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	Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit
I did not recall when the first time I heard it, but I remembered it was introduced by my cousin. This song from Münchener Freiheit became one of the songs I listen a lot. The lyrics (see below) resonate stronger nowadays.
Keeping the Dream Alive (Single Version)
Cover by David Groeneveld:
Cover by Kim Wilde:
Lyrics:Freiheit - Keeping The Dream Alive
Tonight the rain is fallingFull of memories of people and placesAnd while the past is callingIn my fantasy I remember their faces
The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive
I hear myself recallingThings you said to meThe night it all startedAnd still the rain is fallingMakes me feel the wayI felt when we parted
The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we have to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by oneThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive
I need youI love you
The game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive
The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by one
The hopes we had were much too highWay out of reach but we had to tryNo need to hide no need to run'Cause all the answers come one by one
The game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream aliveThe game will never be overBecause we're keeping the dream alive
The game will never be over…
	Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side
If my memory serves me right, I heard about this Walk on the Wild Side song (wikipedia)  sometime during my college year in the 90s. Of course, the bass and guitar reef were the one that captured my attention right away. At that time, being an international student here in the US, I was totally oblivious with the lyrics and the references on it. When I finally understood what the lyrics are about, listening to the song makes more sense.
Here's the 1973 footage of the Walk on the Wild Side song (youtube)
But what prompted me to write this was started by the version that Amanda Palmer sang for Neil Gaiman. I was listening to her CD "Several attempts to cover songs by the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed for Neil Gaiman as his birthday approaches" and one of the songs was Walk on the Wild Side.
I like her rendition of the songs, which prompted me to find it on YouTube. Welp, that platform does not disappoint; it's a quite a nice piano rendition.
Of course, like any other platform that wants you to stay there, YouTube also listed various Walk on the Wild Side cover songs. One of them is from Alice Phoebe Lou a singer-songwriter. Her rendition using a guitar is also quite enjoyable (youtube) and now I have a new singer-songwriter to keep an eye on.
Among other videos that were listed on YouTube is the one that kinda blew my mind, Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers which explained that those are two basses layered on top of each other.
Man, what a nice thing to learn something new about this song. :-)
	Tao
Read it from the Lazy Yogi
	on climate change
Read the whole poem
	TV News Archive from the Internet Archive
I just learned about the existence of the TV News Archive (covering news from 2009 until the day before today's date) containing news shows from US TV such as PBS, CBS, ABC, FOXNews, CNN, etc.
You can search by the captions.
They also have several curated collections like news clips regarding NSA or snippets or TV around the world
I think some of you might find this useful. Quite a nice collection, IMO.
	Public Domain Day (January 1, 2017): what could have entered it in 2017 and what did get released
Copyright law is messy, yo. We won't see a lot of notable and important works entering public domain here in the US until 2019.
Other countries, however, got to enjoy many of them first. Public Domain Reviews put a list of creators whose work are entering the public domain for Canada, European Union (EU), and many other countries (https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2017/.) For those in EU, nice to see H.G. Wells name there (if UK do withdraw, this might end up not applicable to them. But, my knowledge about UK copyright law is zero, so, who knows.)
As usual, Center of Study for the Public Domain from Duke University put a list of some quite well-known works that are still under the extended copyright restriction: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-1976. Those works would have been entered the public domain if we use the law that was applicable when they were published. I'm still baffled how current copyright hinders research done and published in 1960 to be made available freely. Greedy publishers…
So, thanks to that, USA doesn't get to enjoy many published works yet. "Yet" is the operative word here because we don't know what the incoming administration would do on this topic. Considering the next POTUS is a businessman, I fear the worst. I know: gloomy first of the year thought, but it is what it is.
On a cheerful side, check the list from John Mark Ockerbloom on his Online Books Project. It's quite an amazing project he's been working on.
Of course, there are also writings made available from HathiTrust and Gutenberg Project, among other things.
Here's to the next 365 days.
xoxo
	for 2017
read the full poem
	light
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
	dot-dot-dot
More about Bertolt Brecht poem
	assistive technology
Many people would probably think assistive technology (AT) are computer software, applications, or tools that are designed to help blind or deaf people. Typically, the first thing that one might have in mind was screen readers, braille display, screen magnifier app for desktop reading, or physical objects like hearing aid, wheel chair, or crutches,
A lot of people probably won't think glasses as an AT. Perhaps because glasses can be highly personalized to fit one's fashion style.
	woodchuck
There's a question how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Obviously, a woodchuck would chuck wood as much wood as a woodchuck could.
shrugs
	droplets

	The Story of the Chinese Farmer
"You'll never know what would be the consequences of misfortune. Or, you'll never know what would be the consequences of good fortune." — Alan Watts
	Persistent bat is persistent
For the last couple weeks or so, there's a bat that somehow managed to sneak in and hid somewhere in the house and then flew frantically in the living room every evening around this time of the day, causing the cats to run and jump around trying to catch it. We caught this bat every time and delivered it outside, hoping it would never return again. But it kept coming back. Now I am sort of giving up trying to catch it. Even the cats are no longer paying attention to the bat and just give this "meh" face when they spotted it.
	old window #garage