june 6, 2001 stockholm~ what to say about this dazzling city, crown jewel of international scandinavia? water. first water. interlocking islands like a checkerboard maze in the baffling baltic. keeping the russians out, keeping me eternally lost. walking. walking. sweet smelling lilacs in bloom. white-blossomed apple trees. tulips, violets, pansies. traipsing from one island to another. over one bridge, another. the cobblestoned old town center, gamla stan - tourists, bars, shops, shoppers, jazz clubs, bars, people pouring out into the streets day/night. skeppsholmen - the modern art m
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 5, a little bare ass rhetoric
june 16, 2001 gothenberg, sweden, Can you believe it? me and george w. doing the same tour. gothenberg. sweden. the EU conference. as you might have heard, he was greeted in this trumped up, 17th century city-by-the-sea by 15,000 pierced, drunk and political punks, hippies, commies, socialists, greenpeacers, beatniks, anarchists, guerillas, protestors, feminists, nudists, & rabble rousers, who put down their cell phones just long enough to show him their very white, bare & beautiful asses. With this is mind, it is important to choose a signific
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 4, cabin fever
cabin fever june 11, 2001 darlana, sweden hola, my vicarious swedes-- imagine -- i am somewhere in the middle of sweden - four hours by scenic train northwest from stockholm - in a groovy area called darlana -- a crater has fallen from deep space several million years ago and created this ring of lake and forest that is richer and more beautiful than the rest of the flat, un-cratered landscape. it is the heartland of rural sweden, and i am in the tiny village of evertsberg (pronounced eh-chairs-ber-uh!). it has about three hundred people in the village, one store, one meeting hal
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 6, nyooks and neesas in norway
june 21, summer solstice (midsummer) oslo, norway wow! an eye-opening week of natural wonder! what a physical and psychic chasm between the pinnacle/nadir of the economic evolution of mankind (gothenberg) and the awe-inspiring eternal beauty of fjordic norway. 1- a couple of very full touring days in oslo - seeing the 1299 castle and fortress of good king hakon V sitting dominantly and strategically above of the icy but protected harbor; the national theater of iconic and feminist, henrik ibsen; the haunting existential screams of 20th
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 7, erik, the doubting dane
end of june, 2001 hillerod, denmark kronborg ("hamlet's") castle "to be -- or not to be?" never mind. what i really want to talk about is how travel is a spiritual quest - how it makes you so - small - relatively speaking - measured over the course of time - and - simultaneously large - part of the entire history and culture of the world - part of all humans who came before you. i mean, traveling makes you have to contemplate - if your eyes and ears are open -- and you're at all attentive, curious & alive -- both the pettiness and grandness
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 8, all good things must…
city of angels july 11, 2001 .come to an end? surprise! already home for six days. amazingly, i came home twelve days early!! to attend to my separation-anxious dear dog, his stoic guardian, my super subtenant, and to go to the boisterous mountain bachelor party of my ex-roomie, soon-to-be-married pal, todje mandela. some of you jealous motherfuckers convinced me that my self centered self indulgence and pleasure seeking traveling ad nauseum was mounting towards the irritatingly ego-maniacal, and thusly convinced, i reluctantly decided to sacrifice the
Scandinavia Photos, 2001
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Java, 2001, bogor/madonna rant
12/29/01 bogor, indonesia so what's it really like being here in west java amidst thousands of brown-skinned, ramadhan-celebrating indonesian muslims - deep in the thick of "kebun raya", the incredible jungle botanical gardens of bogor? where i'm the only white skinned "boulay" (honkie) for miles and acres of picnic-loving, holiday humanity whose denizens call out "hello" and "hey mister", practicing their pidgin english on the only local strolling monkey in the park - moi? well, it's -- strange. sort of like - maybe - being the only black sitting
Java, 2001, santa’s surprise – ja-vaaaaaa
december 18, 2001 bandung, indonesia selamat pagi, teman teman (good morning, friends) c'est moi, your trouble-shooting cock-eyed adventurer. on the island of java! paleolithic home of the original prehensile "java" man. monkeys fucking on the side of the road. dark, sweltering green jungle canopies making even day time into a deep-shadowed jungle adventure. brilliant torrential monsoon rains - for hours on end - drenching and nurturing endless rain forests of aboriginal indonesian paradise. hell, i thought i bought a ticket for a nice tame,
South East Asia, 2000, chapter 1, into the asiatic void: bangkok
into the asiatic void: bangkok may 10, 2000 hola amgios, c'est moi, your ever-adventuring gringo travel fiend. i'm on another two month see-the-world-before-you-die discovery trek --- this time to southeast asia. i left for bangkok on may 7th, and i have a "flexible" return ticket for july 7th. i hope to see cambodia, vietnam, laos, thailand, malaysia, and maybe even bali. having never ventured to asia, it feels like a big cultural departure - and psychic immersion - to the east -- hopefully in a good way. i'm really looking forward to it. leaving my isolated LA routine for the great