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My wonderful friends we reach the close of the magnificent journeys of the AllOnederlust tour...accompany me on one last weekend if you would... 30 hours of travel on Independence day      July fourth wasn't necessarily celebrated as I was traveling the entire day! Around 9:30 I left my good Canadian friend Jeremy's home and I began a 30 hour journey to Atlanta that would stop in Detroit and Chicago on the way!  I started the day discovering that my friend KNife released his new album "ICONOCLAST" a politically/socially conscious rap album with some advanced and alternative musicianship involved.  For one of his songs, "Least Informed" I wrote the poem "anti-social-network-ethic"  which ended up getting published in a recent "Bards Annual 2014" Long Island anthology!  The album has a good mix of skillful brag raps and conscious material and I recommend you go to his Bandcamp page I linked earlier you can download it for free!   ...

Monday 6/23      Performing in an inspiring Safe Haven      My bus ride from Indianapolis to Chicago was relatively short. I read and listened to More Than Skies'   EP “The Liar The Puppet The Fox” . It's a lovely acoustic album, Adam Tomlinson, whose the mastermind behind the project, is releasing a double album of similar new and old music soon so look out for that. I had a lot of time before my performance at Beauty Bar , I walked through the brutal heat of Chicago dragging my suitcase. I was nervously anticipating my performance there. The theme for the S ALONATHON LEXICA event was “How We Heal” and I had decided earlier in the week to perform a piece about my Poppy, and I realized that I didn't want it to be written so as to maintain the sincerity and vulnerability of it. As I walked for about an hour to find the venue, I improvised aloud, speaking to myself about things and reminiscing about my grandfather and times we had together ...