http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2QVKUCVhwY
Hey Jude by Paul McCartney (July 20, 2008 Quebec City)
Above is a clip from a free concert Sir Paul played in Quebec City last night, as part of the city's 400th anniversary. The estimated crowd was well over 200,000 and he sounded great. There was some Quebecois who didn't want him as part of the celebration for their political reasons, it is about the music, look at the crowd and tell me it wasn't something special. Plus he made some effort to communicate in french. A very generous gift to the city from the living legend.
"I'm glad it's your birthday..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2QVKUCVhwY
Birthday by Paul McCartney (July 20, 2008 Quebec City)
Above is another clip of Paul in Quebec doing appropriately enough Birthday.
I finished reading The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence today and now I have gone back to Hotel Du Lac, I need to finish it before I get something new. The following is from Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner.
"He was a man of few words, but those few words were judiciously selected, weighed for quality, and delivered with expertise. Edith, used the ruminative monologues that most people consider to be adequate for the purposes of rational discourse, used, moreover, to concocting the cunning and even learned periods which the characters in her books so spontaneously uttered, leaned back in her chair and smiled. The sensation of being entertained by words was one which she encountered all too rarely. People expect writers to entertain them, she reflected. They consider that writers should be gratified simply by performing their task to the audience's satisfaction. Like sycophants at court in the Middle Ages, dwarves, jongleurs. And what about us? Nobody thinks about entertaining us."
"Whisper words of wisdom..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XkCaWMNtIms
Let It Be by Paul McCartney (July 20, 2008 Quebec City)
The classic Let It Be, so good. I wrote the following yesterday, a reflection on those who are fortunate to seemingly have anything they want. Though that is never the case, usually like the rest of us, they are searching for something that is missing.
Astronomy and Anthropology
A string of pearls
Hides in a box
Another unwanted gift
The world is yours
When you smile
Bright and white
A girl of summer
Tanned by the sun
Freckled and open eyed
Full of cute mannerisms
I am always observing
Under these stars
Hundreds to name
One to forget
Highly unlike tonight
The music is too familiar
Much like the moon
After we die and fade
Astronomy will remain
For scientists to study
As amateurs dream
Of leaving this planet
The world is yours
When you are young
Beautiful and a girl
Offered symbolic gifts
Their price spelling love
With dust in the sky
I have no pearls
Little of anything
Under these stars
Hundreds to remember
One to wish upon
Highly unlikely tonight
The clouds are too many
Much like the feelings
Before we sleep and wake
Anthropology will remain
For scientists to study
As humans think
Of loving another heart.
07/20/09
"Good day sunshine...."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WUsZwLfIAhQ
Good Day Sunshine by Paul McCartney
After a morning and early afternoon of rain and cloud, it has turned into a very nice day. We might even be in store for an explosion of colour when the sun sets.
The following articles are about what I would never want to do, and that is find a snake anywhere.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080721/national/apartment_snake
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/5244860.html
"Maybe I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oV-vA50oJSM
Maybe I'm Amazed by Paul McCartney (Original video)
Below is an article from Time Magazine about teen abstinence, the choice of whether to have sex or wait, the involvement of parents, the role of popular culture, and what purity really means.
Personally I think a boy and girl should talk about it and when they feel they are both mutually ready then they should, whether it is 15, 16, 17 or older. It is more important that the girl is ready and both sexes should be educated more, knowing doesn't hurt. Though I would advise most girls to wait because their "first" love is often a fleeting love. Guys and girls at a young age, are never at the same emotional or maturity level.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1823930,00.html
jr.
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