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Subjective Experience: April 30, 2000

DATE EVENT LOCATION
04-30-00 venice beach drum cirlce boardwalk – venice beach, ca
04-29-00 IEBNA scholarship banquet doubletree hotel – ontario,ca
04-21-00 bellagio gallery of fine

art

bellagio hotel – las vegas, neveda
04-15-00 huntington library pasadena, ca
04-13-00 robert heinecken:
photographist: a 35yr retrospective
age of piranesi: printmaking in italy
in the 18th century
mastery & elegence: 2 centuries of french drawings…
LA county museum of art
04-11-00 various local bands opium den – hollywood,ca
04-09-00
venice
beach drum cirlce
boardwalk – venice beach, ca
04-08-00 norton simon museum pasadena, ca
03-20-00
italy
rome & florence, italy
03-18-00 p-funk allstars house of blues – west hollywood, ca
03-17-00 p-funk allstars sun theater – anaheim, ca
02-26-00 blue man group luxor hotel & casino – las vegas, nv
02-23-00 jerome bettis’s grammy party luna park – los angeles, ca
02-19-00 j.paul getty museum the getty center – los angeles, ca
02-11-00 kings vs stars staples center – los angeles, ca
02-06-00 les miserables ahmanson theatre – los angeles, ca
02-04-00 p-funk

allstars

key club – west hollywood , ca
01-13-00 ghost in the shell: photography and the human

soul

LA county museum of art
01-06-00 pompeii:

life in a roman town

LA county museum of art
01-01-00 tournament of roses parade pasadena, ca
12-19-99 red hot planet (virtual reality) venetian hotel – las vegas, nv
12-05-99 planetfest ’99 pasadena center – pasadena, ca
11-30-99 digital underground key club – west hollywood, ca

 

   
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digital

underground nov 30, 1999 key

club

 

they were weak. no musical creativity. shock g, money b and them did

raps over recorded 

and mixed music. shock played a little keyboards…they did try to

get the party on and get

everybody naked- they even passed out beers…crowd was more mixed

(more black) and

more younger and more funkier than usual…they played a bit of un-mixed

knee deep…


planetfest

“99

dec 5, 1999 pasadena center

 

nerdy, nerdy, nerdy…and unhappy nerdy at that cause the mars lander

was lost…got cool 

pics of me

in infrared  and somehow i found the limited female personality

in the place. 

got a phone number of a girl who is in the sidewalk

astronomers (who told me about a star party

at griffith observatory that i chilled at and saw jupiter’s red spot,

the crab nebula, andromeda, etc)

they had a vendor expo of all kinds of astronomy stuff and i bought

a star chart and a

map of so ca from space…the few people i talked to weren’t that scientificly

informative…


pompeii:

life in a roman town jan 6, 2000

lacma

 

i joined LACMA over the holidays and when you do you get free tickets

for you and 

guest to all the special

events. it had been a long time since i went anywhere like that

with someone (putting myself in a position to have to take someone

else’s “feelings” into

consideration), but i did good (i asked her and she said i did). in

fact, it was nice to have

someone to talk to while i waited in that “exhibition has 3 days left”

long  line…cause

even my standing in line converstation must be about signifigant issues

(never talk small)-

anywayz, it was crowded and there were children and no where to sit

as you walked 

thru, but it was still very enjoyable…lots of information on video

monitors and every

piece had a detailed explanation (can you tell i haven’t written in

a while? i feel wordy)

it was very informative and you got a real sense of “life in pompeii.”

they had sections

showing the art, technology, science and people of the city…from

the quality of the art 

it seems that “basic human artistic talent” hasnt improved that much

over the last 2000 yrs….

(or these people were really good at what they did) i also realized

that the word “suburban”

comes from “sub” & “urban” and not “suburb.” my membership was

$65 for a year and

that means i can go and hang out there anythime its open for a whole

year!! one of my

favorite places is the “early buddahist” room, its one of the only

places with someplace

to sit…i can chill and vibe the energy of many different ancient

buddahist works-


p-funk

allstars feb 4, 2000

key club 

 

this was taken from the post i made to the p-funk board room,

its kinda generic and isn’t as personal as i would like, but…

not in any kind of order-

the mob was in full force, but it was “kiddie” night. crowd was very

young and nerdy-

very geeky, i felt out of place, too funky, too strong…i was tellin

talley it was like jordan

playing in a high school jv game…even though he tones it down, just

being on the court

can make things weird, .but i got down anywayz. seems as if the band

toned it down too-

none of the nasty funky shyt-no one nation, no knee deep, no maggot

brain, no flashlight

no p-funk (wants to get funked up), no red hot momma, no aqua boogie,

and the dog was

short and playful…short 2+ hour show that started at midnight. they

cut the power and 

turned the lights on during the dog…

it was funkadelic “lite”even cosmic slop had more “finess” than power- 

lots of guitar movement, but easy on the pound…

i had fun though and got mine spirtually. i was groovin on stage at

the front until 

greg t “chased” me to the back. baby payne hooked me up with the backstage

pass

im still wearing…very good to see everybody horns sounded really

really good, tight & strong, though they werent “turned up” loud-

frankie sounded good back there bangin’ em, gary was on 

(started with his lead on bop gun), 

i think mike’s guitar setup had problems. so cosmic slop came off differently

cause i think he stopped and kind restarted. blackbyrd was good but

his back 

wasn’t into it. (cant justify saying that, just felt that way) billy

& boogie, were there-

whoever dat was on keyboards got a little bit. paul hill?? and other

singer blew 

hard for awhile…since there wasn’t hardly any deep thump pound,

lige probably sounded good, can’t rememebr hearing him

gina and atomic dawg backstage. (i remember shows in the past being

jealous 

of atomic dawg cause he got to be on stage, but i can get there now!!!!)

cm talley is a crazy mo-fo. flash photography was allowed, i got over

100 pics 

on digital camera…buddy miles was there, clip was doing his thang–

they played cacophonic fm before show

george was george, for a minute his voice sounded “strong” and i thought

he 

was actually going to really try and blow a song…i did hear “more”

of him than usual…

from what i could tell he looked pretty good and seemed a bit “sharper”

overton was camera crazy and drawing shyt. carlos (sir nose) got all

twisted up

lydia hayden did much better than the last time, her violin grooved

on standing on verge-

or should i say a watered version of…

no freaks or freakin at all!!! i see why it was industry only…

protect them kids from hardcore mothafunkers-

i dont usually do playlists cause i dont rememeber but i know sumbody

gonna ask…

bop gun, cosmic slop, belita’s songs, medly: up for downstroke, undisco

kid, etc-

we want the funk, standing on the verge, atomic dog…george tried

to get them to sing

“if anybody gets funked up” the right way, it didnt happen…

i so love seeing parliament funkadelic live, we are family



les
miserablesfeb 6, 2000 ahmanson seat was 2nd row, far right…one more seat to the right  andpart of the stage would have been blocked…les mis is about love during the french revolution. this

musical touched on the rawest 

of human desire and emotion…it had love and death, it was raunchy,

innovative and the flow

of the events, scenery and people made the play seem like a smooth

dance…my heart was 

stolen by the “bad” sister eponine, played by cute ass sutton

foster…i liked the role she played 

and i liked her…



los
angeles kings vs dallas stars feb11, 2000 staples center this was my first hockey game and my first time at the staples center.free $70 seats 6th row…the staples center is gorgeous. it has high ceilings, very airy with

a crisp fresh new feel. another

thing that i liked is that it is very well lit, very very bright in

fact. (at least for hockey). all kinds

of food and stuff from mcdonalds to them good ass hotdogs to a bank

america atm. this hockey

crowd was 99% white and not made up of the usual los angeles attractive

pretty people. more 

tougher and midwest looking, even the women, though there were a few

cuties. i also expected

much more cussing and profanity, almost all the “comments” were rated

PG. 

the game was good, though i didnt understand a lot of the penalties.

being into sports i got into

the competition and the skill involved in skating, checking and moving

the puck. checking was 

cool being 6 rows off the ice, right there at the glass. i noticed

how a player would very subtlely 

raise his elbow just a tiny bit to enchance a body check, sometimes

getting the guy in the fsce. 

but what really tripped me out and that i had never witnessed in sports

live evr before was how 

they let them fight!!!! this blew me away!!!! two players started going

at it and everybody 

(including the referees) backed off and let them go!!! the crowd was

cheering and these men 

were not doing some kind of  WWF stuff. they were swinging for

each other’s face with 

everything!! i cant think of anything public that allows people to

go ahead and fight it out 

like that, especially in professional sports. im not saying good or

bad, im saying shocking…

wasnt spose to take camera or pics either….but with all that light

i got about 60 good no flash

photos…



the
getty centerfeb 19, 2000 the thing about the getty centeris the parking. admission is free, but parking is $5 and you haveto have reservations. well, unless you are a registered student withID. i found that out listening

to the classical NPR station 91.5 on the way home from work friday,

so saturday i check it out-

this place and the views of LA are just plain goregous. downtown LA

one way, the pacific ocean

the other, the whole experience is surreal. the architecture, gardens,

art, displays, seating, floors,

(even the ground you walk on) grass (there was a place where i took

of my shoes and stretched

out on the grass and chilled overlooking LA) , tram, EVERYTHING!! (well,

it was hard to

find the bathroom and the one i did find was small and stinky). lots

of people working there to 

provide information, good pamphlets, audio tours, EVERYTHING!! there

were all kinds of 

cute girls of many nationalities (i love hearing female speak in other

languages) and i really liked 

the demographic. though there weren’t many sistas, the stereotyping

i do from visual observations

led me to believe that this group was very close to my education, economics

and way of thinking-

and they were’nt that LA overly attractive skinny busty beautiful type,

they were solid looking cute 

people with that everyday kinda attractiveness that i like…

i was particularly interested in seeing “the body beautiful: artistis

draw the nude (1440-1850)-”

it was ok. the art, sculpture and layout of all the rooms and buildings

is very well done. but its

the architecture and scenic views of this place that overshadowed it

all and impressed me most…


jerome

bettis’s grammy party feb 23, 2000 luna

park

 

i have never (i’ve been speaking in grandiose ultimates alot lately)

seen more attractive

(not “fine”) black girls (not women) in my life!! all kinds of black

female- tall, short,

light, dark, brown, yellow, fat, skinny…all kinds of legs, breasts,

butts, feet, hair, clothes,

eyes, bootys, backs, tattoos, bootys- hundreds of girls packed into

this place (too packed

after 11:30) looking very very good. and uncharacteristicly i was in

a suit- black on black on

black on black (suit, tie, shirt, me) and looking good myself. music

was good, vibe was good,

lot of style and good looking people (male & female). i got there

kinda early and for some reason

my energy was down and i couldn’t get into it. maybe cause im getting

too old for this kind of 

scene (brothas was in full-on super scam mode) or cause the girls were

younger and not really 

“my type,” but looking at all them females and being around them made

it very hard for me to 

leave early. there was a crowd of maybe 300 outside when i left around

11:45. somebody was 

smoking weed and as the smell filtered through the room everybody took

notice…



blue
man groupfeb 26, 2000 luxor las vegas, nv so many good things happened that im not gonna name them all nor willi try hard to be consistent or have any kind of order…but i will say this; once

again flying single is the best-

on friday i purchased a single seat for saturday nights late performance…row

5-

by the end of this show my energy was so high that i was dancing in

the aisle covered in white 

streamer paper. this is the stuff of a growing consciousness. a mystical

message disgusied as 

entertainment. 

the blue man group is 3 blue men who never talked thru the whole show.

there accompaied by a band which was mostly percusion, but had electric

instruments as well-

the music had a good solid beat, not fast techno and not “sappy.” a

good modern sound-

not always a celebraory beat but kinda like the movement or rhythm

of stimulated life-

the music conveyed power and growth, then it was like it was in tune

with the rhythm of a

successful consciousness, then at the end it was celebratory…and

thats when i was dancing-

i may have been the only one, but i couldnt help it. after it was over

the crowd just left. there

was no way i just could walk out of that place without bringing my

energy down…

i stayed and danced a little while longer while everyone left. i tied

a piece of streamer on my

wrist and i wore it back to the hotel and all day today…

because i grew up in a black pentecostal type church, im use to celebrating

and expressing my 

through dance and rhythmic celebration.this expression is also a key

point in the philosophy

of p-funk. white folx aint ready for that yet, but like i told the

performers after the show, “keep

teaching’em”. the whole show pushed for crowd involvement, but i knew,

understood and didnt 

expect the crowd to be into as much as me. the music and vibe and intelligence

of the show had 

me and my energy sky high. the mental stimulation, the messages with

the rhythm pounding 

postive movement of the music.

 

the first “message” i caught was when they started touching and noticing

each others face. i 

equaled this with the gaining of consciousness or self awareness, right

after that they began to

explore the audience. noticed self then whats around them…

the first few rows had to wear a poncho to protect their clothes from

the splatter of twinkies and 

jello type stuff. i could see how they could have been more stuff splattered

on crowd.

also i saw how the message could have been a lot deeper, this may have

been watered down,

but it was still very stimulating…

they came out still in costume after show, i shook hands and told them

to “keep teaching’em”

keep showing them what rhythm and how to be involved in a show. also

told the band that

the band was funky, lots of percussion, good deep bass

they played pvc plumbing pipes and the notes were changed by sliding

the pipes in

and out of each other and changing the length…

your mind and thinking were challenged using text on screens, video, 

lights strobes and visual illusion

they took a camera into audience and put it into a guys mouth and it

went down

his throat and they showed it on big video monitors while the music

was bumpin!!

 


p-funk

allstars mar 17, 2000 sun theatre

 

 

the major note of this show was mr george clinton.

he looked good and had lots of energy.

he was not only dancing but doing a tight little

pump thrust dead on tight with the beat. he 

looked sharp, didnt have that “glazed” look and

the “distance” from what was going on like

ive seen in the past. when he was doing his dance

i felt the energy and it got me going- long

time since george himself had the energy to move

me…george started maggot brain, introduced 

mike and byrd, mike ran out ready to play and

george drifted off in to singing mathematics!!!!

it was to the slow pre maggot groove, but soon

as i recognized what he was sangin’- i was there!!!

that was good..any percent of you…

 

mike h was animated & clownin’ frustartion

all night. like when george was leading the music bursts,

mike was clownin george- gave him “the hand”

and rolled his eyes and it was funny as hell!! then 

when george was looking he “straightened up”

like he was paying attention. i was dying!! 

 

considering the crowd was mostly white suburban

orange county conservative folx who 

arent use to expressing themselves and giving

back energy to the band in this kind of way,

the show was good- the sun theater is new, modern

and georgeous, huge open air well lit area 

with bar outside before you enter the building

and it has a very big stage…there was a pit of 

about 200 (mostly kids) and behind that about

maybe 100 dinner tables full of the sit-downers. 

towards the end some of them packed the wall

to the pit…it was a funky very clean non-freaky 

vibe…lotsa dope smoking though-

 

the music wasn’t loud enough and i hate to say

it, but skeet is missed. blackbyrd did a nice solo

that got the crowd going after mike’s better

than usual maggot. started with p-funk and went into

funkentelechy…it was nice to do a long show—-gary

is good all the time and i take it for granted.

clip did his thing, it still amazes me when carlos

gets on top of the speakers…billy thumped the bass

once…quick not in order play list: p-funk,

funkentelechy, one nation, belita, maggot, atomic dog 

(gina was there and atomic dog was on stage),

bop gun, it was a 4 hour show, so i know i missed

songs…OOOOOPS!! almost forgot about the horns,

the p-funk horns did their thang in a good

way too…each took solos which moved the crowd

in different ways and i could here them blowin

way back there even though their mics werent

up loud…

 

and we do it again tonight at my favorite place

on this planet to see a concert

 


p-funk

allstars march 18, 2000 house of blues

hollywood

 

 

im too bizzy to make this smooth, but ll the

good points are in this 

(and maybe sum i should have left out, so read

it all)

 

this may have been the best funkadelic

show i have ever been too

4.5 hours, 9:35 to 1.56

 

george was sharp again, actually made eye contact

guitar dude in hat doing flips and stuff

at first he pushed mike cause of his energy-

tripping over cable and kept playing, doing flips,

playing with teeth and behind head–

mike didnt do all that stuff, but mike stepped

it up in his playing

it pushed everybody and it got really funky-

dont know who he was, lydia said he was a long

time friend of george-

he knew the songs, thats for sure

 

on byrds solo his guitar went dead so guitar dude

stepped

up and started then byrds shit came back on and

they

dueled and i think that led to the whole place

going off

 

lydia hayden is a fine female violin player,

she’s cant be more than 5 feet tall

always has that cute ass stomach showing…

 

billy bass going off

at one point when it got real high and everybody

on stage and in crowd was going off, he had the 

guitar strings laying on the amp playing it by 

rubbing the strings on the amp head. you could

hear

the noise and feedback matching his movements

and it was on!!! overton say him and made signs

saying “look at dat fool”

 

billy’s bass went dead maybe two minutes into

red hot momma…we was about to go completely

off!!!

 

seeing spoke to lydia aftr show, saying prince

was in house

getting freaky (hey man, smell my finger)

partyin’ with all kinds of white girls

 

dancin with spkrs

was able to completely let loose

totally free, completely uninhibited

pressed myself against woofers to feel pound

grindin humpin spkrs…

 

so loose i was staggering around, spinning

and singing (even before show) singing in car,

roof off on sunset blvd saturday night…

 

saw george getting into car after show

i said “mr clinton” very good show-

he said sumn back. had camera in hand,

but i didnt push it-

 

sunset blvd had a trafic jam at 2:30a

noticed lotsa thug looking dudes, then noticed

the cars…must have been a lot of “car clubs”

kinda didnt wanna come home it was so happening

lotsa white girls

 

said what-up to: billy, blackbyrd, carlos, trey

lewd yesterday,

greg t said the mammouth project is dropped

eddie grittith

when show ended, lights on and power off to instruments-

drums still playing and us singin aint no party

like a p-funk party

cause a p-funk party dont stop for about 5 minutes

 

simmone and his girl

when valeting the car, this dude tells me he 

had my plate before me…he sold car and didnt

get the

plate…said he played drums for funkadelic,

leeland 

 

seeing george after show

p-nut chasing the girls

jimmy ware

talley

lige was much better, 

i think the difference is when billy and skeet

play bass

is they step up and set the beat. the bass “controls”

the 

music when billy or skeet play. but lige did

really good-

funky, loud, hard…he was missing some of the

down beats

 

heard more keyboards 

they killed the power and closed the curtain but

the

drummer kept playing with me and part of the

crowd

singing “aint no party like a p-funk party cause

pfunk party dont stop”

 

mike’s cosmic slop was spirited 

garys son lead one nation

the whole house was singing it and it was funky

seemed like everybody was into it and feeling

the 

vibe and energy. even the more conservative looking

people (white girls) were funkin out. 

i do love me some white girls

 

everybody loves my license plate

saw the dude who offered me a t-shirt for my 

plate yesterday and i busted out laughin so did

he…

we ended up rappin about gas prices and the economy

 

rappin to dude from vancouver outside,

“wow we’re talking about some deep stuff”

(never talk small) 

 

the house of blues has a good positive vibe, a

very smart, intuitive,

free, expressful loose and funky, good looking,

fun having crowd

its like white people having church and i love

it

black people may be “too cool” to let loose and

be this

free with expression. we were all free for awhile-

ive never seen a black crowd do this-

 

lotsa dope smoking

i was offered weed & sex, turned them bith

down…

(though both we’re very do’able)

 

im living my dream

i was able to express large amounts of energy

and emotion

i do so love parliament funkadelic

 


norton simon
photos
 april 8, 2000  one cool thing about this place is students get in free. $6 otherwise.after driving by this museumfor almost 20 years, i finally made it in the joint. very nice scenery,

sculpture by rodin as you enter,

nice courtyard with pond, trees…lots of good artwork in a very handsome

building. the lower

floor is full of chinese, hindu and buddhist art…very pleasing to

the senses…and its free!!!

van gogh, goya, rembrandt, lots of good stuff in here…right next

to old town  (cheesecake factory

& rack shack) and the rose bowl…


LACMA april

13, 2003

 

 

i guess you would call what im talking about

modern art. i didnt think i would like it but this stuff

conveys modern messages with modern means. it

uses imaginative photography, video, and 

other modern mediums. robert heinecken’s stuff

is very sensual, sexual, erotic and makes modern 

statements about relationships, the news media

and socialization. he used imaginative arrangements 

of different media to make statements about that

media. he had tvs with video of tv news people 

that made a statement about network news. he

superimposed both sides of a single actual magazine 

page to show contrasts in statements, irony or

beauty. i could tell he admired female as much as i do

because of the way he displayed them. he had

pictures under which he had handwritten  in pencil 

witty dialogue:

 

he: your looking around alot

 

 

she: just watching those people playing darts

 

 

he: they must be moving the dart board all around

the bar

 

 

she: yes, i am

 

i really like the depth and reality of the messages

in this art. no holding back sexually, politically

or intellectually. very straight forward about

key points in life that i identify with. it even inspired me

with the idea that one day i will be doing this

type of stuff…

 

the piranesi printmaking was good cause there

were a lot of beautiful etchings of rome, an 

especially nice one of st peter’s inside and

out…oh the memories- i looked at this work and was

moved as i thought to myself, i was actually

there. the french drawings were also very good…

 



huntington
library 
library

artwork
 april 15, 2000  the buildings, grounds and gardens are very nice. would’ve been surreal

if it was’nt for the unusally

high number of crying kids and too loud mothers. but for the most part,

a very quiet & conservative

crowd. i saw the world famous paintings blue boy & pinkie. whats

the big deal? the brochure said 

these artists were the best from brittian. this collection is almost

exclusively works from brittian.

and if ya ask me, they weren’t as good as the itallian, french and

other works ive seen. the faces

on the portraits were done very well, even though they all had heavy

red painted blushed cheeks-

but some of the bodies were disporprtional and sometimes just drawn

wrong. im not an expert

but this stuff was mediocre compared to other stuff ive seen…

but the big deal was she2. on my
visit

to the fine arts museum in san francisco i fell in love with
potrait

bust of a young woman 1770, jean-jacques caffieri (french 1725-1792).

awhile ago a 

sculpture at the huntington website caught my eye. then i saw it as

a side pic in the brochure so

i asked where it was. the guy tells me there are a few 18th century

french pieces in the arabella 

gallery. i got excited cause i knew i liked 18th century french stuff

and i knew i liked this bust. but

since im new to art i was surprised that this bust was from of the

same stuff i knew i liked-

its late, im tired and i know i didnt say that right…but the bottom

line is im proud that more and 

more im recognizing categories, eras and artists…anywayz, back to

the point…

im peeping this piece when i see what i thought was a copy of the above

mentioned work. it 

looked just like it. it was even named the same “potrait bust of a

young woman.” i was like “my 

baby!” naturally i took a
bunch

of pics of she2 but didnt realize that this is not a copy. the 

works are different. maybe the same girl or jean-jacques has very consistent

taste. looking at it,

i think its the same girl. anywayz, im tired and can’t do no more…maybe

more later—-

 


bellagio gallery of fine art

april 21, 2000 las vegas, nv

 

all of this collection is from 19th&20th century impressionist,

none of which i like. there are 

maybe 40 works in two rooms. cost is $12 and you get a free audio tour

device. though it was 

kinda crowded, it was extremely quiet. monet, renoir, picasso, van

gogh, etc, again not my faves.

one so-so rembrandt. the store was nice though, i browsed through some

very good books.

i did learn something that kinda justified the admission charge. there

was a work (portrait of 

dora maar, 1942) picasso repainted of his mistress where in freudian

style he combined 

halves of two different facial expressions into one face. this was

by far the most interesting piece

in the joint. i would say this is a good gallery to go to for someone

who either likes this kinda art

or hasn’t seen much and wants to be exposed to it…well, maybe i cant

say that cause art is so 

subjective….

 

subjective experience

 

       

 


 


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