Manafonistas

They were travelling on State Route 181 off to State 186. They stopped 26 miles to the southwest at the junction of State Road 181 and U.S. 666. KPFK was playing THE LAST TIME from the Rolling Stones. She knew a Restaurant for truck drivers nearby, where they offered the biggest Schnitzels. There Jimmy Choos and the others used to meet for lunch and talk about their desires. About girls, who „never part.“ About the dude, who has left jail just the other day. One of the truck drivers said: „Yeah, Jim was blinded by the hunt.“

Another agreed: „Well, he knows, what he seeks now, someone, who sets his „heart on fire“.

Outside it was very hot. They kept driving a bit further North on State Route 89. He knew a bar approximately 10 miles northwest from here. He got on State186 and turned right onto Road 618, which was unpaved. They entered the Bar INFINITY. Nobody was in it. They felt as they were in the Movie: „Hi, here is my face, ahh“, which they watched the other day on channel TCM.

Bob went to the bathroom. When he came back, she smiled at him: „I like how you walk into a room. You can bring oceans of potions.“

„Juliette, mon coeur, I was just out here on the Other Side of Desire.“

She grinned: „You better be careful or all your dreams just stop dying.“

They had a few beers and a Gin and Tonic. They got back in their Corvette. After a 4 miles drive they turned right on Road 200. This road was winding down. On Radio they heard the song END OF THE LINE. Both turned it off almost at the same time. When they crossed a creek the car was suddenly wheeling around. She was afraid, he put his hand on her knees. „All life is circling and all circles leading.“

„Please, could you do me a favor and stop here?“ He parked the car in Canal Street, on the other side of the last stop from the Riverfront Line.

Good morning, good Monday morning tune
 

Thelonious Monk Gallop’s Gallop Live at the It Club (1964) AUDIO
 
 
 

 

„The world beyond your head“ might be a good headline for nine Manafonistas working on a book that, from the first chapter onwards, has no clearly defined themes, plots or sub-plots. In fact, it is the title of a book by Matthew Crawford who researches the reasons for man’s tendency to be diverted and deceived by wrong heroes, the lifelessness of basic assumptions of Immanuel Kant (that settled down in some areas of the collective unconsciousness), dumb fetishizing, and a big industry of commerce. The British philosopher knows some cures for that, especially skills that bring you in direct contact with the physical world (ice hockey, bike repair, looking for places of wilderness in deserted parts of Scotland a. o.). So he’s definitely a hot candidate for writing the prologue of the book of the manafonistas. Wir sind ja immer, um es mit Peter Rühmkorf zu sagen, daran interessiert, einen zweiten Weg ums Gehirn herum zu finden. „A second way around the brain“ has always been a passionate affair for Arthur Russell whose archives are a source of constant wonder. In his life and times he has been a brilliant composer of hard core avant-garde dancefloor music, weird songs that were always on the verge of been sucked in by echo chambers and that live up to the extreme fragility of Nick Drake’s „Pink Moon“ (though dealing with a completely different approach to music). „Corn“ is out now, and an awesome first or next step into the world of a genius of high wire acts. The ghost in the machine: a great theme from sci-fi to electronic music „with a soul“. Now, two specialists for synthesizers and one violinist try a further step into this big field of breathing vibes and organic machines. The name of the trio is program: „Ghost Harmonic“. Speaking of ghosts, disturbing twilight zones and roads to nowhere, you might want to dive into the world of Mark Henshaw’s thriller „The Snow Kimono“. It creates a world of psychological complexity in a story that moves from Paris to Japan and back again. And it’s very well written.