I'll admit I've already posted this video in other threads, but sitting here in a half-soused stupor I've been thinking of something that struck me when I saw this video for the 3rd time today in that I want to go to Detroit to check out the abandoned buildings.
It would be like Christopher McCandless except I would be going into the urban wild, with like, food and shyt some blocks away. Or it would be like living in an
I Am Legend world with decrepit buildings, overgrown weeds, packs of feral dogs nipping at my ankles with the only viable option to placate them being the hunk of deer I somehow shot in the middle of the fukking city b/c death etc.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Detroit is strangely beautiful.
Within its hallowed structures where crackheads ply their trade of smoking crack, and homeless people carry hearts replete with hope to one day adverse possess Michigan Central Station or Eastown Theater or whatever the fukk, it operates to hearken back to a time more beautiful, the midwest an open frontier of opportunity and desire. Where men and women strode between musty street cars that reached out to the blue gardens of the post-industrial suburbs of Americana, people flittering like moths to a flame, whispering wishes to the stars and the bottom of their champagne glasses for those more close. Skin still red from the summer sun, which drenched the pavement, and boats that skimmed across those great lakes.
OH...to be there
But the parched walls lead you there...
Oh...
Here's the video I was talking about. #Detroit.