July 2009
3 posts
Evil Creatures Do Southeast Asia Part 3
I’m sorry this update is late. It’s been a real bitch finding a computer on this seemingly endless road trip through the backwaters of Myanmar. From roadside bars to underground fight clubs, from school dances to a boomer-ridden festival deep in the heart of the Bago Yuma forest, we’ve been playing the best shows of our lives to throbbing crowds of screaming fans. The locals are throwing money...
Evil Creatures in Southeast Asia, Part 2
Part 2 The first few days of our time in the Orient had been going famously—it was all champagne and roses, delicious Pho and horny Thai groupies. We had no idea we would ever rise to this level of fame, even in a small and poor foreign land. We still hadn’t met our benefactor, but he was referred to in hushed voices by the various bureaucratic hangers-on we had acquired—they said...
The Evil Creatures Southeast Asian Tour Diary,...
By D. Sykes
Strange Missives…Mysteries of Phnom Penh…A Suitcase Full of Drugs and Money
Our plane touched down in Phnom Penh in the midst of a torrential rainstorm—it was coming down sideways, in great icy dollops the size of cocktail onions. Cassidy Anderson, Warsame Awale, and I, weak from the nineteen hour flight and reeking of scotch from the duty-free store in the...