Knickerbocker Circus 05: Blood and Pudding 02-The Beginning 1997
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:13AM 
Going through the boxes from the book tonight I came across the tapes. Most of them are so garbled now that you can barely decipher what's being said. I managed to get this, the opener, where it all began, and frankly magic happened. She called me Kate even when I preferred to be Kat, so as I got older, depending where I was traveling to I would answer to a gamut of different names. But for the book I'm called Kat and the tape I'm called Kate. These days, depending on your location I will turn around to anything from Kat to Kitty to Katelan.
(Speaking Into The Recorder)
Kat: February 16th, my cousin Holly and I are taking a road trip. Wherever we end up, we end up. We don't care. We're fucking going crazy. This is our night. We're running away.
Holly: We have time, lots of time. We have forty-eight hours to be awake, to have fun, to live life and not think about it. My mind is clear right now, absolutely clear. I have no thoughts except for me, Kat, this
car, and our budget of $5.25 and a gas card. We are going to make an adventure out of this.
It's not a great recording, and as the night progresses it's harder and harder to understand. But it was the beginning and that's all that really matters. And as you can see the edits were tiny.
Reader Comments (2)
I love the tapes.
I have to tell you that it started playing automatically in my iTunes, and then I guess I was on shuffle or something because "Sour Cherry" by The Kills came on immediately after. It was kinda perfect and random.
"Sour Cherry"
Shout when you wanna get off the ride
'Cause you crossed my mind, you crossed my mind
Made my blood thump Saturday night
Make my heart beat double time
Now I'm only sour cherry on the fruit stand, right
Am I the only sour cherry on the fruit stand?
Shout when you wanna get off the ride
Shout when you wanna get off the ride
'Cause you crossed my mind, you crossed my mind
I'm a penny in a diamond mine
We could be movers,
We could be shakers
If we could just shake somin' outta the blue we could get off the ride
I'm the only sour cherry on the fruit stand, right
Am I the only sour cherry on the fruit stand?
G-g-g-go home, go home it's over
G-g-g-go home it's over
Wow. Totally perfect. It's odd the way these things happen.