(I first posted this on rateyourmusic.com a few moments ago but I wanted to add this to my personal blog with the extension that this include Beatles work but also the Monty Python group and solo work, My rateyourmusic only refers to the Beatles work since it is a music website)
First off why is it so hard to find so many of the great Beatles solo albums. Imagine and Double Fantasy are about the only only studio albums you can find anywhere from John Lennon. Plus they didn't release Past Masters tunes as bonus tracks for the Beatles so why did they add "Power To The People" to Plastic Ono Band, it doesn't fit with the rest of the album and neither does "Do The Oz." Also Shaved Fish is a compilation I know but since it is meant to tie up the loose ends of Lennon's studio discography I should it should be classified in some way as more of a studio type album and not a hacked and mixed compilation album. There's a billion Lennon and McCartney albums and there are a lot of great tunes that wouldn't fit in one or two discs. They should just sell studio albums as is and I hear they are putting Ringo's "Blast From The Past" out of print which is a shame because again it makes a good tie the loose ends cheap compilation album so you don't get classic albums like "Ringo" and "Goodnight Vienna" ending with otherwise great songs that seem out of place. Plus why add bonus songs in the middle of Harrison's classic "All Things Must Pass" just put the first two albums on the first disc and leave the second disc to play the jam sessions from the third album like John Lennon's Some Time In New York City which I know was only a double album but still it puts order to the album without editing it is my point. Beatle specials should also emphasize some of their solo work which sounds contrary to a purist like me but the solo work has been discriminated against as albums hailed for a little while only to fade into oblivion like Flaming Pie and Cloud Nine. George Harrison's Thirty Three & 1/3 has some great tunes that are hard to find "Crackerbox Palace" which I heard on a Saturday Night Live rerun and "This Song" which I found on youtube so I have these songs for free but I really wanted to own the album for myself so don't stop printing re-issues of the pure Beatle solo work with an occasional compilation or anthology that puts a little more depth in the discography. I don't know how to start a petition but to the people at Apple and Capitol Records and EMI and Dark Horse and Mecca please note a fan's plea and see it as a loss of potential revenue that could come from many other like minded fans. So any Beatle purist fans please tag your comments to this posting chain. I know that this is a weird thing to feel so strongly about but music is my passion and so is preserving arts that belong in their original form for longevity and prosterity and many Beatle fans may like the economic relief of a brief summary album of their tunes which is fine but those who want to save and scrimp every penny till they can every Beatle/ex-Beatle song they want no matter how obscure.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Man's Best Friends Scene V
(Brian on bed alone with his laptop)
Brian: (typing inner monologue) In today's world of less talk save time more action get yours and get going civilians need their accessories, possessions and clothes to do the quick talking for them and varying from culture to culture certain visible attributes communicate many different things. One way of cultural speech is the pets we own. Cats, dogs and birds are the most common pets and we have particular character types drawn on each type of pet owner. If you own a hamster it says that you are either eight years old or else very strange. If you own a cat you are feminine and proper or somewhat passively affectionate and laid back. If you own a bird you typically are a pining distant person who prefers affection through barriers and the same goes for fish owners who also want control over their objects of affection rather than actual affection. But dog owners not through popularity but though massive media images nailed into the cognitive minds of people our views on dogs and therefore dog owners varies breed to breed. The larger the dog the tougher the dog owner hence most women if they choose dogs they pick small dogs to show daintiness and frailness. You likewise won't see many men with Chihuahuas or poodles unless they don't mind the same mental image imposed upon the dog. Pitbulls and Rottweilers show toughness or a territorial nature and the owners are usually typecasting themselves as bad boys. Anyone who loves a mutt shows love as a priority over status quo and will win the affection of women who are insecure of themselves but still respect themselves too much to date a bad boy. Dogs are more popular for the diverse personal traits each breed portrays whereas cats, birds and fish show more vague images of personality. Vague is hard to stereotype so we choose dogs emphasize the role we choose to play in society and advertise ourselves to perspective partners. (spoken) Now I'll just email this to that magazine editor who publishes my relationship papers. And I'm done (gets up and leaves)
Brian: (typing inner monologue) In today's world of less talk save time more action get yours and get going civilians need their accessories, possessions and clothes to do the quick talking for them and varying from culture to culture certain visible attributes communicate many different things. One way of cultural speech is the pets we own. Cats, dogs and birds are the most common pets and we have particular character types drawn on each type of pet owner. If you own a hamster it says that you are either eight years old or else very strange. If you own a cat you are feminine and proper or somewhat passively affectionate and laid back. If you own a bird you typically are a pining distant person who prefers affection through barriers and the same goes for fish owners who also want control over their objects of affection rather than actual affection. But dog owners not through popularity but though massive media images nailed into the cognitive minds of people our views on dogs and therefore dog owners varies breed to breed. The larger the dog the tougher the dog owner hence most women if they choose dogs they pick small dogs to show daintiness and frailness. You likewise won't see many men with Chihuahuas or poodles unless they don't mind the same mental image imposed upon the dog. Pitbulls and Rottweilers show toughness or a territorial nature and the owners are usually typecasting themselves as bad boys. Anyone who loves a mutt shows love as a priority over status quo and will win the affection of women who are insecure of themselves but still respect themselves too much to date a bad boy. Dogs are more popular for the diverse personal traits each breed portrays whereas cats, birds and fish show more vague images of personality. Vague is hard to stereotype so we choose dogs emphasize the role we choose to play in society and advertise ourselves to perspective partners. (spoken) Now I'll just email this to that magazine editor who publishes my relationship papers. And I'm done (gets up and leaves)
14th Collection of Poetry
Jobless Hopeless
Lost forever stuck immobile
Might as well get cozy I'll be here for awhile
Lost forever alone tired of looking for my way
Just want to escape life for a day
No job no friends by my side
No calls from the stores I applied
So I waste another day in void
Escaping the pain and loneliness with Pink Floyd
My senses give me nothing but sorrow
Forever awaiting another tomorrow
Escape this pain with a cheap thrill
It's better than vain work or standing still
Evaluation
I don't know what's in store
Dying for sins I did not ask for
I did not willingly create
These feelings are innate
Something natural smothered in tacky decadence
Something beautiful, ugly, real and phony makes no sense
I don't want to pollute
But I need a substitute
Because if I'm too young for it to be real
I need placebos to make my soul heal
I know it is wrong
But my will wasn't born strong
Puberty
I sit still but my body's moving too fast
Another change as each moment's past
I do nothing hoping nothing will change
But my life is getting rearranged
My hormone and my heart are growing wild
But my mind is stuck between man and child
I sometimes think like a man but love like a little boy
Sometimes it's the other way but neither can I have any joy
My mind and body are changing within and without
Marked and scarred by my insecurity and doubt
But I have to face that time is the only way out
Lost forever stuck immobile
Might as well get cozy I'll be here for awhile
Lost forever alone tired of looking for my way
Just want to escape life for a day
No job no friends by my side
No calls from the stores I applied
So I waste another day in void
Escaping the pain and loneliness with Pink Floyd
My senses give me nothing but sorrow
Forever awaiting another tomorrow
Escape this pain with a cheap thrill
It's better than vain work or standing still
Evaluation
I don't know what's in store
Dying for sins I did not ask for
I did not willingly create
These feelings are innate
Something natural smothered in tacky decadence
Something beautiful, ugly, real and phony makes no sense
I don't want to pollute
But I need a substitute
Because if I'm too young for it to be real
I need placebos to make my soul heal
I know it is wrong
But my will wasn't born strong
Puberty
I sit still but my body's moving too fast
Another change as each moment's past
I do nothing hoping nothing will change
But my life is getting rearranged
My hormone and my heart are growing wild
But my mind is stuck between man and child
I sometimes think like a man but love like a little boy
Sometimes it's the other way but neither can I have any joy
My mind and body are changing within and without
Marked and scarred by my insecurity and doubt
But I have to face that time is the only way out
Man's Best Friends -Scene IV
(Back at Brian's apartment with Thomas licking his left side three times and then his right side three times and rotate as Brain and Mike walk in)
Mike (dog): Why don't you stick to one side till it's done?
Thomas (cat): It won't even out then.
Brian (man): (adoringly reaching down for Thomas) It won't matter because in a few moments I'm gonna pet and rub every hair out of place, baby.
Thomas: (running away) Bull crap I've been working on my grooming for the past three hours and I can't have it ruined?
Brian: Why not?
Thomas: Because that would make my day a waste.
Mike: You spent all day licking yourself it's already a waste.
Thomas: And spending the day squatting over a fire hydrant is time well spent?
Mike: At least I don't have to go in the same dirty sand box day in and day out.
Thomas: At least I don't have to leave the house to relieve myself.
David (hamster): At least you don't have to live in the box you defecate in. Can someone clean this cage?
Brian: I will (puts David in a second cage from under his desk, takes the old cage, washes it in the sink and puts it in the dish washer) There it's already in the dish washer.
Thomas: Remind me to never use the silverware.
Mike: Before or after you lick your own butt.
Thomas: Shut up, Brian and me are having a conversation. (to Brian) So how did the chick cruising go? Got any hot babes' phone numbers? Or did Cujo drive them all away with his mug face?
Mike: (defensively) Hey Cujo was a Saint Bernard, I'm a Miniature Schnauzer.
Thomas: Was the difference one dog is the same as another, why do you get to dissect yourself into smaller groups for your own protection?
Mike: What do you mean for your own protection?
Thomas: Well Cujo was a Saint Bernard so Miniature Schnauzers are off the hook from any negative stereotypes in regards to Cujo. But if a cat does something one cat is just the same as another.
Brian: You mean like with white and blacks, how one black man is seen as the same as another black person, but white are divided into a million nationalities, cultures and creeds.
Mike: (defensively) Well that's not true with cats though. Black cats are suppose to be scary, white cats classy and orange ones lazy
Thomas: What about alley cats?
Mike: Unbefriendable, aloof, untrustable, self-serving, garbage eating hobos.
Brian: (brainstorming) That's it that's why dogs are better wingmen than cats.
Mike: I know because cats are untrustable garbage eating hobos but what does wingmen have to do with this conversation?
Thomas: The magazine article he's been trying to write all day numbskull. He's talking about why it's easier for men with dogs to talk to people than men with cats.
Brian: Yeah if you have a cat it can only mean one of few handful of things regardless of the breed of the cat, but if you see a man with a pitbull or a man with a Chihuahua you can immediately tell the difference between them.
Mike: Yeah one has a chain on his wallet and the other rhinestones on their handbag.
David: You never see hamsters as wingmen. You don't even see as pets anymore. We're just some nine year olds toys that the cats eat.
Brian: Earlier you said eight year olds
David: What's the difference? No one listens to me anyway.
Mike: Say something new and we might.
Brian: Look I'm going to work on my report on my bedroom laptop, so Mike make sure Tommy doesn't eat David, David make sure Mike doesn't beat up Thomas and Thomas make sure David doesn't run away. If one of you fails this mission I'll donate you all to underprivileged inner city kids from an under funded orphanage.
Thomas: But they have bad food
David: Poor supervision
Mike: And no chew toys
Brian: Exactly
Mike (dog): Why don't you stick to one side till it's done?
Thomas (cat): It won't even out then.
Brian (man): (adoringly reaching down for Thomas) It won't matter because in a few moments I'm gonna pet and rub every hair out of place, baby.
Thomas: (running away) Bull crap I've been working on my grooming for the past three hours and I can't have it ruined?
Brian: Why not?
Thomas: Because that would make my day a waste.
Mike: You spent all day licking yourself it's already a waste.
Thomas: And spending the day squatting over a fire hydrant is time well spent?
Mike: At least I don't have to go in the same dirty sand box day in and day out.
Thomas: At least I don't have to leave the house to relieve myself.
David (hamster): At least you don't have to live in the box you defecate in. Can someone clean this cage?
Brian: I will (puts David in a second cage from under his desk, takes the old cage, washes it in the sink and puts it in the dish washer) There it's already in the dish washer.
Thomas: Remind me to never use the silverware.
Mike: Before or after you lick your own butt.
Thomas: Shut up, Brian and me are having a conversation. (to Brian) So how did the chick cruising go? Got any hot babes' phone numbers? Or did Cujo drive them all away with his mug face?
Mike: (defensively) Hey Cujo was a Saint Bernard, I'm a Miniature Schnauzer.
Thomas: Was the difference one dog is the same as another, why do you get to dissect yourself into smaller groups for your own protection?
Mike: What do you mean for your own protection?
Thomas: Well Cujo was a Saint Bernard so Miniature Schnauzers are off the hook from any negative stereotypes in regards to Cujo. But if a cat does something one cat is just the same as another.
Brian: You mean like with white and blacks, how one black man is seen as the same as another black person, but white are divided into a million nationalities, cultures and creeds.
Mike: (defensively) Well that's not true with cats though. Black cats are suppose to be scary, white cats classy and orange ones lazy
Thomas: What about alley cats?
Mike: Unbefriendable, aloof, untrustable, self-serving, garbage eating hobos.
Brian: (brainstorming) That's it that's why dogs are better wingmen than cats.
Mike: I know because cats are untrustable garbage eating hobos but what does wingmen have to do with this conversation?
Thomas: The magazine article he's been trying to write all day numbskull. He's talking about why it's easier for men with dogs to talk to people than men with cats.
Brian: Yeah if you have a cat it can only mean one of few handful of things regardless of the breed of the cat, but if you see a man with a pitbull or a man with a Chihuahua you can immediately tell the difference between them.
Mike: Yeah one has a chain on his wallet and the other rhinestones on their handbag.
David: You never see hamsters as wingmen. You don't even see as pets anymore. We're just some nine year olds toys that the cats eat.
Brian: Earlier you said eight year olds
David: What's the difference? No one listens to me anyway.
Mike: Say something new and we might.
Brian: Look I'm going to work on my report on my bedroom laptop, so Mike make sure Tommy doesn't eat David, David make sure Mike doesn't beat up Thomas and Thomas make sure David doesn't run away. If one of you fails this mission I'll donate you all to underprivileged inner city kids from an under funded orphanage.
Thomas: But they have bad food
David: Poor supervision
Mike: And no chew toys
Brian: Exactly
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