On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
Twelve Drummers Drumming, Eleven Pipers Piping, Ten Lords a Leaping, Nine Ladies Dancing, Eight Maids a Milking Seven Swans a Swimming, Six Geese a Laying, Five Golden Rings,
Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
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この歌詞は単なる羅列ではなく、全てキリスト教的意味があるそうです。「a Partridge in a Pear Tree（梨の木のイワシャコ鳥）」はキリストのことで、「Two Turtle Doves（二羽の山鳩）」は新約・旧約聖書を表すそうです。
【音楽】ジョージ・マイケル、クリスマスの悲しい思い出
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ジョージ・マイケルが、これまでに経験した最も孤独なクリスマスについて話をした。ジョージは、BBCが制作したドキュメンタリー番組『George Michael A Different Life』の中で、エイズ検査を受けた恋人の安否を気遣かい過ごしたクリスマスが「恐らく人生で一番孤独な時期だった」と明かした。
Brain Salad Surgery という英語は、日本語のニュアンスでいうとどいう感じになるのだろう？ 教えて、偉い人。
>> 未だにオフィシャル対訳の 脳みそサラダ手術 が最強！
Brain Surgery （脳手術）の語中に Salad サラダが入ってる。
意外な連想で、ダダ・シュールリアリズムの「優美なる死体（屍体？）」「ミシン」等と似てる。
チョムスキー：「Colorless green idea sleeps furiously.」
ドラッグの連想もあり。この音楽を聴くと脳手術受けるようなもんで、頭がサラダみたいに掻き回されるよ、という意味か。
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2004’s Worst Pop Albums
１ Patience, George Michael
２ Classified, Bond
３ Inspiration, William Hung
４ Space Under Sun, Ari Gold
５ My Kind of World, Amber
６ Exodus, Utada
７ Astronaut, Duran Duran
８ One, Dirty Vegas
９ I Com, Miss Kittin
１０ Damita Jo, Janet Jackson
There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
You, became the light on the dark side of me
Love remains, a drug that's the high and not the pill
But did you know that when it snows
伝えられるところによれば、このトイレットペーパーは、ロンドンのアビーロードスタジオでレコーディング中の ビートルズが使用を拒否したもので、理由は「too hard and shiny（硬すぎで光沢がありすぎ）」と愛想を つかしたという。また、トイレットペーパーにはシート毎にレコード会社名の'EMI LTD' と印刷されてある。
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I just saw “The Third Man” on video. Ebisu station on the Yamanote line is what inspired me to watch this great classic movie again. How so? For some reason, that station plays the zither theme from the film every time a train departs.
The Liverpool children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song is to close, officials said Wednesday in providing a notice of two years.
The psychedelic single "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released in February 1967 with "Penny Lane" on the reverse side.
John Lennon wrote the song's dreamy lyrics about a time in his childhood when he lived near the Strawberry Fields orphanage.
The Salvation Army, which now runs Strawberry Fields, said the preference for placing children with foster families has reduced the need for orphanages. Only three youngsters remain at the home in Liverpool's Woolton district.
Lennon left money to the home in his will and in 1984 his widow, Yoko Ono, donated more than $70,000 to keep it open.
ZUNG ZUNG FUNKY MUSIC → Play That Funky Music(ワイルド・チェリー) サビの前
ZUNG ZUNG FUNKY MUSIC → Play That Funky Music(ワイルド・チェリー) サビの後
※ZUNG ZUNG FUNKY MUSIC → ドリフのズンドコ節(ザ・ドリフターズ) サビ
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Emily Watson .... Jacqueline du Pré
Rachel Griffiths .... Hilary du Pré
Hilary and Jackie is a film that can be appreciated on many levels. The performances of Ms. Griffith and Ms. Watson as the title characters were superb, but so were the actors that played the parents and husbands, and the two young actresses playing them as girls were terrific. All the people in the film were interesting.
The film gives insight into the life of a musical genius with its rewards and triumphs as well as conflicts and sacrifices. There is also a psychological aspect at the heart of this film. From the beginning the two sisters have a bond, almost a symbiotic relationship, yet there is also intense competition. To make the presentation even more interesting the relationship is presented in two "acts", the first told from Hilary's perspective and the second from Jackie's. Whose is more real? Does it make a difference? The final scenes as MS is taking its toll on Jackie are gripping. Both actresses were deserving of their nominations. This was great entertainment!
http://www.sfcm.edu/springgala2005_bios.aspx
Sheri Greenawald, soprano
As San Francisco Opera Center Director since May 2002, Sheri Greenawald oversees the Opera's numerous affiliate educational and training programs such as the prestigious Adler Fellowship program.
She has had a distinguished international operatic singing career as a soprano, noted in particular for her enormous range of roles.
(Chorus) God bless you, you make me feel brand new,
for God bless me with you, you make me feel brand new,
I sing this song 'cause you, make me feel brand new.
Today I saw somebody who looked just like you
She walked like you do, I thought it was you
As she turned the corner I called out your name
I felt so ashamed when it wasn't you, wasn't you
You are everything and everything is you
Ohh, you are everything and everything is you
Ohh, you are everything and everything is you
How can I forget when each face that I see
Brings back memories of being with you
I just can't go on living life as I do
Comparing each girl to you
Knowing they just won't do, they're not you
