On the 8 Spot

I so so so so so so so so so so so LOVE this song.

Jon Brion writes songs so well suited to the music in a lyrical sense primarily but the song is really a song.  not a tune with slapped on lyrics, or poetry pretending to be a song.

Makes one wonder how jon brion composes. does he do it while or after watching a film. does the words come first?

I so love this verse. It’s sooo true.  I feel that the reason I liked Punch Drunk Love sooo much is that I see myself in Adam Sandler’s character.

You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard

Here We Go

You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard

Because you can bend the truth
Until it’s suiting you
These things that you’re wrapping all around you
You never know what they will amount to
And your life is just going on without you
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go

You’ve gotta know that there’s more to this world
Than what you have seen
Because we all have a limited view
Of what we can be

As we move along with our blinders on
Each one of us feels a little stranded
And you can’t explain or understand it
Each one of us on a different planet
And amidst all the to and fro
Someone can say hello
Here we go

The feeling that someone really gets you
It’s something that no one should object to
It could happen today
So I suggest you skip your habit of laying low
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go

Because someone can say “Hello,
You old so and so, here we go”

This was cool, wii mote controlling a host of percussion instruments!!

If you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it?
If you could make everyobody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it?
If you could take all the love without fiving any back
Would you do it?
And so we cannot know ourselves or what we’d really do…

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it?
If you knew all the answers and could give it to the masses
Would you do it?
No no no no no no are you crazy?
It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself or what you’d really do

With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?

This is why name that tune would be so hard today!!!!
36 recognizable hits with 4 chords hehe.

We need something like this in the Philippines. I think this should start with trying to organize all recorded interviews we have of candidates. These interviews we tag with their positions and the context. We could do this for everything a politician/journalist/business people/celebrity  etc. says. Then whenever a new video is entered into our database we can automatically query flip-flopping, bad policy advice etc! This can be done by us the citizens of the Philippines. I hope someone does this.

PS: The cynic in me keeps remembering Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s “I lied!!!”

PS1: Listen to the npr audio in the linked post.

Ps2: One of the things I’d miss from my current job is the US IP address. No more full episodes of The Daily Show. Colbert Report and

For decades, young reporters would ask themselves, “What would Walter think?” Nowadays, it’s not the memory of Walter Cronkite or even Edward R. Murrow that motivates some reporters — it’s more often the fear that the stories they put out today might get picked apart by Jon Stewart tomorrow.

Prominent among the wary: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who recently explained in a magazine essay that The Daily Show host “has gone from optional to indispensable” in just a few short years.

And Williams tells NPR’s Guy Raz that on occasion, when he feels his broadcast tap-dancing toward the precipice — tossing around a story idea for “what I call Margaret Mead journalism — where we ‘discover Twitter,’ ” for instance, or entertaining some other unfortunate editorial possibility — “I will, and have, said that, ‘You know, maybe we can just give a heads-up to Jon to set aside some time for that tonight.’

“I should quickly add, we have another set of standards we put our stories through,” Williams cautions. “But Jon’s always in the back of my mind. … When you make The Daily Show, it’s usually not for a laurel, it’s for a dart.”

None of this, the NBC anchor says, is to claim that Stewart and his crew have had some wholesale transformative effect on the news media.

But “a lot of the work that Jon and his staff do is serious,” Williams says. “They hold people to account, for errors and sloppiness. … It’s usually delivered with a smile — sometimes not. It’s not who we do it for, it’s not our only check and balance, but it’s healthy — and it helps us that he’s out there.”

via Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News : NPR.

The video is from the Straight No Chaser vocal group!!!

We don’t have christmas but quoting chuck. I’m celebrating the Commercial Christmas, not the religious kind.  I think this is the christmas that they celebrate in japan!!!!

I wanna sit you down and talk
I wanna pull back the veils
And find out what it is I´ve done wrong
I wanna tear these curtains down
I want you to meet me somewhere
Tonight in this old tourist town
And we´ll go

Low rising
´Cause we´ve gotta come up
We´ve gotta come up
Low rising
´Cause I fear we´ve had enough
Low rising
´Cause there´s no further for us to fall
Low rising
Oh for the love of you

I wanna take you to the rock
I wanna jump right in
And see what that big ocean´s got
I wanna turn this thing around
I wanna drink with you
All night till we both fall down
Till we go

Low rising
´Cause we´ve gotta come up
We´ve gotta come up
Low rising
´Cause there´s no further for us to fall
Low rising
And I fear we´ve had enough
Low rising
Oh for the love of you

Low rising
´Cause we´ve gotta come up
We´ve gotta come up
Low rising
And I fear we´ve had enough
Low rising
´Cause there´s no further for us to fall
Low Rising
Oh for the love of you

For the love of you

Low rising low rising

I wanna sit you down and talk

I wanna sit you down and talk about it now

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This video made me happy. There is a way that good music just seems to be. Like there is no other way that the notes could have been arranged. The music of Philip Glass never fails to move me and though videos like this in the vein of demystifying Philip Glass’ music may be oft-putting for some, It is not for me. Must practice this when I make time!

Hello

Performed by Beyonce

“Hello”

Oh!
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh……
I love to see you walk into the room
Body shining lighting up the place
And when you talk, everybody stops
Cause they know you know just what to say
And the way that you protect your friends
Baby, I respect you for that
And when you grow, you take everyone you love along
I love that you don’t fly me away
Don’t need to buy a diamond key to unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You’re my fire when I’m cold
I want you to know

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
Cause you had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hellooh oh oh oh oh

I get so excited when you travel with me
Baby, while I’m on my grind
And never would I ever let my hustle
Come between me and my family time
You keep me humble I like this hype
Cause you know there’s more to life
If I need you, you will be here
You will make the sacrifice
Don’t fly me away
Don’t need to buy a diamond key to unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You’re my fire when I’m cold
Just want you to know

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hellooh oh oh oh oh

Gotta feel you and be near you
You’re the air that I breath to survive
Gotta hold you, wanna show you
That without you my sun doesn’t shine
You don’t have to try so hard for me to love you
Boy, without you my life just ain’t the same
You don’t have to try so hard for me to love you
You had me at hello!

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
When you
Stole my cool
you had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hellooh oh oh oh oh

…..

It was many years ago
When you
Stole my cool
you had me at hello
Hello
Hello
Hellooh oh oh oh oh

I hear this song alot from marc and tunyuh. They say it’s the saddest song they know. Damn this song is harsh!

video in youtube here

Alone Again, Naturally Lyrics
by Gilbert O’Sullivan

In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: “My God, that’s tough
She’s stood him up”
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally