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I found out yesterday that I'm getting a nephew. WHOOOO HOOOOOO. Looks like his due date has been pushed up a little too. 12/27/08. Which happens to be my late Grandmother's birthday. Aldean "Deanie" Grass was one of the single greatest people in my life. She taught me how to play rummie and euchre. She lived right down the street from my house when I was growing up so I spent a lot of time with her. She died of ovarian cancer when I was 16, my brother was 10. So it would be a great tribute to her if we can continue to keep 12/27 as a very special day in our family.

The Beatles

I'm going through my "Beatles phase" a little late in life. So far I think my favorite album is Revolver. I particularly like the song "Tomorrow Never Knows". The music is really "trippy and psychadelic". It seems (from Wikipedia) that this song was inspired by Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience and LSD. It was credited as a Lennon/McCartney song however John mostly wrote it. He took the first line of the song "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" from The Psychedelic Experience however I belive the actual quote was "When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream".

I also really like "I'm Only Sleeping". Is it about euphoria or sleeping? I can't really tell, I'm not good at interpreting music..or art in general.

A viewing of Across the Universe is what prompted my curiosity about Beatles stuff that I haven't really heard before. I have to admit I really liked this movie. I didn't think I would but it's pretty good, I would highly recommend it, especially if you are a Beatles fan.

So I thought while I was at it I would watch a couple of Beatles movies. I watched Hard Day's Night a while ago. I don't really remember it or the plot, just that I think that was the "clean cut" Beatles, right? I watched Let it Be which is I guess more of a documentary than a movie. It was just OK. From that Wikipedia article I linked to I was expecting to see a bunch of fighing and stress but it wasn't like that at all. It was basically the band rehersing their songs for Let it Be. The interesting part in my opinion is that Ringo just looks plain bored playing the drums, it's almost funny. The next movie I watched was Magical Mystery Tour. Let me just say that you have to be a hard-core Beatles fan or a complete acid freak to enjoy that piece of schlock, ugh. I have always regarded Paul as the more "level-headed" Beatle. I think I read somewhere that he was the last one to do LSD, etc. But he actually came up with the concept for this film on a flight from the US to the UK after he had a dream that a woman was eating spaghetti with shovel. At any rate, I didn't really make it though this movie and It took several times for me to just get though the first 40 minutes. One thing of interesting note however, there is song in the movie, performed by "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Bandset" where a woman is stripping. It references Death Cab for Cutie. Perhaps I'm just not up to speed as I'm not a great big fan of DCFC but is this where they got their name? Wikipedia sez YES!

Not Tellin' Anyone

That I'm blogging again.