Brian Wilson, the musical genius and founder of the Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82. Rest in peace. [Hollywood Life]
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s five kids supported him at the Fubar premiere. [JustJared]
Scarlett Johansson & Adam Driver are reuniting on film. [LaineyGossip]
The gender gap on abortion rights is not that shocking. [Jezebel]
Prime is still fine with Jeremy Clarkson. [Pajiba]
I love when people are loud & proud idiots, it’s easier to block them. [Buzzfeed]
Jeremy Allen White got a Louis Vuitton ambassadorship too. [Socialite Life]
Benson Boone has a thing for ice cream. [Seriously OMG]
Leslie Bibb’s Oscar de la Renta mini. [RCFA]
I do find the gender gap on abortion surprising because cishet men want consequence free sex. All.the.time. That’s a lot easier to achieve when casual sex isn’t a terrifying, potentially deadly experience for women. Men make no sense.
Well. I some of the discrepancy is because men don’t have consequences for sex even when they have kids in our current woman-hating society. Men, at least in red states, have figured out how to harass, stalk, financially abuse and legally abuse the mother’s of their children to avoid paying their share of support or physically caring for their kids. The red states allow and encourage it because of misogyny. Men don’t have true accountability for their kids or real financial responsibility for their kids, at least in TN. Case history 1 (I could share dozens of variations). I know one asshole that made almost double what the mother of his child made. She has primary custody. He lived with his parents AND made almost double her income. He got his child support cut to $200 a month (less than 5% of his income) and regularly blew off scheduled visitation. He ended up knocking up an Evangelical nutjob and is now fighting tooth and nail for primary custody to have free childcare provided by his first kid. I know very few men who haven’t weaseled out of paying the percentage of income they are supposed to be legally obligated to pay in child support because judges in TN would rather men spend their income on video games than to support their kids. I hope men (and judges) do better in blue states because they are disgraceful here.
Ugh, how “pro life, pro family.”
Brian Wilson is completely still underrated – his legacy lives on
My all-time favorite was always “In My Room”. Something about it really resonates with me .
Love this song too. I caught it on the radio yesterday and I hadn’t heard it in a while. It’s been in my head ever since; the melody is gorgeous.
“Caroline. No” and “Darlin’”
I got sucked down the rabbit hole of the Beach Boys, the Wilson brothers, Brian’s struggles.
Painful life but he stayed strong and did the best he could.
His music is a gift, he paid a heavy price for it.
All the brothers did, their stories are well worth reading (beware tho the middle brother was involved with Manson for a few years so triggering for some)
I’m going to go back and watch Love and Mercy – the movie about Brian Wilson’s life – again. The movie was made with Brian’s approval. He was such a genius who just heard the music in his head like no one else. I love the scenes in the recording studio when session musicians didn’t understand what he wanted the songs to sound like, but he did and he was right.
I love Brian Wilson, still. Thanks for the info on Love and Mercy – the interwebs say it’s currently on Amazon Prime, but I’d pay for it elsewhere.
@Kaiser, you picked the same two Beach Boys songs I picked—and in the same order.
Arnold’s five kids support him? Separately, it seems. The 4 with Maria and then JOseph alone.
“God only knows”. One of the most beautiful songs written.
R.I.P.
Ditto! I love that song. And for a classic 60’s beach vibe, “Help Me Rhonda”. I cannot hear that song without cranking it up and singing along.
It’s such an absolutely gorgeous song. And love Help Me, Rhonda. I had a teacher who’d say that when we were being…delightfully challenging.
I can’t stand Prime now, if you’re talking about Amazon Prime – they charge for so many of the movies and the ones they don’t charge for are often crappy.
Not gonna lie, that Mystical Magical song is hella catchy tho’. Someone has to make a Moonbeam flavor ice cream. I’ve had Blue Moon, but now we need Moonbeam.
Rest in peace, Brian. His bandmate Al Jereau’s tribute was particularly moving. Two of my favourite Beach Boys songs are Surf’s Up and Cabin Essence. For that early 60s sound though, I would choose Don’t Worry Baby. 💗
It would have killed the four kids from the marriage to take a photo that included their half-brother? These people keep showing their lack of class at every occasion. The irony that their mother, Maria Shriver, is known for saying that Kennedys were raised to believe in the USA form of noblesse oblige, “To whom much is given, much is expected”. Yet being gracious, even once, for the time that it takes to snap a photo, is too much for them.
Tell me again how Patrick refuses to play unsavoury, gross men any longer. Only on film, apparently.
nothing on Sly Stone ?… way better