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happy seventh birthday to lana's most underrated album <3

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obsessed with them forever

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The Invisibles: Issue 1 Page 18 (art by Steve Yeowell) ©Grant Morrison

"On October 9 1993, which would have been John Lennon’s 53rd birthday had the Arch-Beatle not been shot dead by Mark Chapman in 1980, I performed a ritual intended to incarnate Lennon as a god." - Grant Morrison

"I wanted to make a dedication at the beginning of what was a whole new life for me in many ways. I wanted to summon a spirit of pure psychedelic inspiration into a Lennon-shaped environment. I sought not to manifest the real man; the troubled, cruel and violent Lennon with his flaws and contradictions but instead evoke Lennon the twisted mystic, the pop star intellectual, the elemental Air of the four Beatles as stripped back to their cartoon archetypes.

To get in the mood, I wore a Paisley shirt, skinny jeans and Chelsea boots. I sat at the centre of a circle made of Beatles albums and had Tomorrow Never Knows playing on a loop. My new 12-string white Rickenbacker stood in for a wand. As sacrament, I took a microdose of LSD, not enough for a full-blown trip but sufficient to soften consensus reality.

People sometimes misunderstand when I talk about what happened that night – I was not possessed by the ‘spirit’ of Lennon. This was not a mediumistic example of ‘channelling’ the alleged dead. This was magic. Intention Willed into Form.

I altered the temple environment using sounds, smells and images as powerful triggers, to push out of my consciousness all associations that did not relate to Lennon.

This overload of environmental cues was organized or compressed by Will into a singular, visible compound idea of Lennon-ness, so that everywhere I looked reminded me of John Lennon, everything I heard was Lennon, until all other qualities the space around me may have once possessed were edited out and replaced by the Lennonsphere!

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This total possession of the ritual space by a coherent manifestation what I was looking for and it expressed itself visually and audibly as a 4-foot tall head that fit inside my temple space but felt much bigger, made of thousands of intricate multi-coloured and chiming shards of what resembled musical notation as rotated through a higher direction – intense flashing colours, digital high fidelity, shimmering musical glissades and drones.

I bathed in an electric fluorescent creative kaleidoscope – searing yellows and electric pinks, UV blues – receiving a download of powerful effervescent excitement and creativity. It felt most like the imagined Lennon of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. A psychedelic god on acid.

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As a more minor side effect of the ritual, I found myself with this song I’d strummed into life, composed almost automatically, complete with lyrics and music. It always sounded to me, at best, like a throwaway B-side from 1965 as imagined by the Rutles but that’s why I’ve always liked it. It’s a very authentic scribble of the moment…

It is emphatically NOT a communication from beyond the grave."

- Grant Morrison, "John Lennon Like You"

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These Guys Give Me Andrew Marston Vibess

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When looking at the pictures of John Lennon I was omgggg he's giving my man and especially young Hugh Grant

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WHY Why why

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"It was a trait others, particularly women, often picked up immediately, even though it was in sharp contrast to the hard, hu-morous picture he usually displayed to the world. 'At his core, John was a frightened man,' said May Pang, who became his companion for a while in the seventies. Linda McCartney was similarly surprised the fi rst time she met John. 'He was totally lacking in confidence and very nervous,' she said. Yet there was a way in which that trait helped shape John's cultural sensibility too. Years later, Anthony Fawcett, one of John's assistants, talked about John's particular sensitivity to the outside world, which, of course, helped make him especially receptive to the changing cultural currents of the sixties he would embody in his music."

ㅡ From the book "Meet The Beatles" by Steven D. Stark.

[newwavesylviaplath]

it really did work

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George Harrison and Pattie Boyd ( 1966 )

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Unfrosted

Unfrosted    [trailer]

In 1963 Michigan, business rivals Kellogg's and Post compete to create a cake that could change breakfast forever.

It feels like Seinfeld and his co-writers wrote a large amount of jokes and puns and then tried to built a story around it.

It helps that the movie is fast-paced and the story is pleasantly silly. And some scenes (the funeral!) and characters (Mad Men cameos) are quite funny. I very much liked Hugh Grant.

Though it's unfortunate that Seinfeld also stars since he can't really act.

The diabetic coma inducing product placement gets balanced with the repeated mocking of the industry. So overall, an entertaining diversion that's easily forgotten once the sugar rush recedes.

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i always try to listen to something else but i end up crawling back to the beatles like a sick dog. i listened to them making this post and i’m still listening to them :3

george is my favourite beatle, how about you?