sábado, 7 de julio de 2012
La tonada diabólica
Sonata in G minor, 'Il trillo del diavolo'
the devil's trill is named that way because Tartini said it was inspired by a dream he had, where the devil was playing the violin for him. The music he played was the most beautiful piece Tartini had ever heard, and when he woke up after that dream he tried to write it down. It's considered to be the best piece by Tartini, but he claims it's nowhere near as beautiful as the music the devil was playing.
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violin virtuoso, conductor, and master-instructor. He is widely considered to be one of the preeminent violin virtuosi of the 20th century.
viernes, 18 de mayo de 2012
Sobreviviré
I Will Survive
At first I was afraid I was petrified.
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side.
But then I spent so many nights
Thinking how you did me wrong.
And I grew strong!
And I learned how to get along!
So now you're back from out of space.
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face.
I should have changed that stupid lock!
I should have made you leave your key!
If I had known for just one second you'd be back to bother me.
Go on now, go, walk out that door!
Just turn around now‚
cause you're not welcome any more.
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt (crush) me with goodbye?
Did I crumble
Did I lay down and die
Oh no, not I! I will survive!
Oh and as long as I know how to love I know I stay alive.
I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give.
And I'll survive!
I will survive! Hey, hey.
It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.
Kept tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart!
And I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself. I used to cry!
But now I hold my head up high.
And you see me somebody new!
I'm not that chained-up little person still in love with you.
And so you feel like droppin' in,
and just expect me to be free,
now I'm saving all my loving for someone who is loving me!
Go on now...
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jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011
Tu no sabes amar
youtube.com/watch?v=nM8FXNBHWdc
Magnifique chanson réaliste qui fait une apparition dans le film de Cyril Collard
"Les nuits fauves"
et résume assez tristement le film.
Siento en mi (dentro de mi)
youtube.com/watch?v=9cWaMOlqhbk
the french version of Pola Negri's "Mazurka"
youtube.com/watch?v=0C2sfz0S38w
Mazurka (1935) - IMDb
The film Mazurka from Germany, 1935, is a wonderful combination of a -maybe too- sentimental story with a very surprising plot.La Habanera
Travelling around as I do, I generally am remote from any opportunity to attend opera or ballet, but at one time I did. Anyway, about once a year till 1998 this melody would come to mind, and then I'd forget it completely, remaining unable to recall it. Finally, I made up words, so I wouldn't lose it again, but I still didn't know the name. I went to the library, and looked at opera scores, and got nowhere. Finally, I overheard someone mention it by name, and got the music and played it, but couldn't still fit the words to the music. Now finally I have a score with the words beneath the notes, from a Library of Congress database. So after six or seven years of looking, I have found what I was looking for:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mussm&fileName=sm/sm1878/11700/11770/mussm11770.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?mussm:4:./temp/~ammem_KrtC::@@@mdb=aasm,cwband,afcreed,scsm,molden,mussm,dukesm,amss&linkText=0
Here's an audible version. Just click on the first line under "Classical Larger Files":
http://www.allbuilders.com/designers/MIDI.htm
Here are the original French lyrics, followed by my own translation. When words or lines are repeated, I like to write them out completely. It does make it easier to fit words to melodies. So instead of "L'amour!...", for example, I have "L'amour! L'amour! L'amour! L'amour!", and I have actually repeated the refrain, in the appropriate place.
L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser,
Et c'est bien in vain qu'on l'appelle
S'il lui convient de refuser.
Rien n y fait, menace ou prihre.
L'un parle bien, l'autre se tait.
Et c'est l'autre que je prifhre.
Il n'a rien dit mais il me plait.
L'amour! L'amour! L'amour! L'amour!
L'amour est enfant de Bohjme,
Il n'a jamais jamais connu de loi.
Si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime.
Si je t'aime, prends garde ` toi!
Si tou ne m'aimes pas, si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime,
Mais si je t'aime, si je t'aime, prends garde ` toi!
L'oiseau que tu croyais surprendere
Battit d'aile et s'envola.
L'amour est loin, tu peux l'attendre.
Tu ne l'attends pas, il est l`.
Tout atour de toi, vite vite,
Il vient, s'en va, puis il revient.
Tu crois le tenir, il t'evite.
Tu crois l'eviter, il te tient.
L'amour! L'amour! L'amour! L'amour!
L'amour est enfant de Bohjme,
Il n'a jamais jamais connu de loi.
Si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime.
Si je t'aime, prends garde ` toi!
Si tou ne m'aimes pas, si tou ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime,
Mais si je t'aime, si je t'aime, prends garde ` toi!
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LA HABANERA (Literal English Translation)
Love is a rebellious bird
That nothing can tame,
And it's quite in vain to call it,
If it's convenient for it to refuse.
Threat and prayer do nothing.
One speaks well, the other silences,
And it's the other that I prefer,
It's said nothing, but I like it.
Love! Love! Love! Love!
Love is a child of the Bohemian way.
It has never, never known the law.
If you don't love me, I love you.
If I love you, watch out!
If you don't love me, if you don't love me, I love you,
But if I love you, if I love you, watch out!
The bird you thought you'd surprise
Beat its wings and flew away.
Love is far, you cannot wait for it.
You're not waiting, it is there!
All around you, apace, apace,
It comes and goes and then returns.
You think to hold it, it eludes you.
You think to elude it, it holds you.
Love! Love! Love! Love!
Love is a child of the Bohemian way.
It has never, never known the law.
If you don't love me, I love you.
If I love you, watch out!
If you don't love me, if you don't love me, I love you,
But if I love you, if I love you, watch out!
El viento me ha contado una cancion
Damia: "Le vent m'a dit une chanson" (1939), french versions of
Zarah Leander: "Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt"
youtube.com/watch?v=_h-YqhDBNrk (sueco)
youtube.com/watch?v=R7ulbiYWSBE (aleman)
Canta el aria La Habanera de la opera Carmen de Bizet
http://www.filmportal.de/df/dc/Uebersicht
La Habanera ist ein deutscher Spielfilm von Detlef Sierck aus dem Jahr 1937.
Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer jungen Schwedin, die sich in der Karibik in den falschen Mann verliebt und erst Jahre später ihren Fehler erkennt. Die Schauspielerin Zarah Leander konnte mit diesem Melodram an den Erfolg ihres ersten UFA-Films Zu neuen Ufern anknüpfen. Namensgebend für den Film war das Lied La Habanera (Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
'Tout le Jour, Toute la Nuit'
Marie-Louise Damien (December 5, 1889 – January 31, 1978) was a French singer and actress better known by the stage name Damia.
She is ranked Number Three in the chanson réaliste after Edith Piaf and Barbara.
"Szomorú Vasárnap" (HU)
Todo el amor ha muerto en el mundo
El viento esta barriendo lagrimas
Mi corazon nunca mas tendra esperanza
Mis lagrimas y mis penas son todas en vano
La gente no tiene corazon, es ambiciosa, maligna
El Amor ha muerto!
El mundo ha llegado a su fin,
Ciudades estan siendo barridas,
Los meandros estan tintos de sangre humana
Hay muertos en las calles por todo lado
Dire otra plegaria en silencio
La gente es pecadora, Dios mio,
El mundo se ha acabado!
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Extracto de la película Germano-Húngara
"Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod" (1999)
["Domingo triste - Una cancion de amor y muerte"]
Version original en hungaro
(Aqui no mata el jardinero, sino se mata el pianista!)
Version recortada doblada en aleman con subtitulos en espanol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCFgOz1aX4&feature=related
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday_Lied Gloomy Sunday ist der englische Titel des 1933 von dem ungarischen Pianisten Rezső Seress komponierten Liedes Szomorú Vasárnap (Ungarisch für „Trauriger Sonntag“). Das Lied, das auch als „Lied der Selbstmörder“ bekannt war, wurde in der jüngeren Vergangenheit wiederentdeckt und besonders durch den Film Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod weithin bekannt. In deutschsprachigen Ländern kennt man es auch unter dem Titel Das Lied vom traurigen Sonntag.
Seress schrieb das Lied in tiefster Betrübtheit im Oktober 1932.
Anlass war, dass seine Verlobte ihn verlassen hatte.
Kein Glück hatte er bei diversen Verlagen, die sich weigerten, das Lied zu vertreiben, weil es zu melancholisch sei.
Trotzdem erlangte Gloomy Sunday eine gewisse Berühmtheit – wohl auch deswegen, weil es schnell in den Verruf gekommen war, Menschen zum Suizid zu bewegen.
La version de Diamanda Gallas
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Sombre Dimanche par Damia
Marie-Louise Damien (1933)
Probablement l'une des plus belles chansons de l'entre-deux-guerres. Elle a effectivement causé une "épidémie" de suicide à budapest, à sa création. Mais il faut se remettre dans le contexte de la Hongrie de l'époque : défaite en 1918, amputation des territoires de l'Est au profit de la Roumanie, démembrement de l'empire austro-hongrois, insurection de Bela Kun, répression du "régent" Horty, échec de la restauration de l'empereur Charles Ier : la vie à Budapest n'était pas très drôle...
Sombre Dimanche par Michèlle Gallino
Extrait du spectacle de Michèle Gallino "Sur les traces de Marise D.." enregistré en 2005 à l'Agora de Saint Ismier (38)
Dans "Sombre dimanche", Damia est une femme enigmatique, trop belle dans son malheur, qui sait qu'elle ne survivra pas à ce grand Amour qui vient juste de se perdre dans les brumes de l'existence des autres....
Cette chanson a été interdite à Budapest en raison de l'impact tragique du texte sur des gens fragiles, des suicides avaient été enregistrés. Paradoxalement, à l'époque, cette chanson était la préférée des japonais.
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La cancion del suicida
extra larga para catolicos suicidas,
El original hungaro tiene solo dos estrofas?
Primera version en espanol Agustin Magaldi (1936)
"la voz sentimental de Bs. As."
Cuando existía el verdadero amor y los hombres y las mujeres guardaban luto a su amado muerto, cancion sentimental en la voz inconfundible de Agustin Magaldi
El guardar luto por la muerte de un ser querido fue en el pasado solamente una tradicion que con el tiempo se fue perdiendo; el luto que se guarda en el corazon no se disfraza de negro; los tiempos cambian, pero no el dolor. sinfonia07
La maldita version en tango cancion Mercedes Simone (1937)
Otra version en espanol (escuchar en ese blog)
Y ornado el altar de mi loca ilusión
Donde mi alma se ha ido a postrar
Mientras mi boca llamándote está
Muere en mi sueños ocasos de hastío
Cansados de espera y de soledad
De estar esperando, sin verte, llegar
¡Vuelen tus pasos que debo marchar!
No ves que muero con mi loco afán
Quiero que seas la blanca y piadosa
Mortaja que cubra mi hora final
Junto a mi ataúd que circundan muchas flores
Aguarda mi confesión un sacerdote
Y a él le digo:
Lo quiero, lo espero.
Sin vida y abiertos y esperándote
Tus manos son quien los deben cerrar
Y acaso entonces yo habré muerto en paz
Siento un doblar de campanas, que
Lúgubremente sus voces me ordena marchar
Que llega la hora que debo partir!
Quiero tenerte en mi viaje final
Y algo me dice que no llegarás
Triste domingo visítame amado
Que ahora en mi tumba yo te he de esperar
SI NO EXISTIERAS…
*
¡Déjame llegar!
a ese rincón tibio de tu abrazo,
a esa ternura blanda,
que existe en tu regazo,
donde habita la paz del silencio,
donde no se conocen
ni las tristezas
ni los fracasos
ni los días sin sol
ni las noches sin luna,
y hasta la bruma
al amor lo perfuma.
¡Déjame llegar!
a ese ansiado lugar,
donde todo es armonía
donde nunca está perdida
ni la fe ni la alegría…
es allí donde las almas
permanecen eternamente unidas,
y en una misma sintonía,
escuchando esa nupcial sinfonía
que viste los sueños de gala
y hasta les pone alas
para que logren llegar
hasta donde tu “YO” asoma,
así aromas mi espíritu y mi persona
por que es allí que te conviertes
en un corazón sensible y fuerte
¡y esa es mi suerte!
¡Déjame llegar!
Si no llego, solo me verás llorar,
pues aun tengo muchas cosas para dar
Y esas emociones, y esas sensaciones
No las debo ni las quiero postergar,
Esa es mi forma de amar…
¡quítame esas piedras del camino!
Que me duelen al pisar.
¿no te das cuenta
que la vida no es más que un sueño?
un cielo a veces nublado,
y otras veces estrellado,
un mar revuelto y alborotado,
que ha mojado las alas de ese pájaro alado,
que por estar enamorado se ha perdido
se ha extraviado…
y su vuelo tristemente demorado.
¡Déjame decirte!
¡no quiero mentirte!
Que ahora eres tú
Quien me debe esperar…
Por que tengo que rehacer dentro de mí
A ese añorado y olvidado amanecer,
que hace mucho lo dejé de ver,
y entonces si, podré sentir la dicha
de ser tuya y ser mujer,
esa MUJER completa que quiero ser,
por que no existiría
si tú…si tú no existieras…
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Maldicion, ya estoy deprimido....;-)
Buscare donde colgarme...
o servira un coctel de afrodisiacos?
Recorded versionsThere are two English-language versions of the lyrics. The first, by Desmond Carter, was used in the 1935 Paul Robeson recording and a few others. Most English-language recordings have used the Sam Lewis lyrics made famous in Billie Holiday's 1941 recording. That recording added a third verse, not in the original Hungarian song, indicating that the singer was only dreaming about her lover's death. See links below for the lyrics.
Other artists who have recorded or reinterpreted the song include:
- 1935 (1935) – Pál Kalmár (in Hungarian, under title "Szomorú vasárnap" László Jávor lyrics)
- 1935 (1935) – (UK): Paul Robeson (released in the US in 1936; Desmond Carter lyrics)
- 1935 (1935) – Pyotr Leschenko (in Russian, under title "Мрачное воскресенье" ["Mrachnoe voskresen'e"])
- 1936 (1936) – Damia (in French, under the title "Sombre Dimanche", recorded on February 28, lyrics by Jean Marèze and François-Eugène Gonda, music by Rezso Seress)
- 1936 (1936) – Spree-Revellers (in German, as "Einsamer Sonntag"; Polydor 2293A)
- 1936 (1936) – Noriko Awaya (in Japanese, as "Kurai Nichiyobi")
- 1936 Agustin Magaldi (in Spanish, as "Triste Domingo")
- 1937 (1937) – Mercedes Simone (in Spanish, as "Triste Domingo" [recorded in Buenos Aires])
- 1959 (1959) – Eila Pellinen (in Finnish as "Surullinen sunnuntai")
- 1961 (1961) – Inger Qvick (in Swedish as "Sista Söndag")
- 1972 (1972) – Viktor Klimenko (in Russian as "Ona pred ikonoi")
- 1980 (1980) – Lydia Lunch
- 1986 (1986) – Christian Death feat. Gitane Demone (Atrocities) (Sam M. Lewis, Rezső Seress)
- 1992 (1992) – Diamanda Galás (The Singer) (Desmond Carter lyrics)
- 1992 (1992) – Sinéad O'Connor
- 1996 (1996) – Sarah McLachlan (English, using Sam Lewis lyrics. From the "Rarities, B-Sides, and Other Stuff" album)
- 2000 (2000) – Sarah Brightman (English, using Sam Lewis lyrics. From the "La Luna" album)
- 2005 (2005) – Venetian Snares under the Hungarian title "Öngyilkos vasárnap" (literally meaning 'Suicidal Sunday'), which incorporates a sample of Billie Holiday's 1941 rendition.
- 2006 (2006) – Angéla Póka (live) (performing Szomorú Vasárnap live during Megasztár)
- 2006 (2006) – Claire Diterzi (in French as Sombre dimanche from the "Boucle" album)
- 2010 (2010) – Andrew Veskoukis Overture to Death (in Greek adaptation)
- 2010 (2010) – MiD DERACINE (in Japanese as "SOMBRE DIMANCHE")
- 2010 (2010) – Emilie Autumn (Billie Holliday Lyrics - first 2 verses only.)
The song is featured at the start of the film Schindler's List. It is also played when Oskar Schindler dines with his wife at a restaurant. In the commentary appended to the full version one of the Jewish violinists who survived the war narrates that one of the SS officers—after asking for "Gloomy Sunday" to be played—indeed committed suicide.
sábado, 29 de enero de 2011
Billie Holiday, The man I love
Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.[1]
With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as "I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You", "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me", and the opera Porgy and Bess.
The success the brothers had with their collaborative works has often overshadowed the creative role that Ira played. However, his mastery of songwriting continued after the early death of George. He wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern ("Long Ago (and Far Away)"), Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen.
The man I love
Someday he'll come along
The man I love
And he'll be big and strong
The man I love
And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay
He'll look at me and smile
I'll understand
Then in a little while
He'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word
Maybe I shall meet him Sunday
Maybe Monday, maybe not
Still I'm sure to meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day
He'll build a little home
That's meant for two
From which I'll never roam
Who would, would you
And so all else above
I'm dreaming of the man I love
Billie Holiday, Soledad
In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days gone by In my solitude You taunt me With memories That never die I sit in my chair And filled with despair There’s no one could be so sad With gloom everywhere I sit and I stare I know that I’ll soon go mad In my solitude I’m afraid Dear lord above Send back my love
martes, 14 de diciembre de 2010
Die Gedanken sind frei
Source
TextThe idea represented in the title — that thoughts are free — was expressed as early as in Antiquity[1] and became prominent again in the Middle Ages, when
Walther von der Vogelweide (c.1170-1230) wrote:
joch sint iedoch gedanke frî ("yet still thoughts are free")[2].
In the 12th century Austrian minnesinger Dietmar von Aist (presumably) had composed the song Gedanke die sint ledic vrî ("only thoughts are free"). About 1229 Freidank wrote: diu bant mac nieman vinden, diu mîne gedanke binden. ("this band may no one twine, that will my thoughts confine")[3].
The text as it first occurred on leaflets about 1780 originally had four strophes to which a fifth was later added. Today, their order may vary. An early version in the shape of a dialogue between a captive and his beloved can be found under the title Lied des Verfolgten im Thurm. Nach Schweizerliedern ("Song of the persecuted in the tower. After Swiss songs") in Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano's circa 1805 folk poetry collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Vol. III. This version was given a new musical setting by Gustav Mahler in his 1898 Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" for voice and orchestra.
The lyrics
GermanDie Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten,
sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten.
Kein Mensch kann sie wissen, kein Jäger erschießen
mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!
Ich denke was ich will und was mich beglücket,
doch alles in der Still', und wie es sich schicket.
Mein Wunsch und Begehren kann niemand mir wehren,
es bleibet dabei: Die Gedanken sind frei!
Und sperrt man mich ein im finsteren Kerker,
das alles sind rein vergebliche Werke.
Denn meine Gedanken zerreißen die Schranken
und Mauern entzwei, die Gedanken sind frei!
Drum will ich auf immer den Sorgen absagen
und will mich auch nimmer mit Grillen mehr plagen.
Man kann ja im Herzen stets lachen und scherzen
und denken dabei: Die Gedanken sind frei!
Ich liebe den Wein, mein Mädchen vor allen,
sie tut mir allein am besten gefallen.
Ich sitz nicht alleine bei einem Glas Weine,
mein Mädchen dabei: Die Gedanken sind frei!
English translation:Thoughts are free, who can guess them?
They flee by like nocturnal shadows.
No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them,
with powder and lead: Thoughts are free!
I think what I want, and what delights me,
still always reticent, and as it is suitable.
My wish and desire, no one can deny me
and so it will always be: Thoughts are free!
And if I am thrown into the darkest dungeon,
all this would be futile work,
because my thoughts tear all gates
and walls apart. Thoughts are free!
So I will renounce my sorrows forever,
and never again will torture myself with some fancy ideas.
In one's heart, one can always laugh and joke
and think at the same time: Thoughts are free!
I love wine, and my girl even more,
Only I like her best of all.
I'm not alone with my glass of wine,
my girl is with me: Thoughts are free!
The rhyme scheme of the lyrics is a - b/ a - b/ c - c/ d - d.
AdaptationSince the days of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Age of Metternich Die Gedanken sind frei was a popular protest song against political repression and censorship, especially among the banned Burschenschaften student fraternities. In the aftermath of the 1848 German Revolution and in Nazi Germany, the song was proscribed. It had importance for the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance movement in Germany. [4] One night in 1942 Sophie Scholl played the song on her recorder outside the walls of Ulm prison where her father Robert had been detained for calling Adolf Hitler a "Scourge of God".
I first heard this song on Pete Seeger's 1966 album Dangerous Songs!? Here is his version. I next heard it in the TV movie The Birdmen in 1971. The Birdmen is a fictionalized account of a very real plan by Allied POWs to build a glider and escape from Colditz Castle during World War II. The soundtrack song and more on the movie and history of the real escape plan is here. And a traditional German rendering of the song is here.
The rally song of the 1942-43 German anti-Nazi youth movement, the White Rose (die Weiße Rose). The White Rose consisted of five students — Sophie Magdalena Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, all in their early twenties — and a professor of philosophy, Kurt Huber.
sábado, 21 de agosto de 2010
Dime lo que escuchas
Rap und HipHop: undiszipliniert, unaufrichtig, impulsiv, gesellig, erlebnishungrig
Jazz und Klassik: offen, seelisch stabil (Erwachsene); seelisch instabil (Jugendliche)
Oldies: unnachgiebig
Weltmusik: offen, durchsetzungsfähig, unempfindlich, wenig depressiv, wenig feindselig
Soul: offen, altruistisch, warmherzig
Heavy Metal: offen, unordentlich, wenig leistungsorientiert, reizhungrig
Pop und Charts, Country: extrovertiert, gewissenhaft, verträglich, wenig offen
Rock und Punk: offen
Kirchenlieder: wenig offen, pflichtbewusst, verträglich, wenig impulsiv
Funk: extravertiert, unordentlich, undiszipliniert und wenig leistungsorientiert
Filmmusik: verträglich, genügsam, wenig offen, wenig reizhungrig
Gospel: offen, pflichtbewusst, wenig impulsiv
Folk: offen, durchsetzungsfähig, wenig feindselig, vertrauensselig
martes, 3 de agosto de 2010
Musikphilosophie: Zeit
Copy(left): Rolf Basten
....
mein sind die Jahre nicht, die etwa möchten kommen.
Der Augenblick ist mein, und nehm ich den in Acht,
so ist der mein, der Jahr und Ewigkeit gemacht!
martes, 22 de septiembre de 2009
Think!
think (think) think (think) think (think)
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
Let's go back, let's go back, let's go way on back when
I didn't even know you, you came to me and too much you wouldn't take
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degree
It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, ooh freedom
There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, to keep doing things I don't
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
People walking around everyday, playing games that they can score
And I ain't gonna be the loser my way, ah, be careful you don't lose yours
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)
Without eachother there ain't nothing people can do
Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, ooh freedom
There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, if you're doing things I don't
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)
Without eachother there ain't nothing people can do
(To the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, think about it)
(To the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, think about it)
(To the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, think about it)
(To the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, to the bone for deepness, think about it)
You had better stop and think before you think, think!!
viernes, 21 de agosto de 2009
'Old John Betts'
Old famous violin makers (Gallery)
"The details are not the details. They make the product""BETTS, John Edward - Known as 'Old John Betts'.
---Charles Eames
Born at Stamford (Lincolnshire), 1755.
Came to London and studied the art under Richard Duke.
Soon developed a keen business capability, opened inviting premises, and at different periods, employed notable men such as Panormo, Fendt, Carter and Tobin.
Died in 1823. Buried at Cripplegate Church.
Made few instruments himselfearly productions characterised by Amatese outline and arching. Sound-holes rather inartistically wide. Scrolls always neatly finished. Excellent wood in quality and prettiness. Subsequent instruments bearing his label were most probably made by the above-mentioned workmen.
Advertised that he 'makes in the neatest manner, violins the patterns of Ant. Stradivarius, Hieronymus Amatus, Jacobus Stainer and Tyrols. Equal for the fine, full, mellow tone to those made in Cremona'.
But the larger proportion of instruments emanating from his workshop were Amatese, and he instructed assistants to continue working in the 'metier' which brought him the best reputation and quicker increased his banking account. Doubtless quite justified in not striking out for the patch of originality, apparently being conscious of his own fluctuating skill, as well as not underrating the caprices of the public. These instruments, whoever actually made them, give the index of the varying planes of the Amati structure. Arching beautifully done, ease and grace very discernable about the waist curves. Workmanship wholly refined. Scroll of fine volute and a perfect approach to the boss, often of broad aspect. Sound-holes also of ideal curvature. Frequently backs of an especially beautiful close-striped figure. Varnish applied as though worn and aged. Tone never brilliant or strong, but often exceedingly suave, warm and of silvery clarity. Violas sometimes inlaid with various decorations.
Cellos perhaps superior to the violins, and steadily gaining in the estimation of experts.
Usually branded 'Betts London' on button.
This has been fictitiously used in a wholesale manner, and may be seen on common factory fiddles. Many specimens with a Betts label are often of the five to ten-pounds inferior order, and indubitably not genuine, not even as having been made by the most elementary of the many apprentices in his workshop.
lunes, 27 de julio de 2009
Viagra, *1997
Written and sang by Max Raabe. It's from the album
"Ein Freund, ein guter Freund" [Un amigo, un buen amigo]
The virgin gives it to the boy because both then can enjoy
for wives it came in handy who had a droopy spouse.
Thus some life form long believed to be dead is revived by
Viagra
Doctors commit themselves to self-testing,
speculate that it facilitates blood circulation
Thus some life form long believed to be dead is revived by
Viagra
A stand-up reception will turn jolly once it is served as munchies,
every stable shudders when you put it in the animal fodder.
Thus some life form long believed to be dead is revived by
Viagra
Camilla Parker-Bowles always carries in her Rolls' a full roll
(Prince's Roll is a famous roll of cookies)
the back drawer of his desk,
that's where Bill Clinton keeps his stash.
But what effect on the receding brow if mixed with the pill,
it defies every norm rigid as Wellaform (hair spray)
only pointing into one direction
because it's doped and can't help it.
Why do I do this to myself, asks then the man.
I can tell you, between the two of us,
that in this world it depends on women
whether things rise or fall.

