frictionlesssuperfeet:
The Daily What posted a video of a group performing Pokerface at the 9th Annual West Coast A Cappella Showcase, which obviously prompted me to search for more videos, since I am a huge choir nerd. This performance of “Golden Slumbers” isn’t the best of all time (if they’d just use instruments, they’d only need four people to accomplish the same goal), but it reminded me anew of how perfect an album Abbey Road is. “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End” is probably the most perfect conclusion to anything ever.
I was watching NBC last night and there was a commercial for a new show that was a mix between Glee and American Idol. And although the announcer kept calling it a “voice-only competition” (presumably, the majority of people watching NBC won’t know what “a capella” means) and the repeatedly showed singing with backing tracks, I might actually have to watch it.
Also, Abbey Road is the greatest album ever made.
Spearheaded by the increasingly mustachioed Fake Paul, the four Beatles donned comedic Technicolor dreamcoats, consumed 700 sheets of mediocre acid on the roof of the studio, and proceeded to make Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking album no one actually likes. A concept album about finding a halfway decent song for Ringo, Sgt. Pepper has a few satisfactory moments (“Lovely Rita” totally nails the experience of almost having sex with a city employee)
Oh Chuck, how I love you so.
Michael Jackson died, it's all sad blah blah blah, what I really want to know...
…is what’s gonna happen to the rights to all the Beatles songs he owns. I hope they go to an adult film company so they can make Beatles-themed films like Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?, Here Comes The Son, and The Continuing Story Of Bumhole Bill… I could go on, but I won’t. Partly because I know that’s not how it works and partly because I think I just ruined every Beatles song for myself.
I finally got around to watching Across the Universe. It was by far one of the most predictable, corny, over-the-top, and just plain ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen… and I loved every minute of it.
