louise on the left (coast)

Huge fan. This show has Emmy Awards all over it and deservedly so. Wow. Dark, hypnotic and better than anything I've seen on cable TV since Breaking Bad. Think about the first time you ever read Shirley Jackson's The Lottery or some of the very darkest Daphne du Maurier short stories. Place all that eeriness in a God forsaken corner of Louisiana, add one hell of a strange narrative along with two of the best/worst police partners and -- you got a hit assuming the two leads can act. And, oh, man, can they act. Note: 100% not for kids. This is grown up stuff. -- Whew! Good television is back. And the soundtrack is already a must-have.

Yesterday I found a box of soundtracks from the 80's I used to live in...back when I had the luxury to "live in" things. At night I'd put pop this soundtrack in my walkman and go sit (shiver) on tar beach under a vast night sky simply absorbing the sparkling, twinkling, towering marvel that is Manhattan by night. Even then, despite my deep love for New York along with my rent control one bedroom apartment in the fruit streets of Brooklyn Hts., I had a growing awareness that I was just passing through. That, for whatever entirely inexplicable reason, I was simply not meant to put down roots at that time. Even if I loved it so much. And this one track, in particular, sends me to back to this particular moment in time, when I first knew I was required to heed a growing feeling in the pit of my stomach that something more important for my higher good was elsewhere. It made no sense that I was supposed to make this journey based on a hunch, but later I see that ...

I'm not even close to accepting this loss. Jack Goes Boating Jack Goes Boating Featurette from Evolution LA on Vimeo .