Yeah, heard me right. Wear sunscreen. It is one of those songs that touch you to the core (yes peeps, me is talking about a song). And for me, it's like a medicine - when things go wrong, when there's frustration all around, events not happening the way you want 'em to, this song puts the faith back into you. If you believe in those words, ofcourse. If you see me at work, headphones on, chances are this very song is playing in a loop for all eternity!
'The Sunscreen Song' (or 'Everybody's free to wear sunscreen') originally appeared as a column in some newspaper (I forget which!) by this lady called Mary Schmich. It was set to music some time later by the Aussie director Baz Luhrmann, sung (or spoken) by Aussie actor Lee Perry. The music itself is based on Quindon Traver's 'Everybody's free to feel good' - so much so, lines from this song appear in the Sunscreen song. And like every other popular thing, this song has its own urban legends associated - that it was a commencement address to MIT grads. But hey, doesn't matter how it came to be, but I sure am glad it is here.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this as a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested forthis problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches."
- Opening lines of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams.
This is what I call my kind of book - utterly irrelevant lines, totally funny and absolutely no pressure on your brain to remember or understand a virtually non-existent plot. Like a Superstar blockbuster. Heh heh.
Don't worry about my last post. I changed my mind. ;-) I do that sometimes.
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