Member Since: 11/24/2005
Band Members: Palmembers
Influences: Hayden - Magnolia Electric & Co. - Giant Sand - Joseph Arthur - The Black Heart Procession - Sam Shepard - Nicholson Baker
Hollywood
Sitting here in Los Angeles
parked on a rundown residential
back street
staring at the word
HOLLYWOOD
written on some lonely mountains
I'm listening very carefully
to rock and roll radio
(Lovin' Spoonful)
(Jefferson Airplane)
while people are slowly
putting out their garbage cans.
Richard Brautigan - January 26, 1967 at 3:15 in the afternoon
Sounds Like: Black cloud shadows
on the Orocopia Mountains
Gigantic Date Palms
brown bags protecting their fruit
Alfalfa trucks
orange trucks filled with tires
Tangerine groves
ladders leaning on the trunks
Roofless stone foundations
made from river rock
Single burned Palm
nothing around it burned
Giant chunks of truck tires
frying on the road
Trailered racing boat
solid chrome pipes
Dust blows
all over Blythe
- "Motel Chronicles" Sam Shepard
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