We got home yesterday around 9 or 10 in the morning. The bus is sitting in its spot next to the garage, and it is just as long as the building (maybe longer). Lots of stories from the trip. Hopefully Ali will help me tell some of them. Until then, there […]
We got home yesterday around 9 or 10 in the morning. The bus is sitting in its spot next to the garage, and it is just as long as the building (maybe longer). Lots of stories from the trip. Hopefully Ali will help me tell some of them. Until then, there are pictures from the trip on Flickr.
I’m probably not going to do any more work on the bus for a while, because I unfortunately have other things that I need to get done as well. As always, check here for updates.
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We got it!, originally uploaded by somjuan.
We got to Rochester around 1800, and left around 2200 or 2300 central time, after a night on the town with Kim Wilson and Co., but that deserves its […]
We got it!, originally uploaded by somjuan.
We got to Rochester around 1800, and left around 2200 or 2300 central time, after a night on the town with Kim Wilson and Co., but that deserves its own post.
So we were stuck for about 48 hours in Pittsburgh, but we’re moving
again, and we’re past Chicago, on our way to Madison. We should get
to Rochester by tonight.
So we were stuck for about 48 hours in Pittsburgh, but we’re moving
again, and we’re past Chicago, on our way to Madison. We should get
to Rochester by tonight.
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Stuck, originally uploaded by somjuan.
We’re stuck in Pittsburgh, thanks to snow in Ohio, which is now heading here.
I’m really grateful to our friends in MN: because of their help,
everything with the DMV has been going smooth. We got the documents
we needed for temp tags, and the insurance should follow. I should be
posting a couple entries from the road, and I’ll add pictures of the
bus once I get there. Stay […]
I’m really grateful to our friends in MN: because of their help,
everything with the DMV has been going smooth. We got the documents
we needed for temp tags, and the insurance should follow. I should be
posting a couple entries from the road, and I’ll add pictures of the
bus once I get there. Stay tuned.
I got a new phone, so now I can post entries, pictures and video from my phone. Sweet.
Well, sort of. I don’t usually get very stressed about things, but today was annoying.
I hate the DMV. A lot. When I called the seller a while back I determined that I wouldn’t need any temp tags or the like because the plates on it would be good. I only needed […]
Well, sort of. I don’t usually get very stressed about things, but today was annoying.
I hate the DMV. A lot. When I called the seller a while back I determined that I wouldn’t need any temp tags or the like because the plates on it would be good. I only needed them to be good long enough to get me home, where I would register it in CT as an RV. But the insurance isn’t cooperating, and it turns out that we’ll need to get temp tags after all. The problem there is that the documents needed to get temp tags are all in Minnesota. So I called him up again today (he’s been really helpful through all this), and he’ll be overnighting what we need so we can get it in time to get tags and insurance.
I’d like to say, that I’m perfectly comfortable driving back unlicensed, unregistered, and uninsured. My folks however, are not. That is where most of this comes from. I know they’re looking out for me/them, but all that red tape is absurdly annoying. Oh well.
Some while back I wrote about how I wished people saw potential in things that have a clear purpose. Recently I’ve had a lot of people talking to me about what they’d like to do on the Tour, or other applications for the bus. I don’t think the bus is as much of a blank slate as an empty room – it had a purpose. People are starting to look at it (and I hope, everything) in a different way, seeing what could be done as opposed to what can.
Can is what is possible within a certain set of rules. A school bus is for bringing kids to and from school. So I guess we could bring people to and from places (not necessarily school). Could is what makes the rules for can. We strip out the seats, give it a crazy paint job, and live in it for four months. No, we use it as a metaphorical and physical vehicle for our movement. No, we use it as an icon for change. No, we give it pontoons and we’ll sail to Europe.
I’ve got to find some way to keep that potential alive as I outfit it for the tour.
Keep those ideas stewin’.
WP by Matisyahu
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Ever since about Junior year of High School, people have assumed I smoked pot, or did some other drugs. I think it’s largely because of my laid-back attitude, and my more non-standard goals. And the fact that I listen to a lot of jambands doesn’t help me any. I’ve had people ask me on many, many occasions if I smoke, but more often people just assume it. When they get to know me better, and find out that I don’t smoke, drink, or do any drugs at all, they’re surprised. Its weird.
I’m not magic. I don’t do drugs in secret and my brain doesn’t naturally produce THC. There are a bunch of other reasons people come up with to figure out why I am the way I am. A lot of people suggest that I get a contact high at shows I go to. I’m pretty sure I haven’t, but if I have, it is incredibly overrated, and inferior to many of the highs I get everyday in life. There is nothing uniquely different about me that makes me the way I am, except for my worldview.
I think a lot of people make up those excuses for me because if they were true, then there is something magic about me that is completely unattainable for everyone else. I’m not magic, and anyone can see the world the way I do, if they try. I know people who don’t do drugs who think similarly to me. It isn’t unattainable, and I don’t want to be an excuse for people to use drugs anymore. I’m not going to stop anyone, but I’m not going to let them bullshit themselves either.
So its been a week without posts. Quasi busy week, but even with that nothing especially interesting happened that warranted blogging about it. Normally that’s when I’d write about something that happened a long while ago, or write about something that doesn’t have a time limitation. But I didn’t. So I’ll write about someone else.
I Promise Tomorrow Today by Ali Telmesani
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Ali has been recording stuff for a while, and its been getting better and better. And this song is really good. He needs a website, but since he doesn’t have one, check out his purevolume page.
