Youkai said:
its initiation in to te grteful dead family. nd no I didnt buy them, I was winged by crazy fingers and named redeemer from eyes of the world. It doesnt mean you lay crystal or have been thump printed. it just means you are true family. crazy fingers is prob one of my best friends ever, he is my deemster teamster! I earned my wings by putting love and light out there without looking for anything but the love it shows to be shown through you.
I also actualy make crystal wraps, I have a giant quarts crystal wraped in copper, with silver wraped around that. part of wraps in the energy conducturs you use to wrap the crystals and the energies you can gain from them. Crystal wraps just isnta sign of veterage, its also part of the entire life style.
BUT, wings worn by soemone who obviously hve earned them does ahve it perks to those who ahve also earned them.
last year I posted a tour run I did, this year I'l do it again but just by area. anyone who may want to take a ride on the underground feel free to contact me.
Redeemer.
Oh I didn't mean to accuse anyone of buying their wings, I was just making a statement I guess. I left out the details about the wings that pertained to family, L, doing tours, and laying crystal just to avoid people trying to put that message out there. I see so many kids that are just flossed out in whatever ghetto lot-bling they can find hollering "Doses! Doses!" So many kids that talk their drugs up with some sort of personality and history that it's disgusting sometimes. Sometimes hippies can be real dick-asses and I wonder where the smiling vibe has gone. I put out smiles and waves and people give them back, it changes my day. I don't like these little fuckers coming in and thinking they have the headiest shit in the state or that they are super duper family. I'm just venting, but I just didn't include those details about small trends like that because if you don't know about it or haven't recognized it, then you don't really need to know. The people who do recognize it, know. I've seen dudes at stands turn people down when they try to buy wings sometimes because they are just so stupid about it. It's an important moment when you're kicked some wings and it doesn't come to you for just any reason.
Also about the wraps--it is totally a part of the lifestyle. I forgot to mention that I'm into crystals and wraps a lot, but at the same time I see kids just using it as part of their chin-held-high personality. "Copper and fluorite octahedron's, kiddddd." sounding all smacked out, looking all smacked out. My family are some of the nicest most positive oriented kids you'll ever meet and it is always a good, loving, positive, and hysterical experience whenever we get out on the road. I guess the whole thing about wraps and wings just makes me think of these kids I saw at Camp last year that stumbled out of their van all diced out in lot suits right when they got into the holding grounds and started hustling coke and talking up whatever they could get their imagination on. It's just ironic that the kids that don't want to be recognized (you'd think...) wouldn't make themselves recognizable.
I'm sorry, but back to the crystals. I love crystals. I just had my birthday several days ago and one of my best friend's and his girlfriend who got me into crystals gifted me a really nice amethyst cluster and a huge indian quartz palm piece. Fluorite was one of the first rocks I acquired from a cool kid and what seemed to be his girlfriend. They were just relaxed, chilled way out, real happy and positive. It's good to meet people like that and be in moments like that, because it spreads like wildfire. If you walked around one night and handed out ounces worth of free nuggets to people that were real, that you made a connection with if even for a brief conversation, if the satisfaction alone doesn't send tingles up your spine then i'm sure you'll end up running into the good karma one way the other. Anyway, Fluorite is one of my favorite stones because it was one of my first, and it also is known to relieve technological stress, which I have a lot of due to doing computer-based work all day. After I started getting into crystals, I brought some home from a show last summer and showed my dad thinking he'd just laugh about it or something similar, but he said that when he moved to New Mexico at the age of 20 he was into rocks and had all this turquoise. He gave me most of it, even a turquoise belt buckle that's huge! For a while there, having that bond with him really shaped up our relationship and I attributed it a lot to some of my best friends from shows.
I have to stop writing about it. Words don't do this kind of thing justice. Music, however, does...
edit: My friends from Philly just moved and wrap some really really tight shit. I'm trying to get some nice little pieces of watermelon tourmalines and other gemmy crystals for a wrap myself, but I just haven't thought of anything. I'm trying to see if he can figure a Lotus wrap out, kind of like all the Tribe kids have the "9" wraps. (Those are pretty damn dope in my opinion, even though it is pretty blingin'...)
Hey, Youkai. You see those "Keep On Truckin'" double sided prints?!? Hehehehe.
