9:43

at some point in my life I really want to do this

The Louvre in 9:43 from Godard's Bande à part

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Ad Diction: Hand Drawn Daydream

I'm not really sure what this commercial is advertising, besides maybe Water,which I didn't know was suffering enough where it would need an advertising campaign after however many billions of years of sustaining all life, but anyway it is so well done and cute and it is impossible not to be sucked in by wanting to see what will be drawn next, how just a few lines added or subtracted can totally change our surrogate's world.
It's like those UPS commercials, but about something more exciting than sending a package The bouncy music doesn't hurt either

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Your Simply Amazing Stuck in My Head Song of the Day

I'm pretty sure it was because of writing and thinking about the Invincible Man article that my mind made the leap to humming Oasis' Live Forever from their first album Definitely Maybe (which is my answer to most questions) the first time I heard this song (and actually all the time until I read the wikipedia article about it) I thought because of the line "Maybe I don't really want to know, how your garden grows" that it was somehow related to the "Mary Mary Quite Contrary" nursery rhyme (Mary Mary quite contrary,How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row) or at least inspired by a girl named Mary but I guess I was wrong. . Either way the lyrics really give the sense of youth and endless limitlessness, that we will actually live forever in our exceptionalness. They really are some of my favorite.

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breath
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Live forever
Forever

Those lads maybe "wankers" but they can make beautiful awesome music.
Anyway here is Live Forever by Oasis- Your Simply Amazing Stuck in My Head Song of the Day
UK version

US version

Oasis- Live Forever (download)



We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

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Wheeeeeeeee!

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Your Simply Amazing Stuck in My Head Song of the Day

Well what do you know? Just like I "assumed" on Wednesday today's stuck in my head song of the day is Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In from the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, Hair. It is a truly tremendous song and is my favorite from the show. I was originally inspired to have this song in my head when Godspell came on and I noticied that along with musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, there seemed to be some sort of Jesus Chic or an urge and yearning for a figure who might resolve the turmoil and lead everyone again to the brightness of a future. And I would like to believe the summed up the despair yet still hope of the time and the prayer for a better world. As I think do the lyrics to this song

We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes

Somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything

Manchester England England
Manchester England England
Eyes look your last
Across the Atlantic Sea
Arms take your last
embrace
And I'm a genius genius
And lips oh you the
doors of breath
I believe in God
Seal with a righteous kiss
And I believe that God believes in Claude
Seal with a righteous kiss
That's me, that's me, that's me
The rest is silence
The rest is silence
The rest is silence

Singing
Our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie

Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in

Damn hippies ;)
But I didn''t have such grand thoughts in my head when I thought the song would be perfect for tonight. I was merely thinking that I needed some sunshine because I plan to spend a lot of time this weekend at the beach reading Book 7 ( yeah I still haven't started it. But I think I've proved my point that I am not soo addicted that I coudln't live without knowing for a few extra hours, not to mention days. I'm pretty sure I win) and getting a nice tan with a Nalgene full of mojito yumminess. I'll enjoy and I hope you enjoy this song.
Here it is in the 1979 movie version

Let the sunshine in my friend, let the sunshine in.
Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)-(mp3)
[UPDATE: I almost forgot my Simpsons theme/goal for today so here's a poster for the movie including every character from the show, almost like they are in a field singing songs about sunshine.

There. Done and Done. And I mean Done.]

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And finally... Your Stuck in my Head Song of the Day

I really should have had this song for Friday's happy happy love fest song of the day instead of a song about violent love and another starring flannel and dirty dreads, but I dropped the ball. Sorry. Anyway this song really sort of exudes a joie de vivre, a youthful exuberance that makes me envy some people, but also points out that I still do have this type of freedom and limitlessness available to me, a luxury that most don't have. It's by Supergrass and was released at the height of BritPop (woo!) The song is called Alright. The lyrics are all about the doing what you feel and having a good time. Here are some lyrics:

Are we like you,
I can't be sure,
Of the scene, as she turns,
We are strange in our world,

But we are young, we run green,
Keep our teeth, nice and clean,
See our friends, see the sights, feel alright.

I'm sure this song will pop up a few more times on this site, especially when I have youthful anthem days. But don't worry about the future now. Here's the video, and all I can say is I miss the 90's.



(They may not be the most attractive lads, but man can they write a pop song.)
Ah life. Live it up. Because if we tried doing in a few years what we're doing now, some might call us incredibly irresponsible :)

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I Love You- I'm Not Gonna Crack

So far so good. I'm still trying to keep that feeling of goodness and happiness and Nirvana's Lithium lyrics came to mind (I'm so happy cuz today I found my friend) It's not the happiest of songs, but Kurt (R.I.P) really wasn't a ball of joy, but it does have that hopeful quality, and when I went on youtube to try to watch the video I discovered the Polyphonic Spree had done a cover. If you don't know who the Polyphonic Spree is, you should, their music is full of such hope and exuberance and joy and if you ever wanna leave a concert uplifted and floating I'd highly recommend going to see them or the Flaming Lips. I think this clip gives you a small sense of what they're about and a taste of such a communal spirit that can take a song about a bipolar drug and make it so gleeful. You can't help but crack a smile ( I hope)


(here's another performance)
and I'm going to try to not have this be a purely video day. We'll see how it goes

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One of Those Days

I was going to originally try to make every post here today Potter related in honor of Book 7, but then one of my friends had such a purely beautiful and soul cleansing away message, one of those where after reading it I didn't, and still don't want to be touched by any negativity or worry, pain or sadness so I'm going to try to stick with that as long as I can. And this clip from American beauty is pretty much what I feel right now. Sometimes this world is just so damn beautiful


I think I know what he means. okay I'm starting to cry

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I've Found My Favorite Flower

This week my mom hosted a Revival and so every night until about 11 I had to be at my favorite place (church) with my favorite people( old southern Black Christians). Needless to say I tried to find any excuse to not be in the building. So as I was watering the lawn in the front yard of the church I saw a beautiful pink flower rising from a single stalk nestled against the wall of the property next door. I had no idea what kind of flower it was; it reminded me of a lily but I had only seen white lillies. I plucked off the only full blossomed bulb and put it in my hair. When I asked my mom she told me that it was a Pink Lady so the next morning (yesterday morning in fact)- church exhausts me- I googled Pink Lady flower, because I didn't want to have any unnecessary Grease references. I looked through a tonne of images to find something close and I came upon the Pink Lady's slipper which looked nothing like my new love. In fact it looks kinda like a discolored scrotum, or I guess a pink slipper. I then googled "pink lily flower single stalk" and went through more images (I know this isn't that exciting but hopefully it conveys the boredom that I felt and the incredible desire to figure out what this flower is, so I can demand it in every bouquet I receive) until I discovered it.
The Naked Lady (I wish I looked as good naked) or the official name Amaryllis Belladonna minor. How perfect is that? And the fact that in Italian, the most beautiful of languages "belladonna" of course means beautiful lady (as well as being the name of an amazing Stevie Nicks album) made me love it even more.

At this point in my life I'm sort of rediscovering everything and everything that I have magically discovered and come to love somehow can be used as a metaphor for me, at least to me. In this case Amaryllis means, in its original Latin form amarysso means to sparkle. "The beautiful woman sparkles." I think most every girls' dream is to be so beautiful as to sparkle (and is infintely better than my birth day flower, the anemone which means forsaken-though of course at times that name unfortunately feels like it fits.The story behind the anemone flower's name is a sad one. The name comes from Greek and roughly translates into "windflower". It is said in Greek Mythology that the anemone flower sprang up from the blood of Aphrodite's slain lover, Adonis. The name "windflower" signifies that the wind that blows the petal open will also, eventually, blow the dead petals away.). In the language of the flowers, the Amaryllis stands for pride, a coquette and splendid beauty
Like myself, it is not winter hardy and survives better in the southern half of the u.s. or indoors. They are at their best or flower best with a bit of neglect and relatively lean soil; they often grow up from rocks. I must say I do my best work in similar conditions( I'm not as needy as I may seem at times). In South Africa they are called the March Lily (ahem march 9th) and just like lil' ole me they're a hybrid.
They make me so happy. So if you ever worry about what to give me as a gift, what girl doesn't like flowers.
(and I know this is the second Saturday in a row where I've posted about Pink;what can I say? It's growing on me)

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