"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering; which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved around the country, in the middle ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going à la sainte terre” –to the holy land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a sainte-terrer”, a saunterer-a holy-lander. They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabounds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all, but the Saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant that the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which indeed is the most probably derivation. For every walk is sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us to go forth and reconquer this holy land from the hands of the Infidels."
"Identity. I go by the Tootsie theory; that if you concoct a convincing on-line meta-personality on the Net, then that personality really IS you. With so few things around nowadays to loan a person identity, the palette of identities you create for yourself in the vacuum of the Net—your menu of alternative “you’s” – actually IS you. Or an isotope of you. Or a photocopy of you."
“We got to kill all the drama Biggest moment ever, Barack Obama First black president, please believe it I'm just happy that my Grammy got a chance to see it It's time for a change so don't go trying to turn inauguration into an all-star game Let's act right and show these kids We can turn “Yes We Can” into “Yes We Did” and Bush made it hard, be patient Let that man go to the Whitehouse and do his job . . . The economy, that's a wrap no doubt the whole world in debt, how you bail that out?
Ya boy Skillz “Welcome to 2009!”
Brilliant, brilliant lyrics. Great job Skillz! I hope people are listening to what you had to say about the new president.
One of the best things about the calendar flipping over to the New Year is waiting to hear the “Rap-Up.”
Skillz has been dropping yearly “Rap-Ups” since 2002. The songs are always witty, well-written takes on the year that has just passed. I look forward to them every year.
If you want to hear all the “Rap-Ups” check this excellent blog, The Essence Returns. http://theessencereturns.blogspot.com/2009/01/skillz-2008-wrap-up-is-here-all-other.html
