Blog of the Two Hands Approach to the English Language

another John Shih song (in need of a movie or musical script)

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John Shih has written another song in English. It is called Right Here, Right Now. and its play link is http://yc.5sing.com/785572.html The lyrics are here This song has the optimism of It is the time and the orchestration is balanced and lively, fun and childlike. It's a plain, old down home song, like a Burt Bacharach song or Rogers and Hammerstein tune with lyrics that point to the positive, bring you up. Is NOW not the best time to be alive?

Guangzhou's John Shih writes unity celebration song in English

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Visited family, friends, colleagues, and former students last month in Guangzhou. Had 2 short lunch meetings with teaching and amateur music colleague, John Shih, who I think deserves mentioning. John assisted with some recording a while back, and has seriously perfected his singing, songwriting, and arrangement abilities. His website is http://4383062.5sing.com/ Here is his cover of Black Eyed Peas Where is the love? http://fc.5sing.com/3627720.html Here are some of...

Tina Turner finds peace in interfaith chanting

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Tina Turner's voice projects to the universe. Her rhythmic and soulful songs have highlighted the decades since Proud Mary (circa 1968) hit the stores and even past her appearance in the sci-fi movie Beyond Thunderdome. For starters, let's have a look at Ms. Turner showing Oprah her house in France. As she mentions in the video, she has a shrine or prayer area in her house. Readers may know that Ms. Turner is a practitioner of Buddhism. Let's sit in on Ms....

Gibson guitar factories raided by DOJ

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My first guitar was a GIbson J-50 that I bought after working in a mining mill for the summer in the summer between Grade 11 and 12. It was an excellent guitar which I toted with me in my 8-year work/volunteer trip around the world. The only problem was that I played it so much that I wore the fingerboard down in the form of hollow indents at places along the strings where fingertips went to make chords. I see that the Gibson guitar factory in Tennessee has been raided by...

A Glorious Dawn - with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

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This video uses an easy rhythm, some wahwah and other sound effects, jazz libbing, and mutending words that describe the vastness of our universe and our lonely place in it. This part of the Symphony of Science series plays with the random and quirky phantom sounds of our universe yet pulls off a catchy rhythm. It leads to the whole smorgasbord of Symphony of Science videos: We Are All Connected Our Place in the Cosmos The Poetry of Reality Children of Africa A Wave...

songs written about spiritual experiences; stovepipe system

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One of Bob Dylan's most covered songs is Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Youtube alone has a playlist of 51 such covers, including covers by (to name but a few) Guns'N'Roses, Avril Lavigne, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins (reggae version), Jon Bon Jovi, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Angela Aki, Wyclef Jean, The Red Army Chorus and Ensemble, Dolly Parton, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Babyface. Granted that this song is written by an American, its appeal is universal. In this bloggit...

legal muse?; U2's new porta venue: the claw; bios for kids

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______________ In admonishing law-breakers with memorable send-offs, court judges apparently sometimes close off with quotes from the lyrics of well-known songs that champion the more universal human causes. Apparently, at the top of the legal muse database of quoted lyricists is Dr. Bob Dylan. Carol Williams at the LA Times has the whole story. ______________ In other news, U2 has upped the hi-tech ante with a wraparound stage guaranteed to hold you like lobster pincers in the...

stuxnet: new weapon of mass infiltration

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Stuxnet is open source code that can disable nuclear power plants, power grids, etc. Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus from Patrick Clair on Vimeo. National rivalries — like spent fuel rods — never die out, it seems. Glencore video by the same videographer is worth the watch.

stedawa launches CD4 — Symphony of Song

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stedawa widens his scope of attention in his 4th CD, Symphony of Song, a self-produced and self-marketed DOD (disc on demand) collection of his latest verses and broad palette inclusives from sallysense, Shakespeare, and the Bahá'í Sacred Texts. The CD has 15 tracks: 1) symphony of song (full instrumentation) 2) i wish i knew the name of this flower (a flowering plant teaches me something about the beauty of nature, the simplicity of needs) 3) world's fare...

lost generation - reversing the thinking

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This link came from my sister (Bird) originally from my other sister (Ells): It's strange how the older a generation gets, the more they notice their difference from the younger generation. The younger generation shies away from interacting with the older generation. The generations have a communication gap. Let's try to think across the generations, even across decades and centuries. Time is of the essence. We all have something to offer and something to learn from one another.