Been there, done that, had every fantasy offered at the exact wrong time. Calculated Tupac's horoscope when he was 16 without consciously knowing he existed.
Suffered through an ideal childhood: private music, dance, art, and foreign language lessons in between regular beatings while learning to love funk in a school that was equal parts white, Mexican, and black. Moved a lot-- learned to get into the "in" crowd.
Enjoy the underground hip hop world-- know a few artists and cook for them when they come to town. Respect the art forms associated w/hip hop, from C-walking and graf to beatboxing and producing, not to mention flowing. Particularly salute hip hop for keeping great musical motifs in circulation and inspiring a new generation to write poetry...
Number 2 on the Enneagram (giver) with Epicurean wing...
Sun: Capricorn, 8th house (house of mysteries); Moon: Scorpio w/multiple squares (not so easy to hug and mother=cross to bear); Gemini rising (conjunct Tupac's Saturn); Mars in 5th house; Uranus in 2nd house (rags and riches); Venus conjunct Tupac's Mars. A whole bunch of rationales for being one of millions who feel an otherwise inexplicable connection to people born in the summer of '71.
Had a lovely night with Mofro 9/15/06 at Cervantes and cooked enough to feed several of the staff as well. The food was good and the music was slammin. I was inspired to write a new song called "I Got News for You" and you see in these pics JJ Grey in his element talking music, Ian McHendrickson-Smith, who plays sax for Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings as well as Mofro, and Adam Scone, another Dap King and Sugarman collaborator who they claim can play keys and bass at the same time and tries to avoid cameras (maybe because he looks more like Cat Stevens than Yusuf Islam does). Thanks, Mofro, for the love and the funk.
