English III 12/19: "(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon

Our life together is so precious together

We have grown, we have grown

Although our love is still special

Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere alone

It's been too long since we took the time

No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly

But when I see you darling

It's like we both are falling in love again

It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Everyday we used to make it love

Why can't we be making love nice and easy

It's time to spread our wings and fly

Don't let another day go by my love

It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Why don't we take off alone

Take a trip somewhere far, far away

We'll be together all alone again

Like we used to in the early days

Well, well, well darling

It's been too long since we took the time

No-one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly

But when I see you darling

It's like we both are falling in love again

It'll be just like starting over, starting over

Our life together is so precious together

We have grown, we have grown

Although our love is still special

Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere

English III 12/14: "Human Hands" by The Bowerbirds

When I wake, I wake by the brook,

To an untamed thunder,

And the northern flicker flash about

as the soup in the sky grows thicker.

But I tip my cap and curtsy, and I take no offense

Because there is no hate in your darkest cloud, no ill intent.

Yet there is hate all around.

On its hind legs, rears this storm, and the pines bend from its wily sword.

Yet there is no war, no war,

No quarrel here at all.

And the deer shake in their hooves and shield their fawn.

And when the rain comes, the rain comes.

No judgement falls.

Yet there is hate all around.

There's a rusty prick in the tall grass,

Where the barbed wire waits for a blind horse in a gallop and its sealed and sudden fate.

There is hate in the grip of our human hands.

There is hate in the grip of our human hands.

There is hate in the grip of our human hands.

Yes, there is hate all around.

WORDS OF THE DAY

4. generalization - A general statement or concept obtained by inference from specific cases.

5. formulaic - Constituting or containing a verbal formula or set form of words.

Professional COMM 12/10: Clarence Darrow on liberty

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." -Clarence Darrow

English III 12/10: "Ready or Not" by The Fugees

"Ready or Not"

[CHORUS:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Make you want me.

[CLEF:]

Now that I escape, sleepwalker awake

Those who could relate know the world ain't cake

Jail bars ain't golden gates

Those who fake, they break,

When they meet their 400 pound mate

If I could rule the world

Everyone would have a gun in the ghetto of course

When giddyupin' on their horse

I Kick a rhyme drinkin' moonshine

I pour a sip on the concrete, for the deceased

But no don't weep, Wyclef's in a state of sleep

Thinkin' 'bout the robbery that I did last week.

Money in the bag, banker looked like a drag

I want to play with pelicans from here to Baghdad

Gun blast, think fast, I think I'm hit

My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist.

I think not, I'll send a letter to my friends,

A born again hooligan only to be king again.

[LAURYN:]

I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest,

No stress

If you don't smoke sess, lest.

I must confess, my destiny's manifest

In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless

Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess,

Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness, YES

Bless you if you represent the Fu

But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're Doo Doo

Voo Doo,

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME

Frontin' give me hee-bee-gee-bees

So while you're imitating Al Capone

I'll be Nina Simone

And defacating on your microphone.

[Chorus:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

[LAURYN'S INTERLUDE]

You can't run away

From these styles I got, oh baby, hey baby

Cause I got a lot, oh yeah

And anywhere you go

My whole crew's gonna know

You can't hide from the block, oh no.

[PRAZ:]

Ready or not, refugees takin' over

The Buffalo soldier, dread-lock rhasta

On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber

Crews run for cover, now they're under pushin' up flowers

Superfly true lies, do or die,

Toss me high -

With my crew from lock high

I refugee from Guantanamo Bay

Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay

[Chorus (Lauryn) REPEAT 3X:]

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide

Gonna Find You and Make You Want Me

WORDS OF THE DAY

1. Aesthetic -     Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. Also, a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

2. annotate - To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.

English III 12/7: Mozart "Symphony 41 (Jupiter-Molto)"

Mozart is perhaps the greatest composer in the history of music... He was prolific, emotional, irrational and possessed by a beautiful pain that constantly transformed itself into music. So much music and so perfect is such an amazing combination! What do you think of this piece? How long do you think it took him to compose? They say listening to Mozart for 15 minutes can increase your IQ temporarily... if you had to give a totally uneducated guess, why would you say that is?

Professional COMM 12/5: Jimi Hendrix Double

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix

"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see." -Jimi Hendrix

Professional COMM 12/4: Mother Teresa (again)

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." -Mother Teresa