I’ve been thinking about Serge Gainsbourg this week, and his struggles with personal boundaries, specifically his concerns about how the public perceived his daughter Charlotte, and vice versa. He did a lot of work about her and with her so it’s a very valuable perspective. There are a lot of things about his psychic presence that interest me; I feel his spirit is pushing me toward self-expression. Even as I write this I’m learning, and this morning I woke up with evidence that this psychic transformation is real: an idea for one of the characters in my novel The Artic Circle. \

Drake’s first completed work is a parody of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy he writes for the entertainment of his friends, the Sicky Souse Club. Loosely based on the adventures of his friends Trixie Crown and Alvin Albrecht on the streets of Chicago in the 1980s, it’s called The Bitch Biker’s Guide to the Faggot Scene.

So this idea has come to me in a dream, after watching a performance of The Waste Land, accompanied by the ghosts of Serge and some others, listening to Rock Around the Bunker and some other things by him on the way home. This morning I am experimenting in order to find out what it means to record this fragment of the story.