April 24th, 2004
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Late night to sunrise
I’m on the subway, back to Kawasaki to pick up some grub and Mikiko, and then to Yokohama for a very special late night show with one of the “big three” patron saints of my aural salvation, DJ Tiesto. The opening show of this “Heineken Thirst” tour in Europe sold out in three hours. Fortunately Tokyo youth aren’t quite as hip en masse to the master of trance vibrations, so I was able to stumble across the website six weeks late and still mange (after half an hour of fighting with a Lawson vending machine) to get a pair of tickets to the grand affair at the Yokohama Bay Hall [which in retrospect is more aptly-named the Yokohama Fishing Closet for its size].
I ran a very quick mile and a half or so and took a little nap after some Vice City to juice myself for the evening’s celebration. Even though this jam sports a corporate sponsorship, I know Tiesto hasn’t sold out. It will be a rising surge of ear-drumming mania until the moment the lord of vinyl starts the Technics turning, and a provisioned throng of loose souls bend eastward in search of sunrise.
A hall of bells and wires run through my brain, a fibre network of outlets and junctions full of stardust and dreams and feelings both tangible and primary. Fight! Fight in the only theatre allowed: internal, for mastery of personal balance. Life is a pulsing stream pressed through a valve of control and freedom, acceptance and denial.
Cass & Slide – Perception
You can see forever
Look inside of your mind
Find a sense another wonder
Just release the fears you left behind
Feel your way through the darkness
Guide your soul into the light
Swim into the open water
Drift on the tides that you may find
Find your soul in the sunrise
Look around you can see it in their eyes
Be as one together
Rise up as the emptiness subsides
You can see forever
Rise up together
Search and you will find the answer
If you look deep inside of your mind
