Synergy
Simple enough title... Yes, it's the name of the venue, but it really was the theme of the night. Thanks to all of you who showed up. We had a really nice crowd with a little extra bump in the number due to the visiting Mintz family from Corpus Christi, TX. I'm always happy to see a family out in support of their own! My sister was out, too, and had to leave from a turbo charge of love talk from me and the book reading she went to earlier in the night. If you're inspired to write about real love, you've always got a pass from me. Some of my favorite books and shows I've had to leave early because they'd inspired such a passion in me.
So there was a love synergy in the room. And so much more. Or maybe that's the override to it all. The meeting stories in that room were pretty outrageous. Julie Mintz & I just met through her friend Ashley whom I met on the plane back from Detroit last week. Ash played me one of Julie's songs and then I was sitting next to her at the Hotel Cafe the next night. Joselyn, who also performed, I met at the Womad Festival after her band members thought I looked like I should join them. We've now been friends for 12 years! Then there was my buddy Michael, whom I met buying Belle & Sebastian tickets off Craigslist, my friend Andrew Kelsey whom I met at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco and Brooke Michael whom the owner of the Bazaar told to look me up when she got into town. Andrew and Brooke had never met. Then there's Alvin whom I met at book reading by my sister's college roommate, who brought his friend, the mother of my first boss in the music business. And Aleca who worked at the Clippers Basketball games when my sis had season tickets... And Beth who introduced herself at the Inti Illimani concert on the Santa Monica Pier--that I went to with Alvin--because I just seemed happy. The only traditional meetings in the house were Nailah, Erica and Danny but we've got great musical histories of intertwining friends and lives. Then there were even the couple that had seen me at a Temple Bar gig and decided to stay when they saw us come in the cafe tonight, though they hadn't placed me yet. And I almost forgot Bobby Funky who ran the rehearsal studio where my first real LA band rehearsed in the nineties.
In the beginning of the night I was telling Joselyn and Julie that Nailah and I used to have a duo act and called the event "Love Fest". That's what tonight was! Pure and sweet. I'm so lucky to be able to do what I do with the support of such wonderful community. Thank you all that were there in presence or spirit. Life is great. I'm looking forward to this weekend at the Lounge now. Totally different setting, but I'm confident we'll bring the same sense of community 'cause that's just who we are.
With love,
Your Optimistic Strummer
So there was a love synergy in the room. And so much more. Or maybe that's the override to it all. The meeting stories in that room were pretty outrageous. Julie Mintz & I just met through her friend Ashley whom I met on the plane back from Detroit last week. Ash played me one of Julie's songs and then I was sitting next to her at the Hotel Cafe the next night. Joselyn, who also performed, I met at the Womad Festival after her band members thought I looked like I should join them. We've now been friends for 12 years! Then there was my buddy Michael, whom I met buying Belle & Sebastian tickets off Craigslist, my friend Andrew Kelsey whom I met at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco and Brooke Michael whom the owner of the Bazaar told to look me up when she got into town. Andrew and Brooke had never met. Then there's Alvin whom I met at book reading by my sister's college roommate, who brought his friend, the mother of my first boss in the music business. And Aleca who worked at the Clippers Basketball games when my sis had season tickets... And Beth who introduced herself at the Inti Illimani concert on the Santa Monica Pier--that I went to with Alvin--because I just seemed happy. The only traditional meetings in the house were Nailah, Erica and Danny but we've got great musical histories of intertwining friends and lives. Then there were even the couple that had seen me at a Temple Bar gig and decided to stay when they saw us come in the cafe tonight, though they hadn't placed me yet. And I almost forgot Bobby Funky who ran the rehearsal studio where my first real LA band rehearsed in the nineties.
In the beginning of the night I was telling Joselyn and Julie that Nailah and I used to have a duo act and called the event "Love Fest". That's what tonight was! Pure and sweet. I'm so lucky to be able to do what I do with the support of such wonderful community. Thank you all that were there in presence or spirit. Life is great. I'm looking forward to this weekend at the Lounge now. Totally different setting, but I'm confident we'll bring the same sense of community 'cause that's just who we are.
With love,
Your Optimistic Strummer
posted by groovyacousticsoul at 10/06/2006
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