#understanding paul

[get-back-homeward]

...John had always been the one of them to wear his heart on his sleeve.

Nobody knows me, do they?

From McCartney, Christopher Standford [x]

#starting standford again to try to figure out how trustworthy it is #this closing note feels right on the money to me even tho a lot of the conversation sounds like badfic #understanding paul #i should start an elusive paul tag #finding paul #christopher standford #another book that starts with 1980 #no citations only a list of sources at the end #bug book list #1980 #mine

[paulic]

The dirty weekend really reminds me of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde lmao, Paul really flew out to L.A. with his boys (not his boys people would think are equal to him, but his boys who worked for him) was cheating on every single one of his multiple girlfriends/situationships, rented a boat, bought his pretty little velvet jacket and a shitton of sunglasses and just spent four days spending money, having obscene amounts of sex, looking pretty and not giving one shit about any of the people he was screwing over. truly iconic behaviour, I admire how awful he can be and somehow this does not make me less fond of him

#paul mccartney #understanding paul #the beatles #george harrison #john lennon #ringo starr #the dirty weekend #mclennon #classic rock #beatles #richard starkey #brian epstein #Linda McCartney

[mydaroga]

I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist. Songwriting often performs that feat, you say it but you don't embarrass yourself because it's only a song, or is it? You are putting the things that are bothering you on the table and you are reviewing them, but because it's a song, you don't have to argue with anyone.

I was a bit flipped out and tripped out at that time. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable; the door you never quite reach. This is the road that you never get to the end of.

Paul McCartney on "The Long and Winding Road," Many Years From Now

#understanding Paul #'you don't embarrass yourself'/'you don't have to argue with anyone' #oof #Paul you can talk to people honey #but i guess it works for him #songwriting #paul mccartney #kris reads myfn #many years from now #kris talks a lot

[5ummit]

Paul: *does anything* Feyd: 👀🥵😍

#feydpaul #paul atreides #feyd rautha harkonnen #timothée chalamet #austin butler #dune #dune part 2 #duneedit #my edit #filmedit #junkfooddaily #userstream #usergal #usersmaya #tuserlari #userquel #usersavana #userkristen #I just needed all of these together in one set #feyd was (understandably) obsessed from the moment he laid eyes on him #I hate so much that they only got to interact ONCE

[catofoldstones]

we already have people bitching about how “i can’t stand Chani, she’s so annoying 🙄” and “Paul chose Chani to be the mother of his children, Irulan is just at the sidelines eating dust as she should”, like brothers we cannot do this again. We can’t Chani v Irulan our way out of this one because the problem is Paul and the Empire. Gosh, we truly are never getting out of the patriarchy.

#and god forbid someone mention that Paul in turn screwed over Chani by not making him his wife and granting her the rights and privileges > #> that are due to her #and some fucker will respond oh he had to marry Irulan to become emperor #(YES WHY?! UNDERSTAND THAT) #i just want to scream #wtf is this #is this the level of discourse we bring to these books/movies #? #this is giving very early asoiaf fandom and not in a good way #dune #paul atreides #princess irulan #chani #chani dune #dune books #dune movies #sigh #irulan corrino #duneposting

[timotheecontent]

#timothee chalamet #timothée chalamet #paul atreides #dune part 2 #dune 2 #gifs #~ #dune part 2 spoilers #dune spoilers #spoilers #idk what this is but y'all understand me right

[sanyaoxsis]

girls night

#tf2 #pyro tf2 #tf2 pyro #miss pauling #tf2 miss pauling #team fortress 2 #missfire #pyropauling #theyre lesbians #i tag this as a ship cuz #*processing* I lost my thought #OKAY SO I'll just say that pauling often calls pyro to help with some #pyro doesn't mind #in the company of pauling. it is moderately quiet and funny for pyro #pauling can understand pyros mfhgmf (as an engie. theyre autdhd friends ehe) #I'm a little nervous to say smth because of bad eng

[absolutelyterrifichonestly]

"Rammstein look old now :((("

Look at me. Listen. It's good that they look like they're pushing 60. Do you know why? Because they're pushing 60. Let's not mourn that six men in their late 50s don't look 25 anymore when we could be celebrating (and drooling, ngl) over how they look now 💜

Aging is a privilege and a miracle and it is beautiful.

#luckily the majority of people understand this #but y'know #anyway let's thirst over the silly grandpas #rammstein #paul landers #richard kruspe #christoph schneider #flake lorenz #oliver riedel #till lindemann

[outlaw-monarch]

"New year, new me?" I mumble, clutching a sheet around myself as I exit the morgue

#Eighth Doctor #Doctor Who #Paul McGann #Every year since 2015 I feel a little closer to understanding his level disorientation #Who am I? #like fuck babe I feel u

[innitmarvellous]

Idk but this is so funny to me

#john's gasp and the way he looks at paul...idk lol #it really didn't take me long to understand the popularity of beatles yaoi lol #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney

[m1ssunderstanding]

Understanding Lennon McCartney Rewatch Part 2.1

Cynthia and John are worse and crazier for admitting what they admitted in the bio. But Jane and Paul are not exempt.

Will forever love this pic of Paul and Julian. He does not look like the fun uncle. He looks tired and dependable. Just stepped out of the womb as a father, didn't he? The sperm that fertilized his egg probably passed some fatherly advice and hair tussles to the other sperm as it passed them. 

They should've bought the fucking island.

They never look more like a couple than when the women they're actually dating are right next to them. 

The India footage actually looks so beautiful. Obviously it's a beautiful place, but they all genuinely look so free and at peace there. It really could've been so good for them. Getting enlightened, getting soberish, growing closer as a band, taking a much-needed rest. It should've been good. 

The music choices in this documentary! The drastic shift from, “all you need is love” and “the dream I had was true” and “I don't need much to set me free.” to Paul leaving to “yes I'm lonely. Wanna die.” “I'm going insane.” “Look at me. Who am I supposed to be?” 8d8 psychic damage. And the thing is it's real. John really did flip a switch, just like that.

Smashing my head into a wall. It's the same as Yoko's quote about how ‘nobody hurt John more than Paul.’ Really Pete? Worse than after his mum died? Really Yoko? More than that drunk cop? Paul, what the fuck did you do to him in India, seriously, because at this point in the doc I can't accept the theory that it was just some lack of communication, I just can't. 

It's also telling to me that when John's losing it, everyone's solution is some time alone with Paul. Nobody panic. Paul can fix him. Little do they know Paul's the one that broke him. Or maybe they do know and that's only another reason they know Paul's the only man for the job?

Old-fashioned ad voice: You liked Protective Jesus Scandal Paul? You'll love Protective LSD Scandal John! Really. Before the question is even out, he's making fun of it. I think he cuts off the interviewer at least three times with jokes before he can get the sentence out, and by the time he is, Paul's giggling too hard to feel bad about his little PR fuck-up.

Then he lets Paul talk a bit before jumping back in, this time with his Hard Man suit on. It's just so good. A testament to their unconditional love, really. Because, clearly, Paul's just hurt John pretty bad. And yet, here John is. Using every trick he's got to defend his friend. 

But actually, though John is supposedly the one everyone's worried about, Paul's doing a pretty shit job of being the “stable” one. This entire press tour he's either fucking blazed and laughing at everything or disassociated and not contributing.

(((except during that political discussion – again! Paul secretly has actual thoughts on actual things?!)))

But for the most part, John's absolutely holding down the fort. I wonder if this is another case of everyone – all their friends and business associates, just like we as a fandom still do now – assuming John is the problem child, and Paul's the strong one, but actually they're both both. 

Back to the political interview. They're just so in sync. Finishing each other's sentences when you're talking about the weather or your shared work is one thing. Finishing each other's sentences on complex topics like why poor whites often vote bigots in or the cause of rampant misinformation is quite another. 

“Letting his dad cut his hair at sixteen, seventeen.” You all know that John hates Jim quote. 

John: so there's war, and vegetables. There's relativity and absolute.  Paul (absolutely smitten): that's great Johnny. Int: that's rather hard for people to interpret. John: well if they can't interpret it now, maybe they will later..... 1. John really was extremely intelligent. 2. That last statement sums up Beatles historiography.

Paul really just Won't be alone with John, will he? Well, two can play at that game, Paul, and John's going to win, let me tell you. 

But he's going to do one last panic grab for attention first.

I really do think if John had done something like that *before* Paul would've given him that attention. Told him he's being insane and taken him home to splash some cold water on him or something and then given him whatever softness Paul was capable of. But not anymore. 

I wonder if Paul could go back to 1966 if he just wouldn't have taken John to that Indica show where he met Yoko. If he would've just said “okay John, sure, let's just stay home and trip on the couch tonight.” I don't know.

Anyway, Yoko gets an A+ for persistence. Imagine being Paul, George, or Ringo, though, and John is suddenly madly in love with this woman whose been begging you all (and then him specifically) for a platform for over a year? It would be weird to say the least. 

John: don't you hate me? I'm crazy, you know. Paul: no I don't hate you. John: aren't you pissed at me now, Paul? Even a little bit? Paul: I'm very proud of you. It's the unstoppable force (“Don't ‘nore me, Mimi!”) vs the immovable object (“I learned to put a shell around me”.) Someone get them some professional help before they nuke the whole world. 

“There is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good.” One of those quotes that just really lets you see a person, you know? Benevolent dictator Paul. 

Yoko, why are you talking about how bad your boy doesn't want to fuck you right in front of all his closest friends and on record for posterity? If you have to be talking about your sex life, shouldn't you be lying about how insanely horny he is for you? Oh, right, she will think of that, just not yet. 

And then she waxes poetic about how turned on John is when he's working on music with Paul. Cool. Smart. Thanks for that, though, genuinely.

And Then (gosh, Yoko is such an asset to Beatles history when she's not actively spreading misinformation. Everyone give her a hand) she goes on about how Paul goes out of his way to make her feel respected and even valued. Compare that to John and Linda, anyone? And I want to be clear, I'm not saying this means John cares too much and Paul doesn't care at all, which might be the surface read. I just think John's reaction was to scream in everyone's face that he was in pain and Paul's was to insist ad nauseam that he was fine. You know?

#paul mccartney #the beatles #john lennon #mclennon #ringo starr #george harrison #yoko ono #linda eastman #ulm #understanding lennon mccartney

[get-back-homeward]

I think a lot of my songwriting always was, and still is, an escape.

From?

From the harsh realities of the world. [x]

#paul mccartney #songwriting #understanding paul #{take these broken wings and learn to fly} #1990s #grief #90s paul #the writer makes it up as an escape #but can't escape from the personal imprint theyve made on it #the things left unsaid #although he does say it at the end 'put the feelings into a song' #paul speaks #blackbird #mine

[paulic]

I’ve been wondering whether if anything happened between John and Paul in India, how much Ringo and George knew about it.

I feel like it would’ve been hard for them to keep it under covers (lol) and just say ‘oh we had a row’, because they all had rows all of the time. They needed something to explain a reaction that strong (Paul leaving early, John writing happy songs and then the most heartbreaking ones the second Paul leaves). Ringo left early too and I know it’s always said it was because of his issues with the food but somehow it would be very like him to support Paul like that.

There are so many scenes of ringo and Paul in get back where ringo is quietly supporting him and showing him affection which you can clearly see the man desperately needed (‘and then there were two’, ringo hugging him, ‘good morning rich!!!’ and then playing their happy tune on the piano together, ringo saying he wants to go on the roof after George gets pissed off at Paul who’s trying to keep everyone happy etc etc)

I’m not saying everything Ringo did was to soothe Paul but he does seem very aware of what’s going on? I think ringo’s view on everything is the least discussed which is kind of sad, really.

Something else that really stuck out to me is the expression on Ringos face after Paul seems to say ‘the cameras’ when ringo is hugging him. Paul indicates that he wants ringo to stop but not because he’s not comfortable, but because it’s dangerous for them to be seen so comfortable. Ringo doesn’t seem afraid of that one bit, he hugs the others all of the time. But Paul’s paranoid and ringo respects his wishes immediately. I think Paul’s very weird about touching men so he might have said that because he wasn’t comfortable? I don’t buy that, though, he and ringo hugged a lot and still do, their relationship seemed more physical than for example Paul’s and George’s. So, if Paul truly only meant ‘hey man we can’t be seen like this’ and he was more paranoid than ringo, why was that? They were both in heterosexual relationships at the time and I’m guessing both had only brotherly feelings towards each other. Ringos expression seems annoyed in an empathetic and understanding way, as if he’s thinking ‘paul you idiot you have nothing to worry about’ with an eye roll and a platonic kiss on the head.

So it made me think, if something happened in India, might the others even have known about it? Might ringo have thought back to it and been like ‘Paul nobody thinks you shagged John’ (which…I mean they do) in an affectionately annoyed way? I really don’t know please someone discuss

#my thoughts #get back #mclennon #frankly i miss Paris #ringo Starr #paul mccartney #the beatles #george harrison #john lennon #classic rock #beatles #understanding ringo #understanding Paul

[mydaroga]

That creative moment when you come up with an idea is the greatest, it's the best. It's like sex. You're filled with a knowledge that you're right, which, when much of your life is filled with guilt and the knowledge that you're probably not right, is a magic moment. You actually are convinced it's right, and it's a very warm feeling that comes all over you, and for some reason it comes from the spine, through the cranium and out the mouth.

Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now

I've actually talked about this before. And I didn't even have this quote to support it yet! And I get what he means, actually.

#understanding Paul #paul mccartney #creativity and sex #many years from now #kris reads myfn #Kris talks a lot

[bonithica]

mal x paul REAL ?!

#john you insane man #john lennon #paul mccartney #the beatles #mal evans #understanding lennon mccartney #mclennon

[good-to-drive]

Honestly one of my favorite stupid reddit takes was that guy who said George should have been more grateful that he got to witness John and Paul's relationship up close for so many years. Girl he almost murdered them and so would I and so would you.

#he was deadass like 'cant believe how ungrateful he was that he got to witness that friendship up close when we'd all kill to do that' #girl youd kill IF you did that #honestly though it was kind of a weird take #I understand people who think he should have been grateful to get to be in the same group as them #i don't agree but i understand #but this felt like such an extreme example of a fan projecting their own parasocial weirdness onto people who actually knew these guys #like you realize john and Paul aren't a theme park right? #the beatles #george harrison #paul mccartney #john lennon #beatles #shitpost #op