Posted by IndigoBook on Jul 13, 2009 in
Beatles-related,
Yellow Submarine Exaggeration.
So I’m finally getting back to my standard Beatles-related things. Today I shall address my limited experience of the Beatles as a little kid.
First, Yellow Submarine. No clue how many times I watched it back then, but certain bits of it always stayed with me. I never forgot the Blue Meanies or the Glove, obviously, but there’s more. I retained some of the strangest things, too, like the “Nowhere Man” sequence and the part toward the end: “Arise, arise, arouse, a rose!…a rosy nose?” And “All Together Now”. Not surprisingly, I had vague memories of all the songs apart from “It’s All Too Much”. By the way, there are some weird lyrics in that. For example:
Show me that I’m everywhere, and get me home for tea
Then there’s Rubber Soul. I first heard that when I was I don’t know how old, and I fell in love with the CD. I never even knew it was by the Beatles. You already know about that “the world is love” thing, which is very entertaining now, but I had other odd experiences as well. At one point I was singing “Girl” under my breath (as I often do) as we were leaving for somewhere, and my parents thought it was really funny.
This would not be complete without mentioning Abbey Road, which you should not put in the CD player if you’re going to hit “shuffle”. I think we had it on tape when I was in…first grade? I remember listening to it in the car and my favorite song being “Oh! Darling”. I didn’t know the name, so it was simply “Song Number Four”. “Can we listen to Song Number Four, Mommy?” “Mommy, I want to hear Song Number Four.” “Skip to Song Number Four, please.” And I also enjoyed (and knew the name of) “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”.
A strange thing happened when I slowly but surely got back into the Beatles in October. For years I’d had scraps of random songs floating around my head, having no idea what they were from. One day, I come home from school and, wanting a change, play 1.
BAM. Recollection. So awesome.
This is gonna be a realllllly long post.
I blame my Beatles obsession partly on Peyton and partly on my Spelling textbook. It’s Peyton’s fault because, on the way home from school, I mentioned I had a Beatles song stuck in my head. She said she did, too, and started singing “Help!” very quietly, skipping a line at the beginning. To my surprise, I remembered most of the song. At home, I pulled out the Help! CD and listened to it all the way through. Now my obsession was spread over two albums. What really turned me into a fully-fledged Beatles fan was reading one day, in my Spelling book, something about “Love Me Do”. I then realized I knew four of the lines to the song (which are actually almost all of it). Thusly I became the psycho you see today.
Tags: awesome, Beatles, memories
Everyone remembers my “Erratic Jacket Phenomenon” post, yes? (If not, go find it. It’s hilarious.) Well, may I introduce to you, the one, the only…
Erratic Jacket Study! [clapping]
Embellishments aside, I need to explain what I’ve done here, because it’s a little odd and unnecessary. I’ve actually counted every single time the aforementioned Erratic Jacket (which is awesome, by the way) changes colors, etc. So prepare to be amazed at the utter pointlessness of my undertaking!
Color Changes
Black: 23 times
Brown: 1 time
Purple: 29 times
Purple, obviously, is the dominant color.
Those Weird Changes in the Back of the Jacket
Split (or whatever it’s called): 11 times
Solid: 6 times
In Between: 1 time
I can’t say which is dominant here. My count is probably inaccurate because I totally forgot this part until halfway through the “Nowhere Man” bit. Sorry.
Number of Times Paul’s Collar Switched Between White & Orange After They Put The Uniforms On: 5 times
Here are some other things I wrote down, just because it was fun.
Total Lame Jokes: 68
And finally, here are some things Duncan and I said while we were watching Yellow Submarine. (Some are explained in parentheses.)
“He’s eating my pencil!” (Io likes to attack pencils, apparently. O-kay, moving on.)
“What the hell is he singing?”
“Real life?”
“This is why Ringo will never play the bagpipes.”
“Look, he squishes his nose.” (No clue.)
“Why is that horse’s head smoking?”
“I said–That’s a phone.” (Well, actually, I did say that. But I was going to say I said something else, except that Duncan thought a phone was a clock.)
“Hell is for love me?” (I misheard something Duncan said.)
“But ‘urgent’ starts with a ‘u’!” (Yes, it does. Not an “e”. A “u”.)
“Flying Ringos!” (End of “Only A Northern Song”.)
“George has a pointy head.” (It’s true.)
“Where did the flowers go?” (I mean, seriously. First they’re floating behind Paul. Then they vanish. What’s up with that?)
“Paul’s nose is funny-looking.” (It is! If you look at Paul’s nose in Yellow Submarine, it really is funny-looking! Nobody has a nose like that!)
For those of you who don’t understand the last one, look at this:
See? See?!
Now look at that and tell me Paul’s nose isn’t funny-looking.
And Peyton, I know you’re reading this. When is a good time for me to, uh, kidnap you and make you watch Yellow Submarine?
Tags: Beatles, bizarre, Erratic Jacket, errors, music, Paul McCartney, Yellow Submarine
So, because of the embarassment associated with yesterday’s post, I now DID NOT POST YESTERDAY. Understand? Good.
Lysander: And we’re not going to discuss the “Paul is dead” thing anymore. [imitation of Blue Meanie] Is that understood, Max?
[sigh] No, your Blueness.
Lysander: That’s better.
Now then, let us discuss real life.
In second grade, I was a great basketball player. The only girl who played at lunch, too. Our team won a lot. However, I haven’t played since then, and I now have to face the facts: I play basketball worse than a banana slug. And they don’t even have hands.
The winner of my basketball game.
And on a new topic: I wonder if Andrew still has a crush on me? I was pretty sure he did last year when he left a valentine on my desk in February and not on anyone else’s. But he’s not in any of my classes this year, and I haven’t spoken to him since the beginning of last year when he assumed I didn’t know what “foreign” meant.
I also think another boy who’s in my Core class might like me…
Well, he gave me half a cookie because I didn’t bring my stuff for the barter session today.
But what I found intriguing was this: A couple weeks ago during my I-can-only-think-of-Yellow-Submarine period, I was bored waiting for the spelling test to start and I doodled a little pepper shaker in the top left corner. It wasn’t something easily noticed. I also started to draw a little monster, then erased it, but not too well. Still, as I said, it wasn’t very noticeable. After the test, he was the one who corrected it.
When I got it back, he’d written “nice!” next to both pictures.
What does this mean?
Tags: Beatles, boys, first 10, imaginary friends, school, Yellow Submarine
