out on the road again...

i got about five hundred dollars to my name, brought half that with me to ease my appetite on this road and i come back to the rest goin to rent.

my birks got many holes and are loosin the souls, got towels being socks and shirts being belts.

i eat beans, brocolli, corn, tomatos, and bonesaw pasta. cow cheese but no legs; no wings, only eggs.

i love the crew, family, sun, blue team, friends at home, friends on road, the peach i took off the counter today, jah roots, mom-saw, peanut butter, and sand.

i dont dig authority tryin to hold us, rain while we drive, people who ask to make a purchase, searchin for a high, red team, merch left in the trailor, and forgeting my wallet in the van.

during our trip to new york, we had to take the subway. i am always stoked when we get to ride, it is such an awesome scene down there. we had to wait for a while for one of the trains. i decide to sit down on my longboard to enjoy a banana i had packed. while muchin one of the dudes noticed a rat in the other tracks. of course i jumped at the chance to see a real new york subway rat. when i got there, i looked at it for a sec and then pukey yelled "SMELL". i turned to see my longboard tumble into the track on the other side. suddenly the rat was not so important. everyone just said "oh my god", held thier breath and turned to me. i looked over at bonesaw and he looked back with huge eyes and said "No". befor i said anything he knew i was goin in to retrive it. i had no choice. i couldnt leave it to be destroyed with no attempt to save it. i looked at hoag and told him is was goin in. everyone was shaknin their heads and watchin intently. i jumped in, stepped to it, grabed her and hopped out. no prob. everyone was freakin out and a train came not fifteen seconds after i got out. much more diliberation and the board would have perished. not till after i got out did i hear about the third rail that is electrified, or think about what would have happened if my foot got stuck, or couldnt get out for many reasons that we later came up with. all the native yorkers that saw or heard about it where speachless. it was really no prob, in and out, bam diggle, nothin to it. i felt like letting the train hit it was not an option and as long as i did not see or hear a train i knew i could get it in time. foolish maybe... then forever foolin i be.

wish us luck at the next takeover. see you guys soon.

love,

smellman

MAY 13, 2007 -

dear people back home,

right now i am bored out my mind in philly. well, not really in philly, hoags mama lives outside philly in a little place called ambler. his dad lives here to... and his first dog daisy and a cat known as sadie. they all live toghether. for now we live here as well.

the house they have is really beautiful. it is on an acre or so of land with real nice landscape around it, which was done and maintained by the boys. yard has got some real big shade trees and a big grass field for runnin. the grass is stickerless of course. the inside is very open and sunny, very warm. there is also a big basment that twink digs a whole lot.

i got no ride cept the white whale and she aint leavin so i am stuck here in this little beautiful yankee town. we play during the day but i get restless at night, stranded out here. miss my friends and companions.

check out this band we playd with. they're real good at playin the reggae. i was real impressed. soja is what they go by, go to sojamusic.com or myspace/soja.

the shows we have played have been real dirty. our spaceman sha came up from houston on a jet, threw down some thick vibes on freezin dub and others, and departed by train. thank you brethren for your breath and time, see ya soon back in the second biggest state.

it is only 11:30 and everyone is sleepin. fuck, i wish one of you guys who stays up late with i could come up here. i have been readin this book and if we get this machine that can change (i think) quantom foam, you can teleport here, i think you could even leave now and come visit me when i was writing this; or you could visit when we first got here; or i could go back to befor we left and just come back to right now or even get back earlier tonight just to be safe. actaully i have not finished the book. traveling by this foam shit might not be safe but if one of yall find a machine, fuck it. i would try for sure.

peace dreads. i love you guys.

smell

JANUARY 22, 2007 - The past couple of days have been crazy man. We have been on high tops and deep lows. Check this shit.

We left mobile on Thursday the 18th and headed to LSU. The old singer of the band had a friend there that was trying to find a party for us. The party ended not happenin, fuckin rain, so we just ended up kickin with the two pretty girls. The girls were real cute and had Bone, Hoag, and Twink under their pretty girl spells. I am not gonna hit them to hard but I will say they had our fearless leader, Bonesaw, tryin real hard to learn some john mayer covers. Yes, the same Bone who plays that dirty solo during “3 will ride 4th” and hates Ben Harper and jack Johnson, was trying very hard to learn John Mayer to play for these two 19 year old cutie pie dancers. It was fuckin ridiculous. They went from we don’t play covers to; I wanna run through the halls of my high school real quick when the cuties were askin for it. Oh boys, cmon now.

Next day….. we drove to Gautier, MS. This was a bad day for smelly. I was feelin bad all day on the road and when we got to the hotel and I fell asleep pretty much immediately. It was only about five so this was pretty weird. I woke up at around seven and was fuckin sick. No details but it was no fun. I ended up in bed the rest of the day and had to miss our show on Twinks birthday. I was not in a good place.

I woke up feein much better. A little morning herb helped out a lot. Today we were divin to Fort Walton Beach, which was not far. Just a couple of hours and I was grateful, not feeling well and all. We arrived on the beach and the sky cleared and the sun came out. The others played football and I took a long walk down the white sands. I found a new shell for the dread and got my feet wet. That night we had a show with Bone and Hoag’s friend Justin. The club was real smoky but we had a fun jam. Justin’s band was very entertaining. Justin’s mom, Mrs. Rodgers, was extremely nice and let us sleeps in her house for two nights. Her house is amazing, right on the water and huge. It was an extremely nice house. I felt so privileged to sleep and eat there, many blessing to Mrs. Rodgers.

While in Fort Walton we went and saw another act of Justin’s. It was a big band, such as Frank Sinatra or something. We were in the front row, center stage. After the show, Mrs. Rodgers took us out to eat. We all ordered our shit. I ordered a salad and some pasta. The salads came out early and we started eatin. I took like two bites and Hoag had picked some onions out and shit when I saw some legs under a piece of lettuce in the salad. I moved the lettuce and there was a big fuckin roach in the salad. It was so fucked up and gross. We made a big scene, of course, and eneded up getting a meal for eight free of charge and a gift certificate for fifty bucks. It the end, it work out. I would do it again for all that free food we got.

Last night the sickness came back. Not for me, it moved to Twink and Beaux. In the end Twink slept for 20 hours and Beaux slept in the middle of the floor delirious with fever. Our crew was in shambles. Good luck Hoag and Bone. Stay healthy boys.

Now we are drivin to Gainesville, FL. Twink is sleepin again, beaux behind the wheel, Hoag reading and Bone is waitin for the puter. Peace out rasta souls.

smell

JANUARY 16, 2007 - been many moon since we last spoke. november 30th is good day to start, i bring you heads up to date from there.

well, november 30th was me 22nd birthday. i dont really remember what occured but it was spent on sixth street somewhere, woke up at home in one piece so it was a good night.

also, i no longer lay my head down in the south of austin. i moved into a garage apt on 37th street. pretty close to campus. miss bein south of the river, but it be a sweet pad. thats what is happenin in austin.

tour baby..... man, we eat alot, sleep alittle, drive everywhere, and serve as many unsuspecting people as possible. in hattiesburg, we decided to take over turtle creek mall. it ended with us being escorted out by the big, bad mall security guards. it was awsome. when the guards demanded we stop, the entire food court erupted in applause, shouting for more music. it was real tight. we also took over south alabama campus. people were very open to takin free shit. not so much stopping to listen though. it was freezin ass cold outside. the shows have been bad, as in cool or sweet. the first show in h town was in a smokefilled bar called garys spot. houston alows for smoking to go on in there clubs. it is disgusting. clean air is good for me second hand smoke not so much. we have two shows in mobile, alabama. the first was at a really nice club called grand central. the sound was awsome and there was alot of people out there. the owner of the club, bacon be his name, was as cool as they come man. he gave us whatever we needed and was more than happy to do so. he probably found it alittle strange that we had a free tab among five guys and only drank 2 beers and about 15 waters. tonight we are gonna play a show at a club called fabachers in mobile. it is gonna be awsome. my uncle tim and aunt lori, who has been puttin us up for the past couple of days, and my grandma mama ann are comiun to the show. mama ann gets in for free because it is ladies night at fabachers. it will be alot of fun to play for uncle tim and mama ann. wish my aunt lori could come out aswell but shes got bunko. at this time i will give uncle tim and aunt lori toursaw IV superstar awards. they have let us stay in there house, sleep in there beds, and clean in there bat hrooms. thank you so much for you hospitality, love you.

now the important stuff. the game of choice this tour is..... no not basketball, not soccer. we be playin football. the teams are beaux and i v. bone and twink with hoag as all-time quarterback. so far, it is 1 and 1. many more brutal games to come. my only hope is that beaux gets alittle better at his redzone defense. if he cant we are in big trouble, bonesaw owns him. i need him to become a clutch player not just an athletic body. cmon bro, this is only meant to improve your skills baeux. you and i are recently new teammates and i am already falling for you, lets make this work.

peace homies.

the smelly one