ohnoooooooo

i was busking the other day and some guy took my picture

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:53:00 GMT

they turned out pretty nice i think!
he might put one up at the Artwalk festival we have here in olympia

haaaaaaaave a good day!

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:16:51 GMT

WHY PRIMITIVISM?
by John Zerzan

Debord biographer Anselm Giap1 referred to the puzzle of the present, “where the results of human activity are so antagonistic to humanity itself,” recalling a question posed nearly 50 years ago by Joseph Wood Krutch: “What has become of that opportunity to become more fully human that the ‘control of nature’ was to provide?”2

The general crisis is rapidly deepening in every sphere of life. On the biospheric level, this reality is so well-known that it could be termed banal, if it weren’t so horrifying. Increasing rates of species extinctions, proliferating dead zones in the world’s oceans, ozone holes, disappearing rainforests, global warming, the pervasive poisoning of air, water, and soil, to name a few realities.

A grisly link to the social world is widespread pharmaceutical contamination of watersheds.3 In this case, destruction of the natural world is driven by massive alienation, masked by drugs. In the U.S., life-threatening obesity is sharply rising, and tens of millions suffer from serious depression and/or anxiety.4 There are frequent eruptions of multiple homicides in homes, schools, and workplaces, while the suicide rate among young people has tripled in recent decades.5 Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other “mystery” /psychosomatic illnesses have multiplied, vying with the emergence of new diseases with known physiological origins: Ebola, Lassa fever, AIDS, Legionnaires’ disease. The illusion of technological mastery is mocked by the antibiotic-resistant return of TB and malaria, not to mention outbreaks of E coli, mad cow disease, West Nile virus, etc. Even a cursory survey of contemporary psychic immiseration would require many pages. Barely suppressed anger, a sense of emptiness, corrosion of belief in institutions across the board, high stress levels, all contribute to what Kornoouh has called “the growing fracture of the social bond.”6

Today’s reality keeps underlining the inadequacy of current theory and its overall retreat from any redemptive project. It seems undeniable that’s what’s left of life on earth is being taken from us. Where is the depth of analysis and vision to match the extremity of the human condition and the fragility of our planet’s future? Are we simply only with a totalizing current of degradation and loss?

The crisis is diffuse, but at the same time it is starkly visible on every level. One comes to agree with Ulrich Beck that “people have begun to question modernity…its premises have begun to wobble. Many people are deeply upset over the house-of-cards character of superindustrialism.”7 Agnes Heller observed that our condition becomes less stable and more chaos-prone the further we move away from nature, contrary to the dominant ideology of progress and development.8 With disenchantment comes a growing sense that something different is urgently needed.

For a new orientation the challenge is at a depth that theorists have almost entirely avoided. To go beyond the prospectless malaise, the collapse of social confidence so devastatingly expressed in Les Particules élémentaires (Michel Houlebecq’s end-of-the-millennium novel)9 , the analytical perspective simply must shift in a basic way. This consists, for openers, in refusing Foucault’s conclusion that human capacities and relations are inescapably technologized.10

As Eric Vogelin put it, “The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”11 But if the progress of nihilism is identical to the nihilism of progress, whence comes the rupture, the caesura? How to pose a radical break from the totality of progress, technology, modernity?

A quick scan of recent academic fads shows precisely where such a perspective has not been found. Frederic Jameson’s apt formulation introduces the subject for us: “Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.”12

Postmodernism is the mirror of an ethos of defeat and reaction, a failure of will and intellect that has accommodated to new extremities of estrangement and destructiveness.13 For the postmodernists, almost nothing can be opposed. Reality, after all, is so messy, shifting, complex, indeterminate; and oppositions are, of course, just so many false binarisms. Vacuous jargon and endless side-stepping transcend passé dualisms. Daniel White, for example, prescribed “a postmodern-ecological rubric that steps past the traditional either-or of the Oppressor and Oppressed…”14

In the consumerist realm of freedom, “this complex node, where technologies are diffused, where technologies are chosen,” according to Mike Michael,15 who can say if anything is at all amiss? Iain Chambers is an eloquent voice of postmodern abjectness, wondering whether alienation is not simply an eternal given: “What if alienation is a terrestrial constraint destined to frustrate the ‘progress’ introjected in all teleologies?…Perhaps there is no separate, autonomous alternative to the capitalist structuring of the present-day world. Modernity, the westernization of the world, globalization, are the labels of an economic, political and cultural order that is seemingly installed for the foreseeable future.”16

The fixation on surface (depth is an illusion; so are presence and immediacy), the ban on unifying narratives and inquiry into origins, indifference to method and evidence, emphasis on effects and novelty, all find their expression in postmodern culture at large. These attitudes and practices spread everywhere, along with the technology it embraces without reservation. At the same time, though, there are signs that these trivializing and derivative recipes for “thought” may be losing their appeal.17 An antidote to postmodern surrender has been made available, largely through what is known as the anti-globalization movement.

Jean-François Lyotard, who once thought that technologized existence offered options, has begun to write about the sinister development of a neo-totalitarian, instrumentalist imprisonment. In earlier essays he pointed to a loss of affect as part of the postmodern condition. More recently he has attributed that loss to techno-scientific hegemony. Crippled individuals are only part of the picture, as Lyotard portrays social effects of what can only be called instrumental reason, in pathological ascendance. And contra Habermas, this domination by instrumental reason is in no way challenged by “communicative action.”18 Referring to global urban development, Lyotard stated, “We inhabit the megalopolis only to the extent that we declare it uninhabitable. Otherwise, we are just lodged there.” Also, “with the megalopolis, what is called the West realizes and diffuses its nihilism. It is called development.”19

In other words, there may be a way out of the postmodern cul-de-sac, at least for some. Those still contained by the Left have a much different legacy of failure to jettison—one that obviously transcends the “merely” cultural. Discredited and dying as an actual alternative, this perspective surely also needs to go.

Hardt and Negri’s Empire20 will serve as a classic artifact of leftism, a compendium of the worn-out and left-over. These self-described communist militants have no notion whatsoever of the enveloping crisis. Thus they continue to seek “alternatives within modernity.” They locate the force behind their communist revolution in “the new productive practices and the concentration of productive labor on the plastic and fluid terrain of the new communicative, biological, and mechanical technologies.”21 The leftist analysis valiantly upholds the heart of productionist marxism, in the face of ever-advancing, standardizing, destructive technique. Small wonder Hardt and Negri fail to consider the pulverization of indigenous cultures and the natural world, or the steady worldwide movement toward complete dehumanization.

Claude Kornoouh considers monstrous “the idea that progress consists in the total control of the genetic stock of all living beings.” For him, this would amount to an unfreedom “that even the bloodiest totalitarianism of the 20th century was not able to accomplish.”22 Hardt and Negri would not shrink from such control, since they do not question any of its premises, dynamics, or preconditions.

It is no small irony that the militants of Empire stand exposed for the incomprehension of the trajectory of modernity by one of their opposite number, Oswald Spengler. As nationalist and reactionary that Spengler was, The Decline of the West is the great masterwork of world history, and his grasp of Western civilization’s inner logic is uncanny in its prescience.

Especially relevant here are Spengler’s judgments, so many decades ago, concerning technological development and its social, cultural, and environmental impacts. He saw that the dynamic, promethean (“Faustian”) nature of global civilization becomes fully realized as self-destructive mass society and equally calamitous modern technology. The subjugation of nature leads ineluctably to its destruction, and to the destruction of civilization. “An artificial world is permeating and poisoning the natural. The Civilization itself has become a machine that does, or tries to do everything in mechanical terms.”23 Civilized man is a “petty creator against Nature.” “…This revolutionary in the world of life…has become the slave of his creature. The Culture, the aggregate of artificial, personal, self-made life-forms, develops into a close-barred cage … ”24

Whereas Marx viewed industrial civilization as both reason incarnate and a permanent achievement, Spengler saw it as ultimately incompatible with its physical environment, and therefore suicidally transitory. “Higher Man is a tragedy. With his graves he leaves behind the earth a battlefield and a wasteland. He has drawn plant and animal, the sea and mountain into his decline. He has painted the face of the world with blood, deformed and mutilated it.”25 Spengler understood that “the history of this technics is fast drawing to its inevitable close.”26

Theodor Adorno seemed to concur with elements of Spengler’s thinking: “What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”27 Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment28 has a critique of civilization at its core, with its focal image of Odysseus forcibly repressing the Sirens’ song of eros. Dialectic’s central thesis is that “the history of civilization is… The history of renunciation.”29 As Albrecht Wellmer summed it up, “Dialectic of Enlightenment is the theory of an irredeemably darkened modernity.”30 This perspective, now continually augmented by confirming data, tends to render irrelevant both sources of theory and the logic of progress. If there is no escape from a condition we can understand all too well, what more is there to say?

Herbert Marcuse tried to lay out an escape route in Eros and Civilization,31 by attempting to uncouple civilization from modernity. To preserve the “gains” of modernity, the solution is a “non-repressive” civilization. Marcuse would dispense with “surplus repression,” implying that repression itself is indispensable. Since modernity depends on production, itself a repressive institution, redefining work as free play can salvage both modernity and civilization. I find this an implausible, even desperate defense of civilization. Marcuse fails to refute Freud’s view that civilization cannot be reformed.

Freud argued in Civilization and Its Discontents that non-repressive civilization is impossible, because the foundation of civilization is a forcible ban on instinctual freedom and eros. To introduce work and culture, the ban must be permanently imposed. Since this repression and its constant maintenance are essential to civilization, universal civilization brings universal neurosis.32 Durkheim had already noted that as humankind “advances” with civilization and the division of labor, “the general happiness of society is decreasing.”32

As a good bourgeois, Freud justified civilization on the grounds that work and culture are necessary and that civilization enables humans to survive on a hostile planet. “The principal task of civilization, its actual raison d’etre, is to defend us against nature.” And further, “But how ungrateful, how short-sighted after all to strive for the abolition of civilization! What would then remain would be a state of nature, and that would be far harder to bear.”34

Possibly civilization’s most fundamental ideological underpinning is Hobbes’ characterization of the pre-civilized state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short.” Freud subscribed to this view, of course, as did Adorno and Horkheimer.

Since the mid-1960s there has been a paradigm shift in how anthropologists understand prehistory, with profound implications for theory. Based on a solid body of archaeological and ethnographic research, mainstream anthropology has abandoned the Hobbesian hypothesis. Life before or outside civilization is now defined more specifically as social existence prior to domestication of animals and plants. Mounting evidence demonstrates that before the Neolithic shift from a foraging or gatherer-hunter mode of existence to an agricultural lifeway, most people had ample free time, considerable gender autonomy or equality, an ethos of egalitarianism and sharing, and no organized violence.

A (misleadingly-named) “Man the Hunter” conference at the University of Chicago in 1966 launched the reversal of the Hobbesian view, which for centuries had provided ready justification for all the repressive institutions of a complex, imperializing Western culture. Supporting evidence for the new paradigm has come forth from archaeologists and anthropologists such as Marshall Sahlins, Richard B. Lee, Adrienne Zihlman, and many others;35 these studies are widely available, and now form the theoretical basis for everything from undergraduate courses to field research.

Archaeologists continue to uncover examples of how our Paleolithic forbears led mainly peaceful, egalitarian, and healthy lives for about two million years. The use of fire to cook tuberous vegetables as early as 1.9 million years ago, and long distance sea travel 800,000 years ago, are two findings among many that testify to an intelligence equal to our own.36

Genetic engineering and imminent human cloning are just the most current manifestations of a dynamic of control and domination of nature that humans set in motion 10,000 years ago, when our ancestors began to domesticate animals and plants. In the 400 generations of human existence since then, all of natural life has been penetrated and colonized at the deepest levels, paralleling the controls that have been ever more thoroughly engineered at the social level. Now we can see this trajectory for what it really is: a transformation that inevitably brought all-enveloping destruction, that was in no way necessary. Significantly, the worldwide archaeological record demonstrates that many human groups tried agriculture and/or pastoralism and later gave them up, falling back on more reliable foraging and hunting strategies. Others refused for generations to adopt the domestication practices of close neighbors.

It is here that a primitivist alternative has begun to emerge, in theory and in practice.37 To the question of technology must be added that of civilization itself. Ever-growing documentation of human prehistory as a very long period of largely non-alienated human life stands in stark contrast to the increasingly stark failures of untenable modernity.

In the context of his discussion of the limitations of Habermas, Joel Whitebook wrote, “It may be that the scope of and depth of the social and ecological crisis are so great that nothing short of an epochal transformation of world views will be commensurate with them.”38 Since that time, Castoriadis concluded that a radical transformation will “have to launch an attack on the division of labor in its hitherto known forms.”39 Division of labor, slowly emerging through prehistory, was the foundation of domestication and continues to drive the technological imperative forward.

The challenge is to disprove George Grant’s thesis that we live in “a world where only catastrophe can slow the unfolding of the potentialities of technique,”40 and to actualize Claude Kornoouh’s judgment that revolution can only be redefined against progress.41

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:53:24 GMT

"""""""09/16/07 "Information Clearing House" -- --- "Why do you hate America?" This is a remarkably easy question to provoke. One might, for instance, expose elements of this nation's brutal foreign policy. Ask a single probing question about, say, U.S. complicity in the overthrow of governments in Guatemala, Iran, or Chile and thin-skinned patriots (sic) will come out of the woodwork to defend their country's honor by accusing you of being "anti-American." Of course, this allegation might lead me to ponder how totalitarian a culture this must be to even entertain such a concept, but I'd rather employ the vaunted Arundhati defense. The incomparable Ms. Roy says: "What does the term 'anti-American' mean? Does it mean you are anti-jazz or that you're opposed to freedom of speech? That you don't delight in Toni Morrison or John Updike? That you have a quarrel with giant sequoias?" (I'm a tree hugger remember? I don't argue with sequoias.)

When pressed, I sometimes reply: "I don't hate America. In fact, think it's one of the best countries anyone ever stole." But, after the laughter dies down, I have a confession to make: If by "America" they mean the elected/appointed officials and the corporations that own them, well, I guess I do hate that America-with justification.

Among many reasons, I hate America for the near-extermination and subsequent oppression of its indigenous population. I hate it for its role in the African slave trade and for dropping atomic bombs of civilians. I hate its control of institutions like the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization. I hate it for propping up brutal dictators like Suharto, Pinochet, Duvalier, Hussein, Marcos, and the Shah of Iran. I hate America for its unconditional support for Israel. I hate its bogus two-party system, its one-size-fits-all culture, and its income gap. I could go on for pages but I'll sum up with this: I hate America for being a hypocritical white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

After a paragraph like that, you know what comes next: If you hate America so much, why don't you leave? Leave America? That would potentially put me on the other end of U.S. foreign policy. No thanks.

I like how Paul Robeson answered that question before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956: "My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?"

Since none of my people died to build anything, I rely instead on William Blum, who declares, "I'm committed to fighting U.S. foreign policy, the greatest threat to peace and happiness in the world, and being in the United States I the best place for carrying out the battle. This is the belly of the beast, and I try to be an ulcer inside of it."

Needless to say, none of the above does a damn thing to placate the yellow ribbon crowd. It seems what offends flag-wavers most is when someone like me makes use of the freedom they claim to adore. According to their twisted logic, I am ungrateful for my liberty if I have the audacity to exercise it. If I make the choice to not salute the flag during the seventh inning stretch at Yankee Stadium, somehow I'm not worthy of having the freedom to make the choice to not salute the flag during the seventh inning stretch at Yankee Stadium. These so-called patriots not only claim to celebrate freedom while refusing my right to exploit it, they also ignore the social movements that fought for and won such freedoms.

There's plenty of tolerated public outcry against the Bush administration and the occupation of Iraq, but it's neither fashionable nor acceptable to go as far as saying, no, I do not support the troops and yes, I hate what America does. Fear of recrimination allows the status quo to control the terms of debate. Until we voice what is in our hearts and have the nerve to admit what we hate...we will never create something that can be loved."""""""

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:04:46 GMT

it is snowing like mad outside! i love it!

i went outside to smoke a cigarette and as soon as i stepped out there a bald eagle flew over the porch...it was amazing.

things have been pretty alright...im recording my album slowly but surely with a small independent label.

hope everyone stays warm today, its beauiful!

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:02:51 GMT

for more than a couple hours a time, for more than a few hours out of the day,
i wish you would just be nice to me.

2 word answer thing

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:50:24 GMT

1. Where is your cell phone? ................. pants pocket.

2. Your significant other?......................... is awesome!

3. Your hair? ............................................... getting long

4. Your mother?..........................................in wisconsin.

5. Your sibling?......................................... miss them

6. Your favorite Burger?...............................captain neon

7. Your dream last night?...........................never remember'm

8. Your favorite drink? ................................Free ones

9. Your dream/goal?..................................leave civilization

10. The room you're in?..............................bed room

11. Your ex?..................................................far away

12. Your fear?...............................................cougar dinner

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years?......... the woods

14. Where were you last night?.......................at home

15. What you're NOT?....................................very clean

16. Muffin?...................................................... mmmmmm. muffin.

17. One of your wish list items?................ bass flute

18. Where were you born?...........................my hometown

19. The last thing you did?........................... hit delete

20. What are you wearing?......................... my clothes

21. Your TV?................................................. fuck no

22. Your pet?................................................ nimbus isis

23. Your computer?..................................... broken laptop

24. Your life?.................................................. still happening

25. Do you need sex? ................................. some times

26. Why or why not?..................................... why not?

27. Your secrets?......................................... are few

28. Your job?................................................ despise it.

29. Your love?.............................................. is big

30. Your summer?..................................... was awesome

31. Like someone?......................................my lover

32. Your favorite color?.............................. all'a them

33. Last time you laughed?........................ earlier tonite.

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:43:34 GMT

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:45:10 GMT

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:37:36 GMT

and the old bird flies over the city
his tears fall down onto the side walk
and they roll themselves into the drainage system
its the purest thing it has drank in years

and the forest was cut down in four seconds
and the boxes were put up in three
and the tree is turning yellow and i hope it isnt dying it might be
it might be

and the old tree hangs over the city
and its tears fall down onto the roof tops
and they roll themselves into the gutters
its the purest thing they have drank in years

and everyone says theyve got nothing to lose they have everything
they have everything
and everyone says theyve got nothing to lose
they have everything.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:31:59 GMT

brutal bloody banjo playing aftermath

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:13:36 GMT

haha

grocery list:

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:06:08 GMT

pay no mind to this all of you avid readers...i just need to write this down and dont feel like finding pen and paper.

-tofu
-potatos
-asparagus
-eggs
-cheese
-pasta? if im out?
-mushrooms
-squash
-juice/apple cider
-celery
-round steaks
-spinach
-ground beef
-lunch meat
-apples
-bananas
-onion
-tomato
-beer

meal ideas:
-egg salad sandwiches
-tofu stir fry/ baked tofu w/aparagus and mashed potatoes
-pasta w/round steak and veggies
-smoked porter meat loaf w/ baked apples on top
-round steak w/ mashed potatoes on top and salad and beets(beet salad?)
-agra peas and greens noodles
-mushroom spinach omelets
-banana smoothies
-hard boiled eggs and banana for breakfast
-some kind of cheesy meaty casserole
-lunch sandwiches(roast beef, lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard, mayo, breeeeead)

that should be good enough for two weeks, with minor repeats of course.

work in progress

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:00:59 GMT

also, i re-recorded a song and put it on my music thing....im pretty happy with it. listen to it.

http://www.myspace.com/mikewarrenandthetrioofdoom

also, my birthday was awesome.

im 22. who would have thought....

well actually, i guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.

?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:24:33 GMT

hmm.

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:51:49 GMT

what a night.
wonderful end to the day with stephanie, then when she went to bed, i went to grocery store to get her some necessities and then went to the spar....met an older guy who sat down and listened to everything i played...and is going to show me a robert johnson tuning that ive never heard of...and wants to introduce me to a bunch of record/recording people....but i dont know about that...id rather play for the fun of it...but it was wonderful to have everyone listen to my music and enjoy it that much...its like every fucking time i go out, more and more people stop and listen and get so happy...i love that....and i talked to the guy at the spar about how i work at a fucking corporation and hate it and he said he is going to try and get me in with the guys at a couple music stores around here and try to get me to work there. i cant even explain how much better of a job that would be for me...but hell..i am drunk. and i should go to bed...goodnight!

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:33:22 GMT

tonite was crazy,
i went to the spar to drink and play the banjo outside...and ended up making 26 dollars and a shot of yager for it all....it was really weird. but good! although i lost my slide that i just bought.....but hey...it was like 8 dollars, so i made enough to cover that and still have some money left over just from the money i unintentionally made tonight.
and now its time to cuddle stephanie. which is a wonderful end to a wonderful night.
yep. ill upload a video similar to the song i as playing tonite soon....probably.

goodnight!

a little of what ive learned so far on the dulcimer

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:15:40 GMT

ive also been messing around with a slide while playing....a video of that later...

Fri, 30 May 2008 06:39:31 GMT

possum john, ill never forget you.

tonite was a great night.

but now...the challenge of getting laudry done and having enough leep for work tommorow...but you know..tommorow is friday, and for once...friday is the beginning of my weekend, so i guess it doesnt really matter.....i wish my camera didnt have a dead battery...i made some beautiful music tonite..and two people in particular stopped and listened to it and saw it for what it was and that is one of the best feelings playing music for people gives me...granted, i just like drinking a pitcher or two and playing music outside...but thats even better! a bonus! people lit up from what came from my fingers and my heart, they felt it and lit up as much as i did...and thats beautiful.

Thu, 29 May 2008 07:30:12 GMT

i bought a dulcimer today...lots of fun so far...i only wish i would have saved more money to buy a better one..its really cheap and the instruments the brand makes are either hit or miss...my 2nd lowest string is a peice of shit, and is very mean to me...but none the less, i am in love with dulcimers...i hope to get one later from that man phalex was telling me about..some guy in wisconsin who handmakes them out of local woods....his stepdads sounded beautiful..mmm...so yea i think ill pick me up one of those eventually...ill post a video of music ive created on mine so far in the near future.

oh yea, lifes been good...

haha, i always think lifes treating me well. because it is.
have a good night.

Fri, 23 May 2008 21:19:06 GMT

i should really try and record cleaner versions of these songs...bah. the one above wan an older one that i added new things to. the one below is drunken blues. enjoy!

fuck yea! ive never seen anything like this percussively played from so long ago.

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:54:26 GMT

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:42:41 GMT

so i got a little too drunk tonite and recorded a random song...here it is..excuse the wierd mouth movements and swaying...i actually like it alot...but im still drunk...s let me know what you think.

:
"sloppy people
drinkin water drinkin coffee
lean on the railings
talk my ear off

and some of these ideas
they pop up out of nowhere
and they talk each others ears off
i just wanna keep mine on for now
just wanna keep mine on for now

and sometimes i feel like
a badly drawn flower
and my boots are gettin worn down
and my heart is gettin worn down too

sloppy people
lean on the railings
talk eachothers ears off
just wanna keep mine on for now"

untootled

Wed, 07 May 2008 02:47:51 GMT

its its been a little over a year since ive played this song in its entirety...so cut me some slack, its a little sloppy and the harmonica is a little loud at times...but give it a listen if you want. actually im listening to it and it didnt turn out too bad i guess. yep.

life's been awesome...no complaints here

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:25:04 GMT

election time scares me. politicians scare me. all these promises and plans to get the "average consumer" a little bit ahead this summer, this year, etc. bah. gimmicks. placing our trust in technology and governments to reach that cute little fuzzy idea of "progress". as if there is even such a thing taking place here.

its like playing a broken game. no matter how you play it, its still a broken fucking game.

Fri, 02 May 2008 07:11:55 GMT

wow, what a happy night.
marin saw me on the street and came and hung out for an hour or so, played slide guitar for random folks, got offered to do some houseboat shows, met other really nice travelers, drank a pitcher and then a pint of some great porter(with molasses and artisan well water in it mmmm), talked about new zealand and farming and self-sustainability and other things. and smiled alot.

woohoo for my position in life!