COL49 Group Read, section 3

[Michael Bailey]

How does one set up a drum kit on a diving board?


Very carefully (ba dum tss!)


- a temporal reference: “the place he’d begun his land speculating in ten
years ago”

Also - if Slick Dick and the Volkswagens released “I Want to Kiss Your
Feet” the same time as The Beatles released “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
(recorded on October 17th, 1963, released in the UK on November 29 and in
the US on December 26th of that year, making it one of those artistic
endeavors created just before & released just after a cataclysmic event -
in this case JFK’s murder most foul - which might mean something (but
what?) — it entered the US pop charts at number 45 in January, 1964, and
became their first #1 hit in America - “starting the ‘British Invasion’”
according to Wikipedia) then Mucho probably would’ve been aware of it as
early as January 1964 (or earlier if he followed international industry
trends)

Placing Pierce’s beginnings as a real estate tycoon in the mid-fifties.

None of which tells us more about when the Mexico trip took place, does it?


Hey, there’s even a song now called “San Narciso”

https://youtu.be/hoN-vTlnuzo?si=bkgdINxSE8UvkZyR

San Narciso
Out to sea we hear
Los Angeles calling
each one of us falling
into vorticist dreams.
In the air you see
the city cells sprawling
like circuits installing
these silicon dreams.
I run out of mind inside,
and so go out to find you,
but then something reminds you

Oh San Narciso shines
from sea to sea,
the message we're sending,
we want to believe.
Oh concentrate
and watch us move the sea.
Entropically trending,
but we want to believe,
yeah, we want to believe.

I can work the phones
to sort out these demons
with some formal agreements,
or you could let down your hair.
I can feel your pulse
break free from surveillance,
now it's the last thing that makes sense,
the only reason I care.
I ran out of mind inside,
and so I'm coming to find you
before something reminds you

Oh San Narciso shines
from sea to sea,
the message we're sending,
we want to believe.
Oh concentrate
and watch us move the sea.
Entropically trending,
but we want to believe,
yeah, we want to believe.