Wear Sunscreen is the common name of an essay, (actually called "ADVICE, LIKE YOUTH, PROBABLY JUST WASTED ON THE YOUNG " - The original column by Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune. June 1, 1997) written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single released in 1999, accredited to Baz Luhrmann.

Click here to read Mary Schmich's version of how her article was miscredited to Kurt Vonnegut via e-mail and became hugely popular. The song, on the CD Something for Everybody by Baz Luhrmann, is properly credited to Schmich.

"One of the most surreal singles in memory, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" has an even stranger story than you'd imagine: in 1998, a student lifted the text of an article columnist Mary Schmich had written for the Chicago Tribune and started sending it around the world, crediting it as a commencement speech given at MIT by Kurt Vonnegut. Film director Baz Luhrmann (who had taken a big part in designing the soundscapes of his films Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) got his hands on it just as he was working on a remix of Rozalla's 1992 dance hit "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)." Within a day, Luhrmann had hired a local actor to read the text, and a single was born. It's a wonderfully surreal pop-cultural moment on an album that strives for such things. Luhrmann's modus operandi involves the remixing and customizing of tracks until they have a fabulous sheen, and it owes a lot to the equally media-attuned Malcolm McLaren (and especially to McLaren's 1989 album Waltz Darling). Though he throws in a handful of time-tested songs (Doris Day's "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps," La Bohème's "Che Gelide Manina"), Something for Everybody is very much of a specific moment--and though the moment may pass, fans will enjoy revisiting it time and again." --Randy Silver

Wear Sunscreen was set to music, renamed Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) (aka The Sunscreen Song) and released on an album by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. The single was released by Luhrmann under the EMI Music Australia Pty. Ltd. label on the 1998 album Something for Everybody and on a 1999 single release.

Contrary to popular belief the essay is not read by Baz Luhrmann on the track; it is read by Australian voice actor Lee Perry. Quindon Tarver performs the lyrics on the chorus.
The song features a spoken-word track set over a mellow backing track. The song lyrics, which consist of a litany of humourous but practical advice, were drawn word for word from the Schmich column except for a date change from "'97" to "'99" - although an early version has been found with the original line of "Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97" still in place.

The supposed story behind the single was that Baz Luhrmann delivered a speech to a graduating class and it was thought that they were well spoken and sage enough to be played beyond those walls. When a radio station was propositioned to play the speech they turned it down saying that they only played songs with music behind them. The idea was put forward to accompany the words with music and once it began playing became more and more popular till it was officially released.

In the 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet directed by Luhrmann the melody of the backing track can be heard being sung by a choir.
In 1999 the song was a part of the end credits in John Swanbeck's movie The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Peter Facinelli.
The single's title is likely based on the song "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" which was released in 1991 by Rozalla.


Wear Sunscreen
(Mary Schmich)

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97

Wear sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.


Parody
The Baz Luhrmann song version inspired numerous parodies. John Safran released a song entitled "Not the Sunscreen Song". The musician and comedian Chris Rock enjoyed great success with his spoken word song "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)." Denis Leary performed a version called "Drink Beer". This version was also parodied in an episode of House of Mouse where Jimminy Cricket performed it.

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my friend dipen has sent it to me..

jo hota hai acche ke liye hota hai
jo hua acche ke liye hua
jo hoga woh bhi acche ke liye hoga
parivartan hi sansar ka niyam hai

means..

whatever happened in past happened for good
what is happening is for good
what will happen is gonna happen for good
change is the only permanent thing in this world

so..change your way to see life
and get living
doing the best you can
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good luck!
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.: do something! :.

looking to this pic..im thinking..how many children dont have a birthday party? well..im not beeing sappy saying that..but the fact is..we dont think abt others everyday..maybe sometimes..maybe once in a year

we can do many things abt others..and just write abt them and say how you are sad is not enough..and we all know that..right??

first you need to start in your own home..then with your neighboor..in your neighboorhood..city..state..country..well..you know what else

all this wars that we are seeing nowadays are just a signal that our civilization failed..just take a look in some pics of some miserable countries to see how happy you are..and how much u can do abt it

and if you dont know what to do..try to look for some organizations what take care of this..cause surelly..just words are not enough..and we need to be really brave to do like all those volunteers do even outside their countries

click on the tittle of this post and start to live the real life

happy birthday lil shining star :)

Eleven years ago I saw you for the first time..i couldnt believe that was me to give you life!..it was a miracle!!..finally i could see you..you were born with 56cm..and it was not a sacrifice cause im a big woman too :) .. premature..so fragile..at the beggining dad didnt want to be apart from you even a single second and he promised me that he wouldnt make any movement and beg me to let you sleep between us..i was so scared!! but..incredible x=o!! he woke up at the same position that he went to sleep x=p !!
i remember that i didnt sleep for 2 weeks..just looking at you to see if nothing would be wrong..and i did everything was possible to make your life so much better..but with time some problems started to happen and you were there always by my side..too young to understand but too iluminated to be there and take care of me when i thought that i was alone in this world..so young and so wise..

love you so much sweet princess..my lil shining star..happy birthday :)

hmm.. im wondering what was your secret wish before you blowing out the candles x=D

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I'm ready. Just waiting to you to open the gate. When may I get in?
Be patient. Your freedom is coming soon.
I'm tired. What if I break before you open it?
Don't worry. I will get you whatever happens.
I promised you since 4 years ago. Dont you remember this?
I never break my word.
What if I'm not fixed?
I accept you as you are.
You will be free and you will fly as I promised.
There is always a right time to things to happen.
But if you fall first, I will get you.

return to innocence

life never stops..and changes are always coming..like waves..sometimes bigger..sometimes smaller..but always diferent..and sometimes we need to describe it like trying to dont loose the moment..to make it printed in our story..even when we dont say anything abt it..it is there..in our memories..that's our necessity to organize life..even when we dont do that consciently our mind does it naturally

that's why at the last moments of our lives we remember all those moments..like in a flash..or one day..many years later..we remember something what happened in that same place..or in that same situation..but is not the same

just let it flows "not interfere with whats happening..nor we should try to change things..we should let things happen as they are, and not think over it..just enjoy each moment we are together..and not think much about them"

yeas..just let it flows..even if you are afraid to dont be able to catch the time in ur hands..cause time never stops..and it is always changing

and all those comfortable moments will pass..and others will come

an eternal cycle

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SYD BARRETT 1946-2006

Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett in an undated photo. Barrett has died aged 60, after living the life of a recluse for the last 30 years.

As a founder member of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett wrote songs at once wistful, surreal and quintessentially English. Barrett's increasingly erratic mental state led to him leaving the band in 1968.

A source close to the band, who did not want to be named, said Barrett died on Friday, 7th. Media reports say complications from diabetes were the cause.
Barrett's bizarre on-stage antics in the late 1960s were linked to his experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and he left the band in 1968.
The singer, songwriter and guitarist, who wrote the bulk of Pink Floyd's earliest music, has been credited with helping shape its progressive sound and influencing artists including David Bowie.
He wrote most of the songs on Pink Floyd's first album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", which was a hit in Britain, and also worked on "A Saucerful of Secrets", released in 1968.
Barrett issued his first solo album, "The Madcap Laughs", in 1970, with backing from members of Pink Floyd and Soft Machine, but his involvement in music had ended by the mid-1970s and he has lived the life of a recluse ever since.
Pink Floyd's 1975 track "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", from the album "Wish You Were Here", is widely believed to be a tribute to Barrett.

Introducing their classic song, Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters said: "This is for the people who can't be here - especially Syd." But the epic Shine On You Crazy Diamond, written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, will stand as his epitaph.

The tribute-song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is here..watch the video..at the end you can see the image of Syd Barrett in a big screen behind the band



And this is "Wish You Were Here"..my favorite i must say

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the best football player of the world!..ha!

..worried?! who?? me?!?

where'd you go? i miss u so....

ED INFINE L'ITALIA HA VINTO LA TAZZA!!!!

AND YOU KNOW WHAT? BRAZIL IS A PARTY NOW!!
CONGRATULATIONS ITALY!!
YOU REALLY ROCKED AT THIS CUP!!


LI AMIAMO L'ITALIA!!



f*** u france..hehehe X=P

where the hell is matt??

the matt video's song is Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest

"The lyrics come from Solomon Islands - small islands north of Australia). This is most likely a regional dialect based on english. You can recognizing some possessive french pronouns (Sa) as well as some future tense verbs (pandera)"

the lyrics are not funny as we can suppose to be watching matt's video..but..who is worried abt it? me neither!! ;)

to some "The song is about a girl trying to get her little brother to go to sleep by telling him that their parents won't return if he didn't."

in other sites they say that "The song is about a young child crying because he does not see his father with the family. In response his elder sister sung this song to comfort as well as tell him the reality, with an appeal for their deceased father to protect this child in the land of the living (local ancient belief is that the dead care for loved ones they left behind)"

...you can try to find it out by yourself..if you want to ;)


Sa ziza zecob dela dalou'a
Boralea'e borale mi komi oula
Etawuae'o ela'o coralia wu'aila
Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai

Alatawuané icas imani'u
Barletas e'e barkia'a
Pro'e lai e'le a pantou la'u
Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai

Sa ziza zecob dela dalou'a
Boralea'e borale mi komi oula
Alatawuané icas iwua'oula
Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai


the original video is right down this post..with beautiful images...

Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest

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life must go on..and as ive written in my other page..im like a snake..sometimes i need time to change my skin..u can call it as u want..phenix as well..what needs to burn till becomes ashes from ashes start again..and u know it is in that time that you know ur truer friends..who simply says "i cant help you" is just thinking abt himself..

how many times didnt u help someone? yay..i know..many times
so..think abt it..could be you at his place
world is full of negative things cause humans dont think abt others

think abt ur next and do ur best to make this world better than now
God cant do miracles if you dont give a hand to Him
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..4th july...

and a few more than one year later
she had a beautiful moment
she was so stupid
just trying to say things to impress
sometimes when we meet what is so much important to us
we dont know what to do

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..WELCOME BACK GUYS!!...

WELL..CUP IS FINISHED FOR US!
TODAY THE SCORE 1 X 0 TO FRANCE WILL BE IN OUR MEMORY LIKE THE OTHER ONE WHEN WE DECIDED THAT MATCH BY PENNALTIES

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING HERE IS.. PARREIRA IS NOT A GOOD TRAINER...HE DIDNT MAKE THE OBVIOUS CHANGES IN THE TEAM..

ANYWAY.............EVERYBODY WILL SAY SOMETHING IN THIS WEEK....

HAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! FIREWORKS AT THE SKYYYYYYYY!!
IM HEARING FROM MY HOME NOW!!
THAT'S THE TRUER BRAZILIAN SPIRIT ;)

WE ARE HAPPY AS EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

BUT PLZ..DONT TALK ABT FRANCE TO US AT LEAST FOR...
A WHOOOOOOLE ETERNITY!! hahhhahhhahhaa