#i guess im doxxing myself anyway since i just looked up the concert the beatles did here and it was one of their most infamous ones lmaoo

[frodolives]

Had several female hysteria moments tonight!

I hardly ever go to the movies. If an interesting new movie comes out I usually just wait until it becomes available to pirate online. But for some reason I woke up today with a really passionate desire to go see the new Elvis movie on the big screen. None of my friends are available today so I decided I was going to try to kick social anxiety’s ass and just go and see the movie by myself. I’ve never been to the theatre alone before so I was really nervous walking in but as soon as I got there I realized it wasn’t really a big deal so that was a big win for my mental health!

Anyway, I really really liked the movie! Which kind of surprised me because usually when I watch music biopics I become pretentious and end up finding a lot of things to hate. And when the movie started I wasn’t liking it, it was just so incredibly busy and fast-paced and there was so much weird tiktok-esq music added into it for some reason. I started writing a snarky letterboxd review in my head ("oh hell naw 😭 they modernized Elvis") BUT THEN the first performance happened and ohhhh man.

I think this movie is required to watch in theatre. I know if I watched this on my cheap little laptop I’d probably find the film cheesy+cringe. But sitting in that theatre with the loud ass 360 speakers blaring some of my fav music and the giant image of the Elvis-actor writhing around and fucking the air (he did a crazy good acting job btw)…. I felt the female hysteria rattle through my whole being!!! A 10/10 experience. Sure, the film wasn’t THAT historically accurate, but i don’t care… there’s no way to make a film 100% accurate anyway so i think the main purpose of a biopic is to portray the energy of the individual as best as possible, so for Elvis, the movie had to be loud+sexy+grand and it was!! The ending of the film even moved me emotionally so there was that as well. I recommend.

But as if that wasn’t enough rock n roll history for the night, as the credits rolled and I walked out of the theatre and down the hall to the exit, something magical happened to me. Out of my peripheral vision I see none other than the beatles!! There were a lot of people in the hallway so I didn’t stop to take a proper pic, but I managed to take this as I walked by for proof… (blacked out some parts of the text because I don’t want to doxx myself so easily)

So apparently the movie theatre used to be a real theatre and the fucking Beatles performed here?? I was sitting where THE BEATLES used to be?? The stage was where the ticket buying area now is so for a moment I was literally standing exactly where John and Paul did that gay little mic sharing thing… I didn’t even realize how emotionally attached to the Beatles I truly was until that moment. Just the knowledge that I stood where the Beatles stood was enough to make me weak at the knees. I know my british (and even american) mutuals will prob laugh at me but as a born and raised Saskatchewan girl I had accepted the sad reality that I’d never be close to anything historically cool, in fact it was one of the reasons I moved, so that was a first time experience.

But this all reminded me of some cool Saskatchewan lore I’ve never shared on here before. Perhaps the one cool historical thing. There’s a really small town in the middle of nowhere with a little rundown building called Danceland. It was by the beach. I would go there during the summers as a kid and I remember my friends and I playing around on and behind the stage in Danceland, since there was nobody else there except some old guys who would sit there together to drink and play cards. They kept telling us stories about how once upon a time the town was bustling with life and colour and Elvis would come and play in Danceland. I can’t find any proof of it online other than some people on Facebook reminiscing about it, apparently it happened around ‘53/’54. Very interesting stuff. So there’s my possible connection to Elvis Presley as well!

So yeah. You could say I experienced some good old fashioned female hysteria TWICE tonight. A true girl moment. History and rock and roll are my favourite things in the world ❤️❤️❤️ amen

#sorry this is long i felt like info-dumping tonight #i guess im doxxing myself anyway since i just looked up the concert the beatles did here and it was one of their most infamous ones lmaoo