Ghosts, Drag and Cash
2 April 2007 - 15 ניסן 5767 by Huw
Erik Davis reports his date with a transvestite spirit medium during the nat pwe festival in Burma. The varieties of religious experience in Erik’s travels continue to amaze me. As do all the cultures of man…
It was the most mad-cap music I have ever heard, a brash and giddy bumblebee romp that called to mind a garage-rock gamelan orchestra banging out the soundtrack to some delirious and exotic Warner Bros. cartoon—call it Daffy Does Devil Worship.
