NOTE: Due to my past experiences observing what people (usually well-intentioned, but not always) have done with Brian's legacy, I now tend to intuitively harbor grave reservations concerning projects such as this one.
Guess I've learned my lesson in the past ten years, having been faced with movies portraying Brian in a grossly inaccurate manner like The Hours and Times and Lennon Naked; nonsensical, embarrassing, clueless plays such as Traveling Light, and ~ forgive me Shakespeare ~ the most unkindest cut of all, the trendy internet invention that is the infantile slander called fanfic (especially of the slash variety). Ugh.
My mistrust of Brian "tributes" all seemed to have started with a (thankfully never made) Jude Law movie that was going to be titled Tomorrow Never Knows. It mostly went downhill from there.
One hopeful note: The Fifth Beatle, the movie now slated to start production in 2014, promises to be respectful and dignified. The fantasy segments are supposed to be so outrageous and psychedelic so as not to be taken seriously (except in the sense that it might convey a feeling of Brian's mental state). The creator and scriptwriter of the movie has personally promised this to me, over and over. His script had even been approved from the beginning, around ten years ago, by Brian's real-life nephew Henry Brian Epstein, who is the family's "keeper of the flame" when it comes to his uncle's legacy.
So, I'm not going to get all excited and just automatically endorse the play described in the article below, I won't jump the gun and be happy about it merely because it purports to be a tribute to Brian, or merely because it has the good fortune to premiere at the theatre bearing Brian's name. Did Henry Epstein read, review, and approve the script? Then how do we know it's accurate, appropriate, and respectful?
Most disappointing of all would be if the play concentrated on Beatles. Beatlemania may have spelled Brian's high point, and the factor by which we came to know him ~ but after all, that phenomenon defined only the last 6 years out of his almost 33 years of life. Supposedly the play is about BRIAN, not JPG&R. We shall see.
I hereby leave it to Jen Heyes, Bill Elms, and especially Andrew Sherlock to prove me wrong. PLEASE.
( [Click here to see the same article under my LJ-cut, plus pics] )
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Caption indicates photo was taken on Feb 22, 2012
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This is about "Valentines Day" and those of us who groan at the prospect of that shite being thrown in our faces once again.
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/valentines_day
I suggest EVERYONE read it, whether you like the "holiday" or not.... :)
Besides, it's a comic and there are funny parts within the truthful parts.
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Brian and music publisher Dick James, in a studio's control room, watching a pair of Rustiks record something.
 
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From the Facebook page of a fellow Eppy-lovin' British musician/English language tutor/Wikipedia editor of brilliance, Mr. Andrew Edge, who has resided in Austria since the 80s.
Wikipedia's Brian Epstein page is very much a product of his editing (with some other very persistent people), and in editing the page he had listened to my suggestions A LOT.
It's been a long time since I have thoroughly read that Wiki page, though ~ so if anyone sees a discrepancy that should be attended to, please let me know, and I can advise Andrew.
He da maaaan.
Love that guy Andrew Edge. ♥
This image below was posted by a friend of Andrew's, in response to our convo about the happiness resulting from breaking out of toxic relationships. I just HAD to share this.
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Until I gave up the idiocy and went ahead and retired, I'd been through more job interviews than I can count ~
~ the one thing I've learned from it all? There's no such thing as a logical, intelligent job interview!
[ Miss Cleo Wiki page ]
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Stephy was confused about the "shame on you" finger gesture (a.k.a. "the forefinger rub") that I occasionally do to her when she's a naughty baby.
She thought it looked like grating cheese ~ and I've always thought of it as whittling a stick.
Finally, I felt compelled to google it, ( and came up with this... )
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Jan. 17th, 2012 @ 04:36 pm
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 Well, with some valuable assistance, we've got this machine running now ~ after a fashion, that is. What borked this thing was a nasty virus, from whence I have no clue.
Luckily the hardware itself didn't burn up like I thought it did. It's amazing, considering the age of this computer. Not complaining!
I highly recommend the free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program, especially the Malwarebytes Chameleon process. Without it we would have been obliged to reinstall everything and lose all my data. So until compy decides to finally give up the ghost, we'll keep on keepin' on widdit (BTW, the same goes for the car I drive ~ maybe once a week for less than 5 miles each time ~ the zombie 94 purple Saturn).
However, alas, LiveJournal continues to crash the browser tabs every time I click anything, so I've gotta be careful to keep copying all my LJ text onto a separate text file before clicking Preview or Post or even uploading a pic. It's gotta be something with this machine, because everyone else doesn't seem to have the problem. Ah well.
Anyway...................
( this made me smile awhile )
What a day. *Whew*
Jan. 15th, 2012 @ 11:25 pm
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