Welp.

Welp.

Did John really say to Paul "I like it when you're brutal"? Where did that come from?

Yes he did! You can hear it here:

It's a segment of studio chatter used in Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years (2016). The conversation is even included in the transcripts of the film:

Source: https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=61003

were you perpetually and exclusively praised for what you could one day become, instead of what you were, leading you to a lifetime of feeling like you were not only never good enough, but that the best thing about you was a future that would never come, that constantly felt like it was slipping away? Did you become so afraid of closing doors, of losing that one good thing, that potential, that you stagnated at the crossroads until your life began to rot around you and the asphalt ground to gravel and the roads grew ever rougher, the doors closing one by one even as you tried in vain to keep them open, instead of choosing a path and committing to a direction for your own progress? Did you watch the best thing about you, the one thing you were praised for, slowly collapse in your arms as you tried desperately and hopelessly to save it, finding yourself kneeling in the ruins of your unexplored promise, looking for a way out, and wondering if there was no where else to go? no way forward? When someone tells you they're proud of you, that they love you for who you are, that what you are is good enough, do you cry? do you struggle to believe them? do you have to try your damnedest just to make yourself hear the words? Do you wonder if, one day, you'll learn to be happy with who you are?

Baron Samedi, by André Hora.

Ritual rewatching, folks - as if we don't watch this all year through no matter what, lol 💜

Happy “The Concert in Central Park” Day! 🥰 💙 💙

Here’s the full concert link on YouTube, and, a screen shot of the setlist YouTube provided (so you can always jump to your favorite song!):

you’re welcome 😉

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A pair of expatriate artists, I guess it could be anyone - but of course we're all thinking he was with that person, right? That special friend, whose name is very well known.

What did we know of the proper forms of love? Well, this of course could mean a lot of things, but it's always made me think about a love that many would find inappropriate, even offensive - like love between two men back when they were young. Just saying.

You could pretend a friend was a lover - yes, let us be lovers.

I don't know, of course.

What I know is, I do believe Artie loved Paul very much, and Paul did love him back, even if just for a moment. Whatever form that love took, it was there. And if you ask me, I think this kind of verses by Artie speak exactly of that love. That special kind of love they shared, that love no one but them seemed to really grasp, and most still don't grasp today.

What is this Art Garfunkel? Who is this about? Explain yourself.