belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
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- Blur (Band) (5)
- The Velvet Underground (3)
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It was only because John was in the can that he was not given much of a say in the night’s plans, or at least that's what he told himself an hour later lying on the floor of a hotel room in Harlem.
(march 1965.)
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swords don't get soft by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
Fandoms: The Velvet Underground, Music RPF
17 Aug 2025
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He wasn’t crazy. He knew just where he was going. John had told him that.
(1964–68, more or less.)
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after it's all unplugged a constant hum by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
Fandoms: The Velvet Underground, Music RPF
29 Feb 2024
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"John had a composition once which involved taking everybody out into the woods and having them follow the wind. As of late though we play indoors so we have to be the weather." — Lou Reed
"I was thinking one time about creating weather by using music...I'd like to have a tape that would create a 75-degree temperatures. Over a period of days you could play a tape that would regulate the heat around you. The kind of heat that it would give off would be in some cases like summer or autumn." — John Cale
(new york [where else?], 1966ish.)
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"You know that thing they say about boiling frogs?"
"Boiling…?"
"Frogs. That if you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly turn up the heat until it's boiling, the frog won't jump out because it doesn't realize the temperature's changed. It's a metaphor for how we can get used to anything even if it's killing us."
Really you were talking about the long end of the world, the snowless futures, but he probably thought you were talking about something else.
(in the studio and out of it, summer 1998.)
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this is just a modern rock song by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
Fandoms: Blur (Band), Music RPF
21 Sep 2022
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It was the last normal summer and in New Cross all the windows were open.
(december 1988; summer 1989; march 1990.)
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where i am these days by focusfixated
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band), The Travelling Wilburys (Band)
09 Jul 2025
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Paul turns back, and his face is oddly drawn, pulled inwards like he’s fighting a sudden stomachache. “You and John didn’t— did you?”
“No,” is what George says. “But I thought about it, sometimes.”
Paul sags at the shoulders, a relief of sorts that’s not yet enough to stop him from digging. “I didn’t know you were interested.”
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(Or: During the 1988 Traveling Wilburys recording sessions, George reflects on bandmates old and new.)
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George sometimes feels like he’s on a merry-go-round, all the lights and sounds and people passing too fast. Nothing that lasts long enough to hold onto, nothing that ever stays in focus. He’s waiting for the inevitable halt, when he’ll have to step off, but he worries he’ll be so dizzy he’ll just collapse.
The Beatles return to Hamburg in 1961. It's going to be good this time. George will make sure it is.
Bookmarked by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
29 Dec 2025
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“You haven’t found religion, then?” Damon continued.
Graham went to tug at his fringe and then remembered his hair was too short for it. “No, I don’t think I will. I don’t think drunks find religion; I feel like it’s for people who do too much cocaine.”
1998 & 1992
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Bookmarked by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
21 Dec 2025
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subjective tones by drglass (fluorescentgrey)
Fandoms: The Velvet Underground, 1960s Music Scene RPF
29 Jan 2025
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1966, psychoacoustics, seasons.
Bookmarked by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
21 Sep 2025
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For the kink meme prompt: Based on the fact that John was Linda's favourite Beatle growing up: Sometime in the '70s, Linda tells/confesses to Paul her old fantasies about John. Paul gets off on it.
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Bookmarked by belishabeacon (ladymemebeth)
21 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
PAUSE........something shifted after this.......