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Posted on entry Open thread 11. ::: February 07, 2005, 06:10 PM:
"Strawberry Fields" is certainly an interesting piece of sonic experimentation, but not necessarily in ways that John approved of. From the 1981 Playboy interveiw with Lennon:

The Beatles didn't make a good record of "Across the Universe." I think subconsciously we -- I thought Paul subconsciously tried to destroy my great songs. We would play experimental games with my great pieces, like "Strawberry Fields," which I always felt was badly recorded. It worked, but it wasn't what it could have been. I allowed it, though. We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up on Paul's songs, but when it came to mine -- especially a great song like "Strawberry Fields" or "Across the Universe" -- somehow an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would come up.

Not at all to minimize Lennon's contributions to the complicated amalgamation of genius that was the Beatles.
Posted on entry Open thread 10. ::: December 07, 2004, 12:04 AM:
Watership Down, Richard Adams. Saw the cartoon when I was a kid and loved it. Not sure why it's taken me this long to get around to reading the novel.
Posted on entry Must read. ::: October 16, 2004, 02:15 AM:
Oh, also Quicktime and Real Media at the URL I posted in the comment above.
Posted on entry Must read. ::: October 16, 2004, 02:12 AM:
In Windows Media here:

http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2652831
Posted on entry Ahem. ::: May 23, 2004, 11:15 AM:
Just sent one. Thought I had two, though. Sorry.
Posted on entry I thought you brought the potato salad. ::: June 29, 2003, 11:46 PM:
Every day, I expend a great deal of energy trying to conceal my ignorance, stupidity, and foolishness. I envy Bush his freedom.
Posted on entry Family brag: ::: May 25, 2003, 06:58 PM:
Curious, I IMDB'd your brother and discovered that I'd been admiring his work on X-Files for years.

Congrats to all.
Posted on entry More on RSS syndication. ::: May 23, 2003, 12:24 PM:
Not that it's terribly important, but I hope I can be forgiven for correcting the link to my RSS feed that Scott Reilly (an all-around good and handy guy) provided:

http://www.journalscape.com/greg/rss/2.0/
Posted on entry Back: ::: February 17, 2003, 10:40 PM:
So very sorry to hear about Teresa's loss. Best wishes to you both.
Posted on entry I make distinctions; you're a bigot ::: August 20, 2002, 06:16 PM:

Some more details about Salmon's appearance on the local AZ edition of Praise the Lord.


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