When I fell in love with "Everything I do..."

Has it ever happened to you….that a song entered your head in a way that you cannot push it out?….Has it ever happened you are sitting there in L3 giving your TA201 exam, running desperately short of time (and being fully aware of that) and still you are humming the tune to yourself simply because you cant help yourself to it???

Happens all the time with me…Yes ladies and gentlemen…this is called falling in love..
It happened to me the first time I heard Bonjovi’s “Livin on a prayer”…and more recently…. It happened about two years back when I first heard “Unforgiven”….It happened a year back when I first heard “Wickerman”…..and wonder of wonders…
It happened day before yesterday …the song in question being Bryan Adam’s “Everything I do”

Well…the element of wonder comes from the fact that all the songs that have made it to my list of those with which I have fallen in love at first sight…(ok ok…not first “sight” per se)…are ones that I have just heard….Part of the sudden infatuation lies in the very fact that it is novel…..You have just heard it for the first time….and something in the tune has seized you…captured you in a way that you think it is inconceivable that it will ever let go….But voila …therein lies the wonder of the thing….the song in question is one I first heard about ten years back…And never….never till this day did it seize me the way it did few days back…

Those were the days when I had very little liking for music…..Not that I had little exposure though….:-))….I mean what with Elvis and Belafonte (my dad’s favourites….
How could I have little exposure to music when he made it a point to “turn it on”, as he put it….every Sunday morning, by popping a cassette of one of the aforementioned into the system)…and Dolly Parton and the Judds and Neil Diamond (my mom insisted that they were way better any day :-)))…and the traditional fare of Kishore and Manna Da (Oh yeah….now you know where my musical roots are from)…..Actually I was the odd one out in those days…A result of a rather ugly mutation of genes that rendered me incapable of appreciating music of any form… Much to the chagrin of my parents…who to artificially cure this trait of uncivilization sent me to a music class :-))))

Well…then music was born in me….(Ok that’s a pretty clichéd sentence…but cant really help it)….But this song belongs to those “Good old days” as it were….it was really my first foray into music of the nineties….When there was no music in my life to torment me (sniffles….followed by a really sentimental scene featuring me blowing my nose)…I remember the first time I heard it…It was when “Robin Hood and the prince of thieves” was being aired on star movies….I had no cable at my place …I went to somebody else’s place to watch it….Those were the wonder years….Why ,it was even before the time when I used to classify Bonjovi as rock…..Aah….but I remember it as vividly as if it were only yesterday….

And now I really must run….Not much time to write blogs when you are actually watching your ass being chewed off live…..But I cant help smiling…..This is pretty inconceivable….is it not….It is like falling in love with a person you have known…(with no accompaniment oh heart palpitations) for years…..Hmm….I can only wonder…can this happen in real life????



(Knowing evil grin….short lived though…There is a lizard making some nasty gestures at me…trying to scare me off…now can you believe THAT??)