#1966 era

[loadingbraincells]

inktober day 29: twins

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton Beach Blanket Bingo (1966)

[ggvannba]

i hate him hes such a twink

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Wartburg 353, 1966. An East German car dating from the communist era, the 353 was based on an old DKW design and was powered by a 2-stroke engine with only seven major moving parts: three pistons, three connecting rods and a crankshaft. AWE, who made the Wartburg, failed to survive the reunification of Germany and the brand disappeared in 1988.

[menlove]

i fully understand when people don't know which beatle is which as in they couldn't name who they're looking at but when people say they look exactly alike i have to wonder if they're the most faceblind person on this planet bc there could NOT be 4 more different looking white dudes what do you MEEEEAN

[thebeatles]

John Lennon, for "Tomorrow Never Knows," (1966) wanted to sound like "Dalai Lama chanting from a hilltop" and shared his idea to George Martin. John's idea was hanging upside down, suspended with wired, and spinning him around a microphone. That idea was reasonably rejected by George and was left to look for better options.

The solution: connecting John's vocals through a Leslie rotating speaker.

Here is an excerpt from Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (2005) (p. 601-602):

Meanwhile, John discussed several ideas for the vocal with his producer, each one a conceit of his overactive imagine. "He wanted his voice to sound like Dalai Lama chanting from a hilltop," Martin recalled. Most producers would have dismissed such a cheeky idea out of hand, but Martin, a wise patient man, gave the Beatles enormous leeway. Their ideas might sound like gibberish initially, but he recognized that because of their lack of formal musical training, they often only needed someone to "translate" what they meant, to express in terms that made sense to structured technicians and in that respect Martin viewed his role as "the officer interpreter." In many cases, he struggled to create some kind of Tibetan influence or effect in the studio, realizing that ordinary echo or reverb wouldn't do the trick. Recording out of doors was also out of the question; there was no way to contain or control the sound. And John's suggestion -- that "we suspect him from a rope in the middle of the studio ceiling, put a mike in the middle of the floor, give him a push, and he'd sing as he went around and around," according to Geoff Emerick -- was met with a meaningful, albeit barely a tolerating smile. (When pressed by John, they were always said to be "looking to it," Emerick recalled.) It was nineteen-year-old Emerick who eventually came up with an inventive solution he suggested putting John's voice through a Leslie speaker and re-recording it as it came back out. To a straitlaced, formalistic EMI technician, this sounded about as nutty as suspending John from a rope, but the more Martin thought about it, the more he saw its possibilities. A Leslie was a speaker with variable rotating baffles that was usually paired with a Hammond console organ. "By putting his voice through that and then recording it again, you got a kind of intermittent vibrato effect," Martin explained. It was a revolutionary idea -- but considered taboo at Abbey Road, where engineers were discouraged from "playing about with microphones."

[beatlesficrecs]

Title: You Didn't Run

Author: @adriennefrombrooklyn (carolynhidthecake on AO3)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59193949

Summary: "The U.S. '66 tour looms ahead, and John is shaken by an aggressive reporter at the airport. If it's a portent of what the tour has in store for them, then Paul won't let him face it alone."

Why i like it:

The prose. "As far as he was concerned, a crowd was a mob, and a mob by any other name was still out for blood." And "for a stretch of time everyone had refused to go gentle into that shit night."

Their connection. "Paul was right beside him, pushing between him and the microphone and all the hostile bodies. And as quickly as it had come, the panic was gone . . . . And there would always be another bastard with a microphone. A constant. But there was also Paul, settling into his seat and giving John a half-smile. It’s okay. It’s going to be okay."

The dialogue. "John, only if you want to…” Paul’s words melted into another sigh, rougher, shakier this time, like he was fighting it. [] "I always want to,” John said, as sure of his words as he’d ever been. Maybe I shouldn’t talk unless it’s to Paul. That might do the trick.

The smut. "Paul, John’s prick fully in his mouth and going deeper, eyes closed and watering at the corners, hand on his own cock and pumping so slowly it seemed to pain him. The thought that Paul could reach this level of desperation so soon after getting off just from having John in his mouth"

Link to fic

[undead-sinner]

kinda silly ik but I'm curious what yall think skjdnwkjdnskj

[widowshill]

Now, on the road to Hell there was a railroad line And a lady steppin' off a train With a suitcase full of summertime.

[franklyimissparis]

person i’ve been randomly seated next to at my cousin’s wedding when please please me plays: controversial opinion but i’m tired of pretending that john lennon wasn’t extremely fuckable

me: please marry me

[exquisiteaudrey]

1966🤍

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱, 𝔉𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔫𝔢, 𝔉𝔞𝔩𝔩 յգկՑ. 𝔠𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔐𝔞𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔪 𝔖𝔪𝔦𝔱𝔥 (𝔄𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫, յգյշ-յգճճ).

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton as Erroneus A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1966

[mayra-quijotescx]

"The ultimate question the man of responsibility asks is not 'How can I extricate myself heroically from the affair?' but 'How is the coming generation to live?' It is only in this way that fruitful solutions can arise, even if for the time being they are humiliating."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, trans. Reginald H. Fuller

[conexionieg]

Un día como hoy, 31 de octubre, pero de 1964: Se forma el Comité de Estudios para la Reestructuración de la Industria Eléctrica, decretado por el entonces presidente de México, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.

El comité estaba formado por representantes del gobierno, de la industria eléctrica y de la academia. Su objetivo era estudiar la situación de la industria eléctrica en México y proponer recomendaciones para su reestructuración.

El comité presentó su informe final en 1966. El informe recomendaba la creación de una empresa estatal para la generación, transmisión y distribución de electricidad. Esta empresa, que se llamaría Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), sería responsable de garantizar el suministro de electricidad a todo el país.

El gobierno de Díaz Ordaz aceptó las recomendaciones del comité y la CFE fue creada en 1969. La CFE es la empresa eléctrica más grande de México y es responsable de la generación, transmisión y distribución de electricidad en todo el país.

#EfeméridesEléctricas de #Conexión #IngenieríaEléctrica

[turtleislandhistory]

August 20, 1966

The American Civil war is formally declared over by US president Andrew Johnson.