been In Berlin for a couple of days...didnt see much on the first two except that the city has been CRUSHED with graffitti...kindergartens and all kinds of everything is tagged all to fuck...some hippie jams by the river where some abandoned boats are now ancient dead art barges with faded pieces and smashed windows...the amazing thing about this place is that the city and all its inhabitants are completely at ease with the decay...fallen and eroded statues and buildings...old abandoned boats and warehouses...tagged and in disrepair...and yet still people are everywhere having a good time...its an amazing juxtaposition...partying in neighborhoods , drinking in the streets blocking off roads and celebrating! the landscape seems to have no effect at all on the youth and energy of what is taking place...and there are old people everywhere living and riding bikes...not staying inside praying to their air conditioners and televisions...its incredible...and I have seen Giant pieces by Blu and Os gemeos as well as Miss Van and a shit load of other more abstract street art...the Tacheles art squat was totally and completely mind blowing...it is A giant beautiful abandoned building that has been occupied by artists since the wall came down..It is like a postapocalyptic art world beach oasis where the capitalist tyranny has fallen and we can all be total art freaks and relax goddammit!!..I met an artist in there who moved there and just paints all day in this tore up room...His name is Kurihara Takuya and you should check out his stuff at myspace.com/kurihara   seriously he should be killing galleries everywhere...thats kind of the thing about these art squats is that they allow for a kind of natural zeitgeist of rare happenings...that they are in this impossible place making impossible things happen...its humbling to see and feel...if you come to berlin check this place out....In Amsterdam Kristie and i stayed our last two four days at this amazing caravan commune called Lucky Lake...there were giant animal sculptures around the whole premise as well as the most amazing staff of people I have ever met...I seriously did not want to leave...We kayaked throught the canals of the farmlands and saw what beautiful and rare things Amsterdam holds besides just awesome weed and peep shows...It left an incredible sense of friendship and kindness that I hope to have again someday...I really miss them and if you ever go to Amsterdam go stay at Lucky Lake because there is no place like it in the world...and dont forget to visit Hortus Botanicus!! one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world!!! Butterfly Farm yo!!

Belgium found us making fast friends with people in Brugge as we went to see the Salvador Dali exhibit where there were at least a 1000 drawings and paintings as well as some incredible sculptures...in Ghent we had some beers and bought some cans from the dudes at city kings and went and painted some lizard warriors on the legal walls...it was awesome just spraying the shit out of this wall with all these little kids there just practicing their hand styles...it was really great to see them getting an early start....In brussels we cruised by the Comic book and strip museum which was amazing...Belgium is super famous for its comic art andf cartoons..yeah they invented the smurfs..it was great and the government actually gives money to fund independent comics and books...thats how much they appreciate the genre! Man we need to adopt some of these kinds of appreciations in our government...give people like Mike Diana a little love sometime!...Stopped by the Alice gallery to see Maya Hayuks show...a path for the light...it was really really great of course and it had a trippy color/ time tunnel entrance to get you ready for the vibe of the installation...really cool...then we went to see the Bad Moon rising 4 exhibition which was really creepy and multi faceted in its genres...in the basement there was an incredibly disturbing/ beautiful video of people living in their normal lives but everything was on fire...them, their food, their children...everything and they were just existing that way...burning together...the show has been banned in the united states because it was originally a show inspired by a mass murder in the south...the first Bad Moon Rising had some of the drawings of the murderer...and their was much debate over what art should be recognised publicly...although i believe that the show was more trying to focus on the social elements that drive people away from personal identity...like religion, sex, prescribed drugs, fear and longing...we also saw an otherworldly installation at the center for contemporary art which will be closing down soon for lack of funding...which is weird that they would be given a lack of funding because the woman running it had been doing so on a shoe string for years...maybe being able to do something amazing for very little money makes other museums nervous?....and the coolest little spot was called Veals and Geeks...a rad little book and record store that had free 80s video games that you could play for free...they had the most amazing alternative graphic books and comics...you could tell Stan the owner really took pride in his merchandise selection!! a man with integrity!!!

London!...stopped by the upper playground shop for a bit, went to see a powerful photography show of beat generation movement times at the idea generation gallery...all those cats...and images of very powerful protests...John "hoppy" hopkins photos of ginsburg and william burrows and kerouac...really great stuff...also went to Bwana Spoons book release at concrete hermit!!!That was great to see him and his family...we hung out and had a pencil gight!! Concrete Hermit is really cool...a great place to pick up alternate comics and shirts..as well as awesome paintings...check em out...the whole part of that town was really alive with art and people ...Club Row and Bethnal Green!! thats the spot!!!Londons East end!!...There is a toy shop on Wands worth road that is the greatest toy shop in the world...i cant remember the name but every toy you had that you lost??? yeah its there with everybody elses...slimers and all that shit....you know we Had to get on the train and see Stone Henge! it was really magical with all the tourists there...HaHA but seriously i felt like Harry Potter for five seconds...saw some castle ruins in salisbury...had some brews and went back to London....also MJ died and we felt all weird and sad....noticed that people started listening to his music again.....

Arrived in Amsterdam two nights ago! finally! in the time we have been here ( Kristie) I have seen the most esteemed paintings of Van Gogh at the museum after which it is named, Paintings by Picasso, Joan Miro, Warhol, Sculptures by Russian cvonstructionists, as well as gone to the torture museum. humans can be very creative when it comes to creating devices to extract ''truth'' from people!  sex museums...ate some pizza...oh yeah I also ate a banana out of a woman's vagina...its ok Kristie did also! she wouldnt let me do it alone shes a team player!...we went and saw a sex show and it was the most hilarious and strange and exxagerrated version of a techno version of a 14 year old boys favorite and unrealsitic fantasy...it was amazing and strange and they invited kristie and i onstage for the grand finale!!the banana trick!! yes we were totally honored...and we got to freak her a little bit to some euro techno...some Van Gogh and a sex show in the same day...yes Amsterdam is better than what they say it is...and we dont get hassled for gettin lifted in public...dream come true? you decide!