<recorded verbatim from a scratchy latenight SP voicemail> I moved to China for a year and a half and didn’t speak a word of Mandarin. But I was an avid and cut-throat Mahjong player, mostly from my back-alley Atlantic City days. One night in a mescaline stupor I fell into the largest tile hall in […]
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One time one of his drivers told me that he owns a club in the Carribean, or a piece of one. “‘Dirty scoundrels’ tried to run him out, he told us. He’s pretty hush hush about it, you can ask him about it if you want I guess.” I felt like I was being told
I need: New pens Toothbrush Get a haircut Van-friendly snacks (no beef jerky this time) . Grab for SP: A liter of cachaça Several lubed bass picks A Playboy magazine (pre 1982) 14 postcards of cities not on the tour Bid on some bovine bone Mahjong tiles (he’s comfortable up to 10,000 yuan) The latest
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He called me this morning at 3:30am. “…Hello?” “Oh good, you’re up. Listen, I’m in Cabo and I need you to wire me some cash. These guys say they’re going to put my salchicha through a meat grinder and they look pretty serious this time.” SP, as far as I knew, was a non-violent person.
One of the few topics I found that he would take entirely seriously when I asked him about it was that of his musical influences. Music – its potential and power, its past, its future – was one of his favorite conversation topics, in fact, and for a guy that blustered about most everything else,
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He would often come to me with odd requests, and though I wasn’t his manager or anything like that, I often seemed to be the one most up for his adventures and or antics, if only because every documentarian secretly or not so secretly wants to be a superstar hotshot movie director and swing on
We met one night outside the show for an alternative rock band called Marfire. To this day I’m still unsure if he heard a single song of theirs that night. As I stood in the cool autumn breeze, he asked me for a light. As it happened, I only had a pack of matches on