DIGGING FOR VICTORY
Our resident record-shop owner Mark O’Shaughnessy has an enlightening encounter with a spiritual wanderer… Then buys his vinyl
Mark O’Shaughnessy
Earlier this year, I had cause to stop and take stock of my own ‘outlook’ on life and music, due to the intervention into my world of somebody who was soooo unusual in his outlook that the conversations we had still resonate deeply with me.
It was a fairly mundane, still very chilly Wednesday afternoon last February, there were a few people in the store – nothing major going down – when a tall, skinny, barefooted man (in his late 30s, at a guess, no older) walked up to the counter and introduced himself. “My name is Arzachel, pleased to meet you.” I’d already spotted that he didn’t have any shoes on, this being a cold February morning, remember? I also quickly tried to remember where I knew that name from, but it escaped me.