Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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  • The Power of ONE…

    The Power of One (song)

    “”The Power of One” is a song performed by Donna Summer, which is the theme song to the movie Pokémon: The Movie 2000. Pokémon: The Movie 2000, subtitled The Power of One, is the second feature-length film based on the Japanese Pokémon video game series, released in late 1999.”

    “The song’s lyrics have been quoted several times by former 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, including at the August 11 Republican debate. Cain has variously attributed the lyrics to “a poet” and “the closing song to the 2000 Olympics”.[2] However, the song is not included in the music list for the 2000 Olympics’ closing ceremony [3]”

    “Life can be a challenge…

    Life can seem impossible…

    It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line…

    But you can make a difference…

    With courage you can set things right…

    The gift to dream…

    and make dreams real…

    is yours and mine…

    The power of one

    begins with believing…

    It starts in the heart…

    Then flows through the soul…

    And changes the world…

    Imagine how life will be…

    When we stand in unity…

    Each of us holds the key…

    To the power of one…

    Each of us is chosen…

    There’s a mission just for you..

    Just look inside you’ll be surprised…

    What you can do…

    The power of one…

    begins with believing…

    It start in the heart…

    Then flows through the soul…

    And changes the world…

    Imagine how life will be…

    When we stand in unity…

    Each of us hold the key…

    To the power of one…

    And one by one…

    We can make the world…

    A much better place…

    The power of… ONE…

    Beings with believing…

    It starts in the hearts…

    Then flows through the souls…

    And changes the world…

    Imaging how life will be…

    When we stand in unity…

    Each of us hold the key…

    It’s inside of you and me…

    Each of us holds the key

    To the power of one…”

  • 20111114-Random Thoughts

    Here are my notes via the “Memo” app of my cellphone:

    11/14/2011 9:50am: Spoke for 3:22 minutes with Rochelle about graffiti in and around MY neighborhood.

    11/13/2011 10:44am: I was thinking about a petri dish called earth and how human/alien hybrids were giving two types of fluids. One was given water. One was given blood. (Hint: The former gives. The latter takes.)

    11/13/2011 10:44am: I reevaluated what I told the fat bastard over the cellphone many slong years ago. I told him and his pals that they are/were “demon seeds”. I heard his voice retract into the distance as if I he got seriously hurt (etherically) by my dark side. This thought resurfaced because Maw inquired of me that they should have paid my monthly interest in good faith. To date, I’ve not seen ONE hard-earned penny, which could have already been spent by them.

    11/12/2011 2056pm: I browsed online via my cellphone and had to look up the round-by-round and/or results (via a mmafighting site) to the Pacquio and Marquez fight, which has been and will always be “business as usual” in the sporting and entertainment industry. The result is/was controversial. Of course, both will get money for working hard.

    11/12/2011 20:19pm: Here are the lyrics as sung by Roni Milsap (1975) — “I’m having a dream about night things in the middle of the afternoons.”

    11/12/2011 19:58pm: Here are the country lyrics as sung by Don Williams (1977) — “Some hearts will never mend. Some memories will never end. Some tears never will cry. My love for you will never die.”

  • Toodle loo!

    “Skip to my Lou, my darlin’.”
    —
    I take that queue
    from you
    as something meant
    for the loo.

    —
    Perhaps, it wasn’t enough, God knows.
    Until next time, “a tout a l’heure”.

  • One bread, one body…

    After pooping, I saw a brief news segment about the. gay marriage debate and had an inspiration of a religious song: “One bread, one body” (or in Spanish, “Un pan, un cuerpo”. Here are a few lines of my lyrics:

    One man, one woman,
    One blessed vow.
    We are one couple
    in God’s own eyes.
    Though we are different,
    We can produce,
    One child to many
    In this one – world. 

    Posted from WordPress for Android

  • Army songs…

    Just a couple of “incoming” thoughts to the Mews and her “Bert”: Keep up the punches and go with the flow. TPTB and the butt kissing pals are also in the “pipeline”; so there is much confusion going on and they truly believe in “faith”. I will need to concentrate on intentions better to help reduce the “noise”. If you can’t stand your purposes set before you, you have the right to refuse and others will take over where you left. Sounds familiar? Here are inspiring songs (based on your most recent blog title for the first tune and the solutions contained in the second set of tunes) that I hope the both of you and others will learn to take in stride.

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    “US Army commercial ‘Be All That You Can Be’ – tanks (1987)” (by VideoWayback)

    ARMY.
    BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE.
    1-800-USA-ARMY
    PAID FOR BY THE U.S. ARMY.

    This particular video was dated around 1987 and was shown to my classmates and me inside the roll up van. Then the recruiters asked what they liked and disliked. One raised his hand: “Change the music”. All the recruiter could do was smile and offer an affirmative. It was close to graduation time in high school when that event and the following occurred: A recruiter called my home and I thought that it was going to be my first summer job. I actually made an appointment to visit the recruiters off McKee Rd. and they asked me series of questions and showed me videos. I had my chance to be part of the military but didn’t know WTF I wanted to do in life. As it stands, I’m going nowhere. Maybe I should have fired off some bullets, cause some blood to drain from the fleshy bodies of the “enemies” and die a martyr or at least a hero for doing a dirty “job”.

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    • The Caisson Song (Original US Army Song) – Singalong with Lyrics (by soldiercity)
    • US Army Song – “The Army Goes Rolling Along” (by YourFunStop)

  • Pharos Beacon

    Beacon of Light, Beacon of Light!
    Why do you shine so bright?
    I cannot see your smiling face.
    But your pinkest, sunshine rays. Oh!
    Beacon of Light, Beacon of Light!
    What do you want from me?
    Do you need my help? Do you need my love?
    You know I’ll be there for you.

    Beacon of Light, Beacon of Light!
    When can we meet at last?
    Oh, take my hand. Let us walk on the sand.
    To the sea of love, so vast. Oh!
    Beacon of Light, Beacon of Light!
    How do you know my thoughts?
    Take my heart and my soul.
    Let me wiggle my toes,
    Upon your foamy and watery shores.

    —

    Author’s note: Inspiration was from a photo of a sunrise at a beach and a gospel song. It almost sounds like a marriage proposal. Bah!

    Below is the original lyrics to the song.

    MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST
    WHAT SHALL I ASK OF THEE?
    I DO NOT SIGH FOR THE WEALTH OF EARTH
    FOR THE JOYS THAT FADE AND FLEE, BUT…
    MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST
    THIS DO I LONG TO SEE
    THE BLISS UNTOLD WHICH YOUR ARMS ENFOLD
    THE TREASURE UPON YOUR KNEE

    MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST
    I TOSS ON A STORMY SEA
    OH LIFT YOUR CHILD AS A BEACON LIGHT
    TO THE PORT WHERE I FAIN WOULD BE, AND…
    MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST
    THIS DO I ASK OF THEE
    WHEN THE VOYAGE IS O’ER
    OH STAND ON THE SHORE
    AND SHOW HIM AT LAST TO ME

  • Entrance Song

    I brought home a copy of the Entrance Song to our parish. I noticed nine upside-down pentagrams towards the top of the header in the following scanned image:

    Entrance Song
    Entrance Song

    “Hail to Saint Victor”
    Music: Georg F. Handel
    Text: Jean A. Dargis

    Lyrics:

    Hail to Saint Victor,
    Patron of our flock,
    Heir of Simon Pater,
    Be our steadfast Rock.
    Vicar of Christ on earth,
    you led His holy church.
    Hear us as we pray and
    help us as we search.
    Hail to our Patron,
    Hail forever more;
    Intercede for us,
    Saint Victor we implore.

  • Get Along Little Doggies

    Here is a YouTube.com video and the lyrics to one of my favorite country songs:

    Get Along, Little Doggies by CompVid101on June 30, 2009

    The Kingston Trio performs a traditional cowboy tune that appeared on their 1962 album “New Frontier.” A genuine folk standard in the U.S., “Get Along, Little Dogies” has been recorded by scores of other artists, and its chorus was familiar to school children who for decades learned and sang it in music appreciation classes. The Kingstons here present it in a straightforward manner that respects the song’s roots in American traditions. A dogie, of course, is a reference to a young cow, often thought to have been derived from the cowboy jargon of “dough-guts,” referring to the often distended bellies of yearling cattle.

    The video is a montage of paintings and illustrations of cowboy life by Frederic Remington, perhaps the greatest of American Western painters.

    —

    Get Along Little Doggies Lyrics
    Artist: Woody Guthrie
    Album: Struggle

    Oh, little doggies,
    It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
    Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
    You know that Wyoming will be your new home.

    A cattle trail drunk and a hard road to travel,
    That old Jack O’ Diamonds is a hard card to play.
    Get along, get along, get along little doggies,
    Get along little doggies and be on your way.

    Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
    It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
    Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
    You know that Wyoming will be your new home.

    Some boys have bit this old cow trail for pleasure,
    But that’s where they get it most awfully wrong.
    I wish I could tell you the troubles they give us,
    As we go rolling these doggies along.

    Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
    It’s your misfortune and not of my own.
    Whoop-ee-ti-yi-o get along little doggies,
    You know that Wyoming will be your new home.

    —

    Get along, now, boys! Yee-hah!

  • The Rose

    I remember singing the following old song during choir class back in my awkward high school days. I was wearing a retainer after getting my braces out. It ruined the sounds of my singing. Bette Midler and I share the same birth date, by the way.

    The Rose Lyrics (sung by Bette Midler)

    Some say love, it is a river
    That drowns the tender reed
    Some say love, it is a razor
    That leaves your soul to bleed

    Some say love, it is a hunger
    An endless aching need
    I say love, it is a flower
    And you, its only seed

    It’s the heart, afraid of breaking
    That never learns to dance
    It’s the dream, afraid of waking
    That never takes the chance

    It’s the one who won’t be taken
    Who cannot seem to give
    And the soul, afraid of dying
    That never learns to live

    When the night has been too lonely
    And the road has been too long
    And you think that love is only
    for the lucky and the strong

    Just remember in the winter
    Far beneath the bitter snow
    Lies the seed
    That with the sun’s love,
    in the spring
    Becomes the rose

  • The Magic Fateball

    I just asked the following question of `The Magic Fateball! – Shake it. Flip it. See it!`:

    “Will he keep his promises?”

    I then clicked the button:

    “fateball, activate!”

    It replied as:

    “YES DEFINITELY”

    —

    So, that’s a good thing, right? Prove it wrong! Meh!

    —

    I then asked:

    “Will I be pretty?”

    It answered:

    “OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD”

    Next I wanted to find out:

    “Will I be rich?”

    It replied:

    “VERY DOUBTFUL”

    —

    `Que, sera, sera. Whatever will be, will. The future depends on me. Que, sera, sera`

    ~As sung by Doris Day long ago…

  • Two Hands

    Yesterday on Memorial Day and during breakfasts, Maw and Paw talked about their childhood. One of their remember songs from grade school was a song about hands. Maw sang the tune but forgot some of the words and Paw sang along to fill in the gaps while she demonstrated how with her hands as she best remembered.

    Below is the Filipino version followed by the English translation in parenthesis.

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    SAMPUNG MGA DALIRI
    Philippine Folk Song

    SAMPUNG MGA DALIRI (I have two hands)
    KAMAY AT PAA (A Left and a right)
    DALAWANG TAINGA (I hold them up high)
    DALAWANG MATA (So clean, so bright)

    ILONG NA MAGANDA ( I Clap them softly)
    MALILINIS NA NGIPIN (One, two, three)
    MASARAP KUMAIN ( Two little hands)
    DILANG MAGALING MAGSASABI (Are good to see)

    HUWAG KANG SINUNGALING (Don’t lie!)

  • 20100522-Independence Day

    Yesterday, I was researching online what is the top of the hour song on `The Sean Hannity Show` on radio and came up with the following lyrics to:

    Artist : Martina Mcbride
    Song : Independence Day

    Well she seemed alright by dawn’s early light
    Though she looked a lil worried and weak
    She tried to pretend he wasn’t drinking again
    But Daddy left the proof on her cheek
    And I was only eight years old that summer
    And I always seemed to be in the way
    So I took myself down to the fair in town
    On Independence Day…

    Well, word gets around in a small, small town
    They said he was a dangerous man
    But Momma was proud, and she stood her ground
    She knew she was on the losin’ end
    Some folks whispered, some folks talked
    But everybody looked the other way
    And when time ran out there was no one about
    On Independence Day…

    Let freedom ring
    Let the white dove sing
    Let the whole world know that today is the day of a reckoning
    Let the weak be strong
    Let the right be wrong
    Roll the stone away
    Let the guilty pay
    It’s Independence Day

    Well, she lit up the sky that Fourth of July
    By the time that the firemen come
    They just put out the flames and took down some names
    and sent me to the county home
    Now I ain’t sayin’ it’s right, or it’s wrong
    But maybe it’s the only way
    Talk about your revolution
    It’s Independence Day…

    Let freedom ring
    Let the white dove sing
    Let the whole world know that today is the day of a reckoning
    Let the weak be strong
    Let the right be wrong
    Roll the stone away
    let the guilty pay
    It’s Independence Day

    Roll the stone away…

    It’s Independence Day…