Word: bayou
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...Orleans they have a mechanism called Bourbon Street, designed to accomplish this separation with maximum efficiency. Tourists seethe up and down bourbon Street like muddy water in a bayou, clutching takeaway mint juleps and Hurricanes (a vile and overpriced cocktail sold only to tourists) in big paper cups. Fast talking slicks in white tuxedoes, looking like Elvis Presley's manager admitting Priscilla's age at a press conference, wait outside strip joints, holding the doors open for tantalizing glimpses of the flesh within On the sidewalks young entrepreneurs hawk shoeshines, "SHIT HAPPENS-on Bourbon St." sweatshirts, voodoo masks, even chances...
...this novel. The time is coming, Percy insists through his hero, when people can choose to be less than themselves, through technology, or rediscover their spiritual amplitudes, for good or ill. To be fully conscious, even of the worst, seems preferable. Tom describes a sunfish caught in a local bayou: "The colors will fade in minutes, but for now the fish looks both perfectly alive yet metallic, handwrought in Byzantium and bejeweled beyond price, all the more amazing to have come perfect from the muck." An engineered life would leave no room or tolerance for such perceptions...
...WENT I watched bayou swamp rats quaffing Old Milwaukee and muttering: "It jus' don' get no better than this." I viewed a troop of husky Canadians crooning: "I'll be a Moosehead man for life." Muzak voices whispered seductively in my ear: "Let It Be Lowenbrau." Ice-capped peaks and wild phallic stallions advised me to: "Head for the mountains." I was becoming dizzy. I had to get off this whirling dervish of archetypal images and subliminal cuts...
...timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet, overhead fans, unknown soldiers and shrouded figures punctuate Harry's waking dreams, inching him closer to the terrible truth...
...starting with a rough-and-ready Mardi Gras Mambo (released in 1955) and ending with a spirited spiritual recessional recorded in the spring of 1985. New Orleans produced many superb musicians and singers, but the Nevilles are the town's premier vocal ensemble. A single cut, Fire on the Bayou, is like a dancing flame on an oil slick. It produces enough heat to warm a mountain cabin for a week...