Since CNN claimed to have projected holgraphic images pf reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper will. i.am into the studio on Election night, I have been hearing people claim that politicians are beaming themselves all over the place. According to Asher Moses from his article in the Sydney Morning Herald, the CNN stunt was not true holgrams. Wolf Blitzer claimed that the image of Yellin was beamed from Chicago to the New York studio. He pretended to be looking at her, however.

Asher states, :"Hans Jurgen Kreuzer, theoretical physics professor and
holography expert at Dalhousie University, told CBC news in Canada
that the so-called holograms were simply 2D images superimposed
onto the TV broadcast. The images were in fact tomograms, or images captured from all
sides - in this case by 35 high-definition cameras set in a ring
inside a special tent - reconstructed by computers and displayed on
the screen.A real hologram would have meant the images were projected into
space, which did not occur as Blitzer and Cooper could not see
their interview subjects."

However, he also adds:" there have been many mainstream uses of
real hologram technology, including several in Australia.The National Sports Museum, located at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground, includes a 3D hologram of Shane Warne, who tells visitors
of his most memorable moments. In May this year, Telstra's chief technology officer, Hugh
Bradlow, was beamed from Melbourne to Adelaide to give a live
business presentation."

So I guess we are getting closer to Star Trek and Star Wars.




Watching You Without Me
Kate Bush

("What's that?")

("It's four, five, six, seven...")



You can't hear me.

You can't hear me.

You can't hear what I'm saying.

You can't hear what I'm saying to you.



You watch the clock

Move the slow hand.

I should have been home

Hours ago,

But I'm not here.

But I'm not here.



You can't hear me.

You can't hear me.

You can't feel me

Here in the room with you now.

You can't hear what I'm saying.

You don't hear what I'm saying, do you?



Can't let you know

What's been happening.

There's a ghost in our home,

Just watching you without me.

I'm not here.

("You don't hear me.")



But I'm not here.

(You can't hear me.)

But I'm not here.

(You don't hear what I'm saying.)



"Don't ignore, don't ignore me,

Let me..."

"Don't ignore, don't ignore me,

Let me.."

"Don't ignore, don't ignore me,

Let me..."



"We see you here." [backwards]

"We see you here."

"We see you here."

"We see you here."

"We see you here."

"We see you here."

"We see you here."

"We see you here."



You don't hear me come in.

"Help me, baby! Help me, baby! Talk to me! Listen to me,

listen to me! Talk to me! Help"

("You can't hear me.")

"Listen, baby! Listen to me, baby! Help me, help me, baby!

Talk to me! Talk to me! Please, baby, talk to me!"

("You can't hear me.")

You won't hear me leaving.



The Invisible Man
The Breeders

He's the Invisible Man

Count the bubbles in your hand

The southern skies

And the summer sites



That's all that's left behind

The skies, and a sweet caress

He's the Invisible Man

Catch him if you can



You're nowhere in sight (just imagine that)

Nothing excites you (baby, that's a fact)

Open your eyes

Look and you will find



That's all that's left behind... the skies

And a sweet caress

The skies, the sights

And a sweet caress

He's the Invisible Man

Catch him if you can



That's all that's left behind... the skies

And a sweet caress

The skies, the sights

And a sweet caress

He's the Invisible Man

Catch him if you can



The Invisible Man
Generation X

Everywhere he goes

Everything he does

Everything proves to him

That he don't exist for them

Cos they don't understand what

the invisible man understands



Everyday he tries

Every night he dies

Looking for someone like him

Someone who don't walk by him

Someone who knows what

the invisible man understands



He doesn't sell cars

He doesn't sell clothes

Never famous

And know one knows



Stick and stone ain't hurt him

You can dance on his grave when he's gone

But the invisible man will still touch your hand

Until you understand what he wants



Do you think you know him

Do you think that you know him

The lies and deceit you give

The curses and cries you give

Do you understand what the invisible man understands



Invisible man do you understand

Maybe it is you?

Invisible man do you understand

Maybe it is you?

Maybe it is you?

Maybe it is you?

Maybe it is you?

Maybe it is you?



Do you think you understand

Do you think you understand



The Invisible Man
Queen

I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

Incredible how you can see right through me



Freddie Mercury



When you hear a sound that you just can't place

Feel somethin' move that you just can't trace

When something sits on the end of your bed

Don't turn around when you hear me tread



I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

Incredible how you can see right through me

I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

It's criminal how I can see right through you



John Deacon



Now I'm in your room and I'm in your bed

And I'm in your life and I'm in your head

Like the CIA or the FBI

You'll never get close never take me alive



I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

Incredible how you can see right through me

I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

It's criminal how I can see right through you



Hah hah hah hello

Hah hah hah OK

Hah hah hah hello hello hello hello

Never had a real good friend - not a boy or a girl

No-one knows what I've been through - let my flag unfurl

So I make my mark from the edge of the world

From the edge of the world

From the edge of the world



Brian May Brian May



Now I'm on your track and I'm in your mind

And I'm on your back but don't look behind

I'm your meanest thought I'm your darkest fear

But I'll never get caught you can't shake me shake me dear



I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

Incredible how you can see right through me

Watch me

I'm the invisible man I'm the invisible man

It's criminal how I can see right through you

Look at me look at me



Roger Taylor



Shake you shake you dear.



Paris 1919
John Cale

She makes me so unsure of myself

Standing there but never talking sense

Just a visitor you see

So much wanting to be seen

She'd open up the door and vaguely carry us away



It's the customary thing to say or do

To a disappointed proud man in his grief

And on Fridays she'd be there

And on Wednesday not at all

Just casually appearing from the clock across the hall



You're a ghost la la la

You're a ghost

I'm in the church and I've come

To claim you with my iron drum

la la la



The Continent's just fallen in disgrace

William William William Rogers put it in its place

Blood and tears from old Japan

Caravans and lots of jam and maids of honor

singing crying singing tediously

(Les Tuilleries -- instruments sans voix)





Efficiency efficiency they say

Get to know the date and tell the time of day

As the crowds begin complaining

How the Beaujolais is raining

Down on darkened meetings on Champs Elysee



I could not find "Beam Me Up Scotty" by Fingerprintz anywhere...

Watching little Eden cry, I noticed that she only started to have tears after she was around 4 weeks old.  Apparently, humans are the only animals that produce tears connected to emotions, and according to Skorucak's "The Science of Tears": those produced during emotional crying have a chemical composition which differs from others in that they contain greater quantities of the hormones prolactin, adrenocorticotropic and leu-enkephalin, as well as potassium and manganese.

Studies have indicated that men cry about once a month and women 5 times per month. Another study conducted at the University of South Florida found that: "criers do show calming effects such as slower breathing, but they also experience a lot of unpleasant stress and arousal, including increased heart rate and sweating. What is interesting is that bodily calming usually lasts longer than the unpleasant arousal. The calming effects may occur later and overcome the stress reaction, which would account for why people tend to remember mostly the pleasant side of crying." Perceived relief was also related to the context of the crying bout.

There are so many songs about crying, it's obviously something we can all relate to. Boo-hoo...

Cry Baby Cry
Lennon-McCartney

Cry baby cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better

The King of Marigold was in the kitchen
cooking breakfast for the queen
The queen was in the parlor playing piano
for the children of the king

Cry baby cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
So cry baby cry

The King was in the garden picking flowers
for a friend who came to play
The queen was in the playroom painting pictures
for the children's holiday

Cry baby cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
So cry baby cry

The Duchess of Kircaldy always smiling
and arriving late for tea
The duke was having problems with a message
at the local Bird and Bee

Cry baby cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
So cry baby cry

At twelve o'clock a meeting 'round the table
for a seance in the dark
With voices out of nowhere put on specially
by the children for a lark

Cry baby cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
So cry baby cry
Cry, cry, cry baby
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
Cry baby cry
cry, cry, cry
make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
So cry baby cry



Boys Don't Cry
The Cure

I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I have said too much
Been too unkind

I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry

I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already
Gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry



96 Tears
Question  Mark & the Mysterians

Too many teardrops for one heart to be cryin'
Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on
You're way on top now
Since you left me
You're always laughin'
Way down at me
But watch out now
I'm gonna get there
We'll be together
For just a little while
And then I'm gonna put you
Way down here
And you'll start cryin'
Ninety-six tears
Cry
Cry

And when the sun comes up
I'll be on top
You'll be way down there
Lookin' up
And I might wave
Come up here
But I don't see you
Wavin' now
I'm way down here
Wonderin' how
I'm gonna get you
But I know now
I'll just cry, cry, I'll just cry

Too many teardrops for one heart to be cryin'
Too many teardrops for one heart
To carry on
You're gonna cry ninety-six tears
You're gonna cry ninety-six tears
You're gonna cry cry, cry, cry, now
You're gonna cry cry, cry, cry
Ninety-six tears c'mon and lemme hear you cry, now
Ninety-six tears (whoo!) I wanna hear you cry
Night and day, yeah, all night long
Uh-ninety-six tears cry cry cry
C'mon baby, let me hear you cry now, all night long
Uh-ninety-six tears! Yeah! C'mon now
Uh-ninety-six tears!



Cry Me A River
Andrew Hamilton
(He wrote this song for Ella Fitzgerald in 1953. She was upposed to sing it in a movie, but the song was dropped because Hamilton refused to remove the word "plebeian" when the record producer felt that audiences would not accept a black woman using that word. It was a hit for Julie London in 1957 and Ella released a recording of it in 1961. Joe Cocker also had a hit with it in 1970.)

Now you say you're lonely
You cried the long night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried river over you
Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cause i cried, i cried, i cried a river over you

You drove me,
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was to plebeian
Told me you were through with me
Now you say, you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

You drove me
Nearly drove me out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember?
I remember all that you said
Told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me..
And now, now you say you love me
Well, just to prove you do..
Come on!
And cry cry cry me a river...
Cry me a river
Cause i cried a river over you

If my pillow could talk
Imagine what it would have said
Could it be a river of tears i cried in bed
So you can cry me a river
GO a head and cry that river
Cause i cried, how i cried a river over you
How i cried a river over you



Crying
Roy Orbison & Joe Melson

I was all right for a while
I could smile for a while
But i saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
When you stopped to say hello
You wished me well
You couldn’t tell that
I’ve been crying over you,
Crying over you and you said so long
Left me standing all alone,
Alone and crying, crying, crying, crying
It’s hard to understand
But the touch of your hand can start me crying

I thought that i was over you
But it’s true, so true
I love you even more than i did before
But darling, what can i do?
For you don’t love me
And i’ll always be
Crying over you, crying over you

Yes now you’re gone
And from this moment on, i’ll be crying, crying, crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying over you

Apparently Barbra Streisand had it right when she sang about people needing people. In their book, "Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need For Social Connection,"John Cacioppo and William Patrick utilize studies of brain imagining, animal and human experiments and evolutionary science to uncover why we need to have the contact of other humans.

Through all of these forms of information the authors show how we evolved to experience loneliness and become social beings. "Serving as a prompt to repair frayed social bonds, the pain of loneliness engendered a fear response so powerfully disruptive that even now, millions of years later, a persistent sense of rejection or isolation can impair DNA transcription in our immune cells. This disruption also impairs thinking, will power, and perseverance, as well as our ability to read social signals and exercise social skills. It also limits our ability to internally regulate our emotions - all of which can combine to trap us in self defeating behaviors that reinforce the very isolation and rejection that we dread."

They add that everyone experiences this, but there are 3 structural elements of loneliness: a genetically based vulnerability which we cannot change, the need to self regulate which we can control and social cognition which involves skills we can learn. We feel pain when we are lonely because we evolved to form commitments and the pain pushes us to make human connections. When loneliness becomes ingrained we can lose much executive functioning of the cerebral cortex, as well as suffer serious health consequences. Their studies show prolonged loneliness is as harmful to health as smoking or obesity.

When we connect with others, oxytocin and other pleasurable chemicals are released in the body. We need the physical presence of others for this to happen, so connecting on the internet does not suffice. They also show how altruistic acts improve one's health.

So the prescription for a happier life as developed through our evolution is 1.  Extend yourself, 2. Act charitably, 3.Select relationships with others who are compatible with your values, and 4. Expect the best and be willing to take the risk. 

Get out there and love. Those who do so are the luckiest people, in the world.

Alone Again Or
Arthur Lee and Love

Yeah, said it's all right
I won't forget
All the times I've waited patiently for you
And you'll do just what you choose to do
And I will be alone again tonight my dear

Yeah, I heard a funny thing
Somebody said to me
You know that I could be in love with almost everyone
I think that people are
The greatest fun
And I will be alone again tonight my dear.



Lonely Planet Boy
Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls

It's hard,
It's so hard

And it's a lonely planet joy
When the song from from the other boys
That's when I'm a lonely planet boy
And I'm tryin, Baby for your love

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Oh, you pick me up
Your outta drivin in your car
When I tell you where I'm goin
You're always tellin me it's to far

But how could you be drivin
Down by my home
When ya know, I aint got one
And I'm, I'm so all alone

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Oh it's a lonely planet joy
When the song from your other boys
That's when I'm a lonely planet boy
And I'm tryin, I'm cryin, Baby for your love

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Oh, It's so lonely

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Oh can't you hear me callin
I'm a thousand miles away
And I don't wanna stay
I'm thinkin words I gotta say

Cus I wanna be there witcha
And I know what to bring
I remember, from the days
You got over, everything

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Oh it's a lonely planet joy
When the song from your other boys
That's when I'm a lonely planet boy
And I'm tryin, I'm cryin,
Can't ya see I'm diein
Baby, for your love

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah

Now you are lonely



Lonely Boy
Sex Pistols

I'm left in misery
The girl I love's gone across the sea
I'm all alone
I ain't got no home
Mandy was her name
Sleepin' was her game
She didn't care about me
Oh God, baby can't you see

I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy

I need her tender touch
Oh, I need it oh so much
I can't forget
I'm so upset
I wonder where she's gone
I wonder where she went wrong
I wanna get her back to me
But I think she's tired of me

I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy

Every time I think of her
It brings back memories
I remember how it used to be
Oh baby, can't you see?
Oh baby, come back to me.

I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy

Oh my darlin' can't you see
You're the one that means so much to me
I know I need you're tender touch
Oh I need it oh so much
I can't wait to fill your crutch
Oh what a crutch
I can't wait to fill  your crutch!
 (This starts with part of an interview with Mr. Rotten and Mr. Viscous.)



One is the Loneliest Number
Three Dog Night

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one

"No" is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know
'Cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
One is the loneliest number, whoa, worse than two

It's just no good anymore since you went away
Now I spend my time just making rhymes of yesterday
One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
One is the loneliest, one is the loneliest
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

It's just no good anymore since you went away
 


Owner of A Lonely Heart
Yes

(The words are on the video.)



Isolation
Joy Division

In fear every day, every evening,
He calls her aloud from above,
Carefully watched for a reason,
Painstaking devotion and love,
Surrendered to self preservation,
From others who care for themselves.
A blindness that touches perfection,
But hurts just like anything else.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

Mother I tried please believe me,
I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through,
I'm ashamed of the person I am.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

But if you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
These pleasures a wayward distraction,
This is my one lucky prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation...

 (This is a very cool interpretation of the song.)

Now that I am a grandmother, I feel more awareness of the passing of time, and remember my beloved grandfather. Time moves at the speed of our perception. I feel my life is important even though I am aware it represents a tiny speck of this planet's history. I want to make what is left of this life count somehow.

In his book "Time," Stefan Klein suggests how we can feel more in control of time in our lives, He states that the inability to concentrate, experiencing overwhelming feelings of stress and the lack of motivation hinder this. Stefan suggests that we attempt to live in harmony with our biological clock first. That is if you are a night person, accept and work with it.

He recommends that we cultivate leisure time, experience the moment, learn to concentrate and set priorities to decide what is important. We need to feel that we have some control over our schedules and make having fee time absolutely necessary. Too many choices are not a good thing.  Living in the moment requires attentiveness, and we really are not equipped for multi- tasking.

These seem like obvious and simple suggestions, but they require an effort and commitment. I hope I get to share a lot of  my time left with my precious grandchild.

Time In A Bottle
Jim Croce

f I could save time in a bottle
the first thing that I'd like to do
is to save everyday till eternity passes away
just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
if words could make wishes come true
I'd save everyday like a treasure and then
again I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
to do the things you wanna do
once you find them
I looked around enough to know
That you're the one I wanna go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
and dreams that had never come true
the box would be empty except for the memory of how
they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
to do the things you wanna do
once you find them
I looked around enough to know
that your the one I wanna go thru time with

(My grandfather loved this song. It is especially poignant because Croce wrote this for his infant son, shortly before he died in a plane crash at age 30.)
 


Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Sandy Denny

Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again
I have no fear of time

For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?



Time Has Come Today
The Chambers Brothers

Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today, hey

The room has changed today
I have no place to stay
I'm thinking about the subway
Mu love has blown away
My tears have come and gone
Oh'Lord I got to run
I got no home
No, I have no home

Now the time has come
Nowhere (place) to run
Might get burned up by the sun
But I'll have my fun
I've been loved, pushed (put) aside
I've been crushed by tumbling tide
And my soul has been psychedelicized

Now the time has come
There are things to realize
Time has come today
Time has come today



Time is On My Side
Rolling Stones

Time is on my side (Yes it is)
Time is on my side (Yes it is)
Now you always say that you want to be free
But you'll come running back, you'll come running back
You'll come running back to me

Yeah, time is on my side (Yes it is)
Time is on my side (Yes it is)
You're searching for good times, but just wait and see
You'll come running back...

Go ahead, baby, go ahead. Go ahead and light up the town
And baby, do anything your heart desires
Remember, I'll always be around
And I know like I told you so many times before
You're gonna come back
Yeah, you're gonna come back, baby
Knockin', yeah, knockin' right on my door, yeah!

Time is on my side (Yes it is)
Time is on my side (Yes it is)
Cause I've got real the love, the kind that you need
You'll come running back...

Yeah, time, time time is on my side (Yes it is)
I said, time, time, time is on my side (Yes it is)
I said, time, time, time is on my side



Time
David Bowie

Time - He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me boys

Time - He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy

Time - In Quaaludes and red wine
Demanding Billy Dolls
And other friends of mine
Take your time

The sniper in the brain, regurgitating drain
Incestuous and vain, and many other last names
I look at my watch it say 9:25 and I think Oh God I'm still alive

We should be on by now
We should be on by now

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la (repeat)

You - are not a victim
You - just scream with boredom
You - are not evicting time

Chimes - Goddamn, you're looking old
You'll freeze and catch a cold
'Cause you've left your coat behind
Take your time

Breaking up is hard, but keeping dark is hateful
I had so many dreams, I had so many breakthroughs
But you, my love, were kind, but love has left you dreamless
The door to dreams was closed. Your park was real dreamless
Perhaps you're smiling now, smiling through this darkness
But all I had to give was the guilt for dreaming

We should be on by now (x5)



Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman

Lying in my bed
I hear the clock tick and think of you
Caught up in circles
Confusion is nothing new
Flashback
Warm nights almost left behind
Suitcase of memories
Time after

Sometimes you picture me
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me
I can't hear what you've said
Then you say: "go slow."
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

(Chorus 2x)
If you're lost, you can look
And you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, i will catch you
I'll be waiting
Time after time

After my picture fades
And darkness has turned to gray
Watching through windows
You're wondering if i'm ok
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time



Time
Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired,
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

(My best friend from high school mailed me these lyrics about what was happening to her after graduating. Fortunately, she eventually found what she wanted to do, pursued it, and got out of that rut.)

A few weeks ago I read an interesting article about how we decide if we like a person. Our intuition tells us we will feel more positively towards someone the more we know about them. However, research has shown this is not usually true.

First, a study was conducted by Moreland and Beach where they had 4 fake students attend college classes for a semester. Apparently due to the "exposure effect," other students were most favorably inclined toward the1 fake who had attended the most classes, although no one had ever even spoken to her.

I another study by Norton, Frost and Ariely, online daters were asked if they would prefer people that they knew more about. Most thought they would. However, the results showed that the opppossite was true. They reported: "Effectively the more traits participants knew about another 'person', the more likely they were to find dissimilarities with themselves, and so the more likely they were to dislike them....once we perceive a dissimilarity, it's all downhill from there. Even traits we might have liked, or been neutral about before, now get the thumbs down."

The article concludes:"As this study shows, on the vast majority of occasions the less we know about someone the more we are inclined to like them. It's like the fake student in Moreland and Beach's study, ambiguity allows us to imagine that other people share our world-view, our personality traits or our sense of humour. Unfortunately as soon as we start to find out more about them, we're likely to find out how different they are to ourselves and, as a result, to dislike them."

However, they add that hope does spring eternal, because we generally remain optimistic and choose to recall the relationships with people we like when we are meeting someone new.

The Dandy Warhols
Bohemian Like You

The words are on the video, but warning, there is a bit of full frontal nudity:



Stevie Wonder
Love Having You Around

Please,
mama, mama, mama,
mama, mama, baby,
baby, baby, baby,
mama, mama, mama,
baby, baby, baby,

Listen Baby,
Every day I want to fly my kite,
Every day I want to fly my kite,
An' every day I want to get on my camel an' ride.
Oo yea

Every day I want to shake your hand, yea, yea, yea,
For in the world makin' me a better man,
An' every day I want to get on my camel an' ride
(On my camel ride, on my camel)
Oo Baby

And when the day is through,
Nothin' to do, sit around groovin' with you,
And I say it 'cause I love having you around,
And I say it 'cause I love having you around. Yea

Everyday I want to be your friend, (be your friend)
'Cause you have stuck with me through thick and thin
An' every day I want a smile in your lovely brown eyes,
(smile at your lovely brown eyes)
Oh yea

Every day I'm gonna give my share,
'Cause I know your gonna take me there, (hey, hey)
An' every day I want to get on my camel an' ride, Oo
(get on my camel)

And when the day is done,
Nothin' to do, spend all my time just loving you, (oh, yea)
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around, mm Baby
And I say it 'cause I love Oo having you around
Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea

Yea, yea, yea

An' in the end I know you'll be with me,
'Cause you made my soul so free, (so everyday)
an' every day I wanna get on my camel an' ride, yea
(on my camel)

And when the day is through,
Nothin' to do, spend all my time just lovin' you
An' I say it 'cause I love yea having you around.
(love having you around)
And I say it 'cause I love having you around yea, yea, yea
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around (having you around baby)
And I say it 'cause I love (can't you hear me people?) having you around
(can't you hear me people?)
And I say it 'cause I love having you around
(Can't you hear me say it? Can't you hear me say it baby?)
And I say it 'cause I love having you around
(An' I say it, I say it, Oo Baby, baby, Baby baby, baby)

An' I say it, (say it, say it, say it, Baby, baby baby)
An' I say it, (say it, say it, say it, Baby, baby baby)
An' I say it, 'cause I love (say it, say it, again)
having you around (say it, say it, just say it, say it, baby)
An' I say it, 'cause I love (say it, an' I keep saying it, I keep saying it)
having you around (say it)
An' I say it, 'cause I love (say it, say it)
having you around (say it, yea, yea, help me baby)
An' I say it 'cause I love (Thank God, for the one you love)
having you around (Than God, for the one you love)
An' I say it 'cause I love (Che-rish for the one you love)
having you around (I love my baby, love my baby, funky, funky, funky, yea)
(let me play, we just say, let me play)

And when the day is done, yea
Nothin' to do, spend all my time making loving you,
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around, (having you around)
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around (my baby)
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around
(baby stay around, baby stay right here, need you here, keep you right here)
An' I say it 'cause I love having you around

All right
ain't got the words
(Baby you're starting gabling, baby nobody)
Mm Baby
Mmm
Mmm
([Spoken:] The preceding has been put here on tape, to let
you all know that I say it to her because I love her,
Can you dig it? Can you get to that? Even when she's messin' around
He likes having her around even when she's messing around,
which is very often, that' what she's doing, the motion
...when she's messing around)

(This song totoally rocks!)



Ray Charles
You Don't Know Me

(The words are on the video. Such a tearjerker!)



To Know You is To Love You
Stevie Wonder & Syreeta Wright

To know you is to love you
But to know me is not that way, you see
'cause you made me so happy
That my love for you grows endlessly

When i'm down and feeling sad
You always comfort me
When i'm down and feeling sad
You always comfort me

Baby, to know you is to love you
You smile when i see your face
'cause there ain't no one on this earth
Baby, could ever, ever take your place

When i'm down and feeling sad
You always comfort me
When i'm down and feeling sad
You always comfort me

Oh to know you is to love you
Is to see you being free as the wind
'cause the power of your loving
Is too strong to hold within

To know you is to love you
To see you blowing free in the breeze
The power of your loving
I never found a woman like you
That could be my lover
And my best friend

I know you and i think i love you
I know you and i think i love you
I know you and can't you feel our love
Just growing, growing, growing
Growing, growing, growing

Hey, i know you and i think i love you
I know you and i think i love you
I know you and can't you feel our love
Just growing, growing, growing
Growing, growing, doggone it, baby

I know you and i think i love you
I know you and i think i love you
I know you and can't you feel our love
Just growing, growing, growing
Growing, growing, hey doggone it, baby

I know you and i think i love you
I know you and i think i love you
And i think you love me, too
Mm baby, i know you

(This was performed by BB King, on a 1973 album produced by Stevie Wonder.)




The More I See You
Harry Warren & Mark Gordon

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 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,
and my heart won't try

(This was a hit in 1966 by Chris Montez, although it has been recorded by many other artists. Hilarious video.)



You Like Me Too Much
George Harrison

Though you've gone away this morning you'll be back again tonight,
Telling me there'll be no next time if I just don't treat you right,
You'll never leave me and you know it's true,
'Cause you like me too much and I like you.
You've tried before to leave me but you haven't got the nerve,
To walk out and make me lonely which is all that I deserve,
You'll never leave me and you know it's true,
'Cause you like me too much and I like you.
I really do and it's nice when you believe me if you leave me,
I will follow you and bring you back where you belong,
'Cause I couldn't really stand it I admit that I was wrong,
I wouldn't let you leave me 'cause it's true,
'Cause you like me too much and I like you.
'Cause you like me too much and I like you.



Graham Parker
Passion Is No Ordinary Word

It worked much better in a fantasy, imagination's one thing that comes easy
to me
'Cause this is nothing else if not unreal, when I pretend to touch you, you
pretend to feel
Passion is no ordinary word
Ain't manufactured or just another sound that you hear at night

We got new idols for the screen today, although they make a lot of noises
they got nothing to say
I try to look amazed, but it's an act, the movie might be new but it's the
same soundtrack
Passion is no ordinary word

Say how it feels, real useless ain't it
Wait until it bites right down inside you
The world is easy when you're just playing around
Everything's a thrill, every girl's a kill
And then it gets unreal
And then you don't feel anything
You don't feel anything

An object of desire you don't desire to be, I bet the shop window dummies
give in just as easily
I try to top but have to make you drop down to the floor
Moaning in the darkness as we fake some more

Passion is no ordinary word
Not just another sound that you hear at night

We talk about stress making us sick as if it is obvious. But how did we get to accepting this as common knowledge? I recently underwent hypnosis therapy for sleep and anxiety problems, and found it to be very helpful. This fits with a book I recently read, "The Cure Within" by Anne Harrington.

Harrington discusses the history of healing the body from changing the mind .The first such treatments were based in religion, such as the "miracles" from holy water, faith healing and exorcising demons. This led to Mesmer's power of suggestion and healers hypnotized subjects in the 19th century. Sigmund Freud believed that many illness were actually hysteria and originated from repressed childhood traumas. Psychotherapy became fairly commonplace in the 20th century and many people were diagnosed with "neurasthenia." Another popular belief was the power of positive thinking. The diagnosis of shell -shock., which morphed into post traumatic stress disorder, came from the psychiatric casualties of wars.

In the 1970's "stress" became the catchword for psychological and many physical illnesses, with Hans Seyle's categorization of Type A personalities. Some of the concepts connected to quantum physics began to be applied to health issues, Norman Cousins wrote about healing with laughter, and Eastern philosophies and Yoga began to come into favor. The Beatles helped to popularize the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and transcendental meditation. Apparently John Lennon wrote "Sexy Sadie" about him as he became disenchanted with his powers when he stayed at his ashram. Even so, the Beach Boys toured with the Maharishi and he spoke at  the Woodstock festival in August, 1969.

Doctors continued to utilize some of the aspects of meditation, which was written about in "The Relaxation Response," and Bill Moyers' 1993 television series on China brought qigong, acupuncture and herbal treatments into favor. Still, using medications eventually became easier and considered to be cheaper as managed care dominated health insurance. Doctors today often admit many benefits and relief of painful symptoms may be more from the placebo effect, which leads us back to where we began.

Yello
Bostich

Standing at the machine every day for all my life
I'm used to do it and I need it
It's the only thing I want
It's just a rush, push, cash

(chorus)

Standing at the machine every day for all my life
I'm used to do it and I need it
It's the only thing I want
It's just a rush, push, cash

Rush, push, rush, push, rush, push, rush, push
Standing at the machine every day for all my life
I'm used to do it and I need it
It's the only thing I want



Fleetwood Mac
Hypnotized

It's the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window
It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there's no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

Now it's not a meaningless question
To ask if they've been and gone
I remember a talk about North
Carolina and a strange, strange pond
You see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man's ever made that land
Then I think it would've showed

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

They say there's a place down in Mexico
Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine
And he never will
Now you know it's a meaningless question
To ask if those stories are right
'Cause what matters most if the feeling
You get when you're hypnotized

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized



Traffic
Heaven is in Your Mind

You ride on the swing in and out of the bars
Capturing moments of life in a jar
Playing with children, acting as stars
Guiding your vision to heaven and heaven is in your mind
Take extra care not to lose what you feel
The apple you're eating is simple and real
Water the flowers that grow at your heel
guiding your vision to heaven and heaven is in your mind



The Beatles
Sexy Sadie

Sexy Sadie what have you done.
You made a fool of everyone.
You made a fool of everyone.
Sexy Sadie ooh what have you done.
Sexy Sadie you broke the rules.
You layed it down for all to see.
You layed it down for all to see.
Sexy Sadie oooh you broke the rules.
One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover.
She came along to turn on everyone.
Sexy Sadie is the greatest of them all.
Sexy Sadie how did you know.
The world was waiting just for you.
The world was waiting just for you.
Sexy Sadie oooh how did you know.
Sexy Sadie you'll get yours yet.
However big you think you are.
However big you think you are.
Sexy Sadie oooh you'll get yours yet.
We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
Sexy Sadie she's the latest and the greatest of them all.
She made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie
However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie.

(this has footage of the Maharishi's ashram.)


The Beatles
Within You Without You

"We were talking...
about the space between us all
and the people
who hide themselves behind a wall
of illusion
never glimpse the truth
when it's far too late...
when they pass away.....

We were talking about the love we all could share
when we find it...
to try our best to hold it there
(with our love)
With our love we could save the world,
If they only knew.......

Try to realise its all within yourself
no one else can make you change,
And to see you're really only very small
and life goes on within you
and without you.

*

We were talking
about the love thats gone so cold
And the people
who gain the world and lose their soul
they dont know
they cant see..
Are you one of them?...

When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see
we're all one and life goes on within you and without you."

(This has a few bars of  the wonderful "Tomorrow Never Knows.")


Here is Danielle Dax's version of  the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows."


 
The Smith's
 Still Ill

I decree today that life
Is simply taking and not giving
England is mine - it owes me a living
But ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
Oh, ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore
No, we cannot cling to those dreams
Does the body rule the mind
Or does the mind rule the body ?
I dunno...
Under the iron bridge we kissed
And although I ended up with sore lips
It just wasn't like the old days anymore
No, it wasn't like those days
Am I still ill ?
Am I still ill ?

Does the body rule the mind
Or does the mind rule the body ?
I dunno...
Ask me why, and I'll die
Oh, ask me why, and I'll die
And if you must, go to work - tomorrow
Well, if I were you I really wouldn't bother
For there are brighter sides to life
And I should know, because I've seen them
But not very often
Under the iron bridge we kissed
And although I ended up with sore lips
It just wasn't like the old days anymore
No, it wasn't like those days
Am I still ill ?
Oh, am I still ill ?




It's all in your head...............

I've become a fan of the TV show "Mad Men," which begins in the early 1960's, just before what has been called "the Creative Revolution." This was an "era of modern advertising by promoting a 'position' or 'unique selling proposition' designed to associate each brand with a specific idea in the reader or viewer's mind. "  Watching the show  has made me think  about advertising and how it works.

What causes so many people to go into debt, chasing happiness by acquiring more stuff? Some insight is provided in Rob Walker's new book, "Buying In." Walker also has a website, www.murketing.com, and a column about what he calls the "consumer persuasion industry" in the New York Times.  He states there is a secret dialogue between what we want (and buy) and  who we are.

We have an internal Interpreter  who makes sense of what happens in our lives. We all want to feel "I am nice and I am in control." We all think we are above average. The Desire Code addresses the tension between wanting to feel we are special and also wanting to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Most products are what he calls "pretty good" and indistinguishable. Advertising makes one stand out by attaching it to an idea or belief. When we buy that product we unconsciously purchase the idea, such as "authenticity," "attractiveness, "loveable -ness, "intelligence," etc. We see connections when there really are none.

Being  aware of the attempts at marketing does not provide immunity. "Priming" associates images with feelings. Today's young consumers are just as affected even though they know this. People think the priming does not influence their purchasing choices, but studies show they are. Advertisers are using MRI scans of the brain to see what works, and "click" advertising is now everywhere on the internet. The young are supporting brands more than ever, and product placement  abounds in most forms of entertainment, as well as many surfaces such as walls and billboards. Buying a certain product provides the feeling that you are part of a social community. These symbols are powerful.

The purchasing act involves novelty which releases pleasurable sensations and dopamine. Using a credit card postpones the unpleasant feeling which also comes with spending money, so the pain is limited for awhile. This explains why we often don't ever use the things we buy.

If we break this cycle, our economy would have to exist without these "bubbles," and I'm not sure how that would look. However, I think that we have to find some way of balancing saving with spending.

The Jam
Pretty Green

I've got a pocket full of pretty green -
I'm gonna put it in the fruit machine -
I'm gonna put it in the juke box -
It's gonna play all the records in the hit parade -
This is the pretty green - this is society
You can't do nothing - unless it's in the pocket
- oh no -

I've got a pocket full of pretty green
I'm gonna give it to the man behind the counter
He's gonna give me food and water -
I'm gonna eat that and look for more -

And they didn't teach me that in school -
It's something that I learnt on my own -
That power is measured by the pound or the fist -
It's as clear as this oh -

I've got a pocket full of Pretty Green!

The Clash
Lost In the Supermarket

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily,
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed Personality

I wasn't born so much as I fell out
Nobody seemed to notice me
We had a hedge back home in the suburbs
Over which I never could see

I heard the people who lived on the ceiling
Scream and fight most scarily
Hearing that noise was my first ever feeling
That's how it's been all around me

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily,
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed Personality

I'm all tuned in, I see all the programmes
I save coupons from packets of tea
I've got my giant hit discoteque album
I empty a bottle and I feel a bit free

The kids in the halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company
Long distance callers make long distance calls
And the silence makes me lonely

I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily,
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed Personality

And it's not here
It disappear



Rolling Stones
I Can't Get No Satisfaction

(Devo Version)

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get me no satisfaction
And i try and i try and i try t-t-t-t-try try
I can't get no i can't get me no
When i'm riding in my car
And a man comes on the radio
He's tellin' me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no uh no no no
Hey hey hey that's what i say
I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get me no girly action
When i'm watchin' my tv
And a man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts could me
But he can't be a man 'cause he does not smoke
The same cigarettes as me
And when i'm flying around the world
And i'm doin' this and i'm tryin' do that
And i'm trying to make some girl
Tells me baby better come back later next week
Can't you see i'm on a losing streak



Joe Jackson
I'm the Man

Pretty soon now
Y'know I'm gonna make a comeback
And like the birds and the bees in the trees
It's a sure-fire smash
I'll speak
To the masses throughout the media
And if you got anything to say to me
You can say it with cash
'Cause I got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
So give me all your money 'cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile

I'm the man
I'm the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I'm the man
I'm the man that gave you the yo-yo

Kung fu
That was one of my good ones
Well what's a few broken bones
When we all know it's good clean fun
Skateboards
I've almost made them respectable
You see I can't always get through to you
So I go for your son
I had a giant rubber shark and it really made a mark
Didja looka looka lookit alla blood
Give me all your money 'cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile

I'm the man
I'm the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I'm the man
I'm the man that gave you the yo-yo

Right now
I think I'm gonna plan a new trend
Because the line on the graph's getting low
And we can't have that
And you think you're immune
But I can sell you anything
Anything from a thin safety pin
To a pork pie hat
'Cause I got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
So give me all your money 'cause I know you think I'm funny
Can't you hear me laughing
Can't you see me smile



Paul McCartney
Junk

Motor Cars, Handle Bars
Bicycles for Two
Broken Hearted Jubilee

Parachutes, Army Boots
Sleeping Bags for Two
Sentimental Jamboree

Buy Buy
Says the Sign in the Shop Window
Why Why
Says the in Junk the Yard

Candlesticks, Building Bricks
Some Old and New
Memories for You and Me

Buy Buy
Says the Sign in the Shop Window
Why Why
Says the in Junk in the Yard



Neil Young
Piece of Crap

Tried to save the trees
Bought a platsic bag
The bottom fell out
It was a piece of crap

Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap

I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap

Got it from a friend
On him you can depend
I found out in the end
It was a piece of crap

I'm trying to save the trees
I saw it on TV
They cut the forest down
To build a piece of crap

I went back to the store
They gave me four more
The guy told me at the door
It's a piece of crap



Roxy Music
In Every Dream Home, A Heartache

In every dream home a heartache
And every step I take
Takes me further from heaven
Is there a heaven?
I..d like to think so
Standards of living
They..re rising daily
But home oh sweet home
It..s only a saying
From bell push to faucet
In smart town apartment
The cottage is pretty
The main house a palace
Penthouse perfection
But what goes on
What to do there
Better pray there

Open plan living
Bungalow ranch style
All of its comforts
Seem so essential
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
You float my new pool
De luxe and delightful
Inflatable doll
My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can..t throw you away now
Immortal and life size
My breath is inside you
I..ll dress you up daily
And keep you till death sighs
Inflatable doll
Lover ungrateful
I blew up your body
But you blew my mind

Oh Those Heartaches
Dreamhome Heartaches

With the latest news about job layoffs, I am also affected because most of my work comes through the state from my contract with them. I have ridden out several recessions and lowered income because my overhead is low and I keep a reserve of a year's income. I have also been very lucky since I started my career 30 years ago this June.

I fell into rehabilitation when the federal government offered me a stipend which paid for my graduate degree. When I graduated and moved to where my husband found work, there were no jobs available in my field. After 6 months our next door neighbor told me there was an opening for an evaluator at Goodwill, where she worked. I began my career that week.

The following month I found out there was an evaluator job open at a rehab facility in Atlanta. I was their 3rd choice but got it because the others turned it down. We moved here and I got excellent training in that job for the next 3 years. I left to be an evaluator in the private sector and worked at Emory with Workers' Compensation chronic pain patients. The group decided to go out on their own after 4 years. This proved to be a mistake and I left to take a job at Georgia Baptist after 2 years.

After there were several layoffs at the hospital and the writing was on the wall. I went out on my own in June, 1990. I made many mistakes in my expenses but again got lucky by finding a doctor who sent his patients to me for testing. I gradually built up other sources of revenue as pain management centers grew out of favor and they went out of business. However, in 1992 the state stopped requiring vocational rehab for Workers Comp clients and that work started to dry up. By 1997, with less and less business, I nearly moved to Seattle to take a job as a Workers' Comp coordinator, since vocational rehab was still required in Washington state.

At that very time, the State fired all of its evaluators and closed rehab centers. I registered to be one of the 1st contract evaluators and this has provided the majority of my income since, with some very  good years and some leaner years. Oddly, with the state budget tightening up this year, about 25% of my business has been coming from those Workers Comp counselors and attorneys who still work in that system.

So I have always managed to stay one step of the axe and have not had an actual job for over 18 years. I hope to continue until I can retire. Economies and technology make many jobs obsolete; it's getting trickier to stay ahead of the curve. I'm grateful for the luck I've had!

The Clash
Clampdown

What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
'Cause they're working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers

The judge said five to ten-but I say double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?

The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal

You grow up and you calm down
You're working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
You're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
But ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!

And I've given away no secrets
Who's barmy now?

(I had the lyrics to this song on my billboard in my cubicle when I worked at the rehab center. My boss and me hated each other.)



The Clash
Career Opportunities

The offered me the office, offered me the shop
They said I'd better take anything they'd got
Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?

Career opportunities are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you is to keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the ones that never knock

I hate the army an' I hate the R.A.F.
I don't wanna go fighting in the tropical heat
I hate the civil service rules
And I won't open letter bombs for you

Bus driver....ambulance man....ticket inspector
They're gonna have to introduce conscription
They're gonna have to take away my prescription
If they wanna get me making toys
If they wanna get me, well, I got no choice

Careers
Careers
Careers

Ain't never gonna knock



The Clash
The Magnificent Seven

Ring! Ring! It's 7 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence

You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!

Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work - an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk

"When can I tell 'em wot I do?
In a second, maaan...oright Chuck!"

Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour and do your thanng!
Cheeesboiger!

What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do - in T.V. land

You lot! What? Don't stop. Huh?

So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence

What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!

Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!



John Lennon
Working Class Hero

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me



Dolly Parton
9 to 5

(The words are actually on the video!)



She is certainly one of the hardest working people in show biz!

We have such ambivalent feelings about work; migrants risk death coming here illegally to earn a few dollars, but we often hate the fact that others control so much of our lives and/or the work we feel we have to do.

Lastly, Donna Summer supposedly wrote this after she started talking to a bathroom attendant at one of her shows. I always felt that having to tip the ones who hand me the soap and paper towel was like paying the street beggars. Unless they also clean the room, it seems they may be there to prevent people from doing drugs; maybe that's worth something, I guess.

Donna Summer
She Works Hard For the Money

She works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey.
She works hard for the money. So you better treat her right.

Onetta here in the corner stand and wonders where she is.
And it's strange to her, some people seem to have everything.
9 am on the hour hand and she's waiting for the bell.
And she's looking real pretty. She's waiting for her clientele.

She works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey.
She works hard for the money. So you better treat her right.

Twentyeight years have come and gone.
And she's seen a lot of tears
of the ones who come in. They really seem to need her there.
It's a sacrifice working day to day. For little money just tipsfor pay.
But it's worth it all just to hear them say that they care.

She works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey.
She works hard for the money. So you better treat her right.

She already knows she's seen her bad times.
She already knows these are the good times.
She'll never sell out, she never will, not for a dollar bill.
She works haaaaard.........

The recent death of journalist Tim Russert has gotten me thinking about the role that news plays in my life. My brother and I talked about Russert's death as if we had lost a family member. I'm a news junkie, and watch all the main broadcasts each night, although I don't have cable to follow CNN.

News used to be brought to people by travelers and passed on by town criers. Much of this was also gossip. Now it may be called infotainment, and scandals dominate what is often news. This is not a recent development, as over 100 years ago Joseph Pulitzer (ironically his name is what inspired the Pulitzer prize which is awarded each year for excellence in journalism and other media)  owned a newspaper which was accused of "yellow" journalism because it focussed on scandals and gossip.

We need to know and the "facts" will always be colored by the reporter's bias and financial incentives. Hopefully the truth will come out one way or another.

Sunday Papers
Joe Jackson

Mother doesn't go out any more
Just sits at home and rolls her spastic eyes
But every weekend through the door
Come words of wisdom from the world outside

If you want to know about the bishop and the actress
If you want to know how to be a star
If you want to know about the stains on the mattress
You can read it in the sunday papers, sunday papers

Mother's wheelchair stays out in the hall
Why should she go out when the tv's on
Whatever moves beyond these walls
She'll know the facts when sunday comes along

If you want to know about the man gone bonkers
If you want to know how to play guitar
If you want to know about the other suckers
You can read it in the sunday papers, read it in the sunday papers

Sunday papers don't ask no questions
Sunday papers don't get no lies
Sunday papers don't raise objection
Sunday papers don't got no eyes

Brother's heading that way now I guess
He just read something made his face turn blue
Well I got nothing against the press
They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true

If you want to know about the gay politician
If you want to know how to drive your car
If you want to know about the new sex position
You can read it in the sunday papers, read it in the sunday papers

U2
Zoo Station


I'm ready
I'm ready for the laughing gas
I'm ready
I'm ready for what's next
I'm ready to duck
I'm ready to dive
I'm ready to say
I'm glad to be alive
I'm ready
I'm ready for the push

In the cool of the night
In the warmth of the breeze
I'll be crawling around
On my hands and knees

She's Just down the line...Zoo Station
Got to make it on time...Zoo Station

I'm ready
I'm ready for the gridlock
I'm ready
To take it to the street
I'm ready for the shuffle
Ready for the deal
Ready to let go of the steering wheel
I'm ready
Ready for the crush

She's just down the line... Zoo Station
Got to make it on time... Zoo Station

Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright
It's alright... it's alright... it's alright... It's alright

Hey baby... hey baby... hey baby... hey baby...
It's alright, it's alright

(Alright, you can turn it up)

Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass

I'm just down the line from your love... Zoo Station
You know I'm under the sign... Zoo Station
I've got to make it on time
Make it on time... Zoo Station
I'm gonna be there... Zoo Station
Tracing the line... Zoo Station
That's alright... Zoo Station
Just two stops down the line... Zoo Station
Just a stop down the line...



Thomas Dolby
Airwaves

Strange how the scale forms
In tiny patterns
On my atenna
and The Five O'Clock Show, hello hello ...
Brooklyn is crawling with famous people
I turn my vehicle beneath the river, west from south
Through the airwaves-
people never read the airwaves
Do we only feed the airwaves
I really should have seen through the airwaves
Electric fences line our new freeway
Here in the half-light, the motorhomes leave
Knee-deep in water under a pylon
How slow my heartbeat
How thin the air I'm breathing in
Through the airwaves -
People never read the airwaves
do we only feed the airwaves
Or stamp them out at street level ?
Airwaves - the dampness of the wind
The airwaves - the tension of the skin
The airwaves
Be in my broadcast when this is over
Give me your shoulder, I need a place
To wait for morning
No it was nothing - some car backfiring -
Please don't ask questions
I itch all over
Let me sleep
Through the airwaves -
People never read the airwaves
Do we only feed the airwaves
Or stamp them out at street level ?
Airwaves - the dampness of the wind
The airwaves - the tension of the skin
The airwaves I really should have seen through ..

My daughter and her husband are heading to Croatia for a 2 week sea cruise. My best friend and her husband are heading to Alaska for a cruise, also. I'm staying put on dry land. I've been on day cruises with my family from Miami to Nassau and got seasick. I don't get that in small boats. Maybe I'll be willing to try cruising again in the future.

Wikipedia defines a cruise ship as one that is "used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are part of the experience." This has become a huge part of tourism as an industry. People can see a place from their floating hotel, which provides social interaction if desired, planned activities and excursions on land. The first one was in 1900 and was transatlantic, such as the doomed Titanic.

The 1970's TV show "The Love Boat" helped popularize the vacation cruise which became an option for the middle class and grew in the following decades. The ships became huge and often generate some controversy about the amount of pollution they create. Nearly all of the ocean liners are bulit in Europe, although most of the passengers come from the United States. There have been a few scares about diseases transmitted on them in the past.

My experience reminded me of my stay in Las Vegas and visiting their hotels, which were like oases in the desert. At the time it was not my cup of tea, but as I get older I'm open to trying it again.

Frankie Ford
Sea Cruise

Old Man Rhythm is-a in my shoes
It's no use sittin' here singin' the blues
So Gbe my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
CHORUS:
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Whoo-ee, whoo-ee baby
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
Bridge:
I Ffeel like jumpin'; baby, won't you join me,
Cplease?
I Fdon't like beggin', but now I'm on my bended
Gknees
Verse 2:
I gotta keep movin', honey, I ain't lyin'
My heart is beatin' rhythm and it's right on time
So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise?
(chorus)
(bridge)
Verse 3:
I gotta keep a-rockin', get my hat off the rack
I gotta boogie-woogie like a knife's in my back
So be my guest, you've got nothin' to lose
Won't you let me take you on a sea cruise



The Beach Boys
Sloop John B

We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home

The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Cap'n's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I wanna go home
Let me go home

The poor cook he caught the fits
And threw away all my grits
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
Let me go home
Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home



Randy Newman
Sail Away

In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American

Ain't no lions or tigers ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev'rybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me

CHORUS
Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You're all gonna be an American



REM
Permanent Vacation


Gotta get away, gotta get away
Gotta get away, gotta get

(chorus)
Im on a permanent vacation
Nothing left to move
I want a revelation
Nothing left to prove
I could take it with me
Leave you all behind
Got some kind of feeling
Burnin on my mind

Sleeping late in the morning
Stay out all night long
Every day is like the one before
Im going wrong
Im going wrong

(repeat chorus)

Theres only one thing you can do
This I gotta do, oh, oh, oh
I got nothing to win, nothing to lose
Nothing left to prove
One thing to do

Well, Im on a permanent vacation
Im on a permanent vacation
Im on a permanent vacation
Permanent vacation



Radiohead
Sail To the Moon

I sail to the moon
I spoke too soon
And how much did it cost
I was dropped from
The moonbeam
And sailed on shooting stars

Maybe you'll
Be president
But know right from wrong
Or in the flood
You'll build an Ark

And sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon



Neil Young
Sail Away

I could live inside a tepee
I could die
in Penthouse thirty-five
You could lose me on the freeway
But I would still
make it back alive.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There'll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away.

See the losers in the best bars
Meet the winners in the dives
Where the people are the real stars
All the rest of their lives.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There'll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away.

There's a road
stretched out between us
Like a ribbon on the high plain
Down from Phoenix through Salinas
'Round the bend and back again.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There'll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away



Bon Voyage, y'all!