Nothing to get hung about?

By |2014-07-05T20:11:01-07:00August 13, 2009|Beatle-inspired, Strawberry Fields|

"Not cool, guys. Not cool." MOLLIE WILSON REILLY • From today's New York Times article on the CIA's secret prisons:Eventually, the agency’s network would encompass at least eight detention centers, including one in the Middle East, one each in Iraq and Afghanistan and a maximum-security long-term site at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that was dubbed Strawberry Fields, officials said. (It was named after a Beatles song after C.I.A. officials joked that the detainees would be held there, as the lyric put it, “forever.”) Isn't what you've done to American principles and international law enough? Must you even ruin the Beatles?!

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Covers and covers

By |2015-01-06T22:21:06-08:00August 7, 2009|Beatle-inspired|

From an L.A. Times piece about a "Worst Album Covers" blog...which also includes the "butcher" cover. What?? Get McKinney on the case!

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Hmmm…

By |2014-07-05T10:46:44-07:00June 15, 2009|Beatle-inspired, Covers|

Jay-R's mashup of of L'Trimm's "Cars with the Boom," Gary Numan's "Cars," and the Beatles' "Drive My Car." Thank you, Jay-R. Interesting fun fact as of July 2014: L'Trimm's Bunny D. has been married five times (never, though, to Jay-R) and has four children from her first four marriages, which is an admirable kind of efficiency. She has published a series of children's books and is working on a clothing line. Luck and happiness to you, Bunny D.! (And Lady Tigra and, of course, Jay-R.) http://www.youtube.com/v/wfmUv2FNDjE&h

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Happy Passover, Tatellehs and Mommellahs

By |2014-07-23T16:52:47-07:00April 12, 2009|1966, Beatle-inspired, comedy|

Kosher butcher cover? DEVIN McKINNEY  •  Yes, it's time once again to gather at the seder table, eat the ritual spices, set aside an empty chair for Elijah, watch as the kids search for hidden matzohs, and spin some Beatles tunes. (Anything but "Piggies.") My thoughts have gone all Semitic since being reminded today of this. (Thanks to Mickey Trester for the link—and the mitzvah.)

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Sleeveface: Change your head

By |2015-01-18T16:19:45-08:00March 24, 2009|Beatle-inspired, comedy|

DEVIN McKINNEY  •  Probably more enterprising net-cruisers than I already know the British website Sleeveface, which since early 2006 has been making a small, pleasant fuss on the Internet, and latterly in the British press. According to Wiki, the concept originated, according to the BBC, in Cardiff, Wales, according to a guy who lives in Cardiff.         Anyway, click on over: Beatles entries are surprisingly few (in fact, they are zero—not many large, isolated head shots on their LP jackets), but there are some solo Ringos, a slew of John & Yokos, many McCartney IIs, and a ton of [...]

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Mae tripper

By |2015-01-18T11:47:43-08:00January 4, 2009|Covers|

"Despite being an extremely talented playwright and acerbic comic actress, Mae West's final attempt at showbiz triumph was not to be. This album ["Mae West Way Out West"] featured West covering The Beatles, The Guess Who and Percy Sledge among others. Some of it is surprisingly listenable although it is naturally a novelty album and little else..." —Classic Television Showbiz Track Listings:Treat Him RightWhen a Man Loves a WomanYou Turn Me OnShakin All OverIf You Gotta GoLover, Please Don't FightDay TripperNervousTwist and ShoutBoom BoomMae Daytag. What are you waiting for? Mae West Way Out West is what the internet was made for! [...]

Wilder guitar gently weeps

By |2015-01-18T11:42:26-08:00November 17, 2008|Beatle-inspired|

Arch Oboler. Shadowplay:He’s also noteworthy for having a Beatles song written about him — Oboler Di, Oboler Da. But then, many Beatles songs commemorate great filmmakers: Straub/Huillet Fields Forever, I Am the Walsh, I Wanna Be Your Mann, Penny Lang, Polythene Pabst, Savoy Truffaut, Some Other Guy-Blaché, The Fuller on the (George Roy) Hill, The Long and Winding Roeg, and of course the concept album Sandrich Perry’s Losey Herz Kluge Brahm.

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Nothing’s gonna change my world…

By |2014-07-02T18:10:10-07:00July 29, 2008|Covers|

Ofra Harnoy? Ofra Harnoy. ...except possibly this gaggle of Canadian string players delicately filleting offerings by our favorite band.(Via Five Bucks on By-Tor.)

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