The Beatles, A Scouser and Across the Universe

I love watching movie musical because it’s 2 of my favorite things combined.

I watched Across the Universe for the first time last Sunday and I totally love it! I won’t say I am a huge Beatles fan. I know Hey Jude and Let It Be from my dad’s music collection, Across the Universe from Rufus Wainwright and Yellow Submarine from a Liverpool song for our vice-captain, that’s about it. But, after watching this movie, I realized how great their music is. And I fall in love with it, 40++ years later. The simple lyrics tell great stories. This is probably what makes the movie great. They can take out all the lines in the movie, the songs will still be able to give enough impact to the story.

This is the perfect movie for me. Not only because of its epic-ness, but also because of its connection with Liverpool. Not only in The Beatles but also in Jim Sturgess’ character Jude. He might very well be my dream guy on screen! A Liverpool FC supporter, who speaks with beautiful Scouse accent, gets his newspaper from the Albert Dock, and sings. Not to mention how he totally brings out the character of Liverpudlians – quoting Jamie Carragher in his autobiography, which is a “mad mix of cynical and kind hearted, funny yet tough personalities.”

Anyhow, the weekend has been great! I decided to traveled up to KL since my housemates were all away and I refused to be in the house alone. The trip was kind of last minute and I didn’t have anything planned. But maybe that was the fun of it, because I turned out spending a weekend of music and football with my brother and some friends. On Friday, we went to a jazz show by Francessa Peter and 2 hours later my perception of jazz was forever changed. That set was great! She and her band did some very classic jazz songs which I always heard through my dad’s choice of radio station and some new hits such as Apologize, Love Song, and her very old song Lost Without You which was made a hit by Robin Thicke not long ago – all in a jazzy way. I love love love it!

The match viewing party on Saturday with Pei Ru and my brother was fun! The atmosphere was great even though the number of people weren’t. The victory is sweet, despite the fact that my favorite player knocked his own tooth off. It looks painful but I swear he was smiling when he passed his tooth the physio. Poor kid though, it was a metatarsal at last season, then sprinted fingers, and now tooth. And I bought a Fernando Torres piece from Ru! It is beautiful. How she captured his emotion in the drawing. It was supposed to be a birthday gift for my friend, but once I look at the drawing, a part of me knows that it wasn’t going anywhere except up my wall. 

 Mayyie xxx