"Blonde fucking English girls with ghetto names..." It's a line from out of a Brian Transeau track.
Yeah but that's the present world. People inspired by black music gave their kids names that went with the music they either fucked to or were fucked out of their mind dancing to until endless hours.
And then the kids became DJ's too.
Cherise was English, lived in Moscow, right across an alleyway in the middle of the city - through an anonymous door - from the club she owned in partnership with me.
The interior of her apartment was all post-modernist black leather and anodized steel and real fur bits and pieces - panels, throws, floor-rugs, cushions -- and with a large Nile cotton sheet covered bed right in the middle of the open-plan layout.
She regularly staggered out of the side-entrance of the club on weekends and fiddled around for long minutes in her nylon jacket's pockets for the RF ID tag, while standing out in the bitter cold outside her door. Sometimes she would have her main mixing deck with her, stowed away in its metal travel-box. After a whole night's set at the mixing desk she would be totally out of it, mind still in the beats and rythms, and the swirling laser light show.
I never came in to see her right away then. I knew that she would tumble into bed and just disappear straight down that rabbit hole of deep dark sleep enervated by the hours and hours of hard electronic trance music.
No, I would arrive at around two in the afternoon, with plans to cook food, eat and fuck.
Cherise had this habit of wearing fairly street-level men's cologne or male-style deodorants and bodysprays. Recently she'd been into Lynx Dark Temptation. Okay, this is an unusual bodyspray for something from an inexpensive brand: it's heavily ginger-scented, with some sweetness coming from somewhere, as well as a rich amber and frankincense blended note. The publicity claims chocolate but I can't see that. Maybe it's there as a badly arguable inference to those who insist on believing the press release notes. No, to me it's all ginger and fairy floss and the Ancient Persian Spice Road.
I love how some city women spray these kinds of heavy scents on and even after they've been in a warm bed for many hours, or even in an office all day long, superficially they still smell of the dry-down stage of the fragrance. But I knew Cherise quite well and after a heavy night in the club when she went to sleep she went off so deeply that she would sweat into the sheets from on top of the already stale sweat that was still on her from all the thumping dance music and the long hot session working that combat DJ mixer deck. I knew that she was generally so wiped out that she never showered straight away when she got back, usually just hitting the sack completely beat.
Still the heavy-scented deodorant worked on, pretending there was only a hot sandy, minerally, incense-y, and gingery sweetness going on over all that club-dirty, animalic, uric, smell.
I had my own RF ID key.