Carini 6/14/00

The only time I went to the circus (I was 10) there was this spherical metal cage into which one, two, then three performers drove their motorcycles, dirtbikes with deafening small motors and black exhaust, their headlights tracing a shifting object in the darkened Civic Center (if you were trying to notate this kind of coordination in cave times you might have painted the three interlocking circles of John Bonham’s rune from Led Zeppelin IV (when Fishman is playing well he seems to be at the center of a slowly rotating dome (synaesthesia is also hearing space (listen for the shape of the dome implied by Fishman's descending drum fills during the final refrain of Carini from Drum Logos