[...] have to eat the 60s and digest it through the bodies of today.” — A choreographer from Across the Universe talking about how movement has changed from then to now and how difficult it is to recreate an [...]

Seriously.

Yes, of course, that makes sense. He lived down the hall from me on campus one year and borrowed and taped a lot of my CDs. I can’t remember his last name either, but I am pretty sure he and Sharon got married.

Halcyon days….

Marisa, turns out that that was the song that turned KC into the devout Beatles fan he is today. Coincidences! And thank you for the compliment of trust.

Chris, I guess that means only the reviewers around here are idiots. :) Thanks for the link.

Roger Ebert gave it 4 out of 4 stars. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/REVIEWS/709130301

I’m old enough (45) to have been put off by radio overplay of the Beatles in my youth, and I loved this film.

Incedentally, “I’ve Just Seen a Face” has always been my favorite Beatles song, so I’m looking forward to the bowling scene.

Heh – sounds like the kind of thing I would have done – are you sure that wasn’t me? But since we had a lot of friends in common back in the day, would you care to let me know who? I used to spend a lot of time up on my musical high horse and don’t remember any company up there. (Ah, but I was so much older then- I’m younger than that now…)

Actually, I can see why you would have liked Thompson Twins’ version better. Though I probably would not have admitted it at the time, lest I lose my indie cred, I owned that LP (”Here’s To Future Days”), enjoyed it quite a bit my senior year of high school and recall that it got a pretty favorable review in Rolling Stone at the time of its release. Their cover of Revolution had a very pleasant, MTV-ready pop sheen (that would probably sound dated today) plus a flashy solo by Steve Stevens, Billy Idol’s guitarist. Perfectly suitable for white suburban teens.

The Beatles version, by contrast, had a very grungy, garage-y, rough-but-right (kind of hard to imagine where Never Mind The Bollocks or The Clash would have come from if Revolution hadn’t come first) quality that has just gotten better with age. And as the flip-side of “Hey Jude” the contrast is pure genius. But pretty startling, no doubt, to your teenage ears.

I want to see the movie, though may have to wait until it comes out on DVD.

I only saw one issue of Pizazz, and yeah, not good. I remember feeling left out because it seemed to assume you knew and cared a lot about Marvel comics.

KC got me the Sgt. Pepper’s DVD as a surprise, and it’s fun to watch if you enjoy cheese.

As for recontextualization, I used to send a college friend into sputters by telling him I liked the Thompson Twins version of Revolution better.

But it gets worse: I only even HEARD of the the movie by reading about it in PIZAZZ, which geeky 40-somethings everywhere may remember as Marvel’s ill-fated answer to… what, exactly? Dynamite? I used to get that one, too. I think I read somewhere that Dynamite was conceived by Jeanette Khan before she went to DC. I would imagine you and/or KC already knew that. Anyway… Doesn’t matter. As a self-proclaimed Marvel zombie before the age of 10, I would read anything from Marvel I could get my hands on, so I read every issue of Pizazz cover to cover. Even though it was pretty lame.

I liked the Sgt. Pepper movie, but hey, I was 11. I have avoided seeing it since on home video because I assume that, like most of the comics I really dug at 11, it actually really sucks. Society at large seems to have confirmed that. But perhaps due to that early experience, I have no problem with Beatles songs being re-contextualized. Nothing sacred here, just good music.

This sentence has blown my mind right off its hinges.