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Interesting Beatles Facts #2-6.

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:14:00 -0400

* After Paul’s song, “Penny Lane” became a Beatles hit, the street signs for the actual Penny Lane in Liverpool disappeared with such regularity (as they did on the real Abbey Road), that the town reverted to simply painting ‘Penny Lane’ on the buildings, rather than have street signs.

* “Strawberry Fields” was named for a real place, Strawberry Field, a children’s home run by the Salvation Army in Liverpool. Its location was near John’s childhood home. The original Victorian building was too old and was demolished in the late 1960’s and some land at the back was sold off to help pay for the new buildings. It’s still called “Strawberry Field” and the original walls and gates are there, and it’s still a Salvation Army Children’s Home. John sent Strawberry Field a large donation before his death and so Strawberry Field named one of it’s buildings “Lennon Hall” Yoko still sends donations of cash.

* The group’s name had numerous inspirations. Stuart Sutcliffe noted that a motorcycle gang in the film, “The Wild One,” was called ‘The Beetles,’ and John Lennon reportedly had a dream in which a man appeared “on a flaming pie,” saying, “You will be Beatles with an ‘a’.” The band members were also influenced by the name of Buddy Holly’s band, the Crickets.

* Contrary to popular belief, the title for “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” was prompted by 4-year-old Julian Lennon’s description of a painting he brought home from school, not the drug, LSD. John Lennon has been said to have preferred Elton John’s rendition of the song, and played background guitar and backup vocals on John’s version, credited as “Dr. Winston O’Boogie and his Reggae Guitars.”

* Paul McCartney wrote “Hey Jude” for Julian Lennon, John’s son.

New iPhone 4!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:41:44 -0400

New iPhone 4!

Woah! Look who added me on facebook!

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:28:20 -0400

Woah! Look who added me on facebook!

LMAO! Wish I could see that. theblackship: Rupert: I don’t even...

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:01:34 -0400

LMAO! Wish I could see that.

theblackship:

Rupert: I don’t even serve (ice cream) yet, cause I think you have to get sort of a license. It’s quite complicated, so I just play the tune.

Craig: You play the tune and the children think that it’s an ice cream van and you drive on by?! Do you realize the effect of this? Child hears the ice cream van, hears the thing, going, “Ice cream man! Ice cream man!” runs out, it’s the ice cream man. RON WEASLEY IS DRIVING THE **** ICE CREAM TRUCK AND IT DOESN’T STOP. Then the kid goes back and goes, “Mom, mom! I saw Ron Weasley driving an ice cream truck!” And they get sent to a child psychiatrist…

Interesting Beatle Fact #1

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:26:00 -0400

I decided to post a new interesting fact about The Beatles everyday (well hopefully everyday) until I feel like it. I need to learn more about the lives of these brilliant people.

While Let It Be was the last album to be released by The Beatles before their breakup, most of it was recorded before Abbey Road, their second last album.

When somebody tells me "Don't look"

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:21:44 -0400

<3 Barney.

My PINK babies. Now I need to name them. =D =P

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:00:00 -0400

My PINK babies. Now I need to name them. =D =P

Video

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:39:10 -0400

LMFAO! I love this website, I’m going to cry and that was just...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:01:00 -0400

This was the first one.

This woman watches too much Katy P.

lemons

LMFAO! I love this website, I’m going to cry and that was just the first one.

Made my night!

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:50:00 -0400

Made my night!

I'm going to be a rapper some day...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:39:45 -0400

I’m trying to transition out of singularity so I blow upon the microphone just to check the clarity.

New Yellow Submarine Stickers for my brother!!!!

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:28:45 -0400

New Yellow Submarine Stickers for my brother!!!!

I’m ruude.

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:16:27 -0400

I’m ruude.

Chill time.

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:32:19 -0400

Chill time.

Cleaning Day!

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:51:56 -0400

Don't look at me like that!

Cleaning Day!

My list of Top 100 Greatest Songs ever

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:33:00 -0400

I want you to keep in mind that this is my list. I don’t need anyone elses opinion.

The numbering is in no specific order. And I’ll just be adding them as I think of them.

Lay Me Down- The Dirty Heads
Little Secrets - Passion Pit
Kids - MGMT
All The Small Things - Blink 182
Under My Umbrella - Incubus
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
Fathers - John Mayer
Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Rhythm Of Love - Plain White Tee’s
Taste Of Ink - The Used
At Last - Etta James
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Killing Me Softly - The Fugees
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

I'm going to see Haarry!

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:24:01 -0400

Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Ooooh!

Here are some lessons we can learn from ladies. Let’s not...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:56:00 -0400

Here are some lessons we can learn from ladies.

Let’s not be one of these girls!

Important Things With Demetri Martin

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:44:00 -0400

Hilarious!

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=222474&title=games-passive-aggressive-race

Poltergeist Curse

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:29:00 -0400

My friend Nick recently told me that real deaths coincided with the Poltergeist movie so I thought i’d do a little research, and I dug up some interesting facts.

Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Carol Anne, but Steven Spielberg wanted someone more angelic. It was Barrymore’s audition for this role, however, that landed her a part in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
In reality, Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams are only 14 and 11 years older thanDominique Dunne, who plays their teen-aged daughter.
Stephen King was briefly approached to write the screenplay. It would have been the first written by King directly for the screen, but the parties could not agree on the terms.
When Steve Freeling first meets with the university paranormal specialists, he states that his wife, Diane Freeling, was “32” at the time, and their eldest daughter, Dana, was “16”. Thus, Diane was only sixteen years-old when she gave birth to Dana.
The weird way the family members descend the stairs at the beginning of the film was created by having the actors walk backward up the stairs and playing the film in reverse. The same effect was used later in the movie during the scene showing video playback of the ghosts.
Heather O’Rourke, who played the little girl Carol-Anne, and Dominique Dunne, who played the teenage daughter, are buried in the same cemetery: Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Dunne was strangled into brain-death by her boyfriend in 1982, the year of the film’s release. Six years later, O’Rourke died of intestinal stenosis.

I can’t believe she died. =( She was so cute.

The house used to film this movie is located in Simi Valley, California where it still stands today. The family who owned it when this movie was filmed still live there today.
Zelda Rubinstein auditioned for the part of medium Tangina four times.

[her advice to fellow little people thespians] Become an actor and your world will get much bigger.

During the scene where Robbie (Oliver Robins) is being strangled, the clown’s arms became extremely tight and Robbins started to choke. When he screamed out, “I can’t breathe!” Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper thought that the boy was ad-libbing and just instructed him to look at the camera. When Spielberg saw Robbins’s face turning purple, he ran over and removed the clown’s arms from Robbins’s neck.
The sound effect for the beast that attacks the house at the end of the movie is the source for the current MGM lion roar.
The skeletons that emerge from the swimming pool while Diane searches for help are actual skeletons. JoBeth Williams didn’t know this until after the scene was shot.
JoBeth Williams was hesitant about shooting the swimming pool scene because of the large amount of electrical equipment positioned over and around the pool. In order to comfort her, Steven Spielberg crawled in the pool with her to shoot the screen. Spielberg told her, “Now if a light falls in, we will both fry.” The strategy worked and Williams got in the pool.