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I've decided I want to start a semi-public journal. Tour stuff, gear stuff, process things. We'll see if it sticks. I write this inaugural entry from Philadelphia.

Last night I performed my debut USA live show at Making Time festival. I lost my voice a couple days ago after DJing at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Bushwick, the good people of Fort Mifflin helped me find it again and so naturally I berated them for having resurrected me. I'm still tired and shaking off a very irritating cough, but grateful to be over the USA Immigration hurdle.

I'm staying with sound mangler extraordinaire Morgan Garett in his home at the vertex of three adjoining neighbourhoods; Port Richmond, Kensington, and Fishtown. I woke up with a hankering for diner food and so we ventured further into Fishtown for breakfast, each ordering a demonymic variant on the regional staple dish 'Scrapple'. The OG is essentially a corned pork loaf battered and deep fried. In Fishtown they make it with fish.. no shit. Spiced with turmeric among other aromatics and served atop sliced tomatoes, the result is almost like a deep fried kedgeree loaf? epic.

I don't usually have downtime to enjoy a festival after playing, and get anxious being in crowds but I'm going to push against these tendencies because YHWH Nailgun are playing tonight. Morgan's just introduced me to a band called Crash Course in Science, legit post punk stuff from the classic era, who are also performing tonight and i might continue to destroy my already crumbling sleep schedule to see.