Like Django Did

I went to watch Django Unchained with a couple of friends and an acquaintance yesterday afternoon. I was not really sure what I was expecting, since I had seen one or two previews, but really didn't know much other than Leonardo DiCaprio was in it and that he seemed like villain (or maybe archenemy?) of the film.

I won't give away what the film is about, but it was much more than I was expecting. It's gory though, a lot than you would think is possible, but that Quentin Tarantino... he knows how to do it. 

And Jamie Foxx is stupendous, real flexible in what you would think is a very narrow role of playing a slave. 

But whatever the case, I heard this song, just a small snippet, maybe 10-15 sec. while he Django chooses an outfit. And man, what an outfit!

From his final album of the same name finished a week before his death in 1973, "I Got a Name".

Like the pine trees lining the winding road

I've got a name, I've got a name

Like the singing bird and the croaking toad

I've got a name, I've got a name

And I carry it with me like my daddy did

But I'm living the dream he can't live

Friends... Shaking Hands

I don't remember the first time I heard this song.
I just know it... like Barney or the FOX network.

In the few times I've heard it, it always make me sad. I don't know why, it's not sad. If you listen to the lyrics, which is something I do rarely, they're rather uplifting. He sings about the beauty of the world, the people, friends. Mr. Armstrong sings it gently, the raspy voice adding a sense of comfort that I haven't heard since Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's rendition of "Over the Rainbow."

And for a few times, I've actually shed a tear listening to it. Again, I don't know why. Maybe it's the theme, that sometimes the world can look bleak, but at other times, look wonderful. And if you happen to watched Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, that not all hope is lost.

On that note, Mr. Armstrong's 1967 single, "What a Wonderful World", written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss.

I see skies a-blue, and clouds of white
bright blessed days, dark sacred nights
And I think to myself: "what a wonderful world."

The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the skies
Also in the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying "How do you do?"
They're really saying, "I love you."

It's Party Time, Chumps

As Bad Lip Reading pointed out Mitt Romney saying:
It's party time, chumps!