Decoder ring
Beatles appear in this Godard movie? "You get a free ring with every newspaper." B[r]eat[h]les[s]
The magic number
...is 2:42! From The Morning News:I’d hit upon the perfect song length. I fist-bumped somebody.What else is at 2:42? “Don’t Do Me Like That” by Tom Petty. “Divine Hammer” by the Breeders. “Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills & Nash. “Get Up” by R.E.M. “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas & the Papas. “This Charming Man” by the Smiths.You need more proof? Jerk. Let’s [...]
X-ing the Road
ED PARK • From author Jeff Gordinier's interesting video promo for his book X Save the World: "Why is Paul McCartney barefoot on the cover of Abbey Road?" "I don't give a f---! Just stop talking about it." http://youtu.be/MPdEgwOsvDk
The moviegoer
The stunning conclusion to the mysterious black-and-white photos of a Hard Day's Night convert...As reported here, Spinster Aunt recently published a sequence of snaps (I, II, III, IV, V), possibly from 1967, possibly from Czechoslovakia. But wait! Click here for the deeply moving story behind them.
I read the news today
Mysterious image... For more of the puzzle, visit Spinster Aunt.
New way to look at Beatles vs. Stones…
For as long as there are Boomers... How about this: The Beatles are about the world as it could be. The Stones are about the world as it is. Convincing?
Best of What’s Left of?
The bottom of the bottom of the barrel? Or something better than that? Recently I ran into a problem that I thought the Beatles hive-mind here at Dullblog might be able to solve. My wife and I were driving to a party at a friend's house; the last time we'd met this friend, he'd discovered I was a Beatle freak. In [...]
The less eternal question
Which New York Observer film critic had the more interesting Beatles mention last week? Andrew Sarris, on the Scorsese Stones doc Shine a Light:When I was teaching at the School of Visual Arts in 1965, all the students seemed to be fanatical Stones fans, listening to their songs incessantly on the cafeteria jukebox. They seemed determined to make me see how wrong [...]