Explore life among artists, writers and clubkids on Clematis in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida. The journals of Kris Kemp.










My journals, written about my experiences living in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, among artists, writers, musicians, drifters, dreamers, and drug addicts. These journals include stories of street evangelism with other Christians, jumping trains, dumpster diving, and roaming the caves of Clematis Street. If you've ever wondered what downtown West Palm Beach was like before it got popular, this is an inside view. Enjoy.
Kris Kemp (writer, web design, health consultant)

e-mail me: bicycledays@yahoo.com / myspace site / land I'm selling

Journals

Bicycle Days (1994 - 1995)
My journal about living in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, working at Respectable Street Cafe, and hanging out with different clubkids, dreamers, and drug addicts.


Dreams are the flashlight; time is the battery (2000 - 2002)
Firsthand accounts of street evangelism ministry on Clematis Street, in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, and playing drums at Rock Church.

Dumpster Earth (2001 - 2002)
Living among artists in a warehouse studio space, dumpster diving, train jumping ... a true story about people who have fallen into the cracks of the sidewalk and gone unnoticed under the heavy paced footprints of humanity.

(coming soon) Pictures from The Leftover Generation (2002 - 2003)
My story about living in a giant warehouse, a quonset hut, inside the belly of a whale, among orphaned artists, emotional cripples, misfit musicians, paranoid poets, unapologetic slackers ... sharing space within the walls of a giant magnet that can only attract what it does not destroy ... sending prayers, diving dumpsters, writing secret poems and songs, playing hooky from the real world, jumping trains with sidewalk prophets, lending an ear to the unacknowledged, accumulating stray kisses from mysterious strangers, connecting the dots to form a picture, becoming absorbed into a kind of surrogate family, all of us participants in the Leftover Generation.

Book of Quotes (2003)
People told me I should write down my quotes, so I did. Here's the result.

History's Detergent (2003)
The best of my journals entries--a collection of commentary and quotes. Maybe you'll be able to relate to this.

Shelters are Melting (2003)
A true account about the disintegration of my preconceived notions of reality confirmed by a journey to the American West.

Gravity (The Seduction of the Equator) (2004)
Confessions of a restless insomniac, burdened with guilt, beseiged with ideas, embracing life below the radar.

Confessions of a 35-year old - wait a second, I'm 36 (2005)
My journal written when I lived in Old Town, Florida, in a trailer on 9-acres, and attended tax deed sales to find cheap land to buy and resell for profit.


Screenplay

The Last Pizza Delivery Driver on Earth (2007)
Jim Wheeler has one week before his 15 year high school reunion. And he's delivering pizzas, living at home, and doesn't have a girlfriend. Ever felt insecure about your job life?


Musical

Dumpster Diver ... the musical
Two friends, Josh and Faith, head in different directions after graduating college. Years later, they meet. Faith reveals the truth about Josh's company, and now Josh has a decision to make: Stay at his company, stifle his conscience, and live a life of comfort, or choose a risky path where he feels he can make a difference. Experience this new musical about following your dreams, no matter how uncoventional.

Commentaries and articles

Christian commentaries
An assortment of Biblically based commentaries, micro sermons, and my testimony.


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