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I’m going to Camp. I’m going to Camp. And as a writer. A real paid writer. Can you believe it? It’s like Keith says, the universe delivers. Give and you shall receive. Dickie should see me now. I might not be making money like him… »
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These are some of the headz who have so kindly dropped in telling us what they think of the book. We are committed to keeping this independent grassroots spirit alive as we continue into the Spring and Summer. To learn… »
A diverse cast of ten characters, living in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, make up the novel. In Headz, everyone comes together at a music festival in Chicago, where… »
The American music festival is not what it seems—not even Shakedown Street. You can’t have light without shadow. You can say the ideal music festival would go down a certain… »
An economy feeding on ganja gooballs has no need for Alan Greenspan. Besides, the unemployment rate at The Show’s a remarkable zero. There’s work. Not for the sixty thousand plus… »
Her name was Viviana Glass, my moms. She was born in Chicago, you know, raised in Oak Park, south of the city. My grandmother, Rosa Maria Contros, is Chilean. To… »
There’s nothing wrong with the taper sections. In the taper pits I get to sit around with old friends, people I’ve known for years. We catch up in the taper… »
Years ago, to celebrate our anniversary, I threw a three-day party for Sky. Only two people were invited, us. I called it the S.A.K.E.—Sky And Keith Everlasting—festival. Even made up… »
Keith and I were at the Legion of Honor museum. We were standing in the Rodin hall in front of The Mighty Hand. That statue says it all. It’s totally… »
Are you having fun?
Yeah, I’m having fun. Sky’s bringing me down a little.
What do you think of Chi-town?
Chicago’s hella cool. I like the way the breeze rolls off the lake…
What… »
Geri loves to sew—shortie’s always sewing. Tell me, sista—who taught you?
Before I came to sewing I first started crocheting, back in the day, before I met Curtis. I was like… »
I live in Berkeley Hills with my mom. My mom’s girlfriend lives there too. I’ll move out soon. I only need six more Natural Science credits to get an AA… »
It’s dope. Everyone bouncing around the room. Everyone running out-of-control, like antelopes. Getting down on the get down. I hate having to explain it. The music’s all sorts of… »
Of all the rowmantic places for young loveaz to meet in New Yawk: the fifth flaw of the Whitknee like as soon as the ellavada opens, or buy-da win chimes… »
My moms grew up cultured. She and her two sisters were always around the theater. When offered a free ride no one acted surprised when she chose UCLA. Everyone pushed… »
Miami’s ill and all but what is it about South Floriduh? There must be something in the water cause everyone down there’s fucked up. Maybe they get too much sun… »
I came into being on the twentieth day of April, nineteen eighty-nine, at the Mad River Community Hospital in Humboldt County. I had no control over being born on Hitler’s… »
There’s no place like an American music festival. And to be in Chicago, right in the middle of the east and west, it’s so apropos. Soldier’s Field to boot—just the… »
After dippin Teflon I hit up 7B. My ass planned on flexin to the music festival and I had to set it straight with Hurricane Clout. Only Diamonds came through… »
Whatevs, whatevs, scalpers are not headz. They’re cockroaches. Bet they’d survive a nuclear holocaust and Shiite too. You know scalpers hustle tickets from headz. As cars are backed up trying… »
It looked good for the image of Byron Jones to have a wife and child. We settled near Detroit. Moms took care of me the first couple of years but… »
“You know why amethysts are purple?” Keith didn’t let her answer. “Because Bacchus, the god of wine, one day he was bent, you know, on a bender, probably with a… »
You know my breeding is impeccable. I come from money, good Manhattan Jewish money. I’ve had a good education. The best money can buy. Sometimes I don’t show it, talk… »
For sale or trade at the glassblower’s table are chillums, spoons, Sherlocks, and bubblers. Chillums are skinny funnel pipes smoked by placing the bottom of the tube between the index… »
That’s the way it is over there. Their steez could cripple a weaker nigga. It’s all-good though. I don’t hate them or nothin, just they love breakin balls, they like… »
It’s a conversation starter—you might hear me say, yo, holmes, who blew this? And if the pipe was a Snoddie or blown by an apprentice of Snoddie, it’s like Louie… »
“So tell me about your friend,” KC said.
“Sky?” Keith looked nervous. “She’s into politics. She cares about things.”
“You two know each other long?” asked KC.
“Oh, yeah, years. We’ve a… »
Thelonious looked around the hip-hop scene. A few backpackers assembled on the outskirts of the area. These locals stood locked and loaded with EP demos, tapes and fliers promoting after… »
THELONIOUS HOROWITZ
A big hole in Rasta ideology is Haile Selassie. How can anyone make a man divine in the sense of a black liberator who first of all never claimed… »
Beer venders are scattered all over Shakedown. One head perches on the side of the aisle, a huge red cooler wide open. Another beer vender works up the aisle a… »
Whatevs—I got a question and it’s as serious as cancer—Erik B and Rakim’s I-Ain’t-No-Joke—I can still hear that tight-ass horn sample in my head. I’d bet my last ducat if… »
Keith: The idea that nitrous oxide is referred to as laughing gas. What’s so funny about it? Headz are flopping around on the floor like fresh salmon out of the… »
Accidental overdoses like Bradley Nowell, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, River Phoenix, Sid Vicious, Lenny Bruce, Heath Ledger, and Mitch Hedberg. We ain’t going out like that. We ain’t… »
I’m Teflon Jones. The kid who could’ve had the world: fame, money, glamour, pussy. The kid who walked away from what thousands of athlete’s dream of. For a large part… »
Someone might ask me what a head is. I’d reply someone who is willing to take the leap. What is the leap? It’s the leap of discovery, of adventure, of… »
Comedians, amateurs even. Los Federales, more delirious than Eddie Murphy, almost retarded like a Carlos Mencia bit. For the most part Los Federales are a big fucking joke. There—I said… »
The baggage thing is a quasi-interesting story, dude. On the flight from San Francisco I came to the simple conclusion that all I needed was a T-shirt and a pair… »
AN UNREVISED POEM IN KC’S MEAD NOTEBOOK (written on the drive from South Bend, IN to Chicago, IL, while Shore Morris was driving, the day before the show, a day… »
Good-bye, like the computerized voice when you log off of AOL. You’re out, logged off, unplugged. It’s the kind of out that will let you in. You’re on your… »
Last minute steez. That’s how we do it. Wake up in the morning and your day is your day then somewhere along the line you’re Audi five-thousand. I’m not saying… »
Kristen Chastity: “Car window down looking in the rearview mirror—that’s what it means to me.”
Sky Tyler: “It’s all about letting a different part of the jet stream tickle your skin.”
Melody… »
“Rainbow gatherings occur in the middle of the woods on National Park land.”
“How many people gather?” The Princess asked.
“I’d say the number could swell to ten thousand during the… »
Two things about the scene: hugs and nugs. The way headz embrace, yo. A long full chest to chest clasp. Long enough to let-it-flow. Tight too. Word is bond. Hug… »
At the S.A.K.E. festival, with henna in a plastic squeeze bottle applicator, Keith drew outlines of his hand all over my body. In the middle of his outlined hand he… »
I Love New York, I do, that’s why I had to get the fuck out of dodge immediately, if not sooner. Man I’m born and raised in that motherfucker and… »
Shakedown Street is the heart of town, a-i-i-ght? Let me break it down. Town is the parking lot outside of a music festival. We call it The Lot and its… »
The whole system kills me. The American policy on drugs. Don’t buy em on the street. For heaven’s sake, no. Arrest the motherfuckers that buy drugs on the street. Lock-em… »
Day two of the S.A.K.E. fest we danced a lot. We danced to Indian sageet music; beautiful sounds pushed by the seventeen-string sitar and the bell-like tabla drums. I know… »
The Shore Morris story. You want to know the Shore Morris story? My story’s just like everyone else’s story, I’ll tell you that. There’s nothing special about my story. Nothing… »
I recently read this story. It’s a work of Fiction. I like it a lot. It’s called “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” You know I always… »
The Chi-town fest is mid-city chillin. Sometimes the music fest is a big farm thang…dust clouds cough cough…tent city—Ewok Village in the trees—claim your land pitch your tent say what’s up to your… »
I grew up playing craps with crystals. About sixth grade I invented a game. It was played with chunks of green jade, black onyx, orange amber, and the pointy purple… »
Sky was a freshman in high school, a recent transplant from Humboldt. She lived with her mother and younger twin brothers in the Richmond, displaced from her dad in the… »
Thelonious stayed with us during a Hurricane. We had a lil jam . . . hee, hee. Coupla bottles, some dank buds. There’s nothing else to do when there’s a… »
Let me tell you about Curt. Would it be surprising to find out that Curtis ain’t his real name? Guess what? His name ain’t Curtis or K-hole or Keiser Sosa… »
When I kicked it with Melody Rain she lived in Frisco and still went to community college in the East Bay. That was like two summers ago. Let me tell… »
