Rats and Rock n Roll

I kinda missed this place, guess I'm back. I don't exclusively post Beach Boys content, but unless I ever get over them, it's a good chunk of this

[eclogues]

i havent done anything or been anyone ever

[pugman1230]

I've been many many things and done many things.

[ratsandrocknroll]

When will I be?

[speedwayy]

you can tell by the way he's entirely up his ass that's his little brother that he was viciously evil to in adolescence

[smalllfieldmouse]

i dont care if Monday's lit. Tuesday Wednesday touch my clit. Thursday i don't give a shit. it's Friday I'm in love

[loveridden1999]

[nickrhodes]

The Beach Boys, 1964

[ratsandrocknroll]

[nickrhodes]

The Beach Boys, 1964

[ratsandrocknroll]

I know I shouldn't but every now and then a joint smoked in bed feels luxurious

[ratsandrocknroll]

Today in Beach Boys songs I woke up with playing in my head: Honkin Down the Gosh Darn Highway

[speedwayy]

When I noted that Dennis' own composition, "Baby Blue," was the B-side of the Beach Boys' latest single, and added that I thought it was quite beautiful, Dennis responded intensely and almost solemnly, saying, "I wrote every note of that." At the mention Brian, Dennis' eyes lit up, then turned wistful, as he said, "Brian is beautiful. You wanna talk to him?" There was a great nervousness for me as Dennis dialed California. I was somewhat thankful that Brian wasn't home, and listened as Dennis instructed Brian's secretary to make sure that Brian's apartment was clean.

Don Cunningham in Beach Boys Fanzine Add Some Music Vol. 7 No. 1 (December, 1984)

ty to @georgestraitpridemonth for the source

[queenslandsoutherngothic]

[perpetuabarnes]

I just want to adopt them all

[fishandshesmygills]

the point of fanfiction is to write something so self indulgent that nobody else has thought of it before or cares

[ratsandrocknroll]

Y'all don't care for my serious work you just liked the time I referred to Al Jardine as a hobbit lmao

[quietlysolitaryghoul]

[ratsandrocknroll]

Today in Beach Boys songs that I woke up with stuck in my head: Wendy

[ghosthorse-tracks]

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

[ghosthorse-tracks]

My post is going around again 🥹🥹 one thing I find fascinating about reading the reblogs/tags/replies is how many people think it’s about academic writing until they get to the part about the shoes. And it very well could be! It was about Match Game RPF at the time though 😅😅

[ratsandrocknroll]

This but I actually write all my fanfic in my notes app so I can add to it whenever I have a thought (and yet it still remains unfinished)

[speedwayy]

idk anything anymore

[thebigshotjames]