He has written two e-books (taking place about thirty years apart) recalling his travels out west first as a single stoned drunken man in his late twenties and then as a sober but still poor and crazy married man in his mid fifties. Written with humor and poignancy and recalling some of the politics of the times, what these two 'memoirs' also have in common is the spontaneous adventure of being on the road and going where fate or mechanical mishaps take you and the amazing people-characters you meet when you leave yourself open. These are his stories about the sounds of life and friendship. Take a read and listen.
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Mark experienced culture shock in his high school years when (after his parents divorce) he moved from the inner city to a small town suburb and there encountered many lily white- blue eyed -blonde haired hockey jocks and their cheerleaders. He eventually stumbled on to others of his own mind and from 1978 to 1982 with one in particular (Michael James Gray) took 'vacations' that became journeys and homes away from home. Along the way he discovered multiple ways of opening a beer bottle without an opener (this was before twist off caps), to roll with one hand and how to flirt without even knowing it.
Oh, and as a side benefit he discovered friendship, freedom, life, love and all the subtle sounds within.
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Thirty years later. What has he learned?
1. Love begets love
2. Can't drink
3. The west is still wild
4. Nothing mechanical, obviously
Two more trips out west this time in 2007, twelve years sober, in a painted up 'Merry Prankster' style 1974 Mercedes Benz Motor Home with wife, teenage daughter and two dogs, again with little money, no planned route or destination and relying on the kindness of 'strangers'.
The mp3s
Marks songs and lyrics are experimental, eclectic, sarcastic, sad, literate and problematically poetic.
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