Bookmark Abbey- and some surrealism in orange
Last year around this time, I noticed that Ringo Starr was playing a concert nearby. It was a Wednesday night in September, and my sister and I considered going but ultimately passed, since midweek plans are always a little tricky. I remember thinking, “Well, there goes my chance to ever see a Beatle live" 😑 Then this year, something better came along: a Friday night show, just 2 weeks after my birthday. When I asked my sister if going together could be my birthday present, she said yes:) So later tonight, we’re going! The Beatles have had a long presence in our lives. When the Get Back documentary came out in 2021, my sister made a spreadsheet of all their albums so that we could rank each song and each album as a whole. We truly geeked out on it 🤓 I suppose we’ve inherited our fandom from our mom, who was 10 when The Beatles stepped onto the Ed Sullivan stage in February 1964. But over time, we’ve made that fandom our own through critique, curiosity, and the shared joy of the...