Flooded Dreams
Last night I drank a little bit of wine and had to go to bed sot long after 11pm. This morning, the radio came on at 6:45, and I listened to news of Hurricaine Katrina and all hell turning loose in New Orleans.
It was too much. I couldn't get out of bed, instead just imagining what it could possibly be like down there. Would I comandeer a bus and pick up any folks I saw who needed help? Would I hitchhike, uninvited, to the Astro Dome in Houston? Would I loot food? Yeah. I would. It's like a war for these people. And of course it's all poor people, too--they all live in the huge sinkholes. Rich or middle class people would act the same way if they didn't have a car or money to get themselves out of town.
I've never been to New Orleans--and now, if I ever get there, it will be a very different city from what it once was.
CBGBs in New York in the Bowery is getting evicted. This has been months in the making, perhaps years. Blondie, The Ramones, Talking Heads...CBGBs is where the sparks of punk rock were fanned into flames. And now it's maybe gonna go, but not without a fight. Maybe they'll make it, maybe not. Bummer if they don't, but everything has gotta go sometime. You can fight and rally and rail, but everything comes to an end, grimy rock clubs and metropolises built below sea level and cities straddling a major fault line. That's Earth, and that's life.
It was too much. I couldn't get out of bed, instead just imagining what it could possibly be like down there. Would I comandeer a bus and pick up any folks I saw who needed help? Would I hitchhike, uninvited, to the Astro Dome in Houston? Would I loot food? Yeah. I would. It's like a war for these people. And of course it's all poor people, too--they all live in the huge sinkholes. Rich or middle class people would act the same way if they didn't have a car or money to get themselves out of town.
I've never been to New Orleans--and now, if I ever get there, it will be a very different city from what it once was.
CBGBs in New York in the Bowery is getting evicted. This has been months in the making, perhaps years. Blondie, The Ramones, Talking Heads...CBGBs is where the sparks of punk rock were fanned into flames. And now it's maybe gonna go, but not without a fight. Maybe they'll make it, maybe not. Bummer if they don't, but everything has gotta go sometime. You can fight and rally and rail, but everything comes to an end, grimy rock clubs and metropolises built below sea level and cities straddling a major fault line. That's Earth, and that's life.
posted by Lefty at 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
True
don't forget about The Cramps. they started out at CBGB's too and everyone seems to overlook that.
i predicted widespread looting in New Orleans would transpire days before the storm actually hit landfall. i'm not surprised in the least and to be perfectly honest i'd probably be all up in that scene looting with the best of 'em. i'd more than likely do the Earth Abides method and use a 2 pound sledgehammer on storefront windows and doors.
what i am surprised at is the police also participating in the looting. i didn't see that one coming...
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