killradio.org benefit at il corral april 21st....

the slow poisoner tonight!

il corral is proud to welcome...

Eiliyas (Atlanta, GA)
The Slow Poisoner (SF)
Neptunabis
HowardAmb

...we've been waiting to host the slow poisoner for awhile, and this
is the night~ eiliyas played here last night, and if you didn't see
him, you should come. he's touring around this fine city right now
taking in sun and sounds.

also our friends howardamb are up first - so come early... and
neptunabis will round out the night...

circuit bent madness! there is more today and tonight, but we got to
go yesterday - electrifying~...

i can't wait to host more bent events.. we also got a book on circuit
bending for the shop - but only one, so check it out next time you're
at the front. you might get hooked...

tomorrow is the druid short film night - don't want to miss that -
burgess is taking submissions for his evenings, so talk to him if you
are interested.

the bent night here thursday was truly hot. and the people who are
into this art are really willing to explain their rigs - their process
- it is a very learnable thing, and once you know a little, people's
work unfolds into so many dimensions because you have an understanding
of what pieces they use.

most artists who play here, or who are in the sub-underground life,
are that way though. approachable, humble. i really enjoy this
place, and the people who come here...superhonored to have hosted that
event.

so maybe we'll see you tonight or tomorrow or soon.
all well.

***


christie.

tomorrow is bent fest!

things will start after the theatre show next door
around 10ish

and hope you can come down for the opening of this coast-to-coast
circut bending celebration!

il corral...home of the end of the world bookshop

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.

post-pangea

so the plates have broken up to form continents separated by oceans,and things will evolve in their own way apart from each other.


sean has found another host for his monday nights, and we appreciate his time here. he was very generous and worked immensely hard. i am sad that he is gone.


the inevitable result of change is to have some people fall thru the
cracks. i suppose it is the fate of a space such as this to have
consistant rumblings from inside or out that move it - perpetually to
something new - but i am sorry for any inconvenience or sorrow.
usually our needs here are based more in the logistics of survival,
yet emotional resiliance is necessary to make ends meet as well.


there seems to be a great sentimentality regarding the past, the
mulchy origins of this place, and perhaps it was easier to break and
form anew than to bridge and brace against inevitable evolution.
it is very simple.


this is an amazing space, but it is just a space. it was founded by
people with the ideals and the lack of experience that anyone has at
first. it has been kept alive by those same people plus me. and now
my partner and i plus two new people are here to care for the space.
all of the 'drama' has been very exhausting, and i am proud of the
space - that it still stands. you are part of that, and i appreciate
that.


we have been involved since the beginning, i joined a couple months
after the first show. we do not have the income that earlier people
involved had. we have a humble life selling second chance books. in
order to have this space continue we have to ensure its sustainability
thru a strong collective system. things are different now.


nostalgia junkies will have much to pay tribute to. that is one of the
most beautiful things of life.
and we can hope that they can eventually experience what is hosted
here again...just listen to art...


sean is a great producer, and i know he will be very happy. we were
lucky to have him, even though his shows were some of the most
challenging.


as for il corral, i hope you enjoy it, and continue to make it your
own.


love
***
christie.

sean's monday nights moved to pehrspace

we are glad sean has found a new home for his weekly shows.

violence and the opposite of it...

after hearing what happened to sean when he was in his neighborhood...

i feel helpless - wishing i could help him - and am shocked into realizing how safe we think we are...

i think the breaking and blood, despite the jovial beastish fun, was too much for him between getting mugged and getting shot at with something.

he has been very brave. he is on my list of people to wish health to. my grandfather may pass on soon and he is far away right now. i am lucky to know he is with loved ones, but it is still hard.

thank you everyone who helped out during that show which are the many people sean mentioned, but so many more, because whenever anything happens people are so on it. i hope no one thinks anyone is upset at them. we just need to be more careful - like when we got the warning from the community before.

we simply must be aware - to think for tomorrow and the next - creating our own with passion toward sustainability.

valentines

apart from my love for love, and the fact that i was born today, i maintain my belief that valentines is more than the hallmarkian scheme which can make anyone cynical. it is a time to tell people what they mean to you. to spread and share love.

the sunday before - with excellent documentaries by the druid underground - then valentines gay, a little too rowdy for our own good perhaps, but celebratory regardless, now make the quiet of mundane things another kind of challenge.

we still need $1924 to finish the sound system. we have ordered it, but it will be shipped in parts as the house can afford. this system has five year warrantees on it, and it is excellent equipment. we've made a great investment in our future.

we just had a huge water bill to pay that set us back a bit, so that is disheartening, but it means we need to work harder than ever to finish the pa.

sometimes i don't know how i make it. i credit my interest in the bodhisattva perspective of life to my longevity despite adversity, but i practice in small ways what is based on such high ideals, possibly unattainable for one living in the city, in a world run on money.

obviously i am a humble culture rat and my contributions to the evolution of the world are debatable. i try every moment i can. i try for myself to cultivate these practices.

so nice and quiet...

this place is lovely when it has down time.

you have to have both silence and sound to balance any space.

just recently a noise artist i was excited to host had to cancel due to complications in march. i am disappointed, but i think that date is going to be perfect for a visual artist reception. if not that then another time. i am in no rush.

we just go on with the beauty.

live and learn

we have changed to a google group : il-corral

(the sign up is on the site www.ilcorral.net or you can go to google)

i lost all my photos of the place when the password was changed, but i will think of it as a new start. the password was apparently changed on january 29th. i read an email on the 30th that stated so. this was after i had been unable to login with the il corral i.d. since i had posted about the benefit. bob has apparently not been able to reset the password with his knowledge, so i have counted it off as a sign to move forward.

sean let everyone know how well the benefit was supported, and also about the article in the times. we discussed at yesterday's house meeting that he would also send something out to the yahoo group letting everyone know that we have changed to google groups.

i haven't explored the new setup very much yet, but it seems more interactive for the group members (i guess you can make your own pages etc.)

i wanted to post about ladies night! we have some fabulous and enthusiastic performers, and already we're getting a donation of 8 brand new dresses! we're going to be having a benefit for killradio.org sometime soon as well. and i'm working on getting a vegan informance night together (learn & eat & hear some music) so if there are any vegan bands or bands who support the cause who would like to do a benefit please contact me.

also, i have finally been able to email a little bit with bob, and for the record he has admirably returned the speakers that were donated to the corral, and the donation money we had paid to him for the p.a.. i do believe he tried to help us with the yahoo group problem.

i apologize that i had to process all of this experience in public, but i didn't know how else to defend this place.

i had a situation in school where i was put into a much bigger public/media realm than i was ready for and i felt that i did not defend my cause adequately. i am shy of media because of this, and it was very hard for me to be brave enough to address the group, but i had come to know the people and i felt that it was something i could do for the space since no one else could. i told the truth about the money, and if my outrage at the accusations was too much i apologize. i was terribly hurt by this whole event.

if i did the wrong thing at any time it has not been my intention. even the silly posts on the noise board were just some relieving sense of poetic justice.

what we do here is really hard. i am trained to read and write poetry not business agreements, but if we as 'artists' want to continue to keep this place open for 'artists' then we have to do everything. we have to be the bouncer, the recycler, we have to work the door, we have to clean up, check email, update the site, keep the bills up to date etc. it's just us, and a few other devoted volunteers when they can help. that's it.

i am not at all perfect, but i learned so much from bob, and he was always much older than us, more established financially and world wise. he called us the kids. we went thru great steps to make sure the place could continue after he left in september. we have done a lot of work on the place, and when he came back for turn the screws he helped. and then came all of the rest of the history which is why his email was so shocking and sad.

as i have said, i forgive him. and i wish him well of course, but he is not welcome here now. it is too fresh a wound, and still i do not understand why he did it. there would have to be time...for everyone...to heal.

if i am weak in this regard i apologize, but i can only do so much.

right now we have our new pa coming! it should begin to arrive wednesday and we'll have the core set. there are still other components necessary which we will need to raise money for, but i don't know if people want updates on that or not. sean has said people are tired of hearing about money. i would have wished to simply be able to provide a pa, but it was something that we had to go to the community for help with. and you helped with stellar response! thank you.

still working on the yahoo groups...

now sean can post on the yahoo groups, but the il corral login is no more, so i've now had all the pictures of the space that i took stranded in cyberland with a new password keeping them locked.

i find it hard to believe this happened on its own, i received an email from yahoo that the password was changed on january 29th. it makes sense considering the situation that has gone on, but i'm worn out from this situation. apparently it's no one's doing.

so the benefit was a success...

the art that was brought in for the show will have an opening soon...

right now i can't access the il corral group. apparently sean cannot send messages to the group anymore either.

no more time for the past now!

our three-event night is this saturday; i hope you can come.

i am listening to stockhausen right now and it is blowing me away. there are many projects that i can hear strands of him in, and i'm so busy now that the email and the website are returned to us again, and we've recently gotten another $100 or so in donations!...i know i will have to wait to learn more about his life until my own subsides, but i'm so curious after spending hours today hearing his sounds.

there is revolution in it because it is going beyond what people consider acceptable as art or music. i think tho that i have been immersed in the thick of it now and have my interests in particular areas, but i can feel the rush of solid loud or the movement of sonic repetition and appreciate them for what they are. i guess we all have our favorites, things that hit us just right.

from all sights there is no more 'drama' on the horizon, so i am enjoying the return to synchronicity.

thank you everyone for kind words, or donations, or bringing extra equipment when you play. we have weathered this amazingly well, and it is to your credit.

much love.
christie.

the slow healing

things are going along here now.

tonight was fun with close friends, it was relieving.

i wish none of this had happened, but our community meeting was successful, and we're meeting again tommorrow to get ready for the show, discuss the progress of the sound system, and clean.

beyond the accounting for the income from turn the screws, after reminding bob of his glitches early on as 'house accountant' when he neglected to recognize that stane put an extra $2000 deposit on the place, i think he understands that there has never been a foundation for his accusations.

i have been told that he has written that he regrets sending the email, but i do not know the particulars. the damage is done, it is too bad. my heart breaks over and over, but i wish him well.

the results from the house meeting (stane, sean, cory, burgess and i) are stellar.

we have never met collectively in a manner such as this, so i look forward to that being the beginning of a practice instead of only a reaction to a disaster.

this has left us all very exhausted, but now is when we have to work the hardest.

tonight seemed to bring back the normalcy. just the passing of time seems to do that as well. hearing people rehearse and now having stane give his weekly music lesson, makes this place alive again for me. hopeful. stable. supported. even tho we didn't know it was opening night at the theater next door...we're supposed to check their schedule...and they said we were really drowning them out...yikes...

but again, out of that stepping on toes comes the conclusion that i should just put the theater's schedule on the rehearsal calendar so people know when the plays are going on. it's a simple thing that would prevent any conflict with the people next door, but we only recently decided we needed even a rehearsal calendar, so everything is evolution.

i am excited to share the results of our changes, out of ashes, and i must be brave.

the truth

recent events have gone from bad to funny.

it's funny that we are accused of embezzling by the one person who would know that we absolutely did not do anything of the sort. the one person who has seen us work all hours to frantically make ends meet.

i have never been on the iheartnoise board until yesterday. and i will not go on it again.

despite the initial feelings of betrayal and justified outrage at the false accusations put forth by someone who i thought was family, i realize that this issue of ownership of the p.a. has been contentious since this place started.

the p.a. has always been someone else's. we have been reminded of this daily, and it has been used to support all manner of power structures, which rightly were in place since it was after all, someone else's p.a. but after bob left with no word and his thumbprint on $90 cash that we gave him from a donation, i realized that he doesn't want us to have his p.a.

he agreed with me to a verbal contract of payment in the amount of $2700 with installments of $500 a month. as the person who is now responsible for the il corral, i thought that was expensive yes, but it would allow us to continue doing shows without any break, and bob was the most trusted person. i should have gotten it in writing i guess. i am naive.

i have never been accused of anything as gross as this. it is very confusing since bob has always wanted all the money to go to the house, yet when we try to sustain the place, the utilities and rent, through the income of the house, we are 'hippie capitalists'. when we have shows that don't make enough to cover the house, we eat it. the last show i booked for the noise community made $25 and i put in the other $25 to make the $50 for the house.

the most hilarious thing, which i think previously would have just destroyed me, are the personal attacks from total strangers - do they even have jobs... ha ha,... this is so funny. these people are operating on one lying email. and i have to say it - he lied. he lied publically to a significant number of people, and knowingly tried to bring us to our knees. and for what reason?

when it all comes down to it, after the $90 that bob left with after exiting our contract of friendship and business and everything imaginable, there is $30 from turn the screws remaining.

he lied knowingly about the money in a sloppy email and destroyed whatever future we could have had with him over $30.

i don't want to talk about these things. in the past i have only said positive things about bob, and thought that his moods were just something to be weathered since it was afterall his p.a. and i never imagined that he would have any reason to destroy this place, i thought he was the core, that he believed in what he was doing.

when i first started experiencing noise i thought it was a revolution. noise is just another genre. the people on that posting board are still bands with amps and tours and press and egos and dreams and faults. this place runs on money just like any other place, and when it comes down to it - the one with the money or the p.a. or will win. and that is what happened.

you can kick us and pull the plug and slander us all you want and we will still go on with the space because i do this for the ephemeral cause we all talk about. and people still need you to buy their merch don't they. revolution costs money doesn't it. wait, what kind of revolution are we talking about.

is it different because it is so esoteric and sounds like 'a fire alarm' to the passerby?

it is a genre that is built on the same structures of touring and getting your work out there and having people buy your label. the fact that no one gets paid, that the places who host these artists are struggling, is that what we are all so smug about. we don't do anything for money. artists don't like money. but someone has to pay the rent. someone has to be here and spend their time doing all of this.

why am i doing it? it's not for myself. i've made 25 copies of a cd and it helped pay for our tour on the road as we sold it. other than that i've given away my own work. i don't have anything to prove here. i don't think it's that big of a deal. everyone makes music or sound or art. everyone i know anyway, those tend to be the people i have some great conversations with.

the truth of the matter is that bob was there when the bathroom was a mess and we called in the emergency plumbers during turn the screws. bob knows that bill was hundreds of dollars, and he knows that we cut a personal check that day for it. the house has no checking account, the house could not have paid for that $330 bill, the house has our meager income if anything goes wrong. so even if we hadn't paid him off $400 for the water bill, and even if we hadn't given $150 to the house for the three nights of shows, he had absolutely no grounds for accusing us of a four digit figure. he knew better. he knew and he lied.

i would never have brought up any of this if my integrity was not so brutally accused. and i don't care about my personal self. i am not in this world to be famous, i am here to work, but what he did compromised the integrity of all that we had worked so hard on.

i don't want to tell people i put my own money in when shows don't have a turn out. it's embarassing. it's bad business and i don't have the extra money. we barely get by each month. but i'm not here for the money. all of this was just part of keeping this place going no matter what.

this situation has helped to clarify the world in very important ways. if this place is to continue right now it depends on me, and these other people who are committed.

the revolution seemed to be that we were doing this without any recognition or support from mainstream culture. but now i realize that the multiplicity of sub-cultures we host here are simply made up of people with fears and hopes and egos, and can manifest the same cancerous attitudes and practices of the status-quo(s) we attempt to operate outside of.

i thought we were doing something great. and we did. and we are. but i feel like the captain of the squad has turned to fire on the troops. and here i am bloody. here is the il corral full of holes at the feet of the great leader.

no corporate entity could have done this to us. we didn't get shut down by the cops. we didn't miss a rent check. the strike came from inside. never never never would have expected this.

i am sad that so much time will be wasted on this debaucle. it reeks of bad politics and campaign ad spin. but this place is not questionable, and the people who want to come here and have a good time still will.

i have learned well that no one is above reproach. i have also learned that people will smile when they have snakes in their mind. i have never learned this lesson so well as now. i am changed from this. i will not foster the mistrust he bred in this community. i am hurt from it. i wish it were different, and it was blatantly wrong and inflammatory, but what worse could happen now?

those who trust and love the il corral will continue to. those who do not will not come. and if they do come, because they can't find a show elsewhere in l.a. and they need money to put in their gas tank like every other act on tour, they will smile with snakes in their mind, and i will be fooled. and i forgive bob for putting these slithering words into the minds of so many, but the only way i can go on is to let go of him and his strange slander.

i don't know what to say. it is disgusting that all of this has been put forth into the public realm, but i feel that it is important to speak out - to say the truth - and if my small voice can reach people to let them know the real situation here, i hope that everyone can make decisions thru their own experience. if we have done wrong to you, cast us off - if we have been good to you, please be patient while we regroup.

so after the $25 i gave the house for the low turn out show there is $5 left. i have done that on many occasions...there is no justification for a $1000 slander.

if you want to help us rebuild, you are very welcome and we have $398 toward a house p.a. growing everyday. you don't have to give anything. you give enough coming here and having satisfying experiences to share. but if you want to help us get a solid p.a. for the il corral that will be owned by the il corral, you can.

to everyone regardless, i am sorry that this ever had to be in your psyches. and thank you so much to all the people who are pulling together after this unfortunate outburst.

i will work as long and hard as i can to help make this place great for you.

why each one of us is alive

i don't know this,

but at this moment i have just participated in a meeting
with four other people
who are committed to this place
and we have come to some great new decisions

there is no room for anything but work now
everything will be pulled together

and i must hone all
into a singular force for action

there is no room for anything but work now

the aftermath and the clearing...the future...

i've never felt so betrayed in my life.

and yet now i feel so free. we don't have the looming dread of bob's mood.
the worst has happened already now.
(the worst at least to a space where music is played and relies on a sound system.)

and we have to do whatever we are going to do on our own.

...i thought he was family... ......

beyond personal hurt tho, it is all the artists that suffer, and the people who want to see them, the people already planning to come...what is to be done? why has he done this to us? it is so out of character.

i can't dwell on it, and none of us can. we can't afford to if we are to keep going forward. the details of his breakdown are not of importance right now.

first of all, there is no rush.

if we try to scrape together a p.a. for every show, we will never be able to make enough money to buy our own for the house. the fate of these upcoming shows will be dealt with tonight.

there are many ideas people have for trying to make this place sustain itself economically, and the reality is that the shows will never do that. we have to develop the space more so that it is stable enough to support shows that are not paying for themselves. either we individually have to become more wealthy, or the space has to be rented for money. the first is as likely as getting a sunburn at the bottom of the ocean, and the second will require new efforts.

the problem with what bob did was that he undermined the whole space. he even locked me out of the email and website. talk about tying someone's hands while you scream at them for not working fast enough. the great hero and friend slitting the wrist of the il corral...

perhaps i was wrong in trying to continue il corral in bob's footsteps, because now i know how human he is - he doesn't know everything, and he has faults. i knew this but now i know that he too is ruled by emotion. it has given me new insight into my own random position here. responsible for so much that i never thought of, and living such a graced life surrounded by art, i wonder if this is my purpose. i suppose as most people wonder. but this has brought great hurt and trouble that has caught me so off guard.

i know no one will ever hear me because bob's voice is much louder and carries farther, but i will still speak out, only because it is not right for him to say such things that hurt this place, regardless of stane or i.

it would not matter if it had not hurt this place. and i can only do what i can do now. and i will do whatever i can.

the happy ending...

i just read a book called petey. it is a story about two boys. petey and trevor.

petey was born with cerebral palsy in the 20's and misdiagnosed as an 'idiot'. he grew up in a mental institution. unable to communicate the growing thoughts in his 'deformed and twisted' body, he came to mark time as patterns of light from his locked crib. seasons passed. years passed.

because people didn't know that his mind was developing while his body was spastic and his tongue could not form words, they did not treat him as a person, but as an incoherant ward to change and feed. he had not even been outdoors since he was left at the institution. despite his mother's urgent attempts to live with his condition, he was committed to the state at the age of two. he spent nine years inside, not seeing the trees, not smelling anything but excrement and lye.

the book follows his life thru people who care for him and notice his spark of life. it starts with a bit of chocolate or a toy gun. a tender worker builds a relationship and can communicate with him. always they leave. he has no family.

it is important to note that throughout the narrative, petey is joyous. tho he goes thru his periods of depression and feels exceedingly vulnerable to a distant world that controls him when he cannot control himself, he is celebratory of the many small experiences he has. they accumulate in his vast sensory recollection and in his shoe box of belongings.

trevor is a young boy in a new school. he saves petey from bullies pelting his wheelchair with snowballs, and petey decides trevor will be his friend. trevor goes thru the horror of seeing petey, and reacts as most people do upon first meeting him, but comes to understand him thru the help of a caring nurse.

the two end as grandfather and grandson in the hospital where petey will soon pass
on. trevor's family is reunited after overworking and neglecting his feelings, and one is left with tears brimming.

one is left with the question however, "if petey can do this why can't i?". the grotesquerie of his features and lot seem to magnify his bliss at any positive experience. he is a fully present and sensing being. he is also completely compassionate.

the descriptions of his first trip to the grocery store at eighty, as he asks what everything is since he has never seen any of these objects before, are exquisite. he is delighted by everything.

he is selfless, devoted to his friends despite distance and time, and infuses everyone around him with vitality that speaks wisdom and kindness thru the eyes.

he is forced to contemplate. to just be and sense. and he is helpless without constant watch, yet so strong in soul. trevor is also a positive force to be reckoned with.

after taking petey out on many occassions having to bring duct tape to keep his wheelchair together, trevor is determined to get him a new one.

the cost is three thousand dollars.

trevor is only a boy on a bike, but he collects coffee cans and puts them up in local shops with petey's picture for donations, he goes to the paper and they write a story about his life, and finally he convinces the medical company to take only two thousand dollars because of the tremendous effort the whole community has put forth, and petey gets his new chair.

i don't have a lot of time to read. having a bookshop, you'd think it would be natural, but i only piece thru everything, never finishing. (not since the deluge of grad school anyway)... and this book was just great.

it is for ages 10 and up, so the print is really big, and it feels a little silly reading a kids book on the bus, but i didn't care.

i feel like reading rainbow...

...pretty rad...

love&noise

imagine the thermometer going up very slowly...

so tonight's show was the first unofficial benefit, arturo donated the proceeds entirely to the goal of keeping the p.a., we have also had donations from trash skull records and we're on our way. we have our first $100! i am trying to resist making a drawing of it, but it is hard...

il corral stickers ... new design...

...the new il corral donation page...

hope you can visit!

the holidays at the il corral...

this was a wonderfully anarchic jolly time. sean and richmond dropped in to give gifts and greetings. we made newspaper snow and a holiday album playing art facist. we drank vegan nog, ate treats, had a feast of beans and squash and despite my burning the pears, everything was fun and warm and celebratory.

...our gift from omega...

... il corral BENEFIT...

as i have mentioned, we are having a series of benefit shows to raise money to buy the p.a.

initially, we had thought it would be $2000, but that was if we could come up with all of the money at once...which we can't.

so the total is going to be $2700 paid for in parts.

this is a significant amount of money, and we have many other ways to help us with this cause. we are always looking for people interested in organizing events to help us raise funds, that is not our particular talent here.

as of now, when you donate at our shows, for beverages or whatever, when you go online and get il corral stickers, 40bands80minutes dvds, or our monthly passes: all this money will go toward making sure we can keep the place open and pay for the p.a.

and now our benefit shows, curated by sean carnage and i, start Saturday January 27 with anavan and khm in some incarnation...later shows will be featuring moment trigger, and others...watch the website, or the yahoo group postings for information and the process will unfold here as always...

if you are interested in volunteering to help around here, or you'd like to play a benefit show email info@ilcorral.net with the tagline BENEFIT... and we'll find a place for you.

tonight is different than most...

tonight is free,
a free for all
improvisatiation
since it's going on until early morning
far past when the buses start running

i'm so grateful for everyone
someone bought stickers today,
and we have bands volunteering to play
for our benefit shows,
and i can finally feel the taught cords
in my neck release
and let go
fall back trusting
into the unknown outstretched

turn the screws...

the pancake recipe on the refrigerator door
we had them for dinner too...
having a pancake gathering is a fine idea,
it'll happen again soon i think

everyone was rad
bob has it all on video
a lot of people took pictures

i saw a few performances only because we were so busy,

the seed pod pals
wanda (dead in the shower) gala and bob b-rue
rubber 0 cement crashintotraffic unstoppable
treasure mammal uplifting dropped beatific spandex holy time
the trash bag dancer brooke smiley and adam overton's noise
liam mooney's ok audience (that i got to film) total destruction

we enact anarchy
so that we can live peacefully
carving that tension
into fine wrought art

or so perhaps on a good day

$30 for all the shows in a month...!

corral pals

http://www.lotusalley.org/_makeadonation.html

il corral stickers ... ! support the cause ...!

we're selling stickers for a $2 donation
among other things (see image above) 2.75 x 2.25 ooh la la
another....

b e n e f i t

f o r

t h e

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c o r r a l

we need $2000 to cover the p.a. or it leaves at the end of february...so...

Saturday January 27 please come and have fun
so we can keep the sound coming!
this will be one of a series of shows to reach that goal
PERFORMERS COMING SOON.

mid-cleaning

tonight................................!

on sunday december the 10th, there will be a concert of much percussion
and preposterous rhythms, along with some peculiar improvisational music
with no percussion at all.
the following groups will play.

BoorBaar percussion ensemble
Dog Shit Taco
Cooper Baker/Nick Rosen/Antony Digennaro
Blood Money

some badassery will be performed.

from tuesday night...

musak john
albert ortega ... slujun ....
telomere repair



organ failure : super happy fun land's house band : houston's sister to the il corral....

telomere repair are coming back in january!

the show tonight...

things you might want to know

.......we like it when you:::::::::::::::::

smoke outside

simply give us the five bucks at the door

read our books
(feel free to read! and you can buy them too)

watch your step (be careful - don't trip at the front)

play on the rope
(responsibly remember...most people are really good about that thanx)

have fun

ask questions if you have them
(about what you should or shouldn't do here
or anything else relative, nothing too deep,...
actually i welcome that more than the rest to be honest,
it would probably be refreshing)

rock out without caring what you look like when you dance

keep your drinks inside! - this one needs work
(............................................NO DRINKS OUTSIDE okay)
ask for a cup or something, come on people work with us here

purchase the fine items artists are offering

drink water coffee or tea for a dollar donation

recycle your bottles and cans

look on the website for information ilcorral.net

vote

bike to a show / drive together / ride public transit

volunteer to help out

'safe & insane'

love&noise

whatever you need is already there

tomorrow! houston comes to los angeles

Tuesday December 5
Organ Failure (H-town: Space City)
Musak John (H-town: Space City)
VWigC (members of VWigC)
Slujun (albert ortega)
Telomere Repair




this will be a great show. i hope you can come out to support our friends from super happy fun land.



it lives up to it's name.

last night ..........

i was at the door alone, but surrounded by wonderful friends

if you came to the show last night, you know how lucky you are to have seen such outstanding performances...

the dung mummy shows have been happening here since last september, and as the il corral has grown into it's newness, so have the artists in this collective come to such a great point in their evolution. i'm honored to be a part of it.

details::::::::::::::::

Saturday December 2
The hop-frog kollectiv presents:
West Coast Post Asiatic Vinyl Release, Saturday, Dec. 2nd (LA)
a, DUNG MUMMY evening of asian/eastern influenced experimental music celebrating the release of the vinyl of the same name featuring:
Amps for Christ, Auto Da Fe, hop-frog's drum jester devotional, Refrigerator Mothers (w/Metal Rouge) & Sikhara

poll results finished jan 1 2007

for the online community: il corral group

we just got a camera...

hence the pictures are now more frequent...i'd like to be able to document every performer, but i keep running out of batteries (list of things to get: rechargable batteries)...

so last night was rad music, and a fun final exam from the creekbird lectures, which josh taylor won (his prize, a photo with creekbird and a $60 cash prize to go toward learning something). his special accomplishment, which apparently none of us could do, was properly organize the anagram rock n roll...(i don't recall what the mess of words looked like that you had to do this with, but i assure you, i did not get any of them right)...

our next show here is thursday, organized by our own wonderful david kendall, it will be epic.

so i will keep taking pictures, i'm just learning on this camera, but i do love it, so hopefully i'll get better and you can enjoy the memories of where you might have been or were some night...

monday night's show...

wow, what a life...

come on, peek in tonight's monday madness!

dvd's and such fun!

l.a. times likes our movie!

POP


ANN POWERS

FROM kids' stuff to folk rock's elder statesmen, with some hip-hop and noisy punk thrown into the mix, music-oriented DVD picks for this gift-giving season span many styles and generations.

"40 Bands/80 Minutes" The average viewer won't recognize any of the bands in this frenetic new film, and many may find the music less than listenable. Yet the spirit of this über-independent effort can't be denied. It documents one night at Hollywood's Il Corral club when 50 artists took the stage to the click of a stopwatch and gave their all until they got the proverbial gong. Director Sean Carnage captures the whole scene, including a man who makes a sandwich with his feet. Includes the bonus film with those stray extras, "10 Bands/20 Minutes." Tuesday, Sounds Are Active, $10.98.

this show tonight is just killing me with goodness...

i am sneezing my aching swollen head off, but these sounds are rocking my sonicism.

Friday November 24
Vitamin Wig C
The Deathday Party
Archery
Maestro

i know it's not maestro - they couldn't make it, and vitamin wig c opened, so it was either the deathday party or archery (i think they have comingled members, so wherever they're touring from, sorry this wasn't my show and i don't know these things)...plus i'm sick...i hate that...but tomorrow i'm ultra thrilled about the release

macro-eden records

macro-eden records, originally uploaded by ilcorral.

vegan murderers: {{{christie / polychrome & stane [bavab bavab]}}}

vegan murderers - stane

vegan murderers - bob bellerue / redglaer & kyle h. mabson

vegan murderers - il corral house band

free screening of 40 bands 80 minutes...!

You are invited to a free screening at the electric lodge

please join us in watching

sunday
november, 19th 2006

6:00 p.m................first screening

8:00 p.m................second screening

10:00 p.m...............the festivities will be held at
the il corral
662 n. heliotrope dr. los angeles, ca. 90004

Christian Cummings (of Fireworks) & Carnivorous Birds
Ponce DeLeon
Anna Jones
Brennan Hill


RSVP for tickets to sean@seancarnage.com
entry to the show at the il corral is only $3 donation with movie stubs

always appreciated - every little bit helps

From il corral

set list art gallery show

salient lock-up begins sunday 12 am october 15th

so much is coming up...

this monday, sean carnage will be at the smell
(no monday night show on october 9th at il corral)

we have two fine noise shows (the 11th & the 13th of october)

then salient lock-up

and the day after the clamor show.

so much has gone on, and i have neglected to write, however,
things have been going very well.

fabulous show tonight...!

attakr with dance collaborations
dommm
abiku (i got a great homemade shirt)
and
this song is a mess and so am i...

rocked this place. shook it's crevases and brick. laser lit eyes and what a generous fine crowd who loved books and appreciated the performances in awe and applause...

we're glad he was born!...

tonight was absolutely wonderful, bob's birthday party, but as many people remarked, deeply sad as well...

bob is leaving us for tour then more tour then portland, adventure as bobby appleseed speading love and noise...

i am getting teary now thinking of it, and i had remained so brave tonight...

there is no one to replace him, and i have learned more lessons of life and living thru and with him, he is a dynamo unmatched, and i envy portland for getting him, but he will be free then to return as a touring artist, always the most welcomed artist in residence as well...

hazel will be staying with us, and i have already bawled once over her eventual leaving as well...she is my dearest little buddha fuzz friend, and is a delight, tho she may not seem so (as so many people have had run ins with her growly side) she is a tender and intelligent creature whom i will miss minute by minute once she is gone...

tho neither of these living beings will be residing here in permanence any longer, they will visit, and always be present in vision, and have two people that are eagerly joining in for september.

tonight was an exceptional experience of community...i won't try to describe it with words; i am so glad we all got together to share the joy and loss...we are stronger because of it...

there is no doubt that what bob has contributed to will thrive as he would wish it to, tho to be without him will be a sorrow as this place is memory upon memory of him...he will be sorely missed, and always welcome...

things are moving into shape from shapelessness

we have two new people on the il corral ship: burgess & cory b. ...... thank you to all the people who tried to pull together money for the place or figure things out... i think we've determined the best for all!

i will be taking care of the site and emailing and such, so hopefully after september that consolidation will ease our misfired bookings that occurred far too often, but almost always with good-hearted understanding on everyone's part. and please be patient with me...we are getting a lot of email and it takes time...

this is an endeavor we do for the sake of community and art and the general betterment of our corner of the world, we try, and i hope people feel free to donate time and energy or even resources to our space...as they already have...

we are seeking parties interested in rentals

bands for rehearsal - private parties - art showings - etc.

what a great night!

this was a top ten among evenings...from begninning to end...

bob is leaving soon, which means a new roommate, and us trying to brush up the space and put our habitual last-minute neglectful but still clean eventually hallway up for the test...

we cleaned and it looks like livable again!

then these bands from portland, fem vox guitar pair played solo and poet sayer speaking words with scratch beat keyboard sound partner...pdx will welcome bob with all this talent...

our artist in residence, parisian marc lannelongue joined bob and i for

the meteor headed for us

a fantastic improv collab. that was so fun tonight...
and i think there is a recording...

tonight was just cool,
except for our friend getting his car towed (sux) this was a beautiful beautiful night...

i am so sad that bob is leaving...
no one can replace him...

DUO NIGHT FRIDAY THE 28TH OF JULY

One Trick Pony
howardamb
Eagle and Talon
the Cats of the World West

this song is a mess but so am i....dommm.....james brown iii..........friday sept. 8 with abiku!

justin shay sept 15 with frank moore and +dog+

having returned...

so there is some grand world out there...beyond the brick and iron of this warehouse...

tour was fabulous...we're completely broke, but we made it home

my website is down because of problems with my plastic

i have worked so hard on it, i truly hope it doesn't lapse into oblivion.

lots of shows coming up, fantastic changes, pushing the edges of the cellular body
moving the creature thru

abiku (baltimore's finest) returns sept. 8

frank moore in la sept. 15th with dog + more tba

how many bands in how many minutes?

52 that night i think
how many minutes i don't even know

the dvd is almost done...

i can't wait to watch, for so many things that i missed, i don't know if so much has ever happened in one little place in such a short amount of time...

from the thought discussed one morning between two then three then so many others, moved into reality, it is nothing short of fantastic...

i can't wait to watch...

the trash after...

for posterity i mark the garbage...

humility is a simple garment

unveiling heaviness of here

soon we are on the road and i am away...

there will be many amazing things here

but i am streak of silver
a thankful thing of light and electricity
a thought
some phantom ephem
finally movement

the cravings in marrow are for gone...
and we were sent off nicely...

my typing is shy of eloquent, it is hard to form words right now, it is so late at night for me...
the buses are already running, and have been for awhile...

thank you to everyone who came to this previous evening of things, i appreciate that you haul gear over our badly marked step, or that you watch the door while we play our set, or coming out because you knew we were playing... that's rad...

apart from the violence recenly here, and last minute changes to tour, things are good...the time when i return i will be happy to resume devotion to this space, but i am glad to leave knowing i will learn so much to bring back from the road...i hope to become better at doing what we do here...and travel is the only teacher now....

i learn everything (if i learn at all) the hard way...

i am worn out from ego

the blade is ready should the viper strike

i am exhausted...questioning why i do this...i'm still terrified from the cannibals seething at the gate...now we have it barred castle style with a wrought iron fixture and a slab of wood...

there is so much fear in this, in the cracks of the rat concrete, and in the brickwork...when people are drunk on their own power to be more horrible than you... but fuck them...

so i carry a big knife... i'm tired of violence....

the third annual ::: salient lockup ::: tuesday october 3 to saturday october 7

from last years:

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3:
SALIENT LOCKUP @ IL CORRAL: Improv art goes beyond Thunderdome at Il
Corral: two artists (Stane Hubert and Christie Scott) enter, and five days later,
two artists leave, possibly on stretchers, possibly totally exhausted from five
non-stop days of making-art-making-art-MAKING-ART-splash-water-on-facemaking-
ART. The idea is to eliminate distraction and pressure and just ... create,
and the rules are that Hubert and Scott can’t make anything before they
enter the airlock and they can’t leave til the time is up. You can just watch, or
you can help them (after signing up) before they hurt themselves--they shoot
performance artists, don’t they? (CW) AT IL CORRAL, 662 N. HELIOTROPE,
LOS ANGELES. STARTS AT 12 AM / FREE / ALL AGES. WWW.LOTUSALLEY.
ORG/SALIENTLOCKUP.



VOL. NO. 1 ISSUE NO. 2 l.a. record thurs. sept 1, 2005

this coming monday! june 19th ... music showcase tour kickdown ...

less the hour worth of time

how a person's work is paid is important, not just because of status or sense of self-worth, but for the simple facts of food clothing shelter culture.

culture is a new add on but it is as necessary as the other three, and far less ephemeral than it seems.

the core experience of being a human is not merely the functioning and safety of its parts, but that of a consciousness.

created symbols, the connections between self and others and their adopted or inherited symbols...these things give direction and meaning and form to our daily lives, the living of them and the objects we choose to make useful in that living.

and something innate : the tangible ownership of things has a preciously rare web of being...

paying five dollars, even below minimum wage...

Everlovely Lightningheart and Katherine Hall & Elijah Forrest

there has been great noise

phil's birthday came and went...the duo night...it has been wall throbbing and sweet vegan cupcake duets, but i can't do any of it justice...so i apologize, and fail and accept that awkwardly, but still with a firm understanding of my capabilities...

it was a fun experiment, but planning tour is taking over,...paying the rent is taking over, so it has to be much more work now than writing....

someday, when i can afford a digital camera i can truly document one aspect that makes recreating a scene with words all the more easier...i miss my camera immensely....i feel so much more drawn to the visual arts lately, feeling so dangerously clumsy with words...

so just to sum up:
bavab bavab is going on tour, and it is a grand adventure that demands all my attention...i will try to continue to document things here, but mostly i am in a frenzied daze....

it takes two *duo night* il corral

! the pope ! and anchors for architects playing june 19th with books on tape, dst & bavab bavab

tribute to tribute bands deux...i'm still recovering...

this show was so fun...sean puts on such great shows...


A Tribute To Tribute Bands Part Deux! with….Paloma Parfrey + Sharp Ease + Bellow & Howl as Johnny Cash & June Carter

Nosaj Thing & Domm as New Order

Dog Shit Taco as The Excellents performing Slayer

Regina Cherene and friend as Prince

Foot Foot as ???

Marfa Lights (bauhaus)
All-Star Jam Band+ more stars TBA


danced like mad to new order... had a fabulous time breaking dishes over stane's head in the parking lot...the bonfire was my favorite tho, that and playing piano to slayer... very cerebral...very visceral... experimetntal tribute shows are rad because you have to do some thinking about it...i enjoyed everyone's performance (thanx to regina princess of prince for letting us play before her)...mad fun...

::: "the order of creation" :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: set list art show at il corral :::

::: the order of creation ::::::

if you're a performer / band etc. and make a "set list"

give it to me and we've made a collective document...

this is the criteria and concept...

disclaimer ::: there is no charge, and no glory save for the satisfaction of seeing your work become part of the larger whole... the brick walls of the sub garde art set welcome you...!

go to http://www.lotusalley.org/_the-order-of-creation.html
for more info...

::: the order of creation ::::::

Militant Children's Hour (Bay Area!)Borful Tang (Oakland) the cars the doors ...Sea Otter (dancing sea bunnies)Atakkr (member of Harrasor)

james brown the third (of harrassor) .. guitar and reverberations, echoes not soon forgotten "guitar/theremin/programming"he just recorded and i can't wait to hear it..it's here in my hot little hands.... the cars the doors ...punk spurts of fabulous electricity next onto santa barbara, wonderful people .... borful tang ....beatscapedsoundnoise out of suitcases in a pilots cap and goggles with weather station cellular planetary modules .... militant children's hour ...one man band of the year according to most of oakland and other places , rad...really truly some vocal processing that was so well chosen ... sea otter ......

i was thinking tonight that i was so happy books on tape was going to play the 19th coming up because i cannot help but dance (even if it's just in the hallway) when i hear, and i just got spirited up this night i guess, but sea otter is one great show~so i had a great time, being an idiot and dancing and 'flailinwhenyawanna' (which is my particular style...) heh heh

glad to be introduced to him and everyone tonight... the north cities of california have so much talent it's fabulous, we're lucky to live where we do on the spine of this thriving experimental thruway...

it's funny, sometimes, you don't know why, if it's the weather, or you've had a lot of whatever you drink...for me it's coffee or tea...but you just hear something at a show and it catches you and you can't help but give up to it... i feel like it's the ultimate combination of compliment and divine luck...it says you dig someone's sounds but it also means something moved you,

and not everyone dances anyway...moreso in clubs where 'everyone' in the room is 'dancing' to dj's or live music that is for dancing in certain schools of training and such...

movement is art. dancing is art. it is as innate to the human experience as dreaming, and is as misunderstood and ephemeral...

goneness / liam mooney / wire nuts / raven chacon and johnny chang

raven and johnny did a fabulous noise set with bass and violin, liam mooney played shop vacs thru tubes and made the most exquisite piercing cricket orchestral tones i've ever heard...

our own bob bellerue.halfnormal and wanda gala did a prom possession piece while showering water and noise from above fell into contorted electric horn poses...

wire nuts fixed our electrical outlet in the feedback pedal bent scapes, and now we have the most undeniably rockin rocket night light plugged into the most useful art installation at the il corral....

laco$te will play again soon, they were not well tonight...

june 10th ... the first il corral duo night ...

fireworks
ing
drum jester devotional
i heart lung

one more t.b.a.

VEGAN FOOD VEGAN FOOD from a true wandering chef~

a show to go along with an amazing menu!
holloy, mtn. home and shag tapestry accompanied the delectibles...

holloy is three drummers and the most deep electric strings, mtn. home (s.f.) and shag tapestry (s.d.) both strings and vox...really earth harmonic and resonant, wafting on the scents from the kitchen... this is the second time joshua has graced us with vegan delicacies, and his cuisine shows such a vision for flavor, it is a rare treat...

thanx to sean for bringing him again...hope to host him on his next pass thru town...

the RITA (canaduh) / Pedestrian Deposit / Oscillating Innards/ redglare / Suicidal Tendons / genius females

i was in and out for this show, but what i heard and saw was mind-blowing. exceptional noise. loud as loud and clear as clear.

Dung Mummy Romak and the Space Pirates+DOG+Jessica CatronBob Bellerue / halfnormalMetaphysical Banana Cemetary

Vegan Dal Makhani Masala(Indian lentil dish, served on rice)... yum, truly delicious thanx omega!

may 28th show ... sea otter just added ...

no-fi soul rebellion saturday july 29th

tonight is the tshirt show!

i can't wait to see them up at the ice cream parlor (scoops, our vegan friendly neighborhood culinary artist culture spot)

it's amazing in there~...we just visited...

this first band the singer is now playing lefthanded guitar which is neat, good radio sound...digital leather...a three piece.... then another three the munchers (liked the vocals alot)...then kate and friends as crowned (great show with video too) ...top drawer...then cock in black (sweet noise collaboration)........................................................................

i don't think i like writing about bands because it's not something i know a lot about...but there are some shows i'm super into (biased) obviously they get to come here tho because i like them, so that's kind of silly (as if i should be a more wide-sighted visionary) and it's not like i get to just sit back and pay complete attention to the show because i'm thinking about all the logistics of it...when i do though i can have some genuine experiences that are so moving i have to explain them, communicate them somehow...so i hope no one ever takes offense that i don't list them, or i didn't get to hear their set properly...i try my hardest...

Dom / love tongue attack / on * off superfast / snoel (memphis) / jesus makes the shotgun sound

so arriving on our doorstep an hour or so before the show... snoel from tennessee, who ends up gracing us with fricative beats and pop friendliness... on * off superfast soared and wound into the earth... love tongue attack spit some croon.sweet rhymes and dom was the source of many shout outs...and the christ explosive riverside band (surprised me, was so glad)...auto da fe on a fantastic flyer...holy buffaglow we'll hear from soon...

a great night...one that reminds me (even as today we finally mop up the pixie stick sticky floor*) (*thanx snoel) community is stonger than ever...

thanx to isaac for a fabulous show, hope to host you here again soon...

William Caruso's Wet Hot Social Anxiety / The Casual Lust (from S.F.) / Woolly Mammoth / John Gake / Devon Williams & the Grunge Gods

really enjoyed this show so far, i'm working in my room, so i am hearing v. seeing mostly, but would like everyone who's played to return...

the casual lust (duo from sf who played last) hopefully returning to the il corral in late june...(bavab bavab will be on tour i think so it may be early july),...but soon regardless...her voice thrills castles in the sky then kicks down walls with some power from somewhere never flagging...i really want more people from la to hear them...

this was a still and attentive crowd night... singer.songwriter in many forms played, and it was all good... william and his 8track, the grunge gods, woolly mammoth (who i think really enjoyed the swinging rope)... and congratulations to john gake for kxlu sounds...

listening away from the actual performance sort of flattens the sound for me so i can hear it more thoroughly...otherwise i find myself looking at everyone watching what they're doing and hearing it, but it gets pieced up that way.... if i'm not watching, the listening takes over completely... i like to be right in the room though...then you're there physically absorbing the sound and giving back to the performer... ideally i could always do that... but i had a fabulous night listening so... can't complain

d rothbaum d kendall decibel BC: b baltschun + b baghdassarians + j catron + j drake swinging chandeliers

sound art incomparable....this was a beautiful night of noise...the subtleties of atmosphere, imperceptible shifts in the air, stirring fluidities - truly sublime....like being in a temple...

does anyone have a sewing machine?

we are trying to make a curtain. we have some semi-quality scraps, maybe if you are neat, and want your woven thread art up at the il corral forever, you would like to help us with fabric / time / experience / vision etc. we can help, but know little of sewing...

we have new lights...!

bloodmoney - thanx for the generous donation, and your rad music...

A++Sasquatch U.S.A.Hello FeverAsthmatique

debaser couldn't make it, but our hearts were with him. this was a great show. glad school's out so we can hear A++...this was actually the first time i'd seen any of these bands live, so that was a rare night! all new scrumpcious sound....

Vegan Dal Makhani Masala

for the next Dung Mummy saturday may 20th : Vegan Dal Makhani Masala (Indian lentil dish, served on rice)...

BOOK SALE IS CANCELLED

we've had such success with the shelves at the front that we've decided to focus just on them, and keeping the bookshop thing going....eventually the hope is to have more shelves and a better setup,...all in time,...read on! NO SALE ON SATURDAY MAY 20!

saturday july 15th art show

Casey's FriendsCollective art show
Music by XO Kid and Groundfloor
Live music by Xipper

clothing swap and sense feast

yesterday i actually left the house, tho i was surrounded by familiar faces,...leslieQ put on a fabulous event with some serious art / high craftiness / eco.cycle energy behind it!

there were some amazing sounds and acoutrements there for the indulgent taking in...despite being under the weather, i had a lovely time.

there were fiction readings, giant oscillating glow orbs suspended from the cieling, banjo songstrixing, scapes and scrapes of sound, operatic garbage, projectile images, 'gehtto punk' decor to take in, and nativey electronica mash...we got to dress up and take home whatever we wanted! it was super fun. really super pure fun.

the smell is a fantastic place! they have everything you need there, vegan food & drink / art / music / bike racks / zine stacks / book shelves / a mixed tape swap...it is pretty swell, and they also have that giant room with a huge stage...plus great murals, and always art up... this was the first time in a long time i had been there, so it had changed...

at the end of the night a bunch of bags of clothes were free for people living nearby...a wonderful way to end...leslieQ will be hosting a swap show night at the il corral sometime in the near future, very rad...

.. under the influence of the moon and the big bang....

glad to include vaginals to the june 17th show... a friend from the che cafe ... that will be a crazy night...

the 'stay to play' policy...stay around and aware...

toward collectivity...

unlike the pay to play policy which is how clubs operate we ask that people stay around (to help set up / clean up...keep things running even after they play etc.) and stay aware: (drink inside / smoke outside...are your friends rowdy, can you talk to them before we have to? put your trash in the trash and recycling in the recycling. don't jack gear or be violent.....mostly just understand that we live here and do this because we love art...etc.)

we don't need anyone to play here...we do each and every show because it matters and the community supports it...it would take only the concerted effort of one individual to make each show run so much more smoothly. volunteering is key....

the il corral collective is a way of behaving in the socially designated public / performance space. an accountability to the 'scene(s)' that we're all a part of... a more 'enlightened' way of participating in the many layers of 'underground'...(lots of disclaimer, but let's debate these words later)...we're just trying to get the basics down for now... there aren't a lot of rules here, but we can only keep it that way if people self-regulate....

if you don't get this you should visit the library or start hitch.hiking right away.....sorry if that sounded rude, but i think that it's good advice...someone once told me...

if you're reading this you're super rad anyway, and thanx for being that way, and for supporting / creating this thus far....

the inner workings...

just so you know:

we update the site (www.ilcorral.net) as often as we can...

probably you understand there is lag time and consistant changes, so if something is urgent, and i can't get to the site editing, i will post it here...

i've started this electronic posting so you can know what goes on, this is a way a collective can exist...

smash shazam thus!

about this time last year i was barely getting familiar with people who come to the il corral, as they were coming to know us, and now i am happy to say that this place and it's extended extended family strings are deeply attached to the soft spots of my headstrong heart...so it is because i care so much for this community that i wanted to start documenting the experiences in this place with more consistancy, and to work with concerted effort toward collectivity here, which has local, national and international/global value...

the picture of our space was taken by a friend of the il corral...