…does that make you a racist?

just wondering…

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Ok, i admit defeat… i am a “country bumpkin”. I went up to london by train the other day, and rode the tube. I haven`t been on the underground for ages, and found it both terrifying and exciting. And something about the pre-war architecture and grubbiness of the whole place… i felt that at any moment the whole place could collapse, or a siren would go off and we would have to run into the tunnels….or a swarm of giant rats would pour out of the tunnels… or we would have to evacuate the station… terrorists could attack… who knows? mind that back-pack, sitting on it`s own! and the white tiled coridoors remind of “american werewolf in london” - one of my favourite movies when i was younger…
as a teenager, i would travel the tube without a second thought… and for all those commuters, it is just a tedious way of getting from A to B…. but now i guess i have been living the life of a hermit for so long, that just the act itself, of riding in those metal sausages of death is an exhilarating event….
still too many blimmin` people, tho`!

Just got back from Soulclipse in turkey… wow, what an experience! the eclipse itself was very emotional it seemed…a lot of people were crying…i had goosepimples…

it was eerie being in the mountains in a kind of extremely bright moonlight, with a sea of digital camera screens lighting up the surroundings, as people whooped and whistled… i know you aren`t really supposed to look at it directly, but i couldn`t help myself… my eyes were drawn to the beauty, and looking at a little crescent thru a black filter doesn`t do it somehow! like looking at a rotten banana the wrong way down a telescope…

when the light starts to dim, it is like coming up on acid… the colours change… there is a kind of fluorescent glow to things… and the birds, and animals (humans especially) get very confused…

the festival was quite chaotic… the main stage had collapsed before i arrived (no-one hurt), so we were all playing on another stage that was perfectly adequate, tho` the sound was a little compressed… i played just before the eclipse… doing a live version of shamanix that kinda dissolved into a deep rumble , and then into silence 5 mins or so before totality… but with all the screw-ups on the timings, i didn`t get to play my full set…
really enjoyed my chill out set by the river later that day! the psychedelic circus really was in town! i would like to thank danielle who danced onstage for a bit… and all the crazy burning man crew, who looked awesome in their feather outfits… a feast for the eyes! and love to everyone who was there enjoying it….
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WooHoo! Twisted version 3 finally coming together! Sorry `bout the temporary offline business… but here we go, at last!

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