How The Beatles Magazine -- launched in 2023 as a 1960s print-only relic, with real-time reporting on the band from a fictional, ragtag team of hungry young journalists -- ended up on Substack.
I have an original idea as to why the Beatles were so amazingly heaven-sentedly creative:
They went to art school. They effectuated the reverse of synethesia, a rare condition in which one sees music as colors. In synesthesia, music is experienced as both music and colors. The Beatles brought the shapes and sounds of the visual world into their music. I dare you: Listen to opening of "I am the Walrus." You have a sense of things not being steady, or rising and lowering in a boat, and you can see Van Gogh's canvases almost making you dizzy with wavy, crazy lines.
Fangirl. Blum and the Beatles. Killer.
Man, I love a good apology. Also, hey, you’re a great writer! You should do something with this.
Loved this in print and am thrilled now to see it here!
I have an original idea as to why the Beatles were so amazingly heaven-sentedly creative:
They went to art school. They effectuated the reverse of synethesia, a rare condition in which one sees music as colors. In synesthesia, music is experienced as both music and colors. The Beatles brought the shapes and sounds of the visual world into their music. I dare you: Listen to opening of "I am the Walrus." You have a sense of things not being steady, or rising and lowering in a boat, and you can see Van Gogh's canvases almost making you dizzy with wavy, crazy lines.
https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/the-schisms-in-the-democratic-party
See the section immediately after the opening section re the Democratic Party "
Fab!