The Santa Ana winds
they seem to come out of nowhere
You walk somewhere
You touch something and there's going to be static
You're going to have this charge coming off your own body
And all of a sudden, it goes from zero to thirty mile an hour winds
and they don't stop for three days, four days
A lot of people get very irritated in the wind
It makes you feel like you have no control
So it pushes people's boundaries, they're not used to being pushed
By the end of the summer
we're all a little bit murderous and psychotic
There's a nice wind and then there's a mean wind
Part of me
would feel like I would be taken somewhere else
because the winds would touch me and a little part of me would go away
This gentleman, older gentleman got kind of lost in the desert
looking at the flowers in March
And he was older
We thought we might have a chance of searching and rescuing him
But that afternoon, about six days after we knew he was gone
the wind kicked up
And it's like the whole town of Tecopa just had this sinking feeling
like
no, we're not going to find this man, and if we do he won't be alive
And I always connected the Santa Ana winds with Santa Ana
He was this revolutionary
that was always attacking towns and riding on horses
Huge up in the air, looked like giant claws coming down
You can hear it coming, you know
you can almost see it and feel it, it's like a percussive thing
You can hear it at first and then when it hits you it's percussive, like a
I had this idea that sometimes
the Santa Ana winds were maybe the ghost of Santa Ana
Here spirits are free to move
When it gets very fierce, it seems to talk to you
You know
When I hear it
it has a personality all of its own
The winds are going to bring things with them
It could carry something, it could carry a message
Spirit lives here
When it comes
It's haunting
that's the best way to put it
It could be like Santa Ana and Satan might be connected in some way
He's that part of yourself that you can't control
I feel like a lot of the satanic things that get blown about
are from the cities, you know what I mean
>From sort of, like you know
we're having a lot of trouble with racial violence in this country
That's blowing out from L.A.
that's blowing out from Las Vegas and ending up here
We're good and bad
and if you don't recognize the bad, honey, get ready
'cause the storm is coming and it's going to get ya!