The next day
ERIC BAKER
Former boxer and sometime helper of Ozy. He needs his own movie.
This concludes my first road trip with Ozy. For 2 1/2 weeks we shared a van, a motel room and the same odd hours. We pretty much were together 24 hours a day. I hope I conveyed a glimmer of what that experience was like.
There are things that are hard to capture like the improvisatory and magical nature of Ozy's life, a life filled with recurring patterns, coincidences, and synchronicities.
There are people, places, and things that I wished I had filmed; the cotton- filled air of the Mississippi Delta at harvest time, the Katrina evacuees I met at every motel we stayed at, motels that had the identical sign at the check-in desk, "FEMA IS NO LONGER PAYING YOUR BILL."
There was a club in Austin, The Scoot Inn, where I forgot to bring my camera. Ozy was annoyed at me for that. But I got a second chance when Ozy invited me back on the road with him.
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