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funk bossa review apr 16, 2001 templebar this is a group of dorky looking white boys who produce tight rhythm. very disciplined multi-layered grooves of many rhythms at once. the musical patterns were basic and  predictable, but the music's forward movement and positive vibe well made up for that. they were so dorky that the dude was kinda lead tripped over my feet after the show. i picked rick up from the sheraton universal around 9pm and once again i waded in the ambiance and beauty of this stucture. i had a very very relaxed but stimulating day at lacma and i felt good. i give him a roof-off night ride up sunset then down santa monica blvds to the sm pier and ocean. we casually decide to hit the temple bar and we sit down with drinks just as the last act, funk bossa review starts up... we chill there for the very cool set while looking at the peoples then we hit the 10 east to the 110 to universal city. nothing open to eat. so we ride ventura blvd all the way to laurel and still nothing. i u-turn ventura blvd all the way to hollywood and we ride sunset blvd (again) to mel's dinner for late late night burgers. it was cool, alot of post-gig musicans and some cuties too...the valet guy "you again?!"

the geffen contemporary apr 19, 2001  i think i figured it out. there is a free shuttle between moca (on grand) and the geffen. the parking seems much more reasonable at the geffen and admission to both is included with any ticket. parking by moca is down the street at the music center, which is $7 ($15 deposit, rebate of $8 with validation). the geffen should beat that deal.  the geffen is a huge building that was broken down into rooms of varying sizes with  stark white walls. high ceilings, open with big spaces. each room contained an artistic display and there were a lot of them and they seemed so go on forever in all directions. it is easy (and fun) to drift and get lost in this very cool contemporary museum.

l.a. baroque orchestra apr 20, 2001 zipper concert hall  arcangelo corelli (1653-1713) concerto grasso in d for two violins, violoncello, strings & basso continuo, op.6, no.4 georg frideric handel (1685-1759) concerto grosso in b flat, op.3, no.2 georg frideric handel grand concerto grosso in g minor, op.6, no. 6 antonio vivaldi (1678-1741) concerto for sopranino recorder & strings in c major, rv 4444 jan dismas zelenka (1679-1745) hipocondria in a antonio vivaldi (1678-1741) sinfonia for strings in g, rv 149 johann sebastian bach (1685-1750) ouverture no. 1 for two oboes, bassoon, strings & basso continuo in c major, bmv 1066

the toledo show apr 24, 2001  this was a cool show in a cool place on a tuesday night with not many in the audience.  before the show they have "mamba" dancing in a huge room with hardwood floor that  looked like it was designed for dance. it said "mamba" and i liked the music alot. good tempo, good movement, good sound. there were people doing mamba and stuff... the toldeo show is very entertaining and the music has very very good movement. the  band is funky as hell and they break off and jam more than once. toledo (i guess thats his name) sings deeply about the negatives of sex and being female. the lyrics can rip ya- "i can remembering feeling daddy's fingers inside me before i could understand" or sum'n. he really deals with the dark side of female sexuality. he does this over music with a  positive like movement so a few times i wasnt sure if i should be happy or not.  he also has sexy lingeried girls dance very very sensually. down and dirty gutter sensually. drug stung out prostitute crazy sensual and despair. really really deep issues. the durmmer does this thing where they set up chairs and poles and he plays them and things all around the room continiously. bottles, tables, chairs he kept the beat going as he walked around the room and played everything. stand-up electronic bass was good as was the guitar player. the rhythm guitar was really tight

imax: all access. front row. backstage.live apr 26, 2001  this was good. i get in the theater 30 minutes early and there is no one in there.  crystal method is playing at a decent level on this top notch sound system.  one of the first things i saw when i stepped on the city walk was sting doing desert rose live  on a huge screen tv, loud with good open air bass and sound. i walked to the middle of the open square and faced the huge screen dead on. he jammed. after that another song i digs that  i dont know name or who (female, "i dont do if im lonely...i just want you to hold me" chorus)  came on so i was vibing the city walk good...  one thing i love about city walk is the diversity of people (female).  all kinds and everywhere. i was relaxed and the music was good.. so its just me and seats in a dark room with a blue screen lightly lit. the music is mid - up tempo electronicy semi trance stuff that i realjuked boxed and liked way back. i jam for about 20 minutes alone in the theater. i sat rather close, row 4. the screen filled my whole vision, the sound filled everything else. i could physically feel the movement and motion on the screen. the background music was moby's porcelin. deep bassy clean sounding with a little extra mixed in. it was good.  sting did desert rose first and they showed the events that led up to the show his  comments (they did all performances like that). the intensity of the sight and sound tickled me more than once.  george clinton and the p-funk allstars performed 2nd with mary j blige  and they sounded good. i remember when they filmed this and i was gonna go. the band was tight doing a cut flashlight and mary leading one nation. the flavor of p-funk go thru and everybody in the band got close-ups. kid rock's bodygaurd  wore kordell's steeler jersey. i danced in my seat thru the whole show. there were maybe 8 other people there, statues from what i could tell. the dialogue and the music must have been on different channels or audio outputs cause the music sounded good but when they did interviews, you couldnt hear it. so i got a free ticket to return.

yusef lateef and randy weston apr 28, 2001 luckman fine arts complex this was a very very mellow music. it was like jazz with african instruments. it was soft but very rhythmic. the auditorium was still so a gentle tap of a african wood drum could be felt throughout. the silent moments in this music also plays a big part. it was extremely relaxing.  lots of people left early and i can understand why. sitting in them cramped seats all crowded together so still for so long so mellowed out had to hurt. i sat in the last row of the balcony literally spread out over the top of 2 rows and 6 chairs. i waded between conscious, sleep and uncinscious. very mellow, rhytmic, rich, soft sounds. the crowd was strange to describe. there were rich black professionals that most seemed non-american. most of the crowd was still white, but much much much more color than im use to at these kinda events. there were white people dressed in what i think was supposed to be traditional african garb or something. no you know i stereotype and do demographics so im looking at pale sun burned skinned bob & sally sue from iowa dressed in an african way. it tickled me. humans are a trip. even in this mellow atmosphere folx cant get along. i guess somebody was singing or talking in the audience. i thought i heard something early in the show then definitly again before i heard someone shout "shut up godammit." that tickeld me too. randy weston is a funky jazz pianist. he was coooool and funky. lateef had a ensemble of 4 players as a group.

william s. hart ranch and museum may 2, 2001  this place was good because of the mountain surroundings and the deep pride and knowledge of a tour guide. and its free. the actual museum is located up a hill via a gravel nature like path. plants, trees, beautiful views, etc. i saw lots of little  lizards along the nature walk to the museum. they werent in groups, but i saw them continously. there were very few people, jus like i like it and i had the tourguide all to my self. older lady who was very very knowledgeable and you can tell she took great pride in her volunteer work there. everything was "mr hart." we toured his house  and 98% of the stuff was authentic, even the smell. and she knew lots of cool things. they also have a petting zoo. side note: the la history museum boasts of free admission  to the hart ranch with an annual membership, admission to the hart ranch is free anywayz...

prince may 4, 2001 hollywood palladium  from daily may 7, 2001- there were so many people there i thought they oversold and there would be a riot. the line went all  the way around the block and it was mostly fine finestunningly sexy girls. i have never seen so many  in my life. the girl we got in line behind was trippin on us and later actually pointed one out one of  the "over done too much" girls out to us. there were just that many and she was cool. she had  comedy so later that nite i gave her my web biz card...  we had hours to stand in line and my energy was sky high. and i was with crazy ass clyde so there  was no fear. i clowned royal and i felt good. so talley wants to hit a liquor store and i want a  hamburger so we asked the cool girl to hold our place in line. i hit togos across the street.  so now i just had one of my favorite pastrami ruebens and  im clowning when i go on a info  finding mission promising to return with whats up. i get to the event staff guy right when they  opened up so he says if you have a ticket go on up to the gate. i did. standing in line there i  bump into someone and i turn to see it was an another Artisan girl. we did the scream. and  she looked good!!! she let her hair grow a little longer and she had this kinda gwenyth paltrow  blonde look going. and i mean she looked good!! she was stunningly cute to me.    anywayz i get inside and chillin when i see another Artisan girl emily. i went up to her and asked was  she the girl i saw in a commercial and she laughed and gave me a hug. she used to work at reception  and would draw these colorful signs for people. i have on that says "we funk" on the back of the laptop  im using right now in fact. it may have been a year since i saw her so when she said "yeah jeffery  mitchell" and that she remembered me made me jump across the room...  the show was off the hook. 3 hour show (around 10pm to 1am) oldies and newies i was partying  with these girls and a brotha i recognized from a tv sitcom. and we was super silly sweaty funky  funnin-- i danced so hard and so much i got cramps in my stomach. i left there comletely drenced in  sweat. (at one point i had taken my shirt off (had t-shirt on) and wrapped it around my head  like a blindfold while i was dancing so i couldnt see. just music and sounds of people around me)  i meet up with talley after the show and while he's shopping for prince shirts we see a guy buying a  guitar. we find out he was in band "body & soul" that plays at the temple bar.

iebna scholarship banquet may 5, 2001doubletree hotel ontario, ca  pastor hyveth williams, d min. was the keynote speaker and she was good. one of the first things she mentioned was reducing the work week and the restlessness of americans. she hit many good key points (that i also believe and study) and was very charismatic with good presence. she was jamacian and cute too. but she wa strung out on the god thang. jesus was responsible for everything and we are nothing without him. i cringed more than once. she used the word "non-believer" more than once. i cringed. after the ceremony i approached her and told her i enjoyed her talk and that i was a non-believer. that i agreed with most of what she was saying and we both are working along the same lines and with the same charisma. less the "im nothing without god" thing though. i cringe. the band was called "unlimited" and they were funky. me and mommy and her friends danced until i was sweaty and it was good. mommy is crazy, i see more and more of me in her. (from my perspective thats how it looks). the floor was usually mostly open so we got good attention.

debate: 2 proposals concerning evolution & creation may 9, 2001 csuf the idea of attending a public function which pitted believers vs non-believers excited me. one of the first things stated was that this is not what this was. before getting there i spent about an hour at an anaheim carl jr's listening to saome lady go on and on about how good jesus is and how much her church and pastor changed her life as she told a friend. most of it was amusing, but some of her blind ignorance aggitated me. more than once i gasped at her comments of  how jesus (a dead man) continues to control and permit everything that exists in her life. (there must have been a mental disability place close cause there were some strange folx in the place. this one lady kept walking around and passed by my table so much it irritated me for a microsecond, then it became intriguing and then funny.) so i get there and i pick up a pamphlet i see laying by the entrance and eventually get in line. i glance at the pamphlet: "creationism: your kidding, right?" but dont give it too much attention.  i start talking to cool 60 sum'n guy who is fun and spirited with his opinion. coool thing we did was to playfully (but ingeniously) disgusied our stands on the subject for as long as we could. we agreed on a lot of things about people, social interaction and the public's interpretation of facts. we exchanged biz web cards. most of the people there were college kids. i thought to  myself most of them too young to be caught up in a hot topic like this. inside i begining chattng with a college kid sitting next to me and he says he is there for a school  project and on the top of his papaer he writes the title of the pamphlet. i notice this so i read it  again and i discover a similiarity between the pamphlet and the biz card 60 sum'n guy gave me. 60 sum'n guy did the pamphlets!! he is sitting behind me so i put the card and the pamphlet  together and gesture to him and he laughs, "you finally put it together, huh?" i thought it brilliant. he said he had just set about 100 copies down by the entrance before i go there. people were using (anf thinking as i was) these pamphlets like they were the program for the debate!! i  thought his move to be ingenious. "come up here publications" scores a major coo... the debate was moderated by john hoffman of the csuf philosophy dept and was  john mark reynolds (creationist) vs niles eldredge (evolutionist). basically the whole night broke down to  whether "intelligent design" should be taught within the bounds of a science. both debaters  agreed on most points, but the point that created the highest "tension" was when evolutionist  eldredge directly asked reynolds to show how we could even approach this as a science.  science has rules, measurable events that can be disproven or confirmed. after about an hour  and a half of dialogue that setup that question, the whole room waited for that answer from reynolds. but there wasn't one. reynolds (pro intelligent design) admitted this wasnt his area of expertise and that he could not answer the question. he defaulted us to the www.arn.org website to the answer to that question.  reynolds spoke first for 30 minutes then eldredge. reynolds did his job in that he convinced me that science should be approached from all viewpoints. an open phillosophy of science. i aggreed. in eldredge's 30 minutes he didnt argue that point, but he explained evolution and darwinism. i noticed that and reynolds rebuttal was that eveything eldredge said could and  does fit within the possibility of intelligent design that should be explored as science. thats  when eldredge basically asked "how do we do this?" and slowly began to "win" the debate  (my subjective feeling). he (and i) agreed intelligent design should be taught but its not ready as a science yet. he said he wasn't gonna do the work and that the people who believed in  this are the ones "responsible" for gathering the evidence to make this a legitimate part of  science. good point from audience: that intelligent design shoud be taught as a philosophy, not a science. and that led to a rousing applause for teaching philosophy and logic in high school. reynolds got a bit heated when defending his colleagues in accademia who want to incorpororate or approach science with religious belief. he said that if a person speaks up about intelligent  design or "comes out the closet" about his religious beliefs accademia slaps you down. i agreed this is not right no matter how wrong religious beliefs can be. +++++++++++++++++++++ >Niles Eldredge and John Mark Reynolds Debate >Two Proposals Concerning Evolution and Creation  >Should Evolutionary Science Acknowledge the Supernatural?  >Should Religion Acknowledge Evolution?   >Niles Eldredge, Ph.D., Columbia University, is curator in the Department of Invertebrate  > Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. A specialist in mid-Paleozoic  > phacopid trilobites, Dr. Eldredge has authored over 200 research papers, > including  several with Stephen Jay Gould introducing the theory of punctuated > equilibria. He has  written over 20 books including his recent publication, The Triumph of > Evolution and the  Failure of Creationism, published by W.H. Freeman. >  > John Mark Reynolds received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of > Rochester in 1996; he wrote a dissertation analyzing the cosmology and > psychology found in Plato's Timaeus. He is currently an Associate > Professor of Philosophy at Biola University and director of Biola's Torrey > Honors Institute. His book, Maker of Heaven and Earth:  Three Views on the > Creation and Evolution Debate, was co-authored with J.P. Moreland, and was > recently released by Zondervan Press. notes: reynolds mentioned galileo, galileo's philosphy of science more than once.  looking back that he was martyred was a turning point in history bill dembski naturalist role of supernatural don't assume a naturalist theory of everything exists (it may not, there may be no explanation) made good points to use "faith" in persuing science persue answers with the idea of intelligent design in mind www.arn.org eldredge: if god is active science should be aware ability to falsify a notion is science all organisims come from one ancestor the least common denominator of life oldest form of life should be the simplest more complex creatures show up later life is an intrinsic part of earth rise of oxygen levels in sea water may account for the cambrian explosion einstein believed as spinoza (nature god)

living color may 10, 2001 key club  the key club crowd was different from the house of blues crowd that was right down the street. or maybe it was cause the headliner was a "rock" act with funk on the under card. first person i see when i arrive is my fave guitarist blackbyrd mcknight from funkadelic who plays with  weapon of choice.  ntx (no tricks) was a rock-rap act. guitar, bass, drums, lead singer and maybe a horn, i forget. i got into the rock vibe cause it had good hard movement. loud, powerful steps with a hard rhythmic rap over it. they were 4 brothas getting rock funky. weapon of choice came on next and once they got going they ripped. i was so deep into the  music that the spirit energy from inside me and the show had me pushing the physical limits of my body. i was deeeep in the grooove and so sync'ed with the beat it had me higher. i could anticipate what was gonna be played next so one time lonnie (groups leader) switched up  tempos and we bounced at the same time and on the exact same beat. we were doing a full  head and body bob that started at exactly the same time without cue. he was playing his bass and this turned into us jumping on beat. it got to the point my body was being pushed to its physical limits but the energy kept me going. it went so deep into it that i could feel my body jumping higher than it normally could and with more strength than i usually have. i thought to myself im not gonna stop till he does. i started to get cramps and thats when i actually felt  myself going beyond my physical limits. my increased energy and strength was tangible.  i am going higher and higher as time goes by and i can feel it. slapback has a really cute funky brown girl.. she is just plain cute. brown skin, black hair, no make up, pretty pretty brown skin. thats what i noticed first, secondly i noticed that slapback has a cool funky happy spirit to their music. its a very playful hard but not hardcore funk with that funk drive to it. i like them and would love to see them again. i met the dj for them before the show and he was coool. living color impressed me. corey glover was very, very, very good on stage. he is the lead singer and his emotion could be felt. his openess seemed honest. like he really felt the music and was sinking deep into the vibe. he even had church!! like he was preaching and feeling the holy spirit. his voice and presence was rich. i felt like i felt him. at the end of the show he climbed up on speakers and then up over to the balcony level and finished the show singing from the  center balcony with his wireless microphone. it took me awhile to adjust to a rock sound but when i did it was good. in the audience was a white girl from georgia who had rhythm like ive may  never seen in a WG. she was pounding the beat as hard as i was, she was sweaty as i was and i could tell the music took her as high as i was. she was with her boyfriend or date and he felt a bit threatened (as he should have) cause me and her were on it. we weren't dancing  with each other but the music had us danicng together. i vibed off her the whole night. i even asked her where she learned to dance like that. she said the music makes her do it and i knew exactly what she meant. not many folx was dancing in our area and it was only me and her so aggressively pounding the beat with our body movements. i was polite as possible and really  didnt push it, but boyfriend or not she was my dancing date this night. i gave her my webcard as she left...

clark county museum pictures may 12, 2001  i was on my way to hoover dam when i saw a road sign for this museum so i stopped on the  way back and im very glad that i did. i was blown away by what i got for the 1.50 admission. very rich museum and very cool ladis working there, they even gave me some nacho chips from the breakroom cause i hadnt eaten. i was most impressed by authentic houses they had moved to this site and decorated with authentic furniture from different eras. they had it set up like a  small town street where one house was from the 1900's, the 1920's, 1940's, etc. most of them  were air conditioned and i was all alone in the street and in the houses. i could absorb everything and it all was authentic down to the smell. you were allowed to walk in the houses unattended and this was very coool. they also had cars, a print shop, railway cars and authentic machinery. i was very impressed by this museum and the $1.50 admission blew me away. they also had a fossil display. and in it was a cast of a trilobite. the same trilobite's that dr  eldredge in the above debate specializes in and belivees where we all came from. and what  amazed me was that they had actual 600 million year old fossils of these creatures for sale!!! for like $1!!!! i was stunned. to me possesing a creature that lived so long ago and has spanned such a great amount of time to be in my possesion is very spiritual and cosmic. i have in my  possesion the remains of an extinct creature that lived 600 million years ago!!! imagine the life of that organism may have ended but as low on the evolutionary rung as it was it is making an impact on a higher life form 600 million years later!!!!!

hugo's cellar may 12, 2001  looking back, this dining experience deserves to be included here. my mother is such a big-time slot player that she got $150 comped at this very, very nice place. so it was me & mommy,  one-on-one in a very expensive & swanky resturant. we did well, only a couple of minor mini- arguments. anywayz the food here is tremendous. this is one of those places where they over pamper you. i couldn't even pour my own water, they had a guy who came around every 2 minutes to do it for me. i thought that was a litte too much. i had steak and crab legs with a lobster tail as a side order. very, very , very nice place...maybe even too nice for my tastes (service not food)

trulio disgracias may 14, 2001 templebar  norwood introduced lonnie & gabbi and they  started the trulio set with a nutmeg experiment. they created live samples of lonnie on bass and gabbi on harpsicord?? and then played & rapped together over them. lonnie also played drums and lead guitar. it was a mellower more rhythmic kinda flow. the music had good positive movement though it was a bit sloppy at times...(i like how music can be  sloppy and then become tight as the music flows) during their set angelo from fishbone sat at the drumkit and eased his way into their set... angelo's smile is very infectious, even in a small club on a monday night with 20 folx in the audience he was silly and fun as hell...seeing him smile made me smile... ive seen norwood lots of times (at living color last  thursday) but cant remember ever seeing him play. he played bass and was funky as hell and he had raps with good flow over a very funky hard beat... they couldnt find vicky and when they did her and angelo started talking about how they would throw her and billy bass off the bus cause her and bass would want to sing all night long... trulio disgracias is a mini guitar army, and it may not be mini. for such a small crowd they played with a lot of intensity and power. and i was pumpin that energy right back at them. norwood broke it down one time and called for some "eddie hazel" type shyt and they went off. i love the rhythm guitar up loud and it seemed as if there were 4 of them. very tight, stroking double, triple, quadruple the beat. i think 3 different people did guitar solos over all this funky stuff... set ended about 2 am, they played maybe 2 hours... as i sat there i thought to myself how "lucky" i was. in a club listening to world class musicians for free- (there was a $3 dollar cover but not for me i guess). playing the type of music i love in a small room and im sitting right there...where i could see and feel the effects of my energy and enthusiasm in the musicians- eye to eye, smile to smile with lonnie, norwood, angelo, viki and the rest of the band as we experience the music... templebarlive.com (santa monica,ca) im sure they taped and webcasted it live- they may put it in the video archives... so could someone please tell me why i want to go to heaven again? i forgot. i like it here and i dont see how heaven could be any better than this... posted to pfboard room 05-15-01

soulive may 18, 2001 templebar  soulive turned me completely out. their music took me higher than any other music has taken me before. this includes p-funk, but p-funk got me to this point that im oscillating at which is a higher rate now vs  the last  time i saw funkadelic. the main thrust of soulive is the organ and its player neal evans. maaaan, this group takes it to the next level like back in church. i grew up with the organ as the principle piece in a pentecostal type service. so when the "holy ghost" was in the church and the rooms energy was up, it was the movement of the organ music that moved us. funkadelic has one of the best keyboardist ever in bernie worrell but he does not tour with them so i dont get my p-funk with strong keyboards. man if did, wow. soulive had me vibrating to the music so high that i passed my physical limit more than once and  literally had to stop. neal on organ had this head-bob-bounce when he plays and i was so into the vibe that we would bounce simultaneously without cue. a hard bounce dead on beat. he would take it higher  and higher to the point i was screaming for him to stop. i "went away" more than once this night. i was  so in sync to the vibe and beat i could float on it. hard, pounding, strong, physical moving music. it generated so much physical power in me that at times i was just doing things just to challenge my body. i used the energy to dance on one leg and to balance myself on beat, (ok, some of it i was showing off)  i was on and hittin it and i knew it and could feel it. i saw wozani before and these chicks is coool. the middle one was cute to me this time with her sexy black girl butt and shape and sexy brown skin (no make-up). i was right there as they grooved and i vibed her as she sang and it was coooool. the other group was funky also and so was dj haul. in fact, once again it hit me how "black" the templebar is. everything about this place is ethnicly black except the people. dj haul looks like a little punk white kid but he played some serious serious music. more than once i had to go ask him who that was playing. he played all originals, no remixes or  sampled beats. he was so good i looked him in the eye and shook his hand. i even asked a bartender who owned the place and there demographics, a 40sumn white couple. and when i say everybody is white i mean 95% of the crowd and performers. but these folx is kickin out some serious serious soul funky jammin music with good positive movement. white folx gone funky... soulive was so good and turned me out so well i had to go and see them the next day.

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