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Two institutions of French pop, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Francis Cabrel, sing Goldman's Comme Toi, a hit in France in the early 80s, during my grape-picking days.
I always thought this one was appropriate when QPR are on one of those long winless runs:
Il faut savoir (You've got to know)
You've got to know...when the good times have gone and the worst is to come. You've got to know...how to keep your dignity, whatever the cost. You've got to know...when you are powerless in the face of destiny, how to hide your tears. You've got to know...but me, I didn't know how.
Years ago I did evening classes at the Korean Cultural Centre (near Trafalgar Square). I have to admit I didn't get very far in terms of speaking Korean.
However, it's actually not that hard to learn to read Korean as there are only 24 characters in the Korean alphabet. Each syllable (e.g. Yang 양) is composed of individual characters from the Korean alphabet (e.g. ya ㅑ):
I'm gonna rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again
I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye And when the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again
Jackson Browne, The Pretender (1976)
In a 1997 interview with Mojo magazine, Browne said of this song: "I'm a big fan of ambiguity and its bountiful rewards, and 'The Pretender' is two things at once. It's that person in all of us that has a higher ideal, and the part that has settled for compromise - like Truffaut says, there's the movie you set out to make, and there's the one you settle for. But in a more serious way, 'The Pretender' is about '60s idealism, the idea of life being about love and brotherhood, justice, social change and enlightenment, those concepts we were flooded with as our generation hit its stride; and how, later, we settled for something quite different. So when I say 'Say a prayer for The Pretender,' I'm talking about those people who are trying to convince themselves that there really was nothing to that idealism."
@simmo 'have you seen / would you recommend The Host or Memories of Murder? I have been working my way through asian recommendations and Bong Joon Ho especially, and these are supposed to be his best.'
I would definitely recommend Memories of Murder (2003). The film shows how the power of the South Korean state hampered the investigation of a series of murders. After all, if you can speedily extract confessions, what need is there for investigation? The only flaw in this method being that the murders continued. An interesting footnote to the film is that the killer was identified in 2019.
Just listened to the last Open All R's podcast (the one with Sam Field) yesterday. Some fairly optimistic predictions about the Preston game (correct) and the Swansea game (incorrect).
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