Two Different Nights: Night Two
And as I promised last night, here's part two. Hope you enjoy it...
1. "New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"—Duke Ellington
In a narrow alley, you huddle under an old brick archway to get out of the rain. After fumbling around in your pocket you eventually retrieve the tiny glowing bottle of quantum distillate and pour the slightly luminous blue liquid down your throat.
2. "Sirocco"—Pram
You wander back out to the street and darting from awning to awning you make your way down the sidewalk. All around you the windows of bars and restaurants display warm scenes of overflowing crowds.
3. "I Dream of Ghosts"—Land of the Loops
As you pass a bus stop bench the first waves of the distillate begin to overtake take you. You feel a little fuzzy, slightly out of phase. Your fingertips feel as if they are coated in candle wax.
4. "Pisces"—Zodiac
You find a hookah bar to pass the time and wind up splitting a pipe with a strange man whose face you can never quite make out.
5. "Noah's Ark"—CocoRosie
Now you're back outside and the rain is still falling but somehow it doesn't seem to hit you. You pass through umbrella carrying crowds on your way down to the riverwalk and not a single person looks up at you.
6. "Senhor Santo Cristo"—Torrez
Slipping into a matchbox-sized bar unnoticed, it takes you several attempts to get the bartender's attention. You order a bourbon to take the edge off. After only a couple sips you find you are no longer able to pick up the glass. Each time you try, your fingers seem to pass right through it.
7. "Bone Bomb"—Brian Eno
You step back out onto the rain soaked riverwalk. A woman covering her hair with a newspaper runs toward you and without hesitation straight through you. You feel your body dissipate as she passes through. It's a strange sensation but not unpleasant, as if you were a dandelion blown apart by a sharp breeze.
8. "X-Playo"—Soda Stereo
Catching the gusts of wind the particles of you float up into the air. Below you crowds scurry along the riverwalk and raindrops splash down into churning waters. You observe the city lights like a vast neural network as you drift up into the clouds.
9. "Beyond the Mountain Qaf"—Secret Chiefs 3
As you rise up into the great black silent sky you find yourself able to follow the movement of atoms all around you. It is both day and night now, laid out before you in an infinite web of past and future all happening at once. And you stare straight into it, into the unblinking hexagonal eye from which all movement unfolds. Everything around you splinters.
10. "7"—Cafe Tacuba
Everywhere at once, you drift.
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