Other Ears

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else get that thing where they play a record they like to someone, actually physically with someone there in the room, and there's a silence while it plays, maybe a look of mild scepticism on the other person's face, and during the silence you find yourself listening with their ears and suddenly everything that MIGHT be lame or weak or crappy about the music is REALLY OBVIOUS to you?

Comments

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Didn't Dawn Penn release an entire album based around travel news about the A40?

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

"No no nooooo-ooh / Two-mile tailback at High Wycooombe..."

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Full marks for artistic endeavour in finding a location that fits the syllable structure of the song, but I think you'll find that High Wycombe is on the M40. You could try "Ickenham" instead, or "Hillingdon" perhaps.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Dude, the A40 goes right through the middle of HW!

Clearly White City would've been less controversial.

No no no

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The event in question actually took place on the Hanger Lane gyratory system. If only it had been gyrating to the smooth reggae sounds of Dawn Penn.

Re: No no no

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I live around the corner from there, and once I heard Dawn Penn booming out of a car window when I was coming back from the shops. So perhaps another child in another car tried the same thing, and got away with it?

Maybe I was time travelling and didn't realise.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Shows how lame my knowledge is of roads that I regularly drive and towns I regularly drive through. I thought the A40 ended just after Hillingdon when it became the M40, and then started again when you come off the motorway at J8 (Oxford). I guess that's illogical really, but I had no idea it carried on along the same route as the motorway. Which road through the middle of High Wycombe is it?

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Gmaps sez: London Road - Abbey Way - Oxford Road - West Wycombe Road

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Is that the A40?

You learn something new every day.