We call upon the author to explain…
But no answers come… only smoke, grease, and the great huffing of carburetors.
Here at Drag City, we take that silence and make it holy.
We keep the mess intact.
We don’t sand down the rust, or airbrush the scars.
Because Nick Cave told us the truth before anyone else would:
- The world is filthy.
- People are hypocrites.
- Love and death live side by side.
- And God, if He’s there at all, is probably laughing through broken teeth.
Drag City runs on that gospel.
It’s not Madison Avenue slick. It’s not Silicon Valley sanitized.
It’s raw: stocky bodies in threadbare Levi’s, seedy motels, battered muscle cars,
spectators who know sin is part of the show.
This place belongs to the patron saint of beautiful collapse,
Nick Cave — preacher, poet, trickster, mourner.
He blesses the burnout marks on Dead Man’s Curve.
He baptizes our engines in oil and fire.
He reminds us that stories matter more than explanations.
Here, in Wardglenn, we don’t ask the author to explain anymore.
We just race, remember, and make it loud enough that we will be remembered!
Prolix! Prolix! Nothing a pair of scissors can’t fix!
Wow, this must be the 3rd or 4th song I’ve posted on this blog just from this one album, but I do LOVE “Old Nick” so! His music has been with me for most of my life, and I’ll put his work up against any other balladeer out there! So yes, dear readers, this was another “indulgent one” from your music-loving gearhead blogger, but coming up this weekend I’ve got something special for you…
I don’t usually do an “Out of the Slot” post on the weekends, but we’re jumping out of the slot next Sunday to take a look at a topic this blog has never looked at before: FOOD! Ready for a nostalgic walk down the grocery store aisles of your childhood to take a look at all those products you haven’t seen in decades? Tune in for that, as well as a close-up look at an oft-neglected (but recently asked-about!) feature of the track! And, of course, more updates on the never-ending Diecast flood that threatens to drown my whole household in Hot Wheels! There are some awesome new releases getting unwrapped! All this and more coming up here at thunderjetheaven.com because, ya know, there’s ALWAYS something going on at Drag City!