May CV2020

Like poet B Catling, Funki Porcini refuses to “make a resolve for the other side of now./Nor cast a line to hook succulent optimisms and drown them on my banks.”* Loosen Down talks you down and in, and for those of us who have travelled aboard Starship Porcini in the past, we recognise the familiar light touch guiding us beyond this vallis lacrimarum. Jennifer Jason Leigh is plugging you into eXistenZ like it’s 1999 and pretty soon you’re swimming with creatures deep beneath Plan From the Sea, some of which might devour you. Ask Phil Dick. He’d have known. Never trust a friendly door. There’s delicacy beyond From My Window, and there’s old skool romance here too; the plush and cocktail of a 1953 casino is never far away when the Amalfi was a dream for most. It’s good to be here. Or drive with the jazz and the funk…Maybe Baby… And the Outcome? We leave – or it leaves us – with flickering static. It’s all we are. We “must embrace these days, bleaching out the diaries, and swallowed time stamping the passports void.”*

Tony Grisoni

*Mayday 2020 – B.Catling ©2020