Friday, November 11, 2005
Hotel California, Reprise
An underreported phenomenon is the popularity of the song "Hotel California" in India AND Sri Lanka. For many months I've been observing this extroardinary phenomenon. And just this past Sunday night, when I asked a restauranteur to change the romantic music he'd put on for my benefit ("Tell me how to win your heart, cause I haven't got a clue...."), he immediately turned it off and put on "Hotel California." I almost spit out my tea. Today my guesthouse owner played a CD in which there was an instrumental of it that sounded sort of like a samba. Safely, Gabi