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TICKETS 🎟️ truewest.info/Morby26On Sale Friday, February 13 at 10am PT
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You want to shine for friends when they’re shining—for you or maybe not for you, either way shine is shine—and you can equalize the levels by bringing a bit of your own recent glow, and that other light-filled person can enjoy it instead of worry.
That’s how it is with some people. Two auras, touching, as you each bring your way of worlding into the bar or the diner or the movies, the car, like so. See Morby, Kevin, in the Encyclopedia Britannica of Glow, or Who’s Who in America and Outside of It That Moves Me, published by No One Ever, but indelibly print-on-demand.
Last time I saw Morby there was a gash on the driver’s side rear quarter-panel of his big blue truck. “What’s up with that?” A happy shrug. “Looks like I use it.” He does use it. I was in the cab practically yesterday in Kansas City and now we’re West. He parks on my street. We go down a secret stairwell and along a brutal stretch of Sunset. “This will never gentrify,” I say, “because the cars here go seventy.” “It already is,” he replies, as we pass a natural wine shop or whatever they’re selling, spare shelves and a tote bag logo. But it’s mostly nuclear fall-out, the underside of a rich city, trash and weeds and plundered copper, before we turn left up to what I call Peacock Park. Kevin’s never been. It’s dusk. We sit like kings, like Mickey in the Night Kitchen, perched over the storybook up-close downtown skyline. I’m ready to practically camp out when Kevin says, Let’s go. Next is Astro Family. Him, a burger and fries. Me, omelet. Pacifico; Stella. Kevin poses with the Heinz bottle, and we agree that “I like ketchup on my ketchup” is a T-shirt in the category of Pop sublime. “Haruki Murakami wears one,” he says. (I can hear a baby crying on this part of the tape. Next over orange vinyl booth. I like ketchup on my ketchup. I like babies in the booths.)
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