i have never had such a feeling
Aug. 6th, 2002 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phineasjonesour neighbor, sal the ex-cop, tends to blast some very cheezy radio station all day long. just now as i was watering the garden, the station was playing lady in red. the song brought up
two vivid memories:
1. first half of junior year in college. some dance. they played the song. don't know what possessed them. also don't know what has always possessed me to really like the song. it's so honest in its cheeziness... that may have something to do with it. anyway, i made claire dance with me. when she sighed and put her head on my shoulder and barely even moved with the music, i though how incredibly sweet our friendship is. now, i think, i am the most dense person ever to walk to earth.
2. second half junior year. when i was in senegal, sarah h and i volunteered to be lab assistants for the university english classes. the two other assts were a tall, pale, very shy man named souleyman and a talkative and somewhat annoying (moreso later when he relentlessly pursued me) man named sarrany (sp?). we were set loose in the lab to figure out how to use the sound system. souleyman, who had barely said a word all day, sat at the mic in the front of the room and proceeded to sing all of lady in red. all of it. thereby instantly becoming one of my favorite people in the world.
two vivid memories:
1. first half of junior year in college. some dance. they played the song. don't know what possessed them. also don't know what has always possessed me to really like the song. it's so honest in its cheeziness... that may have something to do with it. anyway, i made claire dance with me. when she sighed and put her head on my shoulder and barely even moved with the music, i though how incredibly sweet our friendship is. now, i think, i am the most dense person ever to walk to earth.
2. second half junior year. when i was in senegal, sarah h and i volunteered to be lab assistants for the university english classes. the two other assts were a tall, pale, very shy man named souleyman and a talkative and somewhat annoying (moreso later when he relentlessly pursued me) man named sarrany (sp?). we were set loose in the lab to figure out how to use the sound system. souleyman, who had barely said a word all day, sat at the mic in the front of the room and proceeded to sing all of lady in red. all of it. thereby instantly becoming one of my favorite people in the world.
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Date: 2002-08-06 12:02 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-08-06 08:59 pm (UTC)you knew to lj?