I Am Detroit

Peter: 28th May 2002 - 16:43 GMT

for 8 years, my love for NYC has been unshakable; after spending the weekend in Detroit, though, its as if I've taken on some mysteriously sultry new urban lover, a thickly populated inner-city mistress linked only to my current city-love via interstate, a lover that smells like river, malt-liquor, and the sexy sweat of countless furiously dancing women.

Ive been gone a day, and I want to go back already; its that enticing of a place, somehow, in some way.

chucksspeed: 28th May 2002 - 18:23 GMT

amped
kickin it

imagine a line worker - ten hour shifts hanging the same trim piece every 68 seconds. trim takes 12 seconds to hang; 56 seconds left to do whatever can be done in less than a minute. in the gaps - we listen to the rhythm...

industrial rhythm - becomes part of our souls before we're even aware it exists. a mantra - like the hit of a 4000 ton minster press - not heard but felt thru every organ.

its no accident detroit kicks the latest vibe - cityblues/motown/industrial/electronica are the byproduct of the sound bytes between tasks mundane. you become the machine; the machine becomes you. after 90 years of living the line, we've figured out how to translate the rhythm of industrial creation into electronic form; creating an organic machine via sound bytes...

amped
kickin it