Standing underneath the Santa Monica pier, I gaze out to sea and wait for one of those feelings you expect when you first reach the ocean: the flash of insight that never arrives.

I fool with my camera among the heavy wood pylons, taking lousy art school photographs of shadow and water and light. Now there’s something: a fight. Messy and all-of-the-sudden with fast rabbit punches and pulled hair and then it’s gone. People are always more interesting than nature.

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Lord Rhaburn – Don’t Fight It
from Belize City Boil-Up. Cult Cargo | buy it
Wide-swinging early 1970s brass and soul from Belize with a perfect tint of ballroom reverb.