Song of the week

Listen to this song when you want to get lost in thought, especially if you want to get lost in really deep thoughts that reflect modern society as a straight jacket, cause that is what i always think of. . . and yes its from Donnie Darko.

Gary Jules - Mad World

All around me are familiar faces,

Worn out places, worn out faces,

Bright and early for the daily races,

Going no where, going no where.

The tears are filling up their glasses,

No expression, no expression.

Hang my head i wana drown my sorrow,

No tomorrow, no tomorrow.

And i find it kinda funny,

I find it kinda sad,

The dreams in which im dying are the best

I've ever had,

I find it hard to tell you,

I find it hard to take,

When people run in circles its a very very

Mad world, mad world.

Children waiting for the day they feel good,

Happy birthday, happy birthday.

And i feel the way tht every child should,

Sit and listen, sit and listen.

Went to school and i was very nervous

No one knew me, no one knew me.

Hello teacher tell me whats my lesson,

Look right through me look right through me.

And I find it kinda funny,

I find it kinda sad,

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best

I've ever had,

I find it hard to tell you,

I find it hard to take,

That people run in circles it a very very,

Mad world, Mad world, Mad world.

Liz out.

i want the whole world in my hand

As many of you know i have been highly interested in applying for the Rotary Club's international youth exchange for quite some time. Turns out, the Rotary Club of Camrose is too poor to send anyone next year. And apparently I'll be too old the following year. So there goes that plan. boo hoo. Now i am researching a gazillion different organizations that offer international youth exchange opportunities, the trouble is they cost ALOT more than Rotary, and i don't know how i'll raise the money. sigh. o well, i'll figure it out some how.

Those of you who know Rolena, check out her venezuela site - ro-venezuela.blogspot.com there are some beautiful pictures on it! Im so jealous!! lol.


Applicable quote i found :
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, all foes to real understanding. Likewise tolerance...and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth.." — Mark Twain

Liz out.

I like to call it my thoughtful side

You know what i love?? Getting letters...like real letters with the adress handwritten on the envelope. I just love the feeling you get when you see them, and as you read them, and i NEVER get them! So my friend that lives in Peace River, Tyrell (no he is not black!), that i met at an environmental summit, doesnt have an email adress so i'm being thoughtful and sending him a letter. I feel pretty special about it..who knows, maybe i'll go really nuts and send one to people in my own town too!!!! If you play your cards right you might be opening an envelope this time next week, and envelope licked by my very own tongue! do u guys really use your tongues to lick the glue part?? cause i always do, even though i've heard of people getting like maggots in embedded in their mouths from it...i just feel so silly doing it so i HAVE to. cheerio, Liz out.

Quote of the day

"Any one can be passionate, it takes true lovers to be silly" - i don't know who said it originally ~*Blue-Belle*~ told me it. Liz out.

I was bit by the acting bug, and it stings

An actor is transparent - they illuminate the emotions and thought proccess that occurs inside.

turns out i can't do that yet. Liz out.

Ohureo

I was looking through some of my old C.D.s and i found this one titled "One World," and i fell in love with it, well at least the one song. The C.D. is like a collection of songs from all over the world, most of the lyrics are in foreign languages. The best song, in my opinion no doubt, is called Ohureo and it is by a U.K. / Cameroon group. It is beautiful...download it! The vocals is mysterious and captivating and haunting all at once! (the lyrics are not sung in english). Its worth a listen. Liz out.

Love: In It's Twisted, Controlling Ways

I have one thousand limbs

being twisted,
and pulled in one thousand and one directions.

My stomach fails to stop tying itself in knots

much trickier to untie

than the Scouts variety.

My heart pounds so fast,

its uncontrollable at the sight of him.

or is it at the sight of him?

Blink. Blink. Shake head.

Forget him.

Who decides what love is anyways?

Who gets to chose if this love i feel is real?

It is real! It is!

i think.

uh oh, my limbs are being stretched again.




My mind is spinning,

hold on tight.

Life's a bitch,

or so they always say.

I disagree with they,

LOVE'S A BITCH!

weird poem, from the brilliant mind of Elizabeth. Liz out.

Sir Elton John's Still Got It!

WOW! i dont know what else to say...Sir Elton John at Rexall Place was the most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life, no exagerration. It was phenominal! I have to admit I was a little bit nervous going in that he was going to play all his new stuff, i hadn't heard it yet and i just assumed it couldn't be as good as his older classics. I was incorrect. His new album The Captain and The Kid,is undeniably enchanting from the first song to the last. He opened the show, right on time i might add, with Funeral For a Friend, he played so passionately that the entire crowd was hooked from the moment he walked on stage untill he walked off about 2 and a half hours later. He played everything from his 70's classics - Benny and The Jets, Tiny Dancer,Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (and many more) to his captivating new singles such as - Postcards From Richard Nixon, Tinderbox, Blues Never Fade Away, The Bridge, and of course The Captain and The Kid. The lighting was something to be seen in itself, there were multicolored spotlights dancing across the stage, it was very amusing. Near the end of the concert he played three really upbeat songs in a row The Bitch is Back, Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting), and much to Lanny's fancy we'll say, Crocodile Rock, the entire sold out crowd was on their feet with their eyes glued on the stage. He ended the night with my all time favorite Your Song which he dedicated to Canada, the country he loves so much. And I will admit, his live version of Your Song blew Ewan MacGregor's performance of the song (from Moulin Rouge!) out of the water. Last night truly was an experience of a fucking lifetime.

Which leads me to my Album of the Month, Elton John's The Captain And The Kid,

featuring my Song of the Month

Blues Never Fade Away
Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

Available on the album The Captain And The Kid

He wasn't famous but I sure did love him

I've got his picture in a little frame

He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name

But there's so many more and I've lost count

The hows and whys aren't important now

All that matters is they came around

And brightened up our lives

She was twenty one with her life ahead

You don't need to know her name

She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade

But fate's right hand isn't always just

Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust

She was just a little girl ain't that enough

To rage against the day

chorus:

And how did we get so lucky?

Targets on the rifle range

Who makes the call and who gets to choose?

Who gets to win and who gets to lose?

It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues

And blues never fade away

Hey hey the colors run when the rain falls

But blues never fade away

He shone so bright with a lust for life

Like the Sun King that he was

His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth

And for reasons I never understood

About the choices made between the bad and good

I've tried to figure out but

The pain never goes away

[repeat chorus]

And there's marble markers and little white crosses

Along the beaten path

And I've spread their ashes on the wind

And I miss John Lennon's laugh

[repeat chorus]

Liz, out.