A MOMENT...ALONE

5:18 am - 13 Jan 09
What am I doing this late into the night or too early in the morning? Blogging? Must be mad, really mad! The truth is that I am having a gout attack and couldn't sleep at all waiting for the oral medication to kick in, so what the heck just put this moment alone to some productive use to run down the pain.
Just finished the DVD which I should have done over the weekend but did not until I bumped into Ben (a.k.a. Etc.) at the Me & My Guitar series at the Esplanade concourse where another class act - Zack Yusof/Deserters - was performing yesterday evening. A thoroughly enjoyable performance and who would have thought Kraftwerk's The Model could be done in electric guitar and a Melodica in de-la-slow version?? Totally mind-blowing! Zack and Lohan rocks! "Talk to Me" was fab!
Had a chat with Ben after the show and I did not know that Ben and members of his high school band, the Deadbeats were also at the Zircon Lounge's Yin and Yang Festival gig in NUS back in the eighties! Ah yes! Ben, I remember the drummer that day turn up later and he was the drummer from Speedway if memory serves me right. The Velvet Underground's banana record was an education in itself, glad to know you were also influenced by that one as well at a young age! Many things do connect, the banana record,John Peel, Smash Hits, New Wave eighties etc. maybe that's why I really dig your music, it just connects!

Just going through the DVD, quality's not great but at least it's digitised for posterity! I am going to quote this songwords of yours, Ben, cause they are simply PURRRFECT (get it recorded my man!):

Etc.: Just A Dream ('The Wong Kar Wai one')
(songwords by Ben Harrison Etc)

YOU CAN BE NERVOUS AND I CAN BE SHY
I BET I ONLY EVER LOOK AT YOU ON THE SLY
WHAT IF IT'S JUST A DREAM?

I CAN TELL WE OUGHT TO BE FRIENDS
YOU'RE ALWAYS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
I'M GOING ROUND THE BEND
WHAT IF IT'S JUST A DREAM?

I DREAM OF YOU EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T MET
I DREAM OF YOU AND I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE YET

PASSED YOU IN THE STREET LIKE IN A WONG KAR WAI
I NEVER TOLD YOU BECAUSE I'M TOO DARN SHY
TOO SHY TO SHARE MY DREAM

SO I'M STAYING IN BED ALL WEEKEND
IN THE HOPE I GET TO DREAM AND SEE YOU AGAIN
REMIND ME TO GET YOUR NAME THIS TIME

I DREAM OF YOU EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T MET
I DREAM OF YOU AND I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE YET

YOU CAN SLEEP OVER – SLEEP OVER THERE
I'LL TAKE THE SOFA OVER THE STAIRS
AND THEN WE CAN DREAM

HOPE IS JUST A HOAXER HOPE CAN BE A CURSE
I'M HOPING FOR THE BEST WHEN I SHOULD EXPECT THE WORST
WHAT IF IT'S JUST A DREAM?

I DREAM OF YOU EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T MET
I DREAM OF YOU AND I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE YET

YOU WERE ALWAYS ROUND THE CORNER I'M GOING ROUND THE BEND
I THINK I WANT TO TALK TO YOU
HELLO MY NAME IS BEN
(all rights deserved. Etc reserves the right to change lyrics as and when.)

Hope you will eventually include "The Wong Kar Wai one" as a subtitle to the song when it's officially released/published because I think it will stick (like glue) to this really great tune. And yes, I sure hope you, Joe Ng and Pat Chng can reunite as the Padres once again...that will be some event! You might want to consider doing it as a charity cause, which was what you had in mind initially and I think Joe and Pat will definitely be up for it. You may want to consider lending a helping hand to this baby miracle whom I met up with recently from the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China if this Padres' reunion does materialise.

Why am I quoting this song? Well I went through "nervous" and "shy" all over again recently with a special someone (she may not know it but I sure did felt it). However this one will be "Just A Dream", a hopeless cause however bad I wanted it to happen.