Archive for July 21st, 2007

070720 st. louis, MO >>> springfield, MO



Als waere kein waesserchen getruebt beginnt der Tag, tosende Klimaanlagen, tobender  Verkehr, in welchen wir uns werfen:
Zurueck ein Stueck zur Brueck’ … THIS really IS good old Mississipi ! Flasbacks of THE BIG BOOK celebrating childhood- adventures in riverside woods, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Strictly WB, The Route applies to Leslie Fiedlers essay on Mark Twain and the archetypical phantasies about escaping the restrictions of civilization. Or, as THE  WHO once put it: “Hope I die beforde I get old“.

Irres urbanistisches, energetisches und verkehrtechnisches Hybrid am Ufer, zwei Bruecken, Doppelstocktrain, cars, cargo, casino, parkinglots, shabby arehouses, mute & mutilated power plant.

St. louis: Leeres Stadtzentrum (das wird auch in Springfield, MO so sein, everything for rent, for sale or under construction).  Hitting I44, Pique Nique mit Aussicht unter amerikanischer Fahne, Blick ueber Pacific, MO, Wald bis zur Horizontlinie. Viel Natur bis MERAMEC CAVERNS, fuenf Sterne: Typisches resort der 50er, Natur / Familien /Glueck, jetzt so verwaist, dass schon wieder als Herzensempfehlung durchgehen mag - selten einen so triftigen Grund gesehen, Kinder zu haben …

Auch fuer Kinder (grosse und kleine): The nearby Truck & Toy Museum @ Stanton, MO.  Private Collection mit 18000 items, versetzt mit einigen Prisen schwarzen Humors: “Unattended children will be sold as slaves“.

Das ist in der Tat die wilde Ecke, das alte Trapperland im heutigen Gewande: Vom CREATIVE CHAINSAW bis zum laid- back Harley- spot @ Devil’s Elbow, MO (yes Sir, indeed, we did some sound- recording there: evening sereneade of the birds in the wood, sound of the little creek, some rare echoes of the famous antique bridge, bikers casually telling their tall tales while throwing horse- shoes until somebody shows off firing up his bike). Trailerhomes, storages, xxx- rated Inns: It’s a man’s man’s man’s world @ those Ozarks.

Profusion of collectibles, profusion of nature, profusion of intersections >>> Springfield, MO: Profusion of outlets, drivethrus and malls.

070719 springfield, IL >>> st. louis, MO



surround recording:
visuell: digifoto mal 2, spiegelreflex mal 1,
paperwork: routemaps mal 7, guides mal 4, scrapbooks mal 2.
blogtool (producing THIS HERE, right now): N800
location-decoding: navicore GPS.
audio: minidisc.

kap recording freight train, 1mile long, rolling forward and back again / senior citizens plus TV / ambience with birds before the rain at famous 66-location DEERWAY drive / and tries to get some ambience at historical brick patch at snell road in AUBURN: absolutely NO CAR passingg by…

czz earns 5 $: pickup stops, three college girls are yelling: ¨it is god`s will that we give THIS money to YOU. buy yourself something to eat, Jesus loves you!!!¨

These Illinois Praries are INDEED blessed with: genegtically engineered sweet corn, experimental fields (plant hight=upto 8 ft): MAISALEE (kap).

springfield: food service @ government building
springfiled: world`s best vanilla @ sheryll+kaye
auburn: brick road 66
VIRDEN: (erste echt-leben-66-stadt): books on the square, children`s book store (harry potter: 105 exemplare bestellt, 35 verfuegbar, noch 2 tage, undurchschaubares discount-system), good neighbours pharmacy
CARLINVILLE: courthouse (*1870: neo-barock-historist-rathaus vis a vis neo-goth-historist-kirche): `welcome to carlinville, attend the Curch of your Choice´ —- `Cozy Corner´zielt auf tiefere triebe

GILLESPIE: tanken @ JUMPIN JIMMIE`s, regen
regen
regen regen
regen regen regen
regen regen regeen regen.
ST. LOUIS: (east), supposed to be mean

kapczz logischen ersten hickup gut ueberstanden
one huge can of miller`s: over and out!!!