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...insisted that Ringo Starr (anyone, actually) replace Pete Best as the band's drummer. He gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent...
...gonna make a couple of appearances on something. I really want to get into something. And I actually just got done talking to and meeting Adam Sandler for the first time and I had an interesting conversation with him. I'm gonna throw a bug in his ear later, so we'll see. Maybe we can get into something together...
This is what it takes to be a modern metrosexual: I'm lying on my side on a black leather lounger, dressed in a yukata robe that ends about mid-thigh, soothing New Age music on the stereo, a burning candle jammed in my ear. My skin care specialist explains that the hollow candle will create a gentle vacuum to draw out excess ear wax, impurities, maybe some loose change. I'm somewhat dubious-with a 20-cm candle sticking out the side of my head, I feel less like David Beckham than a human birthday cake-but this technique...
...just won't try hard enough, and we just don't care enough. Like a police state, the beauty industry seeks to instill in its customers a constant, free-floating sense of insecurity: you must shrink your enlarged pores, quench your dry skin, jam a burning candle down your ear and come back next month for another $150 appointment (the lemonade is free...
...nightly candle-lighting ceremony, which involves a woman playing violin and screeching like Enya caught in a tree. A person in a smiling sunflower costume made of felt is dancing to this screeching. At some point, she dances in front of me, leans in to my ear and says, "The people have spoken. The garden will stay." I am in a South Park episode come to life...