Old Memory Ahead...

I`m hooked to Liberty AM between 8 am and 8.15. That's when the station has nobody in control (it seems) and records can be played over and over. They hit the random 80s bad music button. Bananarama has been featured a lot, as well as Tears for Fears. Today was Olivia Newton John's turn. "Physical."

It reminded me of when I was 7 and we used to go to a coastal town called Peruibe. A cousin of my mom's would invite us to stay with her, and my brother and I ended up good friends with her daughter (who was my age.) Once, because it was off season and the city was dead, we were taken to the only nightclub in town. It had one of those dancefloors with squares that flash different colours, like the one in "Saturday Night Fever".

I remember dancing with my brother and my cousin to all kinds of stuff, specially to "Physical". One night, the owner decided to film just the three of us dancing to it. She then used the video on a screen, I guess for the adults to laugh at us while they sipped their drinks and listened to Pat Benatar...

I would love to get my hands on that video...

On Livejournal's creation...

"In fact, writing teaches, paradoxically, that someone else seems to write for us: that there is a ghostwriter in every hand…. The blankness of starting… compels the one who writes to relive… the queasy feeling that the definitive statement one is about to make is subject to interfering thoughts that seem to come from nowhere - and often subject to words rather than thoughts, words that turn you this way or that. The very instant of writing, Pascal's fly buzzing, the book your eye chances to light on, a telephone call, the hangover of a dream, a literary echo - these are the stuff guiding the pen that claims authority. We notice, and are amused by, a slip of the tongue, and we have learned to study such parapraxes; but who can tell a slip of the pen that is always slipping on the pathless page?"

- Geoffrey Hartman, in "Madness and Modernism."