my latest obsession...

...since becoming a musician and joining a little band called the Beatles - song facts! more specifically song facts about my band ONLY :)

for example....

day tripper:
the line "she's a big teaser" was written as "she's a prick teaser."
nuh-uh.... they had bad words when the world was still in black and white??

hey jude:
at 2:55, you hear a sound from John Lennon while Paul keeps singing. it sounds like "ohh!" at first, but it is really him saying "...chord!" you can barely hear it, but if you listen really closely, you can hear him say "got the wrong CHORD." he says "chord" much louder than the other words. and about two or three counts later, you can hear McCartney say "fucking hell."
(hmmm, 10 plus points for Paul McCartney :)

blue jay way:
George Harrison wrote this in a house he rented in Los Angeles on a street named Blue Jay Way. (i want to go to there!!)

eleanor rigby:
McCartney wasn't sure what this song was going to be about until he came up with the line, "picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been." that's when he came up with the story an old, lonely woman.

"Father McKenzie" was originally "Father McCartney." Paul decided he didn't want to freak out his dad and picked a name out of the phone book instead.

this song contains both mine and Aaron's last names in it (and is the reason we decided we really should get married :)

in my life:
this song was played at Kurt Cobain's funeral. the Beatles were an early and important music influence on him. Cobain even cited Lennon as his "idol" in the various journals he kept throughout his career with Nirvana

lady madonna:
Paul McCartney said that this song is a tribute to women everywhere. it was inspired by a picture of an African woman suckling her kid, over the caption "Mountain Madonna."

michelle:
"sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble" is the french translation of "these are words that go together well"

i will:
67 takes were recorded - the 65th was used

(and i thought 21 takes of 'michelle' was bad... that's how many takes it took me to get 100% on expert setting :)

get back:
at the end of the album version, Paul says "thanks Mo" in response to Ringo's wife, Maureen, who was clapping (bless her, she must have a higher IQ than her hubbie :)

ok i admit... at this point i got bored reading through my favorites, and no longer really cared to look if there really were 4000 holes in blackburn, lancashire and who and why did someone see fit to count them all ;)

in other news... i have grown one full inch! how is this possible?! it is true though, i am now 5 feet 3 tall and this means, i assume, that i can eat more calories? i sure hope so! chicken and corn for dinner (sigh - that doesn't sound appetizing at all... not as appetizing as chili cheese fries, that's for sure....)

spotted at Trader Joe's - Pedro Hernandez!! aka Jorge Miguel, the latino George Michael of Orange County, CA :) i haven't seen him for (what seems like) YEARS (but it's probably been 6 months...) boy oh boy, did he have a big line of (swooning female) fans waiting to be waited on by him :) i was too weak and thready from walking to Trader Joe's to wait at his checkout, plus the checkout next to him was empty and was giving out free cookies. but i'm going back - oh yes i am going back :)

off to attempt to make dinner look edible, play some more lego rock band and conquer my nemesis, the wii fit advanced obstacle course, once and for all :|