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I’m listening to "Smile"…

12 October 2004

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…the just-released reimagination of the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys album begun, but never completed, in 1966. It’s very cool, and I highly recommend it to fellow Beatlefreaks, or anybody who enjoys tuneful 60s pop. What a wonderful end to the formerly tragic story of Smile. Those of you unaware of the history: I found a web [...]

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Book roundup

13 June 2004

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Here’s what’s on my night-table now, in case you care: Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History, by Devin McKinney This book is very hard to describe; it’s one part Beatle history, one part psychological appraisal of the group and its fandom, with plenty of song-by-song appreciation and Sixties history in there, too. The [...]

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Greetings from Beatleland

18 June 2003

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Kate got me The Beatles Anthology on DVD for my birthday, so we’ve been watching it nightly. Fascinating. Meanwhile, hardcore fans will be interested in this transcript of one of the last interviews John Lennon ever did. Exhaustive, to say the least.  

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All current and recovering smart kids must see…

15 June 2003

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…”Spellbound,” the new documentary about the national spelling bee. All eight students–between 10-13–are tremendously interesting; some of them inspire pity for the pressure (implicit and explicit) they’re under–pressure to succeed, sure, but pressure to deal with differences in culture and class, and in the largest sense, the great task of becoming oneself..I admired all of [...]

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