david rockello of tribal café.                          ©2005 Paul Posadas  

me and 'lil stefani dropped by tribal cafe to meet up with darrell monday evening. he was bringing food for the gang at tribal. btw, tribal cafe isn't open yet but by the way it looks, it shouldn't be a long wait. martha (martha allie packard) and dave were busy with the finishing-up stuff but got interrupted because they had guests -- darrell, stefani and myself. man, it has been close to 8 years that i've since seen martha. it just seems like yesterday. she hasn't aged a bit. we were reminiscing of the time circa 1993, when we drove out to the "cock and bull" in sta. monica  to see eben eldridge of the "hungarian music lessons" play. eben at the time was my next door neighbor. the first set on stage was peter tork of the "monkees" and eben and his band played next. seeing martha again brought  fun memories back like watching "ace ventura pet detective" at the beverly center together, sometime after the northridge earthquake and "forrest gump" with kyung chi, that same year.  btw, my photostudio/apt. got "red tagged" that i together with the other tenants, had to evacuate. as i recall, i wasn't in a very good state of being (wreck) at the time that while everyone were busy moving their stuff out, i procrastinated. the only thing that i took  were my negatives. a week prior the quake, i had just been a "carjack" victim, and 5 months prior the carjacking incident, i snapped my right wrist from a "night swim" accident on zuma beach and the fracture took months to heal (the vicodin addiction i kicked overnight). man, i've never seen so much shit happen in a 6 month period, not to mention also, someone walking out of my life. yada yada yada. [violins are playing].   well, i just happened to have my workhorse camera- "holga 120 cfn" with me that monday evening and exposed the last shot on dave rockello.