Pumpkin Soup

from Bike Race by Imperial Midge

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Toward the end of the 2002 Rotterdam Film Festival, Hilde and I spent a day alone together while Cis attended to his world cinema program. We both needed a break from watching three films a day and decided to walk through the city. We stopped in what remained of the old town center after the German bombing during World War II, and sat in a café to eat pumpkin soup.
Hilde and I had been born a month apart in 1963 and our lives had travelled on remarkably parallel paths. We’d both fallen in love in our early twenties with people who had abandoned us in our early thirties. Hilde had recovered from her disillusionment in Seville, Spain; I described my trip to the Greek Islands and the recovery of my confidence at the peak of Tinos in the second episode of these stories. We admitted that the relationships of our thirties, in reaction to the disappointments of our twenties, were exalted friendships with admirable, smart people, whom we didn’t love romantically. It began to rain and we paused to watch through the window as a dozen umbrellas unfurled simultaneously . . . as in the opening credits of Jacques Demy’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.”

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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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