Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Nostalgic - Vintage music videos - ABBA - Fernando







Two versions of the lyrics:
http://goo.gl/WvAgq
      &
http://goo.gl/IjMp6


This particular song is ABBA's "biggest selling single of all time, selling 6,000,000 copies in 1976 alone." The English version of the song in the above videos "presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a lost battle that they participated in during their younger days fighting under Emiliano Zapata in a battle of the Mexican revolution of 1910." (Cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song) )

Wendy wench (Part 1)

(Anime from http://goo.gl/djN0G)

With a pony tail fluttering behind her head
Reminiscing about the braid she wore yesterday
She mindlessly flushed the tube out with the clear water
Which she had carried down from the hilltop with cypresses

Spider

Becoming less than enamored of its time spent here
It scrambled into another web, fluttering

Wikileaks.org is another undermining cut on news organizations' roles

If a mysterious and tremendously discussed website, Wikileaks.org , can dig out important, enlightening and current information for and present it to the public, what are the values that traditional news outlets bring forth to the society?

And have the values been diminishing for years? You bet.