Have you ever had a moment when a totally innocuous event triggers something which drags you back in time? A sudden recollection of a memory so perfect that suddenly everyone/everything around you doesn't exist? A sudden recollection bought on by a taste, smell or tune which makes you close your eyes and imagine you are still there?
For me it is a single chord of music.
Our first visit to Phuket, 6 years ago. We went to a Go-Go bar called Suzy Wong's in Patong, off Bangla Road (well known for it's night life).
The girls (Yes, real ones!) were so beautiful and welcoming and the music was exactly what we would listen to at home. But there was one girl. A goddess! She was perfect!!! She was petite, short dark hair in a pixie cut. She had the most beautiful tattoo that started on her left ankle and wrapped its way up her leg, her back and down her right arm.
She was sat on a pillow. A very BIG velvet pillow, on a podium disguised as a four poster bed at the front of the club. It was as if she was listening to her own tune, dreaming her own reality, and we didn't exist. We couldn't take our eyes off her!
Then a tune started. We both just sat and watched as she made that pillow her bitch and no one in the room could look anywhere other than at her. I'm pretty sure we looked like goldfish staring at her.
Every time this tune comes on the radio, in a shop, in the car, on a TV show, I get goosebumps and instantly feel the same warm, fuzzy glow i felt in that perfect moment, and the world disappears.
Sometimes I will play it in the kitchen only to hear Geoff shout from the living room "Oooh, you cow!" as he gets that tingle of nostalgia too!
What is it that does it for you?
51 seconds in... the chord that does it! XxRy
For me it is a single chord of music.
Our first visit to Phuket, 6 years ago. We went to a Go-Go bar called Suzy Wong's in Patong, off Bangla Road (well known for it's night life).
The girls (Yes, real ones!) were so beautiful and welcoming and the music was exactly what we would listen to at home. But there was one girl. A goddess! She was perfect!!! She was petite, short dark hair in a pixie cut. She had the most beautiful tattoo that started on her left ankle and wrapped its way up her leg, her back and down her right arm.
She was sat on a pillow. A very BIG velvet pillow, on a podium disguised as a four poster bed at the front of the club. It was as if she was listening to her own tune, dreaming her own reality, and we didn't exist. We couldn't take our eyes off her!
Then a tune started. We both just sat and watched as she made that pillow her bitch and no one in the room could look anywhere other than at her. I'm pretty sure we looked like goldfish staring at her.
Every time this tune comes on the radio, in a shop, in the car, on a TV show, I get goosebumps and instantly feel the same warm, fuzzy glow i felt in that perfect moment, and the world disappears.
Sometimes I will play it in the kitchen only to hear Geoff shout from the living room "Oooh, you cow!" as he gets that tingle of nostalgia too!
What is it that does it for you?
51 seconds in... the chord that does it! XxRy