The dream is awake and we know it

[sovay]

A male voice just went down my street blurrily and belligerently shouting something with a loping kind of rhythm which it took me the length of the block to realize was "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles":

They fly so high, they reach the sky
Then like my dreams they fade and die
Fortune's always hiding
I've looked everywhere
I'm forever blowing bubbles
Pretty bubbles in the air

He sounded really aggrieved about it, too. This is not, I repeat not, helping at all with my sense of remixed time.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

... you have random West Ham fans where you are?

[sovay]

... you have random West Ham fans where you are?

I just thought he got lost on his way between pre-Codes!

[thisbluespirit]

I wonder which is actually more/less likely? Heh. :-D

(My Dad is a West Ham fan, so it's the only context in which I've ever heard the song & why i'm familiar with it - in the UK it's known as their theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Forever_Blowing_Bubbles#West_Ham_connection )

[sovay]

I wonder which is actually more/less likely?

Did West Ham really lose a game last night?

[thisbluespirit]

It seems so! Maybe that was why!

ETA: I don't know what this is like but saw it go past on my flist, and I know you just reviewed & liked the film (Jennifer's Body): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZqBKbazyb4

[sovay]

ETA: I don't know what this is like but saw it go past on my flist, and I know you just reviewed & liked the film (Jennifer's Body)

Oh, cool! I'm glad people vid it.

[moon_custafer]

I was picturing him as James Cagney, just from the song.

[cmcmck]

And you weren't even in West Ham (it's the local football team's anthem. :o)

[sovay]

And you weren't even in West Ham

thisbluespirit mentioned! I suppose he could have been a very far-flung disgruntled fan . . .