Proximity Butterfly (变色蝴蝶)

Eat your pants people… our super hero friend finally hooked us up with a webpage that blew the one I made out of the water. She came over a hundred times and asked us questions and magically persisted to its end. The Chinese version is right on and she even translated/interpreted four songs into chinese as well, so if you don’t get what I’m trying to say in english, check out the Chinese side of it. The page itself is a bit under construction; not finished. But we needed to get something out before our tour was off. We head out tomorrow for Beijing. We will go by train because in China luxuries like taking planes and rockets across the sky are for people like The Black-Eyed Peas, not for little drifts of ice like ourselves.  But we move nonetheless. We’ll  get to meet a lot of people on the train and play our guitars and hand drums all the way. I’m reading Guerilla Prince now, a biography on Fidel Castro byGeorgie Anne Geyer, Heather is reading Schopenhauer’s Suicide, Suffering and Morality, Duxi is relaxing from a huge taxi beat down he and his friends got the other day, Huangwei will stay in Chengdu and Robert will walk along with us for filling out some sensual jamming. We’ve been writing new songs and trying them out at a few shows recently, finding what things work and what things don’t. We are ready for the tour and ready to express ourselves as intently as we can.

In september we will tune up some unfinished songs and begin recording our second album, hopefully with more of a live feel to them. We’re producing the albums, artwork, poetry and sound all ourselves, so we have to go through that process without huge hands from above cleaning up our stains. Totally appreciate the support in the last year and are looking to shock your panties with more seductive material than before. I really like the new songs and where they are going, and hope you will too. Because our Hemp Bar show was stopped by the police, we want to do a free show in September when we get back to say thanks to all those beautiful people that` keep coming out to support us. Our more recent show at the Indian Bar we thought would be for free and found out that they put a cover charge on it, which, by the way, none of it came to either of the two bands. So mark on your list: Afila-Namaste Indian Bar. Friends don’t leave friends out to dry. We lugged all of our own equipment there, amps drums, microphones, mixing board, cables, lights, everything… and they stiffed us. We learn from mistakes and hope we won’t make another one like that again…

I posted two new things on our BBS. Maywbe you know about them, maybe you don’t: axisofjustice.org and www.climatecrisis.net/ An Inconvenient Truth- different news for different people. A film recommended by Al Gore and all those at Axis of Justice about the climate and what consequences we are and will be facing in the next 10-15 years… I just read an article this morning about a ship off the coats of China that wrecked and dumped 200 tons of sulfuric acid into the water. What are the results of such a catastrophe? and because it isn’t a political issue, but one of human health, we will all be affected by it, much like the seeding of clouds here in China (shooting rockets into the sky charged with chemicals and electrons to make it rain in areas that wouldn’t rnormally get rain. Eventhough this technology dates back to the 50s in America, it had been abandoned for safety purposes; not knowing what repercussions it would have on surrounding nations, hurricane and typhoon patterns, flooding and overall weather predictability. These things will become of great significance eto our immediate future, and unless we move to see what future we may possess, we’re only condemning those tryiong to find solutions.

We’re off tomorrow for a train ride to Beijing and then to Wuhan, Changsha, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Guiyang. The Butterflies with Space Tour schedule is available at:

English Version

Chinese Version

Peace brothers and sisters… and we’ll see you on the flipside.

Joshua Love

"246,055 People will see the truth"