different when I’m on the road.
IE: But, you’re a big believer in conspira-
cy theories, like chemtrails?
JD: So far, yeah. Ever since I first started
looking around, I've believed in chem-
trails, and I do believe that there’s more
going on out there than meets the eye.
But who’s to say for sure? There are so
many false flags now; I can’t keep up
with it anymore. And I do believe that
JD: It was written before I even started
my journey of awakening, and it was
coming from my subconscious to wake
me up, to open my eyes to what was real-
ly going on. I was writing about my
hatred of religion….well, I won’t say
‘hatred.’ I just don’t like what it does to
people, because religion is about assimi-
lation, where you have to go out and
recruit every kind of person, and there’s
no other way to do it – you have to do it
May 4
Belly Dove
D.O.A. Fight Back
Eleanor Friedberger Rebound
Frank Turner Be More Kind
Leon Bridges Good Thing
Matt & Kim Almost Everyday
Parker Millsap Other Arrangements
Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois S/T
May 11
05•2018
they’re trying to dumb us down, but
what are they trying to dumb us down
from? What is the ultimate goal? Why
don’t they want to tell us stuff? Is it that
we’re not alone in the universe or some-
thing? Would that just blow up the whole
theory of religion and everything we’ve
been taught? In my opinion, we’re
human beings, and we should come
together as one, as a whole, not under
some New World Order, which I used to
find intriguing. I would read all the sto-
ries, and I really got into it, but it’s all just
noise to me now. And I loved Alex Jones,
but he’s gone kind of batshit crazy. But in
my life now, what does it even matter?
How is it even affecting me anymore? So
I’ve pulled back on conspiracy theories –
I’m just living my own peaceful life, and
I’ve stopped worrying about all that shit.
this way. There’s a lot on the record about
me coming to grips with things like that
in my life. The song “What It Is” is about,
“Hey – the only way you’re going to get
through life and stop hurting is to stop
running from your problems. You’ve got
to face them head on and figure out a
solution or walk away.” So making the
record was kind of a journey.
IE: How so?
JD: Well, it’s all tied together by this thing
called the Ganzfeld Experiment, where
you put two ping pong balls over your
eyes, listen to white noise, and stare at a
red screen. When you’re about 20 min-
utes to a half hour in, you start getting
crazy hallucinations and visuals. And
everybody has different reactions – some
people have out-of-body exp