The Beatles + Food

Have you ever listened to a certain band while eating food and suddenly think the food is more delicious than you ever thought? I know that's so totally weird to think about, it even seems a little crazy to me! But this whole theory has been proven by actual scientists and tested it on different types of music on people while they are food to figure out the results. 

Many reachers can suggest that certain types of music can bring out flavor in food including sweet, salty and bitter. Luciano Pavarotti can enhance the bitterness in coffee and intensity in chocolate mouse and Bille Holliday can empathize the taste of "autumn" in the taste of pumpkin just as two examples of many that were written. Even though those are pretty cool, what made me extremely excited when The Beatles was one of the bands to be tested! 

I think it's pretty cool that scientists did this experiment because now I know that if I ever eat fish and chips that The Beatles is the PERFECT band to listen to while eating them! You heard me everyone, they have actually proven that listening to The Beatles could help the enjoyment of eating fish and chips. How freaking cool is that?! Wait, that isn't it - it can even enhance different kinds of drinks.

Ultraviolent restaurant in Shanghai, China has already kinda tested out this theory by serving fish and chips to a backdrop of The Beatles. The dining room of the restaurant has photos projected onto the wall so when you're eating different courses/different foods, they put up pictures that goes with each theme. This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen (look up the pictures of the restaurant on the internet, you're mind will be blown away!) and if I ever get the chance to go to China, I'd love to check out this restaurant for sure (and 100% fangirl about The Beatles and fish and chips)! 

I've always been interested in food, every since I was younger. For a long amount of time I wanted to be a chef and work in my own restaurant. What I found cool about this article is that more and more restaurants should follow different atmospheres with the music that they play followed up with what the food they serve. With doing that, the amount of profft could almost be DOUBLED! This is just a really good topic to be researched into. 

If you'd like to read more about the different singers/bands that effect the taste of foods and learn more about this experience, check out the article that I first found this out about!: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3026252/The-Beatles-fish-chips-Pavarotti-chocolate-mousse-Pyschologists-discover-music-help-enhance-enjoyment-food.html

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Julia vs Hey Jude

Julia - The White Album (The Beatles), 1968 ~ Written and sung by John Lennon

Hey Jude: Single, 1969 ~ Written and sung by Paul McCartney

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: So since we lost Cynthia this week, I decided to pick songs that mean a lot to John - one written about this mother and one written about his son. John wrote a song on what he remembered the most about his mother, she wasn't around during most of his childhood and when they finally got connection back with each other, she was tradically killed by a drunk driver so I feel like this helped him with all of the pain he had held in over so many years. Paul wrote Hey Jude for Julian during the divorce of John and Cynthia as a way to help him feel better. 

Contrast: Like always, the differences between John and Paul's writing styles and way they compose their music. Julia sounds a little somber, extremely heartfelt and you can tell how much John put his feelings into it. We all know how upbeat Hey Jude sounds and how for generations people have loved the song, and how famous it is. 

Likes: I love how adorable John wrote the song for his mom, I always feel so bad about how he lost his mom and how he might have never been okay after it happened. Same with Paul writing the song for Julian, surprisingly John thought Paul wrote the song for him to "help him through the time with Yoko" and all of the problems with him happening...when it was about his song that felt neglected...hmmm.

Dislikes: Hey Jude used to be my favorite song, but I swear that I listened to the song so much that I can't hardly listen to it anymore. I mean, on certain occasions I can listen to it, but it makes me kinda sad that happened. Same thing with Julia, I can only listen to the song during certain occasions. 

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A Hard Day's Night Hotel

There is one thing that I want to do before I die - is to go visit Liverpool and stop at any related Beatles site I can find. Strawberry Fields, the Beatles childhood homes, The Cavern Club, and of course The Beatles Museum. While looking through some Beatles articles like I always spend my freetime doing, I noticed one that REALLY sparked my interest and didn't stop talking about for days. A Beatles themed hotel was being SOLD! I had no idea that there was such a thing as a Beatles hotel, and by looking through the pictures on the article, I WAS BLOWN AWAY!

Do I have £11m? No. If I had £11m, would I buy the hotel? HECK YES! Imagine being an extreme Beatles fan and getting a chance to own a Beatles themed hotel, I'm pretty sure that would make my life forever! I am a very creative person and I love decorating rooms so I feel like owning something like this would be a way to express my love for The Beatles and my love for being creative. 

I love staying in hotels and I love how unique hotel rooms are with the ways that they're decorated. In Limerick, Ireland, the hotel room I shared with my friend matched the colors orange, purple, green and blue together with a beautiful view towards the sunset every night. There was a hotel that my mother, myself and my aunt used to go to some summers said that was designed like a castle with framed paintings of royal looking people and large, comfy beds with dark, rich toned colors painted on the walls. Those rooms are cool, yeah, but imagine staying in a certain Beatle themed room! JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO! 

The John themed room is white, reminding me of his home in Tittenhurst were we've seen the videos of the 'Imagine' recording with the classic white piano. Paul's room is decorated with pictures of him and his former wife Linda, a backdrop behind the bed made from newspaper headlines which I think is the coolest thing I've ever seen! The article didn't show if there was a George or Ringo room, but I'll do some more research on it and see if there are any.

If any of you guys would like to see the article I am talking about, I'll leave the link so you can check it out (it's pretty amazing so I totally suggest it): http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/liverpools-beatles-themed-hard-days-night-8928610

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Remembering Cynthia Lennon

On Wednesday, we lost another of our big family, Cynthia Lennon. It has been 35 years since since we lost John and now hopefully Cynthia is safe where he is and they're back together again.

This news was an extreme suprise to me! Since it was April Fool's Day, the full day for me was filled with "joking" lies and filled with laughs. I was laying in my bed scrolling through Facebook (I know, I hate myself too), I happened to pass by a Beatles page that I follow and noticed that it said something about "pray for Julian", then I got VERY worried that something happened to him. It was horrible that the first thought I had was that it was just a April Fool's joke that the page had posted.

I looked up Cynthia first on the Internet to see if it had any news about her to see if it was something wrong and my heart my dropped. It said that she died from cancer. What. WHAT! I never knew that she had cancer and I never thought that we would lose her this early. It broke my heart. I'll never forget the moment when I called my mom at work sobbing and her trying to calm me down. It was a very hard moment for me in my life. 

There was a really sweet tweet posted by Julian, a picture of his mother in a heart. Ringo posted a tweet saying, "Peace and love to Julian Lennon God bless Cynthia love Ringo and Barbaraxx" and a heartfelt tweet from Dhani and Olivia Harrison on George's official Twitter. But there was one tweet that was met with backlash - Yoko's. 

People thought that it was very rude to make a very long tweet about her death, their defenses saying that she "broke up the Lennon family". Yes, we know what happeneded back in the 60s but I think it was very nice of Yoko to make a tweet in remembrance. 

I hope Julian is doing ok and stays strong through this very hard time. Cynthia with be forever missed and she will never be forgotten. She got through the time of hardship during the beginning of The Beatles, having to basically hide her existence from the world to stop from jeopardizing The Beatles fame, then the affair between John and Yoko. Now she's up in heaven with John and will watch over all of us. 

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Good Morning Good Morning vs. Good Night

Good Morning Good Morning- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967

~written by John Lennon and sung by Lennon

Good Night - The Beatles (The White Album), 1968

~written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sung by Ringo Starr

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: There is one thing right off the bat that everyone can tell why I put this in the 'compare' section, both of the titles have "good" in them and also times of the day. They are both close to the same times in which they were made and for a little bit of a twist, Ringo actually got to sing a song! Both songs are both written by John, which means that they have kinda the same style of sound. 

Contrast: Following the way of John's mind, he has ways of changing up his songs. Good Morning Good Morning starts out with a chicken crowing (legit right!) and then goes to a brassy, big band sound. With Good Night, it's almost the complete opposite, quiet strings that sound like a lullaby. John's voice is hearty and airy, you could even imagine what he would look like singing the song, with Ringo, he has a deep, bassy voice that makes him perfect to sing a lullaby like song. 

Likes: The backstory behind Good Night was that John wrote it for his son Julian as a lullaby and would sing it to him before he went to sleep at night. HOW CUTE IS THAT?! Then having Ringo sing it was 100000000x more adorable. Good Morning Good Morning is actually my alarm when I wake up in the morning, quite fitting. 

Dislikes: The only dislike I have is that my heart drops whenever I listen to Good Morning Good Morning because it reminds me of getting up and going to school haha! 

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Beatles Project?!

My US History teacher recently told us that our final at the end of the trimester is that we'll have to pick a topic and make a 10 minute presentation that we'll have to prevent to the class THEN be preceded to have questions asked over the topic. HOLY JEEZE! I was frazzled at what to do, but then I thought, 'What do I know in my life that I could talk about 10 minutes worth of it?' of course, guess what I picked! THE BEATLES!

Even though this may seem like a pretty easy project to handle BUT IT ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO THAT! There are so many things to talk about from 1962-1970 and even things prier to that! With all of those years in store; comes with a large task of picking out which topics are more important than others. 

The first thing that came to my mind was a way of using what we've learned about the 1960s in the class and then partake that with major things that happened with The Beatles. We just got done learning about the Civil Rights and I remembered that Paul McCartney wrote "Blackbird" (on The White Album) about the death of Martin Luther King Jr. that happened around the same time. So that's a possibility of something that would be able to tie in 2 things that are actually quite interesting.

Of course I'd talk about the most famous Beatles events, such as them coming to America in February of 1964, the comment that John made about The Beatles being "more important than Jesus", maybe a little bit on the usage of the drugs they did (and the way of song making behind it), their break up in April of 1970 for sure. My friends keep joking to me and saying that I would probably take over the amount of time given to talk because I'd have so much information to say (which is most likely true). 

I still have a few more months to prepare for this project. Looking up more Beatles facts, getting out all of my Beatles books and rereading them over again, anything to keep my Beatles knowledge up until then! The PowerPoint won't take as long to make and I already have all my information in my head that it'll be a breeze. I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT IN MAY/JUNE! 

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Beatles Road Trip!

Hey everyone! And welcome back to a new trimester of blogs with some pretty awesome BEATLENESS! First blogs before spring break and man, won't mine be busy. Our school band is taking a trip to Florida (WHOOP!), but instead of getting a plane, we have to go by bus. Not as fun (or enjoyable). So I'm getting myself prepared for the essentials that I'll need for the long 1 1/2 NON STOP RIDE. Beatles, Beatles and more Beatles.

This consests of taking my favorite Beatles books to read and stocking up on my favorite Beatles songs to make sure I can listen to. Still trying to decide if I should bring my Beatles blanket for the ride but I'm too afraid it might get ripped or destroyed! Better be safe and not bring it (yep, definitely not).

This whole experience reminds me back A LONG TIME AGO when my grandma, dad, grandpa and myself went on a 2 week vacation to North Daktoa to go see Mount Rushmore. I'd say it was at least in the 7th grade (I'm currently in the 11th), because I was obsessed with listening to 1 album the whole time, which was the first Beatles album/CD I had ever got; Help! To this day, whenever I hear the album, it brings back memories of myself looking out the window and watching all of the beautiful scenery pass by. 

This isn't this first time I've ever been to Florida for sure! I've been going to Florida every year since I was born; either being in February or over Christmas (this year was special because I wanted to wait and go with my band friends). The years we went over Christmas, I would get a new Beatles CD RIGHT before leaving so I would have some new music to listen to (mind you I had a CD player during this time). I remember one year I got the White Album (The Beatles album) for Christmas and it was one of the most CRAZIEST THINGS I've ever heard. 

What reminds me that most of it was being shoved into my grandparents little car and taking the 4-5 hour drive from Daytona Beach to Orlando for a fun filled day at Universal Studios! (The extra time was caused by my grandfathers lack of direction and following direction). One song that really struck me was 'Martha My Dear' and I listened to it the whole way there! The funny thing about this is that I played the song to my mother and she hated it - I make fun of her now because it's her favorite Beatles song. 

I hope everyone has a good spring break (whenever it is) and if you go anywhere, BE SAFE! 

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