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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Take me back...

"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 On the Word site we started off a thread about how quickly the latest technological marvel is, once superseded, utterly forgotten.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.

1 comment:

  1. Loved it- perhaps not as you or Barry intended, but for my own personal reasons, espacially the accent.
    You 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.

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