In a Nutshell

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The Song
 
 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIB2_bagvqQ&feature=related

The cry of the wife of the Greek in Southern Italy that has to emigrate to feed his family. A song in mixed Italian and Greek lingo of Southern Italy.
Writer & composer:                   Franco Corgliano.
Orchestration:                       Savvas Savva
Artist:                                     Lenia1
CD:                                         My musical voyages.

 
Voglio ubriacarmi per non pensarepiangere e [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 under English, Songs in Foreign Languages. Tags: Greek, Italian, Songs. Comments: 1

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This song was a favourite of mine for a long long time.  Maybe because I heard it in my childhood.  My son (of course!) said that it was very dumb.  The only thing that he appreciated was the clip – the puppets & their performance.  But he never likes anything that I choose, he [...]

Posted on February 21st, 2010 under Chapters, English, Songs in Russian Language. Tags: Humour, Songs, юмор. Comments: None

Inspired by the conversation with my friend.
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“Veni,Vidi,Vici” means:
“I came, I saw, I conquered”
-Julius Caesar-
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The famous expression “Veni,Vidi,Vici” (”I came, I saw, I conquered”) applied to certain people with the motto “Cool-headed, hot-hearted professionals with clean hands” has been eloquently transformed by Victor Pelevin into
“f-cked, killed, buried, dug out and f-cked again”
and, trust me, it is [...]

Posted on February 20th, 2010 under Art of Reframing, Conversations, English, Literature, Quotes, Russian, Цитаты и Мысли (Умные и неумные). Tags: "Числа", Julius Caesar, Latin, motto, numbers, Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин, вселенная, чекисты. Comments: None

 
Discourse
 
When I talk about definitions, I think it is important.  For me, at least.
 
A discourse – a conversation, talk. (apart from other meanings).
 
Origin: Latin dis – in different directions + currere – run.
 
An example?  Oh, my goodness!  I often listen to the songs on the www.youtube.com.  And how many times I had encountered absolutely insane [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2010 under Art of Reframing, Chapters, Conversations, English, Quotes. Tags: anger, arabic, atmosphere, Conversations, creativity, definition, discourse, drive, ease, fight, Humour, importance, insane, insanity, Latin, Literature, loneliness, meanness, meditation, metaphor, modesty, Quotes, Salman Rushdie, Spanish, struggle, surface, war. Comments: None