Baba O'Riley effect

I grew up in a dictatorship but I was accompanied by many people who fought to put end it. Not only in politics... In the seventies in Spain cultural life was very, very poor and open mind people found abroad the inspiration to survive, the idols to imitate and the hymns to be sung.
One important song at this moment of my life was "Baba O'Riley" by The Who. Now, I have recovered it in credit lines of "CSI", the TV series. The world has changed quickly!

Baba O'Riley

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
No, no, no

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland

Sally, take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together
Before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!

20Blogs Awards

I'm contest in "Premios 20 Blogs" organized by 20 minutos, a Spanish newspaper quite read. In this edition of awards, only the participants can vote their favorite blog, one vote in each category.
I have inscribed my "English for life" in "Blog in original version" and I hope that all the blogmates who analyse it can see wich I'm an English student not a teacher like other participants in the same category.

I introduce you to* Pepe Colubi

Pepe Colubi is a ever young Spanish writer, a critic of TV programs, expert in "The Sopranos" and other great series. He's publishing his articles in several magazines and he's promoting his first novel, titled "California 83".
To honor the great sense of humor of this new friend, I'm completing the album of photographies received this Summer from Vietnam with the testimony that, in Cambridge, a lot of people read "California 83". And in Spanish! Why not?

*Read comments

With a pencil

#remmurcia
I have a friend who can create a story from zero to infinity just with a pencil and a sheet of paper. And I'm a lucky woman who can ask him to recreate a special moment or feeling to me. For example, when Michael Stipe, the singer of REM, sitting on the border of the stage, was singing and moving his right hand and softly, like in a dance, one girl put her own hand below, touching him for a few seconds. A very nice moment in the concert in Murcia!

My friend is a great cartoonist. You can know more about him throug his blog, Juan Álvarez, and the website www.murciacomic.com, which we make together in our free time.

I could understand him!

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Yesterday, when Michael Stipe talk to the public, I could understand his first words!

I recommend you to follow the tour or to read the comments about the concert in Murcia. And to practice English with lyrics of R.E.M. like me!




Loosing my religion

Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I said it all

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you

And I don't know if I can do it
Oh, no I've said too much
I haven't said enough

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh, no I've said too much
I said it all

Consider this, consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this the slip
That brought me to my knees, failed

What if all these fantasies
Come flailing aground
Now I've said too much

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you

And I don't know if I can do it
Oh, no I've said too much
I haven't said enough

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But, that was just a dream
Try, cry, why try?
That was just a dream
Just a dream
Just a dream, dream

R.E.M. in Murcia

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What incredible concert! I need more time to talk about it. Maybe tomorrow.