HOLY CRAP! The Beatles du Jour

Like a gazillion other Beatles fans from around the world I got to take a picture of 3 Savile Row from the street & never once dreamed of ever getting an inside peak, but now they're turning the building into an entire experience based around their iconic & final performance on the rooftop:

3 Savile Row is one of the most iconic buildings in British pop and rock: the former home of the Beatles’ record label Apple Corps, and the location of the band’s final public performance when they took to its rooftop in 1969.  

Apple Corps has now re-acquired the building in Mayfair, central London, and plans to open it to the public as a new tourist attraction in 2027.  

Across seven floors, The Beatles at 3 Savile Row will showcase items from the Apple Corps archives and host temporary exhibitions and a shop. The biggest attractions, however, will be a recreation of the studio where the band recorded their last album, Let It Be, and access to the rooftop where that poignant final concert was performed.

While I’m shrieking with joy how much I wanna go there the second it’s open I'm also wondering wait what took so long?

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "didn't you rather hilariously live-blog the entire Get Back documentary when it premiered?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did - and you can start with PART ONE HERE YOU'RE WELCOME!!! 

Here's my incredible pics from 2015. 

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We Love You Pete Buck! 😜

I've banged on about this a million times over the years on Xmastime (NOTE: you are reading Xmastime):

How the fuck awful of a singer can Peter Buck possibly be? I mean, I can understand R.E.M. not letting him sing, but a fun supergroup of his buddies in which he plays bass and they sing songs about baseball, and even THEN they don't even put a mic on his side of the stage?

Meanwhile, here he is not only playing a cover of Drivin n Cryin's classic Straight to Hell with Mike Mills & Kevin Kinney, but it's a song every fucking sorority sister has drunkenly shouted along to at every frat party since 1989 and THEY STILL WON'T LET THIS MOTHERFUCKER NEAR A MICROPHONE!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Questions. I Have Them.

Why isn’t the Civil War called “The War Between the Poor White Guys Who Wanted to Save a Labor Market in Which They Competed Against Guys Getting Paid a $0 Per Year Salary and the North”?

Problematic Word Choices, with Xmastime!

Knowing that the guy who posted this is one of the guys in the YouTube video doesn't make it any less "YIKES". 😬😬😬😬

 

Moi Say Moi

When someone says “(insert artist's name) needs to be a united not a divider” what they mean is “(insert artist's name) needs to think & say exactly what I think & say.”

You Know What...

...I have no idea if this is true or not but it's almost worth hearing it be announced on the news just to hear Republicans immediately start bitching "...you know the government’s gonna take half straight way right?..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 

Oh FFS du Jour

Wow if this is the statement that finally made you realize Trump doesn't give a shit about you then by all means please let me refer you to every single thing he's ever thought, said or done since the minute he was born.

Happy Mother's Day

My mother loved Kenny on The Cosby Show. Every time that kid opened his mouth, she'd totally crack up. XMASTIME

In America.

The best part of Trump's $10B grift will be watching to see if it's even possible to elect a president too stupid to orchestrate their own private stuff being "leaked!" so they can stick out their fucking paws & we happily give them billions of dollars. Awesome.

Oh No What Will Republicans Do for Their Family Christmas Cards This Year??? 😲

State du Moi

Spent the day at the office repeatedly informing everybody I saw that I hadn't realized the top button of my shirt was missing until I'd gotten to the office & that's why I looked like a just-retired porn star all goddam day.

THE OFFICE du Jour

People can give Season 8 all the shit they want, and I did, but this scene from Dwight is next-level comedy, just really fantastic. 😜

MAGA Worried War on Iran Distracting from War on Drag Queens

Moi Say Moi

Self-proclaimed righteous people - the ONLY kind of self-proclaimed people I like to fill my dance card with, thank you very much - like to say without religion there'd be no morality & we'd just be constantly murdering each other but if the first people on Earth somehow made it through a single breath without feeling the urge to constantly murder each other before collectively deciding "you know what we'd like to create a structured system of beliefs, practices, rituals, and symbols designed to facilitate a relationship with the sacred, divine, or supernatural, often addressing existential questions and ultimate concerns" then I'd say that morality existed before religion.

Okay Now I'm Just Straight Up Saving Lives Now. 😔

Just after 6pm this evening I strolled past the Wegmans "pick your shit up here" station just as easy as you please & there was a big sheet cake sitting there just as easy as it pleases, maybe the biggest cake I’ve seen in all my millions of times strolling past Wegmans "pick your shit up here" station & let me tell you boy I seen 'em all; I paused to see what all the ruckus with the icing was about & it turned out to be a cake celebrating some Nursing Station's 118th anniversary. "How nice!" I patted myself on the back before bouncing off.

I just walked strolled past the Wegmans "pick your shit up here" station just as easy as you please again. It's 11:48pm. The earliest they could come pick it up now is 6am and I'm *guessing* that's not gonna happen so while I don't know much about these nurses I would give them a piece of advice if I could, and that advice is please don’t eat the fucking cake.

State du Moi

You'd think fat people trying to lose weight would support each other but I think I may have sniffed out a guy doing my daily walking route so long story short hey hey hey guess who's fucking moving now? 😡 😡 😡 😡

All of Them?

Ghosts in the Silence

A few weeks ago I stumbled onto some Facebook page about high school football in Southwestern Virginia; immediately after getting sucked in I started to notice that even though the southwestern part of Virginia is seen as more Appalachia poor than most parts of the state, there seems to be an unending source of game footage all the way back into the 1960s & while I really couldn’t care less about those schools themselves, certainly not in, say, 1968, I find myself staring at the clips for minutes at a time; the black & white film’s absolute silence draws me in as if I’m looking not just at ghosts, but ghosts who may still be alive and stumble upon the footage as randomly/easy as I have, and I wonder what it’s like for them to watch themselves on film whose silence makes it seem as if they’re already long, long gone to the forgotten dustbin of time.

Speaking of THE NEW YORKER...

...nice to see Xmastime Hall of Famer Laurie Metcalf getting some love this week; I started out wanting to hate it because I assumed they'd skip over her Roseanne work (work that landed her in my all-time top 10 sitcom characters!) as quickly as they could but no no I was, as Fonzie himself wasn't a big enough man to say, wrong:

Goodman said, “As many difficulties as we had on the show, Laurie was my lodestar. She was solid gravity. She just rode the waves during a lot of that shit.” As the seasons went on, the writers played to Metcalf’s strengths, including physical comedy. But the show made a point of tackling real problems—mortgage payments, birth control, and a subplot in which Jackie has an abusive boyfriend. Sara Gilbert, who played Metcalf’s niece, said, “She can be completely absurd, but you don’t stop believing her.”