She slips her navy sweater back over her blonde bangs which returns me as the sole nude in the room.

My body is depleted. Despite finding romance aboard the Bruise Cruise, cheap cruises to bermuda the alcohol cheap cruises to bermuda low is in full swing. Spikes of anxiety coarse through my head screaming cheap cruises to bermuda like demons from the depths of this nefarious region of the Atlantic. I have an interview with King Khan in less than an hour and all I want to do is sleep. Her cabin is clean. Mine is filthy, and smells like feet and armpits with a hint of ass. I haven t slept well the whole trip, and, honestly, all I want to do is lie around. In her cabin. In her bed. We re beet red from the sun and the friction. Away from the music, away from the people. Floating amongst the other chandeliers shimmering under the glow of the moon in the midst of the Bermuda Triangle. She gets up. She comments on the stench emanating from my sneakers strewn beyond the foot of the single-size bed. I stay down.
She slips her navy sweater back over her blonde bangs which returns me as the sole nude in the room. I m still panting on the bed trying to quell my anxiety and act like I m inspired or some shit like that. The ship begins to sway back and forth. She claims the tossing Makes her feel high. Back and forth. I croak, It makes me feel sick. Back and forth. My torso is trying to extend itself beyond its skin. Back and forth. My body wants to throw itself up, but my gut is yearning for a balance. Maybe alcohol, maybe a cigarette. Back and forth. cheap cruises to bermuda My voice is struggling back to its home in the larynx. I ve been hoarse all day. Back and forth. The alcohol and fan fare have taken away more than just my energy. Back and forth. Now it s moved beyond my voice and headed to consume cheap cruises to bermuda my sanity. Back and forth. This is the last day of the Bruise Cruise. Back and forth. A total fucking nightmare of a day. I can t wait to get the fuck off this ship.
Hours earlier, perched on a chaise lounge, I see photographer Eric Luc directing King Khan, born Arish Ahmad Khan, in a hot tub full of children. Waiters are everywhere on the deck stalking people with trays full of drinks, hustling the sale. I sit idle and mute with a cigarette dangling from my lips as Khan extends cheap cruises to bermuda his arm, exposing his cape to the wind. With his feathered headdress pluming into the air and a necklace made of teeth resting between his breasts, he glares into the lens of the camera like a Hollywood version of an Amazonian warlord. The thin, black stretchy cotton of his skimpy briefs are the only thing separating Khan s balls from the smiles of the children seated in the frothing water below. The shot is quickly assaulted by a flock of cameras. I m offered a drink, I decline and light up another cheap cruises to bermuda cigarette.
It s been five years since the last King Khan and the Shrines studio album What Is?! , off Vice Records, and two years since King Khan and BBQ s breakup. Right now, he s in his element, and nothing seems to bother him. He s not untouchable, but he sure as hell projects that cocksure attitude.
Khan and the nine other members of the Shrines, based out of Berlin, have four albums under their belt dating back to 2000 and have been touring their New Orleans-style psychedelic cheap cruises to bermuda funk-rock around the world sporadically cheap cruises to bermuda since. Khan s hyper presence on and off stage has built up a cult of personality so brash it rivals that of his friends and recording buds the Black Lips. Recently, Khan was kicked cheap cruises to bermuda out of the Vivid LIVE festival at the Sydney Opera House following his second performance with BBQ for behavior too rambunctious for an opera house . Needless to say, dude s a veteran when it comes to life experience... and he reads tarot.
Back in her cabin, cheap cruises to bermuda I pull myself together, get dressed, and head out to collect Khan from Quintron s Swamp Stack party. We sit down outside of the Xanadu Lounge where the majority of the festival performances were held for our last interviews of the trip. I think maybe this worldly man dressed in an ill-fitting cheap cruises to bermuda track suit and mustache can shed some light on the madness propagating in my brain. I m sure he knows a couple of things about the doldrums, the demons, and the alcohol. Fuck it, you only live once. I ll start off light with a couple of benign softballs to get the conversation rolling
Well, I mean it s the second one. Last year they asked me to do it with BBQ, but we were having problems. So I m really excited that we got to be a part of it this year. Especially cheap cruises to bermuda with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, too, and all their involvement. They re really close friends. It feels like a big reunion, a big family reunion.
I think it s wonderful. Especially with the caliber of artists that are involved. cheap cruises to bermuda I think that most of the people that are playing this festival are just really cheap cruises to bermuda honest musicians. I guess we survived the test. I guess kids nowadays are looking for something more real than pre-processed bullshit. I m really cheap cruises to bermuda happy to be able to do this. I feel like a very lucky person to be able to fly around the world and hang out with my friends and get crazy on boats, or trains, or buses, whatever. It doesn t matter. (laughs)
You ve got such an aura about you. You re a beautiful cheap cruises to bermuda man. You re confident, you ve got your family here. Just you interacting with everybody really says something about you. It seems like you ve adjusted so well on this boat. At one point it felt like the Bermuda Triangle s demons cheap cruises to bermuda were yelling at me. They were screaming at me. They were trying to stifle me and I was wondering if you felt any of that?
I ve felt some pretty strange things in this trip, definitely. I don t want to be a downer. I mean, this is basically like indentured slavery this is like a slave ship, you know? I m happy that we re a part of the people who don t take this really seriously actually, I don t want to be a bummer.
Spiritually, yeah. There s some strangeness going on. But I think everyone involved in this part of the boat, in this cruise thing... it s like the religious enjoy honest music. I guess whenever you re in a luxurious situation there s always cheap cruises to bermuda blood underneath all of [it]-- cheap cruises to bermuda blood and torture cheap cruises to bermuda and nastiness.
But it s pretty amazing, too. I was hanging out a lot with Jello Biafra on this thing. And it s amazing to be on a boat with someone like that. Especially cause I remember when I was 12 years old listening cheap cruises to bermuda to the Dead Kennedys and it kind of changing my life. And to have him be a fan of all the different bands I ve been involved with for the past ten years. I guess it was kind of like a well deserved pat on the back to everyone involved and, yeah. Wait, we were talking about spirituality, right? (laughs)
I just asked you if you felt any of the demons. It was obvious, this anxiety that I was overtaken with. I didn t feel it too much yesterday, but today I know that has something to do with self-inflicted shit. I was drinking the whole time. But still, it was this overwhelming power
I made the mistake of talking to the waiter who had been serving us and asking him exactly what the deal is involving this boat. And he was just telling me how basically all the people that work here are not Americans. They are from Third World countries. They don t get salaries. They get paid in tips. So all the gratuity on drinks, basically. That s their shared income. And they work seven months non-stop on this boat which I can t even imagine. It s insane. That put a bummer in the whole thing. But at the same time, you know, a lot of those people aren t working in some fucking diamond mind or something like that. But still, it s still quite crazy. So I guess, today, the guilt kinda kicked in. I guess that s what happens when you re, you know, floating in the Bermuda Triangle. There is this swirling cheap cruises to bermuda madness coupled with like Neil Hamburger washed away all that guilt.
Let s talk about the show. I was in a bad place all day and then I saw you. Seeing you interact with people was one of the things that really helped me along. I felt like my libido was gone. I had no energy, I had no drive. The demons were yelling at me and telling me to stop and not to do my job and to just go to sleep. Then I got to your show and was watching you play. I danced with a girl that I met on the boat. It was this big thing for me, it was freedom I know this sounds weird
The boat thing I ve played on a boat in Venice or something like that. But a lot of the reason I ve decided to play this kind of music was, I guess, when I first discovered Sun Ra. I think it s kind of like alchemy what he would do. He would take people who normally would never play music and then help them find what instrument they were supposed to play, and then they were destined to create this salvation for, like, street people and to give hope and fantasy and everything, and impose it into people s brains or whatever. So, in a way, I wanted to carry that tradition on and bring that feeling into the live show. Kind of mix it up with the whole essence of Mardi Gras and stuff, too. Just like real celebration losing yourself in the spirit of love and goodness. I think ultimately this is the thing that will heal the world and always has when it s done with good intentions. In that way I m really happy.
Often the best compliments cheap cruises to bermuda I ve ever gotten were from people who just told me that, Oh shit, I just saw your show and I was smiling for like 2 months after! and stuff like that. When you have a room full of so many people who are all focused, that s how magic rituals happen. You focus this concentrated energy and you kind of launch into people s hearts and minds and crotches. (laughs)
When [Eric Luc] and I were in your room you said something about a breakdown. I was wondering if your music has helped you it seems like it has helped you through the hard times. I mean, it s always cheap cruises to bermuda peaks and troughs with life. You can seem like you re at the highest of your career and you can be at the lowest point in your soul.
The beginning of the whole breakdown was basically like that. I got invited with BBQ by Lou Reed to play at the Sydney Opera House [for Vivid LIVE]. That was a big deal in my mind and my heart.