• “And I'm learning so I'm leaving, And even though I'm grieving, I'm trying to find a meaning, Let loss reveal it.” — Florence
• “I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return” - Frida Kahlo
• "She has now gone, from this unhappy planet, with all the carnivores, and the destructors on it..." - The Smiths
• "Love, peace and harmony. Very nice. Very nice. But maybe in the next world." - The Smiths
• "Screaming from beneath the waves." - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "You know, the world was made for men." — Belle and Sebastian
• She lived years in a period of silent indignation.
• I was here for the body experience. And now I'm done.
• "Thought there was love in everything and...

• David Bowie (surprise) jumping on stage at an Arcade Fire show in Central Park.
• Walking down the back stairs of the Fillmore into fans with Rivers Cuomo holding my hand.
• Meeting Michael Stipe in the LA canals to be in REM's music video for "Drive."
• Late night after hours dancing with friends at mile high club.
• Singing and dancing in my car seat on road trips.
• Singing Molly's part in Annie at OC fair in 5th grade.
• Playing Taboo with Kathleen and Adam.
• Singing Weezer songs in the basement with Rob on drums and Joe on guitar.
• Working out Tower Records and Tower Video and playing my favorite movies on the tv screens.
• Meeting Sting backstage.
• Going on tour and all the fun warehouse p...

I can only have authentic experiences if I don’t post pictures about it. And, this is a REMINDER regarding "like-based scrolling-feed" social media. The introduction of “scrolling,” and “likes,” on social media (by big tech) changed human psychology (we don't use those features here). They will NEVER stop psycho-engineering to make social media as addictive as possible. The disease is in our collective consciousness. The degradation of truth, humility, and so on. I feel it growing within myself. Unbridled capitalism will bring modern slavery.

Destroy what destroys you...

THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

• I do not want to pull people out of their lives to look at mine.
• Social media algorithms flatten culture and art, creating cookie cutter content that sells and pleases the algorithm (versus art being provocative).

• Abandoned Book Depository, Detroit
• African Party - remote office building, Paris
• Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco
• Audium, San Francisco
• Basilica Cistern --underground water palace 532bc: Istanbul, Turkey
• Bat Flight Program, Carlsbad Caverns
• Being John Grisham and David Baldacci guests at his book fair in Florida
• Berber Camp, Sahara Desert
• Berghain, exclusive club in Berlin, partied all night
• Blue Grotto, Capri Island
• Brooklyn Underground tour (old subway lines beneath the city)
• Bus Station, out in the middle of Turkey --craziest I've ever seen
• Cagaloglu Hamami Bath House, Istanbul
• Cape Cod “Touch a Truck” parade
• Carla's apartment on the Grand Canal, Ven...

• The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference.
• The goal and the path are one.
• “Woke culture is literally just having empathy. That’s it. Empathy.”
• “There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is not to kill the bird with the stone.” - Victoria Chang
• "Meat symbolizes fear pain and death. I don't eat it." -Dr. Jane Goodall
• "If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people." - Chris Walken
• "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - F. Douglass
• "I am blind. It is a strange blindness. It is not a darkness, not a blackness, not an absence of light. Rather, I go through life as if beneath a shroud. I could see the sky, the earth, the trees, the anim...