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6/30/2009

Once You've Seen The Lights





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Now playing: My Morning Jacket - Anytime
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There is an old saying that goes; “how can you go back to the farm, once you’ve seen the lights of gay Perris.” Yet in less than 48 hours God willing I will be back in good old North Carolina. My home and my birth place. I can’t believe it, but this is it ladies and gentlemen, my last blog for awhile. I know, I know, whatever will you do without my adorable musings. For the last several years I have been away from the party life, from going out every night, and I substituted my animal lifestyle for one behind the keyboard. I joined every social networking site I saw and copied and pasted my erratic ramblings across the inter-webs. Now I am off across country (again), and I’m not sure as to when I will be able to set up my desktop next. I don’t particularly care to access my shit from other people’s computers, so you providing my plane doesn’t crash it may be a few weeks or even a few months before I’m settled. Who knows where I will be or what will have happened. It may be a few days, a few weeks, or a few years. I have to work some things out and figure out where I went wrong. There is a lot that I have been going through mentally over the last few months and hopefully I can work some of it out before I make it back out to the Left Coast... And let it be known I will return. I will not accept defeat. I will not be beaten by California. I have had a lot of wild and crazy experiences since I left North Carolina. I can’t believe I’m even going back. In the meantime there are a lot of friends that I have missed and that hopefully have missed me. Those of you that give a fuck be ready when my plane touches down, and those of out that have been happy to have me gone, start quaking in your boots. I would like to say thank you to those who have helped me along through the last bit and to my former lover and forever friend who brought me out here. I wish that I would have been a better hustler and more adept to making shit happen. I kind of lost interest after you left and I just gave up. Next time kid.

The universe is weird the way it works. I never expected to make it this far. When I was 16 my high school teachers all agreed I would be lucky to reach 18, but I proved them all wrong by reaching 31. I have fought tooth and nail to get as far away from those days as I could. The pain of loss, and rejection, has driven me, now they drive me back home. I would laugh but only to keep from crying. The sweet sticky California bud is rolling round my mind now guiding my hands across the keyboard as it has so many late nights blogging till I fell asleep. The future is uncertain, but then again hasn’t it always been. Years ago when I stepped out of prison on the faithful mountain in Ohio I had no clue as to where I was going to end up. Since then I have lived in New York, Atlanta (twice), St. Louis, and now Oakland, California. And I did it with the help of friends, and people who loved me. I hope to see the rest of my days the same. I feel something is pulling me backwards though, as if I need to be home to set a few things right The Universe doesn’t like unfinished business after all. So until we speak again-keep up the Monkee Business.



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Now playing: My Morning Jacket - Steam Engine
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Now playing: My Morning Jacket - Dancefloors
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10/25/2007

You can go home again!

So this is man-the worst and best of him-this frail and petty thing
who lives his days and dies like all the other animals, and is
forgotten. And yet, he is immortal, too, for both the good and
evil that he does live after him.
Thomas Wolfe “You Can't Go Home Again

So I'm back from my homecoming. Thank you all who helped make the trip memorable and exciting, thank you all who helped keep things crunk down in the A, and Bumping in the WSNC! I miss you all so much and can't wait to do it again. I apologize to those I missed and those I forgot to call back after I ran into you during Thursdays drunken bender. I will call you next time I swear. I tried to squeeze in as much as possible. Perhaps next time I'll be able to take separate trips for Atlanta and North Carolina. It seemed like there weren't enough hours in the day or night. I of course passed out on Thursday as most of you know. Losing six hours face first in a booth at the Yacht I will be practicing while I'm out here so that won't happen next year. Unfortunately the Fun Saver I used during the first leg of the trip got left behind in the rental car and I don't know the chances of us getting it back. I do have one left and those pics are sweetly displayed here and in my photo album. Anitra has pics of her own on her phone so those will be up next. I just wanted to say a little something about how fucking grateful and elated I am to have friends like you guys. I mean I was worried at first since no one seems to respond to my blogs or messages, I thought you had all forgotten me and you proved me wrong. You just don't keep up with my My Space ramblings which is cool. I understand trust me. I was just as happy to hang out again as always. Though I did lose a bit much on cards that first night, it was great to lose all my money to friends. The Lounge was a party as ever, Old Blondie still a cunt. As for Winston-Salem, family and friends are what it's all about, the bar scene has changed so much from when I lived there there was scarcely anyone out that I recognized. Most of my old pals have married up and started tribes of their own. To those I didn't get to see hopefully next time we'll get to hang. Maybe we should have a picnic with all the young'uns and families coming together. Tangelwood anyone? To my sisters I'm sorry my visit was so brief. Your brother has a problem saying no to beer! I will make up for it I promise. To all of you seen and unseen though my love, respect, and total admiration!Josh, D-Nasty, Bishop, Charlie, Bri, Amy, Cara, Jenny, Tamis, Mad-Dog, Willow, Sailor, Luke, Lilly, Theo, And everybody-Peace!!!!


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