Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles !!

saw scross the universe last nite. we went to one ofour favourite places, downtown la grange, and caught the late show. we had all sorts of plans to make it a thursday nite of out going which included resturaunt- but i forgot the 1/2 price book and that scutled that. instead, gf cooked up some pork and broccali and braed and goodness. then we blanketed to the theatre, knowing we had a time to make.

kinda korny, but it was a musical. it held to-gether a well as any musical- if you accept the laspses into song by the actors in any musical, it mite as well be fine here as well. yes kinda korny, but that's the spirit of the musical; and this doesn't pretend to be anything other than a musical.

funny were the many recognizable types in the movie and how many themes it tried to hit. jimi and janis. civil rites, womens rites, gay rites, student power, anti war movement, drug abuse, hippies, etc...

and of course there were the songs. my favourite scence featured one of my fave beat songs, 'hold me tite'. it was a song of young lustful passion, and it worked well. lisa hogg (above, in the skirt) enters my canon of favourite actors from this time on - yeesh, what a sexy scene.

good- i think i now appreciate 'i am the walrus'. 'revolution' scene great. and, incredibly, there was a 'coming out' song that was brilliant- i won't kill it beyond that. no one could ruin the sheer joy of 'i've just seen a face'. some songs were luke warm, but even if they were bad, i accepted them as a part of the story and noted their arrangement.

sorry i have to be forgiven for a little bit of thinking about things, but i'm so influenced these past few weeks by reading on jesus and the 'jesus authors' balancing out the bible text with biblical schlorship. so sorry, but what comes next is from this== what suprised me about the movie was the centrality of the song "all you need is love" to the beatles story. as john sponge mite assign jesus' mission as to bring life, and bring it abundantly, i felt that the message of this movie was that love is all you need.

funny-

i was once shure of that, then i realized in a certain context that this was false. later i then regained the ideal that all you need is love - but as i rite, i am not certain what i feel. that's the story

so- thumbs up ?? sure.