PHILADELPHIA, perfected as a Psyche Song: "Gonna Fly Now" (Theme from 'Rocky') - "Jihad" has been joined. A began it, *we* will END it.

I awoke with my wife on Friday, July 4, 2008 at 3 AM in order that we make a one hour drive from Princeton into Philadelphia to watch the sun rise over Independence Hall. I am a constitutional lawyer who feels a bit responsible for the manner in which the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES has been twisted and torn and challenged by "Sharia" law, numerous "Islam" "Jihads" against "all Americans, Christians and Jews."





I personally am ready to put on the fighting gear and die for this country's freedom. We do not have cowards like the world's ultimate spineless coward, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ROWAN WILLIAMS. I thank Jesus Christ that we have no state imposed [religion] in the United States. We will not accept it from ugly bald apologists as Williams, nor very ugly Arab "extremists" as those who declared "Jihad" against the United States many times since 1997. This Jihad WILL NOT STAND!

Who can give me this kind of attitude? Only that of a Sly "Rambo" Stallone. The Philadelphia sunrise in the cloudy mist was perfect. We saw it all from Franklin's Grave and the Quaker Meeting hall to Carpenter's hall and of course Independence Hall, which we circled a few times just for the energy it evokes. There were no car noises, no industrial noise - only birdsong, the security guards whispering around this treasured area of the world, and the feet of runners a la Rocky! A better Philadelphia morning I will hope to have - but how can one *not* have a most beatific of days with a 5 AM start at the place where Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Franklin, Hancock and John Adams decided to BE BOLD AND FIGHT THAT WHICH IS EVIL! WITH THE PEN - STILL MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.



Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=“GONNA FLY NOW”
composer, performer,conductor, producer=Bill Conti.
meanspeed/objective tempo=94.1 beats per minute
mean space/average length of time per beat=638 milliseconds,
beat frequency=1.57 beats per second
mean slow phase=1.568 Hertz
corresponding tone=401.49 Hertz, 41 cents higher than the note G4=391.995 Hertz and 14 cents and 59 cents lower than the next corresponding note in equal temperament, G#4/Ab4=415.305 Hertz. This song falls squarely in the speed and emotional correlate of Enthusiasm.

photos © 2008 SJB photography
meanspeed music charts © 2008 Ian Andrew Schneider

The songs which occur in this speed range have predictive expressions of themes dominated by a confidence and enthusiasm. As: being so looking forward to an event that you say to yourself: “I am so excited about what is about to happen I almost don’t want it to begin. Also, I am confident, I have earned this moment.” In a similar way, this is the speed of “Getting ready: and as I get ready, I realize how much I love what I’m about to do. I don’t look back. I’ve made mistakes but I’m always moving ahead.”

This is the speed of controlled strong, positive energy.
The quote by Stevenson applies: “It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.” As you will notice in the twelve examples below, the songs are radiant in the happiness in the journey itself.

This song by Bill Conti brought tears–literally–to Sylvester Stallone’s eyes when he presented it to him as the proposed theme from Rocky.

This song is all about the journey to get ready for the chance of a lifetime.

The graph is based on a spreadsheet generated with this method:
a) I calibrated groups of every single measure (four quarter-notes) ten times with Seiko 300-lap stopwatches;
b) Ten trials were averaged, coordinated and synthesized.
I the created the speed graph in Microsoft’s Excel for MacIntosh 2004 on an Apple iBook G4 as hardware. One of the graphs derived from the results, in a radar graph style was printed on an Epson CX4600, scanned on same printing device.

For a list of 1000s of songs at 12 speed categories, they are available at meanspeed.com.

Coffee courtesy of Meredith and Jeff Schneider of TexasRoast.com