Comments on: For the Yoko Fans http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cara http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6113 Cara Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:00:07 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6113 I'm glad that so many people are excited about the Yoko posts! I was kind of worried that it would just end up turning into a vanity project that no one else would care about. It was slightly on the back-burner for the moment, but you've managed to motivate me into getting back to work on it! I’m glad that so many people are excited about the Yoko posts! I was kind of worried that it would just end up turning into a vanity project that no one else would care about. It was slightly on the back-burner for the moment, but you’ve managed to motivate me into getting back to work on it!

]]> By: SarahSimone http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6110 SarahSimone Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:24:26 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6110 Thanks for posting this! I adore Yoko. Can't wait to read your posts about her. Thanks for posting this! I adore Yoko.

Can’t wait to read your posts about her.

]]> By: Jennifer-Ruth http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6104 Jennifer-Ruth Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:48:25 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6104 I lived in Liverpool for the first 23 years' of my life before moving to Manchester. I even grew up very close to Strawberry Fields. I can't say I have ever cared much for The Beatles myself (and Ringo has really irritated me in the past few months!) but it has always vexed me the way people talk about Yoko. I mean, sometimes people in Liverpool talked about her as if she was the fucking anti-christ. It always came off as typical woman blaming to me and quite stupid. Yoko is obviously an extremely intelligent and talented woman. It isn't a surprise that John was into her. Hell, I'd have been into her and I'm of the heterosexual pursuasion. But to hear people talk of her you'd think she was a cackling harpy intent on destroying British music. I really look forward to reading your analysis of it all! I lived in Liverpool for the first 23 years’ of my life before moving to Manchester. I even grew up very close to Strawberry Fields. I can’t say I have ever cared much for The Beatles myself (and Ringo has really irritated me in the past few months!) but it has always vexed me the way people talk about Yoko. I mean, sometimes people in Liverpool talked about her as if she was the fucking anti-christ. It always came off as typical woman blaming to me and quite stupid.

Yoko is obviously an extremely intelligent and talented woman. It isn’t a surprise that John was into her. Hell, I’d have been into her and I’m of the heterosexual pursuasion. But to hear people talk of her you’d think she was a cackling harpy intent on destroying British music.

I really look forward to reading your analysis of it all!

]]> By: L. E. Hairstylist http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6101 L. E. Hairstylist Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:43:52 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6101 I actually squealed at this post. XD After finally, FINALLY getting my hands on Approximately Infinite Universe, I love her a zillion times more. I look forward to your future Yoko-related postings. I actually squealed at this post. XD

After finally, FINALLY getting my hands on Approximately Infinite Universe, I love her a zillion times more. I look forward to your future Yoko-related postings.

]]> By: La Chola » Blog Archive » What is Michigan Pt 1 http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6099 La Chola » Blog Archive » What is Michigan Pt 1 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:57:55 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6099 [...] paying attention to and otherwise nurture these interests. How to uncover small acorns (thanks cara!) and do so while centering that old eternal strength of the world, LOVE (thnx for reminding me, [...] [...] paying attention to and otherwise nurture these interests. How to uncover small acorns (thanks cara!) and do so while centering that old eternal strength of the world, LOVE (thnx for reminding me, [...]

]]> By: Cara http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6097 Cara Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:45:17 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6097 Yup! People are going to be gathering outside of Abbey Road Studios, Strawberry Fields in Central Park (the Lennon memorial) and Capitol Records, which I think is in L.A., among other places. I've always liked Ringo a lot. I can't say that I'm a fan of his music, exactly, but I've always been a fan of him. Yup! People are going to be gathering outside of Abbey Road Studios, Strawberry Fields in Central Park (the Lennon memorial) and Capitol Records, which I think is in L.A., among other places.

I’ve always liked Ringo a lot. I can’t say that I’m a fan of his music, exactly, but I’ve always been a fan of him.

]]> By: Beth http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6095 Beth Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:29:41 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6095 On a Beatles-y note, tomorrow is Ringo's birthday. Here's what he wants as a present: "It would be really cool if everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say 'Peace & Love.'" :D On a Beatles-y note, tomorrow is Ringo’s birthday. Here’s what he wants as a present: “It would be really cool if everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say ‘Peace & Love.’”

:D

]]> By: Cara http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6093 Cara Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:12:02 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6093 Ah! Spitz is a major part of my analysis! Not only because his biography is otherwise very, very good and that shit does totally ruin it -- but also because I think the way he characterizes Yoko is so extremely typical, because he does such a great job of putting all of the attacks in one place and because he inadvertently and accidentally shows that oops, it wasn't Yoko at all, but actually the Beatles who were to blame. I also agree that Yoko was the best thing to happen to John, and saved his legacy from being a guy who we would remember as a genius but A MAJOR ASSHOLE to a guy who was a genius but also a giving and admirable person. And thanks for the link! I'd seen those top two drawings of Yoko, but not the others of them together. Heh. Oh John. Ah! Spitz is a major part of my analysis! Not only because his biography is otherwise very, very good and that shit does totally ruin it — but also because I think the way he characterizes Yoko is so extremely typical, because he does such a great job of putting all of the attacks in one place and because he inadvertently and accidentally shows that oops, it wasn’t Yoko at all, but actually the Beatles who were to blame.

I also agree that Yoko was the best thing to happen to John, and saved his legacy from being a guy who we would remember as a genius but A MAJOR ASSHOLE to a guy who was a genius but also a giving and admirable person.

And thanks for the link! I’d seen those top two drawings of Yoko, but not the others of them together. Heh. Oh John.

]]> By: Pop Feminist http://thecurvature.com/2008/07/05/for-the-yoko-fans/#comment-6092 Pop Feminist Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:42:22 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=833#comment-6092 Thank you for this! I can't wait to read your Evil Yoko posts. It's so lazy to blame the beatles' breakup on her, often in a mixture of misogyny and exoticism (the dragon witch!), which is so transparent it makes me want to gag. Bob Spitz's Beatles biography is completely discredited for me due to his characterization of Yoko and her "shifting eyes". Please. Yoko imbued the Beatles with coherent ideology, and until that is understood, nothing about them is. She's the best thing to ever happen to Lennon. If you're interested at all, I made a small multi-media Yoko-love "essay" at She Once Had Me: http://sheoncehadme.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-yoko.html Thank you for this! I can’t wait to read your Evil Yoko posts. It’s so lazy to blame the beatles’ breakup on her, often in a mixture of misogyny and exoticism (the dragon witch!), which is so transparent it makes me want to gag. Bob Spitz’s Beatles biography is completely discredited for me due to his characterization of Yoko and her “shifting eyes”. Please. Yoko imbued the Beatles with coherent ideology, and until that is understood, nothing about them is. She’s the best thing to ever happen to Lennon.

If you’re interested at all, I made a small multi-media Yoko-love “essay” at She Once Had Me:
http://sheoncehadme.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-yoko.html

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