Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:51:01 +1000 From: Oliver Palmer To: G. A. Carafelli Subject: Re: your mail
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YES. YES.
Such a beautiful, ACCURATE description.
>songs that make us think of Brisbane, Australia... >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >
>"Cattle & Cane" by Go Betweens. >contributed by Anthea, who adds: It's a summer night. The sky is >heavy, in a way it only can be in the sub-tropics. We're sitting on >the verandah, slouching on old chairs, drinking ice-cold beer from >long-necks and watching the lights of the CBD and the Fourex brewery >sign blinking. There's a muddy breeze coming up Highgate Hill from >the river, the night smells of faint sweat, bruised frangipani and >mangoes. The flying foxes swoop overhead, screeching. It's my last >night in the country I grew up in and the Go-Bs are on the stereo. >Every time I hear this song, I'm home again. Bare feet on the >smooth, greasy wood of the verandah with a Queensland night pressing >down on me, the scent of the tropic heavy in the air. I miss it so. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >of course, you can always start all over again.
