Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Taiko drummer Shoji Kameda?Äôs 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?Äôs Jack London Square). A California native from Mt. Shasta, Mr. Kameda trained [...]

[Read more →]

I was fortunate enough to land tickets for one of the shows the band Hiroshima played at Yoshi?Äôs 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 [...]

[Read more →]

1075 Redwood St Vallejo, CA 94590 View Map Phone: (707) 642-6454 Drive Thru open: Sunday ?Äì Wednesday 7 a.m. ?Äì 11 p.m. Thursday ?Äì Saturday 7 a.m. ?Äì midnight Chicken Express lives up to its slogan ?Äúnot your typical fast food.?Äù Here the food is fast and fresh. It?Äôs not overly seasoned or spiked with [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Rat race rushing to conclusions     Maze of misery leading nowhere        Ruthless cutthroat competition deadlines mandated           Wondering if there¬ís 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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Seashells by charles frederickson

[Read more →]

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

[Read more →]

AT THE WEAPON STATION by bonnie weidel

[Read more →]

Eating Clouds by traci frost

[Read more →]

We all know what it?s like to be misunderstood. It?s frustrating. The [tag]pentagram [/tag]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 is a five-pointed star, but not [...]

[Read more →]