The Beatles
I watched A Hard Days Night for the first time at Screen on the Green and whether it was the strangely hypnotic sound system that kept modulating the volume high to low or the fumes of the cheap white wine around me, I found myself thinking, maybe some of these English Beatles aren't so bad looking...
The (English) Beatles
I'm not a fan of their music and I don't quite get their importance in music history so I'm not sure what I'm trying to justify in this sentence. Oh ya, their looks. So I looked at Paul McCartney first because he's the first I recognized. He's a round little thing. John Lennon was bigger but I noticed he has fine features, like a...woman (!). Come on, isn't he kind of pretty? I never considered George Harrison since I remember him from the Travelling Wilburys video and he was old(er) and it makes me feel weird. Um, anyways...Ringo Starr was cute in a little boy sort of way.
But then came the teenage girls. So many. First there was the screaming and running. Then came crying and lots of hugging. No one fainted in the film but I'm sure they did in real life. If nothing else, screaming like that would suck all the life out of me. I know. I tried. Just once. It was at a squirrel. Or a Backstreet Boy. Or Boys. I forget.
I hate squirrels. Besides socks, they are my mortal enemy! No, no, the bane of my existence! Up north, they're all roly-poly and jiggly-wiggly in the fall and winter and they lumber away from me when I chase them because they steal my ice cream cones. Damn squirrels. So cute but they make me want to scream....like a Beatle.
Holy smokes....
a squirrel = a Beatle?
In my world? YES. Except the Beatles aren't that cute. And they don't make me want to scream. But besides that...YES.
« June 02, 2006 7:14 AM | Post a Comment »
4 comment(s):
yen said:
I just have to say that if I were not me, this little essay on The Beatles wouldn't have examined their looks in a shallow off-putting manner, but whether the teenage girls found them truly worthy of hysteria or if peer pressure fuels adolescents (and adults) into behaving like idiots.
...cause they really look kinda goofy to me. But I am no harbinger (big word! did I use it right?) of good taste.
Sadly (or happily), this is neither the time nor the place.
said:
if you hate squirrels, you should see a mongoose... i want to catch 'em by their tails and punch 'em in their fuzzy bellies...
yen said:
Wikipedia (always reliable, yes) tells me that a mongoose is sometimes referred to as "the most dangerous animal on the planet".
Holy smokes, you want to go one on one with this thing? I'm running away now.
said:
yeah, there's nothing more satisfying than taking out a cute enemy. especially when they are fuzzy (that's the most important part - getting them in the fuzzy belly)
