parliament - mr. wiggles


it
must be a
miracle,
inbed by midnight.

ah yes, tis another eye of the storm. verymuchloving these moments in my own bed, back home in good ol oakland. i rest my loins for but three moons and then vamoose to illinois on wednesday. oh, life.

this past wednesday to sunday was ill-lit's lil mini tour down cali. even with all the traveling we do, this one was the first time we did 4 different venues back to back. i know it doesn't sound like a lot of shows, but after 5 days on the road, accumulating a good 4 or 5 hours behind the wheel each day, the blessings of being under the same roof for at least a couple of nights are realized.

had a great time though, for real. mucho love to all the good folks who showed up to our shows!

and now. la journale de photo


merced. before picking up nico i made a pitstop at amoeba records on telegraph and swooped up two used parliament albums--mothership connection and motor booty affair. seemed only right, heading down to LA in october, to do our best to salvage the last of the sunshine and summer with some funk to bump bump bump. but yo, for the straight BOONIES, uc merced's show was offfffffffthehookk! for this one we brought along the hi-lifes (the biggity-band) to jam with us. yes. live music, that is the next step.




santa barbara. cyphers with the band at the back of the hotel makes us a little rushed for the 5.5 hour drive to UCSB. we arrive in the nick of time. good show, sushi and sake afterwards. all four of us falling asleep by 2am at the hotel room--not very rockstar of us, i know.




san marcos. oh, that's just north of san diego. irene is the poet who opened for us. after the show we are brought to the most psychedelic apartment ever. debauchery ensues.




fullerton. last week i called to ask my sister if her studio would fit four poets for a night. she said only if none of us were allergic to cats. they were maybe the cutest things ever. i woke up with scratches all over my right hand.




los angeles. you know you're in southern california when all the performers order jamba juices for the show.




long beach. yeah i know i cheated, that's not a picture of long beach above. but we were really there though, just to deadbeatexhausted to do anything, including take pictures. and then i decided to take a picture at the beach, but we reached the freeway instead and just decided to go straight home. anyway, i took this at some point, so lets pretend.

two more pix i like, and then i'm goooone....





on-the-road diet today: a mini-tub of bon bons, a bag of sun chips, and two slices of domino's pizza. i am going to feel so wonderful tomorrow...