date | event | location |
04-17-02 | art institute of chicago |
art institute of chicago – chicago, il |
04-17-02 | jasper johns: prints from 4 decades |
terra museum of american art – chicago, il |
04-17-02 | gary simmons mies in america people see paintings |
chicago museum of contemporary art chicago, il |
04-13-02 | p-funk allstars |
promowest pavillion – columbus, oh |
04-10-02 | p-funk allstars | peabodys – cleveland, oh |
04-10-02 | egyptian galleries early christian & byzantine art |
cleveland museum of art cleveland, oh |
03-18-02 | politically incorrect taping |
cbs studios – hollywood, ca |
03-09-02 | weapon of choice
natural afrodisiac hustle |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
03-07-02 | the peak show | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
03-02-02 | lobster bar at tarzan’s | golden nugget casino – laughlin, nv |
03-01-02 | tarzan’s nightclub | golden nugget casino – laughlin, nv |
02-28-02 | kindness of friends:
a selection of gifts of drawings and prints four centuries of prints and drawings: recent acquisitions |
los angeles county museum of art |
02-22-02 | skubbi snax | cafe cocomo – san francisco, ca |
02-21-02 | fine arts museum of s.f. | legion of honor – san francisco, ca |
02-19-02 | the metreon
rollerball (movie) |
the metreon – san francisco, ca |
02-16-02 | henry s. johnson book signing |
hollywood park casino – los angeles, ca |
02-15-02 | “love hurts” screening | pan african film festival – los angeles, ca |
02-10-02 | weapon of choice | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
02-04-02 | wendel-mendel | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
01-30-02 | the royal tenenbaums | sherman oaks cinema |
01-26-02 | birth of moremi elize, my 1st niece |
kaiser permanente – los angeles, ca |
01-25-02 | studio rehearsal with | sound arena – van nuys, ca |
01-23-02 | the clinton newstars | 1650 – hollywood,ca |
01-22-02 | the clinton newstars | dragonfly – hollywood, ca |
01-19-02 | living colour allstars featuring george clinton |
house of blues – disneyland, ca |
01-18-02 | maceo parker | house of blues – disneyland, ca |
01-09-02 | trulio disgracias
umbalaye the joints |
fais-do-do – los angeles, ca |
01-06-02 | derf reklaw | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
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rhythm room allstars jan 6, 2002 templebari didnt feel a good bit of the opening act derf reklaw. i wasnt getting the rhythms at all. it was so bad at one time i jumped up to see what was wrong, it seemed that off. like i told dj haul, i can dance to the sound of running water but i aint feeling this. then they played a funk tune with rhythms i was sure of and they hit it. i thought this because derf was singing and not playing. it was very strange cause as long as ive been going to the temple bar this felt like the first “bad” band i had heard. but they kinda recovered, but still very strange beats to say the least.and ofcourse the people in there were mostly white and young so i didnt expect them to know if this mostly percussion band was bad. i usually applaud when something good happens and that may not necessarily be when a break occurs. even if the music is bad, the music or band has parts when its an obvious time to clap, and the crowd responded at these times. maybe they felt it and i didnt. looking around the room, maybe 2 people out of 70 showed a rhythmic response to the music, the rest just sat there like white people do i couldnt tell if it was the music or the people. once again, dont get me wrong- i love white people. i love everybody but i do recognize the differences and can point them out. the rhythm room allstars made up for it though. they bounced me back |
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maceo parker jan 18, 2002 house of blues hollywoodmaceo pointed at me in my pfunk1 jersey and said “you’re numba one, huh?” i said “hell yes” and danced around dead on beat so he could see da p funk on my back. as i finished my dance spin i saw him pointing and laughing. thats how the show started. ran into greg thomas preshow. also a cool polish dude i met before who i drop science with and learned that everywhere else in the world the devil is black. he said he wondered why when he came to this country the devil was red. when the show got cookin good and after greg thomas did sum’n funky |
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living colur allstars jan 19, 2002 house of blues disneylandi got there late, after living colour had finished their set. talley had my ticket so i had to get inside to get him to get it. so as the crowd waited around i was buzzing back and forth in my pfunk1 jersey trying to find him and get the ticket. i know the crowd was aware of me. shelia e, vernon reid, corey glover and others start the groove for the song “i not always there when you call, but im always on time” and it was smooth. as thangs got started george came out and the energy again (just like last night) went through the woof. george did his thang and eventually settled in to “red hot momma” and the band grooved. it was funky. corey glover (living colours lead singer) then morphed that into “we |
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clinton newstars jan 22, 2002 dragonflydragonfly hanging with mike ledton horn player who played in the living colour hanging cute light skinned singer and dude who was making a movie. they i was just sitting there minding my own biznness and folx started coming first night didnt work but the second night we went off!!! when secret agent bill played this night folx left. the floor actually 1650 this was an experiment in not only music but culture. sean healy mixed the first band were white dudes with crazy costumes who passedout twinkies there was a black gangsta rap group that kept it real. these boys came one of the coolest things was the black female dancer the rap group i think it was malia franklin who was there singing on stage and vibin george sang hot sauce by thomas dolby, a very obscure song i had just overton was running around the place he did a sign “an experiament gone strong” which i had to have an got towrds the end of the show i danced behind the crowd to the open floor, george doing the sir nose lyrics from aqua boogie secret agent bill very diverse groups. punk, crazy metal, hardcore westcoast rap. last night the show didnt work, but this night it did. secret agent |
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studio rehearsal – headphonesinger jan 25, 2002 sound arenathis was my first time in a real music rehearsal studio. it was a building with a bunch of semi soundproofed rooms of different sizes with drums, guitar amps, monitor speakers, mics with stands, etc. it cost like $16hr and we had it from 8-12pm. its cheaper during the day. anyways i ran into p.tracey at the clinton newallstars show and he told me they had rented studio time and if i wanted i could drop in and play a bit. we thought it was scheduled for thursday but it ended up being friday so thursday i ended up over p.traceys with him and john d. and we just fooled around with the music. john d is a drummer and he had a snare and used the base the mic stand for foot producing a nice bass drum. p.tracey played rhythm guitar and i just rapped talked. we each had headphones on and could hear each other. i love the sound of my voice. i deeply love it. listening to the recording we made a day later i relaized how good john |
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wendel-mendel feb 2, 2002 templebarwillow is a band with white girl lead singer on guitar. she was a thin-wrist smallish brunnette with a very powerful voice. like a cross between american country and ireland. i enjoyed watching her play a strong steady guitar in her female way. she wasn’t so much cute, but very attractive cause of her way of being a plain female white girl with a controlled powerful voice and music. electric fans is a group from amsterdam who played music at a techno |
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weapon of choice feb 10, 2002 templebarmason played trouble funk’s drop the bomb, funk u up by sequence, arcade funk and to top it off a remix of parlet’s play me or trade me. when i heard parlet i spun around and hurriedly walked over to him and screamed “HELL NO!!!” he immediately smiled and laughed and seemed to know exactly how i felt. earlier i was telling kareem and them i have been blessed to have good djs in my life. how lucky i was to have a place like the temple bar that plays the kind of music i love so much. i even chatted with my fave cutie waitress about how ive been spoiled by the quality of music here. it had been so long since i heard mediorce music that when i did it was trippy. i also thought how ive grown to take for granted my fave local band |
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love hurts feb 15, 2002 magic johnson’s theaters
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henry s. johnson book signing feb 16, 2002 hollywood park casinoi love black people and the way we do it with so much style, flair and coolness. compared to white people its like black people are showing off at everything they do. maybe cause we do everything with so much pride, enthuiasm and excitement. dr johnson wrote a book about the oj simpson conspiracy in which he brings up points about the evidence and other things that he feels clearly show that the whole trial was a sham and a frame-up. bubba smith was there. it was held in a rather sizable banquet room at the hollywood park casino and there was a live acid jazzy band. it was good to see black people and especially black girls. but ofcourse, |
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tarzans nightclub mar 1, 2002 laughlin, nvthe club this night and till around april is free and no dresscode. i was tired and not really feeling it as i had just drove from 5 hours but stopped in cause it was free and had no dresscode. other than the bass player i was the only black person in there, but for what ever reason i was relaxed with aggressive confidence that im sure could be seen in my walk and disposition. the club this night was filled with drunk non dancing whitefolx out for a good time. i aint hatin on nobody, but watching i saw no one with any rhythm or any type of sustained dance groove. the one semi-nicely thick white girl with an almost decent move did that same move all night. at first it was sexy, then it became funny as she applied the same move to every groove. then it became irritating. but one thing about white girls they can be openly playfully sexual, black girls are more sensual. these girls was just drunk and being free. i like this. forget the dance moves, these people just wanted to rub body parts together in public, be sexually stimulated and arouse each other. very playful. couple of cutie in there but nothing that motivated me. the band, afterplay, was a tad below mediorce. the bass player was good, the white female britney type but more soulful funky singer was good and kinda cute, but the rhythm guitar and drums made mistakes and missed beats all night. hey, call me spoiled but im use to world class bands so i notice miscues. |
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lobsterbar at tarzans mar 2, 2002 laughlin, nvbecause mommy had so much comp $$ from being rated when gambling, she got like $900 worth of food credit. so when we hit this place its basically “give me two of ’em.” i ate so much crab legs and lobster tails that i was about to bust. the 50 sumn waitress we had last time remembered me from the last time i was here and that made me feel good. |
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the peak show mar 7, 2002 templebari spent my $7 this night to see and hear live the person responsible for this magnificient voice. i recored to cassette a previous temple bar performance so i was fairly familiar. this girl has a voice a man could worship. energy, tone or whatever to me its special. the drummer was very very impressive also. it was good to sit in mi fave place anticipating seeing for the first time the creature which could create sounds like this. she sang a jackson five song. they seemed to play a more rock type set vs the temple bar set. regeardless i was honored to stand there in the presence of that voice. definitely want more. pleasure club was like a rock-n-roll punk funky band. they were good |
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politically incorrect mar 18, 2002 cbs studiosbill maher seemed disgusted and frustrated. his tone and everything suggested that there was something he was an injustice he was struggling against. kinda like a disgruntled worker he just did what he was suppose to do and nothing above that. the only spontaneous line he delivered to the audience (there was supose to be a question and answer period that never happened) roughly said something about the “fucking little guy” getting a break. florence henderson and tom greene were the celebrity guests. florence it was cool thing to do, a bit too touristy and i really dont like being |
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