Proselitism

Me, a few days ago, sitting at home with a Bodyfriend in his mid-twenties.

Me: I've been obssesively listening to this song lately. Just looping it, and after a few listenings, letting it go and then once I go back to it, loop again...

Him: Lol* Which song is it?

-Candy, by Iggy Pop

-Ô_ò

-...right. 1990-1991. Ok. You don't know it, right?

-nope.

-...and it isn't really your style... [me leaping up and heading to the cd player] but look, I'll play it for you

- lol lol lol haaaahahaha ok, sure. Let's see.

[Iggy' husky voice starts talking:

It's a rainy afternoonIn 1990
The big city
geez it's been 20 years
Candy - you were so fine]

-Yeah lol sounds like you...

-:P

[music starts, Iggy sings the beautiful opening:

Beautiful beautiful
Girl from the north
You burned my heart
With a flickering torch]

-So you're the beautiful girl from the north???!!

-caught me! Hhhhahahaa... Used to dream that, not now though

-LOL

-God! I used to love this song, in 1991, when...

-...you fell in love with Hugo's dad

-yeah. I know. Sorry.

-Well... I used to talk about my girlfr... my ex with you

-...On and on and on... [roll eyes]

-yeah lol

[Candy, Candy, Candy I can't let you go
All my life you're haunting me
I loved you so
Candy, Candy Candy I can't let you go
Life is crazy
Candy baby]

-And show me pictures, of her and her daughter...

-Yeah, yeah, i know...

-Hey, listen to this bit: the girl!!!

[she first tells us, weak with admitting...:
Yeah, well it hurt me real bad when you left
I'm glad you got out
But I miss you

Then her voice goes up to sing:
I've had a hole in my heart for so long
I've learned to fake it and just smile along

Down on the street
Those men are all the same
I need a love
Not games
Not games]

-[rolling eyes] Right... I know

... Iggy on the background, we're talking about our stuff. His problems with his permits, my useless jobsearch. Got talking about why I don't really want to go back into teaching English

-So I just can't put up with the stress of having sooo many 'bosses'. The students, their parents, the language school director, the adult school directress, everyone seemed to have a different point of view on how I was supposed to be teaching!!!

-But you liked it, and you're a good teacher

-yeah, but can't cope with the 9-month contracts and the no-work-no-pay policy at language schools!!! Once I got used to office work, i treasure being able to call sick some day, instead of staggering to class with no voice and teaching by signs...

-Lol!

-True, and then Xmas comes, or Easter, or Summer, and instead of extra cash I had NONE!!!!!!

-Right, you told me...

-And working for such bastards sometimes... remember I told you about the one who kept going on against me, 'coz my hair was "too long to be a teacher", and then he was in the news for child molesting???!!

-Really?!

-That's the only place I walked out from causing trouble: the second year there, in June I said they could count on me for September... then I got a better job, but pretended I'd go, let them think I'd be there on September 15th, and phoned 2 hours before starting to say I had a better offer

-LOL!

-[singing]I left that bastard burning And I never went back

-? ...WHAT????

-The Cure hahahaha

-?

-...

-AAhhhhh! Yeah, those guys you like...

-Yes. I don't listen to them that much, but my mobile tone is still theirs... they used to be my main soundtrack for so long, I have them in my mind quite often

-I've never heard the Cure -what are they like?
-Look [leaping up and heading to the cassettes] , I'll play the one I was joking about: Hot Hot Hot

-Cool

-Wait, let's see if I catch it...

[You know with tapes: try and catch a song, rewind, listen, rewind, listen, FF... All this with your friend laughing at you]
-Yeah, modern technology. Fast Forward, rewind...

-I don't even know how to use an Ipod and stuff like that, I'm old!!!!!!
-Yeah, poor old granny...

-YESSSSSS!!! THIS ONE [:D]

[Hot Hot Hot starts playing...]

-I thought it was more depressing...

-Well, yeah, most of their songs were more typical goth... then there were these funny ones [half an hour talking about The Cure, the Smiths, looking for a few of my goth photos left...]

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*Hey, he spends so much time chatting and sms-ing, and he is sooo used to lol, that he actually laughs out loud LOL!!!!!! -or just about :P

******It had been such a long time since I'd made love listening to The Cure!!!!!!********

UPDATE: I got a chance to learn about his background too !