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So day 2 of the 30-day street performing challenge has come and gone, with mixed results! First off, I want to thank Ms. VV Hsu so much for her love and compassion and warmth. As I finished performing (she stayed with me the entire time), she started crying and telling me how proud she was of what I was doing and how I was following my heart and my dreams. I was so moved by how moved she was and it meant so much to me knowing that I had touched at least one person with what I was doing. It is these things that keep me going, knowing that by living my dreams I open up a space of openness and vulnerability and power that touches people in a very deep place, whether I even know it or not.

So, it went pretty well all considering. It was a wonderful day and as 3PM rolled around, my gut told me not to go out and perform, but rather to walk around the neighberhood with VV, who is leaving in 3 days to go back to LA. So we walked right into an artist’s talk and who was there but a woman that had wached me for quite a long time yesterday. She happened to be one of the artist’s speaking, and she introduced me and told ME to talk, saying that I was the “real artist” present. Wow! So I gave my spiel about God and connecting with something divine and being a Jedi spreading joy and love into New York. This went over half-well and half-not depending on how intellectually-oriented the person was receiving the message. But either way, it felt great to speak my truth with a straight face. I even gave a special shoutout to my good friends the hallucinogens and it felt good to do that as well. The poor guys are always getting shit on as “not as good as meditation” and well, I think meditation and hallucinogens are good friends, just like Jesus and Mohammed.

Anyway, enough of that digression. The performing went well, VV taped some footage and I was really impressed with how it looked, and I kept confronting my fear that black people would think I looked stupid. In fact, black people are responding as well as any other ethnic group, if not better. So it’s nice to watch that silly adolescent fear start washing away. I am really feeling like talking now. I’m a little scared to do it but that *IS* my passion and when I do start to open my mouth I start feeling better and better. Being some kind of silent mime just doesn’t cut it for me, but it’s definitely a good start.

I’m really excited that I’m doing this because even though I get so afraid everytime I go to start, it really does feel good once I get going. My dream is to get a crowd of hundreds and hundreds of people and just draw them in more and more and then just hit them with such ultimate truth and Godness that they all quit their jobs and come frolick in the streets with me like some kind of modern day St. Francis movement.

And so it is!

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So today is March 1, the first day of my 30-day street performing challenge. I have performed for 3 1/2 hours today, and I am planning on performing more, but all the spots at all the train stations are taken right now, so we’ll see what happens!

Let me just ramble on about life and where it’s taking me and how this feels and all that good stuff.

Well, first off, it feels fucking great–like amazing great! To not just be talking about living my dreams but actually to be living my dreams! I made $35 so far which paid for a wonderful dinner at Chipotle, I faced and conquered my fear of looking people in the eyes and the face (especially pretty girls) while I performed, and I met Malcolm Gladwell, author of the “Tipping Point.” I told him that I was planning on being the first dancer/performer/lecturer at the TED Conference, where he spoke. So that was all great.

I mean, I am intending to make $7500 this month from performing and performance-related endeavors and shit, this is only $35 so far (-$6.50 for dinner!) but it feels great. It feels exuberant. And so what have I already learned. THE PATIENCE WAS GOOD! This was a dark dark night of the soul that I went through, feeling so bad about myself and so scared to show who I am and rather than push myself, I just let myself be scared and be bad and not do it. And it’s paying off! I feel so good! I feel so much more confident. I’m sure tomorrow is going to be another struggle but I can already feel the momentum beginning to kick in.

I’m very grateful to be living my dreams. The act of doing it is the reward.

My other major intention is to change the lives of 100 people. As far as I know, I haven’t majorly changed anyone’s life yet, but I definitely made hundreds of sullen New Yorkers smile and lighten up a little bit, so at least it’s a start.

This has already been a major lesson for me in terms of seeing the boxes and levels of isolation that people exist in. When I would really look at someone and smile, 75% of the time the person would do everything in their power to avoid looking at me or acknowledging me until they finally realized that I wasn’t going to give up and they finally let go and laughed.

I often find myself sensing tension all around me and it puts me in a weird energetic space. I almost absorb other people’s fears and become afraid myself. This was a great reminder as to where my fear comes from. Because when I do break through and become the “crazy and outgoing guy,” it really does push people’s buttons and some people become quite uncomfortable. Either way, I am proud of myself for being on the side that is spreading levity and joy into the world. I will continue to do this on a larger and larger scale and with reckless abandon.

My goals moving forward are to really start talking, to start putting on an actual SHOW for people, and to start adding a more explicit spiritual dimension into my performances!

I am making videos everyday of my progress. I already made a PRE-challenge video which I never got around to making a blog post of, so here are two videos for your enjoyment:

Pre-Challenge Warmup and Intention Video:

Day 1 Vlog:

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So I have ventured back into the online world, with a new site Popping.TV which I’m dreaming of as a myspace for poppers and a vehicle for me to make lots of instructional videos and things of that nature. I am doing it because I realized that if we did live in a society where there was no money and thus nothing I had to do, this is what I would do. I love popping so much and I could and do talk about it and watch it for hours and hours and hours. So I’m not going to have such a commercial focus. If that happens over time, then cool.

Anywho, the first video I made in my How To Pop series was intended to just be test footage, but hey, the versioning mentality is the way to go. So this is Popping Lesson 1.0. In this video, I teach the twistoflex, which in my opinion is one of the absolute most foundational moves of the entire dance.

So that’s what’s new around here!

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