Dekoboko

Monday, July 27, 2009

The Other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xns67AVkOeI&feature=related

Nothing is new under the sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ

Written in 1948 about 1948, with reference to 1984, .. well - it's here - it arrived a long time ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xns67AVkOeI&feature=related

The Foes of Mankind (Axis of Evil)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0y5CSywIOw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLSmj9G0cE0&feature=related

There will be a sad day comin’
For the foes of all mankind
They must answer to the people
And it’s troubling their mind

Everybody who must fear them
Will rejoice on that great day
When the powers of dictators
Shall be taken all away

CHORUS:

There’ll be smoke on the water
On the land and the sea
When our Army and Navy overtakes the enemy
There’ll be smoke on the mountains
Where the Heathen Gods stay
And the sun that is risin’
Will go down on that day

For there is a great destroyer
Made of fire and flesh and steel
Rollin’ toward the foes of freedom
They’ll go down beneath its wheels

There’ll be nothing left but vultures
To inhabit all that land
When our modern ships and bombers
Make a graveyard of Japan

CHORUS
Hirohito ‘long with Hitler
Will be ridin’ on a rail
Mussolini’ll beg for mercy
As a leader he has failed

But there’ll be no time for pity
When the Screamin’ Eagle flies
That will be the end of Axis
They must answer with their lives

This was sung by the same guy:

Satisfied Mind (By Rhodes & Hayes, 1955)

How many times have you heard someone say

"If I had his money, I could do things my way?"

Little they know that it's so hard to find

One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Once I was winning in fortune and fame

Everything that I dreamed for to get a start in life's game

Suddenly it happened, I lost every dime

But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind

Money can't buy back your youth when you're old

Or a friend when you're lonely, or a love that's grown cold

The wealthiest person is a pauper at times

Compared to the man with a satisfied mind

When my life is ended, my time has run out

My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt

But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time

I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

SWEET are the thoughts that savor of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;
The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown.

Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.
The homely house that harbors quiet rest;
The cottage that affords no pride nor care;

The mean that 'grees with country music best;
The sweet consort of mirth and music's fare;
Obscure life sets down a type of bliss:
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

Robert Greene

1560 - 1592

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV4t1rZEYnA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_euKhE7rw0&feature=related

Pomp and Circumstance

Went to an unusual concert the other day, that included among other things 'Land of Hope and Glory' in Japanese.

More offbeat news:

http://www.theelders.org/

http://www.ae911truth.org/info/64

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14503

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYgeETrkPs&feature=related

Morning at Takamatsu by Kawase Hasui

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

A soul with no footprint

35 years ago, aged 13, I bought this album, cos it was cheap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Enough_to_Eat

At the time I thought this track one of the weaker ones:

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore.

So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say.

And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'til there's no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HsQsmJsRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HRo-9mqrQ&feature=related

Another genius who died young - at 26

Level Two

Came out of the konbeeni (convenience store) tonight on the way home, and as I got on my bike overheard a newly-arrived Ozzie being questioned by his Japanese mate, in English, and realised I'd reached level two:

"Do you like Japanese food?"

"Yeah - I really like sushimi

[not sure, but I guess this might translate as 'sushi-viewing'? He must have meant 'sashimi' - slices of raw fish]

and the other day I had some really nice grandmother"

[he said 'sobo', but no doubt meant 'soba' - noodles].

So I cycled off feeling like I have eventually moved up a gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUqN9ozmhw&NR=1