(On another note- if someone wants to pickup up the remaining shirts and
sell them while I'm gone, when can work out a deal.)
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"Yeah yeah, Hawaii is gonna *explode* man! Yeah- we're there! We got
the shit. We're the next big thing, man...."
Not. I realized I haven't posted anything about the "scene" here, so
I'll do a little now.
The Buddha Funk party (after the Beastie Boys concert) went well-
DJs Min, Asia, Manifest and Steve kept things funky while all the
high-schoolers strutted their cool stuff and we waited for the bassist
from Ike Turner's Vagina (??) to arrive..... They're a punk band, by the
way, and that threw things off. Props to the Groove Inc crew for trying
to promote inclusivity and musical-multiculturalism (along with the
incantation from a Buddhist nun, and a song from a Tibetan), but Hawaii
ain't gonna do shit if places keep getting closed at 2 am (or at midnight
if they don't have a capacity sign posted, like what happened at the
Theatre a couple of weeks ago...), and the people that support this scene
are basically high-school trendees who will all be leaving for mainland
colleges this summer. Then again, I can't say anything, coz I'm leaving
too. Sorry, I just wanted to vent. The general climate over here is
not at all supportive of alternative scenes (even the house scene is
struggling), and that the "alternative" it is very young... ie
transient, and consists of essentially all the same people who go to the
punk shows, the acid jazz parties, and the house events just because
there's so little of anything going on. But positive vibes to the Warehouse
crew, Groove Inc., Smooth Inc., Hoomanakaz, Bassdads, the KTUH crew (Jon,
Mr E, Smoov, Eric....) and those who are really trying.
Greg
Greg "Boyteen" Beuthin | Respect.... ___ Keep
(gregbb@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu) | / | \ the
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa | ThePhatJazKat \/_|_\/ alive