14 February, 2012
I was one of the Beatles. We had a little concert at a skating rink, and it was amazing.
George wasn’t there though.
Then the military barged in and locked us all in for being communist revolutionaries. It was horrible, they made all of us skate individually in order to determine who was or was not a communist (????).
In my last moments with The Beatles, I apologized for not being a good enough Beatle.
John told me, “Don’t say that, you did your best and your best was amazing. It was a pleasure working with you.” And the four of us minus George had a group hug.
And I woke up.
(Source: smokeandthebeatles)
(Source: bardot-bardot, via around-me-like-a-million-suns)
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Perfect likenesses D:
Paul, George and Ringo’s reactions to meeting the Queen and receiving the MBE (Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).
LOL Ringo…
(Source: not-gas-panic-anymore, via smokeandthebeatles)
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles
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i think i should make a playlist of all the songs [that are worth it] that i’ve ever posted, liked, or reblogged on tumblr. hmm.
but before making a playlist, i shall make a list. not as fun. but still. makes it easier for when i do decide to make an actual playlist.
[newest to oldest]
- Second Chance - Peter Björn and John
- Love You To - The Beatles
- Ready, Able - Grizzly Bear
- Soufuu [aka Sawakaze] - Tomofumi Tanizawa
- In the Mausoleum - Beirut
- Helter Skelter - The Beatles
- Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin
- Don’t Know Why - Norah Jones [remixed by ???]
- New Slang - The Shins
- Starman - David Bowie
- While You Wait for the Others - Grizzly Bear
- I Heard You Say - Vivian Girls
- Elephant Gun - Beirut
- Mr. Brightside - The Killers
- On Top - The Killers
- I Wanna Be Like You - The Morning Benders [Jungle Book cover]
- Don’t Let Me Down - The Beatles
- Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) - Mika
- Angela Surf City - The Walkmen
- Creep - Ingrid Michaelson [Radiohead cover]
- Post Acid - Wavves
- 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene
- I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - The Beatles
- Enemy Gene - Of Montreal (feat. Janelle Monáe)
- Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Edith Piaf
- Alive With the Glory of Love - Say Anything
- This Night Has Opened My Eyes - The Smiths
- Into the Flood - As Tall As Lions
- Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too - Say Anything
- Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club
- Dirty Thing - Telekinesis
- Coast of Carolina - Telekinesis
- Your Friends Are Gone - Circa Survive
- Blue Skies - Noah and the Whale
- Pressure - Paramore
- Young Folks - Peter, Björn & John
- Cliquot - Beirut
- Politik - Coldplay
- The Gift of Paralysis - Envy on the Coast
- Bruised - Jack’s Mannequin
- I Feel Fine - The Beatles
- Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles - The Fall of Troy
- Humans - The Scene Aesthetic
- What Is Love? - Nevershoutnever
- Sur Le Moment - Deportivo
- Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
- Priceless - Copeland
- Stop the Fucking Car - Circa Survive
- All My Loving - The Beatles
- 30 Days - Nevershoutnever
- Please Please Me - The Beatles
- July - Drake
- Someday - The Strokes
- Not Your Parents’ Music - Hawksley Workman
- Someday - Jesse Barrera
- Don’t Be So Hard - The Audition
- (500) Days - AJ Rafael
- Grönlandic Edit - Of Montreal
- Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie
- Creep - Radiohead
- Heart It Races - Dr. Dog [Architecture In Helsinki cover]
- Pachuca Sunrise - Minus the Bear
- I Can Talk - Two Door Cinema Club
- Teddy Picker - Arctic Monkeys
Make love all day long
Make love singing songs
I’ll make love to you
If you want me to
dream D:
i time traveled a couple decades back, and i was strolling along a pathway in seaworld, alone. watching the marine life seem to dance, the water looked scary and unwilling to remain in tanks simply for human entertainment.
then all of a sudden i had a deja vu experience, the water was overflowing and octopi [octopuses? debate for me please.] were running amuck…
snap back to reality, i’m in a log ride [i don’t even think seaworld has a log ride…] with [front to back order] george harrison in front, me second, john lennon behind me, and some stranger behind john. as our log [it has a roof over it with an emergency exit hatch] starts descending slightly on the track, a half tube kinda thing with water in it, like a river, i freak out and tell george that i can’t swim. he tries and reassures me, telling me that he can’t swim either. that’s when we start talking lots.
george opens the emergency exit hatch, the upper half of his body pops out and he yells off the edge of the mountain [the track of the log ride was along the side of a mountain] and then sees a tunnel, gets back inside.
in the tunnel, the log ride stops, though the track continues. inside the cave-like tunnel, there are lights and instruments, and paul mccartney and ringo starr were inside waiting. so lucky me, i get to watch the beatles perform something [the song, something] live! so beautiful, it felt so real.
paul and ringo stay behind with the stranger while john, george, and i continue the log ride. eventually my deja vu moment from earlier comes true, and the water overflows all over the park, including the track to our log ride. our log winds up going down a few streets and walkways, and we’re so scared. george and i sit in the front while john cowers in the back, george and i kick our legs up and down so as to keep the log moving down the slope of the mountain, occasionally running by a few stores and people and such…
then the scene moves to a convenience store. george, john, and i are buying funyuns and stuff and we see on the tv that there was a tragedy at seaworld, octopi [or octopuses, i don’t know?!!?!] were devouring people whole [is that even possible? does seaworld even have octopi/octopuses]!! george shares a somber embrace, fearful for paul and ringo’s lives while john just freaks out. so we get kicked out of the convenience store.
and the scene moves again to a dimly lit stairwell. there’s blood on the walls and on the railing. john, george and i huddle in fear, in silence with a dozen women and children, poor farmer peasants from russia. jews. outside we hear search dogs looking for us, and hints of german in the officers’ commands: the NAZIS are HUNTING US DOWN D:
and the NAZIS barge down the door, and seize us all! we’re in the back of a nazi truck, hugging in the darkness, scared, afraid, awaiting death. george and i talk for awhile, for therapeutic reasons.
me: this may sound blunt, but aren’t you dead?
george: nope. it’s currently 1980. you’re not supposed to be born yet, aren’t you?
me: nope. if it’s 1980, how are the nazis hunting down jews still?
george: i don’t know. but you’re aware what might happen to us, right?
me: [swallow] yeah.
george: [hug]
and fade to black. i wake up. yeah, so i totally have a crush on the dead george harrison. ohh well. dreams. i should probably stop eating before sleeping.
i want you (she’s so heavy)
the beatles
my story behind this song:
last may, at santa cruzan, i ran to the upstairs of the old building of the school with him while the reception/afterparty went on downstairs. it was dark, it was wild. two of us, in the long, dimly lit hallway, dancing from south end to north end to this song on repeat. then we stopped at the north end, staring out the window. it was sweet. i loved it.
back then, we were still unfamiliar to each other. we talked, we laughed, we knew each other’s names, we knew what could happen to us. but we didn’t let it. we were too scared. we went downstairs, and my mom was at the foot of the stairs. i guess looking up at two of us walking down from a dark hallway with no one else gave her the wrong idea. she was fuming mad.
but it was worth it.
