Sweet tea with honey

The day begun with a cup of tea with the Blackcurrent taste and a teaspoon of honey, some soymilk.

This day I had e-mail to answer to on my work-not-work-place which is the benefit of being part in a non-profitable organisation. You got mail and you get something to do when the parttime job is, well isn´t calling for your attention.

Last week I got three days of work in the kindergarten and took one day off for the Art Exhibition of the Springtime - Vårsalong at Roslagsmålarna.

The weekend involved friday dinner in a restaurant with a party of 12 and a baby. Unlucky number?  And on Sunday I attended the christening of said baby.
I´m not a believer was all I could think of but the family talks in the original language of Syrian which maybe means something religious.

I picked up my camera and did some photoshop yesterday, haven´t done stuff in ages with the photos, nothing since last year.

I've gotten coffee in the afternoon and a cinnamon roll - kanelbulle. Mom did the baking.

I´ve got no plan but got some inspiration from a TED talk of mr Tim Ferriss just now. He talked about Fear-setting opposed to making a goal - plan. Something about making 3 pages
one What if you wanted to be.. maybe start a company
Define - a thing / Prevent -think of worst case scenarios/ Repair - ask for help if needed
two What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success?
three the cost of inaction what if you don´t do this - 6 months/ 1 year / 3 year
Make a fear setting plan once a quarter year said Tim on his TED talk on the Youtube.
There was something about control also...

 "Out of control .. dance .. go crazy" sings Leila K

Cheers/ Linda

Wake me up

songs. There are

Wake me up before you Go-Go by George Michael.

Wake me up by Avicii sung by Aloe Blacc

I like the one by Green Day

Wake me up before September Ends

but I'm still thinking about Lill-Babs

(the song is about a beloved angel and quite upbeat)

so What happens in the after life? 

Someone said 

now Avicii will get a hug from Lill-Babs

in heaven 

eventually

Cheers/ L.

It´s rainin

Some music with the word rain in it. Each song reminds me of someone, like there´s a someone per song that is not here anymore

Rainin' with Bobby Darin was released 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2df7D1tjWWw

Purple Rain with Prince or the Artist was released 25june 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3LHatq2u4k

Buddy Guy released It feels like rain 9th of march 1993 and performed it with John Mayer 2014
the guitar playing ends in this video with a children's song I believe is called Mary had a little lamb in a nice harmony.

Do you know or love music for the lyrics alone? Are there more rainy songs or other weathers?
I wonder...

I heard the news today

I so do not care for what the politicians say, listened to this song by Sting & the Police 
which I agree with

Lyrics goes like (without the do de dahs) I don't care for the politicians.
I check out the lyrics and this verse I was thinking of

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission
And when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and wraps you

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you

Read more:  Sting - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Then the song ends with words are meaningless 
and that I think not is, do de da doesn't mean anything. 

But funnily enough many lyrics have been written rather indirect political agenda like
Some Beatles songs are very wordly political oriented (now Hey Jude is not about the Jew but it was it translates to in Swedish) My fav Beatles song is Come together because it has that kind of a zing to it or it is the News song I like better - A day in the life is good song too.

Another person that has written songs a little bit under the influence is Cornelis Vreeswijk,

he was from Holland originally but he has become a Swedish national bard, his songs have 

been sung by every school children (at least when I went there some years ago) I had this 

idea of translating his music to english and found out that he has already done the opposite 

he translated some verses from English to Swedish but he did it with his words and twisted 

them to be entertaining. Incestvisan that he translated he got awarded a prize for from a 

swedish female magazine for have written the most horrible manschauvinistiska song that 

year. That it was about incest was enough for him to get the award but then he told that the 

original writer of the song was female Buffy Saint Marie, that he Cornelis himself talked to 

and got permission to translate the song from her: The incest song, that she learned from 

her grandmother, a real navajoindian. Then Cornelis sings the song all ends well since there 

been some misunderstanding in the family about who was who's father...

So one can look into more information thanks to the internet and Buffy is still touring the world, 

apparently she wrote the song "Up where we belong" that became a film soundtrack for "An officer 

and a gentleman" which is Richard Gere like, that´s my grandmothers favorite actor. 

So one comes from politicians I care not for to, to the things one do care about, family. 

That scene is so Simpsons now. Homer carries Marge through the toxic power plant, Its funny how the cartoons or animations so rule the world at the same time terrifying because a new generation has no recollection of that original screenplay. Education is therefor very important. Learn something new everyday why don't you? 
Do de da words meaningless up where we belong...  
Rest in peace, Vila i Frid, Robert Broberg, visans välgörare i Öken - Ajöken 

Eurovision in Guiness book of World record

Congratulations to Måns Zelmerlöw for the winning in Eurovision

that were yesterday and/or this morning as the result were in like eight hours ago


And congratulations Eurovision to be 60 years going strong for building bridges

between European countries I guess it has learned people

 to count to twelve in french and english language

and music is not politics

it is just a song contest between mostly European countries

joined together each year and some more countries joins in occasionally

Australia with us this year of celebration and they did good


Loved the three italian men singing about the Grande Amore 

this year (they got the third place after Russia)

Songs of Love tends to be winners of the ESC



Analyze this (as you do occasionally/ often/ always):

songs about heroes

In the winning song this years ESC15

Måns Zelmerlöw is singing in the refrain that

"We are heroes of our time 

but we're dancing with the demons in our minds"

Like today we all are heroes 2015

but yesterday there was another song

Hero by David Bowie released 1977

back then singing "we can be heroes just for one day"

sounds more real to strive for being a hero for one day

There is a lot of heroes walking along today or

there has always been heroes around in history I had a deeper thought but I forget

lets say dancing like heroes today is a point made that we just want to celebrate now

dance whatever in la Suede but the message from Romania

the group Voltaj sang De la capat - All over again about children left at home

while the parent work in other countries to get income

message that show well the lyrics in the songs have subtext

in my point of view perhaps I am wrong 

I loved the Estonia song too Goodbye to yesterday

anyhow my favourite Hero song that I have sung the most is that of

Mariah Carey released 1993 when I was ten years old

I like those lyrics "there will be tomorrow in time you'll find a way"

and the line "that a hero lies in you"

Neither Mariah Carey or DaBow has been in Eurovision as far as I know

but its music all the same that colors the air 

This song was released one year ago today

I have had problem with the lyrics Take me to church
because I have come to grown up from believing to be a non believer..

It was somewhere when I was at sunday school as a 5yearold I think because the tale of the fish and bread that magically was enough to feed the thousands listening to Jesus speech at some mountain.

But I checked the lyrics to Hozier song and there saw the comments of the music video and in an interview Hozier himself has said that the song is about taking a distance from the Irish church and the hate crime against homosexuals. Love is for everyone. No matter who you are, where you´re from you should be loved.

There goes the text, thou shalt not have other Gods than me, written by a human author in the Bible(book of books) sometime in the 13th century as Gutenberg had invented printing books.
So there are other Gods then to choose from? I'm glad for that. I like the mythologies that have all kinds of Gods for every human behavior. In greek, hindu, northern Asatro and the Finnish Kalevala. 

One year ago I was at the beginning class of Buddhist meditation, which I found satisfying because it is the telling of wisdom that have been pondering on from 4000years ago by men mostly. To sit and breathe and think well of one and all. Its like affirmation that I first heard of on the Oprah Winfrey show actually. Is the affirmation word borrowed from the buddhist community?  

Come to think of it it might have been Metallica Enter Sandman lyrics that turned me from listening to prayers because as the lyrics goes "never mind that noice you heard" to the child praying. And at the same time Madonnas Prayer was also my favorite song as I grew up but I thought the name of the song was more like "take me there..."

Happy birthday John

John Lennon he was something else. A wonderful musician. He walked the earth 40 years, then that dreadful day December, 8th 1980 a weapon ended it. #Stop making guns in the name of love. Imagine a world free where it is war off, peace on.

Song Mind Games
Artist John Lennon

Freddie Mercury

When I think of a Queen song, the song that comes into mind is Bohemian Rhapsody, iconic harmonies and the wonderful singing master. I recorded that song from the radio on a tape when a was little. Today was Freddie Mercury's birthday. No more amongst the living but his songs will live on for all time.

I love the small song too Love of my life. The guitar play by Brian May on this tune is great to hear.

 
"Don't stop me now" is also a wonderful song and that it then the line continues 'cause I'm having such a good time. 

Fabulous muzic. Full of life, stories, harmony.
Cheers!

I should stop writing now. Leave on a high note. It just gets to me that my uncle had the same, not the same? similar, fatal ending to his life as Freddie. That disease is so real and so many get it and it's important to acknowledge it. Jonas Gardell has written a book about the early 70's in Stockholm "Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar" - don´t swipe off the tears without gloves on. It got to be film 2012 by director Simon Kaijser. That got to me.  Spoiler alert... characters dying.
There is a more aware society nowadays perhaps. Stay safe.  I will.

"Only the good one die young" what song is that?