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i'd like to take this moment to recall a particularly death-defying performance i was a part of..
it was in the early '90's and one day i get a phonecall from Monty Cantsin/Istvan Kantor/AMEN. he tells me there's a performance going down and would i like to be a part of it? immediately i said yes! He told me to wear black pants, white shirt and a tie.
i showed up at the precise co-ordinates ready for anything. there was a busker's festival (street perfomers) going on and we had a performance to do. we had an entire city block cordoned off for our gig.
it went like this:
first we distributed 6 oil drums along the blocked off street. we knelt before our audience, in our right hands was gold colored poo. monty jumped to the roof of his van and began a speech on his megaphone... " i am the best friend you could ever have"
he went on for a bit then at a precise moment we threw the golden shit onto the ground and got up onto the oil drums. a strip of metal sheet was laid out from one end of the block to the other. each of the 6 people standing on the oil drums held a steam-iron. someone started pouring contact cement all down the strip of metal and a bit on each steam iron.
what happened next i was not ready for...
they lit the contact cement on fire!
10 foot high chemical flames shot down the street, my oildrum started to wobble and the audience let out a collective "gasp" and backed away from us... the firemen and police were getting very nervous at this point and we almost had fire engines visit us! the cement on my steam-iron started to drip onto the oven mitt i was wearing for protection, it was getting hot!!
as the flames finished we then proceeded to smash the hell out of the oilcans. and the oven mitt kept smoldering...
well that was certainly one of the most memorable performances i've ever been a part of!
i'm certainly glad i didn't get injured.
ahhh neoism... so inspirational. so dangerous...
i'll explain more about Monty Cantsin (s) but not Karen Elliot...
in my next post.
till then
play safe and have fun!
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