Love affairs.

There has always been some kind of bizarre love affair between Presidencians, grass and Floyd. Well, to be sure, not all Presidencians.. just the self destructive ones.. and in some cases, the wannabe self destructive wimpy ones. There is something about the self congratulatory feeling that sends you into a three year 'Canteen Honours' programme with a more than necessary introduction into the art of Indian politics. Ok, having bitched enough for one day, let me get to the point and talk about some of my very favourite music videos. Note that I am talking about favourite music video and not favourite music. There is a small overlap region... in fact, let me get started on that.. as this is likely to be a continual ongoing thingummy.. so here goes.. the first one that I am going to talk about is High Hopes by Pink Floyd, in their album Division Bell. The video is here, and the lyrics are here. A Wiki entry is here.

A lot of people have spent a lot of time interpreting different themes in the song and in the video.. this is always something that is great about Floyd.. as a band they always managed to skate on the edge of comprehension... never degenerating into the nonsense of so many other groups.. and never letting their lyrics turn into banalities like.. say Scorpions. Again, Scorpions made great music.. but their songs were somewhat brain dead. Yes, so as Anirban used to make fun of Suman and me, 'so, what do the guitars floating down the river mean?' and so on.. it is to everyone to individually enjoy.. and perhaps analyse. But do listen.