Wednesday night, I got myself tangled in this lucid dream with Jimi Hendrix. I was at some Woodstock like festival, the Woodstock of the millennium if you must. The place seemed reminiscent of Fort Canning, muddy, raining, a miserable excuse for Glastonbury, nevertheless, enough to keep the crowd happy and content. I'm in a crowd of just a million overly intoxicated white people and performers who, didn't quite make it to the 21st century. I don't know how I got there but I was staring at Cobain telling the crowd what a fucking wankfest this was to him; I'm paraphrasing of course. And from behind this hand grabs my arm and starts pulling me out of the crowd, out of the rain. I end up far and away from the crowd, walking with Jimi, sharing a joint, into the rain and into this carpark, past a police officer. Pretty much walking in silence, staring in awe before me, a skinny black man with very little chest hair, too much head hair and fingers of ecstasy. He turns around every now and then to see if I'm "feelin' it" and when he turns to face the front again, I lose myself in the swagger he carries with every footstep. The stride of a dead man has never looked this good, this glorious. We find a spot to sit and make small talk. He tells me he's been waiting to get out of the crowd. This twenty seven year old prodigy, tells me he chose to cover Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower' because the lyrics sounded so cool. And as I sit there listening to him talk his high away, I start to wonder why I was alone there in the first place, why I didn't bring anyone with me or see anyone else I knew there. When my eyes opened to the sound of the rain outside, it felt like I died for a few hours and got thrown into this alternate reality, a whole new dimension, the afterlife, like that wristcutters movie, stuck in this strange, hopeless setting. If you've gotten yourself stuck in between the third and fourth dimension before then you'd know that it makes death sound like a damn good rock 'n' roll record.
Now playing: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Rainy Day, Dream Away
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