chrisrandrews

Oakland

What kind of stories and songs am I most drawn to? I call them--"Creole Noir". I always especially identified with the Spock character in the original "Star Trek" television series, both and neither Vulcan and human. And his relationship with Lieutenant Uhuru. Bound together, "alienated". Perhaps, as because during the period of enslavement and Jim Crow, my family's very existence was a crime, I also identified with criminals. Thus, though our limbs be bound, may all our souls be free... Stories and songs of mystery and knowledge and power. Of folks who don't have much of the latter, yet still rise up and fight for freedom and redemption. Which they sometimes even achieve. Apprehending some tiny glimpse of the wonder of the universe. If only for a brief moment. Despite sins and transgressions. Transcending this mortal coil. Stories and songs sacred and profane.