October 12, 2009. Tonight, Tom Verlaine played a secret show at the old Masonic Lodge. No phones allowed. Paid $40 at the door. He didn't speak. He just played his Jazzmaster like he was trying to strangle the neck.
He opened the text file first.
He handed me this cassette. Said: "Play it when you feel the grid closing in." TOM VERLAINE - DU Blogspot POST.rar
I asked him: "What's the first chord of 'Marquee Moon'?" October 12, 2009
Leo double-clicked. Inside was a single .txt file and a .mp3 . TOM VERLAINE - DU Blogspot POST.rar
Leo leaned back. "The grid closing in." He knew that feeling. The feeling of algorithms predicting his every click. The feeling of endless scrolling.
He looked out his window.