TANKMAN JOHNSON’S PHANTOM ECHO REGIMENT

The fifth of January twenty twenty five, yet another not so cool southern Spanish siesta afternoon.

Sixteen years too late ghostly Tankman Johnson’s Phantom Echo Regiment of supercharged mother of pearl blue black Chieftains crewed by the sweet sexy Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls roar a symphony of tuned chrome trimmed engines and canon and machine gun fire across the shimmering dust fields of Almería, Sister Ray loud on the sound systems of each and every vehicle, deep into Al-Ándalus, and, ding dong, knock knock who's there?  Rescue The Transparent Princess, The Pretty Girl, with her oh so cute nineteen sixties style pageboy fringe and pony tail, from The Born Again Priest’s castle keep, The Stone Room. And all without suffering a single casualty, cuts and bruises, aches and pains apart, to the hoary hordes of mercenary priests and blind believers, martyrs of the Afterlife Paradise Enlightenment Salesmen.

“Help them all along on their way to where they want to go is what I say! Everyone Ok?! Cut! That’s a wrap! Shit, we’re all over exposed! Switch the time curves! Let’s get the hell outta here, kids!!”

The image of the Chieftain tank is a digital reworking by B. Sherpa of a 2008 painting, FOOTSTEPS ECHO, HUGE DUST ,by the artist David F. Brandon, taken from his website.(Click on the title here or go to "Interesting Places to Visit" in this blog to see the original.) Brandon used one of my original digital photographs as source material for his painting. B. Sherpa.

Sister Ray is a song from The Velvet Underground’s second LP record, White Light/White Heat, 1967.