway, i don't think the fact that paul mccartney was a little weird and made some bad moves in his life take away from who he is. i think that makes him all the more amazing. i think fame/power might have changed a few things, but what really mattered always stood its ground. Or didn't. But eventually would.
comments that make me laugh:
"Paul mccartney wrote Helter Skelter and and Hey Jude. He can do whatever the fuck he wants"
as both a nirvana and paul mccartney fan, i think this is a little strange.
*sigh. Paul, what are you doing? I know you have good intentions. You're getting old, love.
anyway guys, i thought this was really cool:
I'm
sure I told you this many times. How did I meet Yoko? There was a
sort of underground clique in London: John Dunbar, who was married to
Marianne Faithfull, had an art gallery in London called Indica and I'd
been going around to galleries a bit on my off days in between records.
I'd been to see a Takis exhibition--I don't know if you know what that
means--he does multiple electromagnetic sculptures, and a few
exhibitions in different galleries who showed these sort of unknown
artists or underground artists. I got the word that this amazing woman
was putting on a show next week and there was going to be something
about people in bags, in black bags, and it was going to be a bit of a
happening and all that. So I went down to a preview of the show. I got
there the night before it opened. I went in--she didn't know who I was
or anything--I was wandering around, there was a couple of artsy type
students that had been helping lying around there in the gallery, and I
was looking at it and I was astounded. There was an apple on sale there
for two hundred quid, I thought it was fantastic--I got the humor in her work immediately. I didn't have to have much knowledge about avant-garde or underground art, but the humor got me straightaway.
There was a fresh apple on a stand--this was before Apple--and it was
two hundred quid to watch the apple decompose. But there was another
piece which really decided me for-or-against the artist: a ladder which
led to a canvas with a chain with a spyglass hanging on the end of it.
This was near the door when you went in. I climbed the ladder, you look
through the spyglass and in tiny little letters it says "yes." So it
was positive. I felt relieved. It's a great relief when you get up
the ladder and you look through the spyglass and it doesn't say "no" or
"fuck you" or something, it said "yes."
I want to meet someone who loves the Beatles as much as I do. And I want to get weirrrrrd with them. Weird as in, giving them my lyric books, and taking LSD and exploring my trippy beatle posters, and talking for hours about why we like a certain song and I want them to show me things my eyes must have missed. Yes, I want lots of things. I'm actually not quite sure if I want that. I don't know. I want something beatles-related.
edit: Ok. I do read educational things. I'm just not as fond of them as I am of this. I don't know why. That might be messed up.
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