A man walks down the street It's a street in a strange world Maybe it's the third world Maybe it's his first time around Doesn't speak the language Holds no currency He is a foreign man He is surrounded by the sound, sound Cattle in the marketplace The scatterings of oranges He looks around, around He sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity He says, hey, If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal...
Don't you just love the phrase "angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity"? It's one of those lines you just want to roll over your tongue over and over again.
Even though every song they did tonight was of the slow, melodic variety - I was hoping and praying he would sing /that/ one. I love that song and it has such a pertinent theme. I also woulda liked to see Chevy Chase participate. Hehehe.
Great show it was, though. I was disappointed that nobody sang, "I'm Proud To Be An American", but man, Celina Dion can still wail. Woo! And Julia Roberts made me cry. *sniff*
On a different note - did anybody call in and get to talk to Tom Hanks? *swooooooon* If I hadn't already given as much money as I could afford to the Red Cross, I would have. Damn.
Maybe this is petty, but a friend and I were commenting on the whole Celine Dion thing. Maybe it's because I really dislike her singing, I dunno. But I thought her performance was way annoying. Bleh.
To each his or her own, though. :) I wanted Paul Simon to sing "Bridge" and he did. Although "Sound of Silence" would have been wonderful, too.
He sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity He says, hey,
Actually, He says, "Amen! Hallelujah!" But I am so picky. Hee. But yes, I absolutely love the phrase angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity. Paul is a god. Another good tongue-roller is:
Medicine is magical, and magical is art Think of the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart
But then again, I just love Paul. He is my favorite boy ever ever ever.
Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chimed And the whole world whispering, "Born at the right time."
When that song came on tonight on the tv. (And my mom cried and sang to it.) I thought of you, HB. I wanted to thank you and juliann that really introduced me to them. I had known "You Can Call Me Al" But I never listened<\b> to them.
There was many, many obstacles that my mother had to go through with me. (I was born deaf. Completely deaf. There aws not enough information as the deaf population increased in the 60's due to the Ruebella outbreak.) So, whenever she hears that song, (twas cute.. she was hoping my feelnigs wasn't going to be hurt..) she thinks about all of the things she had to fight and get me to be treated as equal. (I've never gone to a deaf school. Never learned sign language until the age of 17 for pure curiousity.)
But she did love the way Paul Simon did that song, even though she sorta wished Garfunkel was there. As we speak, she's digging out the tapes while I'm online searching for mp3's from them.
I just love learning new music everyday.... from people who has a great passion for them. Thanks, HB.
I'm glad you and your mom spoke. I'm a little concerned about how passionately she wanted you to be "equal" and never go to a Deaf school or learn ASL or anything, though. That makes me kind of sad.
I think the Deaf culture is beautiful. I don't think being a part of it, by going to Deaf schools or learning the language, is a hinderance. But that's just my opinion, and I know we've talked about this before.
When I was a junior in high school, my mother realized that she had done great by me, and also bad by me. I knew no one of my kind. It's almost like those movies you watch? Like when one's heart just aches and wants to reach out to find someone of the same 'kind'. Sorta like Tarzan becomes intrigued and amzed with someone from his kind. I can't think of another movie that's similar to that sort of topic.
We all heard about this Family Learning Vacation thingie in Washington, DC. So we all went up for a week's vacation. I *finally* met someone who was like me.. and she didnt' speak as well as I did, but she taught me. (That's where me being 17 came in to learn this.) They were amazed about how fast I picked it up.
Two months later after that experience, my mother sat me down and suggested I apply for Gallaudet University. I was shocked. My mother never wanted me to go to a deaf school, and here she was asking me to go to Gally. We talked about it at a great deal. She aws sorry that she had me be 'normal'. I reminded her that there's far more worse parents than her. She just wanted me to live life, not take advantage of it. I never had taken advantage of my hearing. Never. My friends would always tease me and get me into conning the teacher out of tests or out of speeches or anything just so it could benefit them.
I'm sure, like any parents, she wishes that she had changed a few things to make it alright. But, at least she knows now. The society embraces it a lo tbetter today than it did 30 years ago. Tehre wasn't that much hearing aids around. Only a few kinds. Now.. geez.. there's scores and scores of them. Different levels, fancyshamcy things, small ones big ones. YOu get the drift. Theres also *so* many aids you can get in order to live alone. SOciety and techonology has come a long way to make life somewhat easier.
*steps off the soapbox.* However, this is my own take on my life, not anyone else's who happens to know someone who's deaf and whatnot.
Ugh. That's what I get for watching Ever After and trying to think when typing. Bad. Bad.
Second paragraph is referrnig to ASL. Cindy was the name of the girl I met. She coudlnt' speak clearly, but she taught me sign language. I was seventeen at the time. *Sorries for the confusion.*
Paul is a gem. He looked on the verge of tears when he sang that, don't you think? I was thinking how amazing it would be if he and Art Garfunkel would come together tonight for that concert.
Paul and Art reunifying would be wonderful. You know what I loved about Paul's performance, aside from the tears? That he wore an 'NYFD' hat.
You know, there's just something about New Yorkers. Something about the City that lives inside some people, and to other people who feel that way, it's a beautiful thing.
And NY, though there are sad/horrible things about it sometimes, there are just so many great things that make up for the bad 10 times over. (Why I want to live there.)
He was my brother Five years older than I He was my brother Twenty-three years old the day he died
Freedom writer They cursed my brother to his face Go home outsider This town's gonna be your buryin' place
He was singin' on his knees An angry mob trailed along They shot my brother dead Because he hated what was wrong
He was my brother Tears can't bring him back to me He was my brother And he died so his brothers could be free He died so his brothers could be free
And that's why Queens College used to have that godawful glowing blue clocktower until they changed the face to something more dignified. Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner (who was 24, not 23) should be more publicly recognized.
I wish Mariah had taken her Prozac. Hearing her do that dogwhistlescreech of hers while Willie was doing his thing made me want to throw a brick at the teevee.
Ugh, Celine makes me want to barf on principle. I was watching on a 15 minute Tivo delay and fast forwarded through her posing and mugging. In my ideal world they would've replaced her with Ani DiFranco, or if they really wanted to represent Canada, Alannis or the Barenaked Ladies.
1. Stevie Wonder's Love's in need of love today. 2. Celine Dion's God Bless America 3. Mariah Carey's Hero 4. Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water 5. Bruce Springsteen's City of Ruins
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Date: 2001-09-21 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-21 08:10 pm (UTC)Mmm.
When evening falls... so hard...
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Date: 2001-09-21 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-22 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-21 08:37 pm (UTC)It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the third world
Maybe it's his first time around
Doesn't speak the language
Holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound, sound
Cattle in the marketplace
The scatterings of oranges
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says, hey,
If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal...
Don't you just love the phrase "angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity"? It's one of those lines you just want to roll over your tongue over and over again.
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Date: 2001-09-21 10:23 pm (UTC)Great show it was, though. I was disappointed that nobody sang, "I'm Proud To Be An American", but man, Celina Dion can still wail. Woo! And Julia Roberts made me cry. *sniff*
On a different note - did anybody call in and get to talk to Tom Hanks? *swooooooon* If I hadn't already given as much money as I could afford to the Red Cross, I would have. Damn.
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Date: 2001-09-22 07:44 am (UTC)To each his or her own, though. :) I wanted Paul Simon to sing "Bridge" and he did. Although "Sound of Silence" would have been wonderful, too.
Celine
Date: 2001-09-22 08:09 am (UTC)Someone commented that Celine ought to be sent over to Afghanistan to sing at them.
They'd surrender before a single day was out.
The Great Winged Goat Person of Random Acts of Violence, Arathorn Slowhand Agnostes
AKA
Drag Queen of Wee Ceramic Kittens, Arathorn Slowhand Agnostes
formerly
Sheriff of The Right Side of Beef Jerky, Arathorn Agnostest, the First Which Beareth Said Name
Re: Celine
Date: 2001-09-22 08:43 am (UTC)They'd surrender before a single day was out.
Dude, it would be just like Mars Attacks, and probably just as effective.
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Date: 2001-09-22 07:48 am (UTC)Spinning in infinity
He says, hey,
Actually, He says, "Amen! Hallelujah!" But I am so picky. Hee. But yes, I absolutely love the phrase angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity. Paul is a god. Another good tongue-roller is:
Medicine is magical, and magical is art
Think of the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart
But then again, I just love Paul. He is my favorite boy ever ever ever.
Never been lonely
Never been lied to
Never had to scuffle in fear
Nothing denied to
Born at the instant
The church bells chimed
And the whole world whispering,
"Born at the right time."
That's me.
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Date: 2001-09-21 08:41 pm (UTC)When that song came on tonight on the tv. (And my mom cried and sang to it.) I thought of you, HB. I wanted to thank you and juliann that really introduced me to them. I had known "You Can Call Me Al" But I never listened<\b> to them.
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Date: 2001-09-22 07:48 am (UTC)Turns out..
Date: 2001-09-22 09:07 am (UTC)There was many, many obstacles that my mother had to go through with me. (I was born deaf. Completely deaf. There aws not enough information as the deaf population increased in the 60's due to the Ruebella outbreak.) So, whenever she hears that song, (twas cute.. she was hoping my feelnigs wasn't going to be hurt..) she thinks about all of the things she had to fight and get me to be treated as equal. (I've never gone to a deaf school. Never learned sign language until the age of 17 for pure curiousity.)
But she did love the way Paul Simon did that song, even though she sorta wished Garfunkel was there. As we speak, she's digging out the tapes while I'm online searching for mp3's from them.
I just love learning new music everyday.... from people who has a great passion for them. Thanks, HB.
Re: Turns out..
Date: 2001-09-22 09:37 am (UTC)I'm glad you and your mom spoke. I'm a little concerned about how passionately she wanted you to be "equal" and never go to a Deaf school or learn ASL or anything, though. That makes me kind of sad.
I think the Deaf culture is beautiful. I don't think being a part of it, by going to Deaf schools or learning the language, is a hinderance. But that's just my opinion, and I know we've talked about this before.
Smooch.
Re: Turns out..
Date: 2001-09-22 05:09 pm (UTC)When I was a junior in high school, my mother realized that she had done great by me, and also bad by me. I knew no one of my kind. It's almost like those movies you watch? Like when one's heart just aches and wants to reach out to find someone of the same 'kind'. Sorta like Tarzan becomes intrigued and amzed with someone from his kind. I can't think of another movie that's similar to that sort of topic.
We all heard about this Family Learning Vacation thingie in Washington, DC. So we all went up for a week's vacation. I *finally* met someone who was like me.. and she didnt' speak as well as I did, but she taught me. (That's where me being 17 came in to learn this.) They were amazed about how fast I picked it up.
Two months later after that experience, my mother sat me down and suggested I apply for Gallaudet University. I was shocked. My mother never wanted me to go to a deaf school, and here she was asking me to go to Gally. We talked about it at a great deal. She aws sorry that she had me be 'normal'. I reminded her that there's far more worse parents than her. She just wanted me to live life, not take advantage of it. I never had taken advantage of my hearing. Never. My friends would always tease me and get me into conning the teacher out of tests or out of speeches or anything just so it could benefit them.
I'm sure, like any parents, she wishes that she had changed a few things to make it alright. But, at least she knows now. The society embraces it a lo tbetter today than it did 30 years ago. Tehre wasn't that much hearing aids around. Only a few kinds. Now.. geez.. there's scores and scores of them. Different levels, fancyshamcy things, small ones big ones. YOu get the drift. Theres also *so* many aids you can get in order to live alone. SOciety and techonology has come a long way to make life somewhat easier.
*steps off the soapbox.* However, this is my own take on my life, not anyone else's who happens to know someone who's deaf and whatnot.
Re: Turns out..
Date: 2001-09-22 05:11 pm (UTC)Second paragraph is referrnig to ASL. Cindy was the name of the girl I met. She coudlnt' speak clearly, but she taught me sign language. I was seventeen at the time. *Sorries for the confusion.*
Re: Turns out..
Date: 2001-09-22 06:40 pm (UTC)I followed you just fine. I must be getting used to your text. I knew you were talking about ASL and stuff.
Parents, I think, always wish they did things differently. It's when they think that they did everything right, IMHO, that they're REALLY screwed up.
our darling Paul
Date: 2001-09-21 09:14 pm (UTC)Re: our darling Paul
Date: 2001-09-22 07:49 am (UTC)You know, there's just something about New Yorkers. Something about the City that lives inside some people, and to other people who feel that way, it's a beautiful thing.
I [heart] NY.
Re: our darling Paul
Date: 2001-09-22 09:54 am (UTC)And NY, though there are sad/horrible things about it sometimes, there are just so many great things that make up for the bad 10 times over.
(Why I want to live there.)
Re: our darling Paul
Date: 2001-09-22 10:20 am (UTC)I am in love with the City. Too bad she never gives me the time of day. How unrequited!
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Date: 2001-09-22 02:09 am (UTC)Five years older than I
He was my brother
Twenty-three years old the day he died
Freedom writer
They cursed my brother to his face
Go home outsider
This town's gonna be your buryin' place
He was singin' on his knees
An angry mob trailed along
They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong
He was my brother
Tears can't bring him back to me
He was my brother
And he died so his brothers could be free
He died so his brothers could be free
And that's why Queens College used to have that godawful glowing blue clocktower until they changed the face to something more dignified. Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner (who was 24, not 23) should be more publicly recognized.
I wish Mariah had taken her Prozac. Hearing her do that dogwhistlescreech of hers while Willie was doing his thing made me want to throw a brick at the teevee.
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Date: 2001-09-22 07:51 am (UTC)Thanks for posting that.
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Date: 2001-09-22 09:39 pm (UTC)I <3 Muhummad Ali.
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Date: 2001-09-23 10:07 am (UTC)I agree about Alanis or BNL.
Amen! :)
Date: 2001-09-22 10:31 am (UTC)*does a dance of triumph*
Re: Amen! :)
Date: 2001-09-22 10:52 am (UTC)Re: Amen! :)
Date: 2001-09-22 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Amen! :)
Date: 2001-09-22 06:40 pm (UTC)Ayup.
Date: 2001-09-23 06:50 am (UTC)1. Stevie Wonder's Love's in need of love today.
2. Celine Dion's God Bless America
3. Mariah Carey's Hero
4. Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Bruce Springsteen's City of Ruins
I'm going to try to get more today.
Re: Ayup.
Date: 2001-09-23 10:39 am (UTC)