For those keeping score

I've been out of town and still settling back into things but I did catch SOME of the Howard Stern/Paul McCartney interview.

For those keeping score Paul has currently "quit pot" again.

Yeah we've heard this one more than we've heard about Let It Be DVD being released.

Back again

I am back from yet another trip. I seem to be traveling more than the Beatles in 1964 lately! You can find out more about that on my facebook, myspace or various other social networking stuff.

Lots of Beatle things to catch up on I wasn't hooked into the Beatles online world during those few days.

Was happy to find four new Beatle books in my mailbox. Not sure which one to read first. I am currently reading three at this one time, I'm like that.

Tampa Bloggers Meetup tonight at MOSI and I came representing BERTONE BEATLE BONANZA with my brothers as guest. Great fun and met some other bloggers.

I need to get some other stuff done, but figured this deserved an update as I've been gone.

Movies

I've rejoined some Beatles message boards I haven't been a part of or posted on in years. I'm doing it because I'd like to get more in touch with the Beatles community. The Pete Best message board has always been one of my favorites. A nice close knit group of devoted fans who really go above and beyond in promotion for The Pete Best Band.

That and I'm addicted to the forums arcade. I waste so much time on there.

One fan on the Shabby Road message board just sent me the mp3 of my May Pang interview from early 2005. WOW! Relistening to it brought back so many memories! I'll be posting it as a retro episode soon.

I've been watching some Beatles movies on the internet. Like bad biopics. Tonight's viewing pleasure was the 1979 tv movie "Birth Of The Beatles". Oh dear. I stopped counting mistakes. It was horrible. Hilarious though. So many errors my gosh.

The sad thing is Pete Best and Dick Clark worked on it so they should've known better, but perhaps there influence couldn't even save this.

The story about Paul and Pete lighting a condom on fire in the Hamburg club and it being put out? Yeah in the movie it's a full blown inferno.

Rumors

Rumors are flying that Michael Jackson is leaving the Beatles song rights to Paul McCartney in his will.

I'll believe it when I see proof. Just internet buzz. Next you'll tell me Paul is dead.

New Show Posted

First show of the year has been posted! My guest host this week to fill in for absent Eric is none other than Beatles Examiner writer and Abbeyrd webmaster Steve Marinucci. We discuss the Beatles news highlights of last year, the wonders of Ringo's "Caveman" movie and more.

Download and enjoy!

I'll be traveling again for a bit due to family issues, but I should be churning some more shows out this month with different guest hosts. A fan has also unearthed my May Pang interview which I haven't heard in years. It is the most requested rerun and I lost my master tapes years ago. I'll try and post it again soon.

Back From Vacation

Vacation is now over and it was grand but busy. I actually did so much going back and fourth that I needed a break from vacation!

I got some cool Beatles stuff for Christmas. I am too exhausted to make a full list but my family did good this year. One item of particular note was the Beatles Monopoly game. Those of you who read this know I posted about it months ago stating "I must have this". When I saw it, I looked at my Stepmom and asked if she knew from the blog. She didn't. I suppose she just knew from being my Stepmom or something.

Eric is actually on an epic Beatles hunt in Europe this month so we won't be seeing him until February. Lets hope he comes back with some stories.

We'll be doing our first show back in a few days. In place of Eric we will have another guest host. Some of you Beatle Bloggers may recognize him as he's been doing this Beatles Blogging for a long time now. You'll see when the show comes on..

Reread some Beatle books and saw the Beatles cartoons as I now have my DVDs of them. Wow. I will discuss those more in depth later.

Hope you all had a good vacation. Now lets get back to work!

Straws anyone?

Beatles fans have always grasped at straws with "hidden messages". Some of the "Paul is dead" stuff is really interesting, but some is just rubbish that people read way too much into.

Here we go again. Apparently if you play a track from Paul's new FIREMAN album (the track is "Don't Stop Running") you get a message saying "'Warmer than the sun, cooler than the air". People are saying that is a jab at Heather.

Um...reaching much?

Paul's publicist said is trying to calm such rumors.