All about Time

Here's the pop moment of the day: a good one to sing along and try to get all the syllables in!

Puts me in a very good mood, so I hope you like it, too ;-)

Down the street and through the halls

Corridors and shopping malls

We're moving to an inner beat

Heart disconnected from our feet

I'm moving to a song that drives me on

My heart beats strong

My heart beats wrong

We're zombies in the shopping mall

Laden down with spoils of war

Wearing all the clothes we stole

Adding skin to break our fall

Dragging cases full of junk

We pilgrims stagger to the dump

The lemmings' call

Take it easy take it easy

The stars the sky

The sun and moon and tides

Descending to the underground

Crowded out by subway sounds

Buried heads in headline frowns

Even the children look ground down

By taxes adverts terrorists

Compassion crawls money fists

I need a full-time therapist

So I can hang onto my bliss

God give me something I can do

To help me rise above the zoo

Make me famous make me rich

Distract me from this burning itch

While starving homeless orphans fight

While I can waste a day online

Shopping for a butter knife

Take it easy, take it easy

The stars, the sky

The sun and moon and tides

Johnny's on the phone, Johnny's online

Johnny's in love, everything's aligned

Johnny thinks it all about fate

But it's all about time

Johnny's on the phone, Johnny's online

Johnny's in love, everything's aligned

Johnny's in an altered state

Guess's it's all about time

There's memory buried in the stone

A new King sits upon the throne

This fool is self-deceiving

Won't give up the world he's bleeding

Our Cities are all history full

The fall of feet on cobbled streets

The fossil records show

All that remains is in the bones

Johnny's on the phone, Johnny's online

Johnny's in love, everything's alive

Johnny thinks it's all about faith

But it's all about time

Johnny's on the phone, Johnny's online

Johnny's in love, everything's alive

Johnny's in an altered state

Cos it's all about time

Roller blader full of grace

Pirouette then flat on your face

I never thought that falling down

Was so beautiful

What Love and Punctuation Are All About

Look how important punctuation can be in the following email, which John received one day from his new girlfriend. Consider how pleased he must have felt to read this note from Jane:

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let me be yours?

Jane

Unfortunately, John was far from pleased. In fact, he was heartbroken. You see, John was familiar with Jane's peculiar ways of misusing punctuation marks. And so to decipher the true meaning of her email, he had to re-read it with the marks altered:

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,

Jane

The four ways sound affects us

As a follow-up to the listening comprehension exercises we did yesterday in class, here's a video that you can watch with subtitles in English where Julian Treasure explains the four ways in which sound affects us.