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12:07pm La Jolla, California. http://www.delmar.ca.us/News/Pages/ATSUNAMIADVISORY.aspxhttp://www.delmar.ca.us/News/Pages/ATSUNAMIADVISORY.aspx So here I sit watching television coverage of the devastating Chile earthquake and the "Tsunami watch" and I realize I am in the coastal community of San Diego specifically La Jolla. The show I'm in is in Del Mar technically a ravine between two mountains off the coast of the Del Mar beach. What to do in a tsunami DOES NOT cover go to work in a circus tent in a ravine off the coast from a tragic earthquake. Especially 29 days away from my "retirement" from the show as this is the last city for me. What will happen? Hard to say. The map on the news only shows Hawaii THEN San Diego. We'll see. Take this opportunity to listen to my song, "Elements" for the full impact. Chorus: "Waves may swell storms may crash. Swarming tsunamis steadily drop volcanic ash. Flash floods and strong winds cause an avalanche, ...

Well the spell of non-productivity is behind me and it's a New Year of creating and doing. I am up in Montreal, Quebec at the headquarters of Cirque du Soleil recreating and networking. Great resources and friends here. Had the ability to focus on music for a bit and now I'm headed back to work and have to focus on money and see what music bubbles during the transition. We'll see. Until then, "I'm back."

Greetings Co-Inhabitors of Earth and Beyond! The driving all over and collecting libations and ritual supplies is over. It's time to ring in the New Year! "Another one in the shitter"- as I say at work after another great show with "KOOZA". And this has been one dynamic year for me. I've met great people in many cities all across the United States. Seen cities I'd live in and others I never want to return to. Hung out with Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes", befriended Shrine clowns and police officers in Atlanta that taught my girl and I how to use a fogger to choke the life out of anyone threatening, played some memorable shows in Baltimore and New York rockin that Thelemic hip hop to new peeps in every region, learned a lot from "Doc" John Deems and the Magic Mafia of Minneapolis, and got killer reviews from the New York Times, Time, and Variety (see http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=21048757 Oh an...

I have been writing music and lyrics since about 1991. Over the years I have branched out to many genres and venues and grown incredibly. Off Broadway Shakespeare adaptations, Dante's "Purgatory" adaptation complete, and even Cirque du Soleil collaborations with Jean Francois Cote( composer of "KOOZA" and other Cirque shows.) I've had the opportunity to branch out to many different demographics, but my focus still remains as it has always been focused upon. Those who share a similar interest as me. My hip hop is as, one of my favorite writers, Charles Bukowski, says about his prose poetry, "A passionate, pleasurable, selfish nice form where you can scream a little bit." Thanks for consuming!

I added my song "Titus!" back up on the page to change things up a bit. www.myspace.com/scholar Back in 2004 I was approached by an off-Broadway Theater Company to write and produce a hip hop version of the Goth boys and the Moor's scene in which they plot to rape Lavinia. They wanted it in the style of the Beastie Boys so I had to vocally embody three different characters and the actors had to study my recording to learn their individual parts for live performance. (Hence the pitch shifting.) "Titus!" appeared off-Broadway late in 2004 to great success and I can check off my goal list re-arranging and transliterating Shakespeare into hip hop. I hope you enjoy this strange little ditty.

Walking back from buying a coffee at the closest barrista stand you decide to walk under the willow trees by the ornamental fountain and soak in a little city nature. There are people out and about on this Saturday morning. One man, a bike rider, has his t-shirt off and is sitting in the lotus position meditating on the concrete brim of a big flowing fountain. He is balancing his elements. One man is walking listening to his iPod mumbling the lyrics of a song referring to the challenge of controlling internal elements. There is a woman casually walking around taking pictures and framing shots of flowers and plants and the river close by. As you walk you notice a man on the ground in front another man sitting on a bench. Homeless? Perhaps. Standing looking at water shooting from the ground into the air and falling back into a surrounding pool you suddenly feel a person standing to your left. Who is he and why are you being approached? He speaks broken english with an almost Thai or Phil...

Well my pilgrimage is done and it was everything and more. We rolled into Lowell at sunset and went straight to the cemetery. No luck in the darkness finding Jack, we headed to the bar. There he was hanging on the wall...on a t-shirt printed and hanging above the bottles of spirits in the Old Worster house. A middle aged gentelman was drunk singing, "Ommpa doompa doompitee doo...". (a la Willy Wonka) We drank a few pints and headed on ending, eventually at the hotel for gorging on alcohol and food. Well rested the next day we got beautiful pictures in the Edson cemetery and at the Kerouac memorial in Lynn downtown proper. It was well guarded by an intense man by the name of "Peter" who claims to be Jack's nephew. He gave us permission to take all of the pictures we wanted in his uncle's park and we trotted on. I had been looking forward to this trip for years. Having seen Kerouac's original manuscript for "On the Road" in Las Vegas, I was looki...