It's a Good Life

"It's a Good Life" is a short story by Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science Fiction Stories No.2.

Plot summary

Anthony Fremont is a three-year-old boy with near-godlike powers: he can transform other people or objects into anything he wishes, think new things into being, teleport himself and others where he wishes, read the minds of people and animals and even revive the dead. He may not be wholly human; hints in the story mention his "odd shadow" and "bright, wet, purple gaze", and the obstetrician at his birth was said to have "screamed and dropped him and tried to kill him". The town's children are told that Anthony is a "nice goblin", but they must never go near him.

Anthony's powers were present at birth, as he was able to kill the obstetrician and then, instinctively, separate his birthplace, the town of Peaksville, Ohio, from the rest of Earth moments after he was born. Nobody knows whether Anthony transported Peaksville somewhere or whether the rest of the world (or for that matter, the universe) was destroyed and only the town remains.

It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone)

"It's a Good Life" is episode 73 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is based on the 1953 short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby and is considered by many, such as Time Magazine and TV Guide, to be one of the best episodes of the series. It originally aired on November 3, 1961.

Plot summary

Six-year-old Anthony Fremont looks like any other little boy, but looks can be deceiving: he is a monster, a mutant with godlike mental powers, including mind-reading. Years before, he isolated his town of Peaksville, Ohio. Everybody is under his rule, even his parents. Since he's begun isolating the town, supplies of common household items, such as bar soap, have been dwindling. He has blocked television signals, caused cars to not work, and, due to his controlling everything, he does not attend school.

The children and adults, including his own parents, tiptoe nervously around him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good," since displeasing him can get them wished away into a mystical "cornfield", an unknown place, from which there is no return. At one point, a dog is heard barking angrily. Anthony thinks the dog is "bad" and doesn't "like [him] at all," and wishes it into the cornfield. His father and mother are horrified, but they dare not show it.

It's a Good Life (album)

It's A Good Life is the seventh studio album by The Northern Pikes released in 2003. Like their previous studio album, it was released independently.

The first single from the album was "It's a Good Life" in 2003, followed by "Underwater" in 2004. A promotional video was also made for "Underwater", the band's first since "Everything" in 1993.

The album ends with the song "Blame The Song" which is a tongue-in-cheek tune about the power of a hit song. Not only is the song credited to all four members of the band (a rarity for them), but the lyrics refer to the specific band members in the second last verse (sung by Bryan Potvin): "Jay and Merl drinkin' margaritas/Donnie's in the kitchen cookin' chicken fajitas/I'm sittin' here swattin' West Nile mosquitos/Blame the Song" and the final verse refers specifically to their career: "The Things I Do For Money/I'll never understand/Why I'm 40 years old and still playin' in this band/I guess it's got somethin' to do with 'Teenland'/Blame the Song". The band's first hit in Canada was "Teenland" which was followed by another hit called "The Things I Do For Money".

The Good Life

The Good Life or Good Life may refer to:

"The good life", a philosophical term for the life that one would like to live, originally associated with Aristotle.

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Good Life (Kanye West song)

"Good Life" is a song by American hip-hop artist Kanye West. It was released on October 2, 2007 as the third single for his third studio album Graduation. The song was produced by West and DJ Toomp and contains a sample of the keyboard outro to "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" as performed by Michael Jackson. "Good Life" also has additional drum programming and additional production by Timbaland and Mike Dean, respectively. The track features R&B singer and rapper T-Pain as well as background vocals provided by John Legend and Ne-Yo. "Good Life" managed to enter charts prior to actually being released as a single and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song at the 50th Grammy Awards. The single has since sold over two million copies in the United States and has been certified double platinum.

Chart performance

"Good Life" debuted at number sixty-three on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs during the chart week of September 22, 2007, where it eventually peaked at number three, becoming West's second top ten single from Graduation on the chart. For the chart week of September 29, 2007, "Good Life" was the "Hot Shot Debut" of the week on the Billboard Hot 100, as it entered at number fourteen due to strong digital downloads. The song climbed to the seventh position, becoming West's second consecutive top ten Hot 100 single from Graduation as well as T-Pain's sixth top ten single. "Good Life" debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number thirty-nine and has peaked at number twenty-three. The single generated a strong reaction from the MuchMusic Countdown, where it reached number-one. "Good Life" was able to enter at number thirty-three on the UK Singles Chart before it was officially released in the UK until November 5, 2007. Upon its release, the single was able to rise and peak at the twenty-third position on the chart.

Beautiful Soul (Jesse McCartney album)

Beautiful Soul is the first studio album by American singer Jesse McCartney, released on September 28, 2004. The album was a success in the United States, Italy and Taiwan, going Platinum, and spawned Jesse McCartney's first Top 20 single, "Beautiful Soul".

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ITS

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