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Ok this entire letter from PR Paul is gold:
'Dear Mr Low,
I am sorry about the time I have taken to write to you, but I hope I have not left it too late. Here are some details about the group.
It consists of four boys: Paul McCartney (guitar), John Lennon (guitar), Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and George Harrison (another guitar) and is called ...
This line-up may at first seem dull but it must be appreciated that as the boys have above average instrumental ability they achieve surprisingly varied effects. Their basis beat is off-beat, but this has recently tended to be accompanied by a faint on-beat; thus the overall sound is rather reminiscent of the four in the bar of traditional jazz. This could possibly be put down to the influence of Mr McCartney, who led one of the top local jazz bands (Jim Mac's Jazz Band) in the 1920s.
Modern music, however, is the group's delight, and, as if to prove the point, John and Paul have written over fifty tunes, ballads and faster numbers, during the last three years. Some of these tunes are purely instrumental (such as "Looking Glass", "Catswalk" and 'Winston's Walk") and others were composed with the modern audience in mind (tunes like "Thinking of Linking", "The One After 909", "Years Roll Along" and "Keep Looking That Way").
The group also derive a great deal of pleasure from rearranging old favourites ("Ain't She Sweet", "You Were Meant For Me", "Home", "Moonglow", "You are My Sunshine" and others).
Now for a few details about the boys themselves. John, who leads the group, attends the College of Art, and, as well as being an accomplished guitarist and banjo player, he is an experienced cartoonist. His many interests include painting, the theatre, poetry, and, of course, singing. He is 19 years old and is a founder member of the group.
Paul is 18 years old and is reading English Literature at Liverpool University. He, like the other boys, plays more than one instrument – his specialities being the piano and drums, plus, of course ...'
--Written in 1959 to a journalist he'd met in a pub, before they'd decided on a name, as reproduced in Hunter Davies' The Beatles.
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University of Brighton spotlights 16 architecture and design projects
A secret subterranean factory for Extinction Rebellion and a timber-framed sandwich forum are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Brighton.
Also included are climate protest meeting points disguised as birdbaths and a proposal for a Museum of the World.
University of Brighton
School: University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design
Courses: Architecture, Interior Architecture and Product Design
Tutors: Terry Meade, Rob Vinall, Tom Ainsworth, Jeff Turko, Nate Kolbe, Lucy-Ann Gilbert, Omid Kamvari, Carlos Peralta, Michael Howe, Tony Roberts, Stephen Ryan, Asta Sabaliauskaite, Ian McKay, Sarah Stevens, Anuschka Kutz, Kris Scheerlinck, Garteth Owen, Nat Hunter and Dr Tilo Amhoff.
School statement:
"The School of Architecture and Design at Brighton offers courses in architecture, interior architecture and product design at undergraduate level, together with a suite of courses at MA and research degree level.
"Post-graduate courses include Architecture (MA and post part two), architecture and urban design, sustainable design, interior design, town planning and management and practice and law in architecture.
"At the end of the academic year, several prizes are presented to students across the school. These are awards that have been generated within the school or are provided by external sponsors. The prize-winners are featured in the following work."
The Undertree Odeum by Imani Qamar
"The brief to culminate the foundation year was a site-specific project determined by a programme derived from three pieces of given information; playing an instrument, at night, in the summer.
"The desire to be outside amongst people, unincumbered and dancing together on a summer's night, lead me to the dreamy, hypnotic and trance-like sound of the handpan drum.
"I utilised the natural contours and existing features of the area and developed an intervention which conveys the relationship between material, programme and spectator."
Student: Imani Qamar
Course: SoAD Integrated Foundation Year
Tutor: Rob Vinall
Award: Foundation Course Award for Design 2021
Email: [email protected]
A Chemist of Shadows by Solange Leon Iriate
"Movement has been principal to my practice. Throughout the MA in sustainable design, detailed observational moving landscapes have given way to more abstract gestural art pursuits, a form of embodied research in response to ideas. These explorative pieces inform and initiate, in turn, further research in an ongoing material conversation.
"Societies apart and economic inequality is rising with the present crisis. We remain concertedly divided and perpetually adapting. This work examines division, borders and movement in the sustainability framework, ontological complexities, collective and individual notions through art and design.
"The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted isolation and division while demanding a cohesive humanitarian ensemble to trust and move in a certain distant togetherness. These bluescapes were born intuitively as a way of visualising and exploring concepts of social mobility, equality and interdependent relations, and the opaque and perpetually shifting nature of borders."
Student: Solange Leon Iriate
Course: Masters in Sustainable Design
Tutor: Tom Ainsworth
Award: Experimental Design Practices Reg Prize 2021: Movement
Email: [email protected]
Museum of the World by Anna Rose Hague
"If it is to be known as a 'museum of the world,' the British Museum must admit to their wrongful possessions over stolen artefacts, as well as celebrate world cultures and expert knowledge of its renowned pioneers.
"I have peeled back the walls of the Reading Room to allow the space to feel open, transparent and shared. In a world of online meetings, this space will be a catalyst for face-to-face shared thinking between 'the expert' and the 'non-expert.'
"There will be workshops, lectures and activities for all. The architectural environment of this space will impact human behaviour; by initiating conversations about post-colonial practices in modern museums."
Student: Anna Rose Hague
Course: Masters in Interior Design
Tutor: Terry Meade
Award: Winner MA Interiors Will and Partners Prize 2021
Email: [email protected]
The MakerMat by Toby Brown
"The MakerMat proposal offers a way to enable The Tide Mills project to achieve their aims of collaboration between members of the public such as artists and students. The makerspace creates a social condenser that brings people together through making and embracing the Tide Mill landscape with its rich history.
"It presents a methodology for developing on land that is at high risk of flooding. The proposal offers a current use as a makerspace and future use as a new ground level for wildlife, therefore maintaining habitats and green routes when the site floods."
Student: Toby Brown
Course: Master of Architecture
Tutors: Jeff Turko and Nate Kolbe
Award: Winner Will and Partners Prize 2021 and Nominee for the Architects Journal Sustainability Award 2021
Email: [email protected]
Extinction Rebellion HQ by Matilda Swift-Barnard
"In this project, Extinction Rebellion HQ is a secret subterranean factory disguised as two normal houses. Underground in the arch vaulted basement, they are producing recycled plastic bricks. These plastic bricks are being used to build a network of protest meeting points around Brighton, disguised as birdbaths and connected to the HQ via a tunnel.
"The birdbaths give Extinction Rebellion supporters somewhere to meet up while also create nature corridors for Brighton's bird populations which are declining. Excavating these tunnels will leave them with a lot of material, which will be moved back to the HQ and added to the brick mixture, so nothing gets wasted."
Student: Matilda Swift-Barnard
Course: BA (Hons) Interior Architecture
Tutor: Lucy-Ann Gilbert
Award: BA Interiors Studio B.A.D & Chora Award 2021
Email: [email protected]
Welcome to the Minnegård – the Tower of Memories by Zuzanna Maria Murzyn
"Does the modern city give the time and space for the act of remembrance to happen? Can a city's architectural framework enhance the creation, conjuring and depositing of memories through the typology of a new cemetery?
"What begins at the Bank of England, the eye of the City of London, is a transformation of the place where the material currency is held. In this scenario, memories act as the valuables that we ought to care for and protect. To discover what's hidden within this high-rise, you're invited to take a stroll down memory lane."
Student: Zuzanna Maria Murzyn
Course: BA (Hons) Architecture
Tutor: Omid Kamvari
Award: Winner Feix and Merlin Architects Prize 2021 and Chalk Architecture Award 2021
Email: [email protected]
Thinking Like a Tree by Benjamin Davies
"Human beings are losing their connection to the natural world. Thinking Like A Tree is a campaign to help challenge the human-centric mindset. Viewers of the short film, posters and mural can begin to empathise with trees and develop a stronger connection to the world around them.
"To 'Think Like A Tree' is an explorative activity to understand better the way trees support symbiotic relationships, and how as humans, we can experience and learn from them. To tackle environmental problems such as the biodiversity crisis, ocean and atmospheric pollution, humans must learn from trees and become a regenerative species."
Student: Benjamin Davies
Course: BSc (Hons) Product Design
Tutor: Carlos Peralta
Award: Winner Product Design Ambitious Project Award 2021
Email: [email protected]
The Timely Proxemics Of A Post-Human Social Condenser Phalanstery by Harry Harwood
"The proposal embodies the idea of being a flat ontology through new epistemological and ontological speculation of a Constructed Chimaera. The chimaera is about the readable transformation of one known object into the next.
"Not a collaging but a smooth blending of objects. What exists? The proposal attempts to move beyond general envelologicics and toward specific figuration. Tectonics has been identified for too long with either material phenomenology or literal expression of performance. Instead, I argue that the beauty of tectonics is its ability to create post-human fictions, confounding expectations of material or scale for chimaera programme."
Student: Harry Harwood
Course: Master of Architecture
Tutors: Jeff Turko and Nate Kolbe
Award: RIBA South East Part 2 Winner and Architect's Journal Nominee
Email: [email protected]
The Sandwich Forum by Amber Elliott
"Agriculture and cities are bound together through the supply and demand of food. 17th-century grain markets shaped the streets of London with longstanding names such as Cheapside, Cornhill and Bread Street. However, food is no longer at the centre of the city, and it is expected quickly and with little consideration of process or origin.
"The timber-framed sandwich forum holds all the necessary functions to grow, harvest, package and sell sandwiches to a fifth of the city of London's workers per week. That's 100,000 sandwiches! There are 24 aquaponic circular wheat fields within the building to produce bread and 20 floors of observable hydroponic rotating growing pods, where leafy greens and other vegetables are grown.
The sandwiches are available 'to go' or enjoy one of the many public platforms, observation decks or roof gardens. This building is intended to provide locally (in-house) grown food to the public while encouraging the pace of city life to pause momentarily using farming and green spaces."
Student: Amber Elliott
Course: BA (Hons) Architecture
Tutor: Omid Kamvari
Award: Winner of the James Latham Prize for Innovation Timber Engineering 2021
Email: [email protected]
Holborn School of Ceramics by Peter Garfath
"The contemporary scene of Central London's architectural landscape is far from stagnant. The skyline is almost continually littered with cranes and scaffolding as the pricy fight for urban space skyrockets, often at any cost to the already deteriorating environment. At the heart of this project is the ethos of reappropriation in the name of being carbon conscious, with the more specific aim of retaining and utilising as much of the existing structural framework from the deemed 'unsalvageable' building on site.
"To further extend the proposals, carbon efficiency, ambient and direct natural light was the most significant variable when considering form, as passivity meant less reliance on fossil fuel amenities. In addition, the project is largely led and moulded by its positioning in the very pedestrianised part of Holborn, with the underlying connection of community altering the threshold of public and private, as a pedestrian path cuts the corner of the block and meanders through the proposal."
Student: Peter Garfath
Course: BA (Hons) Architecture
Tutor: Michael Howe
Award: Nominee for Architect's Journal Part 1 Award 2021
Email: [email protected]
A Way Village by Hao Han Wong
"A Way Village is located at London Road, Brighton, between the main road and a residential area, 0.7 miles away from Brighton Train Station. A village that sits above the ground, approximately 40 metres in height, acts as a hill in the middle of Brighton.
"With the help of the community, we created kiosks and spaces in between the platforms. People can enjoy walking up the hill without feeling alone. They meet friends, make conversation. Together, we create memories. This village is a place that not only provides people with nature in this current situation but also allows us to slow down our path and enjoy every little thing, appreciate ordinary happiness, which we call rì cháng zhī měi in Mandarin."
Student: Hao Han Wong
Course: BA (Hons) Architeture
Tutor: Tony Roberts
Award: Winner John Andrews Drawing Prize Undergraduate 2021
Email: [email protected]
Travelogue: a Long late Journey; Towards a Cathedral in the Art of (the) Living by Olly Maxwell
"My project is based on a poem I have written:
Imagined…
Over the past solitary year, I, the traveller, have found myself making a journey. Dreaming of a place beyond.
Of monumentalism, upon the Isle.
Of meeting and exchange, of sincerity and passion, and delight, and of meaning…
Managed…
Once a month, when the tidal waters of the flooded River Ouse subside to reveal an ancient causeway, a gathering,
of individuals.
Everybody is invited…
Meeting the World."
Student: Olly Maxwell
Course: BA (Hons) Architecture
Tutors: Stephen Ryan, Asta Sabaliauskaite and Ian McKay
Award: Joint Winner of the RIBA Sussex Branch Part 1 Prize 2021
Email: [email protected]
Common 165 by Ollie Howell
"Common 165 is imagined as an extension of residency for those in Lewes. Residency is treated as an act performed by those that will come to occupy the site. For all in Lewes, and to all those that chose to visit, the common is as much theirs as it is anyones.
"The resulting space is conceived as an architectural landscape garden, specifically about the 18th century, as means of a continuing conversation with ruin. The landscape is formed of a single piece of furniture, a continual surface through which acts of residency are performed."
Student: Ollie Howell
Course: BA (Hons) Architecture
Tutor: Sarah Stevens
Award: Joint Winner of RIBA Sussex Branch Prize 2021
Email: [email protected]
Pookchurch Common of Broxmead Lane by Vanessa Malao Nkumbula
"Designed around the 12-month farming rituals of farming peasants, this spatial intervention appropriates current farming technologies and peasant's craftsmanship to create a new common and foster socio-cultural social stewardship of the countryside. They each represent the loss of traditional facades, craftsmanship and stewardship regarding farming.
"The rituals and self-sufficiency honour and remind people of their duties and responsibilities in common and aims to be constructive in dealing with the frustrations of privatisation and commercialisation. The fragile relationships within the community are strengthened with a year-end goal of the Harvestival where all their contributions can be seen. The common tackles and highlights the interplay among the population, economic subsistence, contemporary technology, and the environment that it is situated."
Student: Vanessa Malao Nkumbula
Course: Master of Architecture
Tutors: Anuschka Kutz and Kris Scheerlinck
Award: The Make Architecture Post Graduate Prize 2021
Email: [email protected]
Framemaker | reduce by Mungo Chambers
"In our throw-away society, we need more adaptive products that can be disassembled and reused. This year, I have focused on sustainable and circular design. My initial project looked at taking advantage of waste materials, reprocessing old corks into various products. This delved into the climate emergency, drawing attention to the Ash dieback disease and associated waste.
"A modified retractable washing line measuring tool enabled foresters to quickly identify uses for mid-sized timber, preventing the burning of good resources. Framemaker sought to reduce waste by providing a modular kit that is adaptive, designed for reuse and long life. Utilising parametric software ensures the right amount is purchased. The proposal uses a distributed manufacturing network to encourage a second-hand market to avoid downcycling."
Student: Mungo Chambers
Course: BSc Hons Product Design
Tutors: Gareth Owen and Nat Hunter (Other Today)
Award: The Waste House Award for Circular Design 2021
Email: [email protected]
Observing the City Via Novel and Film by Yue Xin (Joy)
"My inspiration comes from Italo Calvino's Invisible City Continuous Cities two. Calvino mentioned the fantastic similarities of cities, such as identical houses, squares, streets, and even commodity furnishings.
"Everywhere you go, you see the same scenery, even the exact details, and the days seem to be the same. These are the so-called continuous cities; it seems that we can never get out of constant similarity. However, in my drawing, I used the simplest form of structure and a single tone to express the urban landscape.
"At first glance, the impression of each city in the pane seems to be very similar, but if you look carefully, in fact, the urban landscape penetrated by each glass is different, high and short, the shape is different, the combination is different, and light is different, clarity is different and so on. We can find many subtle differences – the difference is everywhere, as is similarity."
Student: Yue Xin (Joy)
Course: PhD Architecture and Design
Tutor: Dr Tilo Amhoff
Award: Post Graduate Winner John Andrews Drawing Prize 2021
Email: [email protected]
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Senior Bowl Final: North Wins 34-24
The 70th Reese’s Senior Bowl ended with a 34-24 win for the North team, but it’s not the score that matters. Over 100 players were vying for one last opportunity to make their impression on those in attendance at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
In the final portion of a week long job interview the South scored on a 75-yard drive to open the game. The drive was capped off by a 1-yard touchdown by Temple running back Ryquell Armstead. It was set up by a 21-yard chunk gain by Slippery Rock running back Wes Hills.
Boston College defensive end Zach Allen got a finger on the extra point attempt to keep the lead to 6-0 early in the first.
The South began to sputter in their second drive but they got a spark when Clemson WR Hunter Renfrow brought down a prayer from West Virginia quarterback Will Grier. The play went for 34 yards and highlighted an underrated aspect of Renfrow’s game.
The drive would stall after Texas defensive lineman Charles Omenihu beat Utah State tight end Dax Raymond for a 3-yard loss. Omenihu played big all series despite an incorrect hands to the face penalty early in the drive. LSU kicker Cole Tracy would extend the South’s lead to 9 points with a 33-yard field goal.
The North would look to get on the board late in the first as Missouri quarterback Drew Lock led an efficient drive. He nearly hit Ohio State wide receiver Terry McLaurin down the seam for a touchdown but it was dropped. McLaurin had one of the best weeks of any prospect in Mobile, but failed to help himself on a potential score. He would come down with a contested catch on a flea flicker later in the game to help even things out.
Oklahoma kicker Austin Seibert missed the ensuing 44-yard field goal to keep the North scoreless in the first quarter. Seibert would punch through a 20-yard chip shot on the next drive to inch the North closer at 9-3 in the second quarter. The score would stay that way until 43-yard field goal from the South’s Tracy to extend their lead 12-3 before the end of the half.
It was about as exciting as a second quarter as it sounds as Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley and Washington State quarterback Gardner Minshew failed to do anything of note. The offensive woes were made worse by a lost fumble by UCLA tight end Caleb Wilson, which summed up his week.
Duke quarterback Daniel Jones kicked off the second half with a long scoring drive for the North, making it 13-10. It totaled 10 plays and 84 yards and highlighted both the good and concerning aspects of his game. He displayed a lack of velocity with some serious ducks and nearly threw an interception directly to Virginia safety Juan Thornhill.
After a pass interference against Temple cornerback Rock Ya-Sin, Jones would keep a read option for a 1-yard touchdown. Jones amassed 17 rushing touchdowns in college and it remains a solid piece of his game.
Charles Omenihu strip sacked Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham, which set up another scoring drive for the North, putting them up 17-12. UMass wide receiver Andy Isabella smoked the South defense on a screen for a 19-yard touchdown.
Isabella’s tiny arms and hands caused problems for him throughout the week but there’s no question about his play-making ability. He claimed to have run a hand-timed 4.26 40-yard dash and will light up the NFL Combine.
NC State quarterback Ryan Finley led a field goal drive to end the third quarter that ended in a 29-yard Seibert field goal. Washington tight end Drew Sample and UC Davis wide receiver Keelan Doss got plenty of work during the series. On the day, Doss impressed with 4 catches and 55 yards. Sample built on a strong week with 4 catches and 39 yards.
A late addition, Buffalo quarterback Tyree Jackson entered the game and showed a great rapport West Virginia wide receiver Gary Jennings. They connected on a 54-yard bomb and finished the drive for the South on a 10-yard slant and score.
The South failed on the two-point conversion, keeping them behind 2 points in a 20-18 game early in the fourth quarter. The North quickly countered with an 8-play, 75-yard drive capped off by 3-yard touchdown run from Notre Dame running back Dexter Williams. The entire series was a dominant performance by the North offensive line, who gave them a 26-18 lead with 8:05 remaining.
Tyree Jackson’s day went from good to bad on an errant pass intercepted by Delaware safety Nasir Adderley of the North. Memphis running back Tony Pollard would close the door on the South with a 21-yard touchdown run to make the score 34-18. Jackson would add a garbage time touchdown to West Virginia wide receiver David Sills V to give the game a final of 34-24 for the North.
Daniel Jones was named MVP of the game because valuing the results over the process is a thing that happens with awards and really there weren’t many challengers that stuffed the box score.
Additional Notes...
Mississippi State defensive end Montez Sweat put together a solid drive early in the game with a run stuff and doing well to not bite on play-action. His day would come to a halt when he was matched up with Kansas State offensive tackle Dalton Risner, which was a repeat of their regular season encounter. Risner’s practice week included choke-slamming Northern Illinois linebacker Sutton Smith, exchanging hay-makers with Zach Allen, and excitedly shoving Jon Gruden after a dominant rep on day one.
Texas cornerback Kris Boyd had bad 2018 film, a bad week of practice, and compounded all of that with three penalties on the first two drives. He’s a long way away from his solid 2017 tape and teams will have to be confident they can get him out of a serious funk if they decide to select him.
New Mexico State linebacker Terrill Hanks was up-and-down. He did well on one play to stack and disengage for a stuff, but issues with his reckless, lunging tackling technique popped up when he whiffed on Memphis running back Tony Pollard.
Western Illinois defensive tackle Khalen Saunders had an impressive day, including a club-swim sack on Grier early in the game. Showing any pass rush juice as a 320-pounder is always going to be a check in the positive column.
Louisiana Tech defensive end Jaylon Ferguson finished a coverage sack on Daniel Jones and followed up by staying disciplined on a play-action boot. Ferguson accumulated an NCAA-leading 45 sacks in college but still has plenty to prove before teams will invest a high draft pick on him.
USC offensive tackle Chuma Edoga continued his impressive week and showed off his athleticism once again. His block outside of the core of the formation helped spring Andy Isabella on his 19-yard touchdown.
Texas A&M defensive tackle Kingsley Keke vs. Northern Illinois tackle Max Scharping was good comedy. Keke showed well enough throughout the week while Scharping should go undrafted.
Offensive line dominated the day due to a lack of premium pass rushers, but Iowa’s defensive end Anthony Nelson did end up whooping the impressive Washington State tackle Andre Dillard for a sack fumble. Dillard had a very good week and this was the worst rep of his that I saw.
Boston College offensive guard Chris Lindstrom began exerting his will in the fourth quarter. Lindstrom was washing guys down the line, working well in combination blocks, reaching second level targets and pancaking dudes. He worked really well with NC State center Garrett Bradbury.
Source: https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2019/1/26/18198719/senior-bowl-final-north-wins-34-24
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The Best Ever Year for Championship Sports
Over the last 10 months we’ve had the best run of championship sporting events I’ve ever seen. I doubt there’s been a better year in the history of US sports. I don’t think I’m being grandiose or a prisoner of the moment either. Don’t believe me. Let’s relive the last 10 months of championship games.
It all started on April 4th of 2016. Villanova and North Carolina had played great in the championship game of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Things jumped a notch or two when Marcus Paige hit an impossible three-pointer with 4.7 seconds left to tie the game at 74-all. It looked like the game was headed to overtime. Kris Jenkins and Villanova had something else in mind though. This game was an all-time classic. Normally that would easily be the best title game in a given “sports season”, but lucky for all of us, we were just getting started.
Up next was the city of Cleveland. The Cavs were in the NBA Finals for the second-straight season and had a rematch with the Golden State Warriors. The same Warriors that beat Cleveland the year before. The same Warriors that went 73-9, breaking the regular-season record for wins. Golden State led the series 3-1, maybe you’ve heard, but the Cavs forced a game seven after LeBron James had back-to-back 41-point games to even the series. With less than two minutes remaining and the game tied at 89-all, LeBron had a clutch block to keep the score tied. Kyrie Irving then hit the game-winning three-pointer to end the Cleveland sports curse. That’s two great championship games.
Having back-to-back great championship is fantastic. Honestly, we were going to see something historic either way in the World Series. Either the Cubs or Indians would end their droughts. Cleveland took a 3-1 lead over Chicago, sound familiar, but the Cubs rallied to force another game seven. Chicago led 5-1 in the bottom of the fifth, but the Indians scored two runs on a wild pitch from Jon Lester. David Ross hit a solo homer in the sixth to extend the Cubs lead to 6-3. Then things got weird. After a Brandon Guyer RBI-double, Rajai Davis hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game at 6-all. Ben Zobrist hit a go-ahead RBI-double for the Cubs in the top of the 10th. Miguel Montero then hit an RBI-single to give the Cubs a two-run lead, an insurance run they would need. Cubs win 8-7.
Three-in-a-row constitutes a streak. Now it was up to college football and Clemson vs. Alabama did not disappoint. Here’s a Sports Lounge recap if you forgot. The Cliff’s notes version is that Clemson rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to take a 28-24 lead on a Wayne Gallman run with 4:38 left. Alabama regained the lead on a 30-yard scramble for a touchdown by freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts. Clemson got the ball back with 2:01 left in the game. Deshaun Watson led the Tigers down the field, and with the help of a pair of fantastic catches, had the ball at the Alabama 2-yard line with six seconds left. If you’ve read this far, you probably know what happens next. Watson throws the game-winning 2-yard touchdown pass to former walk-on Hunter Renfrow. Now we’re really on to something.
The NFL is king in the USA. What would professional football have in store for us? (Side note: I can’t use Tubechop for the NFL videos, so unfortunately there will just be this one link to the highlights.) Atlanta led 28-3 in the third quarter. It was supposed to be over. What happened? Brady and Belichick happened. The Patriots scored the final 31 points of the game while stone-walling the Atlanta offense. 28-3 became 28-12. Then 28-20. By then it wasn’t looking so good for the Falcons. When New England tied it at 28-all it was already over.
To recap:
NCAA men’s basketball: Villanova wins its second national title, and first in 31 years, on a buzzer-beater.
NBA Finals: The Cavaliers win their first NBA title. Cleveland ends its 52-year championship drought.
World Series: Fresh off the Cavaliers coming back from a 3-1 deficit, the Cleveland Indians blow it. The Cubs win their first World Series in 108 years. The Cleveland sports drought is long gone by now, but the Indians still have a 68-year drought.
NCAA football championship game: Deshaun Watson and the Clemson Tigers slay the dragon in Alabama and win their first national title since 1981.
Super Bowl: Tom Brady wins his fifth Super Bowl, the most ever for a starting quarterback. He also wins his fourth Super Bowl MVP trophy, the most ever. The Pats win their fifth Super Bowl, tied for the second most ever. We also get the first ever overtime in a Super Bowl.
You’re up March Madness. What’s in store next?
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Hunter Davies bio - chapter 14: marking time – liverpool and hamburg
On John and impulse control:
"'It's the way John was,' says Astrid. 'Everyone feels like doing things sometimes, but of course you don't. John would suddenly rub his hands and say, "I know, let's go shoplifting now." It was all fun. You couldn't be shocked. The idea had suddenly come into his head, so he acted on it. He wouldn't do it again for weeks. Things don't go round in John's head first, the way they do with Paul.'"
So we know we're in trouble.
"'I looked up to Stu,' says John. 'I depended on him to tell me the truth, the way I do with Paul today. Stu would tell me if something was good and I'd believe him.'"
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#kris reads hunter davies#hunter Davies#Beatles books#Kris talks a lot#astrid kirchherr#John Lennon#stuart sutcliffe
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 7: John at art college
John on losing Julia:
"'It was the worst thing that ever happened to me. We'd caught up so much, me and Julia, in just a few years. We could communicate. We got on. She was great.
"'I thought, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it. That's really fucked everything. I've no responsibilities to anyone now.'"
Oh.
"Two new people came into John's life at Art College. The first was Stuart Sutcliffe. He was in the same year but unlike John showed genuine promise, and keenness, as an artist."
Damn, Hunter. Don't hold back.
"George and Paul appear to have been slightly jealous of Stu and his influence with John, not that outsiders could see how much John admired Stu. John picked on Stu all the time and hurt him when he could. Paul, following John's lead, also began to pick on Stu, even though he was interested in art and, like John, was getting from Stu a lot of new ideas and fashions."
Oh look it's the mean girls.
And later, in chapter 12:
"The relationship between Paul and Stu, the petty jealousies and rows, is not too difficult to explain. In a way, they were both competing for John's attention. Paul had had it for a couple of years, until Stu came along. Stu was obviously very talented, more mature, more in touch. Even Michael McCartney, Paul's younger brother, remembers how in Liverpool Paul had been a bit jealous of Stu."
#kris reads hunter davies#hunter Davies#Kris talks a lot#john lennon#paul mccartney#stuart sutcliffe
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 1 - John
"'I was passionate about Alice in Wonderland and drew all the characters. I did poems in the style of the Jabberwocky. I used to live Alice, and Just William. I wrote my own William stories, with me doing all the things.'
"'When I did any serious poems, like emotional stuff later on, I did it in secret handwriting, all scribbles, so that Mimi couldn't read it. Yes, there must have been a soft soul under the hard exterior.'"
Ahhh he's such a fanboy.
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 16: Brian signs the Beatles
This is a famous story about meeting with Brian the first time, but so funny:
"John, with Bob Wooler, arrived at the appointed time of 4.30. And so did George and Pete Best. But there was no sign of Paul. After half an hour, during which Brian was becoming very irritated, he asked George to ring Paul. George returned from the phone to say that Paul was in the bath. 'This is disgraceful,' said Brian. 'He's going to be very late.' 'Late,' said George. 'But very clean.'"
And not the last time Paul would hide in the bath, is it?
Chapter 19: Ringo with the Beatles
But Brian never had rows with any of the Beatles. The nearest was an incident with Paul. They all came round to pick him up one night, but Paul was in the bath and refused to come out. 'I shouted to them to wait, I'd just be a few minutes. But when I got out, they'd all driven off with Brian. So I said, fuck them, temperamental fool that I was. If they can't be arsed waiting for me, I can't be arsed going after them. So I sat down and watched telly.'
The real reason was that Paul had got it into his head that he should revolt. 'I'd always been the keeny, the one who was always eager, chatting up managements and making announcements. Perhaps I was being bigheaded at first, or perhaps I was better at doing it than the others. Anyway, it always seemed to be me.'
It led to an argument between Paul and Brian, but nothing serious. Paul was soon back to being the keeny. 'I realized that I was being more false by not making the effort.'
I mean...I DO think Paul not being Too Much would be fake. But this is ridiculous.
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 10: the Casbah
Pete Best was shy, and his mother worried:
"When he began to bring friends back from school, she went to great lengths to encourage this."
Granted, Hunter was not sure whether to believe it when John told him Mona had had a child with Neil Aspinall, but I do think we'd talk differently about Ms. Best if, say, she'd been a man.
Mike, on the Beatles going to Germany:
"'I remember coming home from school with Paul the day he told me they'd been invited to Hamburg. He let it out, just casually. I said, Wow! But Paul said he didn't know if he should, pretending he was all undecided. I said it was fantastic! He was going to be a big star, wow! He said, do you think Dad will let me? That was very smart. I was then on his side in persuading Dad. He let me get all excited, so that I was desperately wanting him to go.'"
Hahaha. Love the McCartney brothers.
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Hunter Davies bio - chapter 29: the Beatles' empire
"What Mal and Neil have never been able to understand is the marvellous image the Beatles have always had. 'It wasn't really Brian's doing,' says Neil. 'He did make them smarter, put them in suits and got organized. But they've always come across as being so good and kind and nice, when they're not particularly, not more than other people. I think people wanted them to be like that. Fans made up the image for themselves. I don't know why. That's just what the fans wanted.'"
Wait. WAIT. Are you saying... Fans see what they want to see? GASP. I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
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Hunter Davies bio - Introduction - on Brian Epstein's sexuality
"You can imagine what [Queenie Epstein] thought about any suggestions that Brian might be homosexual. She denied it. As far as she was concerned, it wasn't true. I needed her signed agreement. We had by this time sold the American and several other rights, and the buyers naturally wanted to see the legal clearances.
"Clive Epstein, Brian's brother, was helpful, though of course he wanted to keep his mother happy. As her beloved son had died only recently, it was thought unseemly to go into all the sordid details of his last couple of years. I hadn't really written much about that and in the end I was persuaded to steer completely clear of his sex life, but I thought I did manage to make it fairly clear at the end of Chapter 15, where I said he had only one girlfriend in his life – and then continued to talk about his unhappy love affairs. I also described him as a 'gay bachelor'. The word was not in such common use in England in those days, but it was enough to let many people know the truth.
"Did it matter, Brian's homosexuality? I did regret having to disguise it, as he himself had given me permission to mention it and it has been publicly stated since. With most people, their sex life is not relevant, either way, to their work, although these days many people in public life, at least in the arts and show business, make no effort to hide what sort of people they are. With Brian, I think it did matter and it was a vital clue to his personality, to his death, and also to the birth of his interest in the Beatles."
Clearly there are some troubling implications in the way he tells this, but it's interesting to think about the tensions between telling Brian's story and the emotional (and legal) consequences regarding a grieving mother (and recent widow). I think I can infer what he means about Brian's sexuality being relevant to the Beatles story, though I suspect he and I wouldn't characterize it the same way, and since it WAS something Brian had supposedly been ok with him sharing I think this decision is interesting.
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 8: from Quarrymen to Moondogs
Jim Mac, tactful as ever:
"'I never thought much of the music Paul was interested in,' says Jim. 'That Bill Haley, I never liked him. There was no tune to it at all.
"'But one day I came home at 5.30 and heard them in the house playing. I realized then that they were getting good, not just bashing about. They were making some nice chords.'"
He tries to help but his musical aid is not appreciated, so he cooks for them:
"He found to his delight that although his own two, Paul and Michael, were very choosy about their food and were poor eaters – and when Paul was busy, he wouldn't eat at all – John and George turned out to be gluttons who would eat anything at any time. 'I used to work off all the stuff on to them that Paul and Michael had left.'"
Love this for them.
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 3: Paul
Ok I know we've all read this but the full quote has some interesting context:
"'He looked awful, I couldn't get over it. Horrible. He had one eye open and he just squawked all the time. They held him up and he looked like a horrible piece of red meat. When I got home I cried, the first time for years and years.'"
God I love that Paul had to put up with that being printed. Drag him, Jim. But then,
"Despite his wife's medical work, he'd never been able to suffer illness of any sort. The smell of hospitals made him nervous, a fear he has passed on to Paul.
"'But the next day he looked more human. And every day after that he got better and better. He turned out a lovely baby in the end.'"
Awww.
I've also read the following before but including it because I still don't know if Paul's being serious about the iron bar or not:
"Paul's earliest memory, probably from around the age of three or four, is of his mother. He remembers someone coming to the door and giving her a plaster dog. 'It was out of gratitude for some delivery she had done. People were always giving her presents like that.
"'I have another memory, of hiding from someone, then hitting them over the head with an iron bar. But I think the plaster dog was the earliest.'"
Their headmistress had high hopes for Michael:
"She said Michael was going to be a leader of men. I think this was because he was always arguing."
"'I was pretty sneaky,' says Paul. 'If I ever got bashed for being bad, I used to go into their bedroom when they were out and rip the lace curtains at the bottom, just a little bit, then I'd think, that's got them.'"
Indeed it did, Paul.
Jim's own hopes for Paul are dashed by Paul being born stubborn:
"'But when he knew what was in my head, Paul tried to stop himself doing well. He was always good at Latin but when I said he'd need the Latin for a university, he started slacking up.'"
This is so fascinating. I just don't have this type of automatic distrust for being told what to do, though I can relate to some degree. It just seems like Paul came out unwilling to be told anything, which is interesting.
"At the Institute, Paul became about the most sexually precocious boy of his year, knowing what it was all about, or almost, even from his early years."
I'm sorry, was there a survey?
Paul on school: "Never once in my school days did anyone ever make it clear to me what I was being educated for, what the point of it was."
Point made.
"'All I wanted was women, money and clothes.'"
Well there you go.
Finally, Mike on how Paul coped with Mary's death: "'It was just after mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother – and you find a guitar? I don't know. Perhaps it just came along at that time and became an escape. But an escape from what?'"
From... Your mom dying, Mike? But as we've seen before, this is how Paul does. He throws himself into things, when feelings are too much.
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Hunter Davies bio - Chapter 2: John and the Quarrymen
John on his teachers and their opinion of him:
"'I've been proved right. They were wrong and I was right. They're all still there, aren't they, so they must be the failures.'"
Seriously ALL of them are so down on school. It really makes you think about the state of education at the time.
"'We eventually formed ourselves into a group from school. I think the bloke whose idea it was didn't get in the group.'"
Ok that is so funny to me. Like. Ouch.
"What happened that day is a bit cloudy to John. He got drunk, though he was still several years under age. Others remember it very well, especially the friend Ivan brought along – Paul McCartney.
"'That was the day,' says John, 'the day that I met Paul, that it started moving.'"
Oh John. I know they romanticize that day, but how can you not get caught up with them? Of course, this is like, '67 John speaking. Still in love, I guess.
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Hunter Davies bio - chapter 34: Ringo
'If all four of us had to stand up there in front of a million fans and they had to line up behind the one they liked best, I think Paul would get most. John and George would be joint second. Ringo would be last. That's what I think. You can tell, from the letters and the fans screaming and mobbing.
'With John and Paul, their own fans tend not to like the other one as much. But with me, I get John fans and Paul fans as well. They all like me at the same time as their own special favourites. So perhaps if you counted second votes, I might win.
Ringo. Have you been on Tumblr? Love him using ranked choice voting to come in second. Hey maybe it would be first!
He does talk a lot about not being creative. It's a bit sad.
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Hunter Davies bio - chapter 31: John
Honestly I recommend this entire book. The quotes I'm pulling are highly subjective and random, things I was surprised by or wanted to remember but not things I thought were generally the most useful or interesting, so I'm pleased it's been appreciated. But Hunter talks to each of the boys and there's just so much in each interview, a time capsule I think is no less invaluable because it's not the final word. On the contrary, I think that's why it's essential--it's a moment in time before the bad memories colored everything.
Anyway.
I'm just surprised Cyn admitted this flat out, though they paper over it in a way that's highly sad knowing John isn't actually happy at all:
She doesn't think any such thing as love would have kept them going if they'd been so far apart. 'His love was for the Beatles. Without the baby he would just have gone off with the Beatles for ever.' They both say they are glad the baby did happen, keeping them together. They also think it was meant to happen. It was fate. John, particularly, believes in fate.
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