Sherlyl Crow, Maysa, Fernanda Porto

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(thanks to some friends!!!!!!)
last Sheryl´s cd "detours" (I like her voice and her energetic songs very much!), Maysa (beautiful voice, malinconic side of Brazil), Fernanda Porto (precise voice with maybe too much chan-chan in the base, but I still like it! )

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Probably my favorite song by her

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Have you ever heard of a Juan Manuel Fangio? I thought he was Italian, just found out he was from Argentina.

I wanted to be Fangio, still do.


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Fangio died an old man not like poor Steve.
Everytime I think of Sheryl Crow I thank of that song. And

Everytime I think of McQueen I think of lung cancer and those cigarette advertisements he used to do.

But if Sheryl likes him who am I to judge
I just like the song, maybe because of the video

Juan Manuel Fangio

Fangio possessed sublime car control, steering on the throttle and wringing the most out of everything he drove. He was also the most intelligent of drivers, able to nurse an ailing car home. Interestingly, his racing philosophy was to win 'at the slowest possible speed'!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Fangio

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last Sheryl´s cd has some beautiful songs too, try it!!

My grandfather used to talked about Fangio. Here´s the link to his museum in Balcarce (near Mar del Plata - Province of Buenos Aires):

www.museofangio.com

When I was a kid the formula 1 star was Carlos Reutemann (a real pity that he didn´t keep racing cars all his life: he bought lands and became a politician instead )
He had also a hollywood-star-look when he was young. See:

http://www.magicasruinas.com.ar/fotos/f ... temann.htm

his racing philosophy was to win 'at the slowest possible speed'! interesting frase maybe only if it´s taken in a methaphoric way or out of context (sorry, I´m not very fond on sports and I find car races a bit stupid )

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I suppose it is a guy thing

A love of machines

Americans with their big machines, war machines.


What Fangio meant I think is to go fast enough to go faster than anyone else on the track. To take the lead , go just fast enough to maintain it. He would only go faster if some one tried to pass him. if no one could pass him he did not try to increase the distance of his lead.

I know little about Fangio only know of him because he was hero to my hero Sterling Moss.

I have never read Nausea by Sarte, wonder what it is about? Moss told the story of the formula one driver that became nauseous before every race, he would vomit then get in his car and go, I think it was Ascari, but it could have been Fangio. As I remember the story it was fear that caused the nausea, but once the race started it left him.

I like Fangio's comment to his mechanic after his last race in 1958.
"It is finished."

That is what I want to say about this compulsive typing.





I like this Cheryl Crow video even better than steeve mcqueen
she looks like a kid in it


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something about the thirties in the lyrics? beautiful song, beautiful old photos, beautiful rhythm feet!!!!!!!!!!

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The Great Depression started in 1929, it lasted all through the thirties. It was World War Two that brought us out of it. I suppose it is an ill wind that blows no good

I have heard it said that the current ecconomic situation is the USA is similiar to what it was just before the great depression started. But they say there have been many changes made to the banking system that would prevent it happening again. Even so

Just my paranoia
When there is no full lunch pail
When there is no chicken in every pot
And the trains do not run on time
Then someone will appear to lead us to the Promised Land.


I am a slave to the past
Hostage to the future
Remember the past?
Forget it
Because those who remember
Are doomed to repeat.

The last time this much wealth was concentrated in the top one percent of the USA population was 1928.

But this time maybe we won't take the rest of the world with us.

According to a study done by the Brookings Institute, in 1929 the top 0.1% of Americans had a combined income equal to the bottom 42%2. That same top 0.1% of Americans in 1929 controlled 34% of all savings, while 80% of Americans had no savings at all3.
http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/

Wealth has become even more concentrated during the Bush years. Today, the richest one percent of Americans has 22 percent of all income and about 40 percent of all wealth. This is the biggest concentration of income and wealth since 1928. In 2005, average CEO pay was 369 times that of the average worker, compared with 131 times in 1993 and 36 times in 1976. At the pinnacle of America's economic pyramid, the nation's 400 billionaires own 1.25 trillion dollars in total net worth - the same amount as the 56 million American families at the bottom half of wealth distribution.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dre ... 77910.html

"But," Kuttner writes, "it was those at the very pinnacle --the top one tenth of 1 percent of the population - one American in a thousand - who gained a staggering 291 percent."

Brother Can You Spare a Dime (a hit song from the great depression)
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Maybe this time we will not take the world down with us.

Great Depression Begins

When the stock market collapsed on Wall Street on Tuesday, October 29, 1929, it sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects.

The German economy was especially vulnerable since it was built out of foreign capital, mostly loans from America and was very dependent on foreign trade. When those loans suddenly came due and when the world market for German exports dried up, the well oiled German industrial machine quickly ground to a halt.

As production levels fell, German workers were laid off. Along with this, banks failed throughout Germany. Savings accounts, the result of years of hard work, were instantly wiped out. Inflation soon followed making it hard for families to purchase expensive necessities with devalued money.

Overnight, the middle class standard of living so many German families enjoyed was ruined by events outside of Germany, beyond their control. The Great Depression began and they were cast into poverty and deep misery and began looking for a solution, any solution.

Adolf Hitler knew his opportunity had arrived.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/r ... begins.htm