This Saturday the Quest begins once again. I will be heading to Flores, Indonesia to work at a helminth/malaria clinic until the middle of August. I could not be more excited to get out of the US again for an extended period of time, its the best feeling in the world. There will be limited, and extremely slow, internet access while I'm there, but when I can I'll update y'all on what's what, and post some photos.
Flores is one of the least traveled places in the world! Where else can you find a black lake???(http://www.goseentt.com/Photos/Flores%20three%20lakes%202.jpg). Furthermore, the opportunity to make this such an enriching medical experience is overwhelming. I mean, at my age, who get's the chance to do midnight bleeds of patients to test for filariasis? (they only come out in your blood stream at night) And in Flores for that matter! The land of Komodo dragons, spitting cobras, super venomous sea snakes, and hobbit people!
And for those of you interested, I will be heading there with Michael Buntingsly and BenJammin Hofferstein, two members, in addition to myself, of up and coming, world renowned, popular, new-age, rock/reggae sensation Nigeria (www.facebook.com/nigeriamusic). We'll be writing, and making rough recordings of a plethora of new songs that will be released on our return as a free digital-download mixtape called "Nigeria in Flores." We are really interested in playing with new rhythms, broadening our horizons musically, and fusing our habitus with our new field by way of being influenced by the local music; thereby changing our practice (basically a whole bunch of mumbojumbo - we are gonna make some sweet, sweet new music for your eargasmic listening pleasure). Stay tuned to the Nigeria facebook page for more updates.
So Stoked. SO STOKED.
Peace. Kedamaian.
Monday, May 31, 2010
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