The moment where John and Paul face each other and get really unusually intimate on camera and it makes John falter and give up his shithead demeanor for a few seconds is so fucking insane and far more damning than any interview or retrospective analysis could be. They were genuinely so psychosexually involved with each other and we got it on fucking camera
(Source) gay chicken critical failure / terminal velocity caught on tape NOT CLICKBAIT
me when we start eating billionaires and i have to kill gomez addams
Gomez and Morticia, telling us where they store the spare guillotines so we can go after Jeff Bezos after we finish with them.
Look, I know we don’t want to admit that our heroes can be flawed, but this isn’t just people baselessly picking a rich person and saying they’re a billionaire.
Don’t hold back. Gomez will respect the revolutionary fire burning in your heart!
The Addams would bring the guillotines for the other billionaires, give away literally all their money and then still ASK for executions because it’s been so long since they had a good beheading in the family
honestly, you’d break his heart if you said you WEREN’T planning on sticking his head in a guillotine. morticia, too. they’d be upset at the special treatment, too, but mostly they really want to be executed gruesomely as they stare lovingly into each other’s eyes as their heads are separated from their bodies, and we need to respect that.
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tumblr seems to be the only place these two are respected
“The McCartneys found themselves sharing a town car with Denny Laine. Their destination was George Harrison’s pad in Henley-on-Thames, where the four collaborated on All Those Years Ago, George’s peppy tribute to John Lennon. […] All Those Years Ago made it to number thirteen on the chart. One old hand who describes McCartney as ‘my best friend but worst enemy’, says that when he dared to criticise George’s single as lightweight, 'Paul literally went red…He told me I didn’t know a fucking thing about John’. For a year Paul didn’t talk to me.”
no but “He’s on a work trip with Jesus to afford your blueberry budget” is so fucking bad
work trip -> she’s gonna think he’s coming back
YOUR blueberry budget -> puts the blame on her even if that isn’t what you intended
your BLUEBERRY budget -> what if she just stops eating because she thinks that will being her dad back? bc girls growing up in the usa don’t already have enough of a complex around food i guess
your blueberry BUDGET -> teach your kid early to minimize herself and her needs by associating her favorite healthy food with her dad dying and leaving forever
congrats that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it
great question! its what Charlie Kirk’s widow told their 3yo daughter
Why wouldn’t she be as evil? Sometimes people get tricked into marrying arseholes and/or get stuck in awful situations, but the vast majority of people agree with and support their partners’ actions. If she didn’t agree with him she would’ve divorced him a long time ago. It’s not guaranteed that the partner of an arsehole will also be an arsehole (some situations are difficult or dangerous to leave and some people, especially victims of abuse, might find it more emotionally difficult or personally immoral to leave even when they physically have the option to do so safely), but it’s absolutely not surprising.
Also financial abuse. Or just financial dependency. I know this probably fits under “stuck“, but let me emphasis: a lot of the time, victims of one kind of abuse are also just financially dependent on their abuser. If leaving your spouse or your parents behind means you loose everything, well, that’s a huge barrier.
But a lot of the time, yeah, people just agree with what their asshole partners do
This is one of the main reasons that a lot of abusers seek to isolate their victims from friends and family – people will put up with a lot more bullshit if they don’t have anyone else to rely on and anywhere else they think they can go.
(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER WAS DEFINITELY FOR PAUL – a compilation
A meaningful wordplay As you know, John attached great importance to the lyrics of his songs. He liked to smuggle in word games and hidden meanings. Let’s look at a fragment of the lyrics of “(Just Like) Starting Over”.
It’s time to spread our wings and fly
Wings was Paul’s band in the 1970s.
Don’t let another day go by
“Another Day” is a song by Paul and Linda that was released as the A-side of a non-album single in February 1971. It was Paul’s debut single, following the Beatles break-up in 1970. (Sidenote: giving credits to both himself and Linda, Paul broke up the Lennon-McCartney partnership, angering Allen Klein).
my love
“My Love” is a 1973 song by Wings. The single was viewed as Wings’ first significant success.
Everyday we used to make it love so why can’t we be making love – it’s easy. The time has come, the walrus said, for you and me to stay in bed again, it’ll be just like starting over
The walrus is a famous motif from Beatles songs. In the song “I Am The Walrus” (1967) John declares that he is the titular walrus, a year later in “Glass Onion” he stated: „And here’s another clue to you all – the walrus was Paul”. In “God” (1970) John sings: “I was the walrus.” In an interview from 1969 or 1970, George jokes: „And if you are listening, I am the walrus too”. Regardless of which Beatles was the walrus, John is for sure giving us an interesting clue here.
As for „in bed”:
Here’s another fascinating demo... This requires no comment. It’s just that John suddenly referred to “Why Don’t We Do it In the Road”, a song by Paul from the Beatles era.
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The whole fragment is:
Just take your clothes off honey, and stick your nose in money.. why don’t we… do it in the road?! (Laughs) A little hotel where we used to screw A little place down in Montauk Just you, me, the cook and the servants too
As @i-am-the-oyster pointed out (the screen is theirs) - it’s a 17 minute drive from Paul’s house in the Hamptons to Montauk Motel.
3. John explaining who the song is for
„I’m not aiming, I am not aiming at 16 year olds. If they can dig it, please dig it. But when I was singing and writing this and working with her, I was visualizing all the people of my age group from the 60s. Being in their 30s and 40s now, just like me, and having wives and children and having gone through everything together, I am singing to them! I hope the young kids like it as well, but I’m really talking to the people that grew up with me and saying: „Here I am now, how are you? How’s your relationship going? Did you get through it all? Wasn’t the 70s a drag? You know, here we are, let’s try and make the 80s good, you know, because it’s still up to us to make what we can of it. It’s not out of our control”. I still believe in love, peace. I still believe in positive thinking when I can do it. I’m not always positive but when I am, I try and project it”.
Let’s point out that the song which convinced John to come out of retirement was „Coming up” by Paul.
You want a love to last forever One that will never fade away I want to help you with your problem Stick around, I say
(…)
You want some peace and understanding So everybody can be free I know that we can get together We can make it, stick with me
BONUS (this is not evidence or premise, but maybe Paul understood that the song was addressed to him): Paul’s reaction to the song after John’s death.
„…Time passed. Paul locked the door of his home studio and played (Just Like) Starting Over, the first single from Double Fantasy. Top volume. For days”.
- Christopher Sandford, „McCartney”
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(it’s also @i-am-the-oyster’s reveal): One Sweet Dream podcast did an interview where May Pang agreed with the host (JL)SO was for Paul and emphasised that it wasn’t about Yoko – it’s a patrons-only episode so I can’t link it, but it’s April 2023, around the 1h29 mark).
I would take it with a grain of salt, though, because May (for valid reasons) dislikes Yoko.
When they were teenagers, John and Paul identified with their musical idols: John was Buddy Holly and Paul was Little Richard or Elvis.
This is Lennon talking about his and McCartney’s meeting at Village Woolton fete:
It is possible that John refers to his youthful years in this dedication. However, there is also an option that he mentioned his former idols, because “(Just like) starting over” musically refers to the 1950s. It depends on you what you believe in.
hello. would you like to experience the secondhand embarrassment of watching someone with a debilitating crush
I love reading everyone’s tags but tbh I always kind of get it, why Paul’s so enthusiastic. I think partly it really is because of how much he adores John, but it’s also beacause he’s such kind of enthusiastic person and also because he does enjoy the lyrics. The humour, the silly but catchy rhymes, the yought and naivity and shiny wit of it.
I think it’s a bit in-jokey and they were always a bit self-reflective and enthusiastic over their own lyrics especally when they were silly and ridiculous, but maybe clever or quirky like that. Like the way Paul always enjoys and mentions in interviews “her hair didn’t always curl” from his own first ever song. It’s not the same, because the not curling hair is really silly and he laughs at it, but also, it’s a bit similar in the way that he enjoys what they both created when they were really young.
(Also I think they’re all laughing just at the story in the song. How she’s catching the train after the one at 9:09, which is an odd and fun way to say what train she got. And the sentence “railman said you’ve got the wrong location” is indeed kind of cute. I mean can’t you imagine writing this whey you were a teen and then enjoying it when you’re older? Especially in the same group of friends you were teen with? I can.)
But I definitely think Paul wouldn’t have enjoyed those lyrics so much if they weren’t John’s and if they weren’t a part of their precious shared memories.
HOLD BABY JESUS RANSOM UNTIL ST. ANTHONY RETURNS YOUR FREAKING KEYS
There’s an entire category of Catholic folk magic that involves threatening and abusing statues of the saints until they do what you want! A famous example is burying a statue of St Joseph upside down in your yard to sell your house; once it’s sold, you dig up the statue and “reward” it. The folklorist Sabina Magliocco talks about how Italian folk magic, in particular, has a strong quid pro quo element: in Sardinia, for example, villagers would throw parades for saints and carry their statues around town to ward off drought, but if the saint failed to come through, they’d dunk it in the well headfirst, and keep doing it until the rains came. So if you buy this statue and Anthony doesn’t do his job, you can always waterboard him!
[…] and watching Gi-hun, I think I probably felt a sense of…inferiority almost. In the end, I became this terrible person. But Gi-hun stayed true to himself. Front Man saw all that, so I think one of the thoughts that dominated his mind, at least partly, was, «In the end, you really did it. You accomplished what I couldn’t.»
omg i don’t think i’ll ever get over how quickly gi-hun latched onto in-ho. in-ho perfected the perfect disguise. he swooped in knowing all of gi-hun’s weak spots, poked at his empathy, made himself approachable, plus he’s gorgeous (gi-hun i get it) like how do you get yourself a situationship so fast??? it needs studying.
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