Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Taiko drummer Shoji Kameda’s skill with the big Japanese drum and his love of performance is quite evident. Not only does Kameda appear with his band On Ensemble, but in addition he performs with LA-based Hiroshima (currently on tour and recently at Yoshi’s Jack London Square). A California native from Mt. Shasta, Mr. Kameda trained [...]

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I was fortunate enough to land tickets for one of the shows the band Hiroshima played at Yoshi’s Jack London Square last week. The band Hiroshima has been releasing albums and CDs since the late seventies. Their current tour is in support of the latest release Little Tokyo (read the review at http://listenandbeheard.net/2007/06/06/little-tokyo/ ).
Considering the [...]

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1075 Redwood St
Vallejo, CA 94590 View Map
Phone: (707) 642-6454
Drive Thru open: Sunday – Wednesday 7 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Thursday – Saturday 7 a.m. – midnight
Chicken Express lives up to its slogan “not your typical fast food.” [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast of major transits will begin on Wednesday when the Sun, your source of vitality and light, at 26º Virgo will square Pluto, the planet of regeneration and soul evolution, at 26º Sagittarius. The energy expressed from this square of [...]

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It’s a human tendency to become complacent when we’re reasonably comfortable. In the minutes that we have between one task and the next, when we pause to have a conversation with another person living, working or otherwise investing in Vallejo, we make remarks about life in the city, talk about the way things are, the [...]

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Director/writer Paul Haggis distinguishes himself with his latest film, In the Valley of Elah, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, with a cameo by Susan Sarandon.
Haggis’ film unfolds as a murder mystery with key pieces of the puzzle needing to be found, giving rise to grief, anger and edgy humor. Dialogue is spare [...]

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Macroscopic viewpoint piercing faraway universe
    Never closer than almost always
       Disorderly heavens outer space harmony
          Quiet desperation clinging to emptiness
          Microcosmic analogous bottomless black holes
       Likened to abnormally small minds
    Blaming others for disowned limitations
Implosive fallen stars hollow echoes
Telepathic synergy extrasensory spellbound perception
    Exercising mystical powers occult attuned
       Naked eyeful revelations time warped
          Illusions work better than Truth
          Kaleidoscopic tubular images rotational twists
       Shattered mirror lifeless [...]

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Rat race rushing to conclusions
    Maze of misery leading nowhere
       Ruthless cutthroat competition deadlines mandated
          Wondering if there’s anyway out
          Trapped inside haunted Minotaur labyrinth
       Hoodwinked twists turning into hoaxes
    Cornered sameness extending beyond infinity
Spooky mandated deadlines sweating bullets
Once upon delusions untimely surrender
    Zigzags hedging virtual reality bets
       Backtracks chasing own Rodentia tail
          Tunnel vision echoes taking flight
          Selectively inbred albino lab strains
       Conditioned response experiments [...]

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Dug up family secrets buried
    Pounding rusty bent nails into
       Coffin hollow rattle echoing inside
          Mottled shadows slipping through cracks
          Moth balls stuck in corners
       Hope chest heirlooms emptied out
    Imitation crystal secondhand promises shattered
Petrified cut-glass splinters last remains
Mummified cat interred alongside master
    Stench reeking of embalming fluid
       Gauze loose ends coming unraveled
          Dead end sarcophagus sealed uptight
          Legacy of guilt passed on
       Confessed sins fading [...]

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As my pen roars
My thoughts grow deep
I’m losing sleep
There are reasons to believe
I’m losing myself slowly
To this blind, stress infested world of hate
Success seems so close
Yet so far away
Unknown avenues
I travel through
But each time I write
I’m temporarily set fee
Like the Ocean Blue
pete escobedo will be the featured poet on friday, september 14 during the open [...]

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Seashells by charles frederickson

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Big Fish Eat Small Fish,
Small Fish Eat Shrimp Eggs by charles frederickson

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AT THE WEAPON STATION by bonnie weidel

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Eating Clouds by traci frost

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We all know what it’s like to be misunderstood. It’s frustrating. The pentagram is one symbol that suffers that fate. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word meaning roughly “five-lined” or “five lines.” The geometric proportions of the regular pentagram are those of the Golden Section. A pentagram [...]

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