Big Bad Brandon Teasley // 2.7.1977 6.1.

2013

Eulogies can be cancerous, and I've never written one. Not that I haven't been privy to my fair share of death, but because I've rarely been able to offer the intimate truth of a person. Brandon Teasley was the closest thing I ever had to a brother, and consequently my biggest fan. He read everything I ever wrote since I was 14, and amusingly enough my most popular work was his least favorite. It's not that he thought The Big Shiny Prison was a bad book, he only didn't like it because it wasn't all about me. Haha. He knew me as much as anyone could know me, and in a life of rejection, never once had a disparaging remark. He never stole from me, never talked smack, never asked for anything. He rarely ever borrowed any money, and never more then $15 and if he had no job then he would literally give blood just to pay me back. Not because I ever needed the money back, but he believed in paying his debts and having as clean a slate with everyone that he could. He was just so good. In the beginning, due to Michigan world, we both came from a crude, violent worldview. I'm ashamed of some of what I once believed and professed, as was he, because both of us over time realized we were products of our environment. We both escaped Michigan, and though his lifeline in retrospect is brief, he freed himself of a heartbreakingly lonely, depressed, solitudal & suicidal in Detroit and one day threw everything in a bag, jumped in a car with some other Detroiters that had had enough, and

drove across country --- eventually making it to San Diego, California. He became a founding father of the legendary semi-squat The Villa Winona, which eventually became my home and which is attached to some of my happiest memories, even if the whole thing blew to smithereens by the end. I wrote about it in the Prison book a lot, and I wrote about Brandon quite a bit. Those last 6 years of his life were of his happiest too, and I was pleased to find him meeting a girl for once that stayed. He had been with Casie for 2 years, and he sounded happy. Last month, the remnants of my crew were finally evicted from The Villa Winona. Brandon was again pushed into the street, and finally moved to the next step of moving in with his girlfriend. He had finally gotten SSI from the state after years of living off giving blood because no one would hire him (his legal background prevented it and that he was a little slow from severe brain damage did not help matters). Anyway, he and the girl were about to leave California and build a new life somewhere. Then on Saturday night, as he was sitting on the couch, he told them to call 911. He started having breathing problems, heart palpitations I guess. He got up to move to the couch closer to the door, took one step, the eyes went back in his head, he dropped to his knees wailed his forehead on the table on his way crashing down and then just collapsed like a sack of bricks with his head bleeding all over the floor. The paramedics tried to revive him for long after he was gone. The coroner said it was over the second he dropped. He was dead before his head even hit that table. Age 36, and down he went from a heart attack brought on by asthmatic seizure. He always had asthma and bronchitis issues and had no money or insurance to properly deal with it. That he chain-smoked Reds and hoofed down constant bong-loads like Tommy Chong didn't help the situation. Brandon led an extremely troubled life, and I never knew how to help him. I couldn't, because the courts destroyed him early on. He was one of many innocent men in America who were wrongfully placed on a sex offenders list, and was firmly one of the cursed underclass who are entrapped on that rung of damned hierarchy examples for the rest of society to point the finger at and through fear of this extreme punishment/banishment is a checkmate of actions. See, Brandon was tagged with this rapist rubber stamp even though he was never convicted or went to trial. The long story short is he had this skeezy girlfriend who got into an argument with him one day, then she called the police while he was sitting on the couch watching TV. She told the cops she never saw this man before, he broke into her house and raped her, then they took him into custody. Despite having at least 50 eyewitnesses saying they had been dating for 6 months, thing never went to trial. Brandon was terrified of going back to prison, because he spent 3 years in boys home for assault. The cops pushed some paper in front of him and said if you sign this you won't etc basically just signing some freaked out plea deal without a lawyer, because he was often like a scared little kid. So they have him confess to this and then the girl drops all the charges. When Brandon's family got a lawyer, they found out the girl had done this to 3 other guys in America!! He gets out and even though never convicted, he is forced into this sex offenders world. Probation for life. Barred from every social services or city job. He's not allowed to attend college or receive loans. Banks will not mortgage a house. If he's caught working a job and didn't tell his employers they'll put him in jail even though no one will hire him. He can't live within a few blocks of a school. They make him go door to door explain to every neighbor his illegal tag. It was a nightmare, and all he ever wanted to do was help people. All he wanted to do was become an EMT. He tried everything, and there was no way out. He eventually lived off selling his blood and plasma for 20 to 30 bucks a session. For 5 years in California, he lived off 100 dollars or less a month. And though he wanted it to all end, and was always drenched in suicidal impulses, he refused to let that happen because of the great compassion he

had for his friends. Nothing else mattered to him. He was one of the most loyal, sincere guys I'd ever known. And that's not from some nostalgic buttering up he was always that good. But he was seriously messed up in the head from what happened to him, and he was always scrambled. And yes, he could fly into extremely violent rages. Most of the people from his past abandoned him. And even if they were nice to him, they weren't interested in making his life their life. Nobody really wanted the guy around, because most of the people we grew up with were those same sort of yuppie trashbags you see in places like Chinatown Portland, talking smack on the smelly homeless people. We just didn't know it yet. In youth there is still a chance, but as we learned most were just their parents all along. So Brandon then became my problem, and I wasn't about to abandon him. I'd lived with him off &on up until the beginning of 2008. Eventually,I had to go my own way. A lot of bad stuff went down and I could no longer live in California. He was disappointed, but I could only take it so far. That's why I don't feel all shaken up that entire year of 2007, as I was traveling around doing the Prison book we had our happy ending in California. We went from frostbitten Michigan to the golden shores of Ocean Beach. 2007 was the epilogue of The Cleveland Street Posse, like a master stroke frozen in time. But eventually I went on, and I stayed in touch. I saw him a handful of times since, but we stayed in touch, that usual Facebook bullshit we all do. So I'm fine to say there's no horrific regret. But thus he left the world, having healed himself as much as he was able. He never truly found ultimate peace, but he got closer then most and had zero fear of death because he had died before and came back after 10 minutes. What he saw changed him, changed everything... So rather then go off any further, I wanted to share some of my writings on Brandon both published and unpublished. Some of this is from The Big Shiny Prison, and some chunks of it are from the top secret book. And yes, Brandon had read all this and he felt accurately portrayed. In fact he hugged me like Chewbacca coming after Han Solo. His tale was told, and that was enough to make so many of those inner demons go. And now you know, and knowing is half the battle... Ok, so the GI Joe reference is lame, but Brandon overkilled that one like a m*therf*ker, so taste the poison y'all. Oh yeah, and Brandon, wherever you are Hulk Hogan's back. Hahahaha. Dr. Bartek; 6.3.2013 (on behalf of Ryan Bartek, on behalf of Jack Cassady, at the behest of Il Propagandist) FROM TO LIVE & DIE ON ZUG ISLAND ***If Id never randomly showed up over Brandons to smoke pot in the summer of 99, then this whole scene would have been erased. See, Brandon was on bad terms with his parents because he couldnt hold a job, sucked up a bunch of their money on psychiatric medication & court fees, and just sat around all day at the bottom of a bottomless depression. It wasnt really his fault, because he was nuts to begin with. He got molested as a kid, later developed bi-polar depression (schizoaffective), and spent a chunk of his teen years in Boys Home after an attempted murder charge. Brandon later lost nearly all cohesion due to the massive brain damage he

suffered after committing suicide in 97. He was hanging by a thread and went further down the spiral after doing a year in prison over a bogus rape charge But back to the near past, when Id got him kicked out. He was 23 at this point. Although Id been friends with him since he was 18, he could never come over my house because my mom was ultra-intrusive, obsessively checking all of my friends police records. She of course forbid me to associate with him, which was laughable. He lived next door to Smitty, only three blocks from the Pardee house, so he was in consistent circulation. Brandon has remained the most loyal motherfucker in my entire history. Hes probably the only person I really trust. If they were water-boarding him at Guantanamo, he still wouldnt squeal. I could hand him a billion dollars, leave for a week, and when Id come back hed hand it right over, minus a few bucks hed use to buy a bag of Ranch Doritos & Mountain Dew (the ultimate combination) Brandon wasnt always the way he is now. Before dying he was just one of the good old boys. We used to smoke dope all the time and make goofy movies with Smittys Hi-8 camera. He was a brick wall -- if anyone even attempted to fuck with any of us they might as well have been going up against a full-scale riot. Jason Voorhees was his absolute hero. Anyway, back in 97 we were in Smittys garage getting stoned and Korns Daddy came on, which is a depressing number about child molestation. Brandon was exceedingly whiskey drunk and time-bombed. He started ranting about how he was dragged from the streets and raped by a black man in Detroit when he was 5. He nearly ripped the door from its hinges and ran off into the night, vowing to kill that nigger motherfucker. The cops eventually found him swinging punches at thin air, sobbing, not knowing what was happening. Hed get so lost in his terrors the current world would disappear. The empathetic officers brought him home without incident. The next day he downed three bottles of sleeping pills as well as all his anti-depressants. His parents found him going under and rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced legally dead for 2 minutes. They revived him and he remained in a coma for a week. Once he snapped out of it he was the Brandon we know today different, Zen-infused, obsessed with witchcraft & Buddhist philosophy plus stricken by intense brontophobia Brandon began drawing pictures of God all the time. Of course, this wasnt Jesus or Virgin Mary or Allah or Vishnu, for hed witnessed divine symbolism. That whole tunnel of light ordeal occurred, but when he popped out the other end there was this massive triangular shape turning clockwise ever so slowly; all light and darkness sucked inside of

it in slow motion, counter clockwise. In the middle was this vacuum, drawing all energy within it. He was just floating towards it bodiless without the slightest trace of fear, remembering things that had occurred during his life. It was the most beautiful experience he ever felt. Without warning he was sucked back with the velocity of a reverse coaster; everything went black. Thats when he went into the coma What Brandon saw was the ancient Sumerian symbol of The Abyss No one was really sure how to react to this new Brandon. We knew he wasnt lying because although he was kind of crazy and sometimes exaggerated stuff the way a little kid would, he always told the truth. And he was never so serious about anything in his life. He had no fear of death and welcomed it once his mission on this earth was complete, although he could never figure out what that mission was, and just went back to smoking pot all the time shortly thereafter So I got Brandon thrown out of his house because his mom caught us getting lit. I bought him a motel room in Prostitute Alley and he disappeared into thin air for a good month. I thought he was dead or in jail until I got a phone call, Brandon rambling on about this haunted house. He was staying with a former co-worker from this goofy Hawaiian themed restaurant, this longhaired Mexican guy with a dozen samurai swords on his bedroom wall. For cash Brandon was working as a bouncer at this shithole truck stop strip-hooker joint where there was no stage and all the dancers (walkers, really) had black eyes, track-marks & the sort of stretchmarks accompanying a four-year triplet shitting marathon. The second Irish and I pulled up to Brandon's new residence it was a dominant impression of pure evil; a massive three-story that was twice the size of any other house on the block, street bordering a clanging industrial plant. Before we even knock Brandon swings open the door and drags us upstairs and has us to stand in the corner of the hallway because well feel a demon presence pushing against our lungs. This random kid we're with does as instructed and grows pale. I do the same and it kind of feels like a weird sense of gravity -- like a lesser form of that Gravatron carnival ride. Downstairs it feels like a handful of people are in the living room with us. And thats not counting the guy in the basement doing the weird shit in the corner that he doesnt want anyone to know about, or the 3 children upstairs, or the cancer patient lady rocking back and forth in the corner, or the vicious residual late night B&E rape in the backroom, or the 7 year old girl in the ex-babys room, or even the violent, self-mutilating psychotic upstairs... Brandon goes on to tell us about everything -- the sightings, the videotapes. Says he first noticed it when he was looking into the corner of the living room one day and saw something that resembled heat coming off asphalt. The cokehead that lived upstairs had a Hi-8 camera with night

vision and they filmed the occurrence. When they watched the tape it looked like one of those floating head sketches from Cool World, like faces mutating into weird shapes, but purely heat-mist. Then the strange noises, misplaced items, opened cupboards The cokehead woke up to someone was knocking from inside his closet. He pulled his handgun and opened it up finding a man sitting Indian style on the floor. He started shouting at the intruder to sit right there as he called the cops, threatening to cap him. Guns drawn, the fuzz barged into his room but no one was there. They thought he was insane and refused to answer any of his recurring calls about the invisible people trying to break into his house, beating and tearing from inside the walls We came back the next day. Soon as we were about to knock on the door the porch light came on, the patio window flew open and we heard a stampede of individuals running around downstairs. The cokehead yelled at us from the upstairs window because no one was there. He was trying to sleep and was pissed we were making such a racket. We showed back up 2 days later. This time I knocked on the front door which had a window in the middle. You could see the stairs leading to the upper flat and a man run down them . I figured it was the cokehead and as I went to grab the doorknob it started turning from the inside. I clutched it and turned it all the way, slowly opening the door so I wouldnt hit him. He kept pulling it back as well but as I stepped in to say hello the door touched the wall. I quickly jerked it back and no one was there. I looked at Irish who was plenty terrified. We went into the front room where Brandon was confused because hed just locked the door... We intended to capture the beasties on film and conducted multiple tests to erupt the astral lineage. Music has a tendency to provoke them, especially deranged noise, so we played selections from Mortician, Bethlehem, NINs misunderstood masterpiece The Fragile. This had no effect. We beat on pots and pans, used New Testament scriptures as rolling papers, sarcastic black witchery We took a break to play Wrestlemania 2000 and I sat on the couch filming into the darkness with green night-vision. When I tilted the camera down I caught a shadow zip across the distance like a miniature Greyhound. I jerked my head over to catch it, as did Irish. I continued to film into the dining room, pointing towards the bathroom. On camera there was this Lite Brite face on the shower door, like those colored 80s pegs. I thought it was a reflection of the night vision but while stationary the glowing smile enlarged. Its eyes brightened, enlarged as green blocks. Then it just vanished. I kept filming. Across the open doorway, the entrance to the lavatory, and these vertical white lines started appearing, like slanted rods. They grew larger and more solid, like prison bars made of bone. They too had vanished instantly. When we

reviewed the tape the spectacle was captured Brandon mentioned couch cushions making patterns of their own in the fabric imprint. I had everyone get off the couch, set the tripod, and took a short recording. With night vision you could see the imprint of a childs hand. We turned off the camera and left the spot alone. 15 minutes later there were three long bone fingers. 20 minutes later it became a symbol, like the bone design from that rancid Crow sequel And, of course, Brandon accidentally taped over the footage while recording a vodka-bred striptease in the living room The Mexican & cokehead abandoned ship, and when Cassum and I tried to move in the landlord refused to go for it. Brandon ended up running off with a stripper that somehow knew Onyx, soon landed on the Urban Priests couch where for the most part hes remained to this very day Moral of the Story: While marijuana might not be the dangerous gateway drug its reputed as, it sure does have a nasty reputation of taking you to some really weird places FROM THE BIG SHINY PRISON... MERRY X-MAS Christmas day in San Diego. As for the inferno Id anticipated, the only one is that of the sun. In Michigan we are accustomed to a blanket of white, pine trees in the living room, perhaps a crackling fireplace and roasting chestnuts. On this side of the earth it is 82 degrees, and we are cooking barbeque without t-shirts in our shorts. It takes a long ride down El Cajon from Downtown before you reach the laughable ghetto of San Diego, where The Villa Winona sits in a predominantly black & Mexican neighborhood. Three blocks away rests prostitute alley. Meth-heads stumble, g-thugs holler threats, tough guys confront each other yet never is a punch thrown. They act the part, ramming heads with the wink of an eye. This expatriate colony is an Alamo-like last stand refusing to give into any conventional sense of reality. Eight of us in a house the size of a living room, and roaches crawling over everything. The Villa Winona is the hub of a communal family, a handful of Michigan survivors which constitute an elite assortment of the criminally insane. So complex are the inter-personal dynamics they are impossible to scribe at once Theyd all escaped from Michigan via one-way road trip. When the shuttle crashed they went right to the streets, cutting their way through months of alleys, parks, and out-reach shelters. Four months later, The Villa Winona was captured after their pot-dealer succumbed to AIDS. A mob of 19 year old punk rockers cornered the confused 68 year old landlord with a wad of cash, and its flown ever since without a hitch this mob of grifters obsessed with counterculture revolution. It is a volatile colony absorbing random freaks from Southern California, enamored with piracy and intent on serious malarkey. This particular cast, this rogue gallery to be intimately acquainted, dear reader, is not a particularly ripe plunge at this moment. Rather, let us assemble a gallery of faces spinning like a roulette, round n round in the frenetic blur Onyx, Lennon, Brandon, Skinner, Dr. Santiago Panda, Jo-Jo, Pork Chop, Corn Flake, Ryan The Ghostbuster, Matt Ratt & Chuck The Homey Onyx, The Urban Priest -- 35 and epic as a John Woo action sequence, is somewhere between the hitcher from Texas Chainsaw, Dr. Jung & every renascence creep. His wife, a 56-year-old schizophrenic ex-cult member has the gift of mutant savant astrology

Dr. Santiago, covered in tats, burning eyes, bleeding, always bleeding and picking scabs. Dr. Santiago, the lightning bolt of quasi-Zen purity, the 18 year old crust holy man eating raw fig leaves, ingurgitating the sun in meditation photosynthesis Lennon -- the scarecrow-bodied speed-freak, the Ferris Bueller of our commune. He is the spider-monkey Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, drudging SoCal ever since moving from Japan. Thin, nimble, bespeckled and utterly German, Lennon is notorious for throwing crust punk sewer shows, his small adept team dragging power generators into rat-infested darkness Brandon, 28, a old good ol boy from my hometown, stemming from the same public education slaughterhouse. Orange bi-hawk, purple bags beneath his eyes, severe bi-polar depression and life ruined by a bogus sex offender charge. He refuses to work, hiding in that little corner surrounded by dressers like a fort, sleeping 14 hours a day. Brandon, who supports himself by giving blood twice a week, veins starting to resemble a neurotic raw-dog slider. Brandon, who preaches endlessly the subject of guerilla warfare, the supremacy of the illuminati, the coming attack of Atlantis Mr. Skinner, who sleeps in a coffin in the garage, is as obsessed with psychobilly as he is the arrival of the alien races that will one day -- if not moving in our midst already come to reclaim the earth when the Mayan calendar runs out of steam in 2012 Skinner, the self-piercing, self-tattooing wonder, buzzing away at the orange & blue flames up and down his arms. Skinner the maniac, bloody and laughing in machismo aftermath, the giant Medieval tat across his shoulder blades earning its upkeep Mr. Skinner plans to revitalize the SD punk scene via D.I.Y. venue in which Tuesday nights would be fight club, Wednesday $1 drinks, & all other eves pure catastrophic noise. If anyone gets out of hand or a fight breaks out, the house lights cut instantly. The spotlight explodes like the moon, beaming directly upon the venue bouncers who will in turn gleefully beat the shit out of each other. Not the audience mind you, but themselves -- bloody and laughing -- just to view the faces of the crowd Midnight. Been drinking whiskey & smoking green kryptonite since 4pm. Every surface is loaded with emptied half-pints, beer cans & rum shots. I cannot distinguish which is mine so I claim sovereignty over all, chugging the foamy remnants. Lennon has returned strange as ever, skinny and cartoonish, grinding & rolling in perpetual burnout. He slimes through the Villa Winona in his gelatin-tarantula form, face protected by a World War II gas mask, and locks himself in the bathroom. Skinner sees the ploy, looks at us shifty eyed, and nonchalantly slides a ski-mask over his face. He throws on a large hoodie, oversized white Elvis glasses, and camo pants before brandishing a high-turbine semi-CO2 handgun. Skinner leaps out the back door, running circles around The Villa A rumpled slither of a human snake against the pull of the carpet catches our drift. Lennon is wriggling his way to the kitchen on his belly, mini-UZI in hand. Skinner busts through the back door in a surprise assassination attempt, projecting an armada of circular yellow bullets which ricochet throughout the house. Skinner unloads into Lennons gas mask and lunges behind the kitchen counter Brandon jumps over the living room couch and slides on some goggles as the two reload. He pops up like a mechanical whacking arcade gopher and starts firing away. I throw on my Korean War greatcoat, aviator glasses, red beret, and black bandana to shield my face. The four-man impromptu duel moves in slow motion, the graceful ballet of carnage consuming all FROM ZUG ISLAND... ***Onyx & Brandon demand I show up to the "con." Unlike comic conventions, this con is the adult only version where the largest assortment of basement dwelling losers coagulate their own reality -- Vikings, satanists, furries, blacksmiths, rennies, occultists & alchemists. They rent every room of a hotel for a three days explosion of dork debauchery

Onyx lives for this and has drank so much red whiskey he can barely stand. Either can Brandon, who has passed out a solid rock in the pool side area. Onyx still finds the ability to get naked and wrap a plastic bag around his genitals so he can go swimming. He terrifies so many by his slimness that the pool area is now totally empty. A Viking and I drink booze out of his horn and leave Onyx alone, who is obnoxiously nudging Brandon trying to awake him. I tell Onyx that this is a terrible decision, because Brandon is insane when forced awake and incoherently starts swinging 5 minutes later I return from a party room and see Brandon kicking what I initially think is a duffelbag on the floor hard as he can with his GI boots, swearing in a violent rage but then I realize it's Onyx' head, and Onyx is limp & unconscious. I tackle Brandon who stumbles around, then, like a tranquilized elephant, sleepwalks back to unconsciousness beneath a poolside table. Onyx' face is destroyed & covered in welts, bleeding everywhere he isn't breathing. I begin to panic. I drag Brandon off the floor and try to get him to run before the police come. I lug him to my car with arm over my shoulder, trying to decide if a one way Greyhound somewhere anonymous might be his best bet to avoid a life sentence. I ran back inside the building, just to make sure. Onyx is now awake and blubbering not because of pain, but because he was blacked out drunk and his best friend was mad at him and he didn't understand why. We bolt anyway, and 5 hours later we get a call from the trailer. Onyx is fine and over it, even if horribly puffy. Within the week Aunt Tommy deflates like a balloon, leaving nothing behind but a stack of X-Men comics, a collection of Barbies, and a vast collection of autobiographies penned by prominent American women. Brandon is finally at peace after finally securing his own bedroom for the first time in 3 years, playing Perfect Dark religiously & ritualistically plotting Armageddon FROM THE BIG SHINY PRISON It was 11pm when Mr. Skinner picked me up from work, arriving with sack of high-grade mushrooms. I was exhausted from too many pepperoni pies, stinking like grease and sweat -- no mood to go totally apeshit. Some people just giggle and laugh. I mutate into Hyde, and the results can be disastrous. None of them know this, and they keep pushing me to cave in. Three bundles of laundry later theyre begging me to enter Toon Town. Fuck it, why not? Its been over two years, and we appear to be somewhere safe. We are free from police intervention, surely. Besides, Ill just eat a few caps and stems -- just row my boat amidst less rapid streams **Two hours later, atop Mount Everest gone gangland murder field. Mr. Skinner, Pork Chop and I have become the Marx Brothers, tagging each other to switch places and dimensions. Hectic laughter as all parade enthusiasm for the rubber room Odin stares me down from the heavens above and Skinner is convinced war-painted Indians live inside the tree trunks. He keeps babbling I KNOW TOO MUCH, that he is his own diversion. Somewhere down the hill there is an LSD dosed midget in a tiger cage, the sounds of roosters &

gunshots. Like Lord of the Flies we dance around first-time tripper Dan Dan The Mountain Man (ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!!!). Dans angry, sober girlfriend comes marching up the hill. Weve been thundering so loudly weve woken the entire neighborhood. Apparently Brandon, who wed left in the backyard, has no idea who or where he is. The family is totally freaked out because theyve never met him and hes just some strange, drugged out man wandering their property with his hands on his head as if hes being arrested. He keeps repeating, IM DONE. IM DONE. We cant go back into the house because there is a baby down there, in which the concept of a larval being petrifies us. We know it has to be done, and rub patches of grass and dirt on each other for camouflage. Babies aside, there is a far greater menace at hand an A.I. motion detector light placed on the barn of The Other People. We cool down Brandon with a glass of water and he stumbles back into the dirt, shrouding himself in a purple sleeping bag like a psychedelic cocoon. Lennon has somehow rigged five ultraviolet security cameras throughout the house which broadcast on the screen of a stand-up karaoke machine in the tweaker tent Dan The Mountain Man gets into a fight with his girlfriend who wont hug him cause hes tripping without her and charges off into the night. We never see him again and assume the police have captured him, that he might be being tortured at Guantanamo Bay. Hed sell me out if water-boarded, that rat bastard. Perhaps he already has I Zen meditate on the all-out raid coming any given second. All of us are in Jo-Jos room where she is hiding underneath her bedspread like a cave. Im clutching at pillows like life jackets because the room is a sinking pirate ship. Warped classical music roars in my ears, the walls are bubbling. Houston, Houston where are you? Houston we have a problem the world of dreams is far more real than I will ever be, and I end up more in the distorted images than I exist in reality