i have NO idea. i mean, i'm usually easily obsessed, but this sort of tops it, man. i don't know. i think it's a) they actually do have incredibly good music, and LOTS of it, so it's not like a movie where you're obsessed for about a week and then are like, eh, okay, new material needed and b) watching movies like help and hard day's night is just so intoxicating; the whole idea of the beatles is intoxicating. who doesn't want to spend years writing music and being famous and running around doing whatever the hell you want to and being loved for it, you know? it just all seems so fun, so perfect, even though you know how they broke up and all the fights they had and that paul was bossy and john was an asshole, etc. etc.

i also think that's why it makes me so sad to think about when they were fighting or john and george dying, not only because it is just a sad thing but because especially on film, they're just.. infinite. immortal. you can't imagine these young beautiful happy boys falling out of love with each other or what they're doing and thinking about it hurts in the way looking at your best friend and knowing that they'll grow older and have tragedies and die hurts. i think that's also why lotrips was so attractive to a lot of people for a long time; just a lot of people doing what they so obviously love, with people they're so obviously in love with (and i don't mean that in a romantic way, but just in that incredible once-in-a-lifetime friend way). and people really want that. i mean, i think that our generation in particular has been raised without a real way to form connections with people-- we have so many forms of communication, i.e. the internet and cellphones and