read me if you ever lived in new orleans(repost from ciardi)
I've been reading this book about new orleans rap that has some of the best descriptions I have ever seen.
"I'd never seen such beauty in a town: the wooden houses with their faded paintwork, the high shuttered windows, the stone stoops hollowed by generations of feet, the little corner bars, the subtropical jungle of blossoms. My whole chemistry seemed altered there, so that I saw with different eyes, and gradually I came to understand the reason: I was underwater. The fact that New Orleans was built on swamp, below sea level, wasn't just a notion' it changed every perception. The air had a velvet weight, the light was thick with shifting currents. I'd lost all gravitational pull. All I could do was drift with the tide."
On Cold in New Orleans...
"New Orleans is subtropical , a sauna most of the time, but when winter kicks in and a blue norther blows down from chicago, picking up damp and spite as it crosses the wwamps, the cold is merciless."
These are from a book called Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap by Nik Cohn....check it out.
"I'd never seen such beauty in a town: the wooden houses with their faded paintwork, the high shuttered windows, the stone stoops hollowed by generations of feet, the little corner bars, the subtropical jungle of blossoms. My whole chemistry seemed altered there, so that I saw with different eyes, and gradually I came to understand the reason: I was underwater. The fact that New Orleans was built on swamp, below sea level, wasn't just a notion' it changed every perception. The air had a velvet weight, the light was thick with shifting currents. I'd lost all gravitational pull. All I could do was drift with the tide."
On Cold in New Orleans...
"New Orleans is subtropical , a sauna most of the time, but when winter kicks in and a blue norther blows down from chicago, picking up damp and spite as it crosses the wwamps, the cold is merciless."
These are from a book called Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap by Nik Cohn....check it out.