Lightsabers and Lollipops

so i've been listening to the beatles for like three days straight now.
i blame the movie "across the universe" which i have seen one and a half times.
it's more the soundtrack to blame really. it became my default cd to pop in while i do the dishes or clean the house in general. it replaced "stories of a stranger" by O.A.R.
so now i am a huge fan of the soundtrack and honestly, if jim sturgess ever came out with an album, i would gladly download it off the internet somehow.
but to say i was a beatles fan before the movie would be a dang lie.
so i spent the last three driving days from job to job catching up on the beatles discography. before this point i owned the 2 double cd sets that had the years on them. one was red, the other blue. at one point, i was picking up some used from time to time. i think i had please, please me - rubber soul and the white album.
as i said, never really got into them.
if you've watched the extra scenes from the movie "pulp fiction" you would know that quentin tarantino makes the very excellent point of either you are and Elvis man or a Beatles man. you can't be both.
when i saw that it made me wonder.
on one hand, you've got Elvis. The King. a rock icon that cannot be denied.
on the other hand, you've got the Beatles. the fab four. the band that changed music history forever.
but for some reason, throughout my life. i was neither nor.
i had a double Elvis greatest hits cd. (and we all know that greatest hits albums are for housewives and liitle girls. thank you bruce mccullough)
and while i enjoyed the songs "viva las vegas" and "suspicious minds" i was never caught dancing around my room asking to be your teddy bear.
so, like all weird kids that you rarely ever talk to cuz they are weird, i went with a third option.
Prince.
while i'm not totally immersed in to the whole Prince revolution, i do know quite a bit of his music outside of the greatest hits and sadly yes, i do own copies of his movies including the double disc anniversary edition of purple rain. i have even watched graffiti bridge more than once, and that's saying alot.
so there.
but the moral of this story really is that i have learned to appreciate the beatles music more and hope you have fun deciding whether or not you are indeed an Elvis man or a Beatles man or a....third thing.

I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!!!