I’m leaving tonight to Egypt with my aunt. She’s a doctor and she has to take some exam everynow and then.
And yes! I’m the ma7ram. I just love traditions sometimes! specially when they offer 4 days in Egypt fully paid.
I haven’t been to Egypt since I was 5. I can’t even remember how it was. I remember the nile, good enough?
I have a friend there who’s supposed to show me around, since I’ll be doing nothing for the first 3 days, because on the last day my aunt wants to go and see za pyramidz. Did you know that they charge you almost 10 KD for brining a camera inside the museum in Cairo? I mean the ticket is just 3 KD or something, but yeah…
The music I listen to is driving me crazy, specially nowadays… I don’t know why but I’m more sensitive than ever… I’m mainly talking about the lyrics of course… so poetic… so beautiful… so the kind of music that I like…
John Denver’s “The Gift You Are” starts with
“Imagine a month of Sundays
Each one a cloudy day
Imagine the moment the sun came shining through
Imagine that ray of sunshine as you”
It’s just beautiful. Towards the end of the original studio recorded song children join in singing… it just adds music to music…
Denver wrote many many beautiful lyrics with brilliant calm tunes… a perfect combination for my taste… I can never ask for more really…
In “For Baby (For Bobbie)” he sings
“And the wind will whisper your name to me.
Little birds will sing along in time.
Leaves will bow down when you walk by,
And morning bells will chime.”
One of my favorite songs, “Rocky Mountain High” contains this bit
“He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below,
saw everything as far as you can see.
And they say that he got crazy once and that he
tried to touch the sun,
and he lost a friend, but kept the memory.”
John Denver was a modern “Lake Poet” that would fit perfectly among the romantic poets, with his longing to nature in songs such as “Sunshine On My Shoulders” and “I’d Rather Be a Cowboy” in which he beautifully wrote
“I’d rather live on the side of a mountain
Than wander through the canyons of concrete and steel
I’d rather laugh with the rain and sunshine
And lay down my sundown in some starry field”
Denver wrote on of the best songs that concerns the relationship between a singer-songwriter and his instrument in “This Old Guitar”
believe me I can never stop talking about John Denver, but I’m going to… though I don’t think I’ll ever do him justice… but now I’m gonna talk about Paul Simon, what I call the “Robert Frost” of FolkRock music… he was highly influenced by Frost and you can clearly see it his early Simon & Garfunkel songs, he clearly also mentions Frost in “The Dangling Conversation” when he sings
“And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what weve lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.”
One of my favorite things he wrote was in “Gumboots,” he says
“It was in the early morning hours
When I fell into a phone call.
Believing I had supernatural powers
I slammed into a brick wall,
I said hey, is this my problem?,
Is this my fault?”
In “I Am a Rock,” a song basically about lonliness, he ends with singing
“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.”
What a wonderful place Earth would be if everyone was listening to John Denver and Paul Simon… it’s just magical, I can’t really get most of the music nowadays, either between cathartic screaming stuff or the rap-hip-hop-soul whatever music tradition they are ruining! People need to relax a bit, and yes listen to more simply “good” music… and I know that everthing is relative… uh! I’ve had it with relativity… but hey, it’s relative! isn’t it? that just doesn’t make sense, but sense is relative, isn’t it? God!
At around 6 AM this morning I was sitting at my room reading. It was windy outside, and suddenly it rains!
What do I do? I quickly get changed snap my iPod and go outside for a walk in the rain. It rained heavily for about 10 minutes or so. BUT!
During those 10 minutes, my iPod shuffled to Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”, I just added it to my iPod and heard it maybe twice before…
People!! I can’t describe how it felt listening to this song and walking in the rain… It was beyond sublime, I really don’t know how to describe it… This is a once in a life time experience… a beautiful one ba3ad… oh God! This is something I wish everyone got to do once in their lives! It was so beautiful I miss it! I wanna it to happen again, as unplanned as it was… as special to me as it’ll always be…
But really 7asafah it stoped raining ba3dain, it became a bit cold. The streets were clean, the stop sign was soooo RED! the u-turn sign waqs soooo BLUE! the air was so clear it cleared my minds from a lot of things…
Then I walked back home to find my family breakfasting, it was the first day of school. My little sister asked me to take her to school,which 3 minutes away from our house, then I went back home, changed and went to work…
On the way to work it rained… for a bout 6 seconds!! but during those 6 seconds I was like “Oh, shit!! It’s gonna rain again and I won’t be able to go back and do it again!!” but then it stopped…
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This is Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”… Just listen people, ignore the video, imagine that it’s raining…