The Jackel

from Path Through the Wilderness by Imperial Midge

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I wandered around Rome with my sketchbook for a few days, drawing statues and stray cats. On one of my walks I passed a movie theater playing current Hollywood films. “Great, this is a way for me to get my bearings.” I understood from the posters, however, that the films were overdubbed in Italian. I recalled an interview with Jim Jarmusch; he described watching movies in Japan without subtitles and imposing his own subjective narrative upon the visuals. That night I watched “The Jackel,” in which either Bruce Willis or Richard Gere plays a professional killer.
As I sat waiting in the theater for the film to start, a man approached me and asked something in Italian. Just as I was about to respond, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak Italian,” it occurred to me that I would then have to explain why I was there to see a film overdubbed in Italian and so I just shrugged my shoulders emphatically and said “No.” He scanned the four or five empty seats next to me and asked his question again with a skeptical tone. I adopted a slightly more irritated demeanor and said “No, scusa.” He shook his head and walked away and it immediately dawned upon me that he was asking if he could sit in the empty seats next to me.

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from Path Through the Wilderness, released September 7, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums
Tom Schroeder - Guitar
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

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