BoTik Does Busan

2010-07-04T06:38:00.000-07:00

I came to get down...

This is why I came here...

To look out upon the grand Pacific

with and unobstructed view.

The deep, dark blue

swells and dips;

crashing violently

with whitewater froth

against the craggy coastline

where the mountains meet the sea.

The salt sea air bites my nose

and the smell of squid makes me gag.

This is why I came here

To gaze out from a mountaintop.

There's nothing but snow and ice.

A poppy field of stars above

shines like a million diamonds

strew upon a black velvet valley.

This is why I came here

To wake up before sunrise

and go

and never look back

and know that the day

will reign toil upon my body.

From my head

to my spine,

to my toes,

incited by...

waterfall crossings,

steep inclines,

face first free falls,

and near death experiences.

This is why I came here,

I came to get down...

...and drink until the last drop

then buy me another.

And, I'll pass out in a gutter

and let the homeless

take me home for a change!

To get down

on the dance floor

until the sweat makes

my shoes slip

and the funk makes

my hips dip

whether or not I dance alone.

This is why I came here...

to say fuck you, fuck off , and fuck it...

man.

To be able take a stand

and leave it all behind.

To learn how to learn, love, lead , and leave

all in simultaneous fashion.

This is why I came here....I came to get down!

WHITE PEOPLE: Welcome to the dark side!

2010-05-05T17:42:00.000-07:00

I'd like to start a new segment here on Botik Speaks (a subsidiary of Botik does Busan), I call it "WHITE PEOPLE:". I find it quite important to bring to light stupid things that white people do. After all white people are about the most horrid group of people to walk the earth, with their constant denial of any origin culture, global domination, american idol, Wal-Mart, FOX News, Golf ...etc. See this video if you still don't understand.

I think you get the point. Anyways this is not a racist commentary, like said I'm talking about a "group" of people. I m not necessarilly picking on the caucasian race, but "white people of all races. For example:

CARL BANKS

Carl Banks, from the classic family sitcom starring none oher than Will Smith, is extremely "white", eventhough he happens to be African-American. Carl's "whiteness" is mainly due to his love of cable knit sweaters and his nasty habit of wearing them around his neck ("white" person dead giveaway). He is also a va-j-j when it comes to doing anything fun or scandalous Will wants to do. ALSO! On that note, while in the series, Will is definitly not "white", Will Smith most likely is "White" in "real" life.

On the other hand, it would be fair to say that most caucasian people indeed fall under the category of "white", while on the other hand, not all caucasians are "white"... we will call these people "black". Take our man Bill Cliton for example. Many like to refer to him as our first black president.

Bill Cliton kept it quite real in the in and out of the white house (a place that certainly is white). His antics in the oval office characterized him as a real person, and whether or not you agreed with his politics, Slick Willy did his and tried to keep it as real as possible. I mean he cheifed and played saxophone in the "OoH-val" office...I'm sure of it.

However I'd like to give it up to Abraham Lincoln.

He may have been the first real "Black" president. He did somethings that were very un"white". By freeing slaves he lent a hand to humanity and denied profits and capitalism for the sake of freedom. Oh yes, much money was lost....but Honest Abe didn't care....most "white" people would turn the other cheek to such inhumanity in fear of such profit loss. Any other "Black" presidents??? Obama so far ha proven to be quite "black". First african american prez, yes! Black....we'll see.

So in the context of this blog, and the terms that I tend to use: "black" and "white", Carl is not "black", he is "white"...the color of his skin happens to be black....but like i said it has nothing to do with race.

White people like to do silly things like have hot dog singing competitions as seen here... Check out this lil nazi in training.

I fear Will is being bread for presidency in 2040. Forget the melting of the polar ice caps or oil slicks that look like mother mary, if anything foreshadows the apocalypse this is it!

Jeez! What's wrong with these people? Newscast master Nealon Bob overhere is all "How can I get involved"...here's an idea why don't you grab two wieners: insert one in your mouth and one in your butt. Shit! If you like it so much grab four and give some to Mary your co-anchor/ helmet hair representative. Lil Will's parents should be beaten severely and exterminated!

My favorite part is when the reporter say " his mom's been letting him play video games all day and Will didn't want to sing the song". How white is this? VERY WHITE!!! I bet this little tool sits around all day slurping down oscar meyer wieners and playing star craft. Meanwhile, putting lots of hard work and effort into his first heart attack and a life long bout with diabetes. Jeez....white people....only white people could think up this shit. The best part of this whole whitey jizz fest is the fact that this kid will win tickets to american idol and $5000!!! What the hell is this kid going to do with $5000??? Probably buy a butt plug, some JNCO 62'' jeans, and life time supply of red bull. Hooray for hotdogs! Just another abomination created by "white" peeps. I think John Robbins said it right:

"You see, the song produces in it's young audience the belief that by eating Oscar Meyer Weiners they are actually "loving" the animals and they are seemily eager to become these very weiners."

Let's watch some more exciting meat entertainment (could we say meatainment???). I know we've seen this before.

YEAH! VIDEO GAMES ARE FUN!!! HOT DOGS ARE FUN TOO!!! Enjoy that shit, and enjoy the mix of bodies ROTTING IN your intestines!!! I would love to see what wold happen if we replace every meat adjective or noun with it's real word. For example: instead of "How about a cheeseburger" we say "how would you like a ground up cow body, topped with a slice of mucus-homone, and some corn syrup, between two slices of modified grains?"....That sounds delicious! SURE!!!

Anyways, the main point here is that "white" people are to blame for all this.

This is only my first installment. I figure that I hate on white people so much that I may as well deliver it to the masses. And, on that note I leave you with this, another fine example of "white" people wasting time, money, and resources for their own self indulgent jizz-fest. There really is no explanation or commentary on my part needed for this one. Please add your own. Enjoy!

Look at em:((((((

Remember Rich???

2010-05-02T08:07:00.000-07:00

I remember Rich,
one of the best junkies I'd ever known,
one of the worst humans to ever live.
Living solely on a diet of Budweiser, cocaine, and cigarettes
Like a free diver,
Rich existed to test the limitations of the human body
to the fullest extent.

I remember Rich,
living next door in the duplex apartment
banging on my wall in the middle of the the night
inviting me over to watch porn and blow lines.

Hundreds of Bud bottles lined our shared from porch;
a tribute to Rich's ailing liver.

Rich was so good at drinking.
He practiced a lot.

Everyday,
Rich sat and stared out from our porch
surveying the vast wasted land of our project.
Rich's emaciated body sat shriveled, like a peanut shell,
chuggling beer after beer
smoking Camel Wides like they were going out of style,
hollerin' at the mangy crackwhores
as they stumble down the street in the early morning.

Sometimes he'd invite them in for a $5 dollar blow job.
According to Rich:
"The 'ol girl needs to see a dentist"

I took his word for it.

Rich loved to black out
and...
mangle his his bike on the cement lamp post
then hide it under the bush out front.
In the morning he'd ask
(In his strained and nasal southern beach bum voice):
"Who the fuck stole my bike?"

I remember Rich fighting ghosts in the front yard,
beating himself to a bloody pulp
against the concrete.

Some time's he'd sit me down to,
"Shhhhhhhhh!",
tell me
"Something real serious, that nobody else knows."
The voices in his head
would get him into trouble,
make him do things like
fight bums in the grave yard at midnight
and blow up frogs in the driveway with firecrackers.

I remember Rich,
Raging down I-10 from Tallahassee to Jacksonville
blasting the Dead Kennedy's
100 miles per hour
nose glued to a silver vile
hand glue to a bud
smoking butts with the windows up
straight cruise control, baby.

I remember Rich dying on the side of the highway
The mouth to mouth got me nothing more than regurgitated chips and beer.

I remember Rich,
one of the best junkies I 'd ever known,
one of the worst humans to ever live.

BoTik Does Busan Episode XXX: The Triumphant Return

2010-04-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

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BoTIK Speaks: Some more ranting... plain and simple

2010-03-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

My People,

Well I was about to post a very special edition of BoTik Speaks video blog on this here interweb…. but unfortunately my computer has decided to be an ass-bag today and refrain from recording sound. Due to this, I go back to the ancient skill of writing…something I have always enjoyed and probably more palatable for my viewers (you didn’t really want to listen to my rambly lips flapping for 9 minutes anyways, did you?).
So I’ve been receiving a lot of comments and request for UPDATES, which I have been quite neglectful towards. YES yes yes! Here we go! So Last time we checked in I believe I was vomiting up pizza school…since then things didn’t get much better with my health. I received bronchitis (probably from slapping hands with so many grimy students). Regardless, I lost my voice for a couple of days. This was not fun. Actually kind of depressing. Losing one’s voice can be quite disturbing…particularly for someone like me who could talk until the end of time. Not to mention I love to sing and am now a teacher. So, losing my voice was quite horrific, honestly. Who are we without our voices anyways? Jeez I would hate to be a mute (no offense to mutes). I spent a good part of the last week not talking, while students acted like freekin nutcases …. I played the sword and the stone and Madagascar. Not too shabby. I am quite stubborn, you know. I really didn’t want to go to the hospital, against my fellow teachers recommendations, and I stayed home all last weekend pent up in the house with no voice (aside from the Haiti Benefit concert and the hike up to the Beomosa Temple, AHHH I’m bad). But really now! I hate prescription drugs and usually would inundate my body with mass garlic and tea (which is always good practice, though slack sometimes), however, my school said I could watch movies in class because I was sick. SO I HAD to go to the hospital. I’m a whore…I gave into the movie ploy…and also the fact that I couldn’t talk. Not good…really not good.
But, This week was great. I’m really tapping into the children now! They are crazy! I am crazy! Really a perfect match! The kids are completely insane…they might even give me a run for my money. I’m pretty high energy and I like to keep it that way. James Brown, Barry White, Pee-Wee, and even the Village People have all made appearances in class via you tube. We dance the “Cabbage Patch” and the “Stanky Leg”I even got to do and after school class on what it is to be a gangsta rapper in America. The after school class is sweet. I basically have free reign to teach whatever I want. I can do anything to get the students to learn more about western culture and use their English. I’m also planning on doing some health classes and music classes! Finally the ability to mold minds!!!
YEAH! But enough about me what about OBAMA!!! Health care wooo hooo! Let me know how that works out, Of course the second I leave the U.S. something like this happens. I’m glad and all but nothing is going to change Americas healthcare better than Americans changing their diets. JEEZ! America for the most part is full of a bunch of filthy pigs eating a bunch of filthy pigs. I don’t need to say much or argue this point because it is so blatantly obvious why American health as a whole is so bad. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!! At least realize that and know it. I know every time I eat some piece of shit food that I am coming to closer to turning into a piece of shit myself. SO ENJOY!!! I’m really glad that everyone is getting healthcare now. BUT PLEASE, also enjoy all that rotting animal flesh sitting in you intestines and bowels, and all the other shitty bullshit that you’ve been eating. ENJOY!!! Holla at me with a heart attack in 35 years, I’ll gladly pay for it….not!!! On that note… peace, love and scuzz. For now I sit here on this cool night in Busan, awaiting tomorrow and drinking a lovely CASS ale the self proclaimed, “sound of vitality”. Don’t worry I still love you even if you’re a sleazy eater. I’m just overall sleazy so what am I talking about. I just don’t love your heart attacks (says the man drinking Cass Fresh). Oh the irony!

PS: PLEASE SOMEONE COME VISIT ME!!! THIS PLACE IS SWEET!!!! SUMMER ON THE BEACH IS ABOUT TO BE AMAZING!!! FREE ROOM!!! CHEAP FOOD AND BOOZE!!! AND FUN…LOTS OF FUN!!!

Pss: to tired. Not time for grammar and punctuation at this hour.

Love ya,

Bobo

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2010-03-15T20:48:00.000-07:00

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2010-03-11T20:58:00.000-08:00

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2010-03-11T20:51:00.000-08:00

It’s been a long day. And, it’s only Monday. I can’t really understand how the days pass by so slowly yet so fast. Recently, particularly after graduating form college , the days, weeks, months, and years just seem to fly. I know it sounds cheesy and everyone has probably thought this., but really…isn’t it odd? One time someone wrote in the corner of on of my many many notebooks “Sun passes, time fades”. This could be a famous quote and I wouldn’t know it, but these have always stuck to me. This romantic concept that just as the sun rises and falls, time too rises, falls…. and after all…. passes. Though is it not also amazing that as quickly as months and years pass, sometimes it seems like a day can drag on forever? A period of time can be painful and agonizing and certainly not quick. The term quick and painless never seems to apply to mentally draining times. Why does this feel bittersweet? Sun passing, time fading. Why is nostalgia and reflection something that brings a lump to the throat or a tear to the eye…most likely along with a laugh and a smile? (whooooa! I'm getting sappy here)And, ultimately why do some of us strive for change while other settle? Is a seed to a rambling’ man (or woman) as a tree is to a settled person with a family? I know, I know lots of questions. But, really now, these are unanswerable questions that are at the core of what drive humanity. While some abandon concepts of love for personal growth…others embrace and grow with another. Can one be without the other?

It’s trippy to me here and now…still feeling like a kid myself yet being in charge of children, They respect me simply because I am an adult. Of course I am an adult. I have a job, pay bills, travel about, make my own decisions…. all the things that all responsible adult members of society. Yet I still feel like a kid. Not in the immature way…more like the sick funny way. When I teach I really don’t feel that much older than any of my student. I realize there is huge self-sufficiency gap, but we still laugh at the same jokes. I still think it’s funny when I ask them to draw a picture of something they like and they draw some boobs or a chicken taking a crap. I mean how is that not funny? When will that not be funny. You’d have to be a total square to not think that’s funny…especially in that context. Hey! As long as they can explain what they saying in plain English…I don’t really see a problem with that. I’m teaching English here …not manners. And, I certainly am no Ms. Manners either. It’s funny because I’m respected due to my label…maybe my suit…but really I’m just a goofy jew in a pimp suit stylin out in a classroom. It’s all part of my freaky dream. It’s just one big funky ass dream that has me laughing inside almost the whole time. Not goona lie, it’s hard work. But, I get paid biayatches, hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Here we go....First week of school!!

2010-03-05T20:02:00.000-08:00

So here some stream of conciousness. I haven't had a decent internet connection sice I've got here and really little to no time to update this thing in a timely manner. But! I see it as my duty to inform all of my lovely followers out there with some sort of status of my whereabouts and wellbeing. I live in Busan (also spelled Pusan) in and area called Haeundae-gu. this is basically the most ballin' (affulent for those seasonsed reader out there) areas in Busan. It's only a short walk to the beach. Which is nice. The air quality is poor...but I haven't really been anywhere in Korea yet where the airquality is great. My apartment is sweet on the 16th floor of this highrise called the Sun Plaze, it's kind of finky and I imagine one of the cheaper places to live in Haeundae for the hallways are grimey and kind of smell like fermented Kimchi. these are not negatives, simply what Korea smelmls like. It's smells like digestested pickled.... whatever. Overall this place is sweet. The apartment is decent with two room a kitche living room and a patio...not too bad. Since Haeundae-gu is the beacy ballin' touristy area the drinks are a bit more expensive depending on where youm go. there a few "foreigner bars" around here that I have generally avoided considering their high priced alcohol and lack of asians. I prefer to shop for my booze in the store. They have 7-11 here, G24, and Buy the way as their main holes of convienience paraphanalia. this is a convieniece store nation from what I can tell. People love the convenience store here. Except there are no OE's and you have better luck getting soju (their rice alcohol which will run you a 1000 won) Than a 40 of Cass or Hite (runs you about 5000 won). ...to be continured

2010-02-24T08:40:00.000-08:00

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2010-02-24T08:36:00.000-08:00

BoTik Does Busan: Vol 1, Ep 1, Touchdown in SK from Joshua Bennett on Vimeo.