5.17.2003

 

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everything seems to be stuck on nostalgia mode for some strange reason. everything ive done, seen, touched, heard, heck, just about anything i came into contact with today, seems to be about things past. its a little hard to explain and obviously it really begins to lose its charm and poignancy the moment i try to translate it into words, although that isnt going to stop me from trying. in essence: had a hearty discussion about baz luhrmann's william shakespeare's romeo + juliet, the one with leo di caprio and claire danes.. (esp claire danes!! the bit where she goes "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet / o romeo, romeo wherefore art thou romeo" in the little angel costume with the fairy wings from her bedroom window) in the office with my guys, all of which are older than me..... but junior, heh * the clerk that i get along wif the best showed me this msg he got today, which came out of the blue, from a number he din recognise, that he was the best they'd ever had and they'd never forget him.. (they cos the gender was indeterminate) and thing is he's engaged already.. suspects its his ex from 2 years back. mulled over it for a long time * featured tune on the selecta was soul II soul's "back to life" (acapella version) from way back in '89.. * somehow that song brought back a lot of memories even tho i had never heard it in '89!! * saw an ad about a new condo at mt sinai drive.. again, memories * and somehow over dinner conversation turned back to jc days again. i have absolutely no idea why....

you know the feeling - some days you just absolutely loathe yourself. this isnt one of those days. it isnt a totally bright shiny happy day either - its just one tinged with a slightly rosy and misty-eyed view of events i was very critical about when they were happening.. sorta like a on-hindsight appreciation. maybe its just cos vesak day was just over. again i have no idea why im feeling this way!

love by the numbers - just when you thought differential equations had no place in real life..

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Fatboy Slim Remix)

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there's dancing behind movie scenes
behind the movie scenes - Sadi Rani
she's the one that keeps the dream alive,
from the morning,
past the evening,
till the end of the light.

brimful of Asha on the forty-five.
well, it's a brimful of Asha on the forty-five.
brimful of Asha on the forty-five.
well, it's a brimful of Asha on the forty-five.
and singing illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles.
we don't care about no government warning
about that promotion of the simple life and the dams they are building.

chorus
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
mine's on the forty-five...

Mohammed Ruffi - forty-five.
Lata Mangeshka - forty-five.
Solid state radio - forty-five.
Ferguson Mono - forty-five.
non public - forty-five.
Jacques Dutronc and the Bolan Boogies...
the Heavy Hitters and the chi-chi music...
all Indian radio - forty-five.
two in ones - forty-five.
Ovvo records - forty-five.
Trojan records - forty-five.

chorus
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
mine's on the forty-five...

seventy-seven thousand piece orchestra set
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow (mines on the RPM...)

chorus
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom.
mine's on the forty-five...

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oh, for those days again, where life was simple..

incidentally, and on an unrelated note, juliet the orange is the next best thing to come out of m'sia since too phat.. but whatever has happened to them? so much promise with their first single "quizzical" (remind me, ill post it up someday.. so poignant) but theyve since dipped below the music radar. like lowe / lo.. dunno what happened to him since "evening news". oh well. the fickle nature of local (regional) music..

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