Taonga

for the record I think one of my really best qualities

/ Stuttgart

~ he wrote ~

Where the fuck are you?

~ i wrote ~

When I recorded that Ich habe es gemacht I was on the edge of the campus of a — the? — universität in Stuttgart, heading into a forest because it looked on my phone map like maybe there was a shortcut to Cedar’s hotel if I got off the S bahn two stops before the directions said to, which seemed like a good idea since it was 23h25 and I didn’t want to wait for the bus and definitely wasn’t going to spring for a cab.

For the record, I think one of my really best qualities is how I’m not necessarily bound by what conventional wisdom or some other unexamined authority suggests…but this shortcut through the forest was a bad decision. Like, I don’t even want to tell my brother about it. Everything eventually was fine, but along the way there were many points when I was just like, Wow, this is legitimately dangerous, and a pretty stupid position to have put myself in. Like. I am due a small adventurer demotion and/or a fistful of demerits, for reckless behavior.

this episode was written...

into an email
with Taonga
from Germany
on adventure + animal + danger + forest + ideas + map + walking

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which tasted deliciously like feet

/ Köln

~ i wrote ~

And now I’m riding shotgun with (? What preposition goes there?) a guy named Claus who was some part of the prod-

[twelve and a half hours later]

-uction crew for this film Cedar was in Stuttgart to dance in, with Tara the PA in the backseat; we are — were — going to Cologne — we were going to Cologne — now I am in Cologne — the twelve-hour interlude was that Claus and Tara started talking to me and then we got here and I got settled into my little attic room in Claus’ house and then I went for a run in the fanciest graveyard I’ve ever seen and then we had a big delicious piecemeal dinner with his various housemates and an aerial acrobat who is passing through, including something they call hand cheese, which tasted deliciously like feet — and soon I will get into bed and fall asleep to the sound of rain on the eaves.

It turns out that the people sleeping throughout the three floors below know each other because they all do circus. Two of the housemates are jugglers. Claus is really happy working in film, but his first love is clowning.

this episode was written...

into an email
with Taonga
from Germany
on cityscape + community + food + running + sleep + travel + vocation

which tasted deliciously like feet Read More »

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