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dj, you are delightful, isn't he, folks?

I just went to the archives to check out Da La Soul, and found the trio's picture:



Hey, Canada. the guy in the foreground resembles Air Jordan. Love it.

So, dj, this one is for you, 'cause I know you like Tom Waits:




Big In Japan
(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
I got the style but not the grace
I got the clothes but not the face
I got the bread but not the butter
I got the winda but not the shutter

But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But heh I'm big in Japan

I got the house but not the deed
I got the horn but not the reed
I got the cards but not the luck
I got the wheel but not the truck

But heh I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan

I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation
On its knees I got the rooster I got the crow
I got the ebb I got the flow

I got the powder but not the gun
I got the dog but not the bun
I got the clouds but not the sky
I got the stripes but not the tie

But heh I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan

Heh ho they love the way I do it
Heh ho there's really nothing to it

I got the moon I got the cheese
I got the whole damn nation on their knees
I got the rooster I got the crow
I got the ebb I got the flow

I got the sizzle but not the steak
I got the boat but not the lake
I got the sheets but not the bed
I got the jam but not the bread

dj, you are delightful, isn't he, folks?

I just went to the archives to check out Da La Soul, and found the trio's picture:



Hey, Canada. the guy in the foreground resembles Air Jordan. Love it.

So, dj, this one is for you, 'cause I know you like Tom Waits:




Big In Japan
(Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
I got the style but not the grace
I got the clothes but not the face
I got the bread but not the butter
I got the winda but not the shutter

But I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan But heh I'm big in Japan

I got the house but not the deed
I got the horn but not the reed
I got the cards but not the luck
I got the wheel but not the truck

But heh I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan

I got the moon I got the cheese I got the whole damn nation
On its knees I got the rooster I got the crow
I got the ebb I got the flow

I got the powder but not the gun
I got the dog but not the bun
I got the clouds but not the sky
I got the stripes but not the tie

But heh I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan I'm big in Japan

Heh ho they love the way I do it
Heh ho there's really nothing to it

I got the moon I got the cheese
I got the whole damn nation on their knees
I got the rooster I got the crow
I got the ebb I got the flow

I got the sizzle but not the steak
I got the boat but not the lake
I got the sheets but not the bed
I got the jam but not the bread

a song so sweet, you had to sing it twice

a tom waits like song from mr p. heaton and friends

Liars' Bar
The Beautiful South

Well sitting in a bar alone
where no-one knows your name
is like laying in a graveyard
wide awake
You're scared that if you cough or yawn
you might wake up the dead
So pretend to read a paper
or just drink instead

I'm a stand-up comedian
but I'd sit down if I could
The world just seems
to want folk like me to stand
And the punch-lines seem to disappear
like clouds across the sky
And the laughter could be real
or could be canned

Rum by the kettle drum
Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar

Well living with a lying man
could never really hurt
But living with a drunk
well no-one deserves
And you're looking for your husband
you're not sure he's still alive
Don't bother with the cemetery
he'll be down at liar's dive

I'm a travelling businessman
I just stopped in for one drink
You'll find
that I'm not like the other men
Their noses are red
whilst mine is only pink
And they didn't choose their drink
their drink chose them

Rum by the kettle drum
Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar

And the grave-digger's smiling
at his reflection in his spade
He's visiting the seediest
the shallowest of graves
The vocal chords of elephants
and the characters of mice
They're singing "whisky, whisky"
so good they named it twice

Well don't pass buildings with lights on
if I said that I did I'd have lied
'Cause what looks like a Chinese restaurant
may have Chinese New Year inside
And son all my life I've been searching
the bars I've been in I forget
The lights outside ever brighter
but a light on the inside not yet

Rum by the kettle drum
Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar

And he's a world-wide traveller
he's not like me or you
But he comes in mighty regular
for one who's passing through
That one came in his work clothes
he's missed his last bus home
He's missed a hell of a lot of buses
for a man who wants to roam

If I look rough I am rough
If I look sad I am
If I look broke I am broke
Just a broke down piece of man

I've turned over enough leaves
to fill an autumn
and if I had one final wish
I'd be your slave for a decade
if you could take me away from this
If you took me away from this
I'd be different you'd see
'Cause I didn't choose the drink
a drink just chose me

Rum by the kettle drum
Whiskey by the jar
At Liar's Bar

Well I'm smoking like a chimney
And I'm drinking like a fish
At Liar's Bar

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

You know, dj, all those lyrics are so ambivalent that they are rather like an abstract painting. Incidentally, Canada, that twice-rendered song was per request.

A morning poem by Mary Oliver:

Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)



The spirit

likes to dress up like this:

ten fingers,

ten toes,



shoulders, and all the rest

at night

in the black branches,

in the morning



in the blue branches

of the world.

It could float, of course,

but would rather



plumb rough matter.

Airy and shapeless thing,

it needs

the metaphor of the body,



lime and appetite,

the oceanic fluids;

it needs the body's world,

instinct



and imagination

and the dark hug of time,

sweetness

and tangibility,



to be understood,

to be more than pure light

that burns

where no one is --



so it enters us --

in the morning

shines from brute comfort

like a stitch of lightning;



and at night

lights up the deep and wondrous

drownings of the body

like a star.

Lew Ayres
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 - December 30, 1996) was an American actor.

Born Lewis Frederick Ayre III in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California, Ayres began acting in bit player roles in films in 1927. He played opposite Greta Garbo in 1929's The Kiss, but it was his starring role in 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front which made him a star. He played the title role in Young Dr. Kildare in 1938, and became a matinee idol, starring in several Kildare films.

Mirroring his anti-war and medical roles in his film work, Ayres was a pacifist who sought to become a member of the Medical Corps during World War II. The military would not guarantee him that position, so he declared as a conscientious objector, and reported to a CPS camp. Having such a well-known public figure take this stance was poor publicity for the military, and it led to changes in the rules, at which point Ayres was then able to join the Medical Corps, serving in the Pacific and in New Guinea.

In 1948 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Johnny Belinda, but his career was sparse after the war. Fatefully his Johnny Belinda costar, Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband, Ronald Reagan, for him, albeit unsuccessfully.

He was offered the part of Doctor Kildare in a television series, but his (now prescient) request that the show not have cigarette ads torpedoed that.

He played the role of the governor in the pilot episode of the TV series, Hawaii Five-O. He chose not to move to Hawaii to do the series, but did appear in the show in other roles from time to time. He also had many guest roles in a variety of other TV series.

His 1976 documentary film Altars of the World brought his Eastern philosophical beliefs to the screen and earned him critical acclaim. He played a pacifist politician in the original Battlestar Galactica film in 1978.

Late in life, he appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as the father of the Murray Slaughter character played by Gavin MacLeod. The episode involved Mary's May-November romance with Mr. Slaughter, Senior.

Ayres was married three times. He was married to actress Lola Lane from 1931 until 1933 and to actress Ginger Rogers from 1934 until 1940. His third marriage, to Diana Hall, lasted from 1964 until his death from complications while in a coma at the age of 88.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Blvd.

Hildegard Knef
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born: December 28, 1925
Ulm, Germany
Died: February 1, 2002
Berlin, Germany



Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard(e) Neff. Arguably, her most influential roles included that of Susanne Wallner in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us) (the first film released after the Second World War in East Germany and produced by the Soviet filmmaking enterprise DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme) as well as her role as Marina in Die Sünderin (The Sinner) in which she performed the first nude scene in German filmmaking. The incident in the latter film sparked one of the largest scandals in German filmmaking history and drew the criticism of the Roman Catholic Church. She was the first and only German to have a successful Broadway show (Silk Stockings written by Cole Porter). She was sometimes compared to that other great German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in that they both were, or portrayed as, the liberated, self-confident woman. Hildegard Knef was one of the most important actresses of post-war Germany.

In the 60's and 70's she enjoyed much success as a singer of German chansons, which she often co-wrote.

She has published several books. Her autobiography Der geschenkte Gaul - Bericht aus einem Leben (The Gift Horse - Report on a Life) is a candid, but not sensationalist, recount of her life in Germany during and after World War II. It became the best selling German book after World War II.

She is also known for her version of the song "Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" (I`ve got a suitcase left in Berlin...), the title of which is still often cited in articles and in common speech throughout Germany.

Maggie Smith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Margaret Natalie Smith
Born December 28, 1934
Ilford, Essex, England

Academy Awards

Best Actress, 1969
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Best Supporting Actress, 1978
California Suite

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award-winning British film, stage, and television actress.




Early life

Smith was born in Ilford, then in the county of Essex but now part of the London borough of Redbridge, to Nathaniel Smith, who worked at Oxford University, and Margaret Hutton Little, who was Scottish; she has two older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian. She studied at Oxford High School although she has been quoted as having not enjoyed the experience, at a time when the likes of Lady Antonia Fraser would have been amongst her peers.


Career

She started her career at the Oxford Playhouse with Frank Shelley, and made her first film in 1956. In 1969 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as an unorthodox Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She was also awarded the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the brittle actress, Diana Barrie, in California Suite. Other notable roles include the querulous Charlotte Bartlett in the Merchant-Ivory production of A Room with a View and a vivid supporting turn as the aged Duchess of York in Ian McKellen's film of Richard III. Given the international success of the Harry Potter movies, she is possibly most widely known to younger filmgoers in the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films.

Throughout her career, Smith has been admired for her remarkable technique, on both stage and screen. She has the ability to project a quality of deep emotion (whether comic or tragic) balanced by an innate reserve that combines the appearance of steely control and a hint of something approaching hysteria. Off stage, however, she is perceived as a reserved and private person and is perhaps not held in the general public's affections in the same way as her good friend, Dame Judi Dench. To her legion of devoted and sometimes fanatical admirers, however, she is one of the great actresses of film and theatre with an idiosyncratic style quite unlike anyone else; it was during the 1970s when some of her harsher critics had tired of what they saw as her irritating mannerisms that she moved to Canada to find a new direction in both her art and in her personal life as she had recently become divorced.

On stage, her many roles include the title character in the stage production of Alan Bennett's Lady in the Van and starring as Peter Pan[citation needed] in J. M. Barrie's fairytale story Peter Pan. She won a Tony Award in 1990 for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage, starring as an eccentric tour guide in an English stately home.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1970, and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1990.


Private life

Smith has been married twice. She married Robert Stephens on 29 June 1967, at the Greenwich Registry office and had two sons with him: actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969). They divorced on 6 May 1974.

She married Beverly Cross (on 23 August 1975 at Guildford Registry Office) and the marriage ended with his death on 20 March 1998. At the time of his death she was appearing in A Delicate Balance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket yet with characteristic fortitude she continued to the end of the run.

In the late 1980s she became quite seriously ill with Graves Disease and took some considerable time away from acting to recuperate.

Denzel Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Denzel Obert Washington, Jr.
Born December 28, 1954 (age 51)
Mt. Vernon, New York


Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actor, 1989
Glory
Best Actor, 2001
Training Day

Denzel Jermaine Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor and occasional director and stage actor.




Biography

Early life

Washington was born in Mount Vernon, New York; he has an older sister, Lorice, and a younger brother. His father, Dillwyn, Virginia-born Reverend Denzel Washington, was an ordained Pentecostal minister, he worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, "S. Klein". His mother, Lennis, a beauty parlor owner, was born in Georgia and raised in Harlem. Washington was banned from watching movies by his parents, who divorced when he was fourteen. He subsequently went through a rebellious stage, which ended when several friends were sent to prison. His mother's reaction to his behavioral problems was to send him to preparatory school, and later on he was sent to Fordham University, where he discovered acting and earned a degree in journalism.


Early career

Washington's first film role was in the 1975 made-for-television movie Wilma. His big break came when he starred in the popular television hospital drama, St. Elsewhere. He was one of a few actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. In 1987, after appearing in several minor theatrical films and stage roles, Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom, a role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1989, Washington won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant, self-possessed ex-slave in the film Glory. Also that same year, he gave a powerful performance as Reuben James, a Caribbean-born black man who turned from British Army paratrooper to vigilante to situate the neighborhoods in England in For Queen and Country.


Career: 1990s

Washington played one of his most critically acclaimed roles in 1992's Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee. His performance as the Black Nationalist leader earned him an Oscar nomination. Both the influential film critic Roger Ebert and the highly acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese called the movie one of the ten best films made during the 1990s.

Malcolm X transformed Washington's career, turning him, practically overnight, into one of Hollywood's most respected actors. He turned down several similar roles, such as an offer to play Martin Luther King, Jr., because he wanted to avoid being typecast. The next year, in 1993, he took another risk in his career by playing Joe Miller, the homophobic lawyer of a man with AIDS in the movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks, although it was a big risk for Hanks to play a man with AIDS, critics agreed it was also a risk for Washington to play the homophobic Miller. During the early and mid 1990s, Washington became a renowned Hollywood leading man, starring in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well comedies (Much Ado About Nothing) and romantic dramas (The Preacher's Wife).

While filming the 1995 film, Virtuosity, Washington refused to kiss his white female co-star, Kelly Lynch, during a romantic scene between their characters. During an interview, Lynch stated that while she wanted to, "[Denzel] felt very strongly about it. I felt there is no problem with interracial romance. But Denzel felt strongly that the white males, who were the target audience of this movie, would not want to see him kiss a white woman." Lynch further stated, "That's a shame. I feel badly about it. I keep thinking that the world's changed, but it hasn't changed quick enough".[1] A similar situation also occurred during the filming of The Pelican Brief when Julia Roberts expressed in an interview her desire to have her character in the film engaged in a romantic relationship with Washington's character. However, in 1998, Washington starred in a scene of a sexual nature with actress Milla Jovovich, in Spike Lee's He Got Game.

In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane, a movie about boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison. Various newspaper articles have suggested that the controversy over the film's accuracy may have cost Washington an Oscar for which he was nominated. Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a 'Silberner Bär' (Silver Berlin Bear) at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.


Career: 2000s

Washington appeared in the crowd-pleasing Disney film, Remember the Titans, which grossed over $100 million at the United States box office. He was nominated and won an Oscar for his next film, the 2001 cop thriller, Training Day, which was considered a change of pace for Washington, as he played a villainous character after many roles as a heroic lead. Some argue that Washington's win for his role in Training Day was the Academy's way of making up for its past indiscretion in failing to present him with the award for his role in The Hurricane which many people at the time felt he deserved. Some also argue that Washington only received the Academy Award for Training Day because it reinforced a stereotypical image of a violent, corrupt, black individual as opposed to the triumphant, heroic, and moral characters portrayed in The Hurricane, Malcolm X and Cry Freedom. After appearing in 2002's box office success, the Health care-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.

Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire and The Manchurian Candidate [2]. His film, Inside Man, a Spike Lee-directed bank heist thriller co-starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen, opened on March 24, 2006. His latest film, entitled Deja Vu is currently in theaters.


Personal life

In 1983, Washington married actress Pauletta Pearson (now Pauletta Washington), whom he met on the set of his first screen role, Wilma. The couple has four children: John David (b. 1983), who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2006 after playing college ball at Morehouse [2]; Katia (b. 1987), who is attending Yale University, Olivia (b. 1991) and Malcolm (b. 1991) (named after Malcolm X). In 1995, the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.

Trivia

He is the first Black American performer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Actor (for Training Day). The first being Sidney Poitier, who happened to receive an Honorary Academy Award the same night that Washington won for Best Actor. Both had previously received Academy Awards. Washington noted in his acceptance speech that he was always following in Poitier's footsteps - even when he won another Oscar, Poitier had done so too. However, Washington is the only actor of African descent to have won two Academy Awards in competitive categories, and to have the most acting nominations (five times) for a Black American performer.
He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several individuals who actually existed, including Steve Biko (Cry Freedom), Malcolm X (Malcolm X), Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (The Hurricane), and Herman Boone (Remember the Titans).
At the age of nine, Denzel Washington's son John David Washington made a cameo appearance in the film Malcolm X as a student in a Harlem classroom. On May 1, 2006, John (age 22) signed with the St. Louis Rams of the NFL as an undrafted rookie free agent.
His name is an ongoing use in the animated hit sitcom Proud Family.
His name is shouted out while Lizzie and her mom are throwing pots in an episode of Lizzie McGuire.
It is rumored that he is in talks with Peter Jackson in New Zealand to discuss his possible involvement in the upcoming movie based on the video game Halo. Although this hasn't been confirmed, many believe he will play the character Sgt. Johnson.
Has refused to work with director Quentin Tarantino due to his overuse of the word "nigger" in his movies.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Washington as one of three people (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) they want to negotiate with for the release of three defense contractors that the group has held captive since 2003.[3]
Denzel and his family recently visited soldiers at the Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Denzel later made a sizeable donation to the Fisher Houses, small hotels that provide rooms for soldiers' families while the soldiers are hospitalized.
In October 2006, he published a book entitled Hand to Guide Me, featuring actors, politicians, athletes, and other public figures recalling their childhood mentors. The book was published in commemoration of the Boys and Girls Club of America's centennial anniversary. Denzel had participated in the club as a child.
Denzel Washington is often cited as an example of human physical attractiveness due to the symmetry of his facial features.[3][4][5]

A contestant on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" had reached
the final plateau. If she answered the next question
correctly, she would win $1,000,000. If she answered
incorrectly, she would pocket only the $32,000 milestone
money.

And as she suspected it would be, the million-dollar question
was no pushover. It was, "Which of the following species of
birds does not build its own nest, but instead lays its eggs
in the nests of other birds? Is it A) the condor;
B) the buzzard; C) the cuckoo; or (D) the vulture?"

The woman was on the spot. She did not know the answer. And
she was doubly on the spot because she had used up her 50/50
Lifeline and her Audience Poll Lifeline. All that remained
was her Phone-a-Friend Lifeline. The woman hoped she would
not have to use it because .. her friend was . well ...

a blonde.

She had no alternative. She called her friend and gave her
the question and the four choices. The blonde responded
unhesitatingly: "That's easy. The answer is C: The cuckoo."

The contestant had to make a decision and make it fast. She
considered employing a reverse strategy and giving Regis
any answer except the one that her friend had given her.
And considering that her friend was a blonde, that would
seem to be the logical thing to do.

On the other hand - the blonde had responded with such
confidence, such certitude, that the contestant could
not help but be persuaded. "I need an answer," said
Regis. Crossing her fingers, the contestant said,
"C: The cuckoo."

"Is that your final answer?" asked Regis.

"Yes, that is my final answer."

Two minutes later, Regis said, "That answer is ...
absolutely correct!!

You are now a millionaire!"

Three days later, the contestant hosted a party for her
family and friends - including the blonde who had helped
her win the million dollars.

"Jenny, I just do not know how to thank you," said the
contestant. "How did you happen to know the right
answer?"

"Oh, come on," said the blonde. "Everybody knows that
cuckoos don't build nests . They live in clocks."

Hey, hawkman. I loved the blonde joke, buddy, because the word "cuckold" comes from that bird that robs other's nests.

A lot of big surprises in Bob's bio's today, and I think we know most of them, but will await our Raggedy's appearance to comment.

Very curious about Nichelle Nichols, Boston, because I read about her having been a victim in the Heaven's Gate cult suicide.

She may or may not have done this song:

Michael Buble - The More I See You Lyrics
The more I see you,
The more I want you.
Somehow this feeling
Just grows and grows.
With every sigh I become more mad about you,
More lost without you,
And so it goes.
Can you imagine
How much I'll love you
The more I see you
As years go by?
I know the only one for me can only be you.
My arms won't free you;
My heart won't try.

Simon And Garfunkel › The Sound Of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

I love the oxymoron in that song, Bob. I also like this one from Simon and Garfunkel because it is taken from one of my favorite poets, E.A.Robinson. (no, not that Mrs. Robinson. )

They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town,
With political connections to spread his wealth around.
Born into society, a banker's only child,
He had everything a man could want: power, grace, and style.

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes:
Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at a show.
And the rumor of his parties and the orgies on his yacht!
Oh, he surely must be happy with everything he's got.


But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch,
And they were grateful for his patronage and thanked him very much,
So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read:
"Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head."

But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be,
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Cory.

Good Afternoon WA2K.
I love the cuckoo joke.

Here are Lew, and Stan's Captain America ; Hildegard; Maggie and Denzel.

Great collage, Raggedy. I read All's Quiet on the Western Front, and put it on the student's reading list because I wanted them to understand both sides of war.

Simply don't recall Hildegard, I'm afraid, nor any of Maggie's movies. DenZEL, however, is an actor one is not likely to forget. The movie, "Virtousity" was awful, though.

Trying to recall, folks. Was Captain America a part of the movie Easy Rider? Will have to check that out.

Found this song in both German and English by Hildegard:

ICH BRAUCH' TAPETENWECHSEL


Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel sprach die Birke
Und macht sich in der Dämmerung auf den Weg
Ich brauche frischen Wind um meine Krone
Ich will nicht mehr in Reih und Glied
In eurem Haine stehen, die gleiche Wiese sehen
Die Sonne links am Morgen, abends rechts.

Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel sprach die Birke
Und macht sich in der Dämmerung auf den Weg
Ein Bus verfehlte sie um 20 Zentimeter
Und auf dem Flugplatz war sie ernsthaft in Gefahr
Zwei Doggen folgten ihr um Astes Breite
Und kurz nach zwölf traf sie ein Buchenpaar.

Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel sprach die Birke
Und macht sich in der Dämmerung auf den Weg
Die eine sprach: „Sie haben hier nichts zu suchen
So was wie Sie hat nicht einmal ein Nest!"
Sie wurde gelb vor Ärger und weils auch schon Herbst war
Verzweiflung kam ihr langsam ins Geäst.

Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel sprach die Birke
Und macht sich in der Dämmerung auf den Weg
Des Försters Beil traf sie im Morgenschimmer
Gleich an der Schranke, als der D-Zug kam
Und als Kommode dachte sie noch immer
Wie schön es doch im Birkenhaine war.

Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel sprach die Birke
Und macht sich in der Dämmerung auf den Weg


ICH BRAUCH' TAPETENWECHSEL
I Need a Change of Scenery


I need a change of scenery said the birch tree
And set out at twilight on her way.
I need fresh wind around my crown
I want no longer in formation
In your grove to stand, to see the same meadow
The sun on the left in the morning, on the right in the evening.

I need a change of scenery said the birch tree
And set out at twilight on her way.
A bus just missed her by 20 centimeters
And at the airport she was in serious danger
Two dogs followed her within branch distance
And just after 12 she met a couple of beech trees.

I need a change of scenery said the birch tree
And set out at twilight on her way.
One of them said: "You don't belong here.
Something like you doesn't even have a nest!"
She turned yellow with anger and because it was already fall
Desperation came slowly into her branches.

I need a change of scenery said the birch tree
And set out at twilight on her way.
The forester's axe got her in the morning glow
Right at the crossgate, as the express train came
And as a chest of drawers she kept thinking
How nice it was after all in the birch grove.

I need a change of scenery said the birch tree
And set out at twilight on her way...


Lovely, no?

Lovely - Yes!

Holly Jolly Christmas
Johnny Marks (c) 1962

Have a holly, jolly Christmas;
It's the best time of the year
I don't know if there'll be snow,
but have a cup of cheer.
Have a holly, jolly Christmas;
And when you walk down the street
Say Hello to friends you know
and everyone you meet.

Oh, ho, the mistletoe
hung where you can see;
Somebody waits for you;
Kiss her once for me.
Have a holly jolly Christmas,
and in case you didn't hear,
Oh by golly, have a holly,
jolly Christmas this year.

Try, you played that thing on purpose.

Here's one based on a classic by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.


They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter's light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And eyes full of tinsel and fire

They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night
And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked to the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

a certain lady i know has a family member back from the hospital, and safe at home

here's mr. cooper to sing about that feeling

Going Home
Alice Cooper

I'm going home
There I am in my bedroom
I'm safe and snug and snoring
and so glad to be there

I'm going home
None of this ever happened
But God, I really did it
Still nothing has changed

I'm going home
I'm going home
To my own room to all the mess
To all the dirty laundry
It looks so good I don't care
I'm just so glad to be back home
Sweet home

I wonder if anyone missed me
Or have I been gone so long
They thought that I died
How many said I wonder what happened to Alice
How many shrugged or laughed
How many cried

But I don't give a damn
'Cuz I'm going home
I'm going home
To my own room to all the mess
To all the dirty laundry
It looks so good I don't care
I'm just so glad to be back home

I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now
I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now
I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now
I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now
I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now
I'm going home
Nothing can stop me now

Ah, dj. You just gave Christmas back. <smile>Yep, Canada, going home is wonderful after a long stay in the hospital. Thanks, buddy, that was uplifting for me this evening. Who would have thought that Alice Cooper could be that sentimental.

Here's one from a group who calls themselves Goldfinger.


Radio Lyrics (Goldfinger)

It's 9 O'Clock she's late for work
She hates her job, her boss is a jerk
Her boyfriend never lets her play
She thinks she's wasting life away
At 5 O'Clock she gets in her car
She's driving fast but never goes far
Parked on the freeway, slips in a rage
Time to ride the airwaves

Long live my radio it never lets me down,
Long live my radio give me sound

Nothin' to do nothin' to say
Just try to find another way
To a different world some other plane
Where I can be myself without going insane
This little place that we call life
Theres more to it than just pain and strife
Gotta find that somewhere in your brain
Gotta ride the airwaves

Long live my radio it never lets me down,
Long live my radio give me sound

Long live my radio please make it all right
Long live my radio tonight

And when the static's screamin' louder than your life
Just try to ride the waves in the air tonight
I make a dedication and try to get it right
So you can hear it on the airwaves
Airwaves

Long live my radio it never lets me down
Long live my radio tonight

Let's Go!

Long live my radio it never lets me down,
Long live my radio give me sound

Long live my radio make it alright
Long live my radio tonight

Tonight
Long live my radio tonight