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January, 2011 Monthly archive

Cucur­ru­cucú Paloma

Dicen que por las noches
no más se le iba en puro llo­rar;
dicen que no comía,
no más se le iba en puro tomar.
Juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto,
cómo sufrió por ella,
que hasta en su muerte la fue lla­mando:
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay gemía,
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay cantaba,
de pasión mor­tal moría.
Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a can­tar
a la casita sola
con sus puer­ti­tas de par en par;
juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa más que su alma,
que todavía espera a que regrese la des­dichada.
Cucur­ru­cucú paloma, cucur­ru­cucú no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma,
¿qué van a saber de amores?
Cucur­ru­cucú, cucur­ru­cucú,
cucur­ru­cucú, cucur­ru­cucú,
cucur­ru­cucú, paloma, ya no le llores.

— rough eng­lish translation

Coo… Coo…’’ Dove

They say that every night
he was wholly over­taken by tears;
They say he never ate, but only drank.

They swear that even the heav­ens
trem­bled to hear his wail,
he suf­fered for her so,
that even in death, he never stopped call­ing for her:

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,” he sang,
“Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,” he howled,
“Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay,” he sang,
tor­mented by a fatal pas­sion. They say that in early morn­ing
a sad dove sings to the lit­tle empty house
with its wide open lit­tle doors. They swear that the dove
is none other than his spirit,
hop­ing still for the return
of the ill-fated woman “Coo… coo…”
Dove,
”Coo… coo…”
don’t weep.
What will these stones ever know, lit­tle dove,
of love?
“Coo… coo… coo… coo…
coo… coo… coo…coo…
coo… coo…”
Lit­tle dove, do not weep anymore.

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Have always loved this song. Dou­ble Fan­tasy is a fab­u­lous album. Enjoy your tuesday.

John Lennon — I´m los­ing you

Here in some stranger’s room
Late in the after­noon
What am I doing here at all?
Ain’t no doubt about it
I’m los­ing you
I’m los­ing you

Some­how the wires got crossed
Communication’s lost
Can’t even get you on the tele­phone
Just got to shout about it
I’m los­ing you
I’m los­ing you

Well, here in the val­ley of inde­ci­sion
I don’t know what to do
I feel you slip­ping away
I feel you slip­ping away
I’m los­ing you
I’m los­ing you

Well now, you say you’re not get­ting enough
But I remind you of all that bad, bad, bad stuff
So what the hell am I sup­posed to do?
Just put a bandaid on it?
And stop the bleed­ing now
Stop the bleed­ing now

I’m los­ing you
I’m los­ing you
Well, well, well

I know I hurt you then
But hell, that was way back when
Well, do you still have to carry that cross? (drop it)
Don’t want to hear about it
I’m los­ing you
I’m los­ing you
Don’t want to lose you now
Well­l­l­l­l­lll!
So long ago

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Just saw this news today. Guess that’s what you call an atmos­pheric disturbance.

from New Sci­en­tist:
Thun­der­storms emit gamma rays, known as ter­res­trial gamma ray flashes (TGFs), although what causes them is still a mys­tery. While observ­ing these flashes, Fermi also detected a sep­a­rate set of gamma rays with an energy of 511 kilo­elec­tron­volts. These rays were pro­duced when a bar­rage of positrons struck the spacecraft’s detec­tors and were anni­hi­lated by mak­ing con­tact with elec­trons there.

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Leav­ing work­ers hang­ing out to dry helps cre­ate ani­mos­ity for union work­ers. All part of the “shrink­ing” of gov­ern­ment the Repub­li­cans cre­ate hatred for work­ers in unions who have bar­gain­ing power. The union work­ers have bar­gained for the things every worker wants and are demo­nized for secur­ing those things, espe­cially pen­sions. It’s dis­gust­ing. And it’s how one cit­i­zen turns against another. It’s the next log­i­cal step after blam­ing undoc­u­mented immi­grants. These are ugly times.

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