weird music that you find yourself grooving to at 3am when you're working an all-nighter by yourself

Christmas time is here again!

Who cares if the lyrics make no sense? Beatles + Christmas = WIN


if only

Give Me Peace On Earth

well there's gonna be a time

this song popped into my head, and somehow it has just the perfect sound to me this morning - Oh yeah

(I know you immediately want to hear about Mr. Mustard and Pam, but it just didn't fit with the Easter vibe for me :)

When you find yourself in the thick of it

Beatles - "Martha My Dear"

I don't know what it is about this song, but it always helps me through moments of chaos

Favorite line of the weekend, heard being called out from the next room:

"Aunt Kim, come here - Look! Those Beatles guys are on the Power Puff Girls!"

My job of dispensing culture is done for the day

George Harrison - "All Those Years Ago"

(tribute to John Lennon)

"You said it all, but not many had ears..."

Paul might be my least favorite Beatle, but I can't deny he's a great singer, songwriter and musician - I still love all his stuff (even dorky videos with his wife :)

post Beatles

thenewno2 = George Harrison's son Dhani!!! (looks just like him :)


This trippy band reminds me of the Beatles + early Pink Floyd:

"...he doesn't like it lookin' like he looks back..."

here's what Todd Rundgren did with it:

Traveling Wilburys - "End of the Line"

Watched the second disc of the Scorsese documentary about George Harrison (my favorite Beatle) last night - Remember the Traveling Wilburys?!! - what a fun band - listened to those albums a bazillion times back in the day... perfect songs to bop around and sing along to:

Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze

Well it's all right, if you live the life you please

Well it's all right, doing the best you can

Well it's all right, as long as you lend a hand

You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring

Waiting for someone to tell you everything

Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring

Maybe a diamond ring

Well it's all right, even if they say you're wrong

Well it's all right, sometimes you gotta be strong

Well it's all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay

Well it's all right, everyday is judgement day

Maybe somewhere down the road a ways

You'll think of me, and wonder where I am these days

Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays

Purple haze

Well it's all right, even when push comes to shove

Well it's all right, if you got someone to love

Well it's all right, everything'll work out fine

Well it's all right, were going to the end of the line

Don't have to be ashamed of the car I drive

I'm just glad to be here, happy to be alive

It don't matter if you're by my side

I'm satisfied

Well it's all right, even if you're old and grey

Well it's all right, you still got something to say

Well it's all right, remember to live and let live

Well it's all right, the best you can do is forgive

Well it's all right, riding around in the breeze

Well it's all right, if you live the life you please

Well it's all right, even if the sun don't shine

Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line

Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever"

the farther one travels, the less one knows

"By having the money we found that money wasn’t the answer. Because we had lots of material things that people spend their entire life to try and get. We managed to get them at quite an early age, and it was good, really, because we learned that that wasn’t it. We still lacked something and that thing sometimes is the thing that religion is trying to give people."

- George Harrison, from George Harrison: Living in the Material World (HBO documentary by Martin Scorsese - a good watch!) during part of his description about why he pursued enlightenment in India & Indian music

Beatles - "The Inner Light"
(lyrics reference the Tao Te Ching)

fröhliche Pfingstgruß

I came across these vintage postcards online by accident this morning - have no idea what the explanation is behind them (seems to be an old German/Northern European observance?) - but I love 'em! Their kooky imagery is so fitting right now - Who knew those pesky Japanese beetles returning to our yard were such party-ers?!

starting the day with our first visit to Central Park - immediately we happened upon Strawberry Fields!

(minutes later a guy was berating people for stepping or sitting on the mosaic - oops, shame on me! I had followed what others did before me, but thinking about it I could see his point: he just wanted to preserve the memorial)


crazy green colored water! but we saw several painted turtles paddling around happily enough...

a site of much romance - this particular couple put on a show from one side of the lake to the other, making out like the world was about to end:

Beatles - "Mr. Moonlight"


Many people think this is one of the worst Beatles songs ever recorded -
Hey, it's the Beatles singing about the moon: works for me.

look around around around

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

Susan Sontag

Within You Without You

written by George Harrison:

We were talking
about the space between us all
and people who hide themselves
behind a wall of illusion
never glimpse the truth
then it's far too late
when they pass away.

We were talking
about the love we all could share.
When we find it
to try our best to hold it there.
With our love, with our love
we could save the world
if they only knew.

Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change.
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you.

We were talking
about the love that's gone so cold
and the people who gain the world
and lose their soul.
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find
peace of mind is waiting there.
And the time will come
when you see
we're all one
and life flows on within you and without you.

performed by the Beatles: