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July 2008
Unripe mulberries are mildly hallucinogenic...
and they're all over our yard.
Back home, I tinker with house and trailer.


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May 2008
At Irkeshtam Pass, the Chinese border closes for Golden Week.
Stuck between countries, I walk the hills for dayz.
Earth kindly accepts my baggage.


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March 2008
I'm in Kashgar studying Uyghur.
The police restrict movement and instill fear.
I sympathize with the locals who know nothing else.


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February 2008
Chinese New Years in Beijing.
Western New Years in Hanoi.
I get drunk and wander the streets.
My wife is pregnant.


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December 2007
Vietnam is a country of contradiction.
Collatoral damage from the American war is ubiquitous.
Capitalism sprouts like a weed from the remains.
Communists get rich.


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November 2007
Following the birds south for winter,
I slip into Laos.
The Mekong flows, massive and silent.


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October 2007
I roll onto the Tibetan Plateau. It's vast and chilled.
Beijing controls by force, exhaling paranoia.
Monks are under quarantine in Lhasa.
I become sad and angry at something I don't understand.
I am escorted off the premises.


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September 2007
Off to Burningman and then back to Rochester, NY.
It's nice to be home...
We watch movies in the park.
Life is fine.


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July 2007
I'm in Bakersfield, the armpit of California.
The smell of oil wafts through this oven of a city.
We get rich off that shit.

I escape into the mountains with trailer and 2 cats in tow.


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April 2007
We form the Concrete Discussion Group
and hold a "meeting" in Rochester's
abandoned subway tunnels.
Photos.


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March 2007
The snow finally comes to upstate New York...
now, I'm ready for Spring.
Time is spent crafting our new/old house,
learning about the atmosphere + deep earth,
and mixing music.


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September 2006
Skool in New York proves different
from life in the Chinese wilderness.
More than the environments themselves,
I enjoy flux.


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August 2006
In a Kyrgyz family home on the Pamir Plateau,
I am detached from the familiar.
My body has become seasoned to the desert and fermented mare's milk.
Days are spent crawling solo across a harsh, striking landscape.
My own pent up shit is released to nature as god.
Respect to the nomads who live here.


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July 2006
Angel & I bought a home!
It's mad ghetto... But, I see potential.
Check back in a year.


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June 2006
The familiar smell of hot oil and pepper assaults my nostrils...
I have arrived in Yunnan, China to collect water and rock.
The Mekong proves long and deep.


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April 2006
Wandering the New York countryside,
I happen upon a nuclear power plant.
Exploring the premises, I'm surrounded by
a troop of black FBI-style SUVs and told to leave.
I was hoping for a visitor's center...

Also went to Philly and bought massive speakers.
Time to sound my barbaric yawp!


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March 2006
The West Coast draws me close and soothes.
Rare thunderstorms gather in Death Valley.
I am fortunate to be here now.


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February 2006
Saw Prefuse 73 at a small dive in Buffalo, NY.
Shot a 1 minute video.


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January 2006
Illicit gatherings in an abandoned subway.
The space is vast and textured.
Tracks of mineralized seepage coat the walls.
I turn on our speakers and
the underground fills with sound.





    





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