Someone needs the correct thumb placement.
They’re just getting you ready for Ted Lasso being hired as the new football coach.
Late to the party, but I just started watching “Succession”. I have no idea where they got the idea of a bunch of despicable, damaged siblings going into a meltdown over who gets to run the family business when their ‘orrible cunt of a father has a brain hemorrhage, only to find out the company is upside down by about $3 billion, but it is deliciously entertaining.
Like watching a multiple super car pile up.
F1
Season 4 is going to be insane. F1 - in particular, it’s incompetent, arrogant, fuckwitted Race Director Michael Masi - has dick-stomped it’s way through this entire race calendar, refusing to apply rules and penalize drivers for dangerous driving in order to engineer a winner-takes-all final race.
And then, in the duly delivered winner-takes-all final race this weekend, F1 leapt onto its own junk from such a high altitude it broke Felix Baumgartner’s freefall record. Lawsuits are almost certain to follow once F1 has denied all of the appeals against its decisions to break its own rules.
So I finally watched Episode 1. I wasn’t depressed, probably because I know what happens. But I literally got goosebumps watching McCartney compose Get Back right then and there, thinking it doesn’t exist before this moment, as the song literally emerges from his brain right before our eyes.
What was the movie where the Beatles never existed, but one guy remembers all their songs?
“Yesterday”
“You don’t wanna tell me today?” <//costello>
Same. Beatles fan but yeah i had hard time getting into the documentary. I finally made it through all 3 parts but not sure I would recommend it to anyone. There were a couple of things that did kind of stand out to me. How exceedingly awkward it was when Peter Sellers showed up in the studio. Man that was painful. The other thing involved Ringo. Yes we know he had little creative input into the band’s music but still it was a bit of a shock to see what an absolute non-entity he was throughout these sessions. I think they mentioned during the documentary about Lennon and Harrison being on heroin at this time but based on appearances I would have guessed that it was Mr. Starkey who was the one who was strung out.
Lennon’s heroin use—and use of other drugs—destroyed him. I’ve never seen any suggestion that Harrison used heroin.
That’s what my recollection was as well. But I thought the documentary said otherwise, mentioning both as using at this time. But it flashed quickly on the screen and I didn’t rewind to double check so perhaps i misread.
I also don’t recall any mention of GH using heroin in any of the Beatles literature. The only other one I can recall is McCartney saying he had it once with Robert Fraser and that it was too good and knew not to ever do it again for fear of being hooked (funnily, my formerly ne’er-do-well older brother said the same thing). By 1969 GH was generally off any hard drugs thanks to Hari Krishna, although he went back to coke in the 70s (I think it was a requirement for his particular job/skill set, see Clapton, Eric et al).
I need to rewatch it, I finally finished it. It was entertaining. I think my lack of super interest (as a person who preorders their box sets the day Amazon says I can and hopes to live long enough to finish Lewisohn as long as he lives long enough) was that I find Let It Be to be on par with Beatles For Sale, a pretty weak album overall.
I would be interested to know, though, if the movie represents how they really worked, like if we had the same film coverage of the Revolver sessions would it be the same stuff, them playing oldies (usually poorly), jamming (also generally poorly), trying out new songs, and generally goofing off. EMI was basically their treehouse so I tend to believe the movie is probably a good representation of any given Beatles session post fame.
Harrison did a famous interview with Dick Cavett in 1971, where he talked pretty openly about his drug use, and specifically said that he himself had never done heroin. Take that for what it’s worth.
I know it’s a movie and not TV, but I just got home from seeing Spiderman: No Way Home and I have to say it was hands down the best Marvel movie I’ve ever seen, and probably one of my favorite movies of the last 5+ years.
Alfred Molina reprising Doc Ock alone made it awesome, but there are 1000 other reasons it was fantastic.
I felt the same. It was amazingly done and surprisingly heavy.
Ragnarok has been my favorite, and this one makes me want to go to a movie theater again for the first time in 2 years.
Alright, sold. Guess I’m seeing it this afternoon.
This movie has everything that made Ragnarok great and then some. It manages to be funny, serious, heartbreaking, and action packed without feeling rushed at all.
I just finished “Succession” on HBO. It’s a good as everyone says it is. I ripped through Seasons 2 & 3 in two days.