Bicycle Diaries and a Saturday Matinee Music Video
"I Like The Street"
SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “I Like The Street (Treadmarks Acoustic Version)”
…This song hearkens back to when I had a “day job” as a bike messenger, cycling around the urban hills of San Francisco. That presented opportunities to study speed, strangers, and sweat…Sweat points to a rhythm under your skin and makes it glisten in the light. Sweat does not discriminate between burlap or satin, bar-keep 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.” You’ve heard about people whose minds are on drugs? Well, this song is "my mind on bike." This acoustic 12-string guitar version was recorded in Virginia and was produced by Mark Doyon for Wampus Multimedia.
“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)…”
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