‘You just keep me hanging on … ‘

Group consciousness in action? In the weeks after so many of us got back together for May's Che Games at the Casbah (and the lovely Graveyard Park picnic that followed), I was struck by the number of references to Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" dropped by attendees.

Never mind its post-"Trainspotting" ubiquity: "Perfect Day" remains a haunting paean to love and loss, as the narrator muses about a perfect day with a companion who made him feel like "someone else ... Someone good."

It's also makes me think about the "perfect days" of our youth ... And days that approach perfection now.

Read more‘You just keep me hanging on … ‘

The Che Underground