STRANGE FRUIT

Strange Fruit is a famous sad song, written as a poem released in 1937 by Abel Meeropool (1903-1986) known as Lewis Allan. He was a jewish teacher in the Bronx (back in the 30's) and most of all he was a white defending negroes.

This song was first sung by Billie Hollyday (1915-1959, on the right) on 1939 in the "Cafe Society" (Greenwich Village, New York) and the song The song became a regular part of Holiday's live performances, mainly in the "Cotton Club", a famous jazz club in Harlem (north of Manhattan, New York).
(here is the link for unlearns who don't even know who she was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday )
A french singer, Aaron, recently covered it.

This song, Strange Fruit, is linked to a very sad story happened in the U.S.A. on August 1930, the 7th. Two black men, Thomas Shipp (18 years old) and Abram Smith (19 y.o.), were lynched and hung up to a tree in Marion, Indiana. (true photo on the left)

In fact, you must know from the early 1880's onwards, the Klu-Klux-Klan (founded in 1965) used to lynch black people and used to do what were so sadly called "necktic parties". In fact, people took the law in their own hands. To give an example, on this so sadly famous day, they decided to take those two poor black guyes out of prison and them hanged them in public...
The author, Lewis Allan, declared the photo was its inspiration for the song.

°°° Lyrics : Strange Fruit, Lewis Allan °°°

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

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Quick-thinking on cigarettes

Unfortunately I'll have to stop smoking in a few days or weeks somehow or other. What i'm doing here is convincing myself smoking is a bad thing...

Just a little bit of mathematics :
- 4 years of smoking
- 5 to 10 minutes spent smoking per cigarette
- between 4 and 10 cigarettes per day
=> between 8 and 40 days have already gone up in smoke !!

Moreover my health expectancy and my life expectancy are getting lower and lower cig after cig... and risks of contracting lung cancer or heart disease are increased. " Where there's smoke there's fire. "

Smoking smells, dries out skin, turns nails and teeth yellow, tires eyes, increases blood pressure and heart frequency, pollutes lungs, mouth and throat, and repulses non-smokers.

The new french law about pubs and smoking is a great idea :
*** before the law, when I was going to a bar, I used to drink a beer and smoke a cig with a second beer
*** now, I smoke before entering into the pub, I drink half a pint of beer and I don't drink anything else because it makes me yearning for a cig... so I go back to home and smoke in the car...

At the moment, I'm reducing the number of cigarettes I smoke per day in order to stop smoking...

In fact, I took my last cig on February the 6th... and sometimes it's really hard...

I can't say I'll never smoke a good old cigare with a whyskey but... smoking almost ten cigarettes per day and sampling a tasty cigare are two different things !

Good luck to my foreign fellow smokers...

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Christmas

I can't bear Crhistmas day! Why? Let me answer with another question: why is there holidays at Christmas while there's nothing for Jews or Islamists? I thought France was a non-religious country.
The only good thing there is with Christmas is food :) Even if there's always very long lunch...
What about the presents you'll ask, aren't you? My answer: what about poor people? While we're having fun, homeless people continue to die of cold in the streets and Christmas day stay a dream for poor people...

Furthermore, Christmas day is only a business holy day! Just an exemple : do you know why our dear Santa Claus wear red? Because a giant named 'Coca-cola' decided it! At the beginning, Santa Claus was green and white but, in 1931, Haddon Sundblom had to make a more modern icon for the firm so he desidhed a red Santa Claus drinking coke... as a result, red is nowadays the official color of Santa Claus... What a shame!

Just an advice: be drunk as much as yu can on this day in order to forget... as always...

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ARCHIVE "Fuck U"

Hello guys, today I'll deal with my favorite hobbie : listening to music !!
I can't even live a day whithout it or it'd be a day of sadness.

Here is my favorite song to wake up on the morning before going at School.

It's the song "Fuck U" (sorry for bad words) made by Archive, a British music group.

°°°Just a little topic on the group °°°

The members of Archive are often moving but the base is composed of Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths. Their music style is indefinable: I see it as a mix of poprock and electronic songs, and some of them are really psychedelic !
Archive has already done no less than six albums and I think they just unfortunately are out of the way in France.

( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_(groupe) )

°°° Lyrics : "Fuck U", Noise 2004, ARCHIVE °°°

"
There's a look on your face I would like to knock out
See the sin in your grin and the shape of your mouth
All I want is to see you in terrible pain
Though we won't ever meet I remember your name
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to god I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can, so fuck you anyway

You are scum, you are scum and I hope that you know
That the cracks in your smile are beginning to show
Now the world needs to see that it's time you should go
There's no light in your eyes and your brain is too slow
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to god I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can, so fuck you anyway

Bet you sleep like a child with your thumb in your mouth
I could creep up beside put a gun in your mouth
Makes me sick when I hear all the shit that you say
So much crap coming out it must take you all day
There's a space kept in hell with your name on the seat
With a spike in the chair just to make it complete
When you look at yourself do you see what I see
If you do why the fuck are you looking at me
Why the fuck are you looking on me mmmh
Why the fuck are you looking
Why the fuck why the fuck are you looking at me x2

There's a time for us all and I think yours has been
Can you please hurry up cos I find you obscene
We can't wait for the day that you're never around
When that face isn't here and you rot underground
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to god I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can so fuck you anyway
So fuck you anyway x11
"



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Australia (Sum up)

AUSTRALIA

Australia is located in the southern hemisphere between the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Australia, its capital city is Canberra, its national anthem is the Advance Austrlia Fair and its flag the Southern Cross.

Australia is composed of 6 states : New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria, and Southern Australia; and 2 territories called Australia Capital Territory and North Territory (see http://www.atlasgeo.net/fotw/flags/au%28.html ).

Australia is fourteen times as big as France (7 682 300 km²) and three times less populated. Indeed, 97 % of the space is uninhabited.

°°° Political point of view °°°

Australia, as a member of Commonwealth, is a federal parliamentary democraty. Its constitution had been drafted in 1901 and comes from both British parliamentary traditions and the American system.
Executive power is done by a general governor who represents the British authority; and the
legislative one is done by the Senate and a Chamber of Representatives.
(Senate = 76 members : 12 per state and 2 per territories)
Each state has its own parliament with the two chambers except Queensland (only one) and the British sovereign is represented in each state by a state governor.

°°°Demography°°°

Actually, aboriginals only represents 1 % of the population. In fact, Australia is nowadays a melting pot:

- three fourth of people are from Irish or British roots ;
- 18 % have other European ancestors (mainly from Italy and former U.S.S.R.) ;
- 7 % of people with Asian roots ;

It’s absolutely absurd because European people colonised Australia in 1788 whereas aboriginals lived there for 40 000 to 60 000 years….

I might be adding some informations on this later on...

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Halo 3

beautiful gunstock hit from the blue Spartan

• Halo 3 is a futurist war game where you are sergent chief S-80 (a Spartan as above) who tries to fight off aliens. The name halo describes the gigantic weapon of aliens which is a belt that circles worlds and destroys them...

• In the new version, some annex path have been added such as searching hidden skull which give you more options in point matches as "monsters explod in confettis when head-shot =)" ... it's so great !

• Even if the story mode is very short (less than ten hours) I've been dragged in. The multiplayer game will be better and matches in four versus four very distracting.

• In a graphic point of view, there's nothing to say, this game is splendid and there's nothing to change.

Go on http://www.gamekult.com/video/7372005/ or http://video.google.fr/videosearch?q=halo+3+trailer to see the trailers =)

Play it and enjoy it !

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What a looser I am !!!!

All my apologies to England and France of course... the bets in my last article were... far far away from reality !! Congratulations to French and English teams!

I'm sad for the defeat of Aussies but revenge is coming with our French team : COM'ON Blues, get them all !!!

I warn you English people, in our team we've someone that will break your Wilkinson in two : he's known as Sebastien Chabal or Hannibal Lecter II =)

P.S: I hope this bet will be better than the two of last week...

pffffffff what da f... hum hum, sorry and congratulations to our English neighbours.

Good luck for rugby final!

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Come on AUSSIE !!

their best player Gregan Tuqiri

At the moment in France the rugby world cup is on . I support the French team of course but I also like the AUSSIES (Aussie is the name given to Australian people).


This week-end they'll play against the English team. Poor little Roses, they'll be eaten by the Wallabies =). there is a special feeling each time they play each other because England is the country where rugby union was invented but Australia has been winning every confrontations for years now, the only time the Brits won was the last world cup final, and it was in Australia, so has you can see there are tons of reason to look forward to the game.

And it seems it'll be the same for our French team against the Blacks...


Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. OY! OY! OY!

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What about me?

Hello world !

I'm known as Anthony, but most people call me Bij as you should do. Actually I'm a second year statistics student in the city of Lisieux (is that a city??) and this blog is part of my English lessons.

I'm not very good for presenting myself so... i'll try to do my best.

Forget about the "what I like?" and "what I dislike?" questions, it's too boring and you'll figure it out while surfing on my blog.

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