..Sometimes she’d go out on the porch where her mother could see her, to roll a joint
And Lorraine would have a smile on her face that made her look a little crazy … As if she had a secret that no one else knew…
…I liked watching her…
Walking on, one summer night Lorraine said “now its time for you to see the light house”
she was out on Montok point
At the end of a long rocky peninsula, the light house was set dramatically against the night sky
A beam of light circling around it
the early morning fog was rolling in…
…and all the while, she said…
…it was the song that made me want to see the light house…!
the song? William Orbit’s ‘Montok Point’. I didn’t think much of it when I heard it for the first time… didn’t pay attention to the monologue transcripted above too…! the six minute song builds up with a pulsating guitar riff over a waxing and waning beep sample, just like the beam of light from the light house. Things are pretty predictable till the 3 minute mark…and that’s when the sounds of the ocean sweep over you. On top of the swishing of the ocean…the radio artiste genius Joe Frank delivers this stunning monologue…!! The sound is so eerie and unique…and that’s what gets you in the end…to listen and conjure the image up in your mind.
it was that feeling that drove me to this place…checkout the pics below. Although I saw it in the middle of the day, it was just as I pictured it in my mind. Viewing it in the night would have been an out of the world experience…!
Here’s the song, and a few pics I took.
