October 20, 2005
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Mixygirl and I caught a blistering set by the Black Crowes at the Henry Fonda on Tuesday. I haven't seen them since college. They've developed quite the musical niche since then. We arrived right before the set started. It was LOUD!!! I forgot how loud rock concerts could be. I thought I have been losing my hearing, but I think I've just been going to concerts that aren't played at as loud of a volume like they used to be. The stage was decorated with candelabras and Chris Robinson was in his hippy, bearded, skinny, dancing... top form. Each song sounded kind of similar, but it was a great show nonetheless. The songs would start with a heavy plodding blues groove, with great vocals. Then they would always have really long guitar solos and jams, which actually sounded quite good. After a while the jams would crescendo back into an ecstatic re-reading of the chorus. The music was a perfect blend of metal, rock and roll, and stoner rock. The Crowes had a lot of stage presence that indie-bands these days seem to be lacking. It was a good show to see to mix things up a bit. In retrospect it would've been a good idea to have gone to the "Brotherly Love" tour a couple years ago which featured Oasis and Black Crowes co-headlining.
So, I was walking Kapono yesterday when I noticed that someone had tagged the wall surrounding our house!!! At first, I didn't realize it was graffitti, I thought the writing on the left could've been like some surveying code and I thought it was weird that they would spray it on our wall. The image on the right though clearly denotes gang graffitti. We live in a little neighbourhood of West LA, called Sawtelle. In its rougher days there was a gang called SOTEL in the area. Does this mean we officially live in ghetto?!?!?!?
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That sucks. it's like you're back in van nuys all over again.
i think kapono did it. he's gangsta.
SUCKS. who has to clean it off?
Wow, your neighborhood always seemed pretty un-ghetto to me. Maybe it's 20-something hipsters who have ironically re-constituted the "gang". They go around "tagging" (in tastefully unobtrusive neutral tones) and flashing "gang signs", then afterwards they go to the Standard for mojitos.
I've never seen real gang graffiti that spells out "crips" or "bloods" so it's probably some imitator.
This could be an opportunity to tie-dye paint the whole wall.
Apparently, the gang in that area is small but still exists and is called Sotel 13, which matches the graffiti. They're centered in Stoner Park, which is like only like 5 blocks from you!
Why tell us via tagging the 13 that it's Southern California. Duh.
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