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Novels

From C2R:
The Big Boom Theory
(2000-2004)

A surrealist study of tourism, conservation and development amidst communes of Israeli and European expatriate communities who hide in hamlets in certain taboo hobbitesque valleys of the western Indian Himalaya, where escalating mafia wars between local dons and underground overlanders on the run from the law ensure that they have lost themselves one-and-all in a paradise lost. It is based on three gonzo anthropology trips through the area in 2000 and 2003 and the logical extension of recording an album of experimental music with a Swiss mystic who whiles away the days in a remote village that suffers as the construction site of the second largest dam in India.

Following Footsteps
To See the Source:
Don't Look Back
(2003-2006)

Following the themes and issues in C2R, 2CtheSource investigates tensions of sustainability amidst unsustainable human pressures between pilgrimage, conservation and development as viddied over a 6 month solo-secular journey I took, following the Ganges from its Himalayan source on the border with Tibet to where it becomes the sea in the Bay of Bengal. What follows is a wild form foray of traveling along the length of one of the great rivers of the world -as dug by the likes of all manner of machinery, Pythagoras thru Alexander the (not so) Great, Nehru and nearupon near every soul bent on some understanding of the all too terrible and great world- hanging with stragglers from all walks of life: politicians, polluters, crusaders, contributors, artists, activists, anarchists, scholars, saints, scoundrels, sadhus, sannyassis, sages, seers, swagmen, madmen, mystics and mendicants...

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(1999-2007)

The table of contents from come2_0

Rantings (raving + drooling)

...are tidbits of miscellenia relating to manguage (mangled language)...

...for the time being they're embedded in spoken word renditions of 'word-paintings' of word-plays/games-for-may where sentiments such as
"it goes without saying",
"words fail me" and
"away with words"
are voiced...
In the meantime is a short story that goes with the album 'all over the psychedelicatessence'. The album can be downloaded here and the story here.