Movies I enjoyed in 2011 | The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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Fifty years ago today, January 1, 1962, The Beatles recorded an audition tape (mostly covers and standards, some of which they later re-recorded and released) for Decca Records — who rejected them.
On this excerpt, you can hear “Take Good Care Of My Baby,” “Money,” “To Know Her Is To Love Her,” Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee,” “Till There Was You,” “Sure To Fall (In Love With You),” “Besame Mucho,” “Love Of The Loved” (a Lennon-McCartney composition), and “September In The Rain.”
Getting turned down and rejected is a pretty important part of the creative process. It’s the ol’ “you never know what window will open when a door closes” – that kind of mentality. I mean, there’s a guy somewhere out there in time and space who turned down the fucking Beatles. Dr Seuss went through something like 19 different publishers to put out ‘Cat In The Hat’.
“Gun Crazy” (1949), Director: Joseph H. Lewis
“She ain’t the type that makes a happy home…It’s just that some guys are born smart about women and some guys are born dumb…You were born dumb.”
Take it slow…
All those coupled people. The two’s walking down the street. I wonder how they did it.
Obviously I wasn’t given the manual.
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This was my morning on the first of December. I had pulled an all-nighter and was on my way to the library to print off some documents before heading downtown. It was one of the first days of winter in Tucson, cold, rainy, and absolutely beautiful.
