tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post2141856907175593033..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: Van the ManElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-58085354672836749052008-11-08T23:26:00.000-08:002008-11-08T23:26:00.000-08:00Steve, your knowledge of music is endless! And Dru...Steve, your knowledge of music is endless! And Druid Hills was an apartment complex in Atlanta where my boyfriend lived -- he was my first love and we loved to talk about the irony of that name.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-59563488321932561302008-11-08T19:25:00.000-08:002008-11-08T19:25:00.000-08:00The Malaysian singer Pete Teo gives an homage to M...The Malaysian singer Pete Teo gives an homage to Morrison in his song, "Jesselton tonight:"<BR/><BR/>The boys are playing down The Riverside. Flat broke and crazy, but it didn’t seem to matter, cos we had the night. Yeah, we had the night. Doing Sweet Thing in 4/4 time. You said it didn’t work, “but I’m oh so glad to be alive”. To be alive.<BR/><BR/>Hosannas under a blood red sky. We danced a tune to Van’s surrender. Bless the man, he’s singing and howling sweetly to the moon! And then you took me by the hand again and said, “I love you so. Would you fall in love in Jesselton tonight?”<BR/><BR/>We headed down to The Zanzibar. Make a left somewhere between your dreams and the shooting stars; that’s where you are. Oh baby, why don’t you just let it show? “Hey!” she laughed, “that’s Brown Eyed Girl on the radio!” On the radio.<BR/><BR/>Would you fall in love in Jesselton ere days of ‘burn baby burn’? <BR/>Would you fall in love in Jesselton tonight?<BR/><BR/>Words & Music By Pete Teo <BR/>Redbag Music 2003 All Rights Reserved <BR/><BR/>I had to look up Druid Hills in Wikipedia, but my first impression was of a mystical world, as opposed to a planned community designed by Olmstead. Still, that sentence is so evocative.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.com