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playing tuba for four days. being locked out of sleeping arrangements twice, sleeping on the 40 degree bus with no blanket, losing movement of my right hand for a few hours. lots of coffee and a newer bigger thermos. the bands i played with: the RMO of course. Dja-Ra-Ra, hatian Rara band. Bread and Puppet Circus band. the Himalayas free jazz ( Read more... ) -
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...and the old woman smiled kindly and tucked the sheet of acid tabs into her floral-bound notebook. she and i had just been introduced to the young man who'd given it to her, who was part of a musical tesla-coil band. this woman must be wonderful to work with, i said to my contact, Mr. Normal, across the room, and he agreed. i was introduced to a ( Read more... ) -
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(on this tour there was a lot of van trouble. it kept breaking down and we missed a lot of gigs and it drove poor pete crazy. and me, a little. my life has been one long rattling sauna, from new york to new orleans and back up to chicago and in between ( Read more... ) -
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in detroit with the RMO. dylan took me to see michigan central station today. i'd seen it first from the freeway coming in to the city, with all it's windows gone and the sky shining through, looming colonnaded and black against the pale blue. it seemed like a perfect emblem of the city. we climbed stair after stair, no banesters, no window panes, ( Read more... ) -
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because things aren't compiling, apparently, i'll just write them down here. yesterday i had some computer fixing work. it was easy and fun and i got to nostalgize about all those old computers i used to build. then, last night was the afrobeat show from peter matson's band, followed by mbalax. apparently i met mikey on the way. i remember none of ( Read more... ) -
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driving in to arkansas was like driving through a brugel snow scene. leaving it became ansel adams. -
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my band drove down through richmond, chapel hill, atlanta, and ocean springs to new orleans. two nights ago we were trying to find a spot to park and the singer made an illegal turn in front of a cop car. yesterday morning, we all went to the courthouse together at 8 am to pay the $300 fine. walking back from a corner liquor store, our drummer pete ( Read more... ) -
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i took up the tuba on tuesday, when adam flashmobbed the Rude Mechanical Orchestra by himself and dropped off the sousaphone he had. today, i played it in denos's second line project, with paul and chelsea and joe, those awesome motherfuckers i've been meaning to get on better terms with since the day i met each one of them. we listened and played ( Read more... ) -
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i took some pills, i drank a lot, there was love, there was little sleep. there were people fitting into and onto a bed all together. there was a loss of phones of mine. i took a brillo pad to my stomach by accident. friends came over and played guitar late into the night and sang our lungs out with jack daniels. we attempted a small trip for ( Read more... ) -
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my newest platitude, 'speak from the heart' taken from Wedding Crashers is paying off. today was unreasonably rich. i found myself on my couch having just hosted a massive party - upwards of seventy people had crammed into our apartment last night. i was awoken by mike wilbur calling to ask me to play a free jazz session at school. i couldn't, but ( Read more... )