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
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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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
yeah innit awful. also the title 'All These Years' is dull too.
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:51 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
;_; true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:03 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
:D
£120 for the deluxe edition 0__o
― piscesx, Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:32 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Like I'm gonna fall for THAT again.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Saturday, 11 May 2013 04:36 (ten 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 (ten 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
the U.S. regular edition will be longer than the U.K. regular edition by 50,000 words
30,000 word footnote on Albert Stubbins
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Is there a mistake on the graph upthread? It says Julia has a collaborator and far as I know it's pretty much a Lennon solo track.
― Moka, Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
I think he borrowed a line from a Japanese poet or someone.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Or Lebanese, you know, same thing as Japanese.
http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/julia/
― pplains, Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
i just pre-ordered the big kahuna....do we projected years for the other vols to come out?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 18 May 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
"have" projected years
i think the lateness of this one suggests that the next 2 vols are coming out much sooner/ closer together than first anticipated.
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
OK thanks, Piscesx
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
Wow, so it turns out my favorite line in Julia is borrowed and not only that but the original line is way deeper 'Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you'.
― Moka, Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:39 (ten years ago) link
Thats a beautiful thought. Kind of ruins Julia for me now, though.
― Moka, Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/eric_claptons_isolated_guitar_track_from_the_classic_beatles_song_while_my_guitar_gently_weeps_1968.html
So many ilx Beatles threads, so I may have missed this being posted elsewhere (on a Clapton thread maybe).
The acoustic White Album demo tape link is nice here as well
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
I wish people would be more interested in picking apart recordings by bands that aren't The Beatles.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link