Hey You, Can You Hear Me?
This song and Pink Floyd in general represent an important phase in my life.
Being the extremist I am, my life fluctuates cyclically between ruts of excessive safety zones and peaks of obsessive mania. I’m currently in the latter phase.
This song doesn’t represent now though. I was 19 during the “Hey You” phase. I had just discovered that I wasn’t who I thought I was the week before. I then proceeded to go through a few years of mania, settling back again into safety around 2007.
Of course, I hear the song often. It’s in every music library on all the devices I own. Today though, for some strange reason, I accidentally listened to the song instead of just hearing it. Then all the feelings came crashing down.
The freezing “Islamic Culture” classroom in the Sharia Department at the University of Jordan. Listening to Led Zeppelin at a friend’s house before class. Sitting in Starbucks as a friend taught me HTML. Amigo’s and mazhareyat-il-tequila of Amigo’s. Shawerma. Battle of the Bands.
It was an awesome year, filled with music, new experiences, and new passions. You can feel it in the way I wrote in this blog; my tone was different. It was fresh. It was young. It hadn’t yet gone through shit experiences. That’s the best thing about being a blogger; a recorded testament to who I am and how I changed. It drives me crazy that 2005 was EIGHT damn years ago. Can you believe that? Eight years? I’m so old.
So yeah… Hey you.
Enjoy the song.
Chris
February 20, 2013 @ 7:17 am
I can. You’re now straight elderly, hahahaha! Wait, what would that make me? Scratch that first bit. Yeah, time flies, goes by faster every year. But it’s cool, what can you do, really? At any rate, I went through a serious Pink Floyd phase too. The Wall, powerful stuff there. You know, I’m not sure which vocalist I like more, Waters or Gilmour? They both have their strong suit. Anyway, that’s a nice picture of you. There’s another one taken at the time, but with the guitar over your head. What? Like I’m gonna forget pics of you with a guitar! My brain gets stronger with age ;) Plus, I usually retain even the most trivial facts. Hmm … now you have to “select month” and scroll through your archives, it all used to be seen without having to do so. You liked its wavy look after accumulation. Memories in a simple visual and wavy form. Now, many reasons to go the new route, maybe you went there because you didn’t want the big visual reminder? Though, upon further inspection, I see that it does state “since 2004″ up there. Probably would’ve scratched that right quick if it all truly bothered you. And blah blah blah, yeah! :D
Craig
February 23, 2013 @ 8:06 pm
That album came out when I was 15 years old! I remember it clearly because I’d just moved back to my dad’s place in Manhattan and didn’t know a soul in NYC except him. I think I pissed off the whole building cranking that and Black Sabbath on his studio-quality stereo, which led to my first encounter with NYC police shortly afterwards. I love the way you love old music, Roba :)
Roba
February 24, 2013 @ 9:29 am
It is good music :)