Monkey Diaries Archive

No shit, this is what the western sky looked like tonight at sunset. It looks like the sky caught fire. This image has not been retouched or color corrected. This is exactly what it looked like straight from the camera and onto my hard drive. It reminds me of a scene from Damnation Alley starring everyone's favorite wunderkind actor, Jackie Earl Haley. You may recognize Jackie Earl from such notable 70s films as Bad News Bears, Bad News Bears: Breaking Training and the much beloved, Bad News Bears Go To Japan. Damnation Alley also starred Jan Michael Vincent long before he became a fat, bloated wife beater. Ahh... the 70s were ripe with the kind of cinema that makes most critics choke but not me. I loved the 70s. A really good friend of mine passed along this poem that she wrote some years ago. She thought (and I agree) that this poem perfectly captures this image. Crimson sky of anger settle with the passing sun Glowing rage of color be soothed by the horizon the last glimpse of day melts away and is swallowed by the night distant stars... crescent moon conquer the sky, illuminate it with specks of radiant light Another day has passed blanketed by a moment of color the sky smudges black as the future becomes present Soon, the glow of the East takes the present to the past and another day arises as quickly as the last. ML, Oct. 1998