SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “I Like the Street (Acoustic)*”—This song hearkens back to when I had a “day job” as a bicycle messenger, wheeling and pedaling around the urban hills of San Francisco. That presented opportunities to study sweat, strangers, and speed.
“I like the street / I like the street
The hustle and the bustle and the people that I meet
The grifters and the star-struck, The poets and the drunks
The PhDs and jailbirds, The models and the punks,
The barkers and the preachers and the friends that I hold dear
Some will bring you aggravation, some will bring you cheer (beep beep)…”
Sweat points to a rhythm under your skin and makes it glisten in the light. Sweat does not discriminate between burlap or satin, barkeep or ballerina. Lying makes people sweat. So does love. Jesus sweated drops of blood. Sweat carries the dust of disappointment and the heat of anticipation. This is Sweat Logic, a way of coping and seeing behind the masks that people wear in life. One day I was reflecting on that and, suddenly, a song sprang forth, with lyrics that are “AUTO-biographical.” This song is "my mind on bike."
*This was a featured cut on my TREADMARKS album, an acoustic project produced by Mark Doyon on the Wampus Multimedia label.
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