miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009

No me gustan los lunes























A Brenda Spencer le regalaron el día de su 16 cumpleaños un rifle.
Al mes siguiente, el 29 de enero de 1979, mientras veía desde su ventana a unos niños jugando en el patio de recreo se los imaginó como "patos moviéndose en una charca". 
Un blanco fácil, pensó.
Disparó. 
Dos muertos y nueve heridos.
Cuando la policía le preguntó por qué lo había hecho, ella respondió:


"Because mondays are always so boring"
"Sólo lo hice para animarme el día. No tengo ninguna razón más, sólo fue por divertirme. Vi a los niños como patos que andaban por una charca y un rebaño de vacas rodeándolos, blancos fáciles".



Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats convirtieron la historia en  canción:

BOB GELDOF + BON JOVI

I DON´T LIKE MONDAYS


The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons, 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot the whole day down

The telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reasons do you need

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot the whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing has stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys of war
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
That the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain cackles with the problems and the hows and whys
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
And the silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
Her daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons 'cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like, I don't like, (Tell me why?) I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like, I don't like, (Tell me why?) I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot the whole day down





a) De una historia terrible se puede hacer una bonita canción.
b) Un rifle no es el mejor  regalo cuando se cumplen los 16.
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