PROCESS
In which I fire up my old-friend Casio CZ-1000, program a quasi new wave dance groove with Acid loops and sight read the notes in the photo. The CZ was set to a square wave with a slight detune and vibrato. Luckily, it goes 6-note polyphonic so it handled the 3-note chords fine.…
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[track] fly this town
alan watts reflected in a disco ball
there’s a rip in the galaxy
sounds like wind through a door
it’s headed for us full speed ahead
we’ve got nothing to lose anymoreso no more running from the past
running from the dark
searching through the void
chasing lovelet’s fly this town tonight
dance away from these city lights
take our cues from distant satellites
let’s fly this townover the horizon lies
a ring of endless light
made of the dreams we carried
through our coldest nightsthere’s no more falling out of time
falling for the cons
calling out in vain
waiting on lovelet’s fly this town tonight
dance away from these city lights
take our cues from distant satellites
let’s fly this town
o(men)s [disquiet0097-page99remix]
PROCESS
Currently (re)reading:
The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
Illustrated Edition, Paintings by Moebius
First 80 characters on page 99:
“Can’t you just observe men and omens in order to understand the language?” the
There’s a heaviness to Coehlo’s fable that this treatment revealed. I first read it in ’93, when it was first published in English.…
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one city
she walks into union square
sends the pigeons flying
didn’t think i’d find her there
didn’t think of trying
she sits on a bench above the subway
as the trains rumble by
i see her shake
inside the hiss of a subway’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same
a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange
dreams between drags on a cigarette
while i watch
under the lights of an august city
that will never stop
red street, the light of a taxi’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same
a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange