A new day of another week has almost come to an end. Everyone of us should pat on your shoulder for what you have done however satisfied you are with. And if you feel that things are not going well as you expect them to, just grin and bear the result, for it is wise to learn from yesterday, live for today, and look to tomorrow. We humans have free will to make the decision of what’s best for us. Simple, right? Yes, simplicity is indeed the ultimate sophistication as Leonardo Da Vinci has asserted. This colloquial axiom is certified by the Gospel as quoted below:
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
As Henry W. Longfellow has once said, “Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and wait”, my self-education of guitar playing is still in progress. It takes willpower and perseverance to achieve dexterity in changing chords flawlessly and keeping rhythms while playing the guitar. Every famous guitarist including Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, who were also self-taught, has gone through the same phase I am in.
When I practice, I play guitar tabs easy to play with chords, such as G, A, Em, Dm, D7, D, Am, A7, C, E, E7, and G7, all of which are used in most of popular songs. And “Animal Instinct” by The Cranberries are composed of such chords as follows. The tabs herein are posted by the courtesy of www.guitartab.com.
Em Am C
Suddenly something has happened to me
D
As I was having my cup of tea
Em Am C
Suddenly I was feeling depressed
D
I was utterly and totally stressed
Em Am C D
Do you know you made me cry
Em Am C D
Do you know you made me die
Em Am
And the thing that gets to me
C D
Is you’ll never really see
Em Am
And the thing that freaks me out
C D
Is I'll always be in doubt
Em Am C
It is a lovely thing that we have
D
It is a lovely thing that we
Em Am C
It is a lovely thing, the animal
D
The animal instinct
So take my hands and come with me
We will change reality
So take my hands and we will pray
They won't take you away
They will never make me cry, no
They will never make me die
And the thing that gets to me
Is you'll never really see
And the thing that freaks me out
Is I'll always be in doubt
The animal, the animal,
The animal instinct in me
It's the animal, the animal,
The animal instinct in me
It's the animal, it’s the animal,
It's the animal instinct in me x2
“The Peanuts” jam!
I can sing the song while playing the guitar. It’s such an exhilarating sensation to actively and tangibly participate in a musical activity!
And I love this song! Dolores of The Cranberries is a superb singer.
I like Francoise Hardy a famous French singer in the 1960s. Her songs are about what I would call “romantic loneliness”. Despite her beauty, intelligence, and sensitivity, she always seems to sing a song about her lover leaving for another woman which I can associate myself with. As a matter of fact, the singer herself is an intelligent woman who attended at the prestigious French national university Sorbonne. Her shyness and uniquely simple but elegant fashion style in her prime time were what distinguished her from her fellow chanteuses. I see no other female singers as elegant as Hardy to this date. And this song is one of my top list of songs I like.
The above-referenced adjectives are hard to choose when I describe my own self. Am I out of place? Yes, I feel frequently so when I talk with others and find myself estranged from their subject matters that are uninteresting. Anachronistic? Yes, when I listen to what others say about their life patterns and their perspectives on trivia, relationships, facebooks, etc., etc…
In fact, I always feel uprooted to the time and place where I do not belong or I do not seem to find much comfortable to live. Such feeling of estrangement from the present has developed a certain kind of malaise in me, which is akin to perpetual melancholy.
Incongruent?
I often ask myself where I should be. My peers seem to have already established themselves in their lives whether it is at home or at work; they are married with children, tending the family matters as homemakers or they are successful career women in terms of social strata outside the home. No wonder do I feel alienated from the group.
Is this all but an illusion?
I ask again myself. “Quo vadis?” Will I always be a stranger among these aggregates I encounter here at this time of my life? My true volition is to get a crystal ball that will show me the right avenue leading me to the right place in my life. Or seeing a chiromancer may fulfill my never-ending sense of premonition.
Or it might be that all these things that I talk about and feel are nothing but a Kafkasque dream; that all of the aforesaid and things I am writing down are not of a reality but of a very realistic illusion.
It’s a Litany of Saturday Night Melancholy. Thank you all for reading it.
Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a Wide, wide sea.”
Regardless of its indelible criticism of racial/political propaganda used in this documentary, Rene Rifenstahl was a fine German film director whose artistic endowment is still unfortunately disparaged and/or unappreciated. Nevertheless, her documentary films speak for themselves to this date. Perhaps and hopefully her ingenuity as a film director will be recognized in the highest regard after a century or so when the WW II generation disappears into another chapter of history.
The marathon race as shown in this film is remarkable with respect to the brilliant marathoners Kee Chung Sohn (손기정) and Seung Yong Nam (남승용), the Korean athletes who won the gold and bronze medals in the race, consecutively. Since the national sovereignty of Korea was non-existent under the Japanese imperialism at that time, their nationality was Japanese. Hence Japanese flags were hoisted with the anthem at the medal ceremony.
Nonetheless, Mr. Sohn’s victory in particular was indescribably precious and impressive to the hearts of Koreans at the time, still is at this time, and will always be.
For your interest in the film director of this documentary, click Leni Riefenstahl.
For your curiosity of the marathon gold medalist, click Sohn, Kee Chung.
Age shakes Athene’s towers, but spares gray marathon.
Aerial shot of the unpacked Red Cross Parcel from Korea.
This morning I received a parcel from my brother in Korea. It was sent last week via Priority Mail, but due to the heightened security as a result of dubious terrorist threats on the States, all internal parcels from overseas had to go through thorough inspections prior to deliveries.
My favorite milkcandy! Howdy Cow!
Thankfully, the parcel from my dear brother arrived in mint condition, and I was so happy to receive it with rejoice that it might be akin to the feeling of the British POWs (“Prisoners of War) interned in Colditz, the old castle converted into a POW camp in the former East Germany during World War II, when they received Red Cross parcels mostly packed with food, such as chocolates, canned food, candies, cigarettes, and etc. in the days of boring, dreary confinement and of uncertain future.
The best chocolate in the world.
I saw the POWs’ excitement when the parcels were distributed by the German captors with their exuberant acclimation of “Hurrah! A Red Cross Parcel!” on the BBC classic drama series of “Colditz.”(Click the word, and it will lead you to the series of the drama. It’s quite interesting to watch.) Hence the same acclimation for the parcel unpacked as shown in the above picture taken.
Another goody! Yay! Love the package!
역시 내가 무엇을 돟아하는지 가장 잘 알고 있는 동생 🙂 한국에 있을때 부터 주로 롯데에서 만든 과자들을 좋아해서 뻬뻬로, 가나 쵸코렛, 이브껌 (진짜 입안에 꽃향기가 나게함), 유럽풍의 가토 쿠키, 웨하스, 농심 포테토칩 (원래 클레오파트라 인것 같은데…),
Mixed coffee minus sugar but sweetness extracted from natural fruit juice.
그리구 종합 과일사탕, 또 내가 먹고 싶어했던 송아지가 그려져있는 밀크 카라멜 등등.. 한동안은 과자 걱정 없이 살것 같네 🙂 참, 블랙 믹스커피 두통두 있는데 포장이 넘 이쁘다 🙂 일할떼 마셔야지. 와 신난다 🙂
어쩜 펙케이지도 이렇게 이쁘게 디자인했을까? 이 커피는 이렇게 날씬하고 이쁜 여성들이 즐긴다는 그런 이미지. 나두 그런가? 🙂
The confectioneries from this company are known for their healthful ingredients and relatively low calories.
내가 그렇게도 먹고싶었던 다이제 샌드! 여기선 이제 더이상 안보이던데… 미국 과자들은 진짜 넘 짜거나 달거나 밀가루가 뒤범벅. 건강에 좋은 과자들도 있긴 하지만 토종 한국인의 입맛을 가진 나에겐 역시 한국과자가 짱 🙂
그러고 보니 어릴때는 오리온에서 나온 다이제스티브를 잘 먹었는데. 그것두 생각나네 🙂
Belgian waffle adapted to a cookie added with a maple syrup. So delectable!
동생아, 정말 고맙당 🙂 그러고 보니 동생 못 본지도 오래 되었네… 누나 하구 엄니 아부지가 보고 싶어하시니까 우리 빨리 만나자. 그리구 내 도움이 필요하면 언제든지 말하구. 알았지? 🙂 선물 정말 고맙구, 맛있게 먹을께. 동생이 사준 과자들은 먹어도 살이 안찔꺼야.
그리구 오뚜기 카레도 먹고 싶었는데 맛나게 먹을께 🙂 엄마는 오늘 벌써 점심떼 짜왕 개시했어용 🙂 역시 동생이 짱 🙂 너무 고마워잉. Million thanks 🙂
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