Tuesday , July 6, 2010
Beatles Photo of the Week: The One Where Liz & Laura Jane Write A Book Together
LIZ: One fine day not so very long ago, I was flipping through my copy of Linda McCartney's Sixties and came across this perfect photo, which I promptly scanned and titled awwwwwwww.jpg. "Look," I emailed Laura Jane a few nanoseconds later, "it's us working on our book!" Which was partly me being cutesy-clever but mostly me being serious-truthy, because LAURA JANE FAULDS AND ELIZABETH BARKER ARE TOTALLY WRITING A BOOK TOGETHER!!! Stop the presses! Alert your local and interplanetary media! Give us a book deal! Laura and I are writing a book about the Beatles, but it's about us, but it's about the Beatles. It's your favorite book, the best book in the world. Maybe Laura will explain more about it below but maybe she won't, and all I really have left to say for now is that LJ is the best John a Paul could ever ask for and I'm so stoked to spend this Valentine's afternoon telecon-ing with her about Our Beautiful Beatles Book. If I had thought ahead and gotten a box of Beatles-song-themed conversation hearts custom-made for the occasion, I so would've given her a pink one that says "Thank You Girl" and then, just to be cryptic, a green one that says "I Forgot To Remember To Forget." Instead I gave her a gif file with a cartoon of Charles Darwin and a caption that reads "I select you. Naturally!", and that's pretty sweet too. Happy heart day, all.
LJ: About a month or so ago, infamous nogoodforme spam commenter "ugg boots" left us a legendary spam comment reading, Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become And eternally be, and it really spoke to my soul. I Googled it, and found out that "ugg boots" is a giant plagiarizer, and that his or her comment is actually a poem by a lame-seeming spiritual teacher named Sri Chinmoy, which sucked to find out, because I don't normally fall for that hokey kind of garbage. But, this time, I did, and I decided that, "From now on, I'm just going to, like, be love."
As a writer, one of your great responsibilities, or possibly entitlements, is to devise an elegantly-phrased showstopper of a sentence tersely encapsulating your personal take on "what love is." Mine goes, The spark of art puts love to shame. I don't expect you to agree with that exactly, but I hope that you agree with it somewhat. I'm me, so I agree with The Spark of art puts love to shame one hundred, and, essentially, what The Spark of art puts love to shame means, to and/or about me, is that I'd rather write a killer sentence than get laid in a heartbeat (though I'd definitely rather get laid than, you know, not write a great sentence). And this is the part of the movie where we wrote the book, and nothing has ever been better, but the thing that makes it the best is that I always thought I'd be an Alone Writer, but I'm SO NOT! I'm a collabo-writer, with Barker, who is my Paul! I'm the John. So if art out-loves love to me, and I am presently in the midst of writing the writing that is the writing-equivalent of having the hottest sex ever with the dude of my dreams, I guess what I mean to say is that writing this book is me, like, being love. And this week's Beatles Photo of the Week is a photo of John & Paul, like, being love, as well. And, just for fun, here's one more Barker & LJ's Book Teaser:
IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A FAIRYTALE, STARRING PAUL McCARTNEY AS ELIZABETH BARKER, & JOHN LENNON AS LAURA JANE FAULDS.
Tags: Barker Loves the Beatles, books, John Lennon, Laura loves the Beatles, Paul McCartney, Valentine's Day
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i am SO excited about a liz/laura book!
By teri on February 14, 2010 4:35 PM
thanks, teri! *we* are so excited about a teri book!
By Liz
on February 14, 2010 5:15 PM
One of my favourite authors died today (I am currently having a cry), so I guess I have an opening (y'all can share). Serendipitous, huh?
By Claire on February 14, 2010 5:24 PM
I'm so flattered that I knew about this before The World. But now I'm super happy that The World knows, because now I can tell everyone! Yell it in the streets! Shout it from the rooftops!
By Clara the annoying fifteen-year-old on February 14, 2010 9:30 PM
(Please forgive my being such a BUMMER COMMENTER on your exciting post! D:)
By Claire on February 15, 2010 2:31 PM
YEAH!!!!!!!
By emily on February 15, 2010 8:53 PM
HI EMILY!!!!!!!
By Liz
on February 15, 2010 10:59 PM
Thank you share.
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By baidu on July 6, 2010 9:52 AM