"Tomorrow the flood gates open"

Severe `10

Entry 1: "Tomorrow the flood gates open"

Everytime I do this run, the Fungh Wah up to Severe Revere, the feeling I get is of reading Day of the Locust while driving through semi-barren Conneticut roadside. Which I did for Severe `08 and tried to re-do for Severe `09. This year I'm reading the Book of Bangs and thinking of cutting the latest INFRAfilm, but no matter. The brain does what it does, and we do what we do.

Tonight is a clearing house. Rob is plowing through work shit while I'm on the bus, having  done said activity all day. Once I reach the other end of the Astoria-Sommerville Art Axis, everything will be go, the flood gates will open and Manic American Season 6 will begin. Refer back to the Soo Locks of Season 4 if you need imagry, I know I did.

If Season 4 was going pro and Season 5 was about going big and going long, this season will be exposure and traction. The dot-com, Facebook, other blogs, YouTube.... and that's just the plan for this weekend. By the time we get back from J/K, those goals will have been long met and we'll be onto the next stage. Or not. We''ll see, but we want you along with us for the ride.

Tomorrow's plan, as roughly sketched out in one email, is to hit all of metro-Boston's beach communities, eating fried seafood and buffalo chicken eveywhere we can. There are no cocoons to climb out of, we've diving right back into America, starting at places people don't even realize exist in one of the biggest and oldiest cities we've got. Stone lions, crackwhores, Sullies and Santorini's -- that's just Severe Revere. The other communities? We'll find out armed with cameras, camcorders, spacephones and netbooks. A mobile Manic publishing studio, trolling the edges of Boston like a human dredge looking to pick up everything it can.

This is your country, these are our stories.

ManiicAmerican.com

--- FungWah bus, north of Stamford, CT 04/30/10. 8:46 PM EST,