Sunday, 5 December 2010
Lyrics of Placebo's "The Movie On Your Eyelids"
Placebo - The Movie On Your Eyelids
I always watch you when you're dreaming
Because I know it's not of me
I smoke a dozen cancer sticks
Imagine there are two or three ways
To make you love me
And not dream of someone else
Become the movie on your eyelids
The reflection of yourself
The reflection of yourself
I cry when I listen to your breathing
Because I know there's nothing else
The conscious of that crushing feeling
To know there's no connection left
That we both go through the motions
That we're both living somewhere else
That the movie on your eyelids
Is no reflection of myself
Is no reflection of myself
Is no reflection of myself
I wanna be, I wanna be your movie...
I wanna be, I wanna be your movie...
Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Why can't you be me?
Be me, be me, be me..
Vocabulary:
dozen - a collection of twelve objects.
eyelids - The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.
conscious - knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Lyrics of Placebo's Kitty Litter
Placebo - "Kitty Litter"
The way you're dancing
Makes me come alive
Makes me shiver and perspire
Your surreptitious glancing
The way you crack a smile
Nearly start a fire
So move closer
Want to feel your touch
So come over
Come on
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
I need a change of skin
I need a change
The way you're moving
Makes me start to sigh
Makes you all that I desire
I shiver off my jeans and I'm so unsatisfied
You're all that I require
So move closer
Gotta feel your touch
So come over
Come on
So move closer
Gotta feel your touch
So come over
Come on
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
I need a change of skin
I need a change
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
I need a change, I need a change of skin
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Feels much weaker
Now we're apart
Love of mine
This fortress in our hearts
Comes crashing down
Vocabulary:
shiver - to tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear;
perspire - to sweat;
surreptitious - conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
fortress - a fortified defensive structure;
sigh - to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
DAN PINK What Motivates Us (lecture)
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us. This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. www.theRSA.org. YouTube.
Dan Pink:
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Our motivations are unbelievably interesting. I've been working on this for a few years, and I just still find the topic so amazingly engaging and interesting, so I just wanna tell you about that. The science is really surprising. The science is a little bit freaky, okay. We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think. There's a whole set of unbelievably interesting studies. I want to give you two that call into question this whole idea that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want, if you punish something you get less of it.
So let's go from London to the mean streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the United States, and let's talk about a study done at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here's what they did: they took a whole group of students and gave them a set of challenges. Things like memorizing a string of digits, solving word puzzles, other kinds of spatial puzzles, even physical tasks like throwing a ball through a hoop. They gave’em these challenges and they said to incentivize their performance, they gave them three levels of rewards, okay.
So if you did pretty well you got a small monetary reward, if you did medium well you got a medium reward, and if you did really well, if you were one of the top performers, you got a large cash prize. We've seen this movie before. This is a typical motivation scheme within organizations. Right?
We reward the very top performers, we ignore the low performers, and the folks in the middle…okay, you get a little. So what happens? They do the test, they have these incentives, and here's what they found out: (1) As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance. That makes sense. But here's what happened: once the test called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance! Now this is strange…a larger reward led to poorer performance. How can that possibly be? Now what's interesting about this is that the folks who did it are all economists – two at MIT, one at the University of Chicago, one at Carnegie Mellon – okay, the top tier of the economics profession, and they're reaching this conclusion that seems contrary to what most of us learned in economics, which is that the higher the reward, the better the performance.
And they're saying, once you get above rudimentary cognitive skill, it's the other way around. The idea that these rewards don't work that way seems vaguely left wing and socialist, doesn't it? It's this weird, socialist conspiracy. For those of you who have those conspiracy theories, I want to point out the notoriously left-wing socialist group that financed the research: the Federal Reserve Bank – the most mainstream of the mainstream coming to a conclusion that seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics! So this is strange. Strange findings. So what do they do? They say let's go test it somewhere else. Maybe that $50, $60 prize isn't sufficiently motivating for MIT students. Let's go to a place where $50 is more significant. So we're gonna take the experiment and go to Madurai, India – rural India – where $50, $60, whatever the number was is actually a significant sum of money. So they replicated the experiment in India roughly as follows: the small rewards were roughly the equivalent of two weeks' salary; medium performance, about a month's salary; high performance, about two months' salary.
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Those are good incentives, so you're probably gonna get a different result here. But what happened was the people offered the medium reward did no better than the people offered the small reward. But this time around the people offered the highest reward did worst of all! Higher incentives led to worse performances.
What's interesting about this is it isn't all that anomalous. This has been replicated over and over and over again by psychologists, by sociologists, and by economists – over and over and over again. For simple, straightforward tasks, these kind of incentives – “If you do this then you get that” – they're great. Tasks that are algorithmic, you just follow a set of rules, get a right answer, if then, carrots and sticks…outstanding. But when a task gets more complicated, when it requires some conceptual, creative thinking, those kinds of motivators demonstrably don't work.
Fact: money is a motivator at work, but in a slightly strange way. If you don't pay people enough they won't be motivated. What's curious is there's another paradox here, that the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. Pay people enough that they're not thinking about money, they're thinking about the work. Once you do that, it turns out there are three factors that science shows lead to better performance, not to mention personal satisfaction: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy is our desire to be self-directed – to direct our own lives. In many ways, traditional notions of management runs afoul of that. Management is great if you want compliance; but if you want engagement, which is what we want in the workplace today as people are doing more complicated, sophisticated things, self-direction is better. Let me give you some examples of this. One of the most radical forms of self-direction in the workplace that leads to good results. Let's start with Atlassian – an Australian software company, and they do something really cool.
Once a quarter on a Thursday afternoon, they say to their developers, “For the next 24 hours you can work anything you want. You can work on it the way you want, you can work on it with whoever you want. All we ask is that you show those results to the company at the end of the 24 hours.” And it's a fun kind of meeting, with beer and cake, and fun, and other things like that. It turns out that that one day of pure, undiluted autonomy has led to a whole array of fixes for existing software, a whole array of ideas for new products that otherwise would have never emerged. One day! Now this is not an “if then” incentive. This is not the sort of thing I would have done three years ago, before I heard this research. I would've said, you want people to be creative and innovative? Give 'em a freakin innovation bonus. “If you can do something cool, I'll give you $2,500.” They're not doing this at all. They're essentially saying, you probably wanna do something interesting, let me just get out of your way. One day of autonomy produces things that would never emerge. Now let's talk about mastery. Mastery is our urge to get better at stuff. We like to get better at stuff. This is why people play musical instruments on the weekend. These people act in ways that don't make any sense economically. They play musical
instruments on the weekends. Why? It's not gonna make them any money.
So let's go from London to the mean streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the northeastern part of the United States, and let's talk about a study done at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here's what they did: they took a whole group of students and gave them a set of challenges. Things like memorizing a string of digits, solving word puzzles, other kinds of spatial puzzles, even physical tasks like throwing a ball through a hoop. They gave’em these challenges and they said to incentivize their performance, they gave them three levels of rewards, okay.
So if you did pretty well you got a small monetary reward, if you did medium well you got a medium reward, and if you did really well, if you were one of the top performers, you got a large cash prize. We've seen this movie before. This is a typical motivation scheme within organizations. Right?
We reward the very top performers, we ignore the low performers, and the folks in the middle…okay, you get a little. So what happens? They do the test, they have these incentives, and here's what they found out: (1) As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance. That makes sense. But here's what happened: once the test called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance! Now this is strange…a larger reward led to poorer performance. How can that possibly be? Now what's interesting about this is that the folks who did it are all economists – two at MIT, one at the University of Chicago, one at Carnegie Mellon – okay, the top tier of the economics profession, and they're reaching this conclusion that seems contrary to what most of us learned in economics, which is that the higher the reward, the better the performance.
And they're saying, once you get above rudimentary cognitive skill, it's the other way around. The idea that these rewards don't work that way seems vaguely left wing and socialist, doesn't it? It's this weird, socialist conspiracy. For those of you who have those conspiracy theories, I want to point out the notoriously left-wing socialist group that financed the research: the Federal Reserve Bank – the most mainstream of the mainstream coming to a conclusion that seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics! So this is strange. Strange findings. So what do they do? They say let's go test it somewhere else. Maybe that $50, $60 prize isn't sufficiently motivating for MIT students. Let's go to a place where $50 is more significant. So we're gonna take the experiment and go to Madurai, India – rural India – where $50, $60, whatever the number was is actually a significant sum of money. So they replicated the experiment in India roughly as follows: the small rewards were roughly the equivalent of two weeks' salary; medium performance, about a month's salary; high performance, about two months' salary.
%
Those are good incentives, so you're probably gonna get a different result here. But what happened was the people offered the medium reward did no better than the people offered the small reward. But this time around the people offered the highest reward did worst of all! Higher incentives led to worse performances.
What's interesting about this is it isn't all that anomalous. This has been replicated over and over and over again by psychologists, by sociologists, and by economists – over and over and over again. For simple, straightforward tasks, these kind of incentives – “If you do this then you get that” – they're great. Tasks that are algorithmic, you just follow a set of rules, get a right answer, if then, carrots and sticks…outstanding. But when a task gets more complicated, when it requires some conceptual, creative thinking, those kinds of motivators demonstrably don't work.
Fact: money is a motivator at work, but in a slightly strange way. If you don't pay people enough they won't be motivated. What's curious is there's another paradox here, that the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. Pay people enough that they're not thinking about money, they're thinking about the work. Once you do that, it turns out there are three factors that science shows lead to better performance, not to mention personal satisfaction: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy is our desire to be self-directed – to direct our own lives. In many ways, traditional notions of management runs afoul of that. Management is great if you want compliance; but if you want engagement, which is what we want in the workplace today as people are doing more complicated, sophisticated things, self-direction is better. Let me give you some examples of this. One of the most radical forms of self-direction in the workplace that leads to good results. Let's start with Atlassian – an Australian software company, and they do something really cool.
Once a quarter on a Thursday afternoon, they say to their developers, “For the next 24 hours you can work anything you want. You can work on it the way you want, you can work on it with whoever you want. All we ask is that you show those results to the company at the end of the 24 hours.” And it's a fun kind of meeting, with beer and cake, and fun, and other things like that. It turns out that that one day of pure, undiluted autonomy has led to a whole array of fixes for existing software, a whole array of ideas for new products that otherwise would have never emerged. One day! Now this is not an “if then” incentive. This is not the sort of thing I would have done three years ago, before I heard this research. I would've said, you want people to be creative and innovative? Give 'em a freakin innovation bonus. “If you can do something cool, I'll give you $2,500.” They're not doing this at all. They're essentially saying, you probably wanna do something interesting, let me just get out of your way. One day of autonomy produces things that would never emerge. Now let's talk about mastery. Mastery is our urge to get better at stuff. We like to get better at stuff. This is why people play musical instruments on the weekend. These people act in ways that don't make any sense economically. They play musical
instruments on the weekends. Why? It's not gonna make them any money.
’Cause it's fun. ’Cause you get better at it, and that's satisfying. Go back in time a little bit. Imagine. I imagine if I went to my first economics professor, a woman named Mary Alice Shulman, if I went to her in 1983 and said, “Professor Shulman, can I talk to you after class a minute? I got this inkling…I’ve got this idea for a business model, I just wanna run it past you. Here's how it would work: you get a bunch of people around the world who are doing highly skilled work, but they're willing to do it for free and volunteer their time – 20, sometimes 30 hours a week.” She's looking at me somewhat skeptically now. “Oh, but I'm not done! Then, what they create, they give it away rather than sell it. It's gonna be huge!” She would have thought I was insane. It seems to fly in the face of so many things. But you have Linux powering servers in one out of four Fortune 500 companies. You have Apache powering more than the majority of web servers. You have Wikipedia. What's going on? Why are people doing this? Why are these people, many of whom are technically sophisticated, highly skilled people--who have jobs, they have jobs, they're working at jobs for pay doing sophisticated technical work – and yet, during their limited discretionary time, they do equally if not more technically sophisticated work, not for their employer, but for someone else for free! That's a strange economic behavior! Economists have looked into it: why are they doing this? It's overwhelmingly clear: challenge and mastery, along with making a contribution, that's it.
Vocabulary:
spatial - (space) relating to the position, area and size of things
hoop - a large ring of iron, wood, plastic, etc., used as a plaything for a child to roll along the ground (basket, wicket)
incentivize - (incentives = stimulating; provocative) to provide (someone) with a good reason for wanting to do something
rudimentary - basic
cognitive - connected with thinking or conscious mental processes
folks - people, especially those of a particular group or type
tier - one of several layers or levels
contrary - opposite, in a different way from what most people believe
vaguely - not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed
left wing - members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform; the part of a political or social organization advocating a liberal or radical position.
weird - fantastic; bizarre
defy - to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.
significant - important
roughly - approximately, not exactly
See More:
http://www.thersa.org/
http://kibblegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Dan-Pink-What-Motivates-Us.pdf
http://tech.mit.edu/V68/PDF/N21.pdf The Tech April 16, 1948
Vocabulary:
spatial - (space) relating to the position, area and size of things
hoop - a large ring of iron, wood, plastic, etc., used as a plaything for a child to roll along the ground (basket, wicket)
incentivize - (incentives = stimulating; provocative) to provide (someone) with a good reason for wanting to do something
rudimentary - basic
cognitive - connected with thinking or conscious mental processes
folks - people, especially those of a particular group or type
tier - one of several layers or levels
contrary - opposite, in a different way from what most people believe
vaguely - not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed
left wing - members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform; the part of a political or social organization advocating a liberal or radical position.
weird - fantastic; bizarre
defy - to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.
significant - important
roughly - approximately, not exactly
See More:
http://www.thersa.org/
http://kibblegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Dan-Pink-What-Motivates-Us.pdf
http://tech.mit.edu/V68/PDF/N21.pdf The Tech April 16, 1948
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Lyrics of Vampire Weekend's "Mansard Roof"
Video for 'Mansard Roof' by Vampire Weekend. Released in the UK on Abeano Music on Monday 12th November 2007.
Vampire Weekend - "Mansard Roof"
I see a mansard roof through the trees
I see a salty message written in the eaves
The ground beneath my feet
The hot garbage and concrete
And now the tops of buildings, I can see them too
The Argentines collapse in defeat
The admiralty surveys the remnants of the fleet
The ground beneath their feet
Is a nautically-mapped sheet
As thin as paper
While it slips away from view.
Vocabulary:
mansard roof - foto / a hip roof having two slopes on each side
eaves - the overhang at the lower edge of a roof
defeat - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
admiralty - the office or jurisdiction of an admiral
remnant - that which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc
fleet - To sail, to float; moving very fast; To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf,
slip away - pass by, as of time, leave furtively and stealthily.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Lyrics of The Airborne Toxic Event's "Sometime Around Midnight"
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
And it starts...
sometime around midnight
or at least that's when
you lose yourself
for a minute or two
As you stand...
under the barlights
and the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while
and the piano's this melancholy sound check
to her smile
And that white dress she's wearing
you haven't seen her
for a while
But you know...
that she's watching
She's laughing, she's turning
she's holding her tonic like a crux
The room suddenly spinning
she walks up and asks how you are
so you can smell her perfume
you can see her lying naked in your arms
And so there's a change...
in your emotions
and all of these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind
of the curl of your bodies
like two perfect circles entwined
and you feel hopeless, and homeless
and lost in the haze
of the wine
And she leaves...
with someone you don't know
but she makes sure you saw her
she looks right at you and bolts
As she walks out the door
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes
and when your friends say what happened
you look like you've seen a ghost
And you walk...
under the streetlights
and you're too drunk to notice
that everyone is staring at you
and you so care what you look like
the world is falling
around you
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
and you know that she'll break you
in two
Vocabulary:
- sound check - a check of all the equipment needed to play music or broadcast speaker's voice to an audience
- crux - a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question
- feral - wild, untamed, ferine, not domesticated
- entwine - to be twisted or twined
- haze - light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness
- bolt - move or jump suddenly, leave suddenly and as if in a hurry, run away, in a rigid manner
Sunday, 25 July 2010
lyrics The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing" YouTube - video 2:51
The Drums. Origin: Brooklyn, New York. Genres: Indie pop. Years active: 2008 – present. Labels: Island Records, Moshi Moshi Records, Downtown Records, Pop Frenzy Records. Website: thedrums.com. Members: Jonathan Pierce (vocals), Jacob Graham (guitar), Adam Kessler (guitar), Connor Hanwick (drums).
The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"
Wake up
It's a beautiful morning
Honey, while the sun is still shining
Wake up
Would you like to go with me?
Honey, take a run down to the beach
Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing
Wake up
There's a new kid in the town
Honey, he's moving into the big house
Remember
When I was so very hopeless
Darling, he's gonna make it all better
Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing
Down, down baby
Down by the rollercoaster
Sweet, sweet baby
I'll never let you go
Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing
Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing
Vocabulary:
Label - In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.
See more:
http://www.muzikum.eu/int/en/123-8505-84276/the_drums/lets_go_surfing-lyric.html
Saturday, 24 July 2010
lyrics BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES
BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES (video + lyrics). YouTube.
BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES (4:23)
Well how's your view of things today?
Got up young to fade away
The sinners sin but aren't aware
Our fables take us everywhere
I can't keep up with you
I can't keep up
I can't compete with history
We'll film it live but dub our tale
The mistery must stay inside
Look at our homes, look at our lives
In control of the morning
In control of the sea
You are creating all the bubbles at night
I'm chasing round trying to pop them all the time
We don't need to trust a single word they say
You are creating all the bubbles at play
There's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
In her own creepy world there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
It's time to consider
That baby is a sinner
She'll wash away you sins (wash away your sins)
She'll wash away you sins (wash away your sins)
She'll wash away you sins and go home
I only once upset my kin
Wccused him of a moral slip
He came back and claimed the change
I know his life's the same again
I can't ask him again
I should let it go
You are creating all the bubbles at night
I'm chasing round trying to pop them all the time
We don't need to trust a single word they say
You are creating all the bubbles at play
There's a girl, there's a girl,
There's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
In her own creepy world there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
It's time to consider
That baby is a sinner
There's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl
(Wash away your sins, wash away your sins)
She's face down in the river
Vocabulary:
- get up - to stand up
- fade away - to slowly disappear, lose importance or become weaker
- sin - to break a religious or moral law
- aware - knowing that something exists, or having knowledge or experience of a particular thing
- fable - a short story which tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this type
- keep up with - If someone or something keeps up with someone or something else, they do whatever is necessary to stay level or equal with that person or thing
- dub - to change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language; (2) to give something or someone a particular name, especially describing what you think of them
- tale - a story, especially one which might be invented or difficult to believe
- pop - hit, to strike or knock sharply
- creepy - strange or unnatural and making you feel frightened
- upset - to make someone worried, unhappy or angry
- kin - your closest relation or relations
- accuse - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal or unkind
- slip - an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy slip of the tongue>
- claim - to ask for something of value because you think it belongs to you or because you think you have a right to it
- face down - to turn or be turned towards something physically; (2) to confront courageously, boldly, or impudently (usually fol. by down or out ): He could always face down his detractors.
See more:
Polish http://pl.shvoong.com/internet-and-technologies/websites/2002952-biffy-clyro-bubbles-t%C5%82umaczenie/
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Bubbles-lyrics-Biffy-Clyro/7F547FE2AC1FE80F4825766900177FC2
Friday, 23 July 2010
Sunscreen (Everybody's Free) - subtitles
Sunscreen (Everybody's Free) (Tradução) - English reader, Spanish and Polish subtitles.
Sunscreen (Everybody's Free)
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
"Wear sunscreen"
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "sunscreen" would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice NOW!
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees.
You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40.
Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance
Even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines.
They will only make you feel ugly.
"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."
Get to know your parents.
You never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get,
the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in "New York City" once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in "Northern California" once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund.
Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."
Everybody's Free, Everybody's Free To Feel Good!
Vocabulary:
blindside - to attack someone by surprise
See more:
http://letras.terra.com.br/baz-luhrmann/23763/traducao.html - English-Spanish
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
"Wear sunscreen"
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "sunscreen" would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice NOW!
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.
But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future.
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees.
You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40.
Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance
Even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines.
They will only make you feel ugly.
"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."
Get to know your parents.
You never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get,
the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in "New York City" once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in "Northern California" once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund.
Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."
Everybody's Free, Everybody's Free To Feel Good!
Vocabulary:
blindside - to attack someone by surprise
See more:
http://letras.terra.com.br/baz-luhrmann/23763/traducao.html - English-Spanish
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene
Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene
LESSON 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene (1961) - subtitles
Cast: Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly), George Peppard (Paul 'Fred' Varjak). Director: Blake Edwards. Writers: Truman Capote (novel), George Axelrod (screenplay).
01:44:36
Stop the cab.
01:44:42
What do you think?
01:44:43
This ought to be the right place
01:44:45
for a tough guy like you -
garbage cans, rats galore.
01:44:50
Scram! I said take off! Beat it!
01:44:53
Let's go.
01:45:06
Driver...
01:45:10
Pull over here.
01:45:19
You know what's wrong with you,
Miss Whoever-You-Are?
01:45:23
You're chicken.
01:45:24
You've got no guts.
01:45:26
You're afraid to say,
"OK, life's a fact."
01:45:29
People do fall in love.
01:45:30
People do belong to each other,
01:45:32
because that's the only chance
anybody's got for happiness.
01:45:36
You call yourself a free spirit,
a wild thing.
01:45:39
You're terrified somebody's
going to stick you in a cage.
01:45:42
Well, baby,
you're already in that cage.
01:45:44
You built it yourself.
01:45:46
And it's not bounded
by Tulip, Texas, or Somaliland.
01:45:49
It's wherever you go.
01:45:50
Because no matter where you run,
01:45:52
you end up running into yourself.
01:46:01
Here. I've been carrying
this thing around for months.
01:46:06
I don't want it any more.
01:46:57
Here, cat!
01:47:00
Cat!
01:47:10
Where's the cat?
01:47:13
I don't know.
01:48:47
* Two drifters *
01:48:51
* Off to see the world *
01:48:55
* There's such a lot of world *
01:48:59
* To see *
01:49:04
* We're after *
01:49:07
* The same *
01:49:11
* Rainbow's end *
01:49:15
* Waitin' 'round the bend *
01:49:19
* My huckleberry friend *
01:49:23
* Moon River *
01:49:29
* And me. *
Vocabulary:
- galore - (old-fashioned informal) in great amounts or numbers
- scram - go away quickly
- beat it - (slang) go away
- pull over - (phrasal verb) If a vehicle pulls over, it moves to the side of the road and stops.
- bound - [T usually passive] to mark or form the limits of The village is bounded on one side by a river.
- end up phrasal verb - to finally be in a particular place or situation They're travelling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow.
- carry around - take from one place to another
- drifter - someone who moves from one place to another without any purpose
- huckleberry friend - A very special, good friend that's been in your life for years, typically since youth. From the Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini song, "Moon River", which was featured in the classic movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
See more:
http://subtitles.name/d/15356/Breakfast+at+Tiffany%27s.html
http://html.rincondelvago.com/phrasal-verbs_1.html
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