Beatles Inc. & Sex

As the days have gone by since September 9th, it looks like there isn’t anything on this damn planet that somebody hasn’t thought of stamping with “The Beatles” logo and trying to sell. I can’t escape the queasy feeling that somewhere in china they are stamping hamsters with the Beatles logo.

Someone called it the “Beatles Industrial complex” and it fits. But it was ever thus really – when the boys hit America back in 1964 they slapped the Beatles name on anything they could think of – and since it was back in the day before people thought about merchandising often without paying anybody to do so.

Still with all the magnets clocks, toys, sticker, journals, t-shirts and the like one thing I’ve never seen is someone with a Beatles tattoo, I’ve seen Tattoos for The Stones, Motorhead, Blue Oyster Cult, the Ramones and all sorts of other bands I’ve never heard of but no Beatles – not their kind of thing I suspect.

Meantime I’ve been listening to the re-mastered DVD’s and I swear I could hear Ringo sneeze during ‘Lucy in the Sky with diamonds” Well not really but the sound is much clearer than the old cd’s almost too clear – I’m almost tempted to get the vinyl versions of this and see if there is a difference – along with the Mono Mix. Ack. Enough.

Using the Flick HD-camcorder – yes videos soon – to do my own half assed commentary track/MST3K style riffing on King Kong Escapes – it’s harder than it looks – which explains a) why they had teams of writers and b) why MST3K often cut the films – there
Are long periods of exposition that shoot the action right in the head.

Meantime I read that the Roman Catholic Church has issued a small manual for married couples which includes a prayer they would like married couples to say before having sex.

Right – like that’ll get you in the mood – getting on your knees – that wouldn’t break the mood in as of itself but getting on you knees to pray – “oh dear lord forgive this great sin we are about to commit…understand that we are weak weak people and we need to do the nasty despite the horror it arouses in you. But we need the humpty humpy even though it is an agent of Satan” (I could get much worse - but well I’ll stop.)

Meantime meantime – some assistant to some right wing mucky muck (A senator I believe) said during a round table during the value voters summit (a gathering of people who well are upset that Obama is president) said that the thing to do is to tell 11 year olds that reading playboy makes you gay.

One more time – reading playboy makes you gay.

I’m not even going to bother running through his line of thinking. In short, He came upon this happy inspiration because he’s noticed that 11-12 year olds are anti-gay so he figures if you lie like a fucking rug to your kids they’ll stay away from zee porn.

One more time – he’s saying tell your boys looking at naked women makes you gay.

Sweet Mercy when did everybody get so crazy – and manipulative. Why does the right wing think they can get away with bullshiting their kids – and then they wonder why they end up screwed up as hell. Kids are not dumb – occasional appearances to the contrary notwithstanding – and they figure if you’re lying through your teeth about this – they will assume everything else you say about how something is bad for you is a whopper as well.

Just amazing.

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