Utopia Dreamin With Todd Rundgren

Turnback Inn, Mellier is an address located somewhere in the author's anterior lobe. Todd Rundgren entered Mr. Stein’s mind via interview in Chicago recently and somehow ended up in those darker recesses where stands the aforementioned extremely gothic roadhouse.

TURNBACK INN, Mellier - “I’m only in this position that I’m in now because I’ve taken control of myself as a person,” said Todd Rundgren. “Not because I’m just me and happened to fall into this lucky break. And everyone who’s in this position has done that to a certain extent, but some of them do it in blindness. And they wake up later and think, ‘How the fuck did I get here?’ ”

It was late at night, and outside the Turnback Inn the wind howled. Occasionally, other noises, moans and shrieks and whispers, made dreadful harmonies with the wind’s voice. But inside, the fire was stoked to a roaring cheeriness by the sleepy barkeep as his last two patrons finished their eveninglong conversation.