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I've been thinking about this recently 😭

"life is lonley, life is rotten, and thankfully short, thankfully short, thankfully SHORT!"

"...like Marvin!"

and

"Short insomiacssssss and a teeny-tiny band!" how I love you

also I am just constantly thinking about Chip Zien's Marvin, almost every hour of every day. thank you

Chip Zien: *is in a William Finn musical*

William Finn writing the lyrics: 🎶 He is SO fucking SHORT 🎶

December 16, 1974. An extract from John Lennon’s interview with Jim Hartz on the Today Show, NBC Television Network, NYC. Sounding generally positive towards the possibility of working again with his former bandmates, John tries to answer a question about his “celebrated” feud with Paul McCartney. (source)

“If I get… married, divorced [pause] it’s celebrated. So The Beatles had a divorce and Paul and I were always, sort of, the out front ones… and so our “celebrated” feud. You know, Lennon/McCartney was… that was… we wrote the songs… and it was bigger. And I think we were…  I put it down now to probably –  we all – actually we were all probably very nervous about suddenly being on our own, although we all really wanted to get away from each other for a bit after living in a room together for ten years.”

(I added subtitles, though I may have missed a couple of words. Enjoy.)