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Waiting anxiously for the new villain . . .Could this be our first look at Arkham City's box art? Could Arkham City feature an Online Pass?
As well as giving us our first glimpse at Arkham City's sleeve, the blurb makes mention of the Batman online pass, which will allow players to access certain features of Arkham City.
This would not be the first time WB have released a game with an online pass, Mortal Kombat, released earlier this year, required such a pass to access online features, according to the small print gamers buying Arkham City pre-owned or second-hand will have to pay a little extra to get a Batman online pass, gamers buying a mint copy of the game will have a one use serial code included within the packaging.
It is implied that without the online pass, gamers will be unable to play as Catwoman [WTF] in the challenge rooms, and possible more.
Please note that this sleeve is not confirmed.
Arkham City's GTTV show finally aired last night and boy did it not disappoint. GameTrailers stuck to their word and revealed an all new villain, gadgets and some awesome new gameplay.
Amongst the new gadgets are:
Freeze Blast - This gadget allows you to freeze your enemies, judging from the gameplay shown it can be fired from a great distance. Allowing you to tactically target your foe and fly down to take him out with ease. The gadget can also be used when trying to cross water, GameTrailers show Batman standing on an ice platform and using the Batclaw to latch onto objects in the water, allowing him to move him self around.
Check out Bats using this gadget in the video below! But be warned, this video contains cut scenes from early in the game. If you don't want to be spoiled we suggest you avoid this video.
Deadshot will be part of a side mission where Batman tries to figure out who is on Deadshot's hit list and how to stop him. He will be missing some of his gear because he needed to sneak into Arkham City as a thug.
Batman: Arkham City's recently revealed side quest "Shot in The Dark" features villain Deadshot and will have you hunting down his trail using your detective vision. Here's a few HD screencaps to tide you over till release day.
Worlds greatest detctive!!!
Everyday more awesome news is comingAccording to Game On's interview with Rocksteady's Paul Crocker we won't be seeing fan favourite Scarecrow in Batman: Arkham City.
"In Batman: Arkham Asylum we had the whole Scarecrow thing, and we didn't want to do that again we wanted something different." - Paul Crocker, Rocksteady Studios.
It seems Rocksteady may have something else up their sleeve in terms of delivering a similar surprise. But are you disappointed that there's a chance that the infamous Dr. Jonathan Crane won't be showing his face within the city limits?
I need these
The first of Series 1 of Arkham City action figures have been officially announced.
Welcome to Arkham City, the new maximum security "home" for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters, and insane criminal masterminds.
Set inside the heavily fortified walls of a sprawling district in the heart of Gotham City, it's filled with the most murderous villains from DC Comics' Batman universe. But Batman is ready to tackle it with all-new gadgets and his greatest—and most dangerous—allies. Which is good, because he'll need all the help he can get for his journey into the darkest corners of Gotham.
Among those he'll encounter:
Tim Drake battles crime as Robin, delivering punches (and signature quips) to aid in the Caped Crusader's mission to shut down Arkham City.
In a nice new outfit, Harley Quinn has taken to the front lines to personally fulfill the Joker's sickest wishes of mischief and mayhem. She's not going to let anyone get in her way—least of all Batman.
Based on the upcoming blockbuster video game published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, developed by Rocksteady Studios, and licensed by DC Entertainment.
Batman - 6.75" h
Harley Quinn - 6.25" h
Robin - 6.5" h
On sale December 21, 2011
Sinestro skin
Joker's Carnival
New screen shots
BAC coming to pc's in November
Raveonettes Pen 'Oh, Stranger' for 'Batman Arkham City' Song
How much do you know about Batman? What's the name of the guy who created him, and in which comic did he first appear? To find out who is knows everything about Batman we put Rocksteady's Dax Ginn up against Paul Dini, Batman comic book writer and the man responsible for the story in Batman: Arkham City.
Click here to find out who won . . .
A look at challenge mode [ cam]
Dr Harlene Quinzel aka Harley Quinn Flash
I love this game :)
Check out the new Joker trailer here!!!
How do you get that Sinestro skin?
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A message from BAC's Game Director
Hi all,
The big news from Rocksteady is that Batman: Arkham City has now gone gold.
Thanks to everyone in the community for your continued support - it made the late nights and weekend work easier knowing you were behind us all the way.
I'm really proud of the work the team has done - I'm sure you're going to enjoy it too.
Now the team are focused on finishing off some really cool DLC but the main news is... Batman is back!


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The Loyola Maroon Vol. XXXIII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., September 30, 1955 No. 1 'Antigone' First For Thespians Joel L a r k i n, chemistry sophomore, will appear in the title role of "Antigone," the first Thespian production of the season. "Antigone," the last in the Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles, will run Oct. 25-29 in Marquette Auditorium.This play marks the third Greek production presented by the Loyola Thespians. During the 1962-53 school term, the group produced its first Greek play, "Oedipus Rex," which was proclaimed by Item critic Ewing Poteet as "the most stirring, the most powerful and the most polished theatrical presentation we have seen in New Orleans." Last year, the group attempted its second Greek production, "Medea." Poteet had this to say: "this Thespian 'Medea' makes extraordinary theatre, something far out of the ordinary run. It deserves— more, you owe it to yourself that it have—packed houses at the other performances." "Antigone" i* the itory of a conflict between the natural law and the law of the State. The latter iD exemplified by Creon and his decree, while Antigone maintains that the natural law supercede* the law of man. Others in the cast are: Myra Monahan, Richard Redmann, Reginald Hendry, George Hoag, John Bourgeois, Jim Arceneaux, Teresita Lopez, Anna Copponex, Gloria deßram, Fran Armstrong, Albert Monlezun, and George Piazza. Leo C. Zinser, Thespian director, will be assisted by Kate Scully. The next regular monthly meeting of the organization is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 in Marquette Auditorium. Officers for 1955-56 include: Copponex, president; Hoag, vicepresident; Scully, secretary; Bill Longfellow, treasurer; Matt Schott, parliamentarian; and Corinne Gately, librarian-historian. D • Chaplain Posts Retreat Dates For Students Retreat dates for the school term 1955-56 were announced by the Rev. Harold L. Cooper, S.J., University chaplain. They are: Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Oct. 7-Oct. 9, Oct. 14-Oct. 16, Oct. 21- Oct. 23, Oct. 28-Oct. 30, Nov. 4- Nov. 6, Nov. 11-Nov. 13, Dec. 2- Dec. 4, Dec. 9-Dec. 11, Jan. 6- Jan. 8, Jan. 13-Jan. 15, Jan. 26- Jan. 29. "Each Catholic student in the University is required to make a retreat," Father Cooper said. Retreats will be held on the indicated week-ends on the campus, but those who wish to make a closed retreat may do so. Closed retreats for men will be held at Manresa, Jan. 12-15, and Grand Coteau, March 1-4. Closed retreat dates for the ladies are scheduled for Lafayette, Dec. 9-11, and at the Sacred Heart Convent for alumnae only, March 2-4. Manresa can accommodate 55 students comfortably. Grand Coteau and Lafayette can handle 45 students. Manresa asks that each student make an offering of $10 to help cover overhead expenses. The retreat houses ask that you contribute whatever you are able. Lists with the names of students under the date on which they are to make their retreat will be posted on the bulletin board just outside the barbershop. The campus retreats will begin with the freshman men in A&S, BBA and pre-pharmacy going down the list alphabetically. If you wish to make a retreat on a specific date, and your name has not appeared on the list, report to the Student Lounge on the Friday night on which that retreat begins. If you prefer to make a closed retreat contact Father Cooper in his office in Marquette Hall. The campus retreats run as follows. Students are to report to the Student Lounge at 6:30 p.m. on Friday for a short talk by the retreat director or captain followed by Benediction at 7 p.m. in Thomas Hall Chapel. Saturday and Sunday mornings students are to report again to the Student Lounge for roll call at 7:40 p.m. Mass is at 8 a.m. There will be four talks each day at 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. Each day is closed with Benediction.The retreat instructor will be available for confessions and private interviews at free hours during the day. If a student misses the retreat for which his name is listed his name will be added to the list for the following week-end. If the student does not attend that retreat his name will go into a pool for a general retreat. If this retreat is also missed without sufficient excuse his name will be turned in to the Dean of Students. Pick Up Your '55 Yearbook Those students who have not yet e received their 1955 yearbooks are asked to pick them up at The Wolf office as soon as possible. The office is located in the new journalism building, the former Rec Room, behind Biever Hall. A business meeting of The Wolf will be called soon, datt and time to be announced, Vinca Carevich, 1956 Wolf editor, said. The purpose of the meeting will be to organise the staff so that work on the 'Sβ Wolf may begin. Anyone interested in joining the staff is invited to attend. At this meeting, the associate editor, managing editor, and business manager will be announced. Pictures for The Wolf will be taken soon after the social fraternities have pledged their members. Watch The Maroon for announcement of the dates. NFCCS Meets Sat. The National Federation of Catholic College Students will hold its first regional meeting of the season tomorrow, at Dominican College from 7:30 to 9 p.m. NFCCS delegates, campus and regional chairmen and observers are expected to attend. Council Plans Mock Election For Governor Invitations to address the University student body during the current semester have been tendered Louisiana's four gubernatorial candidates, Thomas Walshe, Jr., Student Council president, revealed this week. Candidates and prospective speakers, are New Orleans' Mayor deLess'eps Morrison; Earl K. Long, former La. governor; James Mc- Lemore, Alexandria cattleman; and Francis C. Grevemberg, head of the Louisiana State Police. The dates of the talks have not been decided, but will definitely fall before the Christmas holidays, Walshe said. They will be held in the Quadrangle. According to the student body president, the talks are being sponsored in an effort to "stimulate interest in state and local elections." Loyola students will go to the polls in a mock election on the Wednesday prior to actual gubernatorial election date to decide the students' choice to fill the state's chief executive's chair. Voting machines will be used. All students, regardless of age, will be eligible to vote. Med Techs Plan Freshman Party The annual "Welcome Freshmen" party of the Medical Technology Club to acquaint new members with the upperclassmen, will be held Sunday, at 3 p.m. in the Student Lounge. The Rene Descartes Mathematical Society will give instructions in the use of the slide rule. The time and place of these instructions will be announced in the near future. The Michelson Physics Society will meet each Thursday in the physics building at 4 p.m. according to Hillary Deßen, president. ORDER SENIOR RINGS Orders for senior class rings will be taken in the book store day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A $5 deposit is required to place the order, the Rev. Anthony C. O'Flynn, S.J., dean of students, announced. Enrollment Reaches 2569 As 594 Frosh Enter Loyola Of Books and Beanies and Freshman Things FROSH JOAN O'BRIEN FROSH BRIAN BRINKER See Story, page 2 Whether It's Chemistry Or Choir, Father Francis Loves To Teach 50 Years A Jesuit After 50 years in the Jesuit Order, the Rev. George A. Francis, S.J., still considers teaching his greatest joy. lither Francis celebrated his 50th anniversary as a ber of the Society of Jesus Tuesday, love being with students and trying to make better and women out of them," the 69-year-old priest said, native of Belgium, Father Francis joined the Society esus on Sept. 27, 1905 and was sent to the United States to begin "the regular rou- I tine course of study." "It was in 1911 that I got my first impression of New Orleans, when I was sent to the College of the Immaculate Conception on Baronne Street. And a very good impression it was, though there Kore mosquitoes than I was , and the Mississippi River was threatening to swallow us up at any moment," he reminisced. Ordination was still a long way off for the Jesuit. The next few years were spent in study at Springhill College and in St. Louis, Father Francis was ordained a minister of God. But his school days were far from over, for shortly after his ordination he received orders from the Provincial, sending him to Fordham University to obtain his PhD in chemistry. 1923—Father Francis, professor of chemistry, became a member of the Loyola faculty, a position he has maintained for the past 32 years. To avoid monotony in his work, Father Francis took up the hobby of directing the Holy Name of Jesus choir, beginning in 1939. "When you live a long time, monotony forces you to look for variety in your activities. My hobby as choirmaster relieves the tension of monotony," he explained. He added that a choirmaster must know how to interpret music. "When singing before the altar of God, you should put a prayer in your voice. The choirmaster must feel the tempo of the music and communicate it to his choir, if the music is to mean anything." The chemutry professor does not find any difference in teaching the students of today as compared with those in the 1920 V "Human nature hasn't changed," he said. "The mind of a student just coming out of high school is still immature. The student feels it unimportant to study, for he FATHER FRANCIS Singing Priest Opens Forum Oct. 11 The Rev. Sydney MacEwan, Scotch tenor, will appear on the first Forum of the season, the Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., Forum director, announced. The Forum is scheduled for October 11 at 8:30 p.m. in McMain Auditorium. Praised by such notables as Sir Compton Mackenzie, novelist and music critic, as "the finest living interpreter of Celtic music," the singing priest has appeared in concerts in the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand and America. Father MacEwan began his musical career aD a boy winning contents in Scotch seaside resorts, wu encouraged by Mackenxie and others, went on to a successful concert and recording career. In 1938, the 29-year-old singer announced his intention to study for the priesthood. He was ordained in Glasgow. In 1947, a request by a priest of the Cork diocese, brought the tenor back to music for a fund raising concert. Since then, concerts for churches have taken him to Australia and other countries. Between concerts, Father MacEwan is pastor of the tiny church of Lochgilpead where his earnings have furnished an altar, stations and floors of terrazzo marble. Born in Glasgow in 1909, the son of a Scottish commercial traveler, Father MaeEwan was raised by his widowed mother who now keeps house for him in Lochgilpead.The family was always musically inclined and both his father and brother were amateur pianists. The Scot tenor first tried his musical hand with the violin. His first public appearance was at the age of 10 when he was taken to a seaside resort in Argyll and entered in a singing competition.After graduation from the Jesuit college at Garnet Hill, Glasgow, he took a master of arts degree at the University of Glasgow and became active in many of the university shows. Urged by those at the university to audition for John Me- Cormack, Father MacEwan met two people that were to greatly influence hi* future. Not only did he form a lifelong friendship with McCortnick aD a result, but he alto met at their home a young priest by the name of Father Fulton J. Sheen. Winning a scholarship, he studied at the Royal Academy and it was during his student days that he began making' recordings. To date more than a million of his records have been sold under various labels. At the height of his career and while yet the idol of London, Father MacEwan decided the "glitter of the world was a dreadful life" and decided to study for the priesthood.At home in his parish in Lochgilpead, life is quiet but busy. There is only one school in that area and Father takes all the children of the parish for instruction each morning before they go to regular classes. FATHER MacEWAN Four Colleges Get Increase For 1955-56 Those 594 freshmen you've been seeing this week sporting "dinks" and dog tags have brought the University's enrollment figure to 2569. The college of arts and sciences shows the biggest increase as compared with last year's statistics, having swelled its enrollment from 936 to 982, the freshmen accounting for 330 of that number. Close behind A&S is the college of business administration which boasts an increase of 41 students over last year's enrollment. Of the 330 BA students now enrolled, 124 are frosh. Also showing an increase in registration are the graduate division with 109 students (16 more than last year), and the school of law with 153 (12 more). Sixty-eight of the letter's figure are entering their first year of law. Of the 209 student* in the school of dentistry, 54 are freshmen. Six freshmen have entered the college of pharmacy, bringing its total figure to 73. The college of music's enrollment numbers 54, 12 of which are freshmen. Enrollment in the evening division numbers 659. Orientation for the freshmen was conducted September 8-14. In addition to taking placement tests and registering, the freshmen were addressed by several deans and department heads of the University. Representatives from campus organizations gave brief talks on the history of their respective groups. Lambda Sigma Lambda and Alpha Pi Omicron, service groups, took the freshmen on a tour of the campus, after which Cardinal Key, national honor sorority, entertained the coeds at a party in the Student Lounge. Add Staffers To ROTC Unit Loyola's ROTC unit has added a new officer and a sergeant to replace staff members transferred after the spring semester, and is expecting another officer shortly, Lt. Col. Luther C. Barth, PMS&T, announced. Capt. Thomas C. Oberst replaces Major Robert C. Goggans, now transferred to the Provost Marshall School at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Capt. Oberst, a 1949 West Point graduate, has served previously in the Canal Zone and at Fort Knox, where he was in an advanced class in the Armored Division.The other officer to be added will replace Major Robert J. Kriwanek, also at Camp Gordon. The sergeant appointee, SFC. Joseph H. Geraci of New Orleans, is a graduate of Peters High here. Entering the Army in 1947, he has served with the Counter-intelligence Corps at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, at Guam, at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and Korea. He attended Korean Linguist School in Monterey, California, and spent his time in Korea as an interpreter. Immediately before coming to Loyola, he was stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex. Loyola's unit, converted last year from the. Military Police Corps to Branch General, has completed its first year of the Military Science and Tactics Course. Col. Barth expressed satisfaction with last year's progress, and hopes for an even better showing this year. Loyola now has officers representing all Army combat branches in keeping with the Branch General program designed to equip the graduates for duty in any combat arm or service element of the Army. (See FR. FRANCIS, page 2)
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Kazakstan (Global launch)
Date: 5 May 2011
The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific will be released in Astana, Kazakhstan, by H.E. Mr. Karim Massimov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and by Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP.
Country briefing note <download pdf file>
A robust economic recovery in 2010
• After a modest 1.2% growth in 2009, the economy expanded by a robust 7% in 2010.
• Strong government response was vital in stabilizing the banking sector and turning the economy around.
• Recovery in global demand for oil and other mineral products was reflected in the strong performance of industrial production, which expanded by nearly 10% in 2010. Manufacturing output increased by some 20% and the mining sector by 5.5%.
• The agricultural sector, however, contracted significantly, as grain harvests were badly affected by severe droughts.
• Domestic demand and the labour market continued to improve through the year. Unemployment rate fell to 5.5% by December 2010, down from 7% in January 2009.
• Business conditions also continued to improve. Kazakhstan moved up 15 places in the World Bank's Doing Business 2011 ranking, owing to better measures for starting a business, protecting investors and trading across borders.
Inflation is on the rise, however, driven by higher food prices
• Average annual inflation was at 7.1% in 2010, within the central bank's target range of 6~8%. Inflation has exceeded 8% since January this year, as global food prices continue to rise rapidly and as the country is still recovering from the severe droughts of last year.
• In an effort to stabilize food prices, the Government introduced price ceilings for essential food items in February.
• The central bank also raised the refinancing rate by 50 basis points in March, after keeping it low for 18 months. To support the economy during the financial crisis, the central bank had lowered the refinancing rate and reserve requirements in 2009, and this accommodative monetary policy was maintained through 2010. The recent tightening came as inflationary pressure increased in recent months.
Active fiscal policy continues on the back of strong revenues
• Government budget deficit fell to 2.6% of GDP in 2010, with tax revenue growing faster than expenditure. Higher oil prices and some 20% increase in export duty as well as recovery in domestic economic activity all contributed to boosting revenues.
• The Government continues to support the economy, including through higher social spending. The budget for fiscal year 2011 was recently revised, reflecting higher revenue and expenditure targets.
• The Government in 2010 initiated a five-year Industrial and Innovative Development Programme, designed to improve the diversity and competitiveness of the economy. Under this programme, greater investment in infrastructure and labour training for enhanced productivity are envisioned.
Strong growth in trade and a stable exchange rate have supported the economy
• The current account balance returned to a surplus of 4.5% of GDP in 2010, from a deficit previous year. This was led by a large trade surplus on the back of strong global demand for the country's oil exports.
• Tenge, the national currency, was devalued in early 2009 amidst the financial crisis. As the economy began to recover, the authorities widened the currency trading band in early 2010 to avoid sharp currency appreciation that could hurt the recovery. Such measures helped the exchange rate to remain stable through the year.
• In recent months, higher oil prices have led to greater currency appreciation, but the authorities are committed to avoiding sharp appreciation, so as to keep the economy competitive, including in the non-oil sector. To this end, the central bank recently introduced a managed float in place of the existing trading band.
• Gross international reserves climbed to $28.3 billion and assets of the National Fund (the sovereign oil wealth fund) rose to $30.6 billion by the end of 2010.
Future outlook and policy challenges
• Owing to a favourable external environment and sound fiscal and monetary policies, the economy is expected to expand by 6.2% 2011.
• In the medium term, steady efforts to diversify the economy and pursue a more inclusive development path will be important.
• Trade and energy cooperation with the major regional economies will become more prominent in the coming years. A customs union with the Russian Federation and Belarus was established in January 2010, leading to removal of most duties on trade among members and adoption of common external tariffs. Customs clearance and control procedures at the Kazak-Russian border will be abolished this year. Exports to China and India are also expected to increase, as the country remains the world's largest uranium producer and its oil production capacity is set to increase further.
• Connectivity within the country is also expected to improve. A new high-speed rail link between Astana and Almaty is being discussed in collaboration with China , and will cut travel time to four hours once completed.
• Improved regulation of the banking sector and maintenance of financial stability will continue to be important. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, a number of Kazakh banks had to be nationalized due to high external debt and go through restructuring. Economic recovery and continued reform of the financial sector has led to greater operational efficiency of the banking sector, but continued progress is needed in addressing the high level of non-performing loans.


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81 comments:
- BJ said...
Wow. That was wonderful.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- solas said...
Does anyone know if this was considered for the soundtrack where Bella goes through the seasons in retreat and despair--rather than the song 'Tell me when my heart stops' ?
- January 11, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- BJ said...
Oh, I agree, this one would have been soooo much better!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Kate said...
Ok after reading the tags I'm not gonna look at this now. I'm not crying today, I've done enough of that in the last while. I'll watch it another day but from the sounds of it it's a good vid! :-)
- January 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- alex said...
wow, very very very well done. beautiful, touching and heartbreaking, just like New Moon.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Butterfly said...
Truly touching... I really cried...
I've loved this song since forever. It's so emotional and beautiful. And it goes really well with the sad parts of Edward and Bella's story. Great work!
Thanks for posting it! - January 11, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- Gwen Cooper 426 said...
Sniffle. Need a tissue! Such a beautiful video---and the singer is perfect. Always loved this song too. Wow, goosebumps here too, Goz!
Mean Edward. Boys are mean. Just want to give Bella a hug now.
; ) - January 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- ADM said...
Wow! So well done and moving.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Izzy said...
Oh my gosh! What a powerful video. Tingles and tears. It made me see Kristen in a whole new light though. Really well done!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Gözde said...
I downloaded the song and I'm playing it on repeat! AMAZING. I wish it was on the New Moon soundtrack...
Still have goosebumps all over... - January 11, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- sissidelyon said...
I have goosebumps too...This was beautiful and really moving.
I used to listen to this song by Roxette a few years ago when my "edward" left me... Turned out to be my best friend a few years later but it hurt and sometimes my heart remembers....
This was beautiful... - January 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Wen said...
This was stunning!!!! This is an old Roxette song but beautifully done by the singer on this video, very emotionally charged!!!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- solas said...
Tears are still on my cheeks and it's been a half hour. :-( I've never heard this song before; am wondering if it is old and therefore not considered for the soundtrack.
BTW Gozde--how goes it for the interviews? May much success come your way! - January 11, 2010 at 10:33 AM
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- January 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- sissidelyon said...
The original of this song was from Roxette and it was on Pretty Woman"s soundtrack (1990) twenty years ago I think, so it's old... really old... LOL...
- January 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- skorpia said...
Thats the song off of Pretty Woman. Every womans heartbreak anthem. I sang this song after I broke up with ALL my boyfriends. then I sang "Hit me with your Best Shot!" by Pat Benatar. or "Bump and Grind" by R kelly.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- OhMyEdward said...
Powerful Vid. Thanks for posting.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Gözde said...
Thank You Solas :) I got a call back from one of the interviews. I'm going on Wednesday, so keep me in your prayers :)
And yes, the original is by Roxette but this version is just so haunting! I love it!
Who can forget Julia Roberts in the limo on her way to the airport, Roxette playing on the background? - January 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- solas said...
Ahh, ok--thanks. I guess that imght explain why they did not use it even though it fits so beautifully; they wanted all new music for the New Moon soundtrack.
I don't think I was listening to music or watching movies in that time period (1990). And I don't like Julia Roberts at all, and don't like the movie premise/description either, so I haven't seen Pretty Woman. - January 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Haystackhair said...
sigh. can't see from work, unless there is a myspace version or a .wmv somewhere. Just have to wait to get home. Of course, I would much rather cry at home than work. LOL.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Gözde said...
CHAGRIN! Solas! You have to see Pretty Woman! I can't believe it. It's a pop culture must and it's so romantic!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- solas said...
That worth it? I really cannot stand Julia Roberts. But Richard Gere is cute. Maybe I will put it on the list.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- solas said...
How do you download the song? I would like to have this on my computer if possible.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- keely said...
@Kate: Hope you´re feeling better soon, love!!!!
This is one of my favourites songs since I was a teenager! Thanks for posting it, Goz! it was unbelivable beautiful! *Sigh*
@Goz: will keep my fingers crossed as well :-) - January 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- sissidelyon said...
Haven't see PRETTY WOMAN? OMG... This is a must-have-seen movie.
Julia Roberts was beautiful in it and it's funny, moving...
I hate Richard Gere but the movie is nice... really nice! - January 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- keely said...
"...I hate Richard Gere but the movie is nice... really nice!"
LOL I loved him in that movie. - January 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- solas said...
Siss--I didn't see ANY movies in the theatre, except for Raiders of the Lost Ark and old Disney movies that were playing again, from about 1980-1992, and even after that not much. Once I got a VCR I did see some things I missed, just not Pretty Woman. My big sisters loved it, but then they love Julia Roberts.
Gozde--surely you know by now that I am not in the pop culture! ;-) - January 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- marina mia said...
oh wow. That was breathtaking and so sad. And what a beautiful version of the song. I feel a little heartbroken too now.
- January 11, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- marcyjmccormack said...
It was amazing...I also tried to find a copy of the song originally done by Roxette - she did an amzing job. Thank you from a 38 year old obsessed fan...
- January 11, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Maryann said...
Wow..this makes me proud of Maria Mena, she actually turned a Roxette classic around and made it her OWN. She is from Norway and very talented...she has her own site http://mariamena.blogg.no/ and info about her on Wikipedia too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mena
I do believe she is on twitter too but cannot be 100% sure http://twitter.com/MariaMena
And no, I am not like a diehard fan or run her fanclub LMAO, I googled her..just proud of ppl liking a Norwegian singer that's all lol.
I LOVE her version of It Must Have Been love and the fanmade video was stunning! - January 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Teri said...
OMG Gozde you are killing me today. I am sobbing. I loved this song, and this version of it is heartbreaking.
This video was well done and beautifully edited. Jordana has some crazy skills. - January 11, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Gwen Cooper 426 said...
Tried to find this song to download. Couldn't find Maria's version of it (on mp3) but there are other covers at Amazon, including Roxette:
Sorry for the long link; but I was there anyway. ; ) Sigh. Really like Maria's version!!! - January 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Spidermonkey said...
I watched it- I cried- it's very, very beautiful!!
- January 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM
- angie-k said...
thank you for posting this. loving this site more and more every day.
liked the roxette version, but really love this one. so much more haunting. so beautifully sad. - January 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- vafla89 said...
Oh Gozde you're killing me... I can't stop crying!
I downloaded the song and I listen to it again and again but I can't watch the video another time.. it's too emotional..
I like this version much more than Roxette's. The lyrics are so sad and this version makes it more "real". Maria Mena put a lot of emotion into this song! - January 11, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- angie-k said...
where is the download for this version?
- January 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM
- sarah said...
Omg!! I started to cry so I like fast forwarded it!! Haha!
- January 11, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Loisada said...
If... and only IF.... you want to just go ahead and launch into a crying jag and get all that pent up sorrow out, here's Mena again backing Rachel and Ross. Even if you're not a big Friends fan, this will pull your heart strings...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcyIHLMhU8 - January 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Jules said...
Loisada - I should have heeded your warning. Awwww Ross and Rach.
Thanks for the memories :) - January 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- Pet73 said...
WOW, that was great and sad and really, really beautiful!
They actually should hire some of the fans for completing the remaining movi(es)! Ask a fan and it def. will turn out right! - January 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Loisada said...
Can't get this off my mind now! The break-up story and this song struck strong chords with so many women.
Here's another E&B vid with same song.... with wonderful shot choices and absolutely heart-wrenching sequences.
Thanks to all the video makers for sharing their EB love and talents! - January 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- AP said...
Very well put together - I don't think it even needs the titles. Yes, thank you for sharing.
- January 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- rpattzgirl said...
Very moving and Maria really captured the beauty!
Thank gawd it's not really over!!!
Break ups suck :( - January 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- ana said...
thanks godze! this video is amazing and the music beautiful, i downloaded the song too!
@gwen: if you want i can send you the music (maria's version), give me your e-mail ;)
kiss - January 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM
- Gwen Cooper 426 said...
@ana, yes please!!! firstname.lastname@example.com Thanks bunches!
- January 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- rpattzgirl said...
Thanks for the Ross & Rachel vid....ahhh I miss them! - January 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- ana said...
@ gwen: your welcome! ;)
i already have sent, i tried to find your mail through the i profile.
you've received?
kiss - January 11, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- rpattzgirl said...
***hugs to you*** - January 11, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Gwen Cooper 426 said...
@ana, thank you! Got it---and it's on repeat right now! ; ) Definitely have to get more of Maria's music. Her voice is incredible!
@Goz, adore the vid/music! But, please, tissue warning next time! LOL.
Sad Bella breaks my heart... Stupid, mean, sparkly, hot vampire. - January 11, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- solas said...
If anyone can send, please do.
thanks. :-) - January 11, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Me - The Head Zookeeper said...
Wow... I am speechless! That has to be the best video I have seen yet! Thanks for sharing. Wow... I still have goosebumps.
- January 11, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- ana said...
@solas: i already sent it!
you've received?
kiss - January 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- d67 said...
That was heartbreaking...so well done....and what a great version of that song.....BEAUTIFUL...
- January 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- twistar said...
Goosebumps .... yea ....
OMG That was so intense - January 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- angie-k said...
is there a link for this song to download?
would someone please post it?
if not, would someone please share it?
thank you! - January 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- LeslieHeartsRob said...
That was so beautiful and haunting at the same time!!
Thanks Gozde!!! And I hope everything goes good on Wednesday!! - January 11, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Sparkledazed said...
awww, poor Bella (and poor Edward too). So heartbreaking. Very nicely done Jordana, thank you. A fav song from the NM soundtrack, Roslyn, would be great for a video. It has such an ethereal sound & plucks at my heartstrings whenever I listen to it. Unearthly and sad.
- January 11, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Ellie said...
Wow, this was beautiful. Such emotion.
Thanks, Goz. xo - January 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM
- RPlover said...
thank you for posting, that's an amazing video.
Gozde, so happy for you about your interview! =)
Kate, ((hugs)) hope all is well! - January 11, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- angie-k said...
ana - got it! thank you so much for sharing.
so beautiful.
:-) - January 11, 2010 at 3:48 PM
- amazeofgrace said...
holy crap! that was so so so good!
- January 11, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Laurie said...
So, why wasn't this used on the New Moon soundtrack? Old, Pfffffft. It fits perfectly. Lovely. Thanks.
My prayers and hugs to both Goz and Kate. - January 11, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- JBO said...
This is awesome. Can anyone send me the link to the song verison Maria sings?
email@example.com - January 11, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- Fandamonium said...
So, this 3 minute video was more sad than the actual movie. They should have done something like this in the movie to make his departure more touching. I didn't cry during the movie.
- January 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- twifancgs said...
It is beautiful! Loved the singing.
- January 11, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- Aujouret said...
Too sad. Where are the tissues?
- January 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Me - The Head Zookeeper said...
Can someone please send me Maria's version of this song? It would make my bad day today not so bad :(
My email is email@example.com - January 11, 2010 at 8:05 PM
- Tess said...
Beautiful rendition of this song... beautiful video.
One of my favourite things about seeing the saga translated to film is how much it inspires people to tap into their creativity. it's amazing. - January 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM
- L said...
Thank you for sharing that beautiful video and song - I really enjoyed it!
Maria Mena (didn't know who she was before but now I do) has a beautiful voice! :)
Loved it! - January 11, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Gwen Cooper 426 said...
@Me-Zookeeper, check your email! ; )
- January 11, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- jlsentangledweb said...
That was incredibly moving and so beautiful.
- January 11, 2010 at 9:38 PM
- Briana said...
oh my god. That was put together so well! i love it! i mean perfection!
- January 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM
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- January 11, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- lallieb said...
@solas, did you not like that song in the soundtrack? I love it, and think it so invokes what she is feeling, I get emotional every time I hear it, painful but so appropriate.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM
- lallieb said...
P.S. This song would have worked. It is heart wrenching.
- January 11, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- Heidi said...
Thanks for posting Gozde! She does such an amazing job with her videos-very talented! Here's the link to another awesome Twilight video she made:
And her version of the RM trailer:
So wonderful...beyond words. - January 11, 2010 at 10:32 PM
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- January 12, 2010 at 1:00 AM
- cyloverob said...
Wow. Beautiful and heartbreaking!!
- January 12, 2010 at 1:25 AM
- ♥ROBSTEN♥ said...
Very touching... I like how Maria Mena re-made this song. You can really feel the heart break. =(
- January 12, 2010 at 2:33 AM
- marcyjmccormack said...
@anna please send it to me also...I spent the entire morning trying to find a download version.
Thank you so much
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Just curious, does Linus speak Finnish fluently? Yes, I know he's from Finland, but (1) his lineage is amongst the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, and (2) Swedish and Finnish are vastly different languages (Swedish being a Germanic language and Finnish being a Uralic language).
Linus' second quote (somewhat off-topic)
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Posted Apr 19, 2009 0:04 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
Yeah, I also thought that question wasn't really a bright one.
Go ahead and criticize my comment—I really don't care.
But, (1) I did qualify the original question with the word fluently, (2) it's not unreasonable to assume that Linus spoke Swedish much more than any other language (including Finnish) while growing up and around family (I may be wrong here), and (3) as an American, I can think of several other Americans who can't speak English worth crap. (Of course, that only reflects badly on Americans and not other countries, like Scandinavia, where literacy and multi-lingual fluency rates are amongst the highest in the world.)
I thought it was a decent question, even if it did have a hint of rhetoric.
Posted Apr 19, 2009 0:44 UTC (Sun) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]
No matter what language he spoke at home, he would have picked up the dominant language of his society at a fluent level as a child; the only real question was that of demographics.
Posted Apr 19, 2009 2:18 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
The question showed a basic failure of linguistics.
I don't see where a failure of linguistics occurred here. My question was about Linus' ability to speak Finnish, a language far removed from the (otherwise) commonality of Norwegian/Swedish/Danish spoken in the rest of Scandinavia (excluding Iceland, of course), and the fact that most formal services (i.e. government and public services) of European countries cater to the language abilities of non-native speakers of the dominant language in other countries (substantially more so than here in the U.S.A.).
But, I'm certain it's a moot point as Linus is fluent in English nowadays.
Posted Apr 19, 2009 2:24 UTC (Sun) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]
Posted Apr 23, 2009 8:19 UTC (Thu) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]
That'll quash those people who want to find out more! Nice one. God forbid the internet become a place of well mannered idea and information exchange. After all, if you don't already know something, why find out?
For the record (and without the sarcasm), both his point and curiosity were perfectly valid, the failure here was yours.
Posted May 4, 2009 20:15 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
I admit it would be difficult in Helsinki but I would not be surprised if it could happen in Åland. I know people from Jakobsdal who speak no Finnish.
I don't know how well versed the person you replied to is in Finnish culture but there is no reason for the condescending attitude. I would imagine you could grow up in Greenland without learning Danish, for example. There are definitively Vallonian francophones who never learned Flemish.
Those are all north European examples, don't get me started on Africa or China. It should be obvious that this has nothing to do with intellectual prowess. The question was not stupid at all.
Posted Apr 26, 2009 0:19 UTC (Sun) by cras (guest, #7000) [Link]
So no one in this thread has read the "Just for fun" book about Linus? I can't remember it clearly anymore, but I remember he learned Finnish pretty late in his life. His friends were all speaking Swedish.
I saw him talk about 10 years ago and his Finnish was okay. No idea what it's like today.
Posted Apr 23, 2009 14:20 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]
There are Swedish-speaking people in Finland that don't speak Finnish particularly well, but they tend to live in the rural areas along the western coast or in the southwestern archipelago. Among the older population there, you might even find monoglots.
However, for someone grown up in and studied at uni in a city like Helsinki where 95 % of the population normally speaks Finnish, like Linus did, it's just inconceivable to not speak Finnish.
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Salinas, Luis Omar
Luis Omar Salinas 1937–
American poet and editor.
The following entry provides an overview of Salinas's career through 1988.
Salinas is generally regarded as a distinguished figure in contemporary Chicano poetry. Described by critics as highly creative and evocative, his verse frequently employs surrealistic images and metaphors, and discusses such traditional themes as alienation, loneliness, death, and honor. As noted Chicano poet Gary Soto has written, "Salinas possesses a powerful imagination, a sensitivity toward the world, and an intuitive feel for handling language."
Biographical Information
Born in Robstown, Texas, Salinas emigrated with his family to Mexico at the age of three, and shortly after their arrival Salinas's mother died of tuberculosis. Salinas's father returned to Robstown and, saddled with bills related to his wife's sickness and death, sent his children to live with relatives who soon adopted them. Separated from his father and his younger sister, Salinas and his new family eventually moved to California. An excellent student—he learned to read and write at an early age—Salinas was fluent in English and became avidly interested in the adventure stories of American novelist Jack London. In high school, he became a practicing Catholic and was active in athletics. Serving in the United States Marines Reserves and attending Bakersfield City College, Salinas eventually reunited with his father and settled in Los Angeles. Beginning in 1958, he attended California State College, studying history, drama, and literature, but working full-time and attending college part-time proved too much for him and he soon suffered a mental breakdown. Diagnosed as schizophrenic—it has since been determined that he is manic-depressive—he was hospitalized for eleven months, during which time he attempted suicide; Salinas has noted that it was around this time that he also began writing poetry. Continuing to receive medical supervision, he returned to his studies in 1963, enrolling first at East Los Angeles Community College and, the following year, at California State University, Los Angeles. Coping with mental illness and the demands of various odd jobs, Salinas was hardly a model student and frequently missed or dropped out of classes. Inspired by the work of the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, however, he eventually took a creative writing class taught by Henri Coulette. Relocating to the agricultural Fresno Valley with his father, Salinas began classes at Fresno State where he suffered additional nervous breakdowns. Despite the pressures of a workshop atmosphere, Salinas took several writing class-es, working under the direction of such renowned American poets as Philip Levine and Peter Everwine. At Fresno, Salinas was also asked to teach in the Ethnic Studies Department. That same year he published Crazy Gypsy (1970), a collection of verse that largely explores the painful sense of alienation and loneliness resulting from the death of a mother. Although Crazy Gypsy was rushed into production—early editions are full of spelling and grammatical errors—the volume was a commercial and critical success. Nevertheless, Salinas waited ten years to publish his second volume of verse, Afternoon of the Unreal (1980). He has since released Prelude to Darkness (1981), Darkness under the Trees/Walking behind the Spanish (1982), and The Sadness of Days (1987). He was awarded the Stanley Kunitz Award from Columbia Magazine in 1980 and continues to write and publish extensively in journals and anthologies. He is also the coeditor of From the Barrio (1973), an anthology of Chicano writings. A new collection of work, tentatively titled Sometime Mysteriously, awaits publication.
Major Works
Alternately characterized as romantic, political, dark, and brooding, Salinas's poetry addresses the chaotic nature of human existence or, as he puts it, "the strange fullness of the unreal." Replete with unusual and fascinating imagery similar to the surrealist poetry of Federico García Lorca, Míguel Hernández, César Vallejo, and Pablo Neruda, Salinas's verse—which is often marked by ambiguity and disjointed sentence structure—is considered both highly emotive and striking. For example, in "Sunday … Dig the Empty Sounds" from Crazy Gypsy, a frantic youngster searches for his mother amidst an array of such frightening symbols as "the blood of children and the clouds with mouths." Much of Salinas's poetry is distinguished by this focus on alienation and abandonment—feelings he associated with the death of his mother and his separation from his sister and father. For instance, in "Poem for Olivia," a piece dedicated to his mother that appears in Afternoon of the Unreal, he writes: "I didn't come to this world / to be frightened / yet your death sticks / in my stomach / and I must clean the kitchen / with my hands / and I wander on / into the night of leavened bread / and pursue truth / like a tube needing air." Salinas also explores the pain of unrequited love in such collections as Prelude to Darkness and Darkness under the Trees/Walking behind the Spanish. The latter, which is comprised of two separate collections, contains new and old work. In the first part of the volume, his focus is largely autobiographical and emphasizes such themes as love, insanity, and loneliness. The second portion of the book is more political in nature, honoring, in part, poets and anti-Fascist revolutionaries who were active in the Spanish Civil War. Politics is likewise central to several of the pieces in Crazy Gypsy—which includes protest chants Salinas wrote while at Fresno State and poems about Vietnam and the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara—and to The Sadness of Days, which is also known for its focus on philosophical issues. In one poem from The Sadness of Days, he offers an analysis of the work of photographer Ansel Adams: "Grandeur is always the subject: shards / of sunlight splitting clouds; rubble of lost / boulders under a heaven of cliff face and cumuli; / a tiny cemetery—crosses like picket fences—/ near the ghostly town under the mountains / flooding with white, the moon above / like some Platonic ideal."
Critical Reception
Although Salinas's work has been well-received, it has engendered minimal critical commentary. Following the publication of Crazy Gypsy, reviewers initially focused on the social message of Salinas's poetry, largely ignoring its surrealist dimensions and influences. As Eliezar Risco Lozada and Guillermo Martinez wrote in the introduction to Crazy Gypsy: "There is a degree of surrealism in Omar's highly personalized juxtaposition of images. But we can't allow that superficial surrealism to distract us from the deeper reality of the poems." In recent years, however, scholars have asserted that the form and content of Salinas's work are inseparable, arguing that the poetry's distinctive features—economy of expression, syntactical ambiguity, and ingenious placement of symbols—have a specific thematic function. While some have faulted his verse as ungrammatical and poorly crafted, most have agreed that Salinas succeeds in creating a poetry that simultaneously defines and preserves the Chicano experience within an Anglo-American culture. Salinas, for his part, has stated that although his poetry contains abstract elements, his work remains grounded in the reality of the human condition, his family history, and his Chicano ancestry.
Principal Works
Crazy Gypsy (poetry) 1970
From the Barrio: A Chicano Anthology [editor, with Lillian Faderman] (anthology) 1973
I Go Dreaming Serenades (poetry) 1979
Afternoon of the Unreal (poetry) 1980
Prelude to Darkness (poetry) 1981
Darkness under the Trees/Walking behind the Spanish (poetry) 1982
The Sadness of Days: Selected and New Poems (poetry) 1987
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SOURCE: An introduction to Crazy Gypsy, Origenes Publication, 1970, pp. 7-11.
[In the following essay, Risco Lozada and Martinez note thematic and stylistic aspects of Salinas's work, including an emphasis on surrealism, women, loneliness, and Chicano identity.]
Omar is the Crazy Gypsy. Omar is the whistler of tunes. Omar is the dreamer of stoics, of nightingales, of moons, of bellies, of stars, and of death. Omar is the poet of somnambular beginnings … amazed by his own trickery at finding the right words to say to the virgin. Omar is the claimer of bodies … undertaker of America. Omar is the son of Aram the happy money man. Omar is the repairman of corazones. Who is Omar?
For those who know Omar, he is a man without guile, drinking companion, listener of Mexican discos, tripster, friend … But, who is that other (and the same) Omar who comes alive in the "I" of these poems?
The Omar of these poems [in Crazy Gypsy] is, first of all, lonely. Lonely, with an abysmal loneliness not bound by psychological theories. The loneliness of Omar is a deep, metaphysical loneliness. It is the loneliness of one who translates into cosmic and universal terms the existential despair of the Chicano in the southwest. Like Omar says, "a distinct passenger in who knows what train."
Omar, the persona in these poems, was born in Robstown. Where is Robstown?...
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SOURCE: A review of Crazy Gypsy, in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1980, pp. 229-34.
[A distinguished Chicano poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, and educator, Soto was the editor of Salinas's 1987 The Sadness of Days. In the review below, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Crazy Gypsy.]
I remember reading somewhere that happy literature has no history; it has no place among serious letters. As a child moves toward maturity, begins to see and feel the world as if for the first time, he throws aside the happy literature—comic books and adventure novels—and turns to the shelf where lie the works of Flaubert, Cervantes, Anderson…. Through literature he learns to weep for everything beautifully temporary, and learns that everywhere there is a potential threat, that cat with dirty claws, those cars speeding through red lights, and even your own mother cutting meat with an unwashed knife. He learns through literature, if he is sensitive and keen-minded, to see the world in a different light and at a different angle.
Crazy Gypsy by Luis Omar Salinas is a serious book, a collection of poems by a Chicano who speaks privately of what it is to be a man wind-blown in a rush of experience. The book wears several masks—the romantic, the political, and most visibly, that of loneliness. When reading these poems I ask myself how a man,...
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SOURCE: A chapter in Partial Autobiographies: Interviews with Twenty Chicano Poets, edited by Wolfgang Binder, Palm & Enke, 1985, pp. 147-49.
[In the following essay, originally composed in 1982, Salinas discusses his life, his literary influences, and poetry writing.]
I was born June 27th, 1937, in a small town by the name of Robstown, Texas. Christened and baptized in the Catholic Church Luis Omar Salinas. The son of Rosendo Valdez Salinas and Olivia Treviño Salinas. My father was born in the States and my mother in Paraz, Mexico. Before I was age four my mother died of tuberculosis, and I have vague recollections of her. My father worked in farms. At age four I was legally adopted by my uncle and aunt, Alfredo C. Salinas and Oralia Campos Alvarado Salinas. My second father was a clerk in a clothing store and my second mother a housewife. I gained entrance into a lower middle-class family having been born into the peasantry. At age three I lived in Mexico with my sister Irma [who is] a year younger than I [with] my father and mother. My most terrible memory of my childhood was there in Monterrey where we lived next to a madhouse. The screams and strange behavior baffled and scared me. My father had a small business there, and survival was uppermost in our mind then. In the poem "Mexico Age Four" I describe that experience. This experience made a lasting impression on me. I could not understand why...
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SOURCE: "Luis Omar Salinas: Chicano Poet," in MELUS, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer, 1982, pp. 47-82.
[In the following excerpt, in part based on interviews conducted with Salinas and his teachers and publishers, Soto examines various poems from Salinas's oeuvre, noting their underlying melancholy and incorporation of surrealistic imagery and political concerns. Much of the unexcerpted portion of the essay provides a biographical overview of Salinas's life, particularly his childhood, adolescence, and college years.]
Crazy Gypsy is an uneven book of 39 poems, some of which are ungrammatical, scattered in thought, and poorly crafted, while others are a bit silly, as the poem "Ass" illustrates:
I thought
myself a prince
rode horseback
beside a river
and fell on my ass
Walked beside her ladyship
and fell on my ass
the kingdom is talking
my kingdom
Salinas fell on his ass
on the way to mass
The book was so rushed into production that no one person had...
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SOURCE: An interview in Northwest Review, Vol. 20, Nos. 2 & 3, 1982, pp. 238-41.
[In the interview below, Salinas relates his interest in death and its import in his poetry as well as his literary influences.]
"Many Things of Death"
Death today
of apples
worms chewing
their gums
a child with mud
on his hands
today it has
the mouth of an insect
crawling through
the avenues
it has the nightmares
of fish
on rain
it has the footsteps
of a gardener
wanting to murder
a chair
it has nonsense
in its eyes
a dog barking
at a cloud
a woman opening
an awkward door
it has the stubbornness
of an owl hatching
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SOURCE: A review of Darkness Under the Trees, in Northwest Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1983, pp. 150-51.
[In the review below, Addiego commends Salinas's Darkness under the Trees, observing that his verse has a dark, brooding quality typically associated with Spanish literature.]
There's a fierce humor in the personal cosmos Salinas creates in his new book, Darkness Under the Trees: Walking Behind the Spanish. Beneath the humor a compassionate, lonely person is looking squarely at death; the grotesque characters (polite hunchbacks, pregnant barmaids, mad people) are compared to the speaker, whose tonal leaps from the supplicant to the bawdy make him seem equally absurd, and equally genuine:
Evening becomes evening,
and I'm not letting up, God.
I'm still sleeping
with my neighbor's wife
on Sundays—
and sometimes drive nails
into flowers out of boredom
and bump into beggars
when morning goes dead.
This is the voice of someone who doesn't fit easily into society, a person who sympathizes with those who live alone and those on society's fringes. The speaker seems to be drifting outside of time and culture, and his...
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SOURCE: A review of The Sadness of Days: Selected and New Poems, in Western American Literature, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, May, 1988, p. 91.
[In the review below, Wright examines the evocative power of The Sadness of Days.]
The poems in The Sadness of Days are not for the faint of heart. Full of anger, blood, spittle, and venom, these poems speak of the clashes of the world: between young and old, between rich and poor, between educated and uneducated, between living and dead. Luis Omar Salinas's poetic voice expresses itself in the language of darkness. Consider these poems as examples: "Prelude to Darkness," "As Evening Lays Dying," "Darkness Under the Trees," "I Live Among the Shadows," "It Will be Darkness Soon," and "In the Thick of Darkness." Don't look in this book for "have a nice day" sentiment. What you'll find in these pages is raw, unpolished, angry, and confused emotion.
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SOURCE: "Voices of Sadness & Science," in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, July-August, 1988, p. 21.
[In the following, Soto offers a generally favorable assessment of The Sadness of Days.]
The Chicano protest poets of the sixties and early seventies have put down their pens and have gone into real estate or, if they haven't gone off to make a living, to raise a family, to do the best they can, then they have continued to write just as loudly but with fewer willing listeners. In their place, a number of literate poets have surfaced who speak more quietly, but just as urgently, and with a greater expanse of ideas—poets like Alberto Rios, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Juan Felipe Herrera, Ray Gonzalez, and Cherrie Moraga. It's not that their work is void of political commentary (at times the work is political), but they are far more passionate about their feelings, more faithful to their ideas, and more exploratory for themes.
Luis Omar Salinas, probably the most highly respected Chicano poet writing today, was one of those protest poets who managed to write poetry that was political yet artful—not sloppy ramblings. And now we have his major effort, The Sadness of Days: Selected and New Poems, a generous collection from five previous books, the earliest being Crazy Gypsy (1978).
Salinas is a poet who wears the coat of Don...
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Further Reading
Review of From the Barrio: A Chicano Anthology, edited by Luis Omar Salinas and Lillian Faderman. Choice 10, No. 9 (November 1973): 1377.
Praises the editors for including mostly new work in From the Barrio, arguing that this "book will best be put to use as a reader for the general public."
de Ortego y Gasca, Felipe. "An Introduction to Chicano Poetry." In Modern Chicano Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Joseph Sommers and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, pp. 108-16. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.
General overview discussing thematic aspects and the origins of Chicano poetry. The critic briefly cites work by Salinas and others, including Ricardo Sánchez, Rodolfo Gonzales, and Abelardo Delgado.
McKesson, Norma Alarcón. Review of From the Barrio: A Chicano Anthology, edited by Luis Omar Salinas and Lillian Faderman. Revista Chicano-Riqueña 2, No. 2 (Spring 1974): 53-4.
Notes From the Barrio's value for both Chicano and non-Chicano readers, arguing that the volume is thematically characterized by a "strident identity crisis."
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Grammar Lessons
When working a cow, it's sometimes less threatening and more efficient to maneuver your horse's hindquarters toward the cow. To maneuver the hindquarters in a counter-clockwise motion, pick up your left rein and establish enough contact so that your horse acknowledges you by tipping his nose in the direction of the pressure. Use your right rein to ensure he doesn't overflex. Apply left leg pressure to your horse's side, while keeping your right leg away from his body so he can move in that direction. When he takes one step, allow him to rest and experience relief, so he learns to associate moving his hindquarters with relief. Then repeat, asking him to gradually take more steps. Reverse these cues to move his hindquarters in a clock-wise motion.