Lost in Translation?

Aprub na Translasyon: This never failed to put a smile in my face every time I get to recall.

 

Watching a Harrison Ford movie with the “tropa” at SM, I felt the anticipation regarding the movie was quite high, within me and inside the movie house.

The title of the movie was “Regarding Henry” and anticipation was built around the promotion of the film being the first to be shown in the Philippines with a Tagalog subtitle for the duration of the film.

So the movie started.

 

Images came flashing in the screen….

Then the movie title “Regarding Henry” was flashed with some images in the background…….

At the lower portion of the screen was the subtitle, “Tungkol Kay Henry”.

Instantly the room was filled with muffled sound kinda mixes of ahhhhh…ohhhhh…wow…..and  some polite giggles.

 

It was a good movie but I can’t recall any movie with a Tagalog subtitle shown in the Pinas next to this one.

Or maybe the time came that the cost of the movie ticket made me made excuses to the “tropa” that they go ahead watch a movie without me.

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Alost Translation: Halloweeen

­Catholics celebrate their saints on their own "saints day,"  the anniversary of their saint's  death. With thousands of canonized saints, only a small percentage are recognized regularly. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV officially established All Saints' Day in order to honor all the saints at one time. Prior to this declaration, they are observing All Saints' Day on May 13. But in the eighth century, Pope Gregory III moved it to November 1. Many historians believe the Church really moved the observance to correspond with Samhain and other pagan fall festivals.

It has been noted that the Catholic Church had a long-standing policy of incorporating  traditions into its holidays in order to bring people into the Catholic faith. Many historians believe, for example, that the church set Christmas on December 25 so that it would correspond with pagan winter solstice festivals.

When All Saints' Day moved to November 1, the church did begin to incorporate Samhain traditions into the holy day's activities. This helped bring descendants of the ancient Celts into Christianity, but it posed some problems for the church. Much of the Samhain traditions centered on the supernatural and spirit world, ideas that don't have much of a place in Christianity. Recognizing saints, who were by definition deceased, covered a lot of the same ground, but the converts were still fascinated by the idea of their familiar dead returning to the world of the living.

Despite some unease in the church, many supernatural ideas persisted in All Saints' Day Eve celebrations, making the occasion a remarkable combination of Christian and pagan beliefs. At the end of the 10th century, the church tried to give these traditions a little more direction by establishing All Souls' Day, an occasion to recognize all Christian dead.

That's How Halloween Works (click to read more)

The Follies!

Gonna be a long weekend, walang pasok sa Lunes.

Sana di ako ma traffic mamaya.

I remember last February 14, our service was stuck in the traffic jam from 5pm to 11pm.

Sana mamaya di naman ganon ka grabe ang traffic!

A Sort of Homecoming, part 2 of Song Titles Not In the Lyrics

(Pasensya na , again, i can't seem to control the font color for this one. At may part 3 pa yata)

For this 2^nd part, I will dedicate this space for U2,  the band with a reputation as one of the world's greatest rock bands.

The 4th rock band in history featured on the cover of Time magazine after the Beatles, the Band, and the Who. Oh, yes, this is they have a fair share of songs  that did not mention the title in the lyrics.

Are you familiar with their titles without Google's help?

#1 __________________________________

(This one I hope to hear a Thanksgiving  song version)

And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

Oh, oh, oh...
On borderland we run...

I'll be there
I'll be there...
Tonight
A high road
A high road out from here

The city walls are all pulled down
The dust, a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave  no resistance

And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill
As the valley explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own

The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream...

Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light's in the distance

Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home

 

#2  ______________________________________________

If you twist and turn away, if you tear yourself in two again
If I could, you know I would, if I could, I would let it go
Surrender, dislocate
If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay, see you break, break away
Into the night through the rain
Through the half-light, through the flame

If I could through myself, set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away
Into the light, through the day

So let it go, and so fade away
To let it go, and so to fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no
I'm not sleeping

If you should ask well maybe they'd tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black, bruised silken skies and burning flak
Colours crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would, if I could, I would let it go

This desperation, separation
Condemnation, revelation
In temptation, isolation
Desolation, isolation

#3  _____________________________________

You know he got the cure
You know he went astray
He used to stay awake
To drive the dreams he had away
He wanted to believe
In the hands of love
His head it felt heavy
As he cut across the land
A dog started crying
Like a broken hearted man
At the howling wind
At the howling wind

He went deeper into black
Deeper into white
Could see the stars shining
Like nails in the night
He felt the healing
Healing, healing
Healing hands of love
Like the stars shiny shiny
From above

Hand in the pocket
Finger on the steel
The pistol weighed heavy
His heart he could feel
Was beating, beating
Beating, beating oh my love
Oh my love, oh my love
Oh my love
My love

Saw the hands that build, Can also pull down
The hands of love.

#4  _________________________________

In the ocean
Cut, swim, deep the sky
Like there, I don't know why
In the forest, there's a clearing
I run there towards the light
Sky...
It's a blue sky
In the earth a hole dig deep, decide
If I could, I would
Up for air to swim against the tide
Hey, hey, hey
Up toward the sky
It's a blue sky

To lose along the way
The spark that set the flame
To flicker and to fade
On this the longest day

So wind blow through to my heart
So wind blow through my soul
So wind blow through to my heart...

You give yourself to this the longest day
You give yourself, you give it all away

 

# 5  ______________________________________

Sleep, Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thunder cloud
Passes rain
So let it rain, Rain down on him
So let it be

Sleep, Sleep tonight
And may your dreams
Be realized
If the thundercloud, Passes rain
So let it rain, Let it rain
Rain on him

#6  _____________________________________

Earth sky sea and rain
Is she coming back again
Men of straw sneak a whore
Words that build or destroy
Dirt dry bone sand and stone
Barbed-wire fence cut me down
I'd like to be around
In a spiral staircase
To the higher ground

And I, like a firework, explode
Roman candle lightning lights up the sky

In the cracked streets trampled under foot
Sidestep, sidewalk
I see you stare into space
Have I got closer now
Behind the face

Oh...tell me...
Charity dance with me
Turn me around tonight
Up through spiral staircase
To the higher ground

Slide show sea side town
Coca-Cola, football radio radio radio
Radio radio radio...

#7  ____________________________________

Ice, Your only rivers run cold
These city lights
They shine as silver and gold
Dug from the night
Your eyes as black as coal

Walk on by
Walk on through
Walk 'til you run
And don't look back
For here I am

Carnival
The wheels fly and the colors spin
Through alcohol
Red wine that punctures the skin
Face to face
In a dry and waterless place

And if the mountain should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I

Stay in this time
Stay tonight in...
Ever after, this love in time
And if you save your love
Save it all

Don't push me too far
Don't push me too far
Tonight...

# 8  ______________________________________

Innocent, and in a sense I am
Guilty of the crime that's now in hand
Such a nice day
Throw your life away
Such a nice day
Let it go
Cold these eyes, I can't believe it
Cold, this heart is slow
Heart is slow

Call me
Such a cold heart
Such a cold man
Watch you tear your self apart

So lay me down
My soul to give
So lay me down
The longest sleep
Oh, the longest sleep

In I come and out you go you get
Here we are again now, place your bets
Is this the time
The time to win or lose
Is this the time
The time to choose

Cold these eyes, I can't believe it
So deep inside a cold fire
Cold, this heart is slow...

Anytime you're only a kiss away
Won't you do it now
That's right, just keep me going

In some white track
You come the right track
Cartoon cutout
Cut throat bled out
I'm on your side
Be on the both side
I'm alright Jack
You get off my back
I'm no dope
I give you hope
Here's the rope
Here's the rope
Now...swing away

# 9 _____________________________________

I waited patiently for the Lord
He inclined and heard my cry
He lift me up out of the pit
Out of the miry clay
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

How long to sing this song
How long to sing this song
How long, how long, how long
How long to sing this song

He set my feet upon a rock
And made my footsteps firm
Many will see, many will see and hear

I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song

Country Feedback....... you wear me out.

R. E. M.’s Country Feedback

 

This flower is scorched, This film is on, On a maddening loop.
These clothes, don't fit us right
I'm to blame, It's all the same
 You come to me with a bone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
Ducked out in a row
You wear me out.

 

I think these past days, I was “stressed out”. Why? Maybe because I allowed myself to be. And since that this is something I must fight off, I devoted some time reading about it.

Reading more about Stress, I found out the possible areas where it may come from.

1. from our Job  
2. from School 
3. our Financial Status 
4. our Relationship with others 
5. also our traits and Attitudes

Among its effects that I experienced are 

1. lack of sleep 
2. loss of appetite 
3. feeling too busy to do things

With all these factors, obviously we will feel tired most of the time.

Good thing I have friends and an extended family that inspires me to cope with this problem. In managing stress, right attitude  is the key. Some of these attitude are: 

1. being optimistic 
2. letting go of stressful thoughts 
3. letting go of anger 
4. maintaining a sense of humor

and on maintaining a sense of humor, I chanced upon this Discovery Channel video on You tube.

click to view>>>>>>>>     Laughteryoga on Discovery Channel

It was mentioned there about a blind man’s first time to watch a movie.

It was somewhat said….. 

“I can’t see, but I can hear and I listened and I understood.”

"Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"

A couple or a year ago, a  song by “Five For Fighting” caught my attention about song titles not mentioned at all in the song lyrics.  And since that time,  I have noted as I chance upon them,  songs in my playlist (definitely a fave) and in the back of my mind, I always ask, what could be the artist’s reason not mentioning the song title in the lyrics? Researching about these songs, I found out that even though the title is not mentioned in the lyrics, it was “in” there, really. In some instances, no reason at all…”wala lang”.

Among my musical history “New Order”, as I gather is the most noted for this. Their Discography even have just  a few songs with the title actually found in the lyrics. Meaning most of their songs have title not actually found in the lyrics. Their reason….. “wala lang”, I suppose.

And as I look for other reasons, I found a couple……... (could have been?).

·          One is in a song titled “Our lawyers made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued” by an artist by the name of Fat Out Boy. The legal issues of the business.

·          Another is the choice of a song title by the artist such as “My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are My Temptation” or  "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town"  which  are close to impossible for them to be included in the lyrics and actually sing.

Oh, whatever their reasons may be, I am just thankful to have heard and appreciated these songs.

Can you identify the song  title? I will mention the name of the artist and have dug up their lyrics, post it in full (others, I will cut out the repetitve portion) for the sheer poetry, brilliance or just about anything you can have of it according to your preferences.

The first song is of an artist that could very well be the first to have an influence on me regarding music. Succeeding songs are of no particular order.

Again, if you have the time, kindly post the title  in the comment “portion”.

The Beatles

#1 _______________________________

I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, i just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords

I saw a film today oh, boy
The english army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But i just had to look
Having read the book
I love to turn you on.

Woke up, got out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, i noticed i was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
Somebody spoke and i went into a dream

I read the news today oh, boy
Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall
I'd love to turn you on

Five for Fighting

#2 __________________________

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd, but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed, but won't you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me

Up, up and away from me
It's all right You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy, or anything

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
inside of me ...... inside of me ...(x2)

I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I'm only a man looking for my dream
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet

It's not easy ...
It's not easy to be me...

The Cure

#3 _____________________________

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again

However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you

Coldplay

#4 __________________________________

Come up to meet ya, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need ya
And tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming in tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart.
Tell me you love me, and come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
coming back as we are.

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy.
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start.

Donald Fagen

#5 _____________________________

Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream's in sight
You've got to admit it
At this point in time that it's clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we'll be A.O.K.

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there's time
The fix is in
You'll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we've got to win
Here at home we'll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There'll be spandex jackets one for everyone

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

4 Non Blondes

#6 ______________________________

25 years and my life is still
trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this
Brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I'm, I am feeling a little peculiar
So I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin' on

And I say hey....
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey....
I said hey what's goin' on

 
 

25 years and my life is still
trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

Metallica

#7 __________________________

Say your prayers little one
don't forget, my son
to include everyone

tuck you in, warm within
keep you free from sin
till the sandman he comes

sleep with one eye open
gripping your pillow tight

exit light
enter night
take my hand
off to never never land

something's wrong, shut the light
heavy thoughts tonight
and they aren't of snow white

dreams of war, dreams of liars
dreams of dragon's fire
and of things that will bite

 
now I lay me down to sleep
pray the lord my soul to keep
if I die before I wake
pray the lord my soul to take

hush little baby, don't say a word
and never mind that noise you heard
it's just the beast under your bed,
in your closet, in your head

exit light
enter night
grain of sand

exit light
enter night
take my hand
we're off to never never land

Queen

#8 ____________________________

Nothing really matters, anyone can see,
Nothing really matters!
Nothing ever happens to me!!!

The Cardigans

#10 ____________________________

Dear, I fear we're facing a problem
you love me no longer, I know
and maybe there is nothing
that I can do to make you do

Mama tells me I shouldn't bother
that I ought to stick to another man
a man that surely deserves me
but I think you do!

So I cry and I pray and I beg

Love me love me
say that you love me
Fool me fool me
go on and fool me
Love me love me
pretend that you love me
Leave me leave me
just say that you need me

So I cry and I beg for you to

Love me love me
say that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me

I can't care 'bout anything but you

Lately I have desperately pondered,
spend my nights awake and I wonder
what I could have done in another way
to make you stay

Reasons will not lead to solution
I will end up lost in confusion
I don't care if you really care
as long as you don't go
 
I can't care 'bout anything but you

The B-52's

#11 ______________________________

We're in the basement, learning to print
All of it's hot!
10-20-30 million ready to be spent
We're stackin' 'em against the wall
Those gangster presidents
Livin' simple and trying to get by
But honey, prices have shot through the sky
So I fixed up the basement with
What I was a-workin' with
Stocked it full of jelly jars
And heavy equipment
We're in the basement...
10-20-30 million dollars
Ready to be spent

Goo Goo Dolls

#12 _____________________________

And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yhea you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

Eagles

#13 ______________________________

She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air.
She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee,
Just as her father came across the sea.
She heard about a place people were smilin',
They spoke about the red man's way, how they loved the land.
And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand or a place to hide.
Down in the crowded bars out for a good time,
Can't wait to tell you all what it's like up there.
And they called it paradise, I don't know why.
Somebody laid the mountains low while the town got high.
Then the chilly winds blew down across the desert,
Through the canyons of the coast to the Malibu
Where the pretty people play hungry for power
To light their neon way and give them things to do.
Some rich man came and raped the land, nobody caught 'em,
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes and, Jesus, people bought 'em.
And they called it paradise, the place to be,
They watched the hazy sun sinking in the sea.
You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
Just like the missionaries did so many years ago.
They even brought a neon sign 'Jesus is Coming',
Brought the white man's burden down, brought the white man's reign.
Who will provide the grand design, what is yours and what is mine?
'Cause there is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here.
We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds
In the name of destiny and in the name of God.
And you can see them there on Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about what it's like up there.
They called it paradise,I don't know why.
You call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye.

Carpenters

#14 ________________________________

Long ago and oh so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio
(*) Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

Loneliness is a such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again

What to say to make you come again
Come back to me again
And play your sad guitar

And the artist with the most number of song title not found in the lyrics (as far as I know)

New Order

#15 ______________________________

Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine
But it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
But there's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of the fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
well every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way
I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

#16 _______________________________

I've watched your face for a long time
It's always the same
I've studied the cracks and the wrinkles
You were always so vain
Well, now you live your life like a shadow
In the pouring rain
Oh, it's called love
Yes, it's called love
Oh, it's called love
And it belongs to us
Oh, it dies so quickly
It grows so slowly
But when it dies, it dies for good
It's called love
And it belongs to everyone but us

#17 ______________________________

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
That's the way that we must pay
You got my time and you got my money
Now I feel you've started something
In a world that's so becoming
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see
That's the price that we must pay
And the value of destiny comes to nothing
I don't notice where we're going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of destiny
The chances are we've gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I think you've started something
In a world that's just begun
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

 

This have been a lengthy post.

This will need a “part2”.

Beth Nielsen Chapman - Emily

Emily

My oh my, time sure flies
I like what you've done to your hair
I've been fine, yeah, these boys are mine
That must be your little girl there

Some friendships grow distant with time
And it's no wonder, Emily, so much can change
We're too far to visit, too busy to write
But a closeness between us remains

CHORUS:
Best friends are made through smiles and tears
And sometimes that fades over miles and years
But I knew right away when I saw you again
Emily, we'll always be friends

I still sing now and then
Mostly at weddings for friends
And I just bet you still get
A yearning to paint now and then

They tore down our whole street
Now there's a bank where the house
was we shared back in school
Remember we both have each other to thank
For all the boyfriends we're not married to

CHORUS

"Stay as you are and you'll go far"
You signed my yearbook
"Don't forget me when you're a big star"

We can't stay, it's getting late
And they said not to let you get tired
We'll just be up the street
The number's right here by your side

Oh no it's no trouble
I don't want to hear how all this changes my plans
I'll see you tomorrow
Call me tonight, Emmy, please let me do what I can

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