snowpiercer

Spotted: a slow-moving train in Nevada.

serenade

On a recent Saturday trip to Chinatown we crossed paths with a brass band playing on the side of the street, a litter of paper swirling on the pavement around them. It was the Green Street Mortuary Band, finishing their accompaniment of a morning funeral procession. The band’s modern incarnation is part of a long history of Chinese-American funeral tradition in San Francisco (of which I knew only a little before going down this internet rabbit hole).

Guiding Our Dead, Saving our Spirit: The Cost of Being Chinatown’s Mortuary Band

Dignity, Honor, Respect - A Spirit’s Last Journey with the Green Street Mortuary Band

free wifi

Near Green River, Utah.

text and cigarette

Good morning.

in the room where it all gets real

First live music in over two years!