September 28, 1994: I dropped a tape of my band off at the El Mocambo

Thirty years ago today

            On Wednesday I worked until 16:00 at the Ontario College of Art. I dropped off a tape of my band at the El Mocambo, then I met Mike Copping at the Korona. We went to Taco Bell and then to the Fat Albert’s open stage. Adina showed up later. With Steve on guitar I performed my songs “Megaphor” and “Moment Mountain” (which later was named “Spool of the Moon”): 

Baby’s black and I am white 

Two shades of blue sometimes

and braided around an orgasm 

that we have at the very same time

When we make love we commit murder 

and revive each other from the tomb

I’m stitching my spirit tightly to hers 

with a thread from the spool of the Moon 

and when we touch when we really touch 

we make a mountain out of a moment 

but the elevated scene it doesn’t mean that much 

but from the viewpoint of descent 

That’s why it’s so much fun to slide down moment mountain

sliding to the bottom of our love 

The bottom’s the foundation of 

the pleasure and the pain 

The bottom’s where we do the work 

just to build that mountain again

But a mountain range of moments falls 

behind a wisp of cloud 

and we forget that they were there

all of those moments so tall and proud 

and yet when we touch when we really touch 

we make a mountain out of a moment 

but the elevated scene it doesn’t mean that much 

but from the viewpoint of descent 

That’s why it’s so much fun to slide down moment mountain

sliding to the bottom of our love 

History is time condensed 

the future’s thin as steam

We cannot move in either place

The best we can do is to sleep and dream 

We look beyond the moment that 

we’re in and won’t allow 

that everywhere we’ve ever been 

is radiating from the here and the now

and that when we touch when we really touch 

we make a mountain out of a moment 

but the elevated scene it doesn’t mean that much 

but from the viewpoint of descent 

That’s why it’s so much fun to slide down moment mountain

sliding to the bottom of our love 

            Then we all went over to the Albert’s Hall open stage and did the same set. 

            Adina and I went for a long walk and ended up in a donut shop on Yonge Street until 3:00. Then I walked to her to Bloor where she caught the bus. I gave her a peck on the mouth before she got on.