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june 26-30, 2002

Wednesday:

June 26th

Dan Hirsch's hospitality was much appreciated

   yeah

best home fries I've ever had

so  Medford?

Dan Hirsch didn't make the homefries

       he ha he

        Medford is where we are going?

but he did add a certain air of beauty to them

his essence was all over them

seven miles to Vermont

I fell asleep

destination Lebanon

let us be mindful of its namesake

the cedar mountain

beloved of Solomon

I love you guys

just pulled into Burlington

witnessed a thunder storm

it looks more like a fucking flower than ever

it's supposed to be something else entirely

Dave, Winooski bound, Winooski bound

we're on our way to Winooski

Winooski to you

Brett's flying in

thunderstorms hopefully permitting

      Companionship

Companionship: priceless

Was is jill for your jackal

or jack for your oh no, uh

    ha hu?

June 27th 2002 11:45

this muslim woman won't take off her veil for her driver's license

hmmm

shit man

The had-not-leys

The Hadleys and the had-not-leys

it¹s kind of like the Hatfields and the Bacoys

and then there's the Bears and the Companies

       the Adam Davisons and the Davidsons

yeah

basically it all works out like some kind of beautiful elegant swirling machine

Right now we're crawling into a little hole

we've been upside down on the chimney for way too long

falling into the abyss of our own miscognisence

and pretty soon we're just going to make ourselves at home

it was hard leaving Burlington

ok guys Hadley

wait we really didn't like Burlington at all

      artly Hadley heartly hadley

and wanted to get out of the fast as possible

but we ended up talking to Neil's mother

an ex-nun

       Neil's mother was great

a sweet perpetually smiling little nymph of roughly 65 years

of age

but perpetually also blooming the youth um

     blooming the youth?

Well maybe we passed it Dave

we should look on a map!

Never!

Where's the Vaseline ranch?

Friday June28th

Hadley Massachusetts

I'm just as French as I was on the day I was born

uhhh

"why do I let my daughter play hockey?

because in Afghanistan she would never have the choice"

so there have been various permutations

of delineations

of mephastophalations

harboring hard-travelled stations

and occasions

emm bationstations

and stationsstations and ationstation

Hadley to Northampton

going to see Alicia and Adam's friend Jeannie

I can't stop thinking about a strange man in a pony tail

cradling my ovaries in is hands

I would be lying if I didn't say it was a little bit of a turn on.

hoping to  see the garden

I got really stoned last night

    you don't have a copy of that?

fun for the first time in a long time

     no mine are worn out, yeah mine are worn out

gonna go eat some food

      this is the part when Bambi's mother dies

do some recording

and head out to Cornwallville later tonight

where we meet the Younghearts

and roast a pig

and wrestle in the mud

Just went to Northampton

had some food

played the banjo a little bit

Where did you play the banjo?

In the store

He almost made the man cry

Why?

because he was having a Jam session

everytime I play the banjo at least one person starts crying

because it is so beautiful

Dave what did you do in town today?

I ate a cheeseburger club and developed a need to have a bowel movement

and we're gonna go record some music maybe.

and swim

yeah

we're going to do some recording

and then we¹re gonna pretty much head east I guess to Cornwallville

       west

West

        I slept for thirteen hours the other day.

13 can we repeat that for the microphone?

That I slept for 13 hours?

13 hours that some

I went to bed at 11:30 and woke up at 1:30

That's some well first of all that's

   14 hours

14 hours, which is a little bit of a relief because 13 hours is an unlucky rest

the sweat is rolling out of me like babies roll out of a pregnant lady

    Roll out!

before we forget we'd just like to remind the people that are listening to this:

we discovered last night that numbers go

1, 2, 3, 4, Dap, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

     something between four and five!

We found something wonderful between four and five

It's known as Dap.

Dapper Dan counted to four

and then he counted to Dap

then he counted to five

and everyone said

ok four

ok five

but then said

Dapper Dan, what is Dap?

so he proceeded to demonstrate

between his four and fifth finger there was a mysterious invisible finger

and all the years of the patriarchs

and all the elephant's toes

which included the invisible dap toe

and these things were noted in the ancient times

we've discovered this only by a circuitous route of rediscovery

and within that legacy lies all of everything

including invisibles

and divisibles

no you can't divide Dap

Dap is indivisible

under god

no Dap come before god

Dap is the place between your index finger and your thumb

That was really weird but

Bears

we are leaving the Bears

     leaving

leaving

That was really weird

fucking weird man

This is weird

like middle of nowhere

I'm looking at some boat that Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Zappa Frank Ghery maybe

built

Did anyone mention the pig yet

it's Saturday

we're going to play maybe in a couple hours

there is a huge pig that has been roasting all day

with an apple stuffed in its mouth

and something like a carrot poking out its side

and now all these woodsmen

are picking at it with their dirty fangs and slurping at it

as they had

I don't know

c 2006