EUROPE , WHAT I LEARNED

EUROPE A SUMMARY

So what did I learn?

London is a lot of fun and they have a new subway system called "the tube" ( bring ear plugs )

Paris is the prettiest city on earth but sometimes has an interesting odor

All flights overseas have at least one hassidic jew on them ( all flights on virgin america have about 40 )

My Morning Jacket are some of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet

Never give an english guy on your flight and seated next to you any of your sleeping pills no matter what he says or does....because he is english and thinks any drug can be put into him without any great effect.....I should also add, not to give the pills to said gentlemen after he has had 8-9 beers. Had to shake him to wake him. But then in true english form he showed me a great way to get from heathrow into london for £15....thanks peter.

most Americans Traveling abroad annoy the shit out of me

Same thing goes for canadians because you are so proud about being canadian with your stupid flag on your backpack and wont just cop to the fact that you live in "new montana" and that eventually we are going to run out of trees and water and need both of yours.

Cricket is a cool sport and not that difficult to learn

Not all the children of celebrity's are assholes. I met one that's just about the loveliest human I've met to date and she can dance really well. Just don't ask her to play bass

That my friends Simon and Cassie are REALLY in love and threw an amazing engagement party and give me faith that love can and will conquer all.

The children of the AGAPE orphanage in South Africa need your help. Now and they also happen to sing like angels.

Les McCann no matter where you are, is a swingin' mf'er and the funniest mf'er you will ever hope to meet

I write music in a different way when Im in london or paris and prefer to create music there. I just sounded like a c**t

French girls are fine , and know it

English girls are fine and most of the time DONT know it. But when they do, watch out, PROBLEMS...big problems.

Wearing a FLY WILLIAMS t-shirt as made by myself and zach gets you love, a lot of love from strangers.

The Eurostar train service is the shit , their website has now tricked me into buying first class tickets twice out of 5 trips tough , so Im the dumb one in that equation.

Stephane and Janet have lovely children named Paul and Mark

The Bal Des Pompiers is a bit annoying but fun at the end of the day.

I am getting closer and closer to coming to grips with my fathers passing

North London religious Jews are annoying ( just like New York religious jews ) Ok, we're chosen, stop telling everyone about it. how about being a human first???

Patrick Bruel still cannot sing well at all. Could he ever?

The guy playing sax at 3am just under the bridge at 68 rue qaui de seine can play his ass off and sounded like Sonny Rollins. Good show man! great tone, great harmonic and melodic sense as well.

Alan and His Wife Cynthia are a really lovely couple and they've just moved to London, look them up, they would make great friends.

Instant messenger is an incredible lifeline to the states and my friends and family. Loved all the chats I had with you guys while I was away.

I dont go to sleep before 5 am when Im in europe no matter what time I get up.

Smoking is a pain in the ass, and should be avoided at all costs, everyone in france and england smokes though and , fuck, sometimes I smoke too.

Vincent and Virginie are incredibly nice for letting me stay in their flay in White City Estates

Wimbeldon is fucking gorgeous and Cassie and Simon were really incredibly sweet to invite me to be their guest the day of the mens final

Adam....older adam , Simon's friend , is a hysterically funny human being.

Flying in first class is like listening to Lenny Bruce, Flying in coach class is like listening to Dane Cook against your will. ( has he ever made a jew laugh? )

Doing number 2 on the tour bus is FORBIDDEN....doing number two on a commercial flight is incredibly uncomfortable.

I need to listen to more of Fats Waller's music

Cumin is an herb whose appeal and powers elude me.

Ms. Pac Man never needed to exist

Pac Man never needed to exist

Europe is amazing ( at least the two places I seem to be going to over and over again )

Im a real fucking New Yorker and glad to be home

My old man was the baddest mf'er ever.

be well,

MOWO!™

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LONDON BACK TO PARIS BACK TO NYC........

Damn.

This has been one long wild ride of a couple of weeks of doing some serious shit.

So the engagement party for my friends was stellar. The amazing bit was that I spent the first part of the day after my train trip to Paris with my boy joe watching cricket...................................................everyone pauses and says "uh oh.....MOWO! is turning into a posh c**t"

wow.....so not the case but I finally understand that game. What a great game. I mean 5 days........bit too much but I get some basics and can watch it now if Im somewhere and like know why people dig it.

So.....after eating a lovely meal with joe his fiancée and their friend katie I had all of a 5 minute walk to the engagement party which was stellar. made some great new friends saw some great friends. Danced a lot as well, that's always a great thing

the party was out of hand Nintin Sawhney ( spelling? ) performed with a singer that sang like an angel.....bronagh gallagher from "the commitments" sang a tune all by herself and then dj'ed some funky soul classics for us all to shake our asses too. Cassie my lil sister homie played a gorgeous piece on piano for everyone.......oh just off the top of her head......Lizst interpretation of a Bach piece..sort of like a Biszt piece! ( spinal tap anyone? )....yeah, really easy to memorize kind of thing.......was stunning........and then everyone else was perfect and fun and great.........just an amazing night in LONDON

I got up.......went to JOE's ( I stayed at cassies and simon's in a loft .........fancy pants ( not $250 cargo pants alan! ) and I took a shower!!!!!!! because for some reason they ran out of water at the house.......this amazing house and they had NO WATER.......only hot water I had never experienced that in my life. But everything else was stellar.

So........had some mexican food made by joe and marryanne's friends named peggy and james right next door to the LONDON FORUM.......where, you guessed it right MY MORNING JACKET are playing tomorrow night

I cant escape these hair hillbillies this trip!
ha!

So...took the northern line from kentish town stop to kings cross st pancreas as I like to call it..I returned to paris and went to this thing called the BAL DES POMPIERS its like the eve of their national independence day and thats the big party. Basically the fire stations around the city throw parties and women go and celebrate the firemen , because apparently all women all over the world think firemen are fit.......some are........LOTS ARENT........dont get me started. Anyway.....it was ok. basically cheesey music, hung out with some good friends but all in all it was like techno music and men trying really way to hard to kiss women who didn't want to be kissed. Its like a tradition.............as if its the end of WW II or something to kiss women , total strangers on this evening. I don't have the balls nor do i think its cool to walk up to someone I don't know and try to stick my tongue in their mouth. Furthermore........who has just kissed this woman? Where has her mouth been? For that matter where the f has my mouth been? I mean london and paris in 24 hours........i got some nasty mouth going on for sure. Anyway, my inner larry david was repulsed by this. KEEP YOUR GERMS AWAY FROM ME..........or is that KEEP GERMANS AWAY FROM ME? At any rate , I just wasn't forward enough to do it nor will I ever be. If someone had approached me it may have been a different story but wait that's not the case some women did I just wasn't into it. Its the first time that I felt like an absolute prude and an american in paris. C'est La Vie! hahahahhaa

At about 3:30 am i left the party caught a taxi with a really rude driver who assumed I was a stupid american........he got the stupid part right, but I speak basically fluent french so after a couple of sentences he went from being a total douche to like the nicest guy. So funny how that happens over here. Because essentially they figure, you learned how to say the name of your address and if they ask you anything else they are just going to hear "Im sorry I don't speak french" When he asked me his question which was........which way would you like to go?....mind you not with a lot of confidence ) I actually answered him in detail. I rock sometimes........like........3 times a year. So I have two more times to rock this year.

So..........I arrived home full of champagne........and the elevators are broken in my apartment here. So, nice 7 story walk up for me........dizzy.........with a terrible ham and cheese sandwich in hand that I had purchased for 5 euros.( 8 bucks almost )......so the night was just going downhill at a Carl Lewis pace.

Don't get me wrong, I had some fookin' fun, I just had enough. Slept till about 10:30 this morning and was awakened by 2 cute little french kids who tackled me on the sofa bed I'm staying on.

today is the 14th of July........BASTILLE DAY ........ we basically went to a park and played some soccer....Im actually not that bad could do some tricks , I was impressed. Christiano Ronaldo Im not though :)

ate a great dinner and now its bed time.

How easy is that? tomorrow I get up..........get in a car and its NYC for me BABY...........So prepare the united states for my return DAMMIT..............Tidy up the place.(like where ive been is even remotely tidy btw! )...get me a glass of water, do something for fucks sake.

anyway,

that's that on that with that about the thatness of my europe trip.

NYC here I come.

be well,

MOWO!™

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PARIS DAY THREE.........I aint did shit today!!!!

just getting over this cold. headed back to london tomorrow for my friends engagement party where I will spend a night and then return to paris. I sound way more international and cooler than I actually am. Normally Im just a schmuck with an iphone and some gadgets and a lot of snotty opinions. I just happen to be that same guy going between two world capitals. Really not that big of a deal.

in summation today.

I spoke with my brother michael on the phone and laughed my ass off

I spoke with my man President Levine from LA on the phone for about 2 minutes. From time to time he calls and says I need a dose of "DORN" meaning He wants to hear the bit of my old mans influence in me that he misses so dearly........my answer......"I got what you need, but it will be in french" and he laughed and said.....I already got what I needed baby!

I sat and had a lovely Cafe Creme on the Qaui De Seine and I only now at the end of writing this sentence realize that that in fact rhymes! sweet tenth grade education at work folks!

what else did I do? oh.........I had a lovely dinner ( did a lot of lovely things today ) with my friends janet and stephane and that was about it.

very chill day, think Im on the other side of this cold ive been fighting. I HOPE

big party with friends tomorrow night in London.

go go go go go..............also downloaded the new iphone software.........this shit better work and be the bees knees ya'll!

be well,

MOWO!™

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PARIS DAY ONE......TWO sort of.........

so ,

up in the morning and straight to st pancras to catch the eurostar to paris.......I really love this trip. its quick and you arrive rght in the middle of paris and its one metro stop from my boy stephane's house. brilliant

I arrived, had a lovely hang with stephanes amazing partner Janet and then headed off to hang out with my morning jacket and watch them do a blazing gig.

I love the guys in that band so much , just such stellar individuals. Always a great hang and the great thing was, when the hell was I going to ever hang with them in PARIS?

Just was a perfect bit of scheduling.

so......we stayed literally......and I cant believe the coincidnce. but we stayed 200 feet from each other. They stayed at the holiday inn express on the quai de seine and I was like two buildings down from them. the coincidence of them staying in the same city was one thing, for them to be 2 doors down ..........my god........we hung out on the canal until like 3 am and just laughed and told stories and just had a great time.......all the guys, bo, patrick , jim , carl , tom.......just stellar guys and their crew guys are just as cool Totally been a highlight of this trip for me outside of the writing thats been getting done. Also , the support act on their tour is called Everest.....great fucking guys as well.........really enjoyed their company....so cheers to everest go out and buy their music RIGHT NOW.

Today ( which would technically be day two in paris) patrick and I just wandered around and found an amazing chocolatier..........we worked our way over to the Eiffel Tower and met up with the rest of the guys and then had a FOOKIN' epic walk of a journey to this restaurant ( 50 minutes with 11 other guys........some people were just exhausted....these guys have been touring their asses off over here under grueling conditions so they were really tired ) that seriously if you ever come to paris you have to eat at

its called "L'os A Moelle" and its in the 15th on a little street called Rue De Vasco De Gama......incredible stuff people.........seriously legendary.

so we ate an epic meal which we then found out was mostly made by a japanese kitchen staff. but it was mad crazy traditional french cuisine. Top notch stuff and at 60 euros.......a bargain in my book........wine , beer , top level food........classic day and hang with my boy patrick.

so thats what shaking, otherwise i am sick as a dog right now from writing so much while in london, but the work is coming along really well so have no fear. The MOWO! grooves are flowin' big time,

much love from europe.........paris style

be well,

MOWO!™

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LONDON DAYS 4,5,6 ( i slacked off for a couple of days....its called work.......sorry! )

wow.....

I didnt check in for a minute. I have been busting my ass working on this album....writing writing writing.

so....what have I been up to......

well.

actually just writing and hanging out with friends I havent seen in a long time. Alan.......the famous alan of exeter ( now london ) who comments here from time to time and I spent the day together today and then joined the couple Im staying with for dinner. Finally got to meet his absolutely lovely wife cynthia

good times abound

the last 3 days are a blur........nothing of major note.......a legendary hang with author , genius Joe Craig and I went last night to see a stunning documentary called "WE ARE TOGETHER" look it up.........its stunning. a story about the Agape Orphanage in South Africa......you will cry your eyes out. Truly a stunning documentary. I watched it in a theater in hamstead that was magnificent. The movie theater was literally just all sofas, and insanely posh as the brits like to say. but the film , once again , was just stunning.

ate a proper fish and chips today in covent garden.

not much else.........just working on this banging tune that oli rockberger and I wrote together. that kid is a genius.

the johnny arrow album continues to get tweaked like a mf'er.........fun times. work work work........this aint no vacation.

so....im off to PARIS TOMORROW.

guess what I get to do.

hang with my boys My Morning Jacket and see them in paris. I never ask them for tickets but when i found out they were going to be in paris the same day as me.......i was like..........I DEMAND ALL ACCESS EVERYTHING DAMMIT.

so , yes..........fun fookin times afoot.........americans in paris making trouble.

watch out!

gonna be a really fun time, I love me some patrick the drummer......we're gonna talk about american football and eat a big fat meal together and then they'll tear the place apart with their massiveness!

so.......wish me luck

paris here I come!

be well,

MOWO!™

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