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Hey, you probably don't use tumblr anymore but do you judge forensics? I'm pretty sure I recognize you and see you at like every meet.... I think you might've judged for me at the beginning of the season!! (and you really liked my speech)

Oh man. I totally do. Ha, wow. What was your piece about?

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What is your tattoo of?

No ink on me... yet. 

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Ask you anything, huh? This one is going to be a hard one for you...What is your absolute FAVORITE had to listen to over over over and over for the rest of your entire life and nothing else Beatles song? Strictly Beatles.

If it had to be ONE song, I'd want to pick a happy song... So while it's not my absolute favorite of theirs, I'd probably go for "Oh Darling". 

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Everybody but AJP can disregard this. 

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TLS opens for Best Coast

Come watch me open for Best Coast -- tomorrow night at The Rave in Milwaukee!  Or, Come watch me try not to fall in love with Bethany Cosentino -- tomorrow night at The Rave in Milwaukee! http://www.therave.com/concert_details.asp?id=4862

#The Living Statues #Tommy Shears #Bethany Cosentino #Best Coast #Milwaukee #Thursday #The Rave #Eagles Club

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McCartney

I’m seeing Paul McCartney tonight in Milwaukee. I feel like I’m going to get to see my imaginary friend. Through some bit of magic, he’ll come to life and I'll see him and he'll see me and I'll know he's real. I'll be with him for a few hours and after that he'll be gone. Maybe forever. But I still get to keep the memories, the love and the life he introduced me to...

I’m not going to try to explain what The Beatles meant to me growing up. It would be obscene to try to put it into words. And even if I did, you wouldn’t understand. Everyone has a different connection with music that nobody else can feel. That's why it's so special. That's what I believe, anyhow. 

This day is more than 10 years in the making, so I guess I had to say something. Here it is: I wouldn't be the same person I am today without The Beatles, if I was even still around at all. They were my friends when I had none and my guidance when I needed it most. They convinced me how powerful love could be, and warned me how it could hurt so extraordinarily badly.

Mostly though, they make me happy like nothing else can. I hope everybody can find this kind of inspiration and beauty somewhere in their lives.

Thanks for everything, Paul. I'll see you tonight. 

#Paul McCartney #Paul #Macca #The Beatles #Milwaukee #Miller Park #John Lennon #John #George Harrison #Ringo Starr #Lennon #Starkey #Harrison #Beatles #Imaginary Friend #Hero #High School #The Long and Winding Road #bildungsroman #love #music #power of music #love song #magic #inspiration #beauty #Out THere Tour

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Our American Cousin The Living Statues All this time we've been laughing to ourselves. Our secret lives took us somewhere else. And this is the last illusion, Before we join our generation. Our American Cousin! I'm the kid you've got faith in, And I still believe, I still believe. Don't you know I'll be there too?  (Oh, for you) I wouldn't miss it for the world. Down and out, we was left for dead. But I can't forget what a Good Man said. So pull up your sleeves and look them in their eyes We'll fight them off until the day we choose to die Our American Cousin! I'm the kid you've got faith in, And I still believe, I still believe. Don't you know you'll see me standing in the back? Our American Cousin! I'm the kid you've got faith in, And I still believe, I still believe. Don't you know I'll be there too?  (Oh, for you) I wouldn't miss it for the world.

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McCartney Mondays: "Take It Away" A hidden gem from the "Tug of War" album, Paul enlists his old buddies Ringo and George Martin to back him up. Of course the Lovely Linda makes an appearance too.

Lonely driver out on the road With a hundred miles to go Sole survivor, carryin' a load Switches on his radio

#Paul McCartney #Tug of War #Ringo #Linda McCartney #Lovely Linda #Beatles #George Martin #Take it Away #1982 #Hoffner #Rickenbacker #McCartney Mondays

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Paul and Linda.

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My band is opening for Scottish rockers, The View, on 3/23 in Milwaukee and 3/24 in Madison. Check dates and details: www.longlivethestatues.com

#The Living Statues #TLS #Chris Morales #Alex Thornburg #Tommy Shears #The View #Milwaukee #Madison #Turner Hall #The Frequency #Majestic #Scotland #America #Wisconsin #Rock #Epiphone Casino #USA #Statues #Pomade

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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 ( New York Times. February, 2013 )

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Reaching the Tower

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

-Stephen King

#The Dark Tower #Roland #Stephen King

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Brandon Flowers w/ U2 "In A Little While".

#Brandon Flowers #The Killers #u2 #Bono #All That You Can't Leave Behind #In A Little While