Saturday night I brought my camera to the DIY show I found out about from conference attendee and electronic musician extraordinaire Drew Daniel of Matmos, who turned out to have grown up in Louisville and still has numerous friends in the local indie scene. I'd say more about that wonderfully fortuitous experience, but I'm saving it for the introduction to my book. So you'll have to wait. I captured the spooky house behind a Dodge hood ornament on the street outside the club -- I got a nice anonymous comment about that one from someone in Louisville today -- and the empty room with the fan in it from the back of the bar area inside.
The next day I took my time getting ready, then took shots of some of the beautiful late nineteenth-century homes south of the U of L. From there I headed east past the "transitional" neighborhood in which the club is located, stopping to shoot the railroad tracks and some more modest homes along the way. I took a long break at Lynn's Paradise Café, which I've already documented, then ended up on Bardstown Road just as I had in the hours prior to my flight two years before.
My favorite photo from that earlier foray was of a mannequin in a vacuum cleaner store across from the wonder that is ear-X-tacy Records.
After I'd stared at this disturbing prospect for a few minutes, I realized that I had unwittingly acted out the plot of The Cure's song "Just Like Heaven," displaced from the diffuse landscape of pop Romanticism into a realm where all mod cons seem to hold the promise of a less literary repudiation of reality.