"Serendipity" is the ancient name of Sri Lanka.
It also describes one of the chief delights of the web. On the Word site we started off a thread about how quickly the latest technological marvel is, once superseded, utterly forgotten.
This led somebody who posts under the name backwards7 to compose a brilliant pastiche of Van Morrison's "On Hyndford Street", looking back at the days of Rapidshare, "Skins" and "Mock The Week".
I was so inspired by this I got Barry McIlheney to recite it and put it on YouTube.
Why? Because it wasn't there, I suppose.
Loved it- perhaps not as you or Barry intended, but for my own personal reasons, espacially the accent.
ReplyDeleteYou know- had you used morrison's music, or ... whatever I havent really thought about it- you might have made the charts on an unusual cover, but in a beautiful world of its own.
Thank you, and Barry.