{"id":63,"date":"2006-10-29T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mog.com\/spaceling\/blog_post\/21832"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:40:42","slug":"nights-of-carlotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/10\/nights-of-carlotta","title":{"rendered":"Nights of Carlotta"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yE5ho61yPXg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Woke up to &#8220;Punk Rock&#8221; by Mogwai this morning, the first time I had heard their album <em>Come On Die Young<\/em> (1999). It opens with a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iggy_Pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a>, from an interview on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television, March 11, 1977. In the interview he&#8217;s talking to the &#8220;90 Minutes Live&#8221; show host Peter Gzowski.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh&#8230; and, uh&#8230; heartless manipulators, about music&#8230; that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. 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Do you understand what I&#8217;m saying, sir?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last night I went to Carlotta Street near LSU to watch the spectacle of teeming youth and desperate insanity of a Halloween weekend in Baton Rouge. My anthropology is camouflaged. I&#8217;m a raver cowboy in my best duds, pearl buttoned shirt, Stetson, and orange cargo pants. It&#8217;s all a mask though. I just want to push myself out of my room and be around other people.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on the open porch scene of Spanishtown, I made some friends of some drifting youth here in Baton Rouge. Their goal in life? to work, go to rehab and eventually get custody back of their child. The two of them are with me now, in my car, driving the breezy night, parking in a sketchy parking lot. Just the three of us, two being on anti-depressants, and we&#8217;re asked repeatedly to help buy vodka at the local Circle K for these three 17 year old girls, dressed as faeries, one faery with a cellphone tucked in her bra. 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I am loneliness in this mass.<\/p>\n<p>The three of us make our way back to my car, and I play for my new friends &#8220;Philip Glass&#8221;, the homage by Colourbox, as I speed us back to the nooks and crannies from whence we came.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Igzpxo2kfhs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why this all puts me in mind of Rothko, both the artist and the ambient music project. 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