do it our way. we climbed another mountain. this one breath takin as well. from the summit you could see so many little towns. there was one point which a plane was actualy fying below us. good stuff man. every soul joined at the summit for a a little together time, even mufasa.
oakland. blessings and love to our hommie in this city. we met a cool dread in this town. oh man we got hooked up. one thing that had been a little problem for us was taken care of, in a very irie fashion. we are rollin like you are suppose to be rollin in cali now. thank you much for the love. see ya in the austin. we also balled hard in downtown oakland. as it ends, team s.h.w.e.t.t.y. took every game. bone and twink never had a chance this tour. we own them as i would say. i kind of feel sorry for bonesaw. he tries so hard and we just shut him down. it is alot of fun.
HOAGSARAH.... hoag and i have had some conflict going on the past fews days. i dont know what the conflict rose out of. i think it is the fact hoag feels very threatend by me. he has been very crouchy and irritable the past week or so. i love the guy, he need not feel threatend. though it is very understanable.i am sure when hoag reads this he is gonna come at me with vengence so i will get it all out. hoag is probably the weirdest dread i know. you would not know by looking at him but he is a germ freak. it has gotten way out of hand. this germ phobia of his is really effecting his life as well as ours. it is a wierd phobia he wont drink after his own brother or smoke peice pipe with us, but he will eat candy with carpet fuzz on it and he will delay showers for days with mutiple jogs and bball games played. the other day we were chillin in the van befor a show and he took a puff on his personal bowl then burned the tip of the pipe befor his next hit. is he even scared of his own germs... i think not. OCD... more likley. regardless, he is a freak. i love hoag. he also stinks fierce. i am not talkin of body smell, we all smell in that sense. i am talkin of a certain body function. hoag takes pleasure in waiting till we all get in the van then he cuts loose. it brings me to tears it is so bad. in my 21 years on this earth i have never smelt something so bad. it is fucked up. we all eat the same, yet he produses some kind of tear gas. hoag probably looks at all this as a compliment. i think all the problems hoag and i have go down to our roots. he is a yankee and i am a redneck, beer-drickin texan. hoag tries to front with this long hair and red eyes but he is pure yankee underneath. he is a funny breed. no matter how bad his gremophobia gets or how bad he stinks, smell always love him.
Rest of the Pirates. BoneSlurpee: bone is our leader. he wakes us up, gives us our mission statements and we role. if we did not have, him me and lope would probably have spent all our money in three days after leaving austin. he is mufasa. we follow him till death.
twink: i fuckin love twink. without him we would just get to where we are suppose to be. he always manages to take a realy bad fuckin turn adding 45 to an hour to our trip time. he provides us with a whole different language. all of us can speak to each other in twink quotes. he is a pimp bam motha fuckin diggle.
ahhh lope. this head is my stompin buddy from way back. we know about the velloway and officer perry. lope and i have gotten into some pretty heavy citu ations and always seem to come out on top. we are the heads who role out at night when all are asleep and go find stuff happenin. we have found many new friends in many new places. we blazed atop a building looking down at L.A., cooled out next to some tar pits, surfed some narly concrete, and watched the sun set in laguna beach with spliff in hand. me and lope lived up this tour. we had a blast and left our mark, from the bay area and back down.
west coast shit...as of now...lope and i are coolin out in the back of the whale. i and i headed for pheonix. some red eyes with tired bodies. we leave with no regrets and spirits most high.
do it our way. we climbed another mountain. this one breath takin as well. from the summit you could see so many little towns. there was one point which a plane was actualy fying below us. good stuff man. every soul joined at the summit for a a little together time, ev en mufasa.
oakland. blessings and love to our hommie in this city. we met a cool dread in this town. oh man we got hooked up. one thing that had been a little problem for us was taken care of, in a very irie fashion. we are rollin like you are suppose to be rollin in cali now. thank you much for the love. see ya in the austin. we also balled hard in downtown oakland. as it ends, team s.h.w.e.t.t.y. took every game. bone and twink never had a chance this tour. we own them as i would say. i kind of feel sorry for bonesaw. he tries so hard and we just shut him down. it is alot of fun.
HOAGSARAH.... hoag and i have had some conflict going on the past fews days. i dont know what the conflict rose out of. i think it is the fact hoag feels very threatend by me. he has been very crouchy and irritable the past week or so. i love the guy, he need not feel threatend. though it is ve ry understanable.i am sure when hoag reads this he is gonna come at me with vengence so i will get it all out. hoag is probably the weirdest dread i know. you would not know by looking at him but he is a germ freak. it has gotten way out of hand. this germ phobia of his is really effecting his life as well as ours. it is a wierd phobia he wont drink after his own brother or smoke peice pipe with us, but he will eat candy with carpet fuzz on it and he will delay showers for days with mutiple jogs and bball games played. the other day we were chillin in the van befor a show and he took a puff on his personal bowl then burned the tip of the pipe befor his next hit. is he even scared of his own germs... i think not. OCD... more likley. regardless, he is a freak. i love hoag. he also stinks fierce. i am not talkin of body smell, we all smell in that sense. i am talkin of a certain body function. hoag takes pleasure in waiting till we all get in the van then he cuts loose. it brings me to tears it is so bad. in my 21 years on this earth i have never smelt something so bad. it is fucked up. we all eat the same, yet he produses some kind of tear gas. hoag probably looks at all this as a compliment. i think all the problems hoag and i have go down to our roots. he is a yankee and i am a redneck, beer-drickin texan. hoag tries to front with this long hair and red eyes but he is pure yankee underneath. he is a funny breed. no matter how bad his gremophobia gets or how bad he stinks, smell always love him.
Rest of the Pirates. BoneSlurpee: bone is our leader. he wakes us up, gives us our mission statements and we role. if we did not have, him me and lope would probably have spent all our money in three days after leaving austin. he is mufasa. we follow him till death.
twink: i fuckin love twink. without him we would just get to where we are suppose to be. he always manages to take a realy bad fuckin turn adding 45 to an hour to our trip time. he provides us with a whole different language. all of us can speak to each other in twink quotes. he is a pimp bam motha fuckin diggle.
ahhh lope. this head is my stompin buddy from way back. we know about the velloway and officer perry. lope and i have gotten into some pretty heavy cituations and always seem to come out on top. we are the heads who role out at night when all are asleep and go find stuff happenin. we have found many new friends in many new places. we blazed atop a building looking down at L.A., cooled out next to some tar pits, surfed some narly concrete, and watched the sun set in laguna beach with spliff in hand. me and lope lived up this tour. we had a blast and left our mark, from the bay area and back down.
west coast sh it...
FEBRUARY 3, 2006 -----Blessings all. This week has been dope. We have played about ten shows in seven days. My hands hurt mighty fierce but who cares, this shit is ridiculous. We took over ucla twice, served long beach with a set and on the broadcast wave length. Lope and I toked up with a tight head in Laguna. And have been doin some serious boarding. Today lope and I went down to Hollywood and kicked it in a hookah bar on Melrose. We knew we were out of place when the transients looked more presentable than us. That’s how we roll though. We chilled wit dis cat named Anthony who worked at he bar. Thank you so much for the love hommie. It will come back around. Al, you too fool. Way to share the vibe.
----Santa Monica all the beach towns we have been to have been very sweet. In santa monica we rode a ferris wheel and convinced the worker to stop at the top. You can imagine what we did while up there. As lopey says gettin high while we high. Then lope and I went to a place called bubba gump’s. They had a special deal goin. Shot and a beer for six bucks. We took advantage. We also got a big bowl of shrimp. We had to. Fuck it was bubba gump’s place. At our show we had to listen to some poser ass hippies. They were called the people united. They all front to be about love and community but fuckin bail right after their set. They did not stick around for one song. Everyone knows I am the last to hate on hippies but these pussies were all front. They should come to ATX, they will see what one love is all about, seen. The show was very solid and the sound was very good. Santa monica is a sweet little town.
----Long Beach dis place was not what I excepted. It was not as happenin as I believed it would be. Not many heads were there to promote to so me and lope took the time to get a fat ass margarita. It was very relaxing to drink a margarita on the beach. That night we played a cooled out set at DiPiazzas. Thanks to sarah for comin out. It was not as tight as I thought it would be but it was still unbelievable to be in the land of Sublime.
----Laguna Beach this place was beautiful. We played ball ocean front style. The court was practically in the pacific. Of course my team won. We chilled there all day. Lope and I met a local and just skated all day. That night we played the sandpiper. It was an alright spot. The band that played before us was very solid. They were called LT and the Fireburn. It was very rasful. Them dreads know how to feel it in the one drop. Over all though, Laguna peeps have their heads up their asses. They got money so they don’t care what else is goin on. They’re straight so they don’t sweat. Laguna heads get the gas face, laguna beach and mikey get smelly’s love till I die.
--- LOS ANGELES Oh man. This place is crazy. Everyone here is out for theirs. No one really has a sense of community. Of course not our gracious hosts but it seems everyone one is a writer, a musician, or an aspiring actor. I feel as if people only get to know people if they can gain something material from them. Of course there are exceptions; ben, udis, megan, anthony, al, cali mike, asante, matt, and donna. All these heads deserve many blessings and praise. They make the service feel welcome in dis crazy, mixed up, concrete habitat.
Peace dreads. I and I continue to wake healthy and sleep sound. Wish I and I well and no troubles shall be seen.
-----one love
smell
JANUARY 25, 2006 -what up dreads. well we back out on the road. which is the best ting i could hope for. the white whale is carrying us very strong and the passing each other different items through out the day has commenced. i love these mothas and i am glad to be back in dis scene.
---el paso was pretty tight. we got to meet dad who is an extemely cool head. he put all five of us up and gave us a tour around el paso. our show in el paso was not to packed but it was still sweet. we actually played with a very irie band. they played pure dub line and that is a very rare ting. usually we have to wait through some shit band to play and then we fuckin slay them. dis night i got to groove a little befor we went on. very satisfying. twink got wasted. it was his 24 birthday, need i say more. he was makein huge ruckus. i love twink.
---albequerque... as of now smell say... fuck you albe. not one head showed up. the sound guy even took off during da set. but we still maintain a rowdy set.
---TEMPE BABY. so far best place. the first night we roll into town we head straight to ASU campus. our mission. find a party that would let us play. me and lope ride off on da long boards lopeySaw brought. we talk to a couple off people to no success. we went over to the frat houses and saw a couple guys kickin outside so we rolled up and ask if they knew were the party will be. thier response was that they were havin a party but they had to go threw chain of command to see if we could get in on da festivities. i gave them my smellphone number on a demo and they were gonna call if they want us. we found only this party so it was our only hope. they call us around 7 and the take over is complete. mission complete. ok this party was fuckin ridiculous. they had 30 gallons of vodca and 2000 cans of keystone light. ha ha ha it was fun. dat is all i am gonna say about that. the night after that we had a solid show at a place called famous sams. we had a thirty dollar bar tab that we could run up provided by the club. bonesaw doesnt drink. hoag can maintain at times but not to nights in a row. it was up to lope, twink, and myself to spend all thirty dollars. twink bailed out early. so me and lope had to finish it off. six and a half pitchers later. lope is passed out in the van on the ride home and lauren was owed a serious apology. the next morning me and lope woke up, baked it a little, and raced down a steep as motha of a mountain. i came in 1st or second depending on the "finish line". the whole race i was thinkin the parking lot was the finish. it is the end of the "natural terrain" section. naturraly it is the end. i was simply running in the parking lot to cool down. then hoag comes up, after this extreme fuckin race down a mountain, sprinting toward the van. he over takes me in our furious dash for the van and touches the van first. so you decide. we have also taken over dis fuckin campus(ASU). everyday we are out passin out shit to dreads and completely bombarding the campus with full service groove. ASU YOU HAVE BEEN SERVED. thank you for da hospitalty. we will return.
back on the sea with the whale and this crew of pirates. all we do is maintain.
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AUGUST !*, 2005 -
Cape Cod
Oh man. Sick! Cape Cod is the most beautiful part of the country I have seen thus far. Some of the landscape up here looks like stuff out of dreams. It couldn’t be more perfect. On Wednesday and Thursday our homies Chaz and Sam showed us how to surf. It was so cold. The water was only 59 degrees.( austinites, that is 10 degrees colder dan da springs). Your body doesn’t adjust to the temp so you are able to stay in by goin numb. It is awesome. After the first day out there, BoneSaw’s lips were blue. I got to ride on a long board and was catchin some good rides. It was so free, I never done dat good on a surf board before. Getting hooked in. Another crazy thing is while youre out waitin for waves seals pop up around you to check you out. Some of ‘em are enormous. Its wild. On Thursday before the show I went for a bike and rode to a beautiful beach spot. It was not on the Atlantic but in a little cove just behind a barrier island. The barrier island is only about two hundred yards wide so you can see da bay and the fierce Atlantic behind it. I climbed up on a big granite rock and cooled out. It was, hands down, the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I couldn’t describe it in words. It would not do it justice. The show that night was great. It was a long set and we slayed. Everyone loved us and the Bellingraths came out in numbers. Thank you guys for putting us up and showin love. I love ya’ll.
Nantucket
The night before we left for Nantucket we slept in the van for the first time. The other three guys do not have any car sleeping under their belts so they were all stoked. I was down of course, but not looking forward to it. They kept asking why I was so unexcited to sleep in da van. I said they would feel why in da morning. I woke up at 7:00 to Bone drivin down the rode lookin rather tired. Hoag gets up off the floor and sits next to me and first thing out his mouth was “awwww my back”. Twink, who slept in the captain chair, turned around and said “I got about 45 minutes of sleep”. I looked at everyone, smirked, and ask “how did everyone sleep?” I actually slept pretty well. The guys stepped up. We got to the ferry in Hyannis at about 10 o’clock and hung out. The ferry picked us up 1:15 to go to da island. The ferry ride was about two hours and it was really sweet. Once we arrived at the island reality went out the window. It was a dream world. You could get lost on the island and live an enchanted life. There is not one stop light on the entire island. Everyone is so kind. For instance one night we were walking down the street at about 11:00pm and our friends the Breznicks called us into their house. In their house the hole family of about 12 people were sitting in the living room singing songs. We joined in for one and left. It was amazing. It felt so good to walkin to a house sing a song and then return to our journey. Everyday in Nantucket was filled with unbelievable events. One night we met these heads from England and cooled out with them on the beach, another we managed to sneak I man into bar and drank with some ladies, one night we just sat on the beach and enjoyed the sound and stars. Cosmic situations filled the island while we were there. There is not a bit of doubt in my mind that I will return to this mystical place.
JULY 27, 2005 - LIFE AT BONE AND HOAG’S
ATE ENOUGH PRETTY STUFFED
Here we eat like kings. MomSaw (Mrs. Kepner) always keeps da fridge stocked and prepares us the most wonderful dinners. Last night we ate potato salad, hamburgers, fresh tossed green salad, and walnut brownies for dessert. Oh ya and there was two different kinds of ice cream to put on top of the brownies. Mint chocolate chip or vanilla. I went wit da mint. Right now MomSaw is fixin more salad for us tonight, grillin chicken, boiling corn, and baking blueberry muffins. I love you MomSaw. We eat so much. Just yesterday we went through a gallon of milk in about 5 and a half hours. We have been here for about 4 day and gone through 50 somethin eggs. And more PB, J, and bread than you can imagine. I am eating way better on tour than I ate back in Austin. Oh my god. Life is so sweet.
SPORTS
We play sports any time we have any spare time. Sometimes we huck the disc, play B-ball, or play games for da CBDBL (the official best frisbee golf league in PA). The other day we even held a series of foot races to find out were we all stood speed wise. Guess the results. Email Bone wit your answer. Shit earlier today we played one of the most intense B-ball games of all time. You will probably hear different versions on different updates but smell tells it how it is. I am not a blood brother of hoag and saw. Just one of the soul kind, so I have no sibling rivalry twist to my perspective. Check it.
“ Its was hot in Philly this day and we had a score to settle. Teams look like dis: Hoag & Smell v.s. Bone & Judge. For the homies back home Judge is a cool friend that lives here. The guys have known him for a while. The day before we had played two fierce games of ball and both teams walked away with one victory. We would have settled it then but we had more pressing matters at home waiting on the dinner table. So today’s game starts with hoag and I rippin of course. We build an early lead and hold on to it until a couple points from victory. This is when saws older brother mentality kicked in. He could not loose to hoag and right as saw got this hot streak in him hoag pulls and “under the defenses legs move” and brings us to game point. It got ugly. Hoag foulin bone. Me foulin judge. Bone foulin everyone and everything. Judge started hittin his shots. We ended up loosin but under much controversy. What do yall think of this? Hoag had two shots were he burned Bone and had an easy look but was blatantly fouled. We got possession at the key but what is the rule. I was also fouled once under the basket for game point by Bone. How many blatant fouls is he allowed to make in desperation to keep from losing? All basketball fans ponder dis and get back to me”
We will always fight when we play sports. Exspecially Hoag and Bone. But we will always play.
-peace
JULY 24, 2005 - NEW YORK CITY!
Wha happen dreads. Right now we are getting fed and sheltered by hoag and bonesaws roots. It is fantastic. They live in some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen. Hoag and I went for a bike ride this morn and it was amazing. We rode around and rode by one of his old friends houses. Her parents were in the yard so we spoke to them for a while. They were very nice. After that we rode down a long curving hill, over a very old bridge that went over a little creek, and found a nice field with a trail at the far end of it. We parked our bikes and went down the trail. Not even twenty feet in we crossed a foot bridge over the same lil creek. We decided this would be a great place to cool out. It is absolutely amazing up here. We are gettin ready to go to new york. I cant believe this is happenin to me.
Smellman in New York
Oh man new york was incredible. First George Washington bridge welcomed us to the city. On the way in we saw the empire state building towering over the city. Then we puuled into the upper east side. I have never seen so much shit happenin. Every block is filled with thousands upon thousands of people doin their thing. Some are playin ball, walkin dogs, hustlin somewhere important, or anything else you can imagine. Everyone has there thing they are doin and are not concerned in the slightest with other people. In Austin I can walkin into a gas station and ask the clerk how they are doin and we may end up talking for twenty minutes. I walked in to convenient store in new york and ask the man behind the counter how his day was going and he looked at me like I said something really rude. It was like he didn’t understand what I was asking him. It was awesome. The club we played at was kickin. Some many people came out. We played a sweet ass show and after it me, twink and hoagman got plastered in new york city baby. Everybody knows that alcohol is not our thing. We never drink but man we cut loose. A bunch of hoags friends from high school came out and we had a blast. Up here the bars don’t close until 4 o’clock and we took advantage. I don’t even know how much I had but I know it was enough to last me the rest of TourSaw. We left the club at around 3:30a.m. and went back to jarrod and ben’s apartment. (Thank you guys for putting us up we had a great time. I love ya’ll). To get to their pad we rode in a new york taxi. Morgan you are a fantastic tour guide. She showed me the Trump tower, central park, a big ass museum and some other shit. I didn’t get to see everything I wanted to but we go back there in 2 weeks so I will see the other sites then. We didn’t go to sleep until about 6 o’clock and we had to wake up at 8 o’clock to go get the van from the metered spot we had left. Running on 2 hours of sleep, we went and picked up saw and he drove all of us home. New york was unbelievable, I couldn’t live there but I am down with the NY.
JULY 19, 2005- Like Twink said we went to the beach today. I got to swim. After all these bunk ass, disgusting towns with no water to swim in and last night in Macon being especially awful, Smell got in the Atlantic Ocean. I have never seen the Atlantic Ocean. I feel like I am a dog that only knows the backyard, Bone and Hoag and Twink just opened the gate and said “Run with us, Smelly!”
JULY 17, 2005 - WE ARE SICK
Oh man. TourSaw is going incredible. Being on the road so much and going to all these different cities makes me relize how much of an austinite I truly am. Everywhere we go I try to scout out tight swimming holes but all that is out here so far are dirty rivers and creeks with an occasional concrete hole filled with chlorine that the hotels try to play off as pools. I would give up two days of food to swim in Barton Springs. Even if only for six minutes. I think I am the only one who is home sick. I miss all my homies so much. (I love you guys, you too DogSaw.) I am a little home sick but this life is unbelievable. Every city we go to people love us. We get off stage and people we have never seen before come up and ask for autographs. People love this shit and you can tell. When we on stage people are straight-up groovin. Slowly but surely everyone will get served.
EATIN
We have been eating pretty budget. The other day we had a picnic outside the club. We sat in the shade of paloma. That is the name of our trailer. We named the new van dallas. Thank you so much dallas and paloma you guys saved TourSaw’s life. You guys got Full Service love. Anyway, we sat in the shade of paloma and ate cold Chef Boyardee out of the can. It was surprisingly very satisfying. I have also seen something I never thought I wood see, Hoag and Bonesaw standing in line at McDonalds. Our first night in Jackson, MS we could not find one place open, not even a grocery store of any kind so we got desperate. The McDonalds we found was one of those places inside a gas station. Anyone that knows the brothers know that they are health freaks so this dinner at McDonalds was monumental. I got a pic of them walkin in. It might never happen again. Other than that all we eat is eggs, peanut butter and jel, big bowls of c and that is it. Me and Twink secretly eat oreos but if BoneSaw finds out we in trouble. He tears down all good snacks and tells you why they are terrible for you and makes you feel bad for eating them.
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