It Seems Like Years Since It's Been Here1...

... The Cliff Notes²

It has been a long cold erratic winter³..
btw don't you think it takes pure genius⁴ and a large serving of cojones⁵ to wait 2 min 11 secs, 3 choruses, 2 verses and an extended double handclap bridge⁶ into the song before introducing perhaps the sweetest melody line ever mooged⁷ in recorded history? The one cloud with the silver lining though is that John⁸ never participated in the Abbey Road⁹ recording.. minor traffic accident in Scotland.

Anyway, there were days when the sun did come...

Arthur¹⁰, Tessa, Ginnie hiding from the fuzz¹¹ on the corner of Berry and 11th Street, Williamsburg¹², Brooklyn, just a block¹³ from Beacon's Closet¹⁴.


Ginnie dealing¹⁵ with a parking meter and a green bicycle, Bedford Ave, Williamsburg.


Tessa and Ginnie fronting¹⁶ Katz's Deli, where Sally had that incredible sandwich with hapless Harry¹⁷. It wasn't bad, but it didn't quite do it for us though.


And the point of this photo.. in front of some very strange antiquarian¹⁸ public toilets set in the middle of a traffic island at a major junction along Delancey St is....

... as the days get longer¹⁹, the pantleg recedes..


Here I am on the Bowery²⁰ doing an impression of a dingbat²¹ & this is why I belong behind the camera! Well the point of this photo is to highlight Ginnie's tonsorial²² talents. Notice also how I am fully decked out in alfieleedesign²³ stuff! Yes! We wear our own products! If it's good enough for you! It's good enough for us! er.. and ditto²⁴ too! Actually it's a very nicely composed shot.. photographic skills are contagious!!

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1 : From the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun", Track 7 (originally released on B-side of LP, track 1) on "Abbey Road", 3min 5secs, written and composed by George Harrison. Supposedly the song was written in Eric Clapton's garden, which George had escaped to, after endless rounds of Apple Records meetings during the last days of the Beatles. (back)

2 : Study guide with copious foot notes and commentary on text which has pulled many a student back from the precipice. Provided here to address complaints that some of the posts on this blog have been too cryptic. (back)

3 : Refer to Archives. (back)

4 : George Harrison, terribly under-rated Beatle and sometime Travelling Wilbury. (back)

5 : Courage. From the Spanish word for the part of the anatomy from which a man's courage and baritone is reputed to derive. As yet scientifically unproven. (back)

6 : Provided by the one and only Billy Shears from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (right right I'll spare you a foot note to a foot note... it's actually Ringo Starr, another very under-rated Beatle, who gets by with a little help from his friends). (back)

7 : Analogue synthesizer, with keyboard interface, designed by Robert Moog. "Abbey Road" was one of the first instance of extended use of the Moog synthesizer on an album. (back)

8 : John Lennon. Duh! (back)

9 : "Abbey Road" was the last album recorded by the Beatles, April 20 - August 18, 1969, at Abbey Road studios.
Released September 26, 1969.

Track list:
Side one
"Come Together" - 4:20
"Something" (Harrison) - 3:03
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - 3:27
"Oh! Darling" - 3:26
"Octopus's Garden" (Starkey) - 2:51
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" - 7:47

Side two
"Here Comes the Sun" (Harrison) - 3:05
"Because" - 2:45
"You Never Give Me Your Money" - 4:02
"Sun King" - 2:26
"Mean Mr. Mustard" - 1:06
"Polythene Pam" - 1:12
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" - 1:57
"Golden Slumbers" - 1:31
"Carry That Weight" - 1:36
"The End" - 2:19
"Her Majesty" - 0:23

All tracks by Lennon-McCartney, except where noted.
(back)

10: Cool designer dude from Nottingham. (back)

11: The Law. The Cops. The Man. Police. Though in this case there were actually no police involved, or hiding of any sort. Haha. (back)

12: Hip section of Brooklyn, New York. Populated by loftsful of artists and creative types as well as normal folk dressed up as artists and creative types. (back)

13: Standard unit of non-standard measure of distance in US. Distance on sidewalk between one junction and the next. Been known to vary widely. There are long blocks (or Avenue blocks which could be up to 150 plus meters) or short blocks (usually Street blocks which could be as little as 50 meters). (back)

14: Large excellent vintage clothing store. (back)

15: Engaged in activity. Sometimes criminal. (back)

16: Standing in front of. Not engaged in criminal activity. (back)

17: "When Harry Met Sally", 1989, director: Rob Reiner, writer: Nora Ephron. Starring Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal..."Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?"
The table in the restaurant at which the above scene was filmed now has a plaque on it that reads, "Congratulations! You're sitting where Harry met Sally." (back)

18: Ancient. Old. (back)

19: It's Spring and the days are gradually getting longer. (back)

20: Famous avenue bordering Chinatown and Little Italy lined with lighting shops, kitchen equipment suppliers, flophouses, all forms of rowdy activity and the famous CBGB. (back)

21: Empty headed or silly person. Passing resemblance, but no relation to wombat, an Australian, burrowing marsupial. (back)

22: Relating to barbering or a barber. (back)

23: Site offering very very cool graphics and cute designs on T-shirts, hoodies, sweaters, totes, caps, kids' apparel, bibs, toddler tees, kid sweaters, mouse-pads, tile coasters & much much more!
Includes official merchandise from "Radioactive Animals!", "Make Poopie!", "alfieleewriting.com" and" Monster Construction magazine"!

24: If it's good enough for us! It's good enough for you! (back)