Why Aren't Beatles Fans Talking More About That Song "I Don't Know (oh Johnny Johnny)"? I Think It Is

Absolutely feral that the casettes Lennon recorded before he passed titled "For Paul (McCartney)", not knowing whether he'll ever give it to him or if it will ever be discovered, contain demos of songs that literally said

"And now and then, if we must start again, we will know for sure that I will love you"

and

"if I make it through, It's all because of you"

and

"Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch that seemed to mean so much?"

and

"Seems that all I really was doing, was waiting for you"

and

"Now and then, I miss you - I want you to be there for me, always to return to me"

and

"It's real love, it's real"

and-

and-

and-

Exactly, why not call Paul a brother if it’s just a platonic connection?

"I never had a brother, and George Harrison was how I felt a brother to be"

It's interesting how John considered George like a brother but always publicly called Paul "an intimate best friend", putting him on the same level he put his wife Yoko Ono.

John about Paul:

"He’s still the closest friend I’ve ever had except for Yoko."

"But the only – the person I actually picked as my partner, who I’d recognised had talent, and I could get on with, was Paul."

happy (belated?) birthday to beloved @big-barn-bed. the second i saw it was your birthday god herself gave me a mission to pick out paul's most whorish moments for you to enjoy ❤️

Paul: here’s the thing. I wouldn't have to be a control freak if other people would just do things correctly in the first place. pretty simple if you ask me

It’s so crazy that John was the gay one

the fact that john’s august 1980 demo of (just like) starting over had the lines:

“the time has come the walrus said

for you and me to stay in bed again

it’ll be just like starting over”

which in the final version of the song (recorded in october 1980) was changed to the section we all know is a clear reference to paul:

“it’s time to spread our wings and fly

don’t let another day go by, my love

it’ll be just like starting over”

yeah there’s no heterosexual explanation for that. especially since ‘another day’ was one of the songs referenced about paul in how do you sleep?. and absolutely mad that allegedly paul and john were making plans to record together in december of 1980 that got pushed back to the new year - which, if true, they likely were already speaking (excitedly) about these plans by october 1980. not to mention that john himself said that the song was written with his old friends from the 60s in mind….

The type of parents who argue that simply putting food on the table and keeping a roof over their kids' head is sufficient parenting are always so shocked when their children no longer want to deal with them once they've got their own place and can buy their own groceries. Like what else did you expect to happen? You told the people who had no other choice than rely on you for food and shelter that asking for any more than that is unreasonable of them, and then they don't go to you for anything once they can get those some other way. What would they go to their parents for?

They've got food at the house.

Imagine a hobbit called Filbo Faggins

Women In History

I grew up believing that women had contributed nothing to the world until the 1960′s. So once I became a feminist I started collecting information on women in history, and here’s my collection so far, in no particular order. 

Lepa Svetozara Radić (1925–1943) was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during WW2. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades and leaders identities. She responded that she was not a traitor to her people and they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People’s Hero of Yugoslavia, awarded in 1951

23 year old Phyllis Latour Doyle was British spy who parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for D-day. She relayed 135 secret messages before France was finally liberated. 

Catherine Leroy, War Photographer starting with the Vietnam war. She was taken a prisoner of war. When released she continued to be a war photographer until her death in 2006.

Lieutenant Pavlichenko was a Russian sniper in WWII, with a total of 309 kills, including 36 enemy snipers. After being wounded, she toured the US to promote friendship between the two countries, and was called ‘fat’ by one of her interviewers, which she found rather amusing. 

Johanna Hannie “Jannetje” Schaft was born in Haarlem. She studied in Amsterdam had many Jewish friends. During WWII she aided many people who were hiding from the Germans and began working in resistance movements. She helped to assassinate two nazis. She was later captured and executed. Her last words were “I shoot better than you.”. 

Nancy wake was a resistance spy in WWII, and was so hated by the Germans that at one point she was their most wanted person with a price of 5 million francs on her head. During one of her missions, while parachuting into occupied France, her parachute became tangled in a tree. A french agent commented that he wished that all trees would bear such beautiful fruit, to which she replied “Don’t give me any of that French shit!”, and later that evening she killed a German sentry with her bare hands. 

After her husband was killed in WWII, Violette Szabo began working for the resistance. In her work, she helped to sabotage a railroad and passed along secret information. She was captured and executed at a concentration camp at age 23. 

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who invented the first ever compiler. Her invention makes every single computer program you use possible. 

Mona Louise Parsons was a member of an informal resistance group in the Netherlands during WWII. After her resistance network was infiltrated, she was captured and was the first Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the Nazis. She was originally sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was lowered to hard lard labor in a prison camp. She escaped. 

Simone Segouin was a Parisian rebel who killed an unknown number of Germans and captured 25 with the aid of her submachine gun. She was present at the liberation of Paris and was later awarded the ‘croix de guerre’. 

Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to have ever won an American Medal of Honor. She earned it for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War. It was revoked in 1917, but she wore it until hear death two years later. It was restored posthumously. 

Rita Levi-Montalcini - Italian neuroscientist who won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor. She died aged 103. 

A snapshot of the women of color in the woman’s army corps on Staten Island

This is an ongoing project of mine, and I’ll update this as much as I can (It’s not all WWII stuff, I’ve got separate folders for separate achievements). 

File this under: The History I Wish I’d Been Taught As A Little Girl

Bilbo 'Not Like Other Hobbits' Baggins