"You don’t replace someone like John. The thing about John is we had come from the same spot, the same place in time. We had traveled the road together. Anyways, he’s a great writer, a hell of a writer,’ says Paul, speaking unconsciously in the present tense."

(United Press International, 1984)

We're off to battle again, old girl.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.04 A Dance of Dragons

With thanks to @reflectismo for posting the vid

Bonus

I know folks have been sharing this link on other posts, but &udm=14 works well:

You can add it as an extension to Firefox now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/reviews/

Beatles themed birthday party - 1964

omg i hadnt even looked at these background kids before, but like….

Beatles in Hyde Park, 1967

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

take off your glasses if you wear them for 20 seconds

Recommended by my optometrist

Look at something 20 feet away, then 10, then 5, then one, then if you can your nose.

Repeat twice, then again without glasses.

Face forward look out of the corner of your eye. As far as you can look. Slowly move to the other corner. Repeat twice.

Look down as far as you can. Slowly look up. Repeat twice.

Roll eyes twice.

Close eyes for five minutes.

I do this every day usually at my halfway point. My migraines went away. My vision go better. Honestly stretching my eyes as she put it feels great too.

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

environmental storytelling.

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

shout out to the sound designer who was like "I know exactly what kind of music to whip out for this one!"

I've never actually seen this before, and WOW is that cool!

Wha-

BIG SILLY?

this is actually the coolest thing i've heard in a minute. there's something really reassuring about it, honestly. that there's a place in nature, carved out by these creatures, and that even with hundreds of years of separation, they slot back into these spots where they're meant to be

BISON WALLOWING!!

It creates a whole other type of habitat within the habitat!!!

Lots of plants need bison to wallow in order to create a place where they can grow and prosper!

Bison are a keystone species, they build and engineer the ecosystem, maintain it and give it life!

Bring back the bison!

"George Harrison: ”"[The Beatles] were told all the time: ‘You’ll never do anything, you Northern bastards.’ It was that kind of attitude. So although we didn’t openly say, ‘F*** you!’ it was basically our thing: ‘We’ll show these f***ers.’ And we walked right through London, the Palladium, and kept on going through Ed Sullivan and on to Hong Kong and the world. It was the same at school: my teachers expected nothing of me and didn’t have it in them to be able to give me anything. My headmaster wrote on my school-leaving testimonial, ‘I can’t tell you what his work has been like because he hasn’t done any. Has taken part in no school activity whatsoever.’ Thanks a lot, pal, that’ll really get me a job, won’t it! So when Paul pulled out of a Ford showroom a couple of years later having bought a brand new Ford Classic and his old headmaster was standing there, Paul looked at him like, ‘Ha ha, yes, it *is* me and I *do* have my own Ford Classic.’ It was ‘f*** you’. We made it in spite of him, in spite of the teachers, of Dick Rowe, of EMI (they didn’t sign us up, either). We were hanging in there by the skin of our teeth, with no money or anything, and just got a bit of luck with George Martin. And we might have believed the crap, too — if it wasn’t for the inner determination that we always had, that I always felt; a kind of assurance within that something was going to happen.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (x)

John + Paul + Martha

A family <3

Karl Gerstner, Color Sound, 2024

Q: Do you often mentally consult John when you’re writing?

Paul: Yeah, often. We collaborated for so long, I think, ‘OK, what would he think of this? What would be say now?’ We would both agree that this new song I’m talking about is going nowhere. So instead of sitting around, we would destroy it and remake it. I started that process yesterday in the studio.

-2020 interview, Uncut Magazine

Paul, John and George, relaxing after a busy day during the height of Beatlemania.