Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

A review of a song. Texas- 'Summer Son'

 Summer Son review


Watch the song and read the lyrics and the review. Enjoy!

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Monday, November 20, 2023

Some English Poetry

Some romantic poems of the 19th century.

Willian Wordsworth:

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

Wordsworth daffodils video

Coleridge:

Coleridge Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan video

Shelley:

Shelley O

Ozymandias


Beat culture 20th century:

Beatniks


Tuesday, November 14, 2023

How to calm and angry person. Mediation and listening


Mediation. 

Read the following article and summarise it in about 120 words. Then turn it in in class or email it to the teacher.


Cómo calmar a una persona furiosa. 


Listening.

Just listen, learn and ... enjoy!


https://dougnoll.com/de-escalate/


Monday, March 27, 2023

Last weekend's song- Jennifer Lopez's!


Whether we like mainstream music or not, you can get the chance to practice first and second conditionals- it won't do us any harm!


If you had my love

Feeling overwhelmed? How to tap into your power and feel calmer

 Feeling Overwhelmed?


You can read the words as she says them by tapping in settings- English subtitles.


Pincha en configuración; subtítulos en inglés para leerlos.

Monday, March 20, 2023

Goodreads- Groucho Marx's quotes

 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43244.Groucho_Marx

Groucho Marx's quotes


“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”


“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”

Street market in 9 1/2 weeks. 2 minute footage

Saviour 

Best scene in the film, but "Saviour" reggae song didn't enter the soundtrack.


Monday, March 13, 2023

Vintage Japanese song

 

7 samurai soundtrack (Akira Kurosawa)

Hata no youni samurai wa

Arashi no naka hirugaeru Tefuryou furyou Hyoufuryou Hiyaruroarayo hyoufuryou Kurushii toki mo sawayaka ni Kanashii toki mo utsukushiku Na nomi oshimu ware naredo Aware wa dare mo kawari nashi Kaze no youni samurai wa Daichi no ue wo fuki sugiru Tefuryou furyou Hyoufuryou Hiyaruroarayo hyoufuryou Kinou mishi hito kyou wa nashi Kyou miru hito mo asu araji Ashita tomo shiranu ware naredo Kyou wa hito koso kanashikere

Today's song

Superstar


People always talk about (Way oh, way oh way oh) All the things they're all about (Way oh, way oh way oh) Write it on a piece of paper Got a feeling I'll see you later There's something 'bout this  Let's keep it moving  And if it's good  Let's just get something cooking 'Cause I really wanna rock with you I'm feeling some connection to the things you do (You do, you do) I don't know what it is That makes me feel like this  I don't know who you are But you must be some kind of superstar 'Cause you move like you got some kind of choreographer (You just make me wanna play) Baby take a look around  (Way oh, way oh way oh) Everybody's getting down  (Way oh, way oh way oh) Deal with all the problems later  DJ don't touch that cross-fader There's something 'bout you Let's keep it moving  And if it's good  Let's just get something cooking 'Cause I really wanna rock with you I'm feeling some connection to the things you do (You do, you do) I don't know what it is That makes me feel like this  I don't know who you are But you must be some kind of superstar 'Cause you move like you got some kind of choreographer (You just make me wanna play) Who's that checking my movement (Way oh, way oh way oh) I just got into the groove and then (You just make me wanna play) If you just put that pen to paper I got that feeling I'll see you later You're so cool Can we get a little closer You.. Rock it just like you're supossed to Hey.. I'll nod my head at any thing you say 'Cause you just make me wanna play I don't know what it is  I don't know who you are But you must be some kind of superstar (All your moves) (You just make me wanna play) I don't know what it is That makes me feel like this  I don't know who you are But you must be some kind of superstar 'Cause you move like you got some kind of choreographer I don't know what it is That makes me feel like this  I don't know who you are But you must be some kind of superstar 'Cause you move like you got some kind of choreographer (You just make me wanna play)
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Japanese 'haiku' poem

 Japanese 'haiku' Poem translated and explained.


When I look carefully,
I see the nazunia blooming
By the hedge!”

 Matsuo Basho 1644-1694

Now, there seems to be nothing of great poetry in it. But let us go into it with more sympathy, because Basho is being translated into English; in his own language it has a totally different texture and flavor.
The nazunia is a very common flower—grows by itself by the side of the road, a grass flower. It is so common that nobody ever looks at it. It is not a precious rose, it is not a rare lotus.
It is easy to see the beauty of a rare lotus floating on a lake, a blue lotus—how can you avoid seeing it? For a moment you are bound to be caught by its beauty. Or a beautiful rose dancing in the wind, in the sun… for a split second it possesses you. It is stunning. But a nazunia is a very ordinary, common flower; it needs no gardening, no gardener, it grows by itself anywhere.
To see a nazunia carefully a meditator is needed, a very delicate consciousness is needed; otherwise you will bypass it. It has no apparent beauty, its beauty is deep. Its beauty is that of the very ordinary, but the very ordinary contains the extraordinary in it, because all is full of God—even the nazunia flower. Unless you penetrate it with a sympathetic heart you will miss it.
When for the first time you read Basho you start thinking, ‘What is there so tremendously important to say about a nazunia blooming by the hedge?’
In Basho’s poem the last syllable—KANA in Japanese—is translated by an exclamation point because we don’t have any other way to translate it. But kana means, ‘I am amazed!’
Now, from where is the beauty coming? Is it coming from the nazunia?—because thousands of people may have passed by the side of the hedge and nobody may have even looked at this small flower. And Basho is possessed by its beauty, is transported into another world. What has happened? It is not really the nazunia, otherwise it would have caught everybody’s eye. It is Basho’s insight, his open heart, his sympathetic vision, his meditativeness. Meditation is alchemy: it can transform the base metal into gold, it can transform a nazunia flower into a lotus.
‘When I look carefully…’ And the word ‘carefully’ means attentively, with awareness, mindfully, meditatively, with love, with caring. One can just look without caring at all, then one will miss the whole point. That word ‘carefully’ has to be remembered in all its meanings, but the root meaning is meditatively. And what does it mean when you see something meditatively? It means without mind, looking without the mind, no clouds of thought in the sky of your consciousness, no memories passing by, no desires… nothing at all, utter emptiness. When in such a state of no-mind you look, even a nazunia flower is transported into another world. It becomes a lotus of the paradise, it is no longer part of the earth; the extraordinary has been found in the ordinary.
And this is the way of Buddha: to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, to find all in the now, to find the whole in this—Buddha calls it TATHATA.
Basho’s haiku is a haiku of tathata: THIS nazunia, looked at lovingly, caringly through the heart, unclouded consciousness, in a state of no-mind… and one is amazed, one is in awe. A great wonder arises, how is it possible? This nazunia—and if a nazunia is possible then everything is possible. If a nazunia can be so beautiful, Basho can be a buddha. If a nazunia can contain such poetry, then each stone can become a sermon.

‘When I look carefully, I see the nazunia blooming by the hedge!’ KANA… I am amazed. I am dumb. I cannot say anything about its beauty—I can only hint at it.



Friday, February 10, 2023

Take my Breath Away

Terri Nunn- Take my Breath Away


Watching Every MotionIn My Foolish Lover's GameOn This Endless OceanFinally Lovers Know No ShameTurning And ReturningTo Some Secret Place InsideWatching In Slow MotionAs You Turn Around And SayTake My Breath AwayTake My Breath AwayWatching I Keep WaitingStill Anticipating LoveNever HesitatingTo Become The Fated OnesTurning And ReturningTo Some Secret Place To HideWatching In Slow MotionAs You Turn To Me And SayTake My Breath AwayThrough The Hourglass I Saw YouIn Time You Slipped AwayWhen The Mirror Crashed I Called YouAnd Turned To Hear You SayIf Only For TodayI Am UnafraidTake My Breath AwayWatching Every MotionIn This Foolish Lover's GameHaunted By The NotionSomewhere There's A Love In FlamesTurning And ReturningTo Some Secret Place InsideWatching In Slow MotionAs You Turn My Way And SayTake My Breath Away

The Eagles- Try and Love Again

The Eagles- Try and Love Again 


When you're out there on your ownWhere your memories can find youLike a circle goes aroundYou were lost until you found outWhat it all comes down to
One by one, the lonely feeling's goneDay by day, they slowly fade away
Ooh, the look was in her eyesYou never know what might be found thereShe was dancing right in timeAnd the moves she made so fineLike the music that surrounds her
Should I stay or go?I really wanna knowWould I lose or win?If I try and love again
Oh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love againOh, oh, oh, oh, I'm gonna try and love againOh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love
Right or wrong, what's done is doneIt's only moments that you borrowBut the thoughts will linger on of the lady and her songWhen the sun comes up tomorrow
Well it might take years to see through all these tearsDon't let go, when you find it you will know
Oh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love againOh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love againOh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love again (oh, oh, oh, oh)Oh, oh, oh, ohSometimes lose, sometimes winSometimes you need a friendOh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh
Gonna tryGonna tryGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna tryGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna tryGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Ooh, oohGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna tryGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna tryGonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna tryOoh, oohOh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh

Joan Baez- "Diamonds and Rust"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8


Tip. Song for Saint Valentine's day


Joan Baez- "Diamonds and Rust"

Well, I'll be damnedHere comes your ghost againBut that's not unusualIt's just that the moon is fullAnd you happened to callAnd here I sitHand on the telephoneHearing a voice I'd knownA couple of light years agoHeading straight for a fall
As I remember your eyesWere bluer than robin's eggsMy poetry was lousy you saidWhere are you calling from?A booth in the midwestTen years agoI bought you some cufflinksYou brought me somethingWe both know what memories can bringThey bring diamonds and rust
Well, you burst on the sceneAlready a legendThe unwashed phenomenonThe original vagabondYou strayed into my armsAnd there you stayedTemporarily lost at seaThe Madonna was yours for freeYes, the girl on the half-shellCould keep you unharmed
Now I see you standingWith brown leaves falling all aroundAnd snow in your hairNow you're smiling out the windowOf that crummy hotelOver Washington SquareOur breath comes out white cloudsMingles and hangs in the airSpeaking strictly for meWe both could have died then and there
Now you're telling meYou're not nostalgicThen give me another word for itYou who are so good with wordsAnd at keeping things vague'Cause I need some of that vagueness nowIt's all come back too clearlyYes, I loved you dearlyAnd if you're offering me diamonds and rustI've already paid

Now I see you standing

With brown leaves falling all around

And snow in your hairNow you're smiling out the windowOf that crummy hotelOver Washington SquareOur breath comes out white cloudsMingles and hangs in the airSpeaking strictly for meWe both could have died then and there