date | event | location (links to event’s site) |
05-20-01 | jpl openhouse |
pasadena, ca |
05-19-01 | funkyard music festival: steve kimock band, soulive, dj haul, vinyl, particale, greyhounds, porterhouse, robert walter’s 20th century congress, merl saunders and his funky friends, carlos washington |
green on the hill – long beach, ca |
05-18-01 | soulive | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
05-14-01 | trulio disgracias | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
05-12-01 | hugo’s cellar | 4 queens casino – las vegas, nv |
05-12-01 | clark county museum | henderson, nv |
05-12-01 | hoover dam |
boulder city |
05-10-01 | living color | key club – hollywood, ca |
05-09-01 | public debate: | california state university fullerton
fullerton, ca |
05-09-01 | 12th annual cypress college
juried student photography exhibition |
anaheim museum – anaheim, ca |
05-07-01 | l’esprit nouveau: purism in paris, 1918–1925 | los angeles county museum of art |
05-05-01 | inland empire black nurses association | double tree hotel – ontario, ca |
05-04-01 | prince | hollywood palladium – hollywood, ca |
05-03-01 | sepulveda basin wildlife bike trail |
encino, ca |
05-02-01 | vasquez rocks natural area park |
agua dulce, ca |
05-02-01 | william s. hart ranch and museum | newhall, ca |
04-29-01 | los angelitos
weapon of choice |
the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
04-28-01 | yusef lateef and randy weston | luckman fine arts complex cal state la – los angeles, ca |
04-26-01 | imax: all access | universal studios citywalk universal city, ca |
04-25-01 | -the etchings of harry chapman ford
-george stuart historical figures -historical ventura (permanent collection) |
ventura county museum of history & art ventura, ca |
04-24-01 | the toledo show | the derby – hollywood, ca |
04-20-01 | l.a. baroque orchestra | zipper concert hall the colburn |
04-19-01 | -the architecture of r.m. schindler | museum of contemporary art
-the geffen contemporary |
04-17-01 | hooters | santa monica, ca |
04-16-01 | funk bossa review | the temple bar – santa monica, ca |
04-16-01 | shifting tides:
cuban photography after the revolution |
los angeles county museum of art |
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funk bossa review apr 16, 2001 templebar this is a group of dorky looking white boys who produce tight rhythm. 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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 the durmmer does this thing where they set up chairs and poles and he |
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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). so its just me and seats in a dark room with a blue screen lightly lit. i sat rather close, row 4. the screen filled my whole vision, the sound george clinton and the p-funk allstars performed 2nd with mary j blige kid rock’s bodygaurd wore kordell’s steeler jersey. i danced in my seat thru the whole show. the dialogue and the music must have been on different channels or audio |
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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 humans are a trip. even in this mellow atmosphere folx cant get along. randy weston is a funky jazz pianist. he was coooool and funky. |
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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… |
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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 anywayz i get inside and chillin when i see another Artisan girl emily. the show was off the hook. 3 hour show (around 10pm to 1am) oldies and i meet up with talley after the show and while he’s shopping for prince |
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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. |
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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 the debate was moderated by john hoffman of the csuf philosophy dept reynolds spoke first for 30 minutes then eldredge. reynolds did his good point from audience: that intelligent design shoud be taught as reynolds got a bit heated when defending his colleagues in accademia +++++++++++++++++++++ >Niles Eldredge and John Mark Reynolds Debate >Should Evolutionary Science Acknowledge the Supernatural? >Niles Eldredge, Ph.D., Columbia University, is curator in the notes: eldredge: |
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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. living color impressed me. corey glover was very, very, very good on |
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clark county museumpictures 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!!!!! |
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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) |
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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 ive seen norwood lots of times (at living color last they couldnt find vicky and when they did her and trulio disgracias is a mini guitar army, and it may not set ended about 2 am, they played maybe 2 hours… as i sat there i thought to myself how “lucky” i was. templebarlive.com (santa monica,ca) so could someone please tell me why i want to go to posted to pfboard room 05-15-01 |
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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 in fact, once again it hit me how “black” the templebar is. everything soulive was so good and turned me out so well i had to go and see them |
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