{"id":316,"date":"2014-09-08T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2014-10-03T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:22:22","slug":"316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/316","title":{"rendered":"Strange days revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A random and colorful group of street performers are posing on the sidewalk in Sniffen Court, a residential alley off New York\u2019s East 36th Street. What appears to be a dwarf in a light gray suit (or conceivably, if less likely, a small boy) is dancing energetically, Dylan like, only with two hands \u2018waving free\u2019. A stout circus strongman dressed fetchingly in an over tight black singlet and loose zebra-striped sarong is raising above his head what we must imagine to be a dumbbell as the view we have is cut off at wrist height.<\/p>\n

Above the dwarf-child a white-faced man in a dark suit is juggling a number of red balls, his features screwed into a mask of intense concentration. Behind these figures another dark suited man concentrates on supporting a leotarded figure whose body is arced in a swallow dive as he balances precariously in mid air. At the rear of the group a straw-hatted man is stood to attention, arms raised as he solemnly plays a trumpet, for all the world as if he were alone and all around him non-existent.<\/p>\n

Not all these people are actual street performers: I am reliably informed through my research that the photographer’s assistant is standing in as a juggler while the musician is a passing cab driver who is earning five dollars for his artistic contribution.<\/p>\n

The curious scene I am describing is that shown on\u00a0an old album cover I have propped up in front of me as I write, one which I loved when it came out and still fills me with nostalgia: Strange Days,<\/em> by The Doors, recorded and issued in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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