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| denyce graves
jan 26, 2001 orange county performing
arts center
ms graves is a world famous mezzo soprano and this was opera in its purest form. it was very very very formal. it was very dry. she and her pianist seemed to snooty, too uptight, too holier than thou. but i guess thats what she is spose to be: a true diva. i may have been slightly moved by her falsetto sounding voice once, but never tingled. the deepest most body tingly parts were the piano. as certain songs closed with her voice very smoothly trickling down, the whole auditorium would be silent as the last vibrations of the last note of the piano faded away. this was the coolest part. the stillness & silence of the 2000+ crowd focused on the faint fading note was good. and it was the only thing even close to being moving. this performance was so dry and formal that when she did her encores
and really
but if ya talk about hitting a demographic that would appear my type,
you talking
anywayz, i was on the 2nd tier!!! it been years since ive been this
far from the stage,
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| fourplay
gentlemens club feb 2, 2001
while i was waiting outside the club for my boys, i happened to glance up right into the face of my favorite girl. she's from montreal and has a nicely proportioned build. cute slight accent...i let her see i was surprised and happy to see her, no doubt she knew i recognized her. talking to her in the club she said she likes dead can dance. the music the girls dance to is good. i always digs the music. and the food in this place is also really really good. the diet coke (bottled water and soft drinks are $5 cause the club is fully nude so they cant serve any alcohol) is really good. but the service is non-existent.it takes a hour to get a hamburger. seems like everybody running the place is russian and they are cool. the girls are cool too. i chatted briefly with a girl from paris too. i so love female. i wish i could sketch in the place... |
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| barrick museum
photos
feb 3, 2001
walking on empty campuses is nice & quiet, peaceful, serene. goregous crisp morning unlv campus, very few people, huge open areas, trees, nice breeze...this is a very good show. it was modern art. mostly manipulated photography making the usual political and social statements. the most signifigant thing that happened is this maybe my first time
ever identifying
i was totally all alone, completely empty gallery. able to stretch and
vibe and deep
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| las
vegas museum
photos
feb 3, 2001
this is a museum of post modernism art or something. the exhibits was modern photography by stillman. very colorful. using modern photographic techniques to bring out deep rich modern priniting coloring. uses different techniques to manipulate light and create abstract art. the museum is a nice drive from the strip, so you get away from that feeling. 3 huge gymnasium sized rooms in gallery. high ceilings, practically empty. cool to vibe the total rooms art work undisturbed. to be surrounded
by these bright
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| cirque du
soliel - mystere feb 3, 2001 las vegas, nv
cirque is the best. so deeply spiritual that i dont want to begin to describe it. seat was front row balcony. i could see the whole stage and theatre. this maybe a better seat than being up close cause things are happening all around you and the closer your back is to the wall the more in your periphal vision. anywayz, my favorite was the red rooster chicken girl. so much sensuality and sexuality in her movement. so much graceful energy and power. strong physical attitude. |
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| monte
carlo
photos
feb 3, 2001 las vegas, nv
had a good art day, a good meal, a good nap and had just left cirque so i was feeling good. did a couple of laps up and down the strip taking pics and looking at folx when i saw the statues at monte carlo. so i self-park, grabbed my clipboard and pencil, camera and make way to get closer. i love vegas. i love walking right down the middle of the hottest aisles
at a pace just
i walk through monte carlo, grab a diet coke and get outside to the
stautes.
after chilling out there for about an hour or so im strolling back thru
the casino to my
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| laguna
art museum feb 6, 2001
this museum is located about a half block from a very very scenic view of the ocean. pacific coast highway laguna beach is beautiful and there are a lot of galleries and art in this area. there is a blur for the novice like me between what places are for viewing and what places are for selling. both of which can fall under the heading "gallery." the "one minute of your time" exhibit was cool cause they had samples
of many
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| irvine
museum feb 6, 2001
i have to admit i like impressionism. i like the slight blur of reality to convey deeper emotion and focus. i like the fact that most of it is reality based and non-fiction. there is a true sense of reality in the style with a fantasy blur. this museum specializes in impressionism, especially california. also plein air paintings. the paintings were good. oil and canvas and some good watercolors by
marion
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| sasha
waltz feb 6, 2001
the way the moves and gestures in ballet are meant to be smooth and soothing, the movement in this performance is meant to be edgey, stinging and shocking. they were movements meant to trigger strange emotions. like a shark can tell by movement in the water when another fish is
hurt, the
the performers had the physical ability of dancers so they could do
the jerky
dealt with spousal abuse, rape, sex.perversion the setting was th huge housing projects in berlin and how all the aprtments
were
the girls were deliberately dressed to expose their panties. i believe
it was meant to
my favorite girl started in panties and a tight tank top, like she was
dressed for bed.
show was an hour no intermission, very very very stimulating, intense.
very very very very creative and innovative
use of broken music. hard non rhythms with hard jerky body movements disturbing but very stimulating |
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| rick moody feb
7, 2001 skirball cultural center
mr moody has written many novels, one of which "the ice storm" became a movie that i did like with cristina ricci. he read two selections and the coolest thing about him was that he was cool. he had a really relaxed attitude. the subject matter of the stories he read was stimulating in that he hit sharp issues; masturbation, drugs, death in a kinda rollercoaster ride of emotion from humorous to sad. of what i saw of the mostly closed skirball center it is a beautiful place. mostly in attendance was the stereo typical middled aged white female. (and looking very ordinarily good as they usually do). |
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| romeo
and juliet feb 8, 2001 ahmanson
this was pure elizabethean shakespeare (im not actually sure what that means). it seemed to be done using the original wording, dialect and language it was written in. a good chunk of the time i didnt understand what was being said. i could get a sense of the mood and nature of what the characters were doing in any particular scene. i also got a sense of the play and production as a whole. what the people who came to see this play in the 1500's liked and what they expected to see. ticketclub: half price mezzaine (was 49.50 for seat only at boxoffice,
i paid 30.50
my angle of view of the stage was like i was watching as a supernatural
being. as if i
walking out of the parking garage i look up and see 3 beautiful orange
lit foutains,
this was a production by well trained & experienced actors who seemed
to take their
lots of talk of dicks as swords and fallic symbols
juliet red hair, very fair, soft prettty white bare feet you got a sense of what was funny in those days
juliet's father was physical with her,
my favorites in this show was the black male. it was good to see strong,
healthy,
so the greatest love story ever told is about a brother and a white girl? the evening basically was anti-climatic for me. it was a very special
and romantic
i created art that was inspired by that love and all things that day
were for her.
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| liz lerman
hallelujah feb 10, 2001 skirball cultural
center
very stimulating smooth ballet type movements opening performance for that theatre very very diverse
older white male did not look like "dancing" type
to see older white male and black male dance a close synchronized
to see stereotypical older white female (liz l) lie down on
to see older (50sumn) japanese female singing and dancing
broke many stereotypical "lines"
intense, maybe too long everyone was barefoot
this show was "way out there" even for me
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| star struck feb
11, 2001 huntington library
this was a really sharp modern exhibition. the displays were crisp, clean and shiny but overall it was still very cozy. they had quotes on the walls from famous people like einstein, newton, etc that were very astonomically spiritual. like science is taking on a mystical angle with a religous like following of people who know and understand how how the universe works and those who dont. the exhibition is in two big sectioned off rooms and is relatively small
but has a lot of
i also realized that i do much better when going to museums and stuff
alone. i can open
coming here on a saturday with other visitors also felt weird. i am
use to being alone
gift shop had really good books & novelties and semi-serious science
stuff on einstein,
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| norton
simon feb 12, 2001 pasadena
this exhibit is participating in a 8 month long city wide exhibition with the theme universe. this installation "examines how artists from diverse cultural traditions have defined spiritual connections with the cosmos." the display seemed to consist mostly of stuff from the permanent collection and had a lot of southeatern asain art, lot of hindu stuff. in fact, the best part was not in the universe installation. the universe installation here may have been a reach. maybe they stretched
it a bit by
this museum has a decent rodin garden and it was raining so i got some
cool pics of the
upstairs guarding the 19 century stuff was a young slightly middle eastern
girl. low
i think she knew i was sketching her and the game was half the fun for
me. she paced
the coat check girls were very cute too. one was a fast american blonde
with a hell of a
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| ca. african
amercian museum feb 13, 2001
new, modern, goregous building. huge ceilings and big spaces. very modern lines. you could tell it was relatively new and the permanent collection hasnt been installed yet. once again, just drifiting in an empty beautiful galleryis good. the big installation here was the collection by the hewitt family. way
back in the 20s they
its always good to see different styles and the black artist seems to
have a general tone.
and why was the first person i ran into a romainianish female with thick
accent?
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| california
science center feb 13, 2001
this place is for kids. not a lot of heavy science, but lots of interactive stuff that is deeply science related. very, very good for kids to learn by seeing and doing. new, beautiful building with huge spaces and very modern design and angles in archetecture. they did have a small cool art display that was kinda artsy deep about colors (real colors that we see and how we see). the "life" section was good and had stuff that i learned from- stuff about brain, skeletal system, protists, bacteria, cells, etc... |
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| fowler museum
of cultural history feb 14, 2001
ucla campus is beautiful. nice building, was able to be alone in the gallery with the work. the female sculpture of alison saar is so good i think she is a lesbian, she has deep passion for female. the lines and curves of the female sculptures, the expression, the essence of what her worked shows she is deep into female. very creative stuff- and ofcourse i noticed "white female" in her work. she is a light skinned black female and the work i like best of hers was a hanging upside down woooden sculpture of a neude female with long blonda hair. the piece is about 10 feet long and the hair falls from the hanging female about 4 feet. the body of the female was obviously caucasin too. in another one of her works i noticed a different body type that looked as if it was her, and it was. she was able to capture what may be the different body types due to race in her sculpture and thats cool. (and for me to notice) the moche exhibit had lots of these decorated waterbottle type things
from the moche
the giftshop/bookstore was good. im noticing that all the giftshops
and bookstores are
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| whale
watching feb 15, 2001 newport landing
didnt see any whales, but it was still well worth the $12 (had a $2 off coupon). it was good being out on the ocean. in the openess, feeling the ocean air and wind. feeling the rhythm of the boat and the waves was cool too for the first 1.5 hours, then i started to get a bit queazy. that queaziness stayed with me till i went to bed. left dock at 1, back at 3pm. saw birds, seal, dolphins and the beautiful the balboa pennisula. the
birds are cool, they
the kids were just kids, they were good with a lot of energy. saw a
little boy-girl stuff
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| maceo parker feb
17, 2001 house of blues hollywood
i love the house of blues, it is my favorite place to see a concert. i love white girls, the personality, the spirit, the openess, the willingness to experience. maceo, skeet, greg and the rest of the band seemed to do a little more this night. seem to play longer, slightly "sloppier" which made it more funky. maceo's band is so tight that "sloppy" is probably too much. they sounded good and played for like 3 hours. a funky percussiony group "natural aphrodesiac" opened and their music had good rhythms and movement. i love the house of blues. i got there early and for awhile was the only black person in the joint.
then 2 more
the thing that impressed me about this night was the amount of white
girls that introduced
also the night out dancing has helped my physical energy. i have been
soooo lazy lately
key point of above is to convey the positive spirit, vibe, health, intellect,
beauty,
cm talley was there and we hung out, no other regular funkers sighted.
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