Pet Shop Boys
We’re All Criminals Now

Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’ve changed
We’re all criminals now
Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’re blamed
We’re all criminals now

Just a routine procedure
(We’re watching you)
A sample of your DNA
(The things you do)
Queuing to be finger-printed
(You could be dangerous)
Going to the USA
Another routine procedure
(We’re on your case)
Driving in your car
(We’ve seen your face)
Stopped and searched and questioned
(Some place before)
Can you prove who you are?
Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’ve changed
We’re all criminals now
Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’ve been framed
We’re all criminals now

Hey, hey, hey
We’re all criminals now
Hey, hey, hey
We’re all criminals now

Got the bus to the station
Music playing in my head
Ran to get on the tube train
Police shot someone dead

Don’t ask me how We’re all criminals now

Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’re blamed
We’re all criminals now
Hey, hey
Don’t ask me how
We’ve been framed
We’re all criminals now

There’s a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us somewhere

There’s a time for us
Someday a time for us
Time together with time to spare
Time to learn, time to care

Someday, somewhere
We’ll find a new way of living
We’ll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere

There’s a place for us
A time and place for us
Hold my hand and we’re
half way there
Hold my hand and I’ll
take you there

Somehow, someday
Somewhere

Somewhere

There’s a place for us
A time and a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Hold my hand and I’ll
take you there

Somehow, someday
Somewhere

Happy New Year 2009

Great song by Pet Shop Boys called “What Keeps Mankind Alive?:

You gentlemen who think you have a mission
to purge us of the seven deadly sins
should first sort out the basic food position
then start your preaching, that’s where it begins

You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well
should learn for all time how the world is run
However much you twist, whatever lies you tell
food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those who now are starving
get proper helpings when we all start carving

What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions
are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
at keeping its humanity repressed
For once you must not try to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

You say the girls may strip with your permission
You draw the line dividing art from sin
So first sort out the basic food position
then start your preaching, that’s where it begins

You lot who bank on your desires and our disgust
should learn for all time how the world is run
Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist
food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those who now are starving
get proper helpings when we all start carving

What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions
are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
at keeping its humanity repressed
For once you must not try to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
at keeping its humanity repressed
For once you must not try to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

What a perfect week for a great biking song:

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, bike!

[Spoken]
We can bike if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t bike and if they don’t bike
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can bike

[Sung]
We can bike if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t bike and if they don’t bike
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can bike
Bike!

We can go when we want to
Morning is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our helmets to our feet
And surprise ‘em with the victory cry
Say, we can act if want to
If we don’t nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile

[Refrain]
I say, we can bike, we can bike
Everything out of control
We can bike, we can bike
We’re doing it from wall to wall
We can bike, we can bike
Everybody look at your hands
We can bike, we can bike
Everybody takin’ the cha-a-a-ance

Safety bike
Is it safe to bike
Is it safe to bike

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, bike!

We can bike if we want to
We’ve got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it
Everything’ll work out right
I say, we can bike if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t bike and if they don’t bike
Well they’re no friends of mine

[Refrain]

Is it safe to bike, oh is it safe to bike [6x]
Is it safe to bike

The following videos really made my day. Thank you Amy for letting me know. Also, thank you Matt for making them. The put tears in my eyes.

Don’t forget the 2005 and 2006 editions.

These videos are just another proof that the world is a really happy and pretty place. Let’s work together to keep it that way.

What do you do when you have a song stuck in your head? How do you get rid of it? Well, why get rid of it in the first place? Me, well, I enjoy the ride. Especially if song is as awesome song as:

Moby ~ “Dream About Me”

Babe
Oh, dream about me
Lie
On the phone to me

Tell me no truth
If it is bad
There’s enough in my life
To make me so sad

Just dream about
Colour fills our lives
Just dream about
Someone else tonight

Babe
Oh, dream about me
On the phone
Talking quietly

I wanna be yours
I want you be mine
Against red skies
For all time

So dream about us
When you’re alone
Just dream about
How I will let go

Hand
Hand

Babe
Oh, dream about me
Lie
On the phone to me

Tell me no truth
If it is bad
There’s enough in my life
To make me so sad

Just dream about
Colour fills our lives
Just dream about
Someone else tonight

Just dream about
Colour fills our song
Just dream about
How I will let go

Michael Franti – Bomb The World

Please tell me the reason
Behind the colors that you fly
Love just one nation
And the whole world we divide
You say you’re “sorry”
Say, “there is no other choice”
But god bless the people them
Who cannot raise their voice
(chorus)

We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace

Violence brings one thing
More more of the same
Military madness
The smell of flesh and burning pain
So i sing out to the masses
Stand up if you’re still sane!
To all of us gone crazy
I sing this one refrain
(chorus)

And i sing power to the peaceful
Love to the people y’all
Power to the peaceful
Love to the people y’all

Bomb the world (armageddon version)

I don’t understand the whole reason why
You tellin’ us all that we need to unify
Rally round the flag
And beat the drums of war
Sing the same old songs
Ya know we heard ‘em all before
You tellin’ me it’s unpatriotic
But i call it what i see it
When i see it’s idiotic
The tears of one mother
Are the same as any other
Drop food on the kids
While you’re murderin’ their fathers
But don’t bother to show it on cnn
Brothers and sisters don’t believe them
It’s not a war against evil
It’s really just revenge
Engaged on the poorest by the same rich men
Fight terrorists wherever they be found
But why you not bombing tim mcveigh’s hometown
You can say what you want propaganda television
But all bombing is terrorism
(chorus)

We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace

911
Fire in the skies
Many people died
And no one even really knows why
They tellin’ lies of division and fear
We yelled and cried
No one listened for years
But like, “who put us here?”
And who’s responsible?
Well, there’s no debatin’
Cause if they ask me i say
It’s big corporations
World trade organization
Tri-lateral action
International sanctions, satan
Seems like it’ll be an endless price tag
Of wars tremendous
And most disturbingly
The death toll is so horrendous
So i send this to those
Who say they defend us
Send us into harm’s way
We should all make a rememberence that
This is bigger than terrorism
Blood is blood is blood and um
Love is true vision
Who will listen?
How many songs it takes for you to see
You can bomb the world to pieces
You can’t bomb it into peace

(chorus)

Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y’all
Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y’all
(chorus)

Today is Statehood Day in Slovenia. On today’s day in 1991 Slovenian government passed intent of independence. Next day (6/26/1991) Yugoslav army attacked Slovenia by driving tanks on the streets.

However, let’s celebrate the good things.

Happy Statehood Day SLOVENIA!!!

Lyrics: Slovenija, Od Kod Lepote Tvoje (A.B. Avsenik)

Povsod kamor seže pogled,
lepota zasanjana,
kje najti še lepši je svet,
kje lepše je kot doma.

Se s hribov v daljave zazrem,
prek gričev, dolin, gora,
v daljavi še modro morje uzrem,
kje lepše je kot doma.

Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje,
pozdravljamo te iz srca in srečni tu smo doma!
Slovenija, naj tebi pesem poje,
ne išči sreče drugot kot le doma.

Povej še oblaček ti bel,
obhodil že ves si svet,
je lepša dežela še kje,
kot naša, kjer smo doma.

Je vetrič veselo zapel,
preletel je prek sveta,
in takih lepot ni našel nikjer,
kot tule, kjer sem doma.

Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje,
pozdravljamo te iz srca in srečni tu smo doma!
Slovenija, naj tebi pesem poje,
ne išči sreče drugot kot le doma.

Without Chains, by Patti Smith

Every time I see some movie or photos of some old war it always makes me sad. What is impressive is how people are so forgetful. For instance not that long ago UN was saying that it should never again happen on our watch. They were talking about Rwanda that happened 14 years ago. Five years ago the mess in Darfur started. I guess UN will make sure that the next war (5-10 years from now) will also not happen.

Similar thing is happening with other wars. For example Vietnam war started close to 50 years ago. And today, like people would not learn nothing from that war, there are more wars like that raging in the world. When will people learn?

Almost 40 years ago, two young guys John and Paul wrote the following song:

Finally, I saw the movie “Across the Universe” and I strongly recommend it to everybody.

Some of you young folks been saying to me
Hey Pops, what you mean What a wonderful world
How about all them wars all over the place
You call them wonderful
And how about hunger and pollution
That aint so wonderful either
Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute
Seems to me, it aint the world that’s so bad
but what we’re doin’ to it
And all I’m saying is
See what a wonderful world
It would be if only we’d give it a chance
Love baby, love
That’s the secret, Yeah
If lots more of us loved each other
We solve lots more problems
And then this world would be better
That’s wha’ ol’ Pops keeps saying

Louis Armstrong What A Wonderful World

‘So! You take let us assume a third toke; long and slow. You vaporise
and you take it in and in and in… and there is a sound like the
crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of flame and a
tone. A mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
and there is this…….

There is a cheer. The gnomes have learned a new way to say hooray. The walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucinations. Very brightly coloured, very irridescent. Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy but that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited. And so like jewelled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say …’

Ok, this one is awesome. This is from Kiaser Chiefs and it goes like this:

La-ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

I tried to get in my taxi
A man in a tracksuit attacked me
He said that he saw it before me
Wants to get things a bit gory
Girls run around with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn’t for chip fat, well they’d be frozen
They’re not very sensible

La-ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

And if there’s anybody left in here
That doesn’t want to be out there

Watching the people get lairy
Is not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
And not very sensible

La-ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

And if there’s anybody left in here
That doesn’t want to be out there

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

Last weekend MM and I went to the birthday party of SP in Cambridge. Beside the fact that we were actually the first one driving from Clifton Park (about three hours) and that we all got way too drunk, it was a great evening of fun. The food was great, drinks were, well, drinks, and the crowd was just what you would expect.

The next day DJ was touring the Cambridge to us and somewhere on the way we stopped in this place to buy tickets for The Walkman. Turns out I knew this band from before and I like it a lot. DJ also told me about some other bands. And here is the funny anecdote. So, I was listening to Kaiser Chiefs and their song Oh My God, which is by the way awesome. As I stop on the gym’s parking lot and go in, the song that is playing is the same Oh My God. Coincidence?

Anyway, here are the lyrics to We’ve been had, which is an amazing song from The Walkman

We’ve been had you say it’s over
Sometimes I’m just happy I’m older
We’ve been had I know it’s over
Somehow it got easy to laugh out loud

Ok, this one is not in english, but it is really cool.

Voor de groentewinkel stond Keesje de Jordaan
Zwaaiend sprak hij tot de baas, geef me een banaan
Maar de baas was juist die dag platweg uitverkocht
En hij dacht dat onze Kees ruzie met hem zochtEn de baas zei, ja ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag
‘k Heb radijsjes, hele mooie
Witte en rooie
Maar ja, ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag

Plots kwam er een rode kool door de winkelruit
En er volgde een meloen in de baas zijn snuit
De baas z’n snuit zat vol met sap, Kees ging voor hem staan
“Met je gore meloenenkop, geef me een banaan!”

Maar de baas zei, ja ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag
‘k Heb radijsjes, hele mooie
Witte en rooie
Maar ja, ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag

Dit is echt een superhit maar eigenlijk veels te kort
D’r moet nog een coupletje bij, dat is wat er aan schort
Zo stoffig als dit stukje tekst, dat kan eigenlijk niet
Maar de Boswachters doen het toch want die weten hoe het giet

En de baas zei, ja ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag
‘k Heb radijsjes, hele mooie
Witte en rooie
Maar ja, ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag

Maar de baas zei, ja ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag
‘k Heb radijsjes, hele mooie
Witte en rooie
Maar ja, ik heb geen bananen, ik heb geen bananen vandaag