#bicucle

SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO + HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEITH KAVANAUGH*: “I Like the Street (Electric Velvet Mix)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VFPBwfnEnc —It occurs to me that this song is a short auto-biography. The lyrics hearken 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 speed, strangers, and sweat. This song is "my mind on bike.”

“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.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VFPBwfnEnc

*Keith played drums on the studio recording of this track.