Location - Borders, Glasgow around 8ish
22nd April, 2006 - (Saturday)
So, I've finally found a few moments to myself after a busy day shopping with my lovely girls. My reward is a look in Borders, the place I'd like to be locked in at night - books, films, food, coffee, comfy chairs - ahhhh bliss.
So, we're together at the beginning looking at the stationery, I'm about to take my leave for a few minutes in the computer section (it's so big!) and the store is playing a tune ... it starts off with a kind of western whistle, with dischords, beautiful. I've heard it before but I don't know what it is? I ask my oldest who says why don't you ask? It's off an advert or it might be Massive Attack? I'm not brave enough so I go off on my book hunt. Then I hear another tune I've heard before, a soft woman's voice, and I like it. I really want to know what this is now, and it distracts me from my book hunt, so after a couple of tracks I wonder down to the music deparment ... only to find they are playing something different! So back I go the stationery section where the music has now changed to Blondie. I pluck up all my courage and ask the man behind the information counter ... "excuse me, can you tell me what you've just been playing, I know it's a stupid question but ..." he goes under the counter and comes back up and says, "it's Vashti Bunyan". "Who?" I says, never having heard of her, let alone pronounce her name. He kindly shows me the cd and tells me it's in the music department if I want to buy it... No more need to prompting, "I tell him I really like it, and zoom off" texting the girls I am now in the music dept - should they want me.
I got it home, and well it doesn't have the whistle song, I wish I knew what that was? Perhaps you can tell me. Hubby is away for only the second weekend ever ... so I put this on the stereo next to the bed, switch off the light and listen in the darkness. It is so beautiful. This is how it makes me feel:
... like lying in the grass of a wide open hill or field, on a warm summer's day, sun on your back and your hair, warm, gentle breeze, the smell of fresh grass and flowers, outstretched hands and feeling the space between your fingers...
Yes, the first track is from an advert - the t-mobile flex advert. I love the music but I hate the advert ... I say to my eldest, (we are talking about it as we walk down the town the next day) it encourages young people to think if you jump out a window from high up you will be okay - and you won't be. She says, 'mum - you'd have to be on lsd to think that', 'I still think it's wrong' I say, we grin as she thinks of me starting up a society for the protection of lsd users...
This is the first of many moments, I'd like to share with you.
So, I've finally found a few moments to myself after a busy day shopping with my lovely girls. My reward is a look in Borders, the place I'd like to be locked in at night - books, films, food, coffee, comfy chairs - ahhhh bliss.
So, we're together at the beginning looking at the stationery, I'm about to take my leave for a few minutes in the computer section (it's so big!) and the store is playing a tune ... it starts off with a kind of western whistle, with dischords, beautiful. I've heard it before but I don't know what it is? I ask my oldest who says why don't you ask? It's off an advert or it might be Massive Attack? I'm not brave enough so I go off on my book hunt. Then I hear another tune I've heard before, a soft woman's voice, and I like it. I really want to know what this is now, and it distracts me from my book hunt, so after a couple of tracks I wonder down to the music deparment ... only to find they are playing something different! So back I go the stationery section where the music has now changed to Blondie. I pluck up all my courage and ask the man behind the information counter ... "excuse me, can you tell me what you've just been playing, I know it's a stupid question but ..." he goes under the counter and comes back up and says, "it's Vashti Bunyan". "Who?" I says, never having heard of her, let alone pronounce her name. He kindly shows me the cd and tells me it's in the music department if I want to buy it... No more need to prompting, "I tell him I really like it, and zoom off" texting the girls I am now in the music dept - should they want me.
I got it home, and well it doesn't have the whistle song, I wish I knew what that was? Perhaps you can tell me. Hubby is away for only the second weekend ever ... so I put this on the stereo next to the bed, switch off the light and listen in the darkness. It is so beautiful. This is how it makes me feel:
... like lying in the grass of a wide open hill or field, on a warm summer's day, sun on your back and your hair, warm, gentle breeze, the smell of fresh grass and flowers, outstretched hands and feeling the space between your fingers...
Yes, the first track is from an advert - the t-mobile flex advert. I love the music but I hate the advert ... I say to my eldest, (we are talking about it as we walk down the town the next day) it encourages young people to think if you jump out a window from high up you will be okay - and you won't be. She says, 'mum - you'd have to be on lsd to think that', 'I still think it's wrong' I say, we grin as she thinks of me starting up a society for the protection of lsd users...
This is the first of many moments, I'd like to share with you.
posted by CJ at 10:14 am
1 Comments:
Hey, lilgreenmomo - this exactly the song I was looking for, and guess what, I have been eyeing up a few of their albums in FOPP ...
I bought a book instead as I couldn't make up my mind with soooo much good music in that shop ... sigh. The book was very, very cheap and something I'd been looking at for about 3 years now.
Would you look at that I've already forgotten the title. I'll add it in later when I've been back upstairs ...
Thanks once again for identifying that track for me.
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