My roommate is a friend of Fagen's wife Libby and visits the Fagens all the time. I meanwhile am the lifelong Steely Dan fan in the apartment, and that bastard meets and becomes friends with Donald Fagen.
So... there I am... It;s 8am or so as I step out of the Marco polo Hotel lobby onto Canton rd and I'm headin' up the road to what was a place called :"The Perfect cup:" but now's called the "Coffee Mill" I'm walking along with light step watchin' local folks as they"re headin off to work or already hard at it, there's still a breeze, the air is still breatheable. I find the place and step on in and order that dammed fine brew... puuurfect. now just guess who was on the walkman all that time.
You say you were watching local folks but I bet they were visitors, like you. Mainlanders dragging around families, getting ready to shop for gold, and oblivious to the sounds of DF. A small tragedy.
@hklinker. Well Y'know they've all a place as extras'n'walk-on's in that grand moving tableau that is my Holiday recollection.Oblivious to the magical tones of Df, they may have been, but unless the gold buying, tourists and other outlanders were pushing barrows, hand-carts or adopting that pedantic bulldozer type stance that screams "I'm on my way to work, make way!" then I guess many of those I saw were locals. Were they were like me? maybeso.I wasn't the only one with a walkman.;-)
There's one other possibility; the barrow pushers might have come to HK as tourists and gambled it all away. I've often thought The Two could easily pull a concept album from this place. And careful with that Walkman lest you become a luckless pedestrian. True story - person was killed here when hit by by someone falling from a building.
Donald Fagen. Unbelievable!
joeoliverstrings 4 weeks ago
Dang, I wish I could write music this bizarre yet awesome!
Honeydew7396 1 month ago
song has the same effect on the listener as the song's protagonist does on its subjects. and the chorus is of course pure fagentabulous
cringle22 1 month ago
My roommate is a friend of Fagen's wife Libby and visits the Fagens all the time. I meanwhile am the lifelong Steely Dan fan in the apartment, and that bastard meets and becomes friends with Donald Fagen.
I of course must now turn to a life of crime.
iwantoldschool 1 month ago 9
most dope.
lakewte72 2 months ago
uno dei più grandi compositori viventi
AcidJohnzo 2 months ago
@AcidJohnzo True
iwantoldschool 1 month ago
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brokecolla 2 months ago
Cool. As always.
thruid3 2 months ago
Well i would say it might have been a bit of Nightfly... MAXINE? it always does the do for me.. a bliss out.
lonkaiser 2 months ago
So... there I am... It;s 8am or so as I step out of the Marco polo Hotel lobby onto Canton rd and I'm headin' up the road to what was a place called :"The Perfect cup:" but now's called the "Coffee Mill" I'm walking along with light step watchin' local folks as they"re headin off to work or already hard at it, there's still a breeze, the air is still breatheable. I find the place and step on in and order that dammed fine brew... puuurfect. now just guess who was on the walkman all that time.
NothusDeusVagus 3 months ago
@NothusDeusVagus
You say you were watching local folks but I bet they were visitors, like you. Mainlanders dragging around families, getting ready to shop for gold, and oblivious to the sounds of DF. A small tragedy.
hklinker 1 month ago
@hklinker. Well Y'know they've all a place as extras'n'walk-on's in that grand moving tableau that is my Holiday recollection.Oblivious to the magical tones of Df, they may have been, but unless the gold buying, tourists and other outlanders were pushing barrows, hand-carts or adopting that pedantic bulldozer type stance that screams "I'm on my way to work, make way!" then I guess many of those I saw were locals. Were they were like me? maybeso.I wasn't the only one with a walkman.;-)
NothusDeusVagus 3 weeks ago
@NothusDeusVagus
There's one other possibility; the barrow pushers might have come to HK as tourists and gambled it all away. I've often thought The Two could easily pull a concept album from this place. And careful with that Walkman lest you become a luckless pedestrian. True story - person was killed here when hit by by someone falling from a building.
hklinker 3 weeks ago
....very!!!
OlymPigs2010 3 months ago