some positive definitions

""Siddhartha was very kind to animals. Often he preferred to play alone rather than join his friends in cruel games. One day, he was out in the woods with his cousin, Devadatta, who shot a bird flying overhead. The bird fell down. Siddhartha ran to it first and gently pulled the arrow out. He then picked some medicinal herbs and squeezed the juice on to the wound to stop the bleeding and calmed the frightened bird.

Devadatta said that the bird belonged to him. "It is mine. I shot it," he said.

"Had you killed it, it would have been yours. It is only wounded and I saved its life, so it is mine," said Siddhartha. They finally decided to go to a court of wise men to settle the matter. The court decided that a life belongs to the one who saves it and not to the one who tries to destroy it. So Siddhartha had the right to take the bird.""

this is from "the story of buddha" by the association of buddhist women. i just picked it up while working in the bookshop, and i thought it made a lot of sense.

david kendall's difference quartet...

tonight is the cd release for this experimental group, and promises to be a great event.

we had an inspection here and we made it thru! this is a very exciting thing which we luckily over-prepared for, and regardless the place looks great.

i am mildly amused / mystified by the recent tricks people are playing with show moving, but it is a waste of time and unfair to the artists who actually just want to play a show here.

there is no monolithic "noise" community, as there is no way to categorize every identity people have in their lives.

my loyalty to "the" noise community i believe has been misused by a few, and it is the people who think for themselves and actually know what is going on that i applaud.

i do not have any reason, nor did i ever, to work on keeping that "community" in this space other than my appreciation for the art and the people who i have met who make noise that are amazing. i love noise - many of the people i have met thru shows i consider dear friends. i've hosted many many noise shows here. i am willing to continue giving my energy to this community, and i do not ask for anything other than honest reciprocation of committment.

there are many people who make noise that i still respect immensely - and those i don't - particulary a michael f. who had the audacity to recently ask me for another show while leading people we had booked here to another venue. that is slimy and disconcerting. especially since he was not the person who originally had anything to do with this show, and the other people on the bill were rightly offended at his actions.

i was approached by these trusted friends who had touring bands coming thru, and set up the show even tho we are trying to focus only on saturdays because we can't work as much as we used to. these people are good people who wanted to play a show. why did michael do this to them? it doesn't affect me, other than it's wasting my time and energy, but those other artists - his community - what about them? why is he doing this to them?

because we have friends who were on the bill- we luckily found out that the touring bands had been convinced to move - but who was going to tell us? michael says it wasn't his responsibility to inform us because he had nothing to do with booking the show here in the first place. he's very right. why is he doing anything with a bill he had nothing to do with? this is absolutely ridiculous.

i'm not sure what the people who put forth friendship then write daggered email really hope to achieve from these choices, but there is a vast city here named after angels that has many spaces that will gladly host them - making it completely unnecessary for them to ever set foot in the il corral again. i would imagine common sense makes this apparent, and i encourage that with every ounce of effort.
if there is a greivance so profound that vengence is in order, it might be healthier for everyone to either communicate or leave. one or the other.

the petty back-stabbing by booking shows then moving them needs to stop. it makes things hard on everyone. the world is so full of positive possibilities - choose them and everyone can go on with their lives as they wish.

the artists of these many communities - "noise" or "experimental" groups - deserve more respect from the populus at large, but that may never happen. if these marginalized arts never receive this right recognition, they at least deserve the respect of their own.

abiku is coming back! march 30

dung mummy tonight!

they were here rehearsing last night,
and apparently the la weekly printed their last year's schedule for this weekend!

randy came over early with the paper. he said they had gotten the wednesday show right.

so dung mummy has a great show tonight, but not the three-day festival as in the paper. (my guess is that when someone checked our website www.ilcorral.net they hit our archive page instead of our calendar...so i think the site could be changed to make that less possible in the future....)

ilcorral.net has always just been black on white so the evolution to the drop of html now there is pretty tech. it might be a good idea if i work on making it more accessible. so that's on the list of things to do! so much going on these days!

and i emailed the weekly, so they can have our most recent information.

hope you can come out for the show,
it will be fabulous as usual.

tonight buko is playing! banjo songstrix extraordinaire!

spring lately...

things are very strange, but blossoming nonetheless...transitions
a bit of shedding
the ultimate good comes from it
now we can listen
at ease in the weather, effortless
it smells of jasmine here
and shavings of wood

cleaning and great work

so many excellent things arriving in the post

so many people still filled with wonder
despite mudane tedious

some people are
very excited for each day
knowing that true roots are growing
as we speak

this place will breathe deep this spring

inhaling stories and scents from the streets
hosting delighted all manner of

written / spoken

a new series of readings / performance of written work

benevolence

last night was a success - musically - and for the cause!

kraig grady, our own cory beers, and kris tiner opened (i can't wait to see them this coming tuesday here); their sounds are always a pleasure to take in and let circulate thru subtlety.

the transhumans were exceptional, and you should read the drummer bob's writings! they are joining us in noisepollination - il corral's summer noise extravaganza - put on by steve of +dog+. i was so glad to hear them, and get to know them more.

work then graced us with spacious, sweet melodic interludes before tik-tik blasted the place! tik-tik gives it all. rad movement.

+dog+ throttled every body in the room with some excellent formations of sonic wizardry, and were so good they were almost dangerous. the schults brothers ended the evening with some finely honed, free-then-formed luscious sounds.

i had a wonderful night.

thank you everyone who was involved! with this night, and all the ones before. so many people have helped get this sound system together. it has been a great challenge, but we're almost completely done!

the amp benefit (appropriately named) has enabled us to get the necessary piece for the sound system!

thank you so much...

for every show, bands and crowds pull together miracles of organization and communal trust, but last night was really amazing for me. it is nights like that which keep me going. the artists deserve it! the people deserve it! and i am thrilled to be here to help make it possible.

we are meeting more and more neighborhood people who discover us like a secret. it feels like the literal blossoming of some rare petalled thing. il corral is very lucky to be surrounded by the power of such gentle, engaged creativity.