Day 94 - Flashbacks

[dotinthesky]

When I eat carrot soup at night with my mom in a cold kitchen, I am eating an entrée in a small restaurant in Covent Garden.

When I pour water from the clay water tank into a glass, I am pouring water into a cup in a London flat that overlooks Victoria Park.

When I lie in bed watching Twin Peaks on my laptop, I’m on the narrowboat’s bed, with the side hatch open onto the Regent’s Canal.

When I turn off the lights and stare at the ceiling, I am listening to revellers heading home from a nearby pub.

Comments

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Whenever I play 10CC's Deceptive Bends I can strongly smell the parquet floor polish of our flat in Hong Kong in 1978.

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

So many songs remind me of Hong Kong... it was during my teen years there that I fell in love with music, got swept away by Britpop, etc. The last time I was there, for the handover, I remember being in a party in a house at the Peak, full of brits, and how they'd do the conga to the sound of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by Ohio Express, while the more drunk cried in the corners because of the end of an era.