Category Archives: Tour

Concerts, soundchecks, greenrooms, the maroon van.

The Joy of Trickery (This Is Not A Pipe)

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Joe Hedges

In Newport, Kentucky just on the other side of the river from Cincinnati, Ohio sits a huge old mansion on a hill called the Southgate House.  When Abraham Lincoln visited the house it must have overlooked the beautiful Ohio river … Continue reading →

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college degrees, brand-building, justifications, cereals

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Joe Hedges

Holy crap I have a new website! And a place to blog again. I hope you are well. It has been a long while since I have written. Let’s catch up! I have graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a … Continue reading →

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on the eve of my thirtieth birthday

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Joe Hedges

perhaps, in a world of fortune tellers or time travelers, age would be measured not by the distance one is from birth but by their proximity to death. and maybe i would be much older or surprisingly younger, if tomorrow … Continue reading →

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paris

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i am in america looking out an airplane window at what must be a great lake. there is no horizon. the faded blue of the lake comes up into a band of white hazy clouds and becomes sky somewhere. this … Continue reading →

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frogs in france

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i am on a train cutting a path through the beautiful french countryside going faster and faster. today i am traveling from a village outside of lyon, france to paris. it is a high speed train and now the meaning … Continue reading →

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tastes of england

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i am sitting in a holding pen on a runway on lyon, france. i flew on the low cost express airline easyjet across the english channel from london. easy jet is not at all an easy way to travel although … Continue reading →

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rock and roll and raw fish in amsterdam

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i am looking out at the north sea from a great ship about ten decks tall. i am on the stenaline ferry, a six hour boat ride from hook van holland (“the corner of holland”, near amsterdam) to Harwich, England. … Continue reading →

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gemütlich

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i have just been awoken from an afternoon nap by three housekeepers here at a hostel in frankfurt. they come in like a swarm of fat sweaty bees moving quickly and flapping blanket wings around the room and then they … Continue reading →

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cittadellarte, biella puts the fun in funiculare

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Joe Hedges

i have arrived in biella, a small town in the northwest of italy. biella itself is quaint but the landscape is dramatic. they call it the piedmont region, the foot (pied) of the alps mountains (mont). if you are at … Continue reading →

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flower

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Joe Hedges

this train is flying. i am moving incredibly fast sitting in the nicest seat to ever be called second class with the best damned dressed second class citizens i have ever seen. the day is bright and the countryside is … Continue reading →

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