TRAVEL JOURNAL 05

the artist edge

TRAVEL JOURNAL 05 - 06

THE TYPEWRITER

BURGESS FALLS, TENNESSEE

" WE'VE ALL COME TO LOOK FOR AMERICA"

(from a paul simon song)

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ARLINGTON THEATER, SB

SETTING UP FOR THE SHOW

MR. CURREN AND MR. PJIRROU

JAMIN AT THE ARLINGTON

DE LA GUERRA PLAZA

DON'T FORGET THE TECATE

EDGE, HOLLYWOOD

ITS' ALL ABOUT THE PALM TREES

DANCIN' IN THE STREET

LA AND SB, CA 5.12.06

arrived in LA 2am; stay in hollywood hills, just down from errol flynn's estate, or, whats left of it. go to edge, the famous dance studio down off of santa monica blvd; do jazz classes for a couple of days, wicked professional. hollywood all cleaned up. go to elixirs, a hip little tea house with exceptional meditative garden; have a ginseng pick me up; lots of interesting signage on stores; LA; the graphic city.

up to santa barbara: cinco de mayo festivities at de la guerra plaza. vino, mujeres, y canciones. elsewhere in sb: lots of good organic food, vegetable stands, farmer's markets.

play the arlington theater with Tom Curren Band (former 3 time world surfing champ); biggest theater in SB. a benefit with a surf movie from the Bruce Brown, endless summer gang, big crowd who liked the music! meet wes brown back stage who is following in his father's film footsteps.

"counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike, we've all come to look for ameirca" the chorus of paul simon's "America"; little did i know i was destined to make it to you know where.

LYNN KROKENBURGER

THE RAW MIESTRO

THE RAW SPREAD

THE BEST RAW DISHES I'VE HAD

THE RAW GANG AT THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH

SMILE! IT'S GOURMET ORGANIC RAW FOOD!

OUTSIDE OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

5.02.06.

the center for integrative health. about 4 miles of windy road through a budding spring canopy of forest to a nondescript house. it's raw food pot luck night. i go in and watch videos on health and diet. sunrider products. a very nice center. with a brand new kitchen where LK, who is quickly becoming a master at nutrition and raw food, teaches food prep. Dr. V. is redoing house room by room. very impressive kitchen, a raw foodist's dream; and the dutch revival dining room with dr. v.'s sword collection, which he walks me through. first time ever i've unsheaved a sword. after handling the swords i get of sense of a nobler form of combat, but, even better, the sense of the archetypal myths involving swords. he has also designed some of these. after pot luck we go down to his office in the basement. he got his phd when he was 19 years old. up on a huge screen connected to computer and microscope are blood molecules. one only has to look at deseased blood, mostly due to the sad diet (standard american diet) to be astounded. if more people saw these things, raw food would be all the rage. i give a mini concert in the dining room for the appreciative raw gang.

MR SOFTY GOES TO NEW YORK

ST PATTY'S CATHEDRAL, NYC

HOW'S THAT FOR AN ERECTION

NEW YORK CITY 4.21.06 once again into gotham. the 12:00 train to penn station, get my bearings, wanted to walk the fashion district, but, no time, uptown to 72nd and broadway, can't get the subway wired. jazz class at steps, not quite in shape, taxing session, but getting there, a couple more weeks of working out, crowded class, ace dancers, old architecture, french feel to the anterooms, lots of studio space, want to live across the street and study til i get it right.

"CONSTRUCTION" PICASSO

BULLBOY FINDS HIS MASCOT

at first glance its one of those confusing "modern art" pieces that your parents would find confounding. how can they call that art? but those of us savy and hip connoseurs (spell?) know right away. IT'S A BULL

DEMOISELLE D'AVIGNON

YOU CAN TELL A DEMOISELLE BY HER GRAPES

NEW YORK CITY, easter sunday, 4.16.06

hustled to leave ivy beleaguered princeton, train to new york, boom through the underground to 53rd St, nyc subway not user friendly; museum of modern art; picasso's night fishing at entibe; my favorite picasso, if there can be such a thing. demoiselle d'avignon: i can see why it's so famous, a picture can't convey the expressive boldness of it; edvard munch exhibit; a photo of the sagitarius painting out in a snowcovered courtyard. the tight, hip crowd of new york; you can tell the artists, myself included, looking close up at the way the paint is applied; everyone else standing back; a soft moody gauguin with gold leaves, very subtle. wanted a pictgure with moore's reclining figure, but, settled for picasso's goat.

THE DEEP JOURNAL: princeton and nyc

EAST WALL OF THE CHAPEL

A VERNAL COMMENT

HALL OF 1879

HERE'S THE IVY, WHERE'S THE LEAGUE?

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY. on a day off i trundled through the campus. 50K a year and your in the ivy league basking in the architecture of gothic europe. a spanish speaking man comes into nassau interiors; he's just curious; dressed in levis jacket, very nice. his father was a bracero no doubt, with his wife in tow; from palo alto; we speak spanish; his daughter just won a 4 year scholarship based on an essay she wrote.

SPRING BREAK IS OVER

THE NEPHEW GETS TUBED

THE BROTHERS THREE OUR OF FOUR

SANTA BARBARA, CA- december 2005 the sport of surfing with brother dave, the former pro and awesome innovator of the suring world, now surfing instructor, and nephew brandon whom he is coaching to be a pro, along with the currens, as in tom curren, three time world champ. very large waves at el rincon. lots of exercise, new years eve at the currens, learn how ot excell at scrabble. enjoyable family thing.

LINDENWOLD, NEW JERSEY (outside of philly) 2.15.06 a blur of immigrant east coast blue collar; offered a job as a dance instructor; fell in love and out just as quickly, a bull girl! other notable people: bernie, the jewish aquarius, very funny, intellectual humour, constantly zany; thaduis, the ad salesman from philly, we talked jazz. i, the white boy who can rattle off all the blue note players, he could appreciate that;

LE BELLE LOUISVILLE

AND THERE ARE SOME BELLES IN LOUISVILLE

LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD HOME

AH! THE SIMPLE LIFE

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, august 2005 - december 2006 only took a couple of pictures the entire time, down on the water front, and, when i visited the childhood home of president lincoln, (remember the story about reading books by candle light in a little one room country shack? i know you do!) which is off a windy little road in the middle of nowhere, a beautiful, lush little rural valley in central kentucky. recorded "miss mystery" over and over again to learn the software; whiskey and horses abound. fourth street live is the downtown hot spot. after the music thrills of nashville, i'm not so hot to seek out the wonders of this mid south city. played one blues jam, smoke so thick you couldn't breathe. done with that, thank you very much. the big river. 4th street live, the watering wholes. drive over the appalachians for the third time this year. escape to california for christmas.

NORTH EASTON POND

ZEN AND THE ART OF POND WATCHING--ROLL OVER MONET

NORTH EASTON, MA july 2005 traditional old baseball at fenway park, defintely the place to see it. clay cleansing, and recording all my songs for copyright and personal record. serious recording not to start until i learn the programs better. but, still came out good. walk near the lotus covered ponds every day on the aimes estate with my buddies, rosey and lucky, meditate under pine trees. aimes got booted out of congress for buying off politicians to build the transcontinental railroad, for which north easton made all the shovels. some things never change.

TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT

DRAFFENVILLE, OUTSIDE OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY. april - june 2005 can't get used to the hot fashion, battle fatigues. everybody's got a boat and a pickup truck. poor fish don't have a chance. country music, dry county boozers, the quilt festival, blue grass, hot afternoons with the local country station blaring and the first yoga instructor ever that used the actual indian words for all the position

THE DEEP JOURNAL: western kentucky

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