UPDATE: The Secret Life of MTV’s Peter Kay, Part 2

Dear Peter,

Remember when I surprised you in your office, and your kids were in there? And you showed me your Walt Frazier bobblehead? And your midi keyboard? And your view of some backhattan corridor? Here, this was that visit…

A few weeks ago, you wrote a great song for me. I know you also like to write songs for antiquated physical structues, like bricked castles.

On a recent trip to Maine, I passed a huge open field where I expected to see a massive old prison I remembered. Where was the prison? They had completely torn it down since the last time I was there, and relocated all 400 prisoners to a new “Supermax” facility one town over.

Anyway, Peter, I’m pretty sure the town officials left this corner of their monstrous prison standing so that you’d write a song about it. Maybe you will write a song about it. We can post that song here and on Twitch. Then we can grab some speakers from Andy Payor, invite NPR, invite the people of Thomaston, and blast your song next to this structure.

And then we shall feel whole again.

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Thank you for your time. Peter Kay.

Yours Truly,

Ross

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4 responses to “UPDATE: The Secret Life of MTV’s Peter Kay, Part 2”

  1. @pkay225 Avatar

    hardcore Maine: baseball diamond in quarry that inmates spent 50 years busting rocks in: http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/bedroc

  2. @pkay225 Avatar

    hardcore Maine: baseball diamond in quarry that inmates spent 50 years busting rocks in: http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/bedroc

  3. Kringle Avatar
    Kringle

    how cool would it be if you guys actually DID this — write a song for the forgotten corner of an ancient prison, then perform it in that very corner? Neat.

  4. […] colleague Ross Martin, having noticed my love of writing music inspired by architectural oddities, recently challenged me to come up with something for this fragment of the Thomaston State prison that he shot on a recent […]

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