Mike Land spent the mid-Aughts living in the Adelphia House at 13th and Chestnut. With me ensconced in Logan Square, we had two viable flats available to use for the bullshit sessions, used to plan what the next move for Philly Free School, and our Highwire Gallery shows, would be. Worth noting that Mike Land, as of 04-05, was still enrolled as an undergrad at University of the Arts in Center City. The U of Arts tribe are their own brat-pack around Center City, and Mike was keen to include as many of them in the shows as he could. Mike's own major was film. Anyway, to set the proper mood, we often used Steely Dan, so that a lot of Highwire antics in my brain are keyed to Becker-Fagen tunes as well. Do Steely Dan slot in as a more suave, less kamikaze version of Syd Barrett? Mike's flat looked directly down at the intersection of 13th and Chestnut. It was a much less mellow picture than me at 21st and Race. But the circuit we created, Logan Square-City Hall, worked with Steely Dan and other things we had going to transcendentalize what we were doing into something momentous for us, for the golden year it lasted.
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