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Dressed & Ready
Aimlessly, I wandered through the inside of the temple. Not a single individual acknowledged my presence and those that did seemed as disoriented as I was. A Thai man with his face mask pulled off stopped shoveling noodles into his mouth, attempting to help me. Though [...]
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Yan Yao
From the distance, it possessed the radiant shimmer of a recently landed, hyper-debaucherous traveling carnival. Recent enough to magnetize an array of gooey-eyed onlookers, most of whom, had been inadvertently transformed into tourists in their own town. Noodle vendors, ice cream trucks and soda stands paved the [...]
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The Road to Yan Yao - Onward
Days Later.
Leaving the decomposing dog behind, the aimlessness of my journey continued as I imposed my leadership skills directly upon the handle bars of the tawdry moped that vibrated frantically between my legs. The one entity I knew I was equipped to [...]
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Arrival
Days Prior. December 26th, 2004 - Boxing Day.
Cramped into the claustrophobic back row of the cabin, the combination of sleeping pills and alcohol kept me distracted from the discomfort of the sixteen hour flight where most certainly I would be losing my [...]
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The Road to Yan Yao
January 2005. Driving away from the crowd, my hyper-exhausted curiosity was somehow stimulated and without my consent, seemed to be peering through the periphery of my less-than-active consciousness. Without my participation, my [...]
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Here is the introduction to my new book, Boxing Day, which is about my experiences as an accidental aid worker in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. I was in Koh Lak, the hardest hit area in Thailand and found myself helping identify and log thousands of corpses. I tell the story with a sense of [...]
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Posted in Films by Chris Jaymes, In Memory of My Father, tagged Chris, Jaymes, comedy, jeremy, sisto, judy, greer, monet, mazur, christine, lakin, nicholle, tom, pat, healy, eric, cole, film, awards, sundance, belle, sebastian, best, director, independent on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is the basic info on the film I made a few years back. It had an amazing critical and festival life, but got hung up with various companies in various deals once we got to the distribution part of things. We’re still moving it forward, but it’s been halted a bit.
Below you can read [...]
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Posted in Boxing Day - Preview, tagged abundance, book, Chris, Coldplay, comedy, disaster, effort, forensics, help, Jaymes, motivational, relief, self, thailand, travel, tsunami, volunteer on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The only book available the honestly summarizes the experience that occurred in Thailand during the tsunami relief effort is now available. For those who are curious to experience a first-hand account of the most tragic event of our time, BOXING DAY was written by someone who was there moving bodies from the beach. It is [...]
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Posted in thoughts & stuff, tagged Zidane on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Watching Zidane lose his cool today hits on a raw emotional quality that seems to come up in a large majority of humans on a somewhat recurring, moment-to-moment basis. Judgment will fly regarding the ethical rights and wrongs without a complete understanding of the moment. Fans of France will find justification, blaming the inappropriate banter [...]
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Posted in Deleted Chapters on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
A travel blog from a moment in a Bangkok Canal…
Bangkok has an extensive system of canals stemming from the Klong Bangkok Noi, (formerly known as the Chao Phraya River, kind of like Prince, only a river) the main river that runs through the center of town. Shortly after sunset, I wandered around Khao San Road [...]
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