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selenakI'm preemptively sad about the upcoming long hiatus of Breaking Bad's fifth season; however Breaking Bad/Game of Thrones crossover needs to happen. (Link not spoilery but probably only funny if you're familiar with both shows, and are aware of events of the current season of Breaking Bad.)
In other news, Doctor Who is coming back, which will be fun; I'm all mellowed out on my issues with not only but mainly the sixth season, look forward to the seventh though if the Moff does that thing with the Doctor ignoring something otherwise declared to be crucial when it's not an arc episode for the third year in a row, I'll be back to being irritated fairly soon. Then again: Ben Browder will guest star.
Also coming: the dvd special edition of Magical Mystery Tour. I must admit I never saw the film in its entirety, just the excerpts available on YouTube; I could have hunted down a video copy, but I was an inhibited Beatles fan shying away from that because virtually all biographies ever agree this particular film was their first flop for good reasons. Read: 60s improvisational "we can do anything even if we have no plan whatsoever" style taken beyond the over the top limit, and made at the height of their pyschedelic phase, no less. But I also was curious, and that trailer is certainly appealing. The glorious colours make it clear why Paul tried to defend the film back in the day by pointing out the BBC should never have broadcast it in black and white. It's somewhere between sad and hilarous to see Victor Spinetti again, given he died this year. And Paul's introduction cracks me up ("what you are about to see is the product of our imaginations and believe me, at this point they are quite vivid" is a neat way of saying "we were all majorly into LSD that summer of 1967"), as does Ringo's ("it was Paul's idea really!"), and well, the filmed song performances definitely are on the inspired side of lunacy. Also the fact Magical Mystery Tour comes with an audio commentary makes me wonder whether my own inspired lunacy might come true, which is that if Let It Be the film ever gets released on dvd (and I'm not sure it will, because, masochism, what with the whole thing documenting the group melt down), we will get two audio commentary tracks, one with Paul, Yoko and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and the other with Ringo and Heather McCartney, since they provided the one fun moment in the documentary of meltdown and according to the Let It Be transcripts bonded over favourite animals. Probably not, though. Never mind, Magical Mystery Tour will be more fun to watch anyway, whether or not I'll agree with the critics. Because I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together. And they are the walrus.
In other news, Doctor Who is coming back, which will be fun; I'm all mellowed out on my issues with not only but mainly the sixth season, look forward to the seventh though if the Moff does that thing with the Doctor ignoring something otherwise declared to be crucial when it's not an arc episode for the third year in a row, I'll be back to being irritated fairly soon. Then again: Ben Browder will guest star.
Also coming: the dvd special edition of Magical Mystery Tour. I must admit I never saw the film in its entirety, just the excerpts available on YouTube; I could have hunted down a video copy, but I was an inhibited Beatles fan shying away from that because virtually all biographies ever agree this particular film was their first flop for good reasons. Read: 60s improvisational "we can do anything even if we have no plan whatsoever" style taken beyond the over the top limit, and made at the height of their pyschedelic phase, no less. But I also was curious, and that trailer is certainly appealing. The glorious colours make it clear why Paul tried to defend the film back in the day by pointing out the BBC should never have broadcast it in black and white. It's somewhere between sad and hilarous to see Victor Spinetti again, given he died this year. And Paul's introduction cracks me up ("what you are about to see is the product of our imaginations and believe me, at this point they are quite vivid" is a neat way of saying "we were all majorly into LSD that summer of 1967"), as does Ringo's ("it was Paul's idea really!"), and well, the filmed song performances definitely are on the inspired side of lunacy. Also the fact Magical Mystery Tour comes with an audio commentary makes me wonder whether my own inspired lunacy might come true, which is that if Let It Be the film ever gets released on dvd (and I'm not sure it will, because, masochism, what with the whole thing documenting the group melt down), we will get two audio commentary tracks, one with Paul, Yoko and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and the other with Ringo and Heather McCartney, since they provided the one fun moment in the documentary of meltdown and according to the Let It Be transcripts bonded over favourite animals. Probably not, though. Never mind, Magical Mystery Tour will be more fun to watch anyway, whether or not I'll agree with the critics. Because I am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together. And they are the walrus.
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Date: 2012-10-01 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-03 03:31 pm (UTC)(There is a great story about when the Beatles were shooting one of the vids - I think it was for Paperback Writer - and someone had the idea of a race between camera crew and Beatles. The camera guys thought this would be easy because, again, the lads, not just John, weren't known to do any sports, plus they were heavy smokers. However, what they hadn't thought of and what meant the Beatles won was that they had gotten really good at short distance sprints (away from the fans; Beatlemania having given them ample practice.)
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Date: 2012-10-03 03:36 pm (UTC)Love the idea of the Beatles as sprint-specialists!