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Subjective Experience: April 14, 2001

date event location
04-14-01 jerry’s flying fox restaurant baldwin hills
los angeles, ca
04-13-01 talk balk
 

wozani
asl

the temple bar
santa monica,
ca
04-08-01 rhythm room allstars 
weapon of choice
the temple bar
santa monica,
ca
04-07-01 optic nerve 
arik marshall
the viper room
 
west hollywood, ca
03-25-01 lion king pantages theatre
hollywood, ca
03-15-01 the funky meters house of blues
hollywood, ca
03-13-01 angels
gate cultural center
san pedro, ca
03-10-01 smuin ballet/sf luckman
fine arts complex
 
cal state la –
los angeles, ca
03-09-01 asl
 

weapon of choice

 

the toledo show
the temple bar
santa monica,
ca
03-08-01 museum of tolerance los angeles, ca
03-07-01 *shaping the great city:
  modern architcture in central europe
 

*august sander: german portraits 1918-1933

 

*drawing the landscape: 1500-1800

 

*ritual splendor: illuminated liturgical manuscripts

 

*making of a renaissance painting
the getty museum
 
los angeles, ca
03-06-01 *making time: considering time as a
  material in contemporary video & film
*im thinking of a place 
  (lorna simpson & others)
 

*putting pen to paper: honore daumier

  and the literary world
 

*francesca gabbiani

 

*arturo herrera
ucla hammer museum
 
los angeles, ca
03-01-01 mummenschanz “next” barclay theatre – irvine, ca
03-01-01 trilogy of glasswork the bowers museum of cultural art
 
santa ana, ca
02-28-01 jury duty superior court la county
van nuys, ca
02-24-01 p-funk allstars house or blues disneyland, ca
02-23-01 p-funk allstars house of blues
 
las vegas, nv
02-22-01 p-funk allstars house of blues
w.hollywood, ca
02-21-01 p-funk allstars 4th & b –
san diego, ca
02-21-01 museum of man 
museum of photographic arts
balboa park 
san diego, ca
02-20-01 museum of tolerance los angeles, ca

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museum
of tolerance

feb 20, 2001 

 this may be the best museum ive ever been in. structurally modern and
beautiful. definitely the 
most technologically advanced museum ive ever seen. lost of fast-paced
multimedia. the whole
place is setup very efficeiently, comfortably and cozy. multiple floors
and cleverly organized
exhibits. 
this museum focuses on “the history racism and prejudice in the american
experience.”
the subject matter was handled very well, even though you noticed the
key points they 
wanted stressed (civilian germans knew of the halocaust was one, “don’t
believe for a minute 
they didn’t”). this is a jewish based organization and the world war
II experience is very deep.
lots of artifacts, quotes, first hand commentary, writing, etc. they
even had a bunk bed from a
concentration camp. fairly graphic portrayal of the events in those
camps too.
there was a 30 min talk by an actual holocaust survivor from poland.
small room, her and 4
of us. very intimate. she was 9 in 1939, 13 at aushwitz. she described
how her family was big, 
6 brothers all married with children but only her and one brother survived.
she described how
they hid for years until they had to escape thru a forest at night
to slovakia. she showed us her
tattoo. she talked about how she was seperated from her parents and
siblings and knew they 
were going to die. how mengela inspected her on her arrival at auswhitz
and allowed her to 
live becuase she looked healthy. she described the train “cattle cars”
used to move the inmates 
to the camps. right now im too tired to relay the emotion, imformation
and how interesting and
stimulating her talk was. i told her she was good and asked was there
any black people. she 
said none, if there was they would have been killed first cause hitler
was going for the pure 
white race. nobody with any color.she also kinda made it clear that
$$$ talked as far as 
survival, in buying help from jews or germans.
“you come in thru the gate, you go out thru the chimney”
people so starved that they died when they ate solid food. 
so weak that when rescued and exposed to sunlight it killed some

one multimedia display used so many good pictures it amazed me. it seemed
like it used 
every image that i find revelant of life. images that as i grew up
had an impact on me. there 
was astronomy, people, commercials, photographs, etc. i was like stunned
cause picture 
after picture was one that had an impact on my life. it was gooood.

this place was intense and this description does not do it justice.


p-funk
tour

feb 2001
 
im writing this almost a month later. i had such a good time that i
was too
stimulated to record and write down stuff while it was happening, so
here is
what i can remember…it started riding to san diego on 2-21. got to
the city
early so i could hit a few museums; museum of man- which was really
good 
and the museum of photographic arts. both are in balboa park which
is like
a spanish styled museum compound. i danced on the ride down, in the 
museums and even while i had a sushi lunch between museums. 
i left there feelinggood and go to the place where the show is gonna
be,
i walk right in as if i belong and peep the place. i run into a dude
who
had on a long sleeve black shirt that had “p-funk” and the numeral
one
ont he back. he said trey lewd gave it to him. im there too early so
i go
find get a motel 6 room and dance and chill gabbin with the cute young 
hispanic girls at the desk. get back to the show and my vibe is on
fool!!
im dancing constantly now. walking across street, in front of the place,
at atm teller. most of the folx just look and i just keep dancing to
funky
music being played by the local radio staion truck. run into gruverboy 
who is too young to get in and i cop him a p-funk bandana. ran into
talley nephew and we grooved for about a hour before the show.
i danced into the place to a spot in the wide open middle and kept
dancing dead on beat. jesters hat and pfunk1 jersey for all to see-
show was good. clip sang the opening funkadelic songs on the floor
leaning on the stage and the band was tight. except for mike hampton
who was either messed up or pissed off. my vibe was on and it seemed
every funkadelic who came oput to sing, sang to me. directly to me.
at one
point i saw a guy turn around and look at me to see who everyone was 
singing to. met carlos mccurray and he said the music that played pre-show
was his and it was funky.
ran into lamar and kareem also before show and we decided to hook-up
and ride to vegas after the LA show tomorrow…

LA show was a mess. most of the funkdelics seemed too messed up to perform.
george took the stage first, no warm up and no entrance during cosmic
slop.
balckbyrd came in late with guitar in case with george on stage trying
to get
things started. nobody sang that nite. mike h was so messed up or pissed
he 
didnt play cosmic slop, blackbyrd played it off to the side. lydia
started to play
maggot brain and it was bad. gary did no singing. there were at least
2 points
in the show where it literally almost fell apart. where there was no
one on
stge to lead or determine direction. no vocal leadership. it was bad
and i had
never seen them like this before. it was so bad i thought about skipping
vegas.

but i didnt. kareem and lamar hit my crib and we was off to sin city.
groovin
listening to weapon of choice we gets there and go right to the show.
im there
10 minutes when a guy sees my house of blues wrist-pass and says i
can go
upstairs vip. im up there 5 minutes when i meet these sistas and they
go
screaming “jeffery jeffery.” i felt good and i knew i felt good. i
was on.
the vegas show was much better than the LA show yesterday, mike h looked
like a kid who had gotten in trouble and he played well. 

during the show lamar and them met a guy called brian and he came back 
to the hotel with us and we ordered 3am hotel delivered pizza. he was
cool
and so many things he said were reveleant to me that it was scary.
right down
to the fact he mentioned the earth magnetic poles reversing at one
time- i
had just been researching that. anyways i tagged him “the drifter”
and he
came back to our room the next day and follwed us to anaheim for that
show.

by this time i was on. i vibe energy was as high as its ever been. people 
from all over were coming up to me and saying hi. seemed like everybody
was there, all my buddies and i got the room’s vibe up high. music
was good
and everybody was dancing. we was partying and i started the chant:
lets get, this mothafocka started” (it was tight too!!!) all kinds
of girls and
positive vibe. everybody knew me. everybody could feel my positive
vibe.

overton giving me first poster
megan showed up looking really really good. hugged and kissed her.
george started doing the dance (swim type groove) i was doing by bar
flying from balcony during end of knee deep
giving blackbyrd pictures i printed
ate at mad greek on way home
kareem pulled out sade promise cd and then we saw funkadelic bus
snuck into sound check in anaheim

so many good things happened.
we had a really really good time.
 


jury duty

feb 28, 2001 van nuys, ca

 i got to admit, this is kinda cool. right now im home during our 1.5
hour lunch. this morning i
reported for orientation to a big room full of maybe 200 waiting people.
there were a couple
of cuties and i also saw my share of the strange. saw a former co-worker
waiting also, but 
wasnt sure until they called her name. the place is comfortable and
they had free internet (only
5 computers), magizines, playing cards, puzzles, refridgerator, etc. 
they have a new system now where if you are not selected on your first
(and only) day 
reporting, you’re done. they call groups of 35 up to the court room
and 12 are selected and 
asked questions. we all sit and listen and its cool. the girl who types
what everybody says was
cute too. anywayz, its cool to sit and listen to everybody answer semi-personal
questions 
about themselves. maybe 8 of the 12 were divorced. 
so now i have to go back to the courtroom at 1:30
to see if the 12 picked are cool. the 12th 

guy had a problem with english so he may be dropped
and they will replace him with one of 

us waiting. if im not selected, i return to the
orientation room and wait to be sent up as a 

prospective juror on another case. the orientation
guy said we should be out of there by 4:30.

everybody is cool, relaxed and not too serious.
almost playful. 

i got selected. im juror # 11

went in for the trial yesterday and the judge
informed us they settled the case late last night.

so no trial for me, and i was kinda disappointed.
everybody was relaxed and cool especially

the judge. and he thought i was cool too. he
told me he envied my lifestyle and that he thought

i was very cool. he said he thought it would
have been cool to do a trial with me. he said this 

to me infront of the rest of the jury and the
baliff. (too bad the cute court recorder wasnt there

to make this a part of public record). what did
i do to deserve this? i was just being me…

i admit i do love being in front of an audience.
when i was called to the jurybox to see if i 

would make the jury cut, i took my time getting
there enjoying the time everybody waited and

watched me. even when i went to sit down in my
chair i dragged it out and looked back at

everybody absorbing the attention. i loved ansering
the basic questions about myself for the 

jury, judge, lawyers, court recorder, etc. name,
marital status, occupation. everybody 

answered the same questions, mine was the most
animated and got the most “laughs.” 

i told him i was unemployed and he asked “if you
were looking, what…” i said “if i was looking

i am a net admin.” then the judge joked about
me fixing the courtrooms computers. laughs.

the lawyer for the plantiff was real cool too
and when he questioned me he was animated and

playful. more fun. then he asked me about my
“if i was looking” comment. i said “i know we 

are american and suppose to work 8 hours a day
but there is something more out there.”

you get $15 a day starting your second day (my 2nd was my last) and
15 cents a mile one
way travel expense. i got a certificate of jury service that is almost
suitable for framing.
i was impressed with the clarity and quality of the micophiones and
pa system.


the bowers
museum

mar 1, 2001

the permanent collection is of aztec, maya, early california, native
american, early orange
county and it was interseting. i took a 45 minute tour of the “glassworks”
exhibit and found out
its a great mystery why the aztecs and mayas didnt get into metallurgy.
it was speculated that
they used a natual occuring glass (obsidian) to make tools and weapons
and it worked so
well that developing metal technology would almost be counterproductive. 
also in the glassworks was a display by loretta yang. she was a very
popular actress in japan
but was forced out because of an affair she had. she then stated doing
art using glass. what
impressed me about her was the eastern buddhist philosophical quotes
of hers that were 
displayed with her work. they were VERY VERY good and ofcourse consistent
with my
thinking.

mummenschan
 mar 1, 2001 barclay theatre
this was very very innovative. they are a self described “masked mime
troupe.” it was like a 
lifesize puppet show. they made very basic items take on human personality
and feelings.
there was no talking and no music. it was so ingenious that i laughed
at how simple the comedy
was. it was the most basic comedy. it gave basic things like cardboard
boxes and rope
human traits such as jealousy, fear, embarrassment, curiosity. things
that did not look human
at all displaying human peculiarities. it was good. it was 2 men and
2 ladies dressed in black
against a black background and low lighting. they used bright colored
objects that seemed to
float at times. good illusions, good flow and it tickled me and made
me laugh.

hammer

 mar 6, 2001 ucla

this is a crisp, modern museum in westwood. from the outside it seems
office-ish, but inside its
all museum. it is layed out nicely around a 3 level courtyard, very
pleasing. a couple of cool 
things happened here this day. one was lorna simpson. i watched a documentary
about her 
photographic art on tv the other night and i thought her cute. she
is a black female artist who is 
highly respected in her circle. i was presantly surprised to see not
only an exhibit of her work,
im thinking of a place, but that she will be speaking there
soon. i put this in my calendar.
the second and maybe the biggest thing was that i have discovered a
favorite painter. drifting 
into the museums permanent collection the first painting i saw was
the best painting i saw. it 
was l’abri by william
adolphe bougereau. the big soft eyes of the two young girls posed under
a blanket. the soft tones of their complexions. i stood and studied
this work for minutes. then
in the gift shop i asked for replicas of the work and they didnt have
any. but the guy turned me
on to a book about bougereau and i recognized the first image saw,
and then the second. then
i realized i saw the man’s work at theSF
legion of honor
and have a pix of his work on my
site.

but the biggie was when i paged to girl defending herself from eros.
the instant i saw that he
did that work he bacame my favorite painter. that painting is one of
my all time favorites and i 
pay homage to it every time i hit the getty. i even made a point to
show my children that 
painting.
looking back, i went full cirlce back to girl defending…it
may have happened that i saw this
work and liked it, searched the internet for more of his work and liked
it so when i paged thru
the book in the gift shop i was already familiar with his work. but
consciously i didnt make the
connection betewwn l’abri, the legion of honor painting and girl
defending
…so when i 
realized the consistency in my taste for this man’s work, it was a
heavy revelation.
francesca gabbiani’s work is very creative and interesting. she does
highly detailed creations
of insects using construction paper and glue. she uses different colors
of paper cut and pasted
to make really creative detailed work. very intricate and finely detailed.
very symetrical too.
i liked the style of her work.

the big exhibit, making time, is good also. it is a dark modern
display of different video
presentations relating to time. they had many creative video displays
(one was of a nude female
in a cube with a young child that could be viewed from all angles).
the coolest ones were a 
bunch of very comfortable individual booths to sit and watch interesting
video. the museum was
realtively empty so i was able to sit, drift and deep think undisturbed
while watching video that
stimulated me in different ways. the alone time with the work is always
my favorite and i feel
it is very hard, if not impossible to enjoy art in a crowd.


getty

 mar 7, 2001 

the getty is so cool, so conveinent and has such a wonderful view.
able to see the ocean today. 
feeling good i was kinda dancin as i stepped off the elevator when
a couple of the older
people who worked there started dancing with me. they immediately picked
up my vibe. 
this was cool. leaving the place a few of  us noticed about 6
deer chilling and feeding on the 
side of the moutain…very cool.
the thing that impressed me this day was the shaping the great city
exhibit. the arcitectural 
drawing were absolutely beautiful to me. the discipline of the lines.
the cleaness of the angles
and the deatail. this stuff may inspire my future drawing mood. it
was stunning. the exhibit is
spread out very nicely between a couple of rooms and there is video
and modern media to
enhance the displays. the buildings were of 1890-1937 central europe-
budapest, romania,
austria, etc. i was so completely impressed with this style that i
will research it and definitely
try my hand at drawing it. ofcourse i will mix in my passion for female
and i already have some
ideas…i loved the dtail and the cleaness of the lines and drawings…
another REALLy cool thing was that i met a girl who did one of the angels
that will be put up
around los angeles. there were these two ladies with really cool black
shirts with a modern
stylish outline of an angel on them about the same light blue as the
“getty” tag above. i liked
them so much i stopped them and asked about the shirts and and was
it part of the city wide
angel thing. she said yes and tht she actually did one of the angels!!!
i was like coooooool!!!
she then pulled out a photo album (a rather extensive one that made
me feel good to see 
someone so proud of their work). i gave her my web biz card but sisnt
get her name-
and i should have…

museum
of tolerance

 mar 8, 2001
this was one of the few times i ever did a museum with someone. and
it was probably only 
do-able cause i had been there before. me and janice went and we did
very well considering 
how different we are. we listened to a holocaust survivor speak and
it was cool to discuss
jewish topics with someone who was raised jewish…afterwards we went
to mel’s diner on
sunset where a guy wearing a stir of echoes (one of the movies
our company did) t-shirt 
came in. later janice rolled her eyes at me for no good logical reason
just like a girl would and i 
playfully let her and the rest of the diner know that people dont do
that to jeffery. i guess 
she noticed my expression startled a couple of guys close to us and
janice blushed something
fierce. i had never seen her blush before and her face was red for
a good while.
the blushing itself was well worth the eye rolling…

asl, weapon
of choice, the toledo show

 mar 9, 2001 templebar
this was a good night. had never been to the temple bar before so all
the abstarcted-
impressionist paintings of blackmen all over this white club in the
heart of santa monica
intrigued me. the place has a cozy, spiritual darkness to it and lounge
furniture like couches to
kick back in. the smell of incense also triggers a spiritual mood…
the first band asl was lead by peter gabriel’s ex-bassist, armond…i
think. at first i couldnt get
the bands music. it was like it was anti-music, i couldn’t feel a rhythm
anywhere. then about the
3 or 4th song the complicated movement of the music hit me and it was
good. 
from daily 03-10-01
“the first band is so good and funky that when i met the lead singer 
after their set i instinctively gave him a two-handed handshake. i
felt his 
music and enjoyed his vibe so deep that my appreciation for his music 
was sent to him without me even thinking thru my handshake. i gently 
but firmly grabbed his hand and without thinking covered his and my
right 
hand with my left. it was an instinctive eye to eye, smile and two
handed 
shake that just came out of me without thinking. afterwads i enjoyed 
how real my spontaneous expression was”
weapon of choice is very very p-funky and p-funk based. in fact, my
favorite guitarist dewayne
“blackbyrd” mcknight played with them!!! i was very very surprised
to see him and when i 
heard he was in the house i immediately and instinctively ran to salute
him. and i mean ran and
salute. i did a semi bow and as i walked back across the empty dancefloor
in did a tai-chi type
squat with arms fully extended towards him for everybody to see. weapon
was good and they
were the reason i went to the club but the other two bands were something
that was unexpected
so they peaked my interested. but like i said, lonnie and them was
goooooooooooooooood.

there were white girls everywhere, i was in heaven. and an unusally
high percentage of tall ones.
i talked to the guy doing the live webcast and gave hiom my card.

the finest female in the place was a turkish looking older girl who
i know i was flat out staring 
at. she looked to be from the fringe area north of the middle-east
and south of the russian
republics. she had body and was dressed very sexy in black, but it
wasnt a cheap sexy. the
thing bout this girl that moved me was that i could see her age in
her hands and in her face.
and this made her beautiful to me. though 5’11” ingrid dominated my
view of the room earlier,
i could see her youth and inexperience and he rlimitations. but because
of the age of this older 
girl gave her everything. i could see in her age a developed experience
of life and this was very
very very very attractive to me. 

she was with a girl and a middle-eastern guy who i know was tripping
(in a good way) off how 
much attention i was giving her. i could see he was amused by how smitten
i was. i partied and 
partied and partied and even partied right next to her. she was definitely
aware of my presence.
i dont know if i’m avoiding involvement and a relationship or just
scared to bust the move 
towards a female, but if there was one i wished i had stepped to it
was her…

the toledo show was very very good. his theme is of a 20’s style gangsta
complete with the 
stacey adams shows and cigarettes. very very cool vibe. very very good
music. (bought his cd).
funky, nasty, energized, girl focused music and lyrics that have very
good movement. very funky.
i would definitely go see them again and again. he had sexy girl dancers
come on stage to give 
a kinda dark sexy girl “i feel your pain” and still love you type thing.
his music was girl focused
and i dug that. 

i personally greeted all the bands leaders with handshake, eye-to-eye
smile and appreciation. 

the p-funk vegas concert road crew was there- lamar and kareem as was
king c from p-funk
new years eve. and ofcourse the ever so crazy my man cm talley helped
turn it up pre-show…


smuin/sf
mar 10, 2001 luckman fine arts complex 
this ballet was light enough and serious enough to be very cool. it
started with “a young 
person’s guide to the orchestra” where a 12yr old boy in a tux came
narrated and explained
the instruments in the orchestra as the dancers danced the sounds they
made. and naturally i
had a favorite dancer before the first intermission. the second act
was “carmina burana” a 
moving dance where i could see a deeper spiritual message. i recognized
birth, life, war, 
death and then the original birth scene again. it was set to operatic
vocal and music and i could
feel its depth as each dancer did their piece.
during the first intermission i found that my favorite’s name was allison
jay, she was the 
“biggest” female dancer and had the most body (booty). and from orchestra
row O her skin
was a perfect smooth white. she was featured in the very moving second
act and had at least
two moving solo dances. (seems like my favorites always turn out to
be one of the stars). 
the third act was “dances with songs” and was very light, but still
danced with beauty, precision
and difficulty. they used snippets from all kinds of music from pop
to opera to create a light-
hearted comedy. 
though allison is my favorite, she wasnt the most moving or the best
performer. that went to
another female soloing during act 2. this girl did intricate rhythmic
moves that were extremely 
pleasing to watch. there was this one repeated crawl type move with
a very sensual drag in
the movement. she repeated this move 3 times and the repetition gave
it an effect i really
enjoyed. the most moving piece was done by a soloing male during the
second act. his dance
moved me and he got the biggest cheer & applause from me that night.

the last dance of the night was done to “oh happy day” by edwin hawkins.
this is an old gospel
song im very familiar with but havent heard in years. it had me moving
in my seat and at the end
of it the house lights came on and a few of the dancers came out into
the audience to pump it
up. i was on my feet clapping and dancing as soon as the lights went
up. ofcourse, we were in
statueland and everybody else just sat there. it still amazes me how
white people sit there like
statues with all that good music, rhythms and dance. i want to do a
study on this.

i was like last row orchestra so no one was behind me and i was off
to the side. i kinda liked
this seat cause i had more freedom to dance and move as opposed to
being something like row
5 center. and last night in a small funk club i realized the same thing.
i was able to dance with
more vigor in the back behind all the non moving white people and the
band could still vibe me.
ofcourse by the end of every set last night i had made my way to the
front of the stage to funk
them face to face.

the female was beautiful, beautiful lines and movement. the outfits
accented the female’s shape
and gave more contour to the hips and the sway of their butts. graceful,
gorgeous movement.


the funky
meters

 mar 15, 2001 house of blues hollywood
i had heard lots and long about the meters but never really heard their
music, so i had to peep
this. i so love the house of blues and this night was all new orleans
right down to the pre- and
between show music. the dirty dozen brass band opened for them and
they were a horn filled
jazzy,semi-fast funky movement. there was no bass guitar in the band,
that very present bassy
sound was played by a horn. good movement to the music and semi complicated
rhythms.
same with the meters, these old dudes just came out and jammed mostly
instumental. kinda like
funkadelic does, so stage production, no talk just music.
the funky meters were good. by the time they came on i had settled in
a weird mood probably
cause of a long day and previous overstimulations, but i was very relaxed.
i wore my jesters hat
and drifted and danced aimlessy around the house all night.
most noted this night was that of the total of maybe 20 performers between
the two bands 
there was only one white person. and the average age had to be over
30. but the crowd was
95% white and 20 something. there were maybe 10 black people in the
whole place out of 
maybe 500? (i have no idea on this number, but he place was full).
and these white kids came
to see and they knew the meters. they knew the songs and wa into the
music. ofcourse most
whiote folx still need to work on their rhythm (never judge the dance,
only the sync). the house
crowd here is always friendly and playful and sensual and spiritual.
lots of weed smoking.
lots of white girls. saw a former co-worker there who looked gooood!!!
she was a rare 
30’sumn Artisan girl and i always had thought she was sexy. i said
hi to her and when i kissed
her cheek it was so soft it damn near distracted me the rest of the
night.  can still feel how soft
and good her cheek felt…

templebar
apr 13, 2001 
the thing that strikes me about this place is the music is black, all
the pictures of people’s
faces on the walls are black, but the crowd is 95% white, very very
cooool (but kinda young).
talk balk was good and i trippped as i watched this funky white man
play reggae to this white
audience. it was a stimulating deep wondering kinda trip i took, so
it was coool. i also took a 
tiny trip thinking i knew nothing about the two first bands but i just
took it for granted they were
funk or rhythm oriented and i was right. one cool thing the talk balk
leader did on his guitar was 
play it with a drill. made a very very cool sound as he rubbed the
strings with the body of a 
running drill.
wozani was a cocky band with 3 black female lead singers. they are a
south african type funky.
like a non-american funk style, it was very interesting. they had their
show choreographed very
nicely and spiritually. they had a funky attitude and a raw nastiness
to them “it dont mean shit if it
dont make you cum” among other funky vibey spirituallness…it was
lead by a black female and
the music and tone was mix of black female, european – south african
– non american, 
aggressive, issue dealing with, spiritual, sexiness, funk  kinda
thingy thing…
but i came this night to see asl (again.) as i waited for the 3rd set
i was very relaxed and well 
stimulated. vibin all the girls. then this one girl walks thru 
who caught my eye and i re-focused 
hard to get a sharper picture (didnt have my glasses on). she was cute
and something about her
alerted me. as my focus sharpened i saw it was ingrid, the 5’11” white
girl who dominated my
view of the room last time i saw asl here. that made me very very happy.
i thought (and think) 
my consistency in taste and passion is a very very cool thing and it
excites me when i find out 
something i like is really something i had been diggin in the past. 
anywayz, my vibe was mellow and my physical energy was down from employment
so im in a
very relaxed sensitive state just drifting in and out. drifting with
minimal physical energy and
movement but very vibe sensitive. blah blah blah— what i want to
say is that without doing
anything ingrid ended up standing by me. very close to me. i waded
and played in the idea of 
telling her of my writing about her on my webpage then i thought i
wouldnt. then i played with 
the low energy vibe and observed the things around me as opposed to
expressing energy and 
influencing the things around me. i danced subtley and observed her
and how everything around
me moved. and at what frequency or beat. how fast and with how much
energy. i watched as
she did her cool little shoulder dance and i saw how much she really
like the band. 

i observed the band’s and its leader armond’s energy and its influence
on the audience. i saw 
how the people moved, how the room moved. i watched as ingrid unknowingly
drifted closer 
to me as the dancing crowd shifted until all 5″11″ of her was a 1.5
feet directly in front of me.
over her dancing right shoulder was armond and over her left was the
very jammin black
male singer dude (i gotta get his name, he jams). 

i observed ingrid go into her bag and get her notebook 40 seconds before
armond annouced
she was the band’s e-mail mailing list girl. i danced and vibed as
i watched the book make a 
small cirlce back to ingrid. i had gave her my webcard last time and
in my present state i didnt
have the energy or desire or motivation to intiate any conversation.
i drifted and danced and 
vibed and watched ingrid walk over to me and ask did i want to sign
up. i smiled and exhaled
a “yeah sure” that wasnt faking coooolness cause my energy was really
that low and i was that 
relaxed. but i was sensitive enough to enjoy every drop. from her spining
around and making
that first step towards me i was aware. not focused or concentrating
on, but aware. )just as i 
was aware of other things around me.) 

i didn’ even feel like saying “i gave you my webcard before..blah blah
blah” all i wanted to do 
was enjoy this brief interaction as i thought about my writing of her
previously dominating 
my view of this very room. i did a quick web info scribble, returned
the pen to where she had
it clipped in the spiral wire binder and handed the book back to her
with a gentle smile. im not 
even sure if i made eye contact. 

as i wrote out my info i was aware of the energy of the band and the
crowd. how it changed
direction, frequency and amplitude. ingrid got caught up in a conversation
so i took my time 
writing and enjoying how personable she was in conversation. band playing. 

i so enjoy enjoying. being stimulated by the simplest interactions and
not desiring anything more. 
experience like this in my life is continous so i have faith that i
will experience like this again so
i have no “need” for more. without the “need for more” im seldom disappointed. 
all i want is to experience the experince, any experience. i know how
life works and i 
undertand how to relish each step in my journey. (though the last is
100% true and accurate, 
it may have been an attempt to ensure that i am not viewed as a stalker
or pervert LOL)

armond seemed more spirited this show. maybe cause he was the headliner. 
he was much more funky and aggressive this night. 
 


jerry’s flying
fox

 apr 14, 2001
the food was so good at this place i had to list it as an event. i
got a seafood combo plate with
fries, greens, dressing (with gravy) and another side i forget. jesse
got a 1/2 chicken with 
black eye peas and 2 other sides. there was enough meat that we swapped
so i had a nice
piece of fried chicken also. 
the food was tremendously good. even the cocktail and tartar sauce was
soo good i ate it. (i 
never liked cocktail sauce and rarely eat tartar). the bill came to
like $30 and i screamed 
“what?” cause my meal alone should have cost 30.
as we ate jesse told me of the history of this place how it was campaign
headquarters for
“democrats for nixon.” in the 70s. and no, thats not a mistake. jesse
ran down all the political 
figures that use to associate here and how the headquarters back door
opened directly 
into this lounge-bar type restaurant…hanging out in the hood &
cruising  crenshaw was cool 
too. weather was nice and it was the “mother’s day” before easter so
folx was out…

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