THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

many of you may remember me webcasting from Cafe Pergolesi before. didn't have time tonight, just dropped in for a lovely soy chai. oh, the atmosphere though. writers, artists, musicians, students, and even young parents with their kids, oh and bikers too! all sitting around studying and chatting. and the chai did NOT give me the red face! it's a lamp above the entrance, silly!

even if just for a few hours. this was around 5:15pm and there were people in the parking lot putting ON their wetsuits to get in the water to surf. (what i mean by that is they were the "after work" surfers.) it was nippy yesterday too!

I just got an email from Robin Slick. I've been added to the guest list as a photographer for tonight's show.

oh how pretentious, but compared to the usual uninspirational life i live, tonight should be great! since i posted those pics of Adrian and The Power Trio from Thursday night's show i have met two fantastic people that have given me great encouragement; Robin Slick and Burton Lo. Robin is the mother of Eric and Julie slick, Adrian Belew's accompanists on his current tour - two young musical prodigies. And Burton is a fantastic neo-photographer that attended two of Adrian's shows in southern California and took the most amazing amateur concert photos i think i've ever seen. soo, i am on my way to Santa Cruz this afternoon, with my FujiFilm FinePix S5200 in tow to take my chance at improving my own photographic skills. oh and hey, i'm really only going there for one reason and that is to hear the fantastic healing musical vibes that Adrian and this cute, cute couple generate from their hearts. i do not feel inspired to take photographs of just any ol'musicians...

last night fortune smiled upon me again and i won tickets to a show at Slim's in San Francisco. it was a show i would have been happy to purchase a ticket to attend, but finances and the fact that i should have been in class last night urged my better sense to not indulge. thank you fates for changing the course of my life, yet again. seeing Adrian perform last night was a phenomenal experience. there was one person between me and him i was that close to the stage. oh, and i am done using my phone cam to document concerts that i attend when i could very well have been using my "real camera" - so i apologize for this soft focus/artsy shots. watching him, hearing him - the King Crimson influences and collaborations that he need not be embarrassed of owning rights to play; he is one ecstatically happy man that emotes through a machine, a guitar, and well - i was electrified, the crowd was electrified, probably the most on-fire audience i've been part of at a show at ...

this was a local newscaster in Danville reporting on the teenage boy that murdered his mother earlier this week.