ok...so having had an overall crappy day (involving fire trucks/no
coffee/quiz etc. :(..i go to the local record store here in philly and
pick the latest tresor comp..i go home and i'm cleaning my house and car
(bear with me there's a point to this) and i have the cd on inside and
the jazz station on in my car so while i'm going back and forth i'm
listening to both..i finish with stuff and lay down on the couch with the
door open, the cd on and a breeze blowing and and i'm just letting my
mind drift...i'm lying there listening to the music thinking about
detroit events and i go off on a tangent and just start thinking about
detroit, picturing the skyline and such...and then *WHAM*...i get this
picture in my brain....anyone who hasn't been to detroit's jazz fest or
anything isn't gonna get this (and maybe nobody else will either ;)..
anyway i get this picture in my head of like a technofest, the music
drifting across the city, across the river...sunlight, breezes, happy
faces etc...it gives me a jolt so i start thinking about it more, having
many stages some with live acts etc...then i start comparing it to jazz
fest and think how the city would never go for it..then i start thinking
"yeah well they used to think all jazz players were heroin addicts
too"..hmmm at this point i'm experiencing a serious mind fuck..i'm
picturing a whole weekend of it, posters, headlines etc.....and then i
start to think of how it would effect the scene, and i'm thinking maybe
that's just what it needs...for it to come out of the closet so to
speak, for the city to embrace it as part of it's heritage...ok yeah i
am _seriously_ dreaming here :)...like how jazz started the same way,
"illegitimate", records made with only a few hundred pressings etc, how
it got coopted by the mainstream for a time, and how it managed to survive
that and _evolve_, how it is still thriving and is given respect but yet
has it's own rather small following...i don't know, something about this
has really shaken me, i can't get it out of my mind..jeeeez having the
music float over to windsor....god and having one _yearly_... you know
that feeling you get when you trip really hard, have way intense
visuals and wake up the next morning (*chuckle* or whenever time of
day it is) and the world just doesn't quite look the same, like
somehow you have just permenently altered your whole perception of
reality...that's what this is doing to me..just thought i'd share :)
freaked but sober
-kaffeina
