T.R.A.C.S at Timothy Street on River Island
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Indian Summer – Stereophonics
"Indian
Summer" is a song by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. It was released as the
second single from their eighth studio album Graffiti on the Train (2013). It
was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2013 and
as a limited edition 10" vinyl single on 25 February. The song peaked at
number 30 on the UK Singles Chart on 10 March 2013, becoming their 1st UK Top
40 single since 2007 and 25th UK Top 40 single in total. The song was
written by the band's lead singer Kelly Jones.
"Indian
Summer"
Every time that I
see her,
A lightning bolt fills the room,
The underbelly of Paris,
She sings her favourite tune.
She’ll drink you under the table,
She show you a trick or two,
But every time that I left her,
I miss the things she would do.
She was the one, for me,
She opened my eyes, to see,
She was the one, for me,
Well alright.
It was cold September,
Before the Indian Summer,
That’s the thing I remember,
When she gave me a number.
Went from station to station,
On a train ‘cross the nation,
And the rain of November,
That’s the time that we ended.
She was the one, for me,
Oh alright.
Vodka with coca-cola,
Cocaine tucked in her shoes,
Cigarettes over coffee,
Her halo slipped to a noose.
Take the slow boat to China,
You fly it right ’round the moon,
She could take it or leave it,
I knew it had to end soon.
She was the one, for me,
She opened my eyes, to see,
She was the one, for me,
Well alright.
It was a cold September,
Before the Indian Summer,
That’s the thing I remember,
When she gave me her number.
Went from station to station,
On a train ‘cross the nation,
And the rain of November,
That’s the time that we ended.
She was the one, for me,
She opened my eyes, to see,
She was the one, for me,
Oh alright, alright, alright, alright, yeah.
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Easy to chance to words from her to him and his and she to he
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Easy to chance to words from her to him and his and she to he
INDIAN SUMMER
Indian Summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry
weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The US
National Weather Service defines this as weather conditions that are sunny and
clear with above normal temperatures, occurring Late-September to mid-November.
It is usually described as occurring after a killing frost.
Etymology and usage
Late-19th century Boston lexicographer Albert Matthews
made an exhaustive search of early American literature in an attempt to discover
who coined the expression. The earliest reference he found dated from 1778, but
from the context it was clearly already in widespread use. William R. Deedler
(historian for National Weather Service) in a 1996 essay wrote that Matthews'
1778 reference was a letter by Frenchman St. John de Crevecoeur.
Although the exact origins of the term are uncertain, it
was perhaps so-called because it was first noted in regions inhabited by Native
Americans ("Indians"), or because the Native Americans first
described it to Europeans, or it had been based on the warm and hazy conditions
in autumn when Native Americans hunted. The title of Van Wyck Brooks' New
England: Indian Summer (1940) suggests inconsistency, infertility, and depleted
capabilities, a period of seemingly robust strength that is only an imitation
of an earlier season of actual strength.
In British English the term is used in the same way as in
North America. In the UK, observers knew of the American usage from the
mid-19th century onwards, and The Indian Summer of a Forsyte is the
metaphorical title of the 1918 second volume of The Forsyte Saga by John
Galsworthy. However, early 20th-century climatologists Gordon Manley and Hubert
Lamb used it only when referring to the American phenomenon, and the expression
did not gain wide currency in Britain until the 1950s. In former times such a
period was associated with the autumn feast days of St. Martin and Saint Luke.
VIVALDI "The Four Seasons" - Autumn
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a
group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of
which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written
about 1723 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight
additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione
("The Contest Between Harmony and Invention").
The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works.
Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems
(possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those
seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest
and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a
narrative element.
Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts
of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music
on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd
sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural
occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three
movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections.
Pop meets the Classics
If I Had
Words
"If I Had Words" is a 1978 UK hit song by Scott
Fitzgerald as a duet with Yvonne Keeley. Yvonne Keeley (born Yvonne Paaij, 6
September 1952) is a Dutch pop music singer. She is the sister of Patricia
Paay. Her surname is often misspelled as Keely. Most notably she performed as a
duet with Scott Fitzgerald on the song "If I Had Words”. Keeley was part
of the group the Star Sisters which was popular in the Netherlands during the
1980s.
The tune was taken from the main theme of the Maestoso
section of Saint-Saƫns' Symphony No.3 in C minor (Symphony with organ) with an
added reggae beat. (The theme used in the song is first exposed by the strings
section in the second movement, pages 126–129.) The lyrics and arrangement were
by Jonathan Hodge, a prolific writer of TV jingles and movie themes, who also
produced the single.
The backing was by the St Thomas More Roman Catholic
School Choir in Chelsea, London.
This song very effectively takes the main theme tune from
the final movement of the symphony. Made famous, of course, in the film Babe.
I have no idea why this organ music give me, in a good way, shivers.
BLUE PARTY at T.R.A.C.S
Last Saturday,
before the party, it appeared that everything what could go wrong did go wrong.
I will not bother you with the list what did go wrong and all my thoughts and
feelings, because at the end I can say that; we had a wonderful party. DJ Happy
had made a great set of songs, in theme, and he and his wife Sally brought a lot
of entertainment. We had a lot of guests, yes more that we had the past months, and some told me that they had a good
time. I want to thank all the friends and guests that send me an instant
message and offered there help. You all touched my heart. Thank you!!
Here are
the snapshots I made during the party.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
BLUE
Blue is the
colour between violet and green on the optical spectrum of visible light. Human
eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495
nanometres. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength
gradually look more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer
wavelength gradually appear more green. Pure blue, in the middle, has a wavelength
of 470 nanometres. In painting and traditional colour theory, blue is one of
the three primary colours of pigments, along with red and yellow, which can be
mixed to form a wide gamut of colours. Red and blue mixed together form violet,
blue and yellow together form green. Blue is also a primary colour in the RGB
colour model, used to create all the colours on the screen of a television or
computer monitor.
The modern
English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French
bleu, a word of Germanic origin related to Old Dutch, Old High German, Old
Saxon blÄo and Old Frisian blÄw, blau. In Dutch BLAUW. The clear sky and the
deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering.
When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue wavelengths are scattered
more widely by the oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and more blue comes to our
eyes. Rayleigh scattering also explains blue eyes; there is no blue pigment in
blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect
called atmospheric perspective.
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The Starry
Night by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van
Gogh.
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Blue has
been used for art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone
lapis lazuli, coming from mines in Afghanistan, was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery
and ornament and later, in The Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine,
the most expensive of all pigments. In the Middle Ages, cobalt blue was used to
colour the stained glass windows of cathedrals. Beginning in the 9th century,
Chinese artists used cobalt to make fine blue and white porcelain. Blue dyes
for clothing were made from woad in Europe and indigo in Asia and Africa. In
1828 a synthetic ultramarine pigment was developed, and synthetic blue dyes and
pigments gradually replaced mineral pigments and vegetable dyes. Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Vincent van Gogh and other late 19th century painters used ultramarine
and cobalt blue not just to depict nature, but to create moods and emotions. In
the late 18th century and 19th century, blue became a popular colour for
military uniforms and police uniforms. In the 20th century, because blue was
commonly associated with harmony, it was chosen as the colour of the flags of
the United Nations and the European Union. Toward the end of the 20th century,
dark blue replaced dark grey as the most common colour for business suits;
surveys showed that blue was the colour most associated with the masculine,
just ahead of black, and was also the colour most associated with intelligence,
knowledge, calm and concentration.
Surveys in
the US and Europe show that blue is the colour most commonly associated with
harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold,
and sometimes with sadness. In US and European public opinion polls it is the
most popular colour, chosen by almost half of both men and women as their
favourite colour.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Purple Rain and Purple Haze
"Purple Rain" is a song by Prince and The
Revolution. It is the title track from the 1984 album of the same name, which
in turn is the soundtrack album for the 1984 film of the same name, and was
released as the third single from that album. The song is a combination of
rock, R&B, gospel, and orchestral music. It reached number 2 in the United
States for two weeks, behind "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!,
and it is considered one of Prince's signature songs. It was certified gold by
the Recording Industry Association of America in 1984, shipping one million
units in the United States, and it was certified silver by the British Phonographic
Industry in 2013.
Following Prince's death in 2016, the song rose to number
one on the US and UK iTunes Charts, allowing "Purple Rain" to
re-enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number 17, later reaching number four. It
also re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 6, making it two places higher
than its original peak of number 8. Originally peaking at number 12 in France,
"Purple Rain" reached number one on the national singles chart. As of
April 30, 2016, it has sold 1,186,215 copies in the United States.
"Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix
and released as the second record single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on
March 17, 1967. As a record chart hit in several countries and the opening
number on the Experience's debut American album, it was many people's first
exposure to Hendrix's psychedelic rock sound.
The song features his inventive guitar playing, which
uses the signature Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and Eastern modalities,
shaped by novel sound processing techniques. Because of ambiguities in the
lyrics, listeners often interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic
experience, although Hendrix described it as a love song.
"Purple Haze" is one of Hendrix's best-known
songs and appears on many Hendrix compilation albums. The song featured
regularly in concerts and each of Hendrix's group configurations issued live
recordings. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is included on
lists of the greatest guitar songs, including at number two by Rolling Stone
and number one by Q magazine.
PURPLE
Purple is a color intermediate between red and blue.
It is similar to violet, but unlike violet, which is a spectral color with its
own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light, purple is a composite color made
by combining red and blue. According to surveys in Europe and the U.S., purple
is the color most often associated with royalty, magic, mystery and piety. When
combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism, femininity and seduction.
Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became
the imperial color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy
Roman Empire, and later by Roman Catholic bishops. Similarly, in Japan, the
color is traditionally associated with the Emperor and aristocracy.
Etymology and definitions
The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word
purpul which derives from the Latin purpura, in turn from the Greek ĻĪæĻĻĻĻĪ±
(porphura), name of the Tyrian purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity
from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail.
The first recorded use of the word 'purple' in the
English language was in the year 975 AD. In heraldry, the word purpure is used
for purple.
Purple vs. violet
In the traditional color wheel used by painters,
violet and purple are both placed between red and blue. Purple occupies the
space closer too red, between crimson and violet. Violet is closer to blue, and
is usually less saturated than purple.
While the two colors look similar, from the point of
view of optics there are important differences. Violet is a spectral color – it
occupies its own place at the end of the spectrum of light first identified by
Newton in 1672, and it has its own wavelength (approximately 380–420 nm) –
whereas purple is a combination of two spectral colors, red and blue. There is
no such thing as the "wavelength of purple light"; it only exists as
a combination.
Monochromatic violet light cannot be produced by the
red-green-blue (RGB) color system, the method used to create colors on a
television screen or computer display (a fact that is, indeed, true of any
monochromatic color of the spectrum besides the shades of red, green, and blue
chosen for the primaries).
However, the system is capable of approximating it
due to the fact that the L-cone (red cone) in the eye is uniquely sensitive to
two different discontinuous regions in the visible spectrum – its primary
region being the long wavelength light of the yellow-red region of the
spectrum, and a secondary smaller region overlapping with the S-cone (blue
cone) in the shortest wavelength, violet part. This means that when violet
light strikes the eye, the S-cone should be stimulated strongly, and the L-cone
stimulated weakly along with it. By lighting the red primary of the display
weakly along with the blue primary, a relatively similar pattern of
sensitization can be achieved, creating an illusion, the sensation of extremely
short wavelength light using what is in fact mixed light of two longer
wavelengths. The resulting color has the same hue as pure violet; however, it
has a lower saturation.
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In the Roman Catholic church, cardinals wear red and
bishops wear purple
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