Aajonus is Homeless, Travelling, Moving to Philippines

[2010]

[Aajonus]

We'll start it off by saying, I'm homeless folks. , I got kicked outta my Malibu place that's a rehab for wealthy people and they decided they wanted to make some changes on the property, so they had to have a building inspection over and approve the changes that they wanted to make.

So, the building inspection decided to inspect everything on the property. Came to my house and he said, there's no permit for this house. You gotta tear it down.

[Attendees]

Oh my goodness. Oh my God.

[Aajonus]

So, I just got notice on Tuesday, so everything is going into boxes. So, I'm homeless and they gave me till the 18th, but I'm leaving tomorrow for Thailand, so I have to pack up everything in five days.

[Attendees]

Geez. Oh really? Do you have help?

[Aajonus]

No, I don't want any help. Cause I want to know where exactly everything is. Thank you though. People did offer the help, but I can't afford it. I need to know where everything is. So, I've been getting one hour of sleep a day.

I returned September 23rd to no home, so they had some bungalows up near Canan Doom Road and one of 'em is one bedroom, so they're gonna give me that till mid-November, because as soon as I get back I'm only back a week and then I go on my next tour here, I go to Aspen, then Sedona, Chicago, and then St.Louis. So I'll be gone that whole month of October. So I have just two weeks in November to look for a place.

[Attendee]

So you don't need a home?

[Aajonus]

*Laughs* I need one about three months a year here in LA. That one was a perfect one. My hot tub, everything and they've gotta bury the hot tub, it was illegal.

I didn't know you needed a permit, but you know if I had gone for that permit for that hot tub then I would've lost the house 10 years ago because that's when I built the hot tub.

[Attendee]

You've been there 10 years?

[Aajonus]

11 years. I thought I was gonna be able to be there for my life.

[Attendee]

Did you own the house Aajonus?

[Aajonus]

No. I would've had a heart attack if I had to tear down if it were mine. It belongs to Fred Siegel.

The Fred Siegel clothing store thing.

[Attendee]

So, you were leasing it from him?

[Aajonus]

No, renting. Well, I was leasing on a yearly lease, but he said that because he's on the diet, saved his life and changed his whole life, he said that I could live there as long as I wanted, even after he is dead.

In fact, he made a deal when he rented to lease the place to the rehab center of the clinic, that I stay there no matter what, but contract is on that house, the house is gone. That's it.

[Attendee]

You take it pretty good *laughs*.

[Aajonus]

What am I gonna do about it? I was upset for two hours.

[Attendee]

Time for a change.

[Aajonus]

Screw it. . . Can't worry about it. I'm here so little, so it's okay.

[Attendee]

Are you packing your stuff up? Where are you gonna keep your stuff?

[Aajonus]

Fred on his part of the land that he didn't lease to them he has a small storage house. He's gonna put everything there for me. And I've got three boxes that just has everything that I absolutely have to have. So, I'm not living like a hotel cuz that's basically, I live out of a suitcase for nine and a half months a year.

[Attendee]

Is that your plan just to come back here a month at a time or something? Three times a year?

[Aajonus]

Well, that's the way I'm doing it now. I'm going away for four months and coming back for two to three months and then going away again.

[Attendee]

And you're building a house in the Philippines, aren't you?

[Aajonus]

Not yet. It hasn't started the one, it's all about to begin there, even though it's more remote and no roads into that area, no paved roads and I have to cross three rivers. We got caught in one of the rivers and almost got washed out into the oceans when he and I were there last August, but finally bought the property, finally went through in January.

Because it's 618 meters up the mountain and it's in forested land and they're very particular about everything. So, I had to get a permit and permission and have the town the developers, the city of Parto Princessa, their engineers designed the road because it's this steep sometimes. So, they had to build a road which was a half a mile up to Mountain to get to my property. It took them four months to build it and I had to get permission to take down the trees and..

[Attendee]

So, it's a process.

[Aajonus]

It was a heck of a process. The property is about a half a mile long - two-thirds of a kilometer going back, so it's a big piece of property. The one in Thailand's only 34 acres, and one in Philippines is 108 acres.

[Attendee]

Only 34 acres *laughs*.

[Aajonus]

Yeah, and 108 acres is one in Philippines. I needed a lake built at the end where I was gonna build a property because where it goes at that end, at the north end of the property, there's a river that runs down and some big waterfalls on it, and that runs all year round. Then along the back of the property there's a river that runs along the back and all along the other side. So, on three sides of the property, there are rivers. Now the one on the north end that is so big that that's government ownded, but my land goes right up to it. The one that's behind it on the other side is on my property.

[Attendee]

What made you choose the Philippines?

[Aajonus]

Because it was the most remote area I could get without getting into hostility.

Iif I was gone toward Indonesia or Malaysia, there's a lot of hostility towards white people, so I didn't want to get into that and Filipinos love white people. I mean Americans. I don't know why. Huh?

[Attendee #2]

They kept calling me Joe. "Hey Joe", from G.I. Joe from the Vietnamese guys, or during the Vietnam War about the G.I.s.

[Aajonus]

If you look at the Philippines, you've got the big island rezone here where Manila is and then you've got all these other islands that go off over here: Samar, and then you have some fairly large islands there, which are Baha, Sibu, Negros, and those are popular ones and then you have the big island denal here, here in Somal and all the little islands around that.

They're way over here. There's a Long Island and that's Prowa where I am, only 2% of the roads are paved. The town I live in there are 200 people and they're all spread out over about five miles, 200 people over a five mile area and they live off the land. There's no electricity.

They have electricity one and a half hours a day, and that's it because the city paid for a power thing for them to have electricity one and a half hours a day.

[Attendee]

Do they fish?

[Aajonus]

Yeah, that's what they eat, it's right on the ocean there. On the place where I built my property was where the wind comes through because it's All Mountain there and I'm probably two-thirds of the way up the mountain and all the way up to close to the top of that first peak and it goes back about 12 miles to more mountains and that river runs 12 miles all the way down through my property. I only hiked three miles back to see how it was all the way back there and nothing back there, but monkeys.

[Attendee]

Drinking water must be good?

[Aajonus]

Oh, I drank right out of that stream.

They freaked out because they're told malaria. They'll get malaria from it. I was drinking and I was bathing in it, they were freaked out.

[Attendee]

The people who live there, do they have wells?

[Aajonus]

They'll collect rain, they won't drink it out in the stream.

They're indoctrinated to believe that they're going to get some disease, they're gonna get malaria and it's a falsehood. They believe that mosquitoes get malaria too and so it's a joke, ridiculous.

A little bitty mosquito is gonna bite you. Now think about this. Mosquito is a female, the only reason she drinks blood is to feed her offspring. She doesn't want that blood contaminated. She's not gonna contaminate you when they bite you. The proboscus goes in and it bites as many cells as it can, so creates a pool of blood. She sucks it out. No saliva involved in it or anything. It's a whole ridiculous joke.

[Attendee]

Well, what about malaria? They say that's transmitted by.

[Aajonus]

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm talking. It's a lie. Malaria comes from not eating enough protein and getting very sick in a humid climate, and they only eat like 5%, 10% meats.

The healthier ones that eat a lot because they're fishing around where I bought my property, there's a lot. But if you are one of the poorer people who has a big family.