2008
Feb 
25

Silence

7:14  
 

Would it be so bad?

Dire Straits [img: http://www.dire-straits.net]

As we sit here in the Second Cup listening, ironically, to a late-nineties remix of a song entitled “Silence,” I can’t help but muse: “Would actual silence be that bad?”

It’s like there is a disease these days which makes it physically uncomfortable to sit quietly—or speak to each other in a civil way—to the point that we will listen to endless hours of the same terrible music. I thought this same thing last night as I sat at the BCA and listened to Money for Nothing (Dire Straits, 1985) for the fifteenth time of evening. It’s for some new music everywhere in Cairo. I don’t mind listening to Dire Straits once in a while. I don’t mind listening to anything once in a while, but I have low tolerance for listening to the same thing—especially if is is crap—over and over again. Whereas, everyone here—especially the expat—seems to have a high tolerance for such musical assault.

Perhaps I will start a foundation to bring new music to Cairo. I’ll get to that right after I start the “Fund to Build Footbridges over Gameat al-Dawwal al-Arabiya Street.”

Update:

As if to ice the cake, My Humps (Black Eyed Peas, 2005) just came on. Score one for Egypt.