| So here’s the thing – Went home from my studio today, Friday afternoon, a very special and strong Israeli time of the week, this time a week is when you would usually hear the sound of the wind against the eucalyptuses (Ekaliptusim in plain language), usually the air is kinda’ dry and together with the Ekaliptus sound you’d hear only silence, and depends on your age and boredom you would also hear the sound of thin papers turn every 2 minutes (that’s the weekend newspaper ). Nowdays I can hardly tell the difference between the sound of the Ekaliptus to the sound of the flipping papers, Fridays as a kid made them one…So I’m in my car, no one is out in the streets, it’s a Friday alright, and the radio is playing Roxette in its beautiful song “spending my time, watching the days go by, lalala li, lallalala li” and now it’s a full-on Friday. I never really knew Roxette but this song together with the scenery threw me way back, suddenly this cheesy band with this cheap dreamy song was the best thing I’ve heard in a long time, the lyrics are hideous, the melody will stick like a dry sugar, but I was home, or very close to it. and that’s the late 80’s (early 90’s?) you can replace Roxette with the guitar solo of November Rain, or the catchy vocal melody of Simply Red (“ahhhhh I wanna fall from the stars, straight into your arms”, which in the early 90’s was sang like “ahh from the phone to the stars ahha your own arms”) these songs are kinda’ bad, but that’s the real thing, for me, that’s where I decided as a child to put my stuff down, no place could replace it, funny how we can never replace home, we can replace the place we call home but nothing will sound like Roxette ya’ know, if I could I’d write only songs like these, with a victorious guitar solos like brian adams’ on that robin hood film, over the top, too sweet, but that’s music! Nothing new can replace it, and from the same point of view this Friday is nothing but a memory, so I wonder how Friday really feels like without conditioning… I bet it sucks, or no one really knows, and that’s why they play Roxette or Susan Vega. So all I’m really trying to say is that what’s good artistically is set somewhere around the age of 10, and after that everything is just bad attempts to remake it or reach the same primary and clean feel it transmits. But it’s a wonderful Friday this time, time stands still. Ok now I’m going out to harass some kids and find out how’s Friday these days, after that I’ll watch Back to the future, and then it’s bed time. |