Its the magical mystery kind

Music is so ffeaifd;n g great. I think I know why I like it so much. Because you get to know people, who they are and some times you can relate to what they are saying like you wrote it your self like 40 day dream by Ed Sharpe and sometimes you cant but its always got emotion. Real emotion. Real fun and joy and happiness and well as the shitty parts that go along with those. Music is great.

"we have to be able to hear that voice.

I'm through listening to other people tell me how to live my life...

I'm just doing now what I feel is right for me, for my own self."

Bob Dylan

"Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the claims that shackle the spirit."

Igor Stravinsky

he's gone. I drove him to the airport in tucson. i cant believe its over. i am a mess and i miss him so much. he is back in australia and who knows the next time i will kiss him or hug him. right now i'm scared for how sad i am.

take me to that place

I went to a strip club for the first time in my life yesterday. It was in San Francisco in North Beach. The hustler clubs down there are sketchy in a way, cheesy with their flashing lights and creepy men in suits out front. We had nothing else to do, so we decided to see naked chicks.

I was so excited. Iv been wanting to go to a strip club for ages now. Girls are sexy, no denying that, and I was with my Australian. The next day his words were

“I knew that you would like it, I just didn’t know you would love it that much.”

Ya, I had a great time. The girls were pretty hot at some places, pretty rank at others. 20 dollars got us admission into 4 clubs, 2 good and 2 bad. I got a lap dance, frankly I could do better. I saw the most gorgeous girl at one of them, she asked me if I wanted a private lap dance and I did very much but I had no more money. Money goes fast when your around naked girls.

2 flasks of jack and a 2 30 am visit to Sparky’s diner and me, Fred, and our 2 friends went to our hotel rooms. Fred and I stayed up quite a bit later. Fun night.

3rd and counting

Outside Lands was my 3^rd festival since April; it was my 3^rd music festival ever. I immensely enjoyed my time.

2 days and 5 stages in Golden Gate Park in San Fran where all the free thinkers and clouded thinkers roam.

Music

Art

Food

Wine

Festival.

We were surrounded by tall trees and walking, dancing, sitting in green grassy fields. The sun was shining, which is unusual for San Francisco even in August when the rest of the country is in the middle of a heat wave. It was warm and the day was bright and everybody had the loving feeling.

The first day was not as big as the second day, in the amount of people there. No lines, just awesome people. I went with Fred and three of our guy friends from San Diego, it was so much fun, I felt like I had four guys looking after me and just having a good time. We went straight for the food tents. About 30 local restaurants had booths at Outside Lands and they were outstandingly delicious. Fred got a Philly cheese steak with really good seasoned meat and lots of it. I got garlic mashed potatoes and barbequed chicken with some tangy Asian sauce. The first act we saw was PRETTY LIGHTS!

We are in the middle of a music revolution. Like in the late 60’s with Jimi and the Woodstock generation. Techno is taken to a different place, where electro is combined with soft hip-hop beats that hit you hard and oh so good. Dub step is a new type of music. Pretty Lights is a man that makes new sounds, sounds never sounded so good.

Then we went to the other stage to see Gogol Bordello. If you haven’t heard of them I wouldn’t be surprised. They play gypsy, Russian, folk, good big ol Russian wedding music. They are so energetic on stage and festive. The lead singer is a skinny mid aged guy with long black hair and a clearly European face. He referred to his Fiddle/electrical violinists as “the king of Russian rock and roll.” Look up “Start wearing purple” by Gogol Bordello on YouTube, when they played that song my mind went into complete festival mode.

Then we went to Bassnectar. He did awesome except for a sound problem. After that we went to the Heineken tent. We all got beers then followed the tent hallway to a rave, basically. Rave music and lights being projected off the ceiling and everything was dark blue. It was a fun time. Then we went to a small stage to hear Beats Antique. They are super chill beats with a twist. I was on my feet the whole time. Then it got very cold and I turned into a pussy. After it got dark we went to watch the Strokes. Not only did they play very well they had awesome red light bulbs on their set. It was spectacular to see especially at night, the contrast between the dark from the outside and the lights from the stage.

The first day was great. It was energetic and exciting. I had a blast with Fred and the boys and met some great people. The people set the festival environment. Of course everyone is awesome at a music festival.

You don’t camp at this festival. The park closes at 10 every day so the festival was done around 9 30. I went to stay with my old roommate from ballet school on Washington st. while Fred and the boys went to the Pretty Lights after show at the Independent. They said it was beyond words, he did a mash up of Biggies Juicy and Empire State of Mind for the chorus. They were dead the next day. My body shut down when I came home and even though I slept on the floor it was such a good sleep.

The next day had way more people than the first day. Even though it was more crowded I didn’t feel uncomfortable or cramped. That is an important aspect of music festivals for me, the comfort of not being over populated and too big and having it in a nice comfortable grassy place. Again, the second day was shiny and great. The Devil Makes Three blew me away as well as all my friends and the crowd. There are three musicians that make up this high energy, southern folksy band. They all play in unison, each as fast as the next so they are more in sync. It was real knee slapping, skipping type of fun music, true happy festival tunes. “Black Irish” is an outstanding jam.

What sold me on the music aspect of the festival was that Al Greene was performing. After The Devil Makes Three, Fred and I got some food and went straight to get a good spot for Al Greene. We got up close to the stage, we went about an hour early. We got to our spot in the midst of people and sat down. Met some friends and jointed it up. Al Greene was awesome, quite possibly one of the best, funkiest performances that moved me.. He broke out into random dances and really felt the music. He wore a black suit and at one point took of his jacket and threw it on the floor and went into a groove.

Then we went to Slightly Stoopid. As always, they were great and music as chill and irie as ever. Big surprise when Del Tha Funky Homosapien came on. It raised my blood and my voice.

Aterciopelados is a band from Colombia. Nice beats and good to jam to.

Nas and Damien Marley put on a good ass performance. Nas did this freestyle that kept going and going and he was flowing and owning that stage. “Welcome to Jamrock was a huge hit and set everyone off, as usual.

The last thing we saw was Kings of Leon. Again it was nighttime and they had superb lights on their stage. They sang a cover of the

Pixies “where is my mind?” and “sex on fire.”

It was a great festival. Just enough people, good food, great environment. Cool looking statues and a cool Rasta man made out of balloons. I enjoyed myself. More festivals give me more ideas of what I want in my own music festival, coming soon one day.

Outside lands, 2 days, golden gate park, music festival, august 14 and 15. This Saturday and Sunday. We are making out was to San Fran by Friday.

After another couple of weeks, or a few days and another few stops we got to Santa Barbara. So we got to Santa Barbara the last night of fiesta. Apparently it’s a huge party on State Street with confetti and bands and tons of people and sold out motels everywhere. Thankfully a friend of mine from high school years lives in Santa Barbara so we met him up and went out with him and his friends then slept on his floor. This time Fred and I came prepared with blankets and a pad and pillows because we might go camping. It was a fun night, lots of stuff going on.

The next day we checked into a motel on State Street. It was great, a bed, mirrors, a shower, and State Street. Fred had never seen the original Alice in Wonderland. We downloaded it and watched it in the morning, after a J.

The next day we were off to San Louis Obispo where we are now and where I am writing this little blurb. Its great here, less people that in southern California and I love that. The sky is clearer and the weather is warmer and the sky is sunnier and blue. One of my best friends from high school lives here and we hung out with her, Liz.

Fern Gully is Avatar. Avatar is Fern Gully. Scene for scene.

We went to Avilla beach. It was nice, very cute little town above it, freezing water. Then Liz, Fred, and I found this trail. The trail led to stairs. By the way the trail was in a bunch of cliffs with the ocean at the bottom and mansions on top, it was Shell Beach. So back to the stairs, steep stairs clearly just chizzled out. Then there were ropes installed in the cliffs for you to hold onto and climb down the cliff. It was sort of like rock climbing the opposite way and with ropes to hold onto. I did scratch my ass a few times but we finally got dow, down to a nude beach balled pirates cove. Only a few people, some couples, such nice people. One guy gave me a peace sign with his fingers when we walked by and when we left he said ‘goodbye’ when we left, like it was his personal beach. He was bald, tan, good aged, and big dicked, not what you would expect. There was a topless woman

playing ball with her dog, nice boobs.

I love finding awesome spots by the beach. Secluded hide aways filled with goodies. In San Diego in sunset cliffs we found a secret stoner playground. Off the made up trail that we made was an irie dream. It had rope swings that you could run off the side of the dirt to get a running start, two of them. And up to the right was a bench with a perfect view of the ocean and carvings into the tree behind it.

I don’t know what today is going to bring or tomorrow. I just can’t wait to Outside Lands.

back at it

It was touch and go there for a while, everything was, at least for me. a week with my family in long beach away from my Australian was pretty boring. What got me through was knowing that I only had to be there a week. When I would sit in a chair and read or watch t.v all night I would cry to myself that I’m wasting my gorgeous 22 years but just then I would say its only temporary. I had a wonderful time with my family, but it was temporary. Then I met Fred in San Diego. We slept on our friends roof right on the bay and saw the Sea World fire works at night, for free.

We took a trip in Tucson, not recommended in the summer months.

Back to San Diego.

For my Australians birthday we went to Kate Sessions park in San Diego. It overlooks the bay and the ocean and the whole of the city. It’s such an awesome, awe-striking view. There was also a live band in the park that day and so many people. It was like a music festival with how many people there were. Instead of high people dressed as fairies there were families with babies and wine, volleyball courts with big muscly guys on them and their chicks. We barbequed and enjoyed the bomb band. They were jammin. As for us, Blunt and a long, long night. We got to sit in on a jam session with some guys in a house and got to bed on our friends floor at about 5 or 6am.