http://blogathon.thecurvature.com 2009 BLOGATHON Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:33:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I didn't disappear after 5am EST without notice because I'm an irresponsible person, or because I'm a person who who fell asleep at her desk.  Rather, I disappeared after 5am last night because I'm a person who uses Time Warner's Road Runner internet service, which in the world's cruelest ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=385 Until just a month or two ago, I thought that What You're Doing was a piece of crap on par with I Don't Want to Spoil the Party and Little Child. I have no idea what the fuck I was thinking. Probably, I was thinking that it was on Beatles ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=377 So the eyelids are feeling heavy, the vision is getting blurry, and I really suck at making coffee and am going to have to brave doing so on my own. I need a song with some groove to keep me going. Also, George is not getting nearly enough ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=373 You have likely heard of the conspiracy theory known as Paul Is Dead.  It goes like this: in 1966, Paul McCartney died in a car crash.  Worried about the Beatles' careers, manager Brian Epstein paid off reporters to not cover the story.  Knowing that their fans would never accept a ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=352 Your Mother Should Know is a song that is only interesting for its Magical Mystery Tour sequence. Which is hilarious. It's incredibly entertaining to watch the individual Beatles. Unfortunately the video here isn't clear enough to make out facial expressions very well, but that just frees you up to ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=342 One of the topics that I was asked to write on via Tumblr was which Beatles song I believe is the most inspirational and speaks to the most generations. Well, I think the song that most people probably believe to be the most inspirational and which probably speaks to the most ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=332 Writing about Ringo's version of I Call Your Name inspired me, so I thought I'd do a post of Beatle to Beatle tribute songs -- songs that one Beatle wrote for another after their death. First up, the first Beatle to Beatle tribute ever written, George Harrison's song for John Lennon, ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=325 I Call Your Name is a fairly obscure Beatles track, as it was only ever released on the Long Tall Sally EP with, well, Long Tall Sally and two really bad cover songs (Matchbox and Slow Down). It's the only original song on the EP. Now, of course, ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=316 Lots of people who follow me various places will know that I love this song, and that I love this video, because, well . . . I talk about it all the time! Ha. In any case, I call it one of the best Beatles songs, the best Lennon/McCartney collaboration, ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=311 The final track on A Hard Day's Night, I'll Be Back is a lovely little song, and a neglected one. (Actually, I think there are several neglected songs on that album. Several craps ones, too, but you know how it is.) This song originally started out slower, at a ... http://blogathon.thecurvature.com/?p=299