What the Sun Took From Us
Hi I'm new to this community but I wanted to share this Fan Fiction based on a dream I had the other day about John Lennon. Hope you enjoy it! :)
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A Beatles Role Play!
Hello my dears! I just wanted to plug a Beatles-related community of mine here, see if some of you might be interested.
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Click on the picture to enter!
Nothing Is Real is a Beatles role play community! It partly deals with mature themes, which is why we are friends only, but you can of course join just to read the threads. We are open to gen, het and slash. AUs are accepted, but not original characters. The game is mostly centred around the Beatles but any character even loosely connected with the 60s or 70s art scene is welcome, really.
It's a 'no strings attached' sort of role play which basically means that you can apply for as many characters as you want, Beatles, Beatles wives or friends and there can be as many players as we want, even for the same characters. You can also choose your time and space span, build it up through several threads or jump from one thing to the other freely. It fact it isn't a well-built rp as much as a den, a place for you to meet other role players and start threads freely with the ones you like.
If you are interested in role playing in the Beatles universe, don't be scared to have a look around at the rules and introduction posts, and message me if you have any questions! Role playing is pretty much like reading/writing fan-fiction, except that you do it with one or several other people, which is always good fun, unexpected and stimulating. Hope to see you around!
Nothing Is Real is a Beatles role play community! It partly deals with mature themes, which is why we are friends only, but you can of course join just to read the threads. We are open to gen, het and slash. AUs are accepted, but not original characters. The game is mostly centred around the Beatles but any character even loosely connected with the 60s or 70s art scene is welcome, really.
It's a 'no strings attached' sort of role play which basically means that you can apply for as many characters as you want, Beatles, Beatles wives or friends and there can be as many players as we want, even for the same characters. You can also choose your time and space span, build it up through several threads or jump from one thing to the other freely. It fact it isn't a well-built rp as much as a den, a place for you to meet other role players and start threads freely with the ones you like.
If you are interested in role playing in the Beatles universe, don't be scared to have a look around at the rules and introduction posts, and message me if you have any questions! Role playing is pretty much like reading/writing fan-fiction, except that you do it with one or several other people, which is always good fun, unexpected and stimulating. Hope to see you around!
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Welcome to The Beatles News, a community to discuss the Beatles in general, and more precisely recent news about them!
A safe place for all Beatles fans, from casual to hysterics.
Be the first to know about brand-new Beatles news and read our f-only scans of Beatles-related articles.
Share pictures, videos, songs and useful links.
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Discuss to your heart's content, ask for help and precisions on everything you'd always hoped to know better!
Hope to see you around :)
A safe place for all Beatles fans, from casual to hysterics.
Be the first to know about brand-new Beatles news and read our f-only scans of Beatles-related articles.
Share pictures, videos, songs and useful links.
Recommend the best fanfiction of website you've found.
Discuss to your heart's content, ask for help and precisions on everything you'd always hoped to know better!
Hope to see you around :)
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my dad has some prints of his portraits up for sale in his new etsy shop, if you'd like to take a look:
http://www.profoundportraits.etsy.…
peace
http://www.profoundportraits.etsy.…
peace
Historical Twitters
Twitter spoof site features Jesus, Gandhi and John Lennon
Twitter fans have set up a spoof website imagining the Tweets that historical figures including Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and The Beatles' John Lennon would have posted.
By Matthew Moore
Historical Tweets features snappy micro-blogs showing the thoughts of famous people at key moments in the past, as opposed to the standard Twitter fare of trivia from web users' humdrum lives. The joke site copies the distinctive design of the popular short-form blogging service which allows users to post 140 character updates on what they are doing.
A few days before Martin Luther King's inspiring speech in Washington, DC in 1963, the US civil rights leader Tweets: "Bought a sleep journal. I keep having dreams but forget to write them down." Neil Armstrong's supposed message plays on claims that the 1969 moon landing was faked by the US government, and that the famous footage was filmed in a studio. In a Tweet to fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he jokes: "Headed to the set... I mean moon. LOL. You been practicing slow motion "no gravity" walk?"
Historical Tweets also imitates the blithe self-deception exhibited by some real-life Twitter users to comic effect. Ahead of his disastrous defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 General Custer messages native Indian leader Sitting Bull: "I warn in advance, this battle will make me famous".
Describing his relationship with Yoko Ono, who had a strained relationship with the rest of The Beatles, John Lennon Tweets: "Met new girlfriend. Bandmates love her".
In their tongue-in-cheek description of the site, the creators of Historical Tweets said they hope to make the past more palatable to a modern generations used the getting their information in bite-sized chunks. "Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history's most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time."
© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009
Twitter fans have set up a spoof website imagining the Tweets that historical figures including Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi and The Beatles' John Lennon would have posted.
By Matthew Moore
Historical Tweets features snappy micro-blogs showing the thoughts of famous people at key moments in the past, as opposed to the standard Twitter fare of trivia from web users' humdrum lives. The joke site copies the distinctive design of the popular short-form blogging service which allows users to post 140 character updates on what they are doing.
A few days before Martin Luther King's inspiring speech in Washington, DC in 1963, the US civil rights leader Tweets: "Bought a sleep journal. I keep having dreams but forget to write them down." Neil Armstrong's supposed message plays on claims that the 1969 moon landing was faked by the US government, and that the famous footage was filmed in a studio. In a Tweet to fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he jokes: "Headed to the set... I mean moon. LOL. You been practicing slow motion "no gravity" walk?"
Historical Tweets also imitates the blithe self-deception exhibited by some real-life Twitter users to comic effect. Ahead of his disastrous defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 General Custer messages native Indian leader Sitting Bull: "I warn in advance, this battle will make me famous".
Describing his relationship with Yoko Ono, who had a strained relationship with the rest of The Beatles, John Lennon Tweets: "Met new girlfriend. Bandmates love her".
In their tongue-in-cheek description of the site, the creators of Historical Tweets said they hope to make the past more palatable to a modern generations used the getting their information in bite-sized chunks. "Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history's most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time."
© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009
Lennon Books
Lennon Biopic
John Lennon Biopic Starts Casting
Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff and Aaron Johnson will star in Nowhere Boy, the upcoming biopic on acclaimed musician John Lennon. The film is being directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, his feature debut.
The film details the young life and rise to stardom of the Beatle. Scott Thomas will play Lennon’s tough-talking Aunt Mimi, who played a major role in bringing up the rock icon, Duff will play his mother Julia and Johnson will portray Lennon.
Scott Thomas, known best for her roles in The English Patient and The Horse Whisperer, is currently earning a lot of awards buzz for her role in the drama I’ve Loved You So Long. Duff has appeared in Notes on a Scandal and the British television series Shameless, which is currently being remade for American audiences.
Johnson previously starred in the comedy Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and recently wrapped Matthew Vaughn’s comic book adaptation Kick Ass, where he stars opposite Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and Nicolas Cage.
Taylor-Wood was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes film fest for her debut short Love You More, produced by her mentor, the late Anthony Minghella. Nowhere Boy was written by Matt Greenhalgh, who won a special achievement BAFTA last year for his script for Control, about doomed Joy Division singer Ian Brown.
Nowhere Boy is scheduled to shoot in March on location in Liverpool and at Ealing Studios.
© The Moving Picture
Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff and Aaron Johnson will star in Nowhere Boy, the upcoming biopic on acclaimed musician John Lennon. The film is being directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, his feature debut.
The film details the young life and rise to stardom of the Beatle. Scott Thomas will play Lennon’s tough-talking Aunt Mimi, who played a major role in bringing up the rock icon, Duff will play his mother Julia and Johnson will portray Lennon.
Scott Thomas, known best for her roles in The English Patient and The Horse Whisperer, is currently earning a lot of awards buzz for her role in the drama I’ve Loved You So Long. Duff has appeared in Notes on a Scandal and the British television series Shameless, which is currently being remade for American audiences.
Johnson previously starred in the comedy Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and recently wrapped Matthew Vaughn’s comic book adaptation Kick Ass, where he stars opposite Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and Nicolas Cage.
Taylor-Wood was nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes film fest for her debut short Love You More, produced by her mentor, the late Anthony Minghella. Nowhere Boy was written by Matt Greenhalgh, who won a special achievement BAFTA last year for his script for Control, about doomed Joy Division singer Ian Brown.
Nowhere Boy is scheduled to shoot in March on location in Liverpool and at Ealing Studios.
© The Moving Picture
Lennon's MBE Discovered
John Lennon's MBE found in royal vault
Beatles fans campaign for the medal to go on public display
The MBE that John Lennon returned to The Queen in 1969 has been found in a royal vault.
The star was awarded the MBE along with the rest of The Beatles in 1965, but later decided to send it back as a form of protest.
In a letter addressed to The Queen, Lennon wrote:
The medal, which has lain untouched for years, was found in a cabinet at the Chancery Department Of The Royal Household, reports The Daily Telegraph. It is still in its original presentation case, and is accompanied by Lennon's protest letter.
Beatles historians and fans are now calling for the MBE to be put on public display, either in a museum or at Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool, Mendips, which was donated to the National Trust by Yoko Ono.
Lennon grew up in Mendips with his Aunt Mimi, and the legend originally sent her the medal to look after. It took pride of place on her mantelpiece until its return to The Queen.
© NME (IPC MEDIA) 1996-2009
Beatles fans campaign for the medal to go on public display
The MBE that John Lennon returned to The Queen in 1969 has been found in a royal vault.
The star was awarded the MBE along with the rest of The Beatles in 1965, but later decided to send it back as a form of protest.
In a letter addressed to The Queen, Lennon wrote:
"Your Majesty, I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts. With Love, John Lennon of Bag."
The medal, which has lain untouched for years, was found in a cabinet at the Chancery Department Of The Royal Household, reports The Daily Telegraph. It is still in its original presentation case, and is accompanied by Lennon's protest letter.
Beatles historians and fans are now calling for the MBE to be put on public display, either in a museum or at Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool, Mendips, which was donated to the National Trust by Yoko Ono.
Lennon grew up in Mendips with his Aunt Mimi, and the legend originally sent her the medal to look after. It took pride of place on her mantelpiece until its return to The Queen.
© NME (IPC MEDIA) 1996-2009
Digital Lennon
With permission from his widow, Yoko Ono, a digital John Lennon stars in a new commercial for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a charity attempting to grant Internet access to children in developing countries. The clip features Lennon’s voice seemingly digitally sewn together. “Imagine if every child, no matter where in the world they were, could access a universe of knowledge,” the virtual Lennon says. “They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want. I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way.”
Multi-colored pixels bombard the screen until they form an image of Lennon, who speaks into the camera: “You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine, you can change the world.” Even 28 years after his death, the ad is still pretty haunting. This isn’t the first time a celebrity has been integrated digitally for commercial means: Fred Astaire danced with a vacuum cleaner during a Super Bowl ad, and Elvis Presley and Muppets mastermind Jim Henson have also posthumously appeared in commercials. OLPC was founded in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte and hopes to provide children in poor countries with durable, solar-powered laptops that cost a mere $200. The program is one Ono obviously believes in, as she has been very hesitant to lend Lennon’s image to ads in the past.
Multi-colored pixels bombard the screen until they form an image of Lennon, who speaks into the camera: “You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine, you can change the world.” Even 28 years after his death, the ad is still pretty haunting. This isn’t the first time a celebrity has been integrated digitally for commercial means: Fred Astaire danced with a vacuum cleaner during a Super Bowl ad, and Elvis Presley and Muppets mastermind Jim Henson have also posthumously appeared in commercials. OLPC was founded in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte and hopes to provide children in poor countries with durable, solar-powered laptops that cost a mere $200. The program is one Ono obviously believes in, as she has been very hesitant to lend Lennon’s image to ads in the past.
intro and a question about "Remember"
Hi. I'm Cindy and just joined this community as I had a John Lennon song question that I was googling and it took me here. I'm already a livejournal user so why not I can keep up on my JL facts too. I'm a huge fan and have listened to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band release with the classic "Mother" on it. I've listened to this album many many time and just yesterday I was listening to "Remember" in my car. Of course I was singing along. As I sang the last line though... I realized that it was the 5th of November. I don't know what the significance is and I was wondering if anyone knows what he meant that we should always remember the 5th of November? TIA.