Fretful Friday

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Thought For Thursday

Interview, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1982

"Just certain things happened in my life which left me thinking 'What's it all about, Alfie?' and I remembered Jesus said somewhere 'Knock and the door shall be opened' and I said (knock, knock) 'Hellooo!' It's very difficult. From the Hindu point of view each soul is potentially divine, the goal is to manifest the divinity. The word yoga means union and the union is supposedly between the mind, the body, and the spirit, and yoga isn't lying on nails or standing on your head. I mean, there's various forms of yoga and they're all branches on one big tree. The Lord, or God, has got a million names, whatever you want to call him, it doesn't matter as long as you call him, Jesus is on the mainline, tell him what you want. Going back to self-realization, one guru said he found no separation between man and God, saving man's spiritual unadventurousness, and that's the catch, everybody's so unadventurous. We're all conditioned, our consciousness has been so polluted by the material energy it's hard to try and pull it all ways in order to really discover our true nature. Every one of us has within us a drop of that ocean and we have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere--it's right there within ourselves."

Whatsoever Wednesday

In addition to all those other instruments, the Beatles played a mean air guitar.

Monday Minutiae

39 Working Titles of Beatles Songs

This Song - Started Out As:

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  Cry For A Shadow- Beatle Bop


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  I Saw Her Standing There- Seventeen


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  Thank You Girl- Thank You Little Girl


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  I'll Get You- Get You In The End


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  It's Only Love- That's a Nice Hat-Cap


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  I've Just Seen A Face- Auntie Gin's Theme


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  Yesterday- Scrambled Eggs


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  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)- This Bird Has Flown


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  Think For Yourself- Won't Be There With You


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  Eleanor Rigby- Daisy Hawkins


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  Love You To- Granny Smith


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  She Said She Said- Untitled


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  Good Day Sunshine- A Good Day's Sunshine


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  I Want To Tell You- 1: Laxton's Superb 2: I Don't Know


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  Tomorrow Never Knows- 1: The Void 2: Mark 1


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  Penny Lane- Untitled


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  With A Little Help From My Friends- Bad Finger Boogie


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  Within You Without You- Untitled


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  A Day In The Life- In The Life Of...


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  Hello Goodbye- Hello Hello


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  Flying- Aerial Tour Instrumental


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  The Inner Light- Untitled


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  Only A Northern Song- Not Known


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  It's All Too Much- Too Much


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  Happiness Is A Warm Gun- Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand


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  Don't Pass Me By- 1: Ringo's Tune (Untitled) 2: This Is Some Friendly


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  Revolution 1- Revolution


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  Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - Untitled


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  Long Long Long- It's Been A Long Long Long Time


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  Good Night- Untitled


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  Two Of Us- On Our Way Home


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  Dig A Pony- All I Want Is You


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  For You Blue- George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely)


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  The Ballad of John and Yoko- The Ballad of John and Yoko (They're Going To Crucify Me)


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  Oh! Darling- Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm)


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  I Want You (She's So Heavy)- I Want You


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  Sun King- Here Comes The Sun-King


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  She Came In Through the Bathroom Window -Bathroom Window


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  The End- Ending

(from The Beatles Book of Lists by Stephen J. Spignesi)

Also, on this date in 1964, the Beatles held the top 5 spots on the American singles chart. 1 through 5 respectively were: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand and Please Please Me.

The Beatles also have 15 songs in the Top 100, and positions 1 and 2 on the Billboard album chart.

The Beatles also become the only artists to have three consecutive No. 1 songs ("Can't Buy Me Love" took over the No. 1 spot from "She Loves You," which succeeded "I Want to Hold Your Hand.")

Yay Beatles!

Sunday Silliness

Who on this earth would think that four charming, insanely adorable and wonderfully British grown men having a silly pillowfight in their hotel room would be creepy? No one reading THIS blog! Right?!

Sex-Appeal Saturday!

Yee-haw!












This is quite possibly the most beautiful picture ever taken of George:



And just for good measure, George's cowboy-son Dhani:



and Paul, just because this picture was way too adorable not to post:

Sunday Silliness

For those of you who were offended by John Lennon's comment about Jesus, took it completely out of context and then burned all your Beatles albums, you might want to close your eyes and scroll down for a few seconds to get to the nice stuff. For the rest of you with a sense of humor, I couldn't resist posting this picture (I didn't make it):







I also thought it would be fun to have Jesus play a starring role in Sunday Silliness, as it is also the first Sunday of Lent. So in the spirit for which Lent is intended, I wanted to post "Rising Sun" which is a song that is so close to my heart. I usually listen to it on my birthday, but it seems to fit with Lent as well, perhaps even more so. There is such a feeling in it about new beginnings, spring and "turning around".

The video that beatleandy1 made for this song is absolutely gorgeous and I want to thank him for posting it. (Thank you, beatleandy1! I love the picture of him playing his organ at 1:40!)

"oh, the rising sun
and the place that it's coming from
is inside of me,
and now I feel it constantly.."