radio românia cultural...

woke me up this morning with this terribly cheesy song by john waite (not sure who the woman is he sings it with). it has all the ingredients "i ain't missing you at all", something about a "frozen and broken heart", and i believe there is also a "storm" of some sort "raging". finally, cannot have a wonderfully clichéd and exceptionally unoriginal love song without "signals" or something along those lines involved. of course! popular romanticism is such a silly lovely human thing. is it? and a more general question: what is, in any case, our obsession with originality, and innovation? believe it or not, the song itself put a huge smile on my face and got up rather quickly for my standards. and yes, i am a sucker for cheesy, ridiculous love songs, and i refuse to be a musical snob, all within limits of course... no other conclusions from this, please, but this one: among other things it has done, fieldwork has shown me the value of confining your social life to a limited geographical area. why? because, if you remain there, you will miss people less than if you're all scattered in various countries...
so if you need a song that makes you happy, i recommend 'mack the knife' sung by the great ella. if, after that, you need another one, get in touch...