Burn baby Burn

In Reno right now. Hit the Burn in about 2 or 3 hours. More details from the party-line after decompression. Or maybe, if things work out, from ground zero.

Visitations from the past

Hmmm... when travlling you sometimes have those moments when you unexpectedly meet someone from your previous life. This often happens at the strangest of times in the strangest of places, like walking down a small alley in Bangkok two days before Songkran, or the kitchen at the hostel you are staying at in a small town in Southern Bohemia. You are just minding your own business when all of a sudden in walks someone one who used to be your student, someone who had just graduated at the end of last for whom the expereince of bumping into you is equally strange - this meeting of someone out of the once familiar and mundane context. Things can become stranger when they not only bring with them stories about the people and places back home, but also a DVD of the work that they had worked on and which I had become quite familiar with during the production process. What is even stranger is seeing the end product - the DVD which I had only seen begun now in its completed state - stranger still, the photos on the DVD of that one crazy and eventful night of the end of year screening. And then I have to ask, who decided on the photos, why so many of me? and why do I look so out of it? Hmmm .... ?

Quick update.

I still have an entry from the 31st of May in my draft box which I hope to finish soon. Been travelling a bit too fast lately. For the last 2 months after leaving the Czech Republic spent about a week in each new place. The reason for this has been partly the schedule of festivals and events and partly economic. Some of the places that I have been travelling through have not necessarily been the cheapest places to hangout for a long time in.

Some quick highlights: Switzerland - lakes, Lusslingen, Mt Pilatus, Zurich, wild strawberries and wedding that required you to wear a red nose. France - small country town, nothing much to do except do nothing :). Germany, A day trip to Frieberg, and then a few weeks later the full on Full Moon Festival; also Berlin which has a wicked vibe to it. Denmark and the Roskilde Festival (Copehagen was a little boring). Sweden and some great summer weather, hanging out and walking around old town. Poland, via Germany and the Full Moon festival - went to Krakow, saw the Salt Mine and visited Auschwitz.

Now, I am back in the Czech Republic, back in Cesky Krumlov, just hanging out for a couple of weeks. More to come soon. :) And maybe even photos.

Up coming festival.

Check out this festival a friend of mine in the states in putting together:

http://www.symbiosisgathering.com/

Some more books I have read.

• Immortality by Milan Kundera
  
• The Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter) by J. K. Rowling
  
• On Noticing by Alain de Botton
  
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
  The second time I have read it.