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Moulin Rouge

from Bike Race by Imperial Midge

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Back in Minneapolis after the Rotterdam Festival, Hilde and I began to meet more regularly. Cis often travelled for his work at the Walker Art Center and, when he was out of town, we would call each other to have a drink or see a movie. We watched Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” together at the Heights Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. The Heights was built in the 1920’s and in the early 2000’s had undergone a restoration of its Beaux Arts interior. An organist played Tin Pan Alley repertoire before the movies and then descended by means of a hydraulic lift into the floor.

During this period in the early summer of 2002 an old friend asked me bluntly, “Are you and Hilde having an affair?” Genuinely surprised, I responded, “Are you crazy? She lives with Cis. I live with Jenny. It’s as simple as that. We’re friends and we have fun together.” But his question did suggest a dangerous thought to me, “If I have this much fun with Hilde as a friend, what would it feel like to be involved in a more intimate relationship with her?”

(Bike Race – 2010)
Lance: Between the third stage and the final stage of the Tour de Force there was a party and, in a way that was typical for Eddy, he encouraged the two of us to dance together.
Hilde: We danced and danced and then the two of us were on the floor on our belly, the top of our fingers almost touching each other.
Lance: And between our hands was a crack in the concrete, like a barrier. And then your pinky came creeping across the line and touched my pinky.
Hilde: With energy and electricity and warmth for me.
Lance: Our hands began to get closer and closer to each other and start to touch each other.
Hilde: Just the fingertips . . .
Lance: Just the fingertips at first and then eventually a whole hand was in a hand and you had an enormous smile on your face. And I just looked in your eyes and I said, “This is actually happening.”

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from Bike Race, released December 27, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Tom Schroeder - Guitar, Voiceover, Story
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

Additional voices: Hilde De Roover, Cis Bierinckx

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