It's Gonna Suck When Paul McCartney Dies

"My grandkids always beat me at Rock Band. And I say, Listen, you may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the original records, so shut up." - Paul McCartney

 That'll probably be the headline on all the newspapers when Paul McCartney dies. I'm not looking forward to this for several reasons. Of course there's the whole musical genius thing, but the main reason I'm not looking forward to it is because I believe the media is going to focus on all the wrong aspects about his life.  That's what I want to write about today. 

I dread the deaths of certain super celebrities. Not because i care about them but because of all the shit I have to endure on television when one of them dies. And the bigger the personality, the worse it is. - George Carlin

 When Paul McCartney dies, It'll be worse than when Michael Jackson or Princess Diana died. We're gonna have to hear Hey Jude and Yesterday (both overrated in my opinion) non stop while they play constant retrospectives and video clip and photo montages. They'll probably even do man on the street interviews asking people what they think about Paul McCartney and his musical legacy. 

  

 Then of course you'll have to hear every asshole newscaster saying stupid fucking cliches like "Well I guess he's playing in heaven with John and George now." That's probably gonna annoy me more than anything else. It's gonna be all over your Facebook and Twitter pages and you won't be able to escape it.

  This is the just the first stage of how I envision the media fucking this whole thing up when Paul McCartney dies. When they're not busy talking in cliches everyone on TV will be focusing on all the wrong aspects of his life. CNN will have nonstop 24 hour coverage. 

  Every moment of the funeral will be covered worldwide. Old, fat dirty hippies will be lined the streets in tears trying to get a view of his casket. Some old fucking hag will be interviewed and she'll go on and on about how she saw The Beatles in Shea Stadium or Candlestick Park and how even tho you couldn't hear shit it was so amazing. Every other person they interview will basically say the same thing.

They will talk about how Paul McCartney was a vegetarian and how he was always all over the tabloids because he was getting married over and over again after Linda McCartney died. They'll show that one lady with the one leg.

 

  They will also probably keep referring to his collaboration with Michael Jackson and they'll talk over a clip from that music video they did for "Say Say Say," which will play every time they come back from commercial or while they're doing an interview with some guy who's supposed to be an expert on how Paul McCartney dying will affect society. 

  They will also talk about how Paul McCartney lost the publishing rights to The Beatles's songs because he was outbid by Michael Jackson. Then they'll probably make some reference to the earlier cliche with something as equally stupid as, "Now they can make music videos and outbid each other in heaven," or some shit like that. 

AT THIS POINT, OVERCOME BY FRUSTRATION AND OUTRAGE I WILL PROBABLY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS...

 WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD FOCUS ON INSTEAD

I woke up one morning with a tune in my head ... I went to the piano and found the chords to it ... It just came to me in a dream" - Paul McCartney on writing Yesterday 

1. Musical Genius: Paul McCartney plays many instruments, a few of which are; guitar, bass guitar, piano, harmonica, recorder, banjo, mandolin, and drums, and he plays them good too.

  He wrote Yesterday in his sleep, literally. While some of you are lucky if you don't piss your pants while you're sleeping, this motherfucker is writing hit songs. That's some next level shit right there.

 He's arguably the most underrated, melodic and greatest rock bass player ever. And even at 70 he still sings the early Beatles in the same key they were originally recorded in. To still have kind of vocal range after 50 years is truly impressive.

2.  Business Genius: Paul McCartney's company MPL Communications owns over 25,000 copyrights and the publishing rights to  the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Annie and Grease. It also owns the publishing rights for Buddy Holly, and Carl Perkins and many other artists.

3. Criminal Past/Bad Boy: McCartney has been arrested four times for weed and even spent 8 days in jail in Japan after he tried to smuggle in his suitcase full of weed. For someone with as big of a rep as a vegetarian and humanist and all around nice guy, people forget that this used to be someone who had no problems being arrested, and spending time in jail.

4. SNL: The Chris Farley Show: Still one of my favorite moments from SNL. I don't know how many people still remember this. It's a must watch. Its so funny until he asks the last question which is probably one of the greatest questions I think has ever been asked of a Beatle. I'm sure it was meant as a joke but I don't think they realized just how profound that question was.

Chris Farley: ...um, you did that album Abbey Road, and at the very end of the song, it would.. the song goes, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"? You.. you remember that?
Paul McCartney: Yes.
Chris Farley: Uh.. is that true?
Paul McCartney: Yes, Chris. In my experience, it is. I find, the more you give, the more you get.

5. What Could've Been: There was at least one close call to a Beatles reunion. In 1976 when Lorne Michaels made a joke on SNL, offering the Beatles $3000 for a reunion. It may have been just a joke, but Lennon and McCartney almost took him up on the offer. The two were watching the show and were thinking about going down to the SNL studios, but at the last minute decided against it, citing the fact they hadn't played together in public for many years and whether or not they could've made it to the NBC studios in time. 

  Two of Us is a low budget but very interesting movie that fictitiously speculates about how that whole story might have gone down.

Link to IMDB's entry for Two of Us (2000)

In Conclusion

It will be a sad day when Paul McCartney dies without already having the media there to turn into a circus. 

I don't even wanna think about whats going to happen with Mick Jagger dies.

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WHY I HATE DAVE GROHL

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.- Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl talks about the beauty of minimalism in music, but have you seen and heard the shit he's been doing in recent years? its far from minimalist, stripped down music.

Hey all you young douchebags, Dave Grohl was actually in another band before Foo Fighters, you should look into it. 

All Star jam at the White House? in a suit and tie? This isn't rock n roll

 Celebrity Jam with Paul McCartney at a benefit concert?

Riding Led Zeppelins coat tails at yet another all star jam?

Another celebrity gig, the Kennedy Center Honors from 2012. You can't host an all star concert without Dave Grohl having to be involved. 

And once again the Kennedy Center Honors from 2008.

Nirvana forever changed the landscape of rock music. They rallied against what was the socially acceptable musical norms of the time. It was a breath of fresh air when music had become boring, predictable, commercial, stale, and way too overproduced and image-oriented. 

Dave Grohl has become the very thing that Nirvana was against. He has become the U2 of this generation. Formulaic, adult comtemporary, garbage with absolutely no artistic merit or relevance, and much like U2 eager to seek the spotlight of any all star jam, or benefit concert that might happen along. 

Ever since The Color and the Shape, the Foo Fighters have been making the exact same album over and over again. 

Dave Grohl exists only to attend grammy ceremonies, walk red carpets, host cable television shows, perform at benefit concerts, play in all star jams, form superbands and release highly commercialized and formulaic music. He's not a rocker, he's not a musician. He's just a professional celebrity these days.

If Kurt Cobain was alive to see Dave Grohl play with The Muppets he'd a died of shame.

He even hosted Chelsea Lately

 SIR, YOU HAVE FAILED TO ROCK!

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Ask a Paranoid, Bipolar, Narcissist What This Song is About: Fixing a Hole

Fixing a Hole - The Beatles

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong.
See the people standing there who disagree and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting my room in the colourful way
And when my mind is wandering There I will go

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong.
Silly people run around they worry me
And never ask me why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a number of things
That weren't important yesterday
And I still go

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go

   Today I was pleasantly reminded of the difference between "hearing" and "listening." I've been listening to the Beatles since I was a kid. As I grew older and I just grew to assume that this was probably just some song Paul McCartney wrote while he was high as f*ck trying to fix his house. Also I don't pay much attention to lyrics. I've never tended to see lyrics as very important...as long as they sound melodic, I see vocals as just another instrument.

   Today as I was driving across town on my way home from my psychiatrists appointment, I was listening to The Beatles, and for the first time I actually "understood" the song, rather than just hearing it. The genius of The Beatles, just never ceases to amaze me.

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go

   Sure this song is about fixing a hole and a door in a house. It's also probably just a stupid little tune that you write after smoking enormous quantities of weed, but I see something else too.

   The rain and the cracks, are outisde forces, negative forces that stifle creativity, and prevent living in a state of higher awareness.  Eastern philosphy, Karma Yoga, the true self, vs the ego, pure consciousness...The Beatles were just starting to get into eastern philosophy around this time.  Read The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, it's an easy read, a good reference to what I'm talking about and personally I think it should be required reading for every human being. Anyways, the rain and other ego-driven thoughts, and negative forces keep from being in the now, the present moment.

   The mind/ego is always focused on the past or the future. Past and present only exist in the mind. The present moment is all we have, all that exists. It has been said that it has taken every molecule and atom in the universe since the begining of time to get you to this very present moment. When you fail to accept what is by reliving and holding on to the past or worrying about the future, both of which exist only in your mind, you are literally fighting the entire universe itself.

   When you accept what is, and stop fighting life, then the universe starts to conspire with you. The people you need show up in your life just when you need them to, you start noticing coincidences happening more often, and all sorts of other cool shit like that. But you gotta be open to the creative flow of the universe, that means being in the present moment.

   Like with playing guitar or trying to write a song. When I try to create something, I can't. Inspiration, is allusive. When you look for it  you'll never find it. It's only when I stop trying and drop my notions about what I think should be happening, that I find inspiration. Like today, I was trying to think about something to blog about tonight and I was puzzled the entire day. I was making myself irritated that I couldn't think of anything. But ultimately I just sat down and decided to clear my mind and just start writing whatever came into my head.  And I'm quite surprised by how much I've been able to write so far.

Ok, back to the song...

   When he fixes the hole and the cracks that stop the rain, then his mind is free to wander. To create, to be free spiritually, free to smoke weed, drop acid, or to actually fix the friggin hole. It's about being in the moment, free to let your mind wander "where it will go." No limitations.

   And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong.

  Thats an awesome line. The play on words there is badass too. This part is about self acceptance. It doesn't matter where I'm at or what I'm doing, what matters is that I'm here, right now, alive and conscious. That's a very powerful line.

See the people standing there who disagree and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

  

Silly people run around they worry me
And never ask me why they don't get past my door

   This is about negativity. Nobody wants to be around negative people.  Everybody knows that one person who is such a bummer that the minute they walk into a room, they instantly bum everyone out.

   It can also be about the fact he is a famous rockstar and people are probably always trying to get inside his home, and that isn't cool.

   Negative energy weakens people. Matter is energy - Einstein. The people we're with,the things we surround ourselves with, the foods we eat, the thoughts we think all have energy. Negative energy will literally physically weaken you. Example,  Watch the muscle test.

I'm painting my room in the colourful way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go

I'm taking the time for a number of things
That weren't important yesterday
And I still go

   When he fixes the hole and the cracks, accepts himself as he is and keeps negative people away, he is free to be creative and do the things that really are important to him. Things he never realized before.

   Also when you smoke a ton of weed and drop acid, you really want to be doing it in a color room.

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 Ok so there you have it. An extremely in depth and self indulgent (and probably wrong) break down analysis of a cool Beatles song.

  So in conclusion let me explain...

   Fixing a Hole: A song about, DIY home repairs, eastern philosphy, living in the present moment, self acceptance, ridding yourself of negativity, and making sure that before you experiment with power hallucinogenic, psychedelic, mind expanding drugs, that you have a colorful room in which to do so.

   But you don't have to take my word for it.

   It might help to know that I took a Beatles history class at Arizona State University. It counted as upper division and humanities credit too.

   I've also been to Abbey Road, and the building that used to be Apple Records where The Beatles played their last public performance for the Let it Be movie.

ok bye.

Play With Your Fucking Heart!!!

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