The Life is a 2002 American film directed by Rolando Hudson and written by Julie Atwell and Rolando Hudson.
Emiline Crane is a widow in New York City. She's cheerful with her neighbors, but she misses her husband and prizes a locket she wears that contains his picture. A sudden noise startles her, she falls and dies. At Heaven's door, a Mr. Peters tells her there's been a mistake. She can sit in the atrium for 22 years or she can return to earth for 22 years to inhabit the body of a just-deceased young woman. Emiline thinks a moment and opts for earth, and there she is, inside the muscular body of Jasmine, another NYC resident whose apartment is full of high-tech gadgets. How Emiline sets about reconciling her past and her possibilities makes up the rest of the film.
Dare to Be Stupid is the third studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1985. The album was one of many produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Recorded between August 1984 and March 1985, the album was Yankovic's first studio album released following the success of 1984's In 3-D, which included the Top 40 single "Eat It".
The music on Dare to Be Stupid is built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the mid-1980s, featuring jabs at Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Huey Lewis and the News, and The Kinks. The album also features many "style parodies", or musical imitations that come close to, but do not copy, existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like Devo and Elvis, as well as imitations of various musical genres like doo-wop, sci-fi soundtracks, and music from the 1920s and 30s.
Despite the mixed reception, Dare to Be Stupid sold well and peaked at number fifty on the Billboard 200. The album also produced one of Yankovic's more famous singles, "Like a Surgeon", a parody of Madonna's "Like a Virgin", which peaked at number forty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was Yankovic's second Gold record, and went on to be certified Platinum for sales of over one million copies in the United States. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1986.
This Is the Life is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, released on 30 July 2007. It was highly successful, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart on 13 January 2008 and selling over 600,000 copies in the UK as of 14 March 2008, with a certification of 2× Platinum.
The first single from the album was "Poison Prince", a limited online release, while the debut first full single was the successful "Mr Rock & Roll", which debuted at number 12. The following singles "L.A." and "This Is the Life" were considerably less successful in the UK, although "This Is the Life" is considered her most successful song in the rest of Europe, where it peaked at number 1 in Belgium and the Netherlands, number 2 in Switzerland, number 3 in Spain, number 6 in Norway and number 8 in Denmark. It peaked at number 28 in the UK, spending 17 weeks in the top 75. After fifth single "Run", the sixth release from the album was a re-release of "Poison Prince" on 19 May 2008.
This Is the Life is the second studio album by Canadian country music artist Duane Steele. It was released by Mercury Records in September 1997. Included are the Top Ten singles "Tell the Girl" and "If I Could Just Get to You" and a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind."
Charles Dickens' works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character.
Dickens described London as a Magic lantern, a popular entertainment of the Victorian era, which projected images from slides. Of all Dickens' characters 'none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself', it fired his imagination and made him write. In a letter to John Forster, in 1846, Dickens wrote 'a day in London sets me up and starts me', but outside of the city, 'the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern is IMMENSE!!'
However, of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work, scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist, and, while 'you can track Dickens' London, and see where things were, but they aren't necessarily still there'.
In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens' descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836.
London is a poem by Samuel Johnson, produced shortly after he moved to London. Written in 1738, it was his first major published work. The poem in 263 lines imitates Juvenal's Third Satire, expressed by the character of Thales as he decides to leave London for Wales. Johnson imitated Juvenal because of his fondness for the Roman poet and he was following a popular 18th-century trend of Augustan poets headed by Alexander Pope that favoured imitations of classical poets, especially for young poets in their first ventures into published verse.
London was published anonymously and in multiple editions during 1738. It quickly received critical praise, notably from Pope. This would be the second time that Pope praised one of Johnson's poems; the first being for Messiah, Johnson's Latin translation of Pope's poem. Part of that praise comes from the political basis of the poem. From a modern view, the poem is outshined by Johnson's later poem, The Vanity of Human Wishes as well as works like his A Dictionary of the English Language, his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, and his periodical essays for The Rambler, The Idler, and The Adventurer.
This is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like
They said that all I had to do was rap rap and rap again
Go ahead and get buh buh back to black again
Back to the future back to all that again
1980's stuff oh yeah all of that again
So here I go now I'm talking my stuff
Talking bout your shoe game and I'm a call your bluff
Talking bout your style then and I'm a pull you up
Just tossing out the talk when you ain't got none
Questions of [?] L.A. to Chicago
Fly is just fly even if you ain't a model
[?] and some [?] and you known for the bullshit
Keep it really real cause this is
The life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah
Then back but there ain't no tomorrow to come
They say I'm ever so clean to the point that she stank
So I said I would do a whole song of [?]
Stuck on the beat like Ye's on the track
Wack songs kinda [?] and I'm a [?]
I'm a say whatever I like cause that's me
You could take your opinions and eat cheese
Check me on 1 I'm not of the moment
I am a [?] I live at the MoMA
She going to far now get up to par now
Tiny with a temper I'm a get till I pass out
I wanna see who's really getting their clown on
So I'm a keep it this this real from now on
This is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah
Then back but there ain't no tomorrow to come
Now I been [?] should get you off your back
Do you be free cause I'm me that's that
This one's for London this ones for England
DC Miami L.A. to Beijing
Russia to Rio Paris to Kingston
This is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah