September 30th Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter

It’s Sunday, first or the last day of the week, depending what calendar you are looking at. Sunday was the first day of the week also here in Finland until 1973 when Monday got the honor to start the week. Many Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday and then resurrected on Sunday. They lay their belief in John 19:31. I might say that I felt that I was crucified also on Friday. Is any resurrection coming this Sunday? Just have to wait and see.

I was supposed to link this prime to Army of Lovers song Crucified. Fact is that I’m so fuckin’ messed up right now with me that I decided to go on Bangles. Here’s a Simon & Garfunkel cover Hazy Shade of Winter. The song is from movie Less Than Zero which was quite loosely adapted from Brett Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name. What’s the connection with all this? Hopes and dreams and reality. And the life.

I by the way have met Brett Easton Ellis once. It was in Helsinki in a bookstore. I was the last one in the line in a book signing occasion two years ago. I shaked his hand (grip was very soft) and we spoked a few lines. I for example spelled my name to him: It’s zei-ei-en-vai. Then he signed something and looked at me. I think he was very tired and also flirted with me. Some men do so. The book was Lunar Park but I should have bought American Psycho and get the signature on that one. That would have been cool.

Then there’s this one thing that I’m not very proud of. And well, let's go public with this one too. I had just come from a photo gig and I had all my stuff in a pack bag: camera, objectives, flashes. I was the last one in the line after 2.5 hours signing. I didn't queue all that time, though. I happened to pass the book store when the whole operation started - did the gig and came back - and there were only 5 people in the queue before me. And no one behind. Brett was very loose and relaxed and I was so locked at that moment that it didn’t even come into my mind that I would have had very good chances to photograph him in the dark and rainy autumnal Helsinki. Would’ve that be cool or what!!! But no. I just thanked him and walked away. I was such a novice back then. Well, that thing really waked me up and when same kinds of situations have come in front of me I have not hesitated a bit. Learn by mistakes, it just about is so.