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I know about the four-leaf clover and that it is believed that it will bring luck to those who can find it. I've never seen a real one before but here you can find the preserved leaf in the acrylic as an amulet or for decorations. However, do you know that these three or four leaves represent something?
Now I also heard about the 'shamrock', many people will think that it's the same thing as clover but if there's another name and I'd rather assume that there's probably something different between the two and here's what I found!
Four-leaf clover
The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common, three-leaved clover. According to tradition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. According to legend, each leaflet represents something: the first is for hope, the second is forfaith, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck
Shamrock
The four-leaf clover is often confused with the shamrock. While the four-leaf clover is a symbol of good luck, the three-leafed shamrock is mainly an Irish Christian symbol of the Holy Trinity and has a different significance
The three leaf clover, or "Shamrock", was also what Saint Patrick used to represent the Holy Trinity. Clovers can have more than four leaflets: the most ever recorded is twenty-one, a record set in June 2008 by the same man who held the prior record and the current Guinness World Record of eighteen. Unofficial claims of discovery have ranged as high as twenty-seven.
Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce. It was released on December 25, 1996 by Hollywood Pictures and Cinergi Pictures.
Plot: Evita traces the life of Eva Duarte (later Eva Duarte de Perón) (Madonna) from a child from the lower class to becoming the first lady and spiritual leader of Argentina.
The film begins with the announcement of Eva's death and public funeral as the audience is introduced to the film's narrator, Che (Antonio Banderas), an everyman who tells the story of Eva's rise to power and subsequent illness and death, appearing in many different guises and serving as Eva's conscience and critic. The film flashes back to Eva's childhood, and she is seen as a young girl attempting to attend her father's funeral in the town of Junín with her mother and siblings. But her father's wife and other family (who are middle class) ban Eva's family from entering and carry Eva out screaming and claiming that she's her "papa" after she runs in on her own and pays her last respect.
At age 15, Eva decides to leave Junín to seek a better life and hitches a ride to Buenos Aires with a tango singer, Augustin Magaldi (Jimmy Nail), with whom she's having an affair. After Magaldi leaves her, she progresses through several relationships with increasingly influential men, becoming a model, actress and radio personality, until her fateful meeting with Colonel Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce) at a fundraiser. Perón's connection with Eva lends him a populist air, since she is from the working class (as is Perón himself). Eva has a radio show during Perón's rise and uses all her skills to promote Perón, even when the controlling administration has him jailed in an attempt to stunt his political momentum. The groundswell of support Eva generates forces the government to release Perón, and he finds the people enamored of him and Eva. Perón wins election to the presidency and Eva promises the new government will serve the "descamisados" (literally, "those without shirts"—i.e., the working poor). Eva establishes a foundation and distributes aid while the Perónists otherwise plunder the public treasury. Argentine society is very class-based, and the military officer corps and social elites despise Eva's common roots and affinity for the poor. During a world tour Evita becomes ill and is rushed home. Towards the end of her life she understands that she is terminally ill but rationalizes that her life was short because she shone like the "brightest fire" and helps Perón prepare to go on without her. A large crowd surrounds the Casa Rosada in a candlelight vigil praying for her recovery when the light of her room goes out, signifying her death. Eva's funeral is shown again. Che is seen at her coffin, and he kisses it.
Source: Wikipedia
Don't Cry for Me Argentina
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions
They are not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Don't cry for me Argentina (*)
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do is look at me to know
That every word is true
Another Suitcase in Another Hall
I don't expect my love affairs to last for long.
Never fool myself that my dreams will come true.
Being used to trouble I anticipate it
But all the same I hate it, wouldn't you?
*So what happens now?
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now?
Take your picture off another wall
Where am I going to?
You'll get by, you always have before
Where am I going to? (Don't ask anymore.)
Time and time again I've said that I don't care.
That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard through and through.
But every time it matters all my words desert me
So anyone can hurt me, and they do (*)
Call in three months time and I'll be fine, I know
Well maybe not that fine, but I'll survive anyhow
I won't recall the names and places of each sad occasion
But that's no consolation here and now. (*)
High Flying, Adored
High flying adored,
so young
the instant queen.
A rich beautiful thing
of all the talents
A cross between
A fantasy of the bedroom
and a saint.
And you were just a backstreet girl
hustling and fighting
scratching and biting
High flying adored did you believe
in your wildest moments
all this would be yours
that you'd become the lady of them all.
Were there stars in your eyes
when you crawled in at night.
From the bars, from the sidewalks
from the gutter theatrical
Don't look down
it's a long long way to fall.
High flying adored
what happens now
where do you go from here.
For someone
on top of the world
the views not exactly clear.
A shame you did it all at twenty-six
There are no mysteries now.
Nothing can thrill you
no one fulfill you.
High flying adored
I hope you come
to terms with boredom
So famous so easily
so soon
it's not the wisest thing to be
You don't care if they love you
It's been done before
you despair if they hate you
you'll be drained of all energy
All the young who've made it
Would agree
High flying adored
That's good to hear,
but uninportant
My story's quite usual
local girl
makes good weds famous man
I was stuck in the right place
at the perfect time
Filled a gap I was lucky
but one thing I'll say for me
No one else can fill it like I can.
Start the first song with the song of all time I like most, especially the message from the lyrics. This is the single released in 1992
History
Smyth was the former lead singer for the band Scandal, whose hits included "The Warrior" and "Goodbye To You"; Henley is a longtime member of the band The Eagles (singing lead vocals on "Desperado" and "Hotel California", among many others) as well as a successful solo artist ("The Boys Of Summer", "The End Of The Innocence"). "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" was written by Smyth and Glen Burtnik and would appear on her self-titled 1992 album.
Reception
The single was very successful, being certified Gold by the RIAA and spending six weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1992 during the 13 week reign at #1 of Boyz II Men's song, "End of the Road". It remained in the Top 40 for 20 weeks.The duet also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for four weeks. In Canada, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" spent seven weeks at #1 on the Canadian pop chart, while in England, the song reached #22 on the British pop chart. The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Pop Vocal, Duo or Group.
The lyrics refer to a past relationship between the two singers and their efforts to move on with their respective lives and make sense of the aftermath: There's a reason why people don't stay where they are / Baby sometimes love just ain't enough. In the final chorus, there is a slight lyrical change to this line ("stay where they are" becomes "say who they are").
Source: wikipedia
Song: Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough Singers: Patty Smyth & Don Henley
I don't wanna lose you,
But I don't wanna use you
Just to have sombody by my side.
And I don't wanna hate you
I don't wanna take you
But I don't wanna be the one to cry.
And I don't really matter
To anyone, anymore.
But like a fool I keep losing my place
And I keep seeing you walk through that door.
But there's a danger in loving somebody too much.
And it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are
Baby sometimes love just ain't enough.
Now I could never change you
I don't wanna blame you
Baby you don't have to take the fall.
Yes I may have hurt you
But I did not desert you
Maybe I just want to have it all.
It makes a sound like thunder
It makes me feel like rain.
And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change.
But there's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are
Baby sometimes love just ain't enough.
And there's no way home
When it's late at night and you're all alone.
Are there things that you wanted to say?
Do you feel me beside you in your bed?
There beside you where I used to lay.
And there's a Danger in Loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch.
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love just ain't enough
Starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson
Wow.. Just been to see "Green Zone" and I was impressed as not only is Matt Damon again great in an action role but it has everything that "Hurt Locker" does not. A real story based on fact with some fictional, non stop action all the way. It again shows that the US people are ill informed and have walked into another Vietnam and do not know how to get out of it with any kind of integrity...talk about friendly fire!!
The USA went to war based on a lie and compounded by the Bush administration by covering up the situation and falsifying intelligence reports and dragging many other countries into a conflict that not has divided families, countries but the world. The USA and more importantly GW Bush has much to answer for in doing to this generation of Americans what Lyndon B Johnson did to another generation of Americans and Australians in Vietnam.
Thaksin Shinawatra... it is amazing this man is free to fly around the world and yet any other convicted felon would be apprehended and returned to face justice. He travels on a Cambodian passport, has access to a Nicaraguan passport, is residing in the UAE. This man changes countries and passports like he changes his underwear. the question is what country and what citizen will he be next week? Maybe Laos.... does he really love Thailand?
The Bangkok Post which is believed by most foreigners and some Thai to be somewhat biased in its reporting of any event related to Thaksin said in an editorial that Thaksin had been expelled from the UAE but their is no official corroboration of that story and he has conveniently left the UAE for Europe. If Thaksin and his family really were supportive of the UDD movement then Thaksin would come back to Thailand and either clear his name or do his time and his family would not have fled the country the moment that there seemed there might be trouble and when the UDD and their supporters really need their support physically and morally and not just monetarily.
Good things under the Democrats are happening and the country is seeing economic improvement, lowering of the unemployed, confidence by foreign investors and confidence by foreign governments and tourists as a country struggling to improve its image and economy and winning the small battles. If the UDD and Thaksin really cared for Thai and Thailand they would lend a hand and pull with the government and business instead of trying to push their agenda of destabilisation and petty dividing politics......
It's a pity that this film won nothing from Oscar 2009 but I'm sure that this film is one of many people favourite films. I watched this film not long ago and I like it too. Here I choose three songs I like and post it here.
"This Land is your Land", I've never listened to the song before but once I did. I have to listen to it again sometimes!
People travel million miles and go to many places just to find something they're looking for and want to see. During the way, you learn more thing, know more people and gain experience. Ryan Bingham said he was surrounded by many people everywhere he went to and talked with them, but does he really know them or they really know him? No matter how far you go somewhere, it seems like everyone has a point of returning ... to their home where there's someone you love and love you wating for your .. always. Sometimes happiness is so close to us that we've never noticed!
And that's the second song I posted here "Goin' Home" :-)
This Land Is Your Land
(by Sharon Jones)
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the gulf stream water,
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway,
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
O’er the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts,
While all around me a voice was sounding,
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun comes shinning and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
That land was made for you and me.
Goin' Home (by Dan Auerbach)
I`ve spent too long away from home
Did all the things i could have done
Gone are the days of endless thrills
I know i`m not the only one
So long i`m goin` goin` home
I saw the streets all ripe with jewels
Balconies and the laundry lines
They tried to make me welcome there
But their streets did not feel like mine
So long i`m goin` goin` home.
I want the sun to hit my face
Through oak trees in the open lot
Forget about the things you want
Be thankful for what all you got.
Taken At All (by Crosby & Nash)
This is me
Can you take another look
Did I see you looking blindly at your book
Is it all that you thought, that you thought it took
Can it be taken, taken at all
Were you looking for signs along the way
Can you see by your lonely light of day
Is this road really the only way
Can this road be taken, taken at all
We lost it on the highway
Down the dotted line
You were going your way
I was going mine
We lost it on the highway
Things are out of sight
You were going your way
Trying to make a light along the way
Can you see by your lonely light of day
Is this road really the only way
Can this road be taken, taken at all
Can this road be taken, taken at all
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