Upcoming L.A. Integral Art Party, 9 February 2008

Guys.  I am so excited.  My dry academic veneer has been pierced and I'm bleeding all over the upholstery in joy.

My friend Paul Lonely (awesome interview with him here) is about to celebrate his 30th birthday at The Hive Gallery in L.A., and I've been invited to play.  Paul, author of that masterpiece of spiritual fiction, Suicide Dictionary, never had a birthday party when he was growing up - but this one stands to make up for those lost 29 years.  His partner Malena Gamboa, editor of the sweet spirituality website One Mind Village, has not only organized a killer event, but also played an instrumental role in getting my broke ass out to Los Angeles for to shred before the whole freakin' Angeltown integral community (and whomever else is interested in beautiful things and participating in a superconscious, inclusive community).

For me:  It'll mark my first sponsored travel as a musician, not to mention my first professional performance in the city of my birth, and an opportunity to finally meet in the flesh several amazing people whom I've known for years online.

For you:  It'll be a heart-stirring night of music and some deep freakin' poetry (Paul's composing a fresh manifesto with which to dazzle us).  It'll be a catered party at one of the coolest galleries in L.A. (and if you don't believe me, check out their last few exhibits!).  It'll be an orgy for your top four chakras, at least.  And it'll be kind of an unofficial CD release party for my new live album and a public unveiling of the first musical composition I recorded - on the Chapman Stick, bitches! - to accompany Paul's book (more info at The Illuminated Suicide Dictionary website).

For all those reasons (and more upon request) I highly, highly encourage you to tell everybody you know in Los Angeles to cancel their high colonics and traffic jam their yoga-toned butts out to this party, if they know a good thing when they see it.  The ninth of February marks our passage into a new era of unprecedented awesomeness.  Be there.  Don't forget to bring your hyperbole.