fever, coughing up green shit, my nose is runny as fuck…
it sux
i hate everything when im sick
i took a nap today in the dried Texas grass, layed in the sun wrapped up in a blanket, and tryed to sweat it all out.
Texas is weird but i kinda like it.
i love the boyz here…larson and dan rule
this weekend i will be leaving to New Mexico…i think
Greyhounds
we are forced to take a greyhound, gotta make it to Baton Rouge in time to hitch a ride to Austin for Amebix. The bus rocks me to sleep but i stay between my REM and reality, drifting in thought almost like dreaming but im still awake. I begin to sew the tear in my left pant leg.
” ehem, you dont see that anymore” he comes out of a smokers cough in a raspy flem blocked voice…i turn confused and he continues..” you know, women sewing and all”…his thick southern draw is annoying to me. He chuckles in sort of a flirty manner, and i want to vomit all of the sudden.
We arrive to Baton Rouge with harmonic tunes on our lips…
Baton Rouge
chill atmosphere. beautilful weather, we got lucky. local greek cafe with rockin fallafel and pistachio baklava. we eat outside in the sun reflecting on our goals, our fears. her skin glows, her eyes long for happiness. she likes me and i like her. we find strawberry jam on the dollar shelf only its not really a dollar, mistake i guess, but the lady who runs the register with a sweet smile throws her hands up and says ok that she will give it to us anyways. almost as if she was saying “opa!” …nap for two hours. then a night bike ride along the Mississippi river. We borrowed the bikes. I had a janky (a word used in Louisiana that means shitty) ass mountain bike, but it rocked anyways. we used food stamps to buy food- veggie setain meal over noodles with a peanut curry sauce. all 12 of us eat together, and unknowingly bond over this meal. we all did something, shared the workload, and now enjoyed our masterpiece. we all share in the dish washing, like good anarchists do. we smoke, we drink, we enjoy the bonfire that keeps us warm. we sleep. my sleeping bag rocks, nothing can stop us.
off to Texas….
Texas
We got into Houston late to see a show. First immpressions were funny to say the least. A bar called the white swan that was half punx and half Mexican punx/gang members of the local hip hop gang/group thang….i dont know it was funny though. We leave that night after the show to Austin where we rest our bones for the night at Dan the drummer of HellKontroll’s house. We eat 85 cent breakfast burritos the next morning, i am in heaven. we hit up the drag, a place to spange and play music to make money. we make 13 dollars. she plays i sing. i sing she plays.
At 1:00 we go to a Pro-Life rally and hold up signs ..one that my wingnut buddy held read “Should I really be a daddy?” and others read ” im pro-death”….” Elliviate the stress mankind has put on this planet” ….shouting out, “if the clinics close the churches will burn” we had drums and gimics, and it was awesome. I love being totally blasphemous on purpose and freaking the hell out of people. Most of the signs they held looked like album covers– bloody fetus’s and all! They think we are spawns of Satan, and we are.
later that night was the reason we came.
AMEBIX RULED!!
enough said…
New blog!
I deleted my old posts and decided to say fuck the past, lets move on.
So….I leave tomorrow night for an excursion from here to the southwest….NOLA, Baton Rouge, Austin TX, Tuscon and Flagstaff Arizona, maybe New Mexico? I will be joining hundreds of other Earthfirsters on a mountain for 2 weeks to plan, organize, share skills, and learn about Arizona’s wild ecology!!! So stoked….
But before all that I will be heading to see Amebix’s reunion tour!! ?!?!?!? yeah i know….I will spend some time in Austin to see what everyone means when they say ” Austin is fuckin amazing!”
I am feeling good about this trip and good about being on the road again. Its a weird feeling leaving this time, a little harder this time around. Usually when im ready to hit the road, im in a place of misery and hating life. But right now I love where im at. I live in a great city filled with progressive minds and alternative lifestyles, i have a sweet house, im loving FNB as usual, i have a a great job that is pretty laid back and allows me to be myself….im enjoying the people i let close to me…and im going to miss everyone.
In the past couple days I had some shit thrown my way, lots of emotions. But im feeling good about it all and excited about what awaits me on my trip, and what awaits me upon my return home. <3
I will be in touch…
