Philadelphia May 25/05/05

So there I am...
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down

And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air
In west philadelphia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days

Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said "were up in no good"
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said "youre moving with your auntie and uncle in bel-air"

I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said "fresh" and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air

I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby "yo, home smell you later"
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air
...at the top of my lungs as we drive into Philly (to utter silence from the rest of the van) when suddenly!

Where's the b-ball, where's the school? I didn't even see some guys up to no good. Will Smith's ma was paranoid. Or at least the area we saw - South Street - was like Galway in disguise - its full of record shops, vintage stores, bars and narrow streets. Naturally it was Philly Cheesesteaks for dinner. Pinbackers are almost all vegan or veggie, so they've the heads up on the suitable food in any city. But they're mad for the fake meat, which I can only take so much of. I had this sub thing spilling over with fake chicken, and not in a quorny way. Fake steak is deffo not for me. I have bought my first ever packet of tofurkey for vanwiches though. But it is good to be in the alimentary majority for once.

Oh yeah the gig. Well I sat out in the foyer and read loads of my book, so hop on over to the corpo site if you want more on that side of things.

And then lo! It was 3am, and I'm posting this again, from Jon's in Brooklyn. Off to Boston tomorrow, where I will be listening for people talking like the Kennedys and Mayor Quimby.

There's more photos up on flickr, I'll stick a few on here tomorrow hopefully.
xJ (big willie style)