The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98675   Message #1956865
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
03-Feb-07 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Scarey New Yorkers...
Subject: RE: Scarey New Yorkers...
I suppose this thread really ought to be in the BS section. Unless maybe someone wants to drift it on to songs about being isolated in the big City, such as Ralph McTell's Streets of London, or Enda Kenny's The Barman Says (that's Enda Kenny the song writer in Australia, not the Dublin politico).

I've been looking at the other two sections in the site, the one with pictures of people in an elevator (a lift), StopDown, and sitting on a bench in Times Square Time Port

Once again I find it frightening how sad and apprehensive almost everybody seems to look. Even the ones sitting in Times Square. I hope it's just a front they out on, a sort of shield against contact in a place that's too full of strangers.

Yes, Stilly River Sage, I know about travelling around on the London Underground, and how people keep themselves to themselves. I lived in London for years and grew up there. Maybe it hadn't hit home to me how bad it's got, city life. But those pictures I find pretty disturbing.