Thursday, April 27, 2006

Singing in the rain.

I went for a walk with my friend yesterday. The weather had been lovely all day, but when we went for our walk it was raining. We didn't mind though, we had umbrellas. As I walked back from her place to mine, I walked past a sort of... I don't actually really know what it is. Like a gym and a party venue type place. I've never been there. Outside of it, there was a group of probably ten people, smoking. They were all middle-aged and looked normal. Just I mean... Normal. When I got a little bit closer I could hear that someone was singing. At first I thought it was folk music of some kind, but then I heard that it was "I will always love you". I didn't look towards the people for too long, so I didn't identify the woman (or castrato) who was singing, but it was kind of funny that the silence from the other people was as loud as her singing. I walked past, but her excrutiatingly slow version of the song followed me until I was almost outside my front door. It was weird because she didn't have a bad voice. It was pretty good, apart from her changing key at one point. Yeah, a bit sort of... unexpected.

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