March 17, 2014

Good Morning!

Today is the birthday of Nat King Cole (1919 – 1965) who sang:

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”

It is also the birthday of William Gibson (1948 - ) who said:

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

and

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

and

“I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.”

and

“The present tense made him nervous.”

Happy Birthday to Michael Been (1950 – 2010), frontman of the Call, who sang:

“For people like us

In places like this

We need all the hope

That we can get

Oh, I still believe”

Birthday greetings to Billy Corgan (1967 - ) of the Smashing Pumpkins who said:

“Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.”

and

“Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose.”

and

“I wanted more than life could ever grant me.”

Finally, it is the birthday of one of the singers of the band Stars, Torquil Campbell (1972 - ), who wrote:

“It's nothing but time and a face that you lose

I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose

I'll write you a postcard

I'll send you the news

From a house down the road from real love...

Live through this, and you won't look back...

There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave

You were what I wanted

I gave what I gave

I'm not sorry I met you

I'm not sorry it's over

I'm not sorry there's nothing to save”