Travels In a Cab
  • Home
  • About My Story
  • My Taxi's Travel Blog
  • Ruse's Rants
  • NYC Taxi Pics & Links
  • Travels In a Cop Car
  • Old Car Junkyard
  • Travelsonabike
  • Home
  • About My Story
  • My Taxi's Travel Blog
  • Ruse's Rants
  • NYC Taxi Pics & Links
  • Travels In a Cop Car
  • Old Car Junkyard
  • Travelsonabike

All the Animals Come Out at Night

10/3/2015

0 Comments

 
I taped my phone to the dash of a taxi recently, while cruising for fares on Bleecker Street in southern Manhattan - a street known for it's bars and such.  Instead of listening to the annoying rattle of the embattled meter in the car, I overlayed some soundtrack from the movie Taxi Driver, as well as the psycho babble from Travis Bickle, ending with just the silence of tires rolling (kid safe - relevant "c" words are not audible):

Video below the Bickle quotes.


All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.

Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don't end.

All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.

Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.  

June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.

June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.

The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.

Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.

Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    This section of the site is not specific to my taxi travels. They are not really rants either. It is more of a space for me to simply raise awareness to topics that either inspire or frustrate me as an individual.  
    Email: travelsinacab@gmail.com

    Archives

    December 2017
    January 2017
    May 2016
    October 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    November 2014
    October 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    September 2012
    August 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012

    Categories 

    All
    1953 Packard
    1969 Mustang
    2012 Paralympic Athletics
    69 Ford Mustang Mach I
    69 Mach 1
    69 Mustang Mach 1
    Aussie Sports
    Australian Athletics
    Austrlian Paralympic Committee
    Brydee Moore. Brydee. Alicia Brelsford Dana. Cerebral. Palsy. Paralympics. 2012. London. Cardiff.
    Cheers Not Tears
    Discus Shot Put Cerebral Palsy Paralympics Australian Paralympic Team Us Paralympic Teameb6a537ac1
    How To Fix Up An Old Car
    Longmeadow Ambulance
    Mustang Fastback
    Old Time Junkyard
    Packard Henney Ambulance
    Saving Old Cars
    Screw The Paralympics Nbc Will Not Cover Paralympics. Nbc. Paralympics. Coverage. Screw. The. Paralympics
    Zach Sobiech

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About My Story
  • My Taxi's Travel Blog
  • Ruse's Rants
  • NYC Taxi Pics & Links
  • Travels In a Cop Car
  • Old Car Junkyard
  • Travelsonabike