I continued to spend the long years since childhood cultivating solitude, pursuing silence to its ever-receding horizon, a pursuit that demanded a particular quality of attention, a self-forgetfulness on my part that would enable me to bring to bear the most painstaking, the most careful consideration to the other, to treat the other as the […]

I met my move quick-time, slip into the mass of closed-eyed skankers, sucked into the slipstream of rippling spines. Try to get as close as I can to the decks, watch the MC, see how he handles the mic and the controls. We’re dancing in darkness, skinning up with the dead. I feel them twisting […]

Hänen edessään ja takanaan on satoja tanssijoita. Niin myös hänen vasemmalla ja oikealla puolellaan. Häntä ympäröivät intiaaniudelle tyypilliset värit ja kuviot, värien vähittäinen vaihtuminen toisiksi väreiksi, geometrisesti järjestetyt paljetit kiiltävissä materiaaleissa ja nahassa, sulat, helmet, nauhat, höyhenet ja harakan, haukan, variksen ja kotkan sulat. Kaikkialla on sulkapäähineitä, pullokurpitsoja, tiukuja ja rumpukapuloita, metallikelloja, tikansulkia nuolissa ja […]

Nickel Boys were cheaper than a dime-a-dance and you got more for your money, or so they used to say. In recent years, some of the former students organised support groups, reuniting over the internet and meeting in diners and McDonald’s. Around someone’s kitchen table after an hour’s drive. Together they performed their own phantom […]