Brighton in English
I feel like writing in English. I'm not that british yet. It's only that sometimes things have a particular language, or they fit better into one at least, or one fits them...whatever.
Massive beach towns usually give me the blues. There's something about them, they're such a "happy" place with all these amusement parks full of rides, candy, fish and chips, people strolling on the pier, eating ice cream...lots of people usually...but as colourful, sunny and beachy and sandy as it looks it never makes it...it never looks happy to me. I prefer places that look blue and cold, and sad straight out.
Anyways, this strange feeling of mine wasn't confirmed by Brighton. It's nice, nicer and happier. The pier was full of rides and there were people, candy apples and cotton candy. But it's in England, maybe that's all the difference. You could borrow free striped sun chairs to get a free suntan on the pier as people walked bye. There I sat on a bench to eat my sandwich when on the speakers I listen to Don Maclean with bye bye miss american pie...the perfect song to describe it all.
I walked into the town through small and confusing streets full of shops, cafes and restaurants. Ben and Jerrys, small music stores, Starbucks, book stores, etc. I then turned to the slightly bigger streets closed for "walkers" like me today. The sun had brought everyone on the street. It was one of those small perfect towns full of all kinds of people who all seem very happy and that they really belong there.
The bus allowed only 5 hours to see it all and long 5 hours to just walk around the nicest and busiest part. I was walking back with plenty of time left when I returned to the square formed by the junction of 3 small streets where I had seen a man singing with his guitar and people on the curve listening. Now, there were 2 with their guitars, amplifiers, an excellent 70's voice and more people on the curve with beer. It was Simon and Garfunkel; I had to sit.
I usually stop to see every "show" I run into on the streets but this kind is the one that always changes my mood. I feel all seventy like.
I start thinking as I have done a million times that maybe I was born in the wrong decade...that maybe I was supposed to have been born in the mid 50's and therefore be in my 20's during the 70's. But these 70's, the english ones. Maybe that's why I'm writing in english today, because the 70's in Spanish is a completely different thing.
I went to get my cookie dough B&J's which I found very appropiate according to who Ben and Jerry where. I sat on the curve and listened for a while. Suddenly I realized that my body didn't want to go. I stayed for a while listening to creedence, tracy, etc.
I think many of the people there were like me, maybe thinking about old music but really happy of being of today. Nobody was stuck in the past, at least they didn't show it, they seemed truely happy with the sun and their beer today. Not even the singers, who probably really were from that other generation. I usually don't like people who don't grow out of and up from the past. They seemed to have. I'm glad I can be watching the new Backstreet Boys video this same minute.
The last one and I would go...now I really would...Paul and Art just appeared again! Listening to "The Boxer" I stood up and started walking back. I left with that feeling.
Suddenly I saw the sea! I had forgotten I was in a beach town! Got on the bus feeling all good with my new cd and the pictures I took of the blue graffiti...It'll be remembered.

