Day 39 - The Housemartins - Five Get Over Excited
I think she was the first girl to fall in love with me. Mireille. I did third grade for the second time and she just moved in town during the summer holidays. We were both outsiders. I was the hardrock kid between the hiphop kids, she was the only colored girl between all the white kids but didn’t like hiphop. We started changing notes during the lessons and soon it was us against the world. Or at least the school. I still have some of these notes, somewhere.
She used to write down song lyrics in her notes, and she used to listen to complete different music than I was listening to. Elvis Costello, The Smiths, The Style Council, Billy Bragg, Camper Van Beethoven. And The Housemartins.
I liked The Housemartins. Finaly there was a band in which the members looked like me. Just ordinary guys. Sure, I wanted to look like I was in a heavy metal band, but wasn’t allowed to wear long hair by my parents, wasn’t allowed to drink lots of whiskey, and didn’t got the money to buy a black leather jacket.
I wonder what Mireille is listening to these days.
About this/me
About this:
Inspired by Tuuur, who was inspired by Glenn Case, I will be posting some song of the day posts over here. This blog is written in (poor) English, but since I’m from the Netherlands there will be some Dutch songs and/or lyrics passing by.
About me:
I live in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, a short train ride from Amsterdam. I like open source software, open-minded people and bars open all night.
