babygirlphase
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They say it’s your birthday! Happy birthday to you! Sir Paul McCharmly happy birthday :D truly at the toppermost of the poppermost 💛
<3333333 . missing nephrosoupp like a motherfucker
happy birthday to Johnny boy !!
spent over an hour looking for this post of which i only remembered the phrase "stuff that actually happened". god free me
the point of rpf isn’t to concoct scenarios that are thinly veiled attempts to fuck the celebrities you like yourself. the point of rpf is to learn as much lore as is possible about the celebrities you like by whatever means necessary and use that information to craft scenarios that are wildly implausible but Technically could have happened. and then to chuckle about it. by the way
sometimes rpf is literally just the most logical conclusion
“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it
revising your writing is just like "is this weird. is this a weird sentence. is this the weirdest most poorly-worded sentence ever written by anyone" and the sentence in question is "he walked across the room"
Paul McCartney giggles his way through singing "Sitting on a woody-pecker/ sucking on a lollypoppa... everytime I try to do it/My whole darn tongue gets tired"
Transcript of Paul McCartney and Donovan recorded during the sessions for Mary Hopkin’s Postcard LP as heard on the “No. 3 Abbey Road N.W. 8” bootleg CD. (reproduced from https://davidgray101.tripod.com/PaulandDonovan.html )
Fade in, Paul playing acoustic guitar and singing How Do You Do?. Paul: (singing)How to suck a lollypopper, Sitting on a woodypecker, Dancing in the double-decker shoe, (Donovan snickers, presumably at Paul’s nonsensical lyrics) (note, this is the writers assumption that what Donovan is laughing about is the 'nonsensical lyrics' and not the innuendo) I don’t know,
How do you do?
Paul and Donovan:(singing together) How to suck a lollypopper,
Sitting on a woodypecker,
Dancing in the double-decker shoe,
I don’t know,
So, how do you do?
Donovan attempts to harmonize on the last word, ‘do’, but hits a sour note, causing both him and Paul to laugh. Paul carries on alone.
Paul: (singing) I don’t know how you do it,
Lordy, knows I try,
But every time I try to do it,
My whole darn tongue gets tied
Regarding ‘How Do You Do’ John C Winn writes in ‘That Magic Feeling’
As the tape opens, Paul is singing what appears to be a nursery rhyme of his own creation ‘How Do You Do’,, although the lyrics about “sucking on a lollipopper” and “sitting on a woody pecker” can be taken more than one way! Donovan harmonizes in spots, and Paul does a double-time impression of the song as Danny Kaye might perform it.
(yes, Paul singing about sucking and sitting on phallic objects can definitely be taken in more than one way!)
reread this post and maybe this is an unpopular mclennon opinion? but i think they both didn't actually understand each other as well as they thought they did. i think both of them believed the other could read their mind and then filtered their subsequent actions as a conscious slight. like. john should know that paul is someone who keeps his feelings very closely guarded, who will always choose to keep the peace and to put on a good face when he's upset. but throughout the breakup, when paul seemingly stays as productive as ever, staying distantly polite to yoko while urging john to keep writing, keep beatling, everything's fine, time to put on a show, john takes it that paul doesn't care one way or another about their partnership dissolving, he's a perfectly capable one-man band hit machine anyway. this is seemingly confirmed by paul announcing the breakup to "sell a record," effectively ending all hope of quietly reconciling and supporting john's theory that paul was done with the beatles (john) anyway and had been on his way out once he learned he could write a #1 song without anyone's (john's) help. all he cares about is hits and money and his new perfect family and farm.
meanwhile. paul should know that john wasn't handling the pressures of the beatles well. he should know that he needed more support. but paul seems to be someone who gets stuck in his ways of thinking about people (see also: george), and doesn't seem to have ever shaken the image of john as the older, cooler teddy boy on the bus who he'd do anything to impress. he thinks the world of john and spends the 60s thinking they're in a friendly competition, not realizing john has started falling into the paranoia that he's losing. you can see it in get back. paul is waiting for john to write his next great song, to set a new bar for paul to push himself to reach. paul got john by impressing him with his music and when he's losing john he doubles down on it because he thinks that's the only valuable thing he has to offer. he might have offered the support john needed instead if he knew what that was, but he didn't. but mid-60s john, who still thinks paul understands him, thinks paul knows he needs him but chooses to spend his time flitting around swinging london instead, which deeply hurts him. john clings to yoko because she's a breath of fresh air from the constant race he's been running for a decade. a creative partner he doesn't have to chase down. someone who needs him as much as he needs her. a woman he can marry, can have a real commitment to. he can be everything to the person who is everything to him. but paul sees this as john finally outgrowing him and finding someone better.
paul also should know that john often speaks first and decides whether he believes what he said later. but it seems he only ever takes john at his word. when john leaves the beatles that's it, no negotiation, because if paul has lost john to someone more interesting, more artistic, then that's that. when john starts to talk publicly about paul's muzak and granny shit that must be true too, it's why john left after all. and granted john just wont stop shit talking him and it's not like he just fell on a keyboard and how do you sleep came out. but this is how you get a paul who starts to see himself as a villain and questions whether john did love him. he doesn't think too many people was that nasty compared to what john was saying about him in interviews because he doesn't realize that one of john's biggest fears is that he's incapable of being a great songwriter without paul. so to john, the lucky break line is paul admitting he agrees with that assessment and twisting the knife. but paul wouldn't see it that way because he's only ever had john on a pedestal.
so by the 70s, on their worst days, john thinks paul is cold marble statue who knows he's better than him and delights in it and paul thinks john is entirely out of love or use for him, if he ever had it in the first place. and of course, they could never talk about any of this openly because neither of them were willing to face the pain of confirming that their love really was one-sided.
truly no one does it like mclennon when it comes to literary devices. paul and john being narrative foils, both insanely creative and competitive to a fault? the dramatic irony of john being able to recognize paul's music from MULTIPLE FLOORS down in the dakota while paul thought john hated his guts? the imagery of paul trying to pull tape of his bass while talking to john in dreams? the symbolism of paris (the city of love) being the happiest memory they'd both reminisce about in future years? the foreshadowing of "think of me now and then, old friend"? the tragedy of "all my loving" allegedly playing over the hospital pa the minute john died? its honestly stomach turning and the worst part is that all of that literally, actually happened
so fucking funyn actually
imagine how fucked it was that after the whole Paul marrying Linda and John deciding to marry Yoko 2 days later situation they all just had to clock into work together basically the next day
The fact that john girls are mostly paul coded girls is proof that the tragedy of mclennon can't be destroyed, only transformed. Just a group of firstborn daughters with anxiety and their schedules trying to fix his ass
the worst thing a group of 4-5 bisexuals can possibly do for their interpersonal relationships is start a band and that’s why you have to do it
absolutely losing it at the half visible "you had no fit on"
✨️The beatles incorrect texts ✨️
gay as hell
John and Paul details in art by Klaus Voormann
When you pretend to be in love you run the risk of feeling it, he who parodies without proper precautions ends up the victim of his own cunning. And even if he takes them, he ends up a victim just the same. As Pascal said: “It is almost impossible to feign love without turning into a lover.” […] That said, I must also warn you that when you hear me say, for example, that there was never any end to Paris, I will most likely be saying it ironically. But, anyway, I hope not to overwhelm you with too much irony. The kind that I practice has nothing to do with that which arises from desperation — I was stupidly desperate enough when I was young. I like a kind of irony I call benevolent, compassionate, like what we find, for example, in the best of Cervantes. I don’t like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?
— Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris.
The thing was all the kissing and the holding that was going on in Paris. And it was so romantic, just to be there and see them, even though I was twenty-one and sort of not romantic. But I really loved it, the way the people would just stand under a tree kissing; and they weren’t mauling at each other, they were just kissing.
— John Lennon, interview w/ David Sheff for Playboy. (September, 1980)
J’aime the kisses the Parisians give one another, touching their cheeks, and allowing men to do the same, though they never lock their arms in embrace.
— Henri Cole, Orphic Paris.
After a late lunch, Linda launched into a long paean to the joys of living in England. When she was finished, she turned to John and said, “Don’t you miss England?”
“Frankly,” John replied, “I miss Paris.”
— May Pang, Loving John. (1983)
If so, how I must be striving to not be annihilated by Paris, which I find so overwhelming. My face looks solitary and calm. […] What perplexing messages memories can yield. As I write this, their odors, their shadows, and their sweet music are almost too much to bear.
— Henri Cole, Orphic Paris.
“I don’t have any friends!” John reminded me. “Friendship is a romantic illusion!” He said that he had learned this the hard way after the breakup of his relationship with Paul McCartney, whom he had once regarded as his close friend.
— Fred Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon. (1991)
To the most romantic corner in Paris where I left my heart and my illusion.
— Octavio Paz. (trans. Henri Cole)
I think, in one way, all of us were under a slight illusion that we might… Maybe it wasn’t an illusion, and maybe had we pushed harder, we would’ve gotten what we wanted, but I’m not sure we – anybody really knew what we wanted. We knew we didn’t like what was happening, but nobody knew quite what – what it was that we wanted. ’Cause we’d never had it.
— John Lennon, interview w/ Jim Ladd. (October 10th, 1974)
Everything ends, I thought.
Everything except Paris, I say now. Everything ends except Paris, for there is never any end to Paris, it is always with me, it chases me, it is my youth. Wherever I go, it travels with me, it’s a feast that follows me. There can be an end to this summer, it will end. The world can go to ruin, it will be ruined. But to my youth, to Paris, there is never any end. How terrible.
— Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris.
this is GOLD
PaulMcCartney.com: Is there anything in particular you hope people will get from reading your new book? What do you hope their main takeaway will be?
Paul: Well, I mainly see it as a ‘behind the scenes’ publication. After all these years, it was lovely for me to be taken backstage again. I love just looking at old pictures of the guys, for example, ones of John with his glasses; obviously it's hugely sad, because I miss him so much. But this just reminds me of growing up with him and all the pleasant memories.
Whenever I see John with these sorts of glasses, it reminds me of the way he would take him off when there were girls around. For some reason people think they look better without their glasses! And now, whenever other people do that it always reminds me of John. I’d be chatting with him, or writing a song, and he would take his glasses off and clean them. And because nobody in my family had glasses, I'd never seen someone just chatting and absent-mindedly cleaning them. So, that's what this picture and really the whole book reminds me of - it just brings back all those little memories which make up a life.
‘You Gave Me The Answer – ‘Eyes of the Storm’ Exhibition and Book Special’, 19th June 2023
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In other words…
PaulMcCartney.com: What is the main takeaway from your book?
Paul: I love John. I miss John. John looked hot in glasses. John, John, John, John, John. John.
peace and love
paul mccartney can only write about four things:
getting pussy
getting high
a woman with depression he just made up out of nowhere and it has nothing to do with him or his internal life.
john lennon
The Sadness::Hotness Ratio
Everyone look at the PowerPoint I made inspired by this post
so fuckign funny
Lennon/McCartney (part 4/?)
(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
i cannot wait to be done with my physics a level god free me
your posts are making me so curious, kinda need the Simon & Garfunkel primer now
I have had this ask gathering dust in my inbox for days because honestly I'm not even sure where to start. there's just so much. like do I start with the fact that they were childhood friends who met in a school theatre production of alice in wonderland when they were 11 and art garfunkel says in his autobiography that he taught paul simon to jerk off and also that they used to sit nose to nose and watch each other's mouth movements in order to learn how to sing. how about paul simon's song me and julio down by the schoolyard (one of my favorite songs of all time if you even care) which is almost universally agreed to be about two young gay men getting caught and which he refuses to explain the inspiration for and gets extremely cagey about every time he's asked who inspired it. how about the multiple times in art garfunkel's book where he outright states he's in love with paul. how about their second major falling out as a group, which happened because art was acting in a movie in mexico, explicitly told paul not to come, and paul was so upset by this he wrote several heartbreaking songs about art's absence including one in which he threatens suicide twice. and then made art sing them with him. how about art describing making songs with paul using childbirth metaphors. how about art's extremely gay poems which sure, we don't know for sure are about paul simon but given the years of added context they DEFINITELY could be. how about their song bleeker street, about a street in new york which was known as a hub of gay nightlife at the time. this is barely scratching the surface seriously I haven't even gotten close to covering everything there's 72 YEARS of this.
Probably one of my favorite interactions with my dad ever was a couple weeks ago when I was telling my mom about the Simon and Garfunkel reunion and my mom asked why they ever broke up (she knows absolutely nothing). My dad entered the room when she said this and said “cause they were gay assholes who didn’t want to admit they were in love with each other” and then left leaving my mom with more questions than answers.
two of us was absolutely the right song to use to title the mclennon fanfiction feature film because the song is like. "lalala we're john and paul :) look at us doing everything together yaaay lalalala" while george and ringo play in the bg like We Too Are In This Episode
welcome to mclennon
paul mccartney singing the back up vocals on I've Got a Feeling take 2 during the roof top concert when he keeps looking at john winston lennon and half singing half moaning 'oh yeah?' 'yeah.' is the silver springs performance done by fleetwood mac to the enlightened... this post has been made 100000000000000000 times but i dont gaf
Me if speculating about celebrity men in an rpf esque way and posting about it was a crime
so uh
im majoring in homosexual speculation at rpf university. doing research for my old musician gay sex essay. studying for my hasty interpretation of photographs and interviews history exam
Everyone has the right to keep their personal stuff for themselves. Except Paul Mccartney. I need him to tell me everything.