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My Nights as a Club DJ in Prague in the 90s
The night the avant-garde German theater group performed at the Roxy Klub in Prague between the sets I was DJing, I knew it would get weird. When the troupe lit an explosive, and it went off in the center of the dance floor, it caused several chunks of the plaster...
A Devastating Fire Took My Childhood Overnight
The fire that eradicated most of what I owned when I was 15 years old was emancipation from things. I became a Minimalist with one spark of a flame. But that October day still smells burnt in my memories. It was the day my childhood ended. Walking through the...
Tedium - The Ghost of Bertha and the Elephant Girl
Jarette drove through Sacramento quickly. He wanted to get away from the congestion, the stress, and the thickness of urban traffic. The smell of heat rose around him as morning put on her afternoon dress. He listened to no music, just the whir of the wind. The window...
The beauty of loss is the space to create something new.
Every loss is an opportunity to try again. Every failure is a chance to learn. Every time you don't succeed is a magnificent time to rethink what you want, why you want it, then go for that goal with a fresh outlook. I've failed a lot. As in fallen-on-my-face...
You’ll never know until you walk through the door.
There are many people who want to write a book, start a business, or release an album but few people do it. You may not know what to do. You're scared. You don't want to fail. Putting yourself out there is a risk. I understand. You have to step into the unknown to be...
Seven Breaths — A Simple Way to Begin Meditating
When you think of meditation what do you think of? * Is it someone sitting alone on a mountaintop with their eyes closed? * Is it a group of people sitting in a room on pillows saying, “Oooommm”? * Do the people meditating have robes on? * Are they bald or do they...
Everything from this point forward is a story we have yet to tell.
Your story from now forward will be written by you because you have more influence on your story than any force in the expanding universe. You know everything that's happened in your life up until now. The whole story was written, and as far as I know, there's no time...
Violence is Blind to Color — I Was Jumped by a White Gang and then a Black Gang
When I hit the street my first thought was: they’re going to shoot me in the back of the head. Then, I stood up and four young men began circling me like sharks, punching me in the face. Beating me. I heard one of them yell, “We’re gonna kill you, white boy!” and he...
There is a lot of happiness to be found in being ridiculous.
Being ridiculous and silly is essential to living well! Follow me, Dr. Bronson, over the Rusty Rainbow Bridge in Crescent Park here in New Orleans to a land of complete absurdity. Today, I recommend that you laugh a lot, take things less seriously, and act like a...
I Was a Dutch Rock Star — The Day I Performed on Live TV in Amsterdam
The day I performed a duet on live Dutch TV in Amsterdam with drag queen and Pride ambassador, Dolly Bellefleur, is one of my favorite bizarre and magical musical moments. Like most of the highlights in my music career, my most memorable events under the spotlight...