POST 118 SONGING AGAIN?!

January 04, 2009
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RE: CIGARETTE ASH, MEANING (OF LIFE), & OLD POP MUSICAL ART

http://www.imeem.com/people/XnZekM-/music/jVctYi5H/mike_hanopol_upos_na_lang/
"UPOS NA LANG"
(MIKE HANOPOL)
Around late 1970's or early 1980's - in my late teens or early 20's when I was contemplating about Meaning of Life, Suicide... I remember asking an American serviceman in Olongapo with very high-tech stereo equipment to copy it for me
from 45/LP record disc to cassette... Now 2009 it's no longer CD but memory stick/IPHONEs etc!

LYRICS
TAGALOG
May ibig sabihin ang bawa't tula
May ibig sabihin ang bawa't aklat
Marami kang makikita
Sa gitna ng bawa't linya
Marami kang makikita
Sa aking aawitin

May mensahe ang bawa't salita ng tao
May ibig sabihin
Lahat ng bagay sa mundo

Ito ang aking nararamdaman
Parang dagat parang ulan
Di mo ba napapansin
Ikaw ay tinatalaban

REFRAIN?/CHORUS
Maraming nalulungkot sa Buhay
Marami na ring nagpapakamatay
Bakit ba natin sasayangin
Kahit pa ika'y maging upos na lang
Upos na lang

May ibig din namang sabihin
Ang tunog ng gitara ko
Sana'y nakuha mo
At nang malinawan mo

REF/CHOR

May mensahe ang bawa't salita ng tao
May ibig sabihin
Lahat ng bagay sa mundo

Kahit pa ika'y maging upos na lang
DIMINISHING

ROUGH ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Every poem has (a) meaning
Every book has (a) meaning
You'll see/find a lot (OR discover much)
In between the lines/every line
You will see/find a lot/discover much
In what I will be singing

Every word of a human being has a message
Everything in this world/universe has (a) meaning
This is what I feel
Like the sea, like the rain
Don't you notice
You are beginning to feel it
(OR You're catching on it/It's taking effect on you)

REF/CHOR
Many (people) feel hopeless in Life
Many (people) are also committing suicide/killing themselves
Why must we waste (it)
Even if you become/turn into
Mere (cigarette) ash

(Even) the sound of my guitar also has (a) meaning
I hope/wish that you got it
So that you will be enlightended

REF/CHOR

Every word of a human being has (a) message
Everything in the world/universe has (a) meaning
Even if you become/turn into
Mere cigarette ash
DIMINISHING

MY TRANSLATION IS VERY VERY FUNNY. I TRANSLATE "MAY IBIG SABIHIN"
AS "HAS A MEANING" RATHER THAN "MEANS SOMETHING". "UPOS" IS = CIGARETTE ASH. BUT I ASSURE YOU IT IS A GENUINE WORK OF ART
- A BEAUTIFUL SONG INDEED!

YOU CAN TRANSLATE IT ARTFULLY INTO YOUR OWN LANGUAGE OR EVEN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN VERSION THAT MIGHT HIT THE CHARTS/TOPLISTS HAR! NOBODY HAS CREATED A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THIS SONG -A CHALLENGE TO IMAGINATIVE ARTISTS. BUT, OF COURSE, I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COPYRIGHT/INFRINGEMENT ON WORKS OF ART /INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. YOU MIGHT END UP LIKE THE LATE GEORGE HARRISON WHO LOST A COURT CASE RE HIS BEAUTIFUL SONG "MY SWEET LORD". LIKE THAT SONG I CAN PLAY THIS SONG HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF TIMES & NOT FEEL OVERSATED. IT'S LIKE A "MANTRA" IN HINDUISM/BUDDHISM OR "DHIKR" IN SUFI ISLAAM... AND IT IS IN THE FORM OF A POP SONG!

WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL... WHAT IS MEANING? WHAT IS ART?

THE SONG IS SIMILAR ALSO TO POP ARTIST SAMPAGUITA's "SA DIYOS LAMANG" (I READ THAT SHE WAS PARTLY JAWAN(?) HANOPOL IS KAPAMPANGAN WHO WORKED AS NIGHTCLUB-BAND SINGER IN ANGELES CITY WHEN THE USAF WAS STILL BASED THERE IN THE CLARK AFB) SONGS THAT ARE NOT THAT POPULAR OR WELL-RECEIVED/KNOWN BUT SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL...

HARRISON MY SWEET LORD-CHIFFONS SHE's SO FINE PLAGIARISM SUIT URL:
http://www.benedict.com/Audio/Harrison/Harrison.aspx

AFTER ENOUGH SAMPLING OF ART SONGINGS, I WANT TO DISCUSS CREATIVITY & UNIQUENESS OF ARTISTIC/SCIENTIFIC WORK... DISCOVERY VS INVENTION - SEZ "THE INVENSTOR"

QUESTION: DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) MACHINES/ROBOTS CAN PRODUCE ART WORKS? DOES THIS MEAN THAT MAN IS JUST A MACHINE? - YOU SEE, I START OUT WITH A POP SONG & ENDED UP WITH PHILO. OF AI/MIND IN A SPACE OF A FEW PARAGRAPHS!!!

TMNP

POST 117 NEW BLOG ON MALAYOLOGY

January 04, 2009
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PLEASE READ MY NEW BLOG TITLED ""MALAYOLOGY"
AT THE URL:

www.malayology.blogspot.com

THERE I SHALL POST "MORE SERIOUS" (AS IN SCHOLARLY) THINGS...
NO, you do not need an advanced degree... You do not even need ANY degree... As long as you can read & understand the most popular ENGLISH language then you may be able to appreciate my ideas... I shall allow interaction there - just WAIT.

I just came from QUIAPO where I attended an IRANIAN sympo togehter with "SULTAN USMAN OF QUIAPO" - my friend from whom I have learned more than from many most books I had/have been reading about the MOROs of MINDANAW... I personally handed a copy of my still unpolished essay on MALAYOLOGY to the youthful Iranian ambassador... You might wonder why I have not approached an ARAB or a MALAYSIAN or an INDONESIAN - I HAD LONG, LONG AGO GIVEN UP ON THESE PEOPLE... I TELL YOU (AGAIN a la ZARATHUSTRA*): THIS WORLD IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE... SO, are you beginning to have an inkling about how a TINY nation like ISRAEL can act like a GIANT there in the MIDDLE EAST???

*ZARATHUSTRA IS the "Persian" ZOROASTER (much older than J.C. a.s.& Nabi Muhammad s.a.w.) who was "popularized" by the German philosopher FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE... [I was trying to understand his work & reading it studiously instead of my course work in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING in U.P... So guess what happened (to my first course)? HAR!] Zoroastrianism allegedly is the origin of the SEMITIC (Christian, Islaam & even Judaism?) conception of dualism (GOOD vs. EVIL) There are Zoroastrians in India - the TATAs owner of the MUMBAI PALACE HOTEL is one if I am not mistaken. They believe in the sacredness of FIRE(?) Their BASIC TEACHING: GOOD THOUGHTS + GOOD DEEDS + GOOD WORDS... Oh, yes, I have many "INTERNATIONAL" friends...

TMNP

P.S. AGAIN: malayology.blogspot.com
ALSO AT: malayology.wordpress.com TITLED "THE MALAYOLOGIST'S BLOG" BUT this is still empty...
- BY THE SELF-APPOINTED, SELF-PROCLAIMED "MALAYOLOGIST"...
(MALAYO BA? O MALAYO ANG LIPAD? HAR HAR!)