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got someone into john and paul lore through their enjoyment of challengers. one must spread the rpf bible.

this is a very good and noble work you're doing anon, i applaud you

#askbox #okay i will go watch it sometime next week promise

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John Lennon (and a little bit of Paul McCartney) during the press conference for Apple — May 1968, New York City.

#lennon and mccartney

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There is a sort of constant battle between the two of them to the degree that they are fighting, but they are taking care of one another. When the sugar goes on the cheek of Patrick, Art takes it off with his hand in a very nice gesture of kindness -- and very intimate, I would say. But at the same time, they are really tense. And I think it’s about being jealous of one another, but at the same time wanting one another.

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#challengers #JP CORE

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Obsessed, truly just fixated, really, on Bob Wooler comparing John and Paul to Leopold and Loeb, and on John saying Paul was the “Walrus” in their friendship (whilst he was the Carpenter?) a famous sweet-talking killer of innocent oysters in the Carroll story, accompanied, of course, by his more direct (and equally insane) partner

#lennon and mccartney #🤔

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The Smiths - How Soon is Now

You shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way

I am human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does.

#has anyone heard of this song #tunes #the smiths

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How did John Lennon spend his days off during cold, rainy days? Curled up on the smallest sofa in the house. ㅡ From the book "The Beatles' Paperback Writer: 40 years of classic writing" by Mike Evans.

#the feminine urge to pspsps #john lennon

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Why is tumblr dead on the weekends omg stop going to the club, get your ass out here and BLOG

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pj harvey ▪︎ white chalk

#pj harvey

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

#my succession fandom experience lol

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JOSH O'CONNOR & MIKE FAIST Challengers (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

#Challengers #i want to watch this so bad but unfortunately i don't get zendeya's appeal as an actress :( #however i do love #josh o'connor

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Slowdive, 90s

By untitled

#slowdive

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The Cure // The Hanging Garden

#the cure #tunes

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David Alison - Woman reading by a window (ca. 1925)

#David Alison #art

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Paul McCartney, Talking With David Frost (1997).

Q: But I mean, how did you learn the sad news of John Lennon?

Paul: Linda had taken the kids to school – we each would alternate – and she’d taken the kids to school, and I got a phone call from my office. From this office, in fact. And the bloke who was running it at the time says to me: “I’ve got some terrible news for you”. “Oh my god!” you know, when you hear that, “Oh my god, how terrible are we talking here?” And he said, “John has just been shot dead!” “Oh my god…” And you immediately – I think it was the same reaction as everyone else – “No, no, no! Just tell me he has been shot wounded! Not dead– don’t say that word, I don’t want that word!” So I was just… just wrecked really. And then Linda came back and she could see; I’d gone all pale and couldn’t really say. She went “What the hell is wrong?” So I told her.

And the funny thing is I didn’t know what to do with myself. I had a work day planned in London, so I just said: “I’m just gonna go to work.” I couldn’t think of anything else to do, so I did. I was waiting for George Martin: he came into work! So we both had the same reaction: “Carry on!” like robots, you know. And we didn’t have much of a day, obviously. It was a crazy day. 

And it was only that evening that it really hit me! It was the same as Lady Di, actually. The day I was very stoic and “well, yeah…” And somebody stuck a microphone in the thing: “So, what is your comment?” And I’ve never been one for the sort of… two-liner: “John was a great guy, and I’m really sad to see him gone!” I couldn’t do– the pundits came on later: “Lennon was this and that.” They all had things to say. They’d– I mean, half of them had written it in advance anyway; they work for newspapers, so they’d written their obits in advance. So they knew what to say. I couldn't think of what to say! 

It was that evening I just went home and wept. And just let it all out then. And that was really all I had to say! I didn’t have much to say.

The only thing that I had to say was that the guy was the jerk of all jerks. That was the phrase. “Did he know what he’d done? Did he know how senseless and meaningless it was?” And… yeah. That just kept running over in my head. 

But basically, I was just emotional. But I tend to be emotional in private. It’s not easy for me to be publicly emotional. I’m British, for Christ’s sake!

Q: Quite right! Stiff upper lip! Look at that stiff upper lip! But I mean, in a case like that, do you find that when something as cruel as that happens, that you suddenly believe– start wondering if there’s a case for capital punishment or something like that? Or if you’ve always been against it you stay against it?

Paul: It’s such a difficult question; always was. I think… yeah, if I had caught the guy I would have strung him up, personally, sure! You go through all of that! But then you’ve got to actually think the question through, and it was always– I mean, I know John was against capital punishment. So he wouldn’t have called for it. So you’ve got to reason it, you can’t just go with your first hot-head thing. But sure, the first instinct… If I had caught hold of him, yeah. But I think in the end you’ve got to temper it and look at it a bit more sensibly.

#paul mccartney #man.

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Debbie Harry / 1978

Photos: Richard Young

#Debbie Harry

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#the smiths

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Two Of Us (2000) 

directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also directed the 1970 Beatles film, Let It Be)

#two of us #“legend has it” this is like the star wars opening crawl. to me