With proper editing behind-the-scenes becomes theater when the make-up has already been applied. Make-up accelerates transformation; with make-up, a masquerader can conduct spirit, even while sitting there, in the green room, in Chicago, sitting still. Let the mask do the talking, and the bullshit do the…
The mask maneuvers the musician into the proper mood, the proper slot. Reflexive; muscle memory reciting spirit. Expanded bullet casing moves in slow reverse, back through the back of the skull, back out the mouth, then expands again, before it transmutes into bar vapor purr. The vapor cloud covers the patrons. Just as they settle back into the thick, the fade out…
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