Ricky Fitts: an amazing character

I 've never seen a character so confident about himself as Ricky Fitts......he's confident ,smart weired and much more....take for example ..when Jane asks him
: Are you scared? Rickt says I don't get scared.

He's likes to play straight...like towards the end he asks Jane to come with him...here too he says it so straight cut..

RICKY (to Jane) If I had to leave tonight, would you come with me?

JANE What?

RICKY If I had to go to New York. To live. Tonight. Would you come with me?

And straight comes the answer ....Yes.

He's a caring a fellow ...he does love his mon and dad its only that he cannot come in terms with their ways.

When Ricky leaves he gives mom a hug and says: mon I'm leaving, I wish things could have been better for you.

And he does not care for anyone ,remember how he says to the caterring boss when says .. Hey i'm not paying you to do whatever your are doing now.

Ricky just got one thing to say to him :Fine so dont pay me,I quit now leave me alone.

a surprised Lester Burnham says : Wow I think you just became my personal hero.

He can look straight into a girl's eyes and say

I'm not obssed I'm just curious.

But the best thing he says when he describes the dancing balloon

" It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. "

And that becomes the underline of the movie.....that one monolouge tell all the movie is all about.

Wes Bentley has done tremendous job playing Ricky....It was said that Jake Gillanhall went for audition for this role....but it went to Wes 'cos the casting director said that when he was asked to read the dialouge about the dancing ballon he sounded like it realy had a meaning....

Alanis Morissette: ironic

An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

And isn't it ironic...dontcha think

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought...it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought"Well isn't this nice..."

And isn't it ironic...dontcha think

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought...it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

When you think everything's okay and everything's going right

And life has a funny way of helping you out when

You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows upIn your face

A traffic jam when you're already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It's meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn't it ironic...dontcha think

A little too ironic...and yeah I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought...it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out

Helping you out

Alanis Morissette: Hands clean

"Hands Clean"

If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened

If you weren't so wise beyond your years

I would've been able to control myself

If it weren't for my attention you wouldn't have been successful and

If it weren't for me you would never have amounted to very much

Ooh this could be messy

But you don't seem to mind

Ooh don't go telling everybody

And overlook this supposed crime

We'll fast forward to a few years later

And no one knows except the both of us

And I have honored your request for silence

And you've washed your hands clean of this

You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me

You're kind of my protege and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me

I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian

I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it

Ooh this could get messy

But you don't seem to mind

Ooh don't go telling everybody

And overlook this supposed crime

We'll fast forward to a few years later

And no one knows except the both of us

I've more than honored your request for silence

And you've washed your hands clean of this

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?

What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

What with this distance it seems so obvious?

Just make sure you don't tell on me especially to members of your family

We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse

I wish I could tell the world cuz you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly

I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body

Ooh this could be messy and

Ooh I don't seem to mind

Ooh don't go telling everybody

Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa Ontario , Cannada to a french cannadian father, Alan Richard Morissette, and hungarian mother, Georgia Mary Ann Feuerstein. Alanis has a twin brother, Wade, and an older brother, Chad. At the age of six, she began playing the piano and realized she wanted to express herself through the arts In 1984, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay with Me", which she sent to a local folk singer, Lindsay Morgan, who recruited Morissette as his protégé
In 1986, Morissette had her first stint as an actress: five episodes of the children's television show You cany do that in television. Using money she saved from that role, she released "Fate Stay with Me" as a single via a label she founded with Morgan. A limited number of copies were pressed, and it received little airplay. She appeared on stage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society in 1985 and 1988. During her high school years, Morissette attended Immaculata High School in Ottawa.
At a New york city audition, Morissette landed a spot on star search a popular American talent competition on which she used her stage name, Alanis Nadine. Morissette flew toL . A to appear on the show, but lost after one round. In 1988, Morissette signed a publishing deal with MCA Publishing, which helped to fund her record deal with one of its independent subsidiary labels.

1990 – 1993: Alanis and Now Is the Time

MCA Records released Morissette's debut album, Alanis, in Canada only in 1991, and Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe. By the time it was released, she had dropped her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. The dance-pop album went platinum, and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the top twenty on the RPM singles chart. Subsequent singles included "Walk Away", "Feel Your Love" and "Plastic". Later, this period of Morissette's career would be compared to similar teen singers in the US such as Debbie Gibson and Tiffany. Following the release of "Alanis", Morissette was a concert opening act for rapper Vanilla Ice.Morissette was nominated for three 1992 Juno Awards: Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won), Single of the Year and Best Dance Recording (both for "Too Hot").
Between the ages of fourteen to eighteen, Morissette suffered from anorexia and bulimia nervosa, which were catalysed by "hardcore" professional pressure and managerial demands from her work towards making her first album. She recalled returning to the studio to re-record some vocals, only to be told that the person who summoned her there wanted to discuss her weight, and that she couldn't be successful if she was fat. She lived on a diet of carrots, black coffee and Melba toast, and her weight fluctuated by fifteen to twenty pounds. She subsequently began therapy, which she called "a long process to un-program [my brain]. I try to remember, whatever my body is, it's perfect the way it is."
In 1992, she released her second album, Now Is the Time, a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy production than Alanis and contained more thoughtful lyrics. Morissette wrote the songs with the album's producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Côté. She said of the album, "people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever'. But the way I look at it ... people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." As with Alanis, Now Is the Time was released only in Canada and produced singles — "An Emotion Away", "No Apologies", and "Real World". The record's sales were roughly half of what she had reached with her debut. With her two-album deal with MCA Canada complete, Morissette was left without a major label contract.
During this period, Morissette dated Dave Coulier of television's Full House fame.

1993 – 1995: Move to Los Angeles
In 1993, after graduating from high school, Morissette moved from Ottawa to Toronto.Living alone for the first time in her life, she met with a bevy of songwriters, but the results frustrated her.[citation needed] A visit to Nashville a few months later also proved fruitless. In the hopes of meeting a collaborator Morissette began making trips to Los Angeles and working with as many musicians as possible.
During this time, she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, and within ten minutes of meeting each other they had begun experimenting creatively.According to Morissette, Ballard was the first collaborator who encouraged her to express her emotions.[citation needed] The two wrote and recorded Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill, and by the spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with Maverick Records.
As Morissette later revealed, during her stay in L.A., a thief confronted and robbed her on a deserted street, although he did not take the writing and brainstorming notes in her purse; they were the scribblings that soon made up Jagged Little Pill. Morissette subsequently developed an intense and general angst, which manifested in random daily panic attacks, including on planes. She checked herself into a hospital and attended psychotherapy sessions, but with no improvement. She focused her inner problems on the soul-baring lyrics of the album for her own health.

1995 – 1998: Jagged Little Pill

"You Oughta Know" (1995)
This angsty, rock-influenced track about a bitter breakup became Morissette's breakthrough international single.
"Ironic" (1996)
The two-time Grammy Award-winning song is considered one of Morissette's signature tunes.

Maverick Records released Jagged Little Pill internationally in 1995. The album was expected to sell enough for Morissette to make a follow-up, but the situation changed quickly when a DJ from an influential Los Angeles radio station began playing "You Oughta Know", the album's first single. The song instantly garnered attention for its scathing, explicit lyrics, and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV and MuchMusic.
After the success of "You Oughta Know", the album's other hit singles helped send Jagged Little Pill to the top of the charts. "All I Really Want" and "Hand in My Pocket" followed, but the fourth U.S. single, "Ironic", became Morissette's biggest hit. "You Learn" and "Head over Feet", the fifth and sixth singles, respectively, kept Jagged Little Pill in the top twenty on the Billboard 200 albums chart for more than a year. According to the RIAA, Jagged Little Pill is the best-selling international debut album by a female artist, with more than fourteen million copies sold in the U.S.; it sold thirty million worldwide, making it the second biggest selling album by a female artist, and the biggest selling debut album of all time.[4][5] Morissette's popularity grew significantly in Canada, where the album was certified twelve times platinum[9] and produced four RPM chart-toppers: "Hand in My Pocket", "Ironic", "You Learn" and "Head over Feet". The album was also a bestseller in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Morissette's success with Jagged Little Pill was credited with leading to the introduction of female singers such as Tracy Bonham, Meredith Brooks, Patti Rothberg and, in the early 2000s, Avril Lavigne and Pink. She was criticised for collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Ballard, and her previous albums also proved a hindrance for her respectability, particularly in her native country. Morissette and the album won six Juno Awards in 1996: Album of the Year, Single of the Year ("You Oughta Know"), Female Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Best Rock Album. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, she won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song (both for "You Oughta Know"), Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.
Later in 1996, Morissette embarked on an eighteen-month world tour in support of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. Taylor Hawkins, currently with the Foo Fighters, was the tour's drummer. "Ironic" was nominated for two 1997 Grammy Awards — Record of the Year and Best Music Video, Short Form— and won Single of the Year at the 1997 Juno Awards, where Morissette also won Songwriter of the Year and the International Achievement Award. The video Jagged Little Pill, Live, which was co-directed by Morissette and chronicled the bulk of her tour, won a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form.
During the tour, Morissette became disillusioned with the music industry and declared being tired of constant travelling, quick and superficial relationships and parties full of drugs — subjects that made her consider ditching her career.[citation needed] She started practicing Iyengar Yoga for balancing, and after the last December 1996 show, she headed to India for six weeks, accompanied by her mother, two aunts and two female friends.

2002 – 2003: Under Rug Swept
In 2001, Morissette was featured with Stephanie McKay on the Tricky song "Excess", which is on his album Blowback. Morissette released her fifth studio album, Under Rug Swept, in February 2002. For the first time in her career, she took on the role of sole writer and producer of an album. Her band, comprising Joel Shearer, Nick Lashley, Chris Chaney and Gary Novak, played the majority of the instruments; additional contributions came from Eric Avery, Dean DeLeo, Flea and Meshell Ndegeocello. Shortly after recording the album, Morissette hired an entirely new band, featuring Jason Orme, Zac Rae, David Levita and Blair Sinta, who have been with her since.
Under Rug Swept debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, eventually going platinum in Canada and selling one million copies in the U.S. It produced the hit single "Hands Clean", which topped the Canadian Singles Chart and received substantial radio play; for her work on "Hands Clean" and "So Unsexy", Morissette won a Juno Award for Producer of the Year. A second single, "Precious Illusions", was released, but it did not garner significant success outside Canada or U.S. hot AC radio.
Later in 2002, Morissette released the combination package Feast on Scraps, which includes a DVD of live concert and backstage documentary footage directed by her, and a CD containing eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. Preceded by the single "Simple Together", it sold roughly 70,000 copies in the U.S. and was nominated for a Juno Award for Music DVD of the Year.In late 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she was innocent.

Perceived ambiguity of 'that"

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is a Grammy award winning song composed and written by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Meat Loaf. The song was released in 1993 as the first single from the album Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell.
It reached number one in twenty-eight countries, the first being Ausralia on September 4, 1993, where it stayed for 8 weeks, becoming the highest selling single of the year there. It also stayed at number one for seven weeks in the UK. The single was certified platinum in the US and became Meat Loaf's first number-one single on billbord's hot 100 chart and on the UK singles chart.
The song opens with a guitar played to sound like a reveving motorcycle. This is clearly a reference to Todd Rundgren's contribution in the middle of "Bat out of Hell". Roy Bittan's piano begins to play, along with the guitars. The vocals begin at the 1:50 point, which is where many pop songs are beginning their second chorus. Steinman "alternates... [a bombastic] style with mellow moments where the hard-hitting piano licks are fleshed out with ethereal synthesizer and choral-styled backing vocals."
And I would do anything for love
I'd run right into hell and back
These opening vocals are gentle, with piano and subtle backing vocals. The song then becomes much louder as the band, predominately piano, plays the main melody for twenty seconds. It remains loud for the first verse, and then quietening again for the chorus. The chorus continues, repeating the lines:
I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
An instrumental section, lasting over 45 seconds, follows, with piano playing the title melody, accompanied by guitar and word-less background vocals by Todd Rundgren, Rory Dodd and Kasim Sulton. The lead vocals recommence with another verse. The popular phrase "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" was censored to become "Some days I just pray to the god of sex and drums and rock and roll." The second chorus begins in stadium style, with the "But I'd never do it better than I'll do it with you..." lines more subdued.
At the 9:28 point, the song transforms into a duet .The structure of the verses remain, but the female now asks what the male would do. He answers in the affirmative for the first four sections.
Girl:
Will you make me some magic with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?
Boy:
I can do that!
For the final two sections, the girl guesses that he would eventually do things to upset her and their relationship: firstly that he'd forget all of their memories and feelings between them and want "to move on", and, secondly, would be "screwing around." Both times, he responds "But I won't do that."

"THAT"?????.....WHAT???


All music Guide said that "Meat Loaf sells the borderline-campy lyrics with a full-throated vocal whose stirring sense of conviction brings out the heart hidden behind the clever phrases."
Each verse comprises two things that he would do for love, followed by one thing that he would not do. It is that latter part of each verse that is the "that" of the title. However, some people misunderstand the lyrics, claiming that the singer never identifies what the "that" is which he is unwilling to do. Steinman predicted this confusion during production.An early episode of the VH1 program pop up video made this claim at the end of the song's video: "Exactly what Meat Loaf won't do for love remains a mystery to this day."A reviewer writing for All music guide also misunderstood the lyric, commenting that "The lyrics build suspense by portraying a romance-consumed lover who pledges to do anything in the name of love except "that," a mysterious thing that he will not specify." While the reviewer concludes that the mystery is revealed during the closing stages of the song, it is not observed that "that" is revealed in every chorus throughout.
Although some people assume that "that" is an exophoric references to a sex act, it is actually an anaphoric references to the varying activities and feelings that are specified as antecendes in the lyric that the singer says that he won't do.

"I'll never forget the way you feel right now ..."
"I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight ..."
"I'll never do it better than I do it with you ..."
"I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life ..."
In addition, the female vocalist identifies two other things that the lead singer denies that he will do: "You'll see that it's time to move on" and "You'll be screwing around." To both of these, the lead singer emphatically responds, "I won't do that! No, I won't do that!"
Meat Loaf says that the question "what is 'that'?" is one of the most popular questions he is asked. In his 1998 VH1 Storytellers special, he even explained it on stage using a blackboard and a pointing stick. In a 1993 promotional interview, Steinman states that the definition of "that" is fully revealed in the song in each of the several verses in which it is mentioned.
It's sort of is a little puzzle and I guess it goes by - but they're all great things. 'I won't stop doing beautiful things and I won't do bad things.' It's very noble. I'm very proud of that song because it's very much like out of the world of Excaliber. To me, it's like Sir Lancelot or something - very noble and chivalrous. That's my favorite song on the record - it's very ambitious.

Jimmy always said, "You know what? Nobody's gonna get it." And he was right..............

Micheal Lee Aday or as we know him....Meatloaf

And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back

I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact

But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way

And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love

I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, ah, no I won't do that

And some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard

Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end

And some nights you're breathin' fire, and some nights you're carved in ice

Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again

And maybe I'm crazy, oh it's crazy and it's true

I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turnin', as long as the stars are burnin'

As long as your dreams are comin' true, you'd better believe it

That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there 'til the final act

And I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact

But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight

And I would do anything for love, but I won't do-oo that, no I won't do-oo that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreamin' of but I just won't do that

I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreamin' of but I just won't do

And some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul

Some days I just pray to the god of sex and drums and rock 'n' roll

And maybe I'm lonely, that's all I'm qualified to be

There's just one and only, one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turnin', as long

But i'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way

And i would do anything for love, oh i would do anything for love

I would do anything for loveBut i won't do that

No i won't do that

Will you raise me up, will you help me down?

Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?

Will you make it all a little less cold?

I can do that! i can do that!

Will you hold me sacred? will you hold me tight?

Can you colorize my life, i'm so sick of black and white?

Can you make it all a little less old?

I can do that! oh oh, now i can do that!

Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?

Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?

Can you give me something i can take home?

I can do that! oh oh now, i can do that!

Will you cater to every fantasy i got?

Will ya hose me down with holy water, if i get too hot?

Will you take me places i've never known?

I can do that! oh oh now, i can do that!

After a while you'll forget everything

It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling

And you'll see that it's time to move on

I won't do that! no i won't do that!

I know the territory, i've been around

It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down

And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around

I won't do that! no i won't do that!

Anything for love, oh i would do anything for love

I would do anything for love, but i won't do that, no i won't do that

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 24th 1947), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American rock singer and actor of stage and screen . He is noted for his albums Bat out of Hell, II, and III and several famous songs from movies. The Neverland Express is the name of the band he fronts as its lead singer. In 2001, he changed his first name to Michael.

Aday was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas ,Texas the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer, and Wilma Artie (Hukel), a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking bringe for days at a time. Marvin and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Marvin often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod.
He relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love feild to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to pardland hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governer John Conelly get pulled out, though they never saw Kennedy taken out.
Marvin graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1965, having started his acting career in school productions of where's carley? and the music man.After attending college Marvin transferred to Nprth texas high school . While there he was called in for an army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being colour blind having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he has had seventeen of them from allowing a Volkswagen to roll over his head on a dare, which garnered him the nickname Meat Loaf, when a friend who was present remarked afterward that he must have "meatloaf for brains".) . When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967 after seeing his mother hospitalized and her health deteriorating, Marvin stole his dad's credit card and moved to L.A where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub.
In his autobiography, Marvin claims that shortly after his mother died, his father, in a drunken rage, tried to kill him with a knife, and that he barely managed to escape after they had a bad fight. After Marvin got his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. Eventually a friend found him. Marvin bought a car with his inheritance and drove to California.

Despite setbacks (including bankrupcy, on more than one occasion), Meat Loaf is notable for the success of his music career, spawning some of the largest-selling albums of all time, and breaking several records for chart duration. Bat out of Hell, the debut album which had been four years in the making, has sold over 37 million copies. After almost 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over 9 years. Each of the seven tracks on the album eventually charted as a single hit.
Although he enjoyed success with Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native United States; however, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for number of weeks overall spent on the charts, and is one of only two artists with an album never to have left the music chsrts. With the help of his New York collection of musicians John Golden, Richard Raskin and Paul Jacobs his European tours enjoyed immense popularity in the 80's. In Germany Meat Loaf became notably popular following the release of Bat out of Hell II but has enjoyed most of his success among pop/rock fans. He ranked 96th on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'.
Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies or television shows sometimes even as himself, or as characters resembling his onstage personality, such as his memorable role as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He appeared in the acclaimed feature film Fight Club, as Robert "Bob" Paulson; he is credited for this role as "Meat Loaf Aday".
In 2007 Meat Loaf granted filmmaker Bruce David Klein exclusive access for the making of Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise, an independent theatrical documentary film that captures the legendary rocker and his life in rehearsals and on the road during his 2007 World Tour. The film was an official selection of the Montreal World Film Festival in 2007.

Tracy Chapman......

You got a fast car

I want a ticket to anywhere

Maybe we make a deal

Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better

Starting from zero got nothing to lose

Maybe we'll make something

But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car

And I got a plan to get us out of here

I been working at the convenience store

Managed to save just a little bit of money

We won't have to drive too far

Just 'cross the border and into the city

You and I can both get jobs

And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem

He live with the bottle that's the way it is

He says his body's too old for working

I say his body's too young to look like his

My mama went off and left him

She wanted more from life than he could give

I said somebody's got to take care of him

So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so we can fly away

We gotta make a decision

We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving driving in your car

The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder

And I had a feeling that I belonged

And I had a feeling

I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car

And we go cruising to entertain ourselves

You still ain't got a job

And I work in a market as a checkout girl

I know things will get better

You'll find work and I'll get promoted

We'll move out of the shelter

Buy a big house and live in the suburbs

You got a fast car

And I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bar

See more of your friends than you do of your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me would find it

I got no plans I ain't going nowhere

So take your fast car and keep on driving

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so you can fly away

You gotta make a decision

You leave tonight or live and die this way

Tracy Chapmanborn: 20-03-1964

birth place: Cleveland, Ohio

Tracy began writing poetry at an early age and when she was eight she received her first guitar from her mother. An academic scholarship allowed her to attend high school in Connecticut, before studying anthropology at Tufts University in Massachusetts. During this time she began playing on the Boston folk circuit and at local coffeehouses.It wasn’t long before her talents were spotted, and in 1987 she signed a recording deal with Elektra. Her self-titled debut album was released in 1988 and met with immediate critical and commercial success.An appearance at the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute concert at Wembley Arena in the same year helped boost her international profile. Album sales shot through the roof following this one appearance and she went on to sell over 10 million copies and win three Grammy awards.Tracks like ‘Fast Car’ and ‘Baby Can I Hold You’ became instant radio favourites. Although Tracy’s second album, ‘Crossroads’, went platinum it failed to match the success of her first outing. While performing at a number of charity concerts, Tracy continued to write and record songs for her next album – ‘Matters Of The Heart’A four year sabbatical led to ’New Beginning’ in 1995 which went some way in restoring the commercial successes of her debut album, selling three million in the US alone. Another four year sabbatical saw her join the all women Lilith Tour and take part in a Bob Marley tribute in Jamaica.Tracy’s fifth album ‘Telling Stories’ was released in 2000 and in 2003 she released ‘Let It Rain’.

Al Pacino said....

Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert. Tits. Hoo-ah! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, like secret searchlights. Mmm. Legs. I don't care if they're Greek columns... or secondhand Steinways. What's between 'em... passport to heaven. I need a drink. Yes, Mr Sims, there's only two syllables in this whole wide world worth hearing: pussy. Hah! Are you listenin' to me, son? I'm givin' ya pearls here.

The speech from "The great dictator"

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up!

heaven on earth