Protest Song

London Calling

London calling to the faraway towns

Now war is declared and battle come down

London calling to the underworld

Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls

London calling, now don't look to us

Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust

London calling, see we ain't got no swing

'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in

Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin

Engines stop running, but I have no fear

Cause London is drowning, and I, live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone

Forget it, brother, you can go it alone

London calling to the zombies of death

Quit holding out and draw another breath

London calling and I don't want to shout

But when we were talking I saw you nodding out

London calling, see we ain't got no high

Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in

Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin

A nuclear error, but I have no fear

Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in

Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin

A nuclear error, but I have no fear

Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too

An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!

London calling at the top of the dial

And after all this, won't you give me a smile? (London calling)

I never felt so much a' like a'like a'like

“London Calling” was The Clash’s first single from their 3^rd album: London Calling. The title comes from the BBC World Service during The World War II. The broadcaster begins the news release with these words: “This is London calling…”

Joe Strummer puts into words the fear of nuclear disasters, inundations, the beginning of an ice age, solar explosions, wars…; a total apocalypse.

The lyrics reflect desperation, maybe to influence the public, to protest about possible ends of the world.

There is an English proverb that says: “When the Thames overflows, all of London is flooded”. Probably The Clash knew this saying because the lyrics talks about an inundated London.

My proposal of a protest song is “Teenagers” of My Chemical Romance. This song talks about how adults are worried about teenagers without reason. Talking about music, the genre rock is one of my favourites and I really like this band. I choose this song because I feel identified. I think parents may be very concerned about us, the teenagers, and I do not feel good when I go out with friends knowing they are worried about me.

bbc news

Snapchat launches sunglasses with camera

Snapchat, Inc that renamed it self to Snap, Inc has announced its first gadget: sunglasses with a built-in camera, the name of the device is called Spectacles and will be on stock next year. The price will be around 130$. 

The objective of these glasses is see your own experience again and again so you never forget.

Evan Spiegel, the creator of Snapchat, had this idea when he went on vacations to California with the photographer Karl Lagerfeld. They saw very beautiful views and when they got the pictures they did, he could see his own memory. So he had this idea of Spectacles to have an experience of the experience you had in past. 

Footage will have a circular format to view in anydirection. The battery will go on for a day. The glasses have a light on the front to indicate when the glasses are recording.

Spectacles will remind Google Glass but Spectacles doesn't make you look foolish because are like sunglasses (for help to hide the camera better).

Snap Company will go slow with this device, depending on whether people like it or not.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37460682

I think technology is going very fast because we do not need that kind of sophistication in our lives. We can live without those glasses, or without Play Station. But I’m afraid that technology will always progress and in a future, unfortunately, we’ll depend of it.

And about Speclacles, I’m curious about how works and I think it’s an original idea live an experience that you lived before, but we don’t need that. Socrates went to a market once, and said: “Look those things I don’t need”. I think world is the same, there are a lot of things we don’t need.

WHAT STAGE OF LIFE I PREFER?

The other day you asked us what stage of life we prefer and you requested to think about it a few minutes. Sincerely I didn’t know which one choose in that moment but now, after thinking about it more than a few minutes I realize that my favourite stage of life is adolescence because now, at my age of sixteen, I’m really enjoying this stage.

I think adolescence is the best stage of life because there aren’t big preoccupations like have a job to make money and pay our costs, at the age of sixteen we still under our parents responsibility, we don’t need to care about that until we arrive to the age of 18, when we start adulthood. We only have to care about study and have good marks.

Adulthood is another stage of life, but this one has a lot of responsibilities like be a good parent for your child or have a good job. I think this stage is great because you live by your own, you have your own house, maybe your family,… but sincerely, I’m scared to live be my own.

Adolescence is wonderful because in that stage mainly of us find our first love and our first real friends. I think childhood is an important stage too because is where we make our first friends but we knew nothing about life, we only care about play games and be annoying. When we are adolescents we start to see the world differently, we start to ask questions and experimenting unexpected things.

I don’t remember childhood ass I remember adolescence, maybe because when I was little I was just doing what I thought good, without question if I will regret it in a future. Now that I’m mature, I think I know what is wrong and what is not, and when I do something I think about the future, because I care.