Derrick Brown He has conquered the United States, Europe and Jay Leno, but still has trouble with those three little words

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THE POET Read how this slam poet gets people to not DERRICK BROWN only listen, but to feel his perfected words INVISIBLE CHILDREN

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Photo courtesy of surfinside.com By Jade Lehar the street and the best part is it’s gifts, as well as offering psychic jacket,” said beach-goer Ashley Hurricanes Bar & Grill is a music Daily Titan Staff Writer free. If you’re up for a stroll, Ruby’s readings in the back room. Coffey. venue that draws in many locals is at the end of the pier and there Dwight’s Surf City Gifts is a cute One of the main appeals of Main looking to dance with its amazing People all around the world are plenty of things to see along little store that is great to bring any Street is all the great places to eat. nighttime ocean view. watch television shows based on the the way: vendors, fishermen and tourists to. It offers toys, cameras, Sugar Shack is a secret gem amongst Fred’s Mexican Cafe and Cantina lives of people who live in Orange great photo ops. Eating at Ruby’s is tourist items and beach products. locals or those fortunate enough to has classic rock music playing with County. For most So Cal residents, a different experience, because you For those of you who just have experienced their pancakes. jumbo margaritas waiting for you. it’s very easy to get so used to living feel as if you are sitting directly on want to go shopping, there are Duke’s Huntington Beach Fred’s has wonderful food with pool near the beautiful beach that we can the ocean. plenty of stores on Main Street to is a restaurant everyone should tables and a big bar area for you to start to take it for granted. There is a plethora of different accommodate you. The famous experience at least once, it’s a bit unwind with your friends at. The next time you say you have shops up and down Main Street, Huntington Surf and Sports stores pricey, but definitely worth it. “Fred’s Mexican Cafe and “nothing to do” why don’t you take so everyone is bound to find are available for shoppers who want Duke’s has a Hawaiian beachhouse Cantina is my favorite place to get the short drive down to gorgeous something that appeals to them. that “beachy look.” atmosphere and pays homage to a margarita with my girlfriends and Huntington Beach and check out There is Electric Chair, which is like If you forgot your swimwear at surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku. just chill. The artwork when you’re all the things to do on Main Street. a quasi-Hot Topic with a great music home, you can always stop in at “Duke’s is my favorite restaurant. walking up the stairs is amazing and Main Street is a fun place to walk selection that has a tattoo and body Merrilee’s Swimwear and pick up The view is gorgeous and the food is their food is great too,” said Stacey around, soak up sun and meet the piercing shop upstairs. Surf City not only a swimsuit, but a cute great, and best of all it’s only a walk’s Dickey, CSUF psychology major. locals in a small-town atmosphere. Candy Store is a shop where you outfit for later in the evening. distance away from the Main Street If you’re not into the nightlife on Make sure to bring lots of quarters can feel like a kid again. It features It’s hard to imagine, but at bars,” said Katie Anne Joyce, Cal Main Street, there is still plenty to for the meters – the parking garages an incredible selection of candies Clothes Barn, you can buy any State Fullerton psychology major. see in the beautiful sunny daytime. generally charge about $10, or you that you can take to the beach to eat item in the store for only $15, from And if it’s fun bars you’re looking You can visit Zack’s Beach Catering can pay by the hour. while on Main Street. shirts, to jeans or jackets. for, they are also located in Main and Concessions and rent items If you are short on cash after the Psychic Boutique is an interesting “It’s great if you’re cold on the Street just waiting for you. such as body boards, tandem bikes, meters, the beach is directly across little store that sells tarot cards and beach and you just need a cheap Sharkeez Sports Grill is one big bicycles and roller blades. party, with great Mexican food On Main Street there are so and constant sports on the plasma many shops to browse, people to screens. It’s also right smack in the see and bars to visit, that you must middle of Main Street so you can experience it for yourself. enjoy people-watching.

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an acclaimed poet finally finds the right words

Photos by karl thunman Slam Poet Derrick Brown By Nikki Donahue weatherman. Maybe that’s when he Daily Titan Staff Writer became so capable of making people trust him. Maybe it began in the 82nd Wherever it stemmed from, Airborne. Maybe it began there. whatever caused it, when Derrick Under a deployed parachute as a Brown leans his mouth towards paratrooper gently drifting towards the grate of the microphone and the ground, maybe he learned how interrupts the steady buzz of unused to unconsciously allow people to electronics, people tend to listen. confide in him their most prized And if they aren’t listening, they’re possessions. at least really good at pretending. Perhaps it happened when he After winning the California worked as a gondolier in the Long Independent Book Critics’ Award Beach canals or when his attempt in 2004 and claiming first place in at becoming a magician failed. six poetry slam finishes in Venice Or it could have started after the Beach, Germany and England, he’s local news station fired him as its developed a cult following across daily.titan BUZZ 11.08.07 5 the United States and Europe for an original pastime Brown invented busy shouting out “I want to touch his performance poetry. He’s spat based on seductively caressing the your [insert some sexually explicit off rhymes internationally at over toll booth operator’s arm when body part here]” supposedly what 1,100 venues and universities. taking the receipt. he really means is “I love you.” Brown has spread his literal self He’s also working on a new book Afterwards, there was a dance via eight national book tours and titled “The Wide Signatures of party which Brown insisted was, in four in Europe. A few months Daylight”, 25 percent of which is fact, a dance contest. ago his face graced late night T.V. derived from his own personal life It’s strange to look at him and screens with a live performance he and the rest, he explains, comes to listen to him read his writing and conducted alongside The Cold War him in segments like quick reels of think that at one point in his life Kids on Jay Leno. For the past few film or lucid dreaming. he felt helpless. He’s this tall stable weeks he’s been on tour with the He’s 34 now and looks forward to structure of a man. He owns a Solomon Sparrow’s Electric Whale getting older. chest of hair that probably would Revival, a troupe of Kerouac types “I’m going to start smoking have been terribly popular during and a violinist. weed when I hit 65 to help with the 1970s era of pornography. His doggerel verse has become my arthritis, my glaucoma, my And when his best friend was a household name in the homes dysfunctions. That and tell really getting married, Brown undertook of the letter savvy. Even hip-hop long boring stories and spank kids studies to become an ordained artist, Sage Francis, showed up to that I think deserve it,” he said minister and took center stage at the cramped quarters of Brown’s between notes of laughter. the holy matrimony. Most of his farewell to California affair a few But then the conversation trails prose comes off sounding like he years back at the Ugly Mug Café in back to getting intimate with death just finished riding around a white the city of Orange. On Brown’s Web and experiencing what it’s like to stallion rescuing babies. He always site Francis is quoted as saying he’s almost lose his life. seems to paint a picture of being the best poet in America. Since then “I used to reserve ‘I love yous’ the one wanting to save someone or Brown has moved to Nashville. like gold bouillon. I don’t do that something. Vulnerability, one key These are the facts. any more.” essence in having the capacity to But what no one is talking about If random commentary on the love someone, doesn’t seem to exist is Brown’s newfound affinity for 50 worst things to say after having in the confines he calls a body. telling people they are loved. an orgasm is indicative of becoming But then there are moments when During an interview in some more sensitive and getting in touch the things he says will penetrate nearly immaculate sterile café, he with sentimentality, then yes, Brown’s a ribcage the way a bullet would. let that adored voice compete with medical scare really did bring out the They leave lasting impressions. WHERE’S THE SCENE the harsh volume of other patrons. loving nature in him for all to see. An excerpt from one of his most Without the help of a microphone’s It’s really easy to overlook the fact well know works, “The Kurosawa IN FULLERTON??? amplification, without the direct that he might actually have found a Champange,” reads: attention of soft-focus lighting, new appreciation for loving people “You have a daily pill case. The Daily Titan wants to know Brown corrected what everyone has enough to tell them. That might be There are no pills inside. been missing. He never told enough why no one has mentioned it yet. It holds the ashes of people who people how much they meant. And, He keeps it skillfully camouflaged died to him, that was terrifying. under a wit that borders on fifth- …the moment they saw you.” Brown was in the passenger seat of grade vulgarity and references to So maybe he did find what it felt a car on his way to a poetry reading insight about Orson Welles. like to need to be saved. Maybe, for this past summer when he suddenly Monday night a few friends once in his life, he needed an awful could no longer feel his limbs. He held a show in Lake Forest to raise amount of help and finally had to suddenly could no longer move his money for the hospital bill Brown is admit it. eyes. All he could get out were a few now struggling with. They lovingly So maybe when Brown was frighteningly panicked words before called it “I’m Not Dead Yet. A floating into wildfires or trying to he suddenly could no longer speak. Benefit for Derrick Brown”. There predict the weather on a green screen Due to possibly an allergic reaction, was no charge, just a guy at the door or making wedding vows official, or an anxiety attack – doctors collecting donations and some of maybe all that was an attempt at still aren’t sure – Brown became Brown’s books for sale on the merch figuring out how to show people he paralyzed from anaphylactic shock. booth. Jaimes Palacio, the fellow cared. At a Long Beach hospital they poet and friend of Brown who put Just because his vocabulary and revived and sedated him. Since then together the fundraiser, stepped up sentence structure is conducive to it has happened one more time. He to the stage and introduced him. winning awards at poetry slams is still undergoing tests to determine “I’m glad you’re still alive. The doesn’t mean the man ever really the cause of these episodes. world needs someone like you,” knew how to say “I love you” and Now he’s here sitting in a sad Palacio said. get someone to honestly trust him. excuse for an ltalian café with his Brown retorted something crude Now, after he literally felt life elbows firmly pressed to the laminate from the back of the room that escape him, people are starting to table top, in debt to a new $4,000 made the crowd erupt into other whole-heartedly believe his words. medical bill, and trying to explain such bawdy comments. When he’s Visit www.dailytitan.com why he continues to write and how Jay Leno is really tan in person and Fill out our Best of Fullerton survey looks like someone you’d go on safari with. Enter for a chance to win 2 FREE park The things that come out of Brown’s imagination are priceless. hopper passes to Disneyland!* He goes into depth about the games they come up with on tour to ward off boredom. “Toll-booth- creepy-touch” is a prime example, *Visit www.dailytitan.com for details. All entries must be received no later than 9-20-07. 6 BUZZ 11.08.07 daily.titan A glimpse at the ‘Invisible Children’

By Joy Alicia of whom have become orphans for saving my life,’” Russell said. Daily Titan Staff Writer because of Africa’s AIDS epidemic, Through the camps, young despite their obstacles, the “invisible Ugandans are being “saved” from Armed with a camera purchased this week’s concerts children” are grateful just to be the heartless rebels who seek out from eBay, three young friends, alive. children between 5 and 12 because 11.08 Jason Russell, Laren Poole and The documentary is filled with they find them a “commodity” and El Rey- Madlib Bobby Bailey, headed to Africa close-up footage of the tragic who terrorize the country, murder Echoplex- Great Northern in the spring of 2003 in search of conditions that Uganda’s young and civilians and steal innocence and Wiltern- Ween finding “a story.” helpless face and can be difficult to freedom. Glass House- These Arms Are When Russell, Poole and Bailey watch at times. The film features The rebels had dwindling support Snakes arrived in Africa, unaware of what many interviews of young, distraught for their cause, so they resorted to 11.09 they would encounter, their culture children and adults affected by abducting young children from The Greek- ZZ Top shock began once they began to the violence and genocide. This schools, homes and villages where Photo courtesy of soc.american.edu Wiltern- M.I.A. endure 130-degree heat in the powerful documentary has both they can easily abduct other is implementing programs and Troubadour- The Lawrence Sudan. Then, after their vehicle was tear-jerkers and humor. Their film children as well. Children are filming. The release date of the Arms caught in the middle of a roadside has been described as “a reckless, considered the best soldiers because film will come, but they have other rebel shooting, they quickly realized 11.10 fast-paced documentary with an they are impressionable and fairly immediate goals. Africa’s scorching sun wasn’t so The Greek- Evanescence MTV beat.” Observers-turned- simple to brainwash while having The documentary that just keeps bad after all. Russell, Poole and Echoplex- The Ponys revolutionary filmmakers, Russell, enough strength to carry a gun, on giving, “Invisible Children: Final Bailey soon discovered thousands Chain Reaction- Greeley Poole and Bailey have achieved and plentiful enough to create huge Cut” is headed to the big screen; of children from Northern Uganda Estates recognition. masses of fighters. Ninety percent of in contrast, there’s nothing “final” have problems other than humidity How did they manage to their troops are children, according about Russell, Poole and Bailey’s 11.11 or flying bullets, they’re forced to Glass House- Of Montreal document genocide and its effects to invisiblechildren.com. ongoing crusade. Working tirelessly flee their homes every night, walk on a country ravaged by war without Although being featured on for the past few years, these young Troubadour- The Walkmen for miles, in an attempt to avoid Spaceland- Cursive simply depressing audiences? It Oprah, CNN and the National philanthropists continuously travel becoming abducted by rebels where may have been achieved through Explorer Channel is exciting, Russell, across the globe, interacting with the Wiltern- Coheed & Cambria they’ll be forced to become child 11.12 meticulous editing and courageous, Poole and Bailey measure their “invisible children,” giving lectures, soldiers. captivating storytelling. But, most success by audience responses and hosting screenings, parties and Troubadour- Sondre Lerche Every night the “invisible Chain Reaction- 5 Star Fallout importantly, Russell, Poole and participation. Through donations events that educate and motivate children” of Northern Uganda seek Bailey’s optimism and passion for to their fund, 600 children to date others. Glass House- Stars refuge in dilapidated, unsanitary 11.13 change motivated them to be fearless have received assistance. Anyone can purchase a bracelet and overcrowded camps where with their lenses; consequently, Chris Waite, a publicity from their Web site. The bracelets Chain Reaction- Moros Eros they enjoy a few hours of shuteye their courage is obvious through representative for “Invisible help to foster education and Glass House- Thursday before they must wake up early in their commentary and imagery on- Children” said Russell, Poole and awareness in America.. The invisible Troubadour- Sondre Lerche the morning and walk back to their screen. Bailey are currently filming in children organization now provides 11.14 homes. The children must make the At a film screening in Hollywood, Uganda. health care, education, safety and Troubadour- Athlete same dangerous journey on foot “Invisible Children” entertained, “There’s currently peace talks employment for the people of Spaceland- NME w/ every night. Although survival is a inspired and silenced an entire going on. President Bush assigned Northern Uganda who are affected Polytechnic daily struggle for the children, some audience with its truth. someone to Uganda. Positive by the 20-year-long war. “The things you thought were changes are being made,” Waite Russell said, “Two weeks ago, we purposeful are meaningless. I’ll never said. met with congressmen and they’re forget when we arrived [at a camp] He also reiterated that talking about change. In America, and the kids sang, ‘Thank you, God, “Invisible Children’s” main desire we have the opportunity.”

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He was cast of fourth season compare to not only a great designer but ... the watch talented people at work and we were doing, I thought, “Who’s previous seasons? things that came out of his mouth see creativity and see what they can going to really be as caught in the Tim Gunn: With each successive sometimes were just unbelievable ... do. I think it’s just as simple as that. intensity of creating this work as season of “Project Runway,” at least I just kind of liked that ... he was TG: Heidi’s absolutely right. we are?” And I underestimated our in my view, the group of designers so blunt and just straight forward. When we were taping Season One, viewers. has been stronger and stronger. And But at the same time, he made it on for Heidi and for Michael and for “Project Runway” premieres Nov. Renee Pina Kinesiology Major Season Four is our strongest group there because he was really good and Nina and for me, this is our world. 14 on Bravo. “I like to go to Forever 21, yet. ultimately he made it all the way to It’s what we do. But looking at what Auf Wiedersehen. Charlotte Russe and little Heidi Klum: I think it had the end. boutiques. I like to wear boots something to do with that so many TG: I found Santino to also be because I like the way they are people see the credibility of the show very lovable. But I had a kind of proportioned to my body.” and [the contestants] really have to relationship with him because I was have talent in order to succeed. I in the workroom with him all the think that people see that and they time. go, “OK. Wow. This could be a RT: Give us the scoop on the new really big opportunity for me.” season. RT: Who comes up with the HK: There’s always lots and lots challenges and how are they kept of drama. We always put a twist [on interesting every year? the show] because that is the most HK: We all do. I mean there’s, exciting things ... I love it when I can you know, people from Bravo ... break the news to [the contestants] I’ve come up with some of the that some things are going a little challenges and basically we all kick different this time around ... There them around. And then ... whatever are definitely twists. challenges are the best, they make it. TG: We had one designer who had One challenge that I came up was, a difficult time with the experience for example, that made it on the of the show ... When I probed and show that I thought was really great asked, “Why does all this surprise and everyone loved was “Clothes you? You’ve seen the show.” And the Jorge Ramirez Off Your Back.” response was, “Why I didn’t think it Spanish Major RT: What is the appeal of doing a was really the way that it appeared “I get my style from my peers. I reality show? on television. I thought that it was like the vintage look. Style TG: It’s a way of working with all cheated and that in fact there represents a part of who you are.” mature designers who already have were days for these challenges and industry experience. I’m just in breaks in between.” favor of doing anything that helps RT: Can you reveal any of the support our industry and helps guest judges? move it forward in a positive way HK: No, I can’t because it would ... My role didn’t even exist [when just take the surprise away the I was first approached]. I did say to surprise. [the producers], “Fashion reality. RT: What is about “Project This industry’s in enough trouble Runway” and fashion that just without that” ... I was instantly captivates the growing audience of placated when they said that they the series? wanted to work with real designers HK: People just really love not just fashion designer wannabes. talented people ... These designers, HK: [Harvey Weinstein, they make something with their executive producer Desiree Gruber, passion, with their love, with their and I] thought about it for a long hands and they have a goal ... For time and then, finally had the idea people at home to watch this, it’s of what the concept of the show magical to see what these people do Keturah Miller would be. It was about making it sometimes in a day with, like, $20 Communications Major real and giving people a chance, budgets ... It’s fascinating for me. “I work in retail so we are on showing some talent because we It’s fascinating for people who have top of trend. I’m contemporary thought that a lot of the shows out nothing to do in this business ... [It fashion with a little bit of street there are about eating worms and is a] different mixture of people and edge but I’m always classy.” about weird things that people have I always find that people just love to 8 BUZZ 11.08.07 daily.titan while breaking away from my drawn out search for understanding. If the following observations reek of Ginsberg grumpiness, forgive me, but as of late, any inner jovialness has been punched right out of me like some drunken visually impaired bloke going rounds with some By Thomas Liam madden tyrannical barn-raised prize fighter. For the Daily Titan Needless to say, having to deal with Sorry dear readers for the recent life’s biggest mysteries can be, well, communication breakdown. In the painfully confusing. past several weeks, I took a much Confusing like how one needed break from my column administration, with an ex-coke head to piece together what’s left of and a poor shot hunter at the reins, my sanity, in an attempt to push can leave the justice department, myself back onto the rough road of the CIA, and our governmental regularity. body as a whole in shambles, after Recently, I unexpectedly lost my two hundred plus years of strong father, who served as my best mate, leadership. mentor and personal liberal darling. Confusing like that welcoming While his passing came as a direct open-armed Statue of Liberty shot to my spirit, it left me with to the east, and that disgusting some realizations, one being that in minutemen-patrolled coiled barrier Confusing like watching Carl life we are promised one continuous to the south. Wired with satellites, Bernstein speak at the Nixon library, cluster of confusion. So for the past infrared, and foamy mouthed air but not as confusing as the lack of several weeks, I’ve been able to piece scent dogs, armed and ready to those my age in attendance. together some realizations I had unwelcome. cartoon by reza allah-bakhshi Confusing like watching this globe heat up in some poorly manmade oven, while I cram my tiny import between foolishly towering trucks and ghastly Hummers in the school parking structures. Confusing like my shattered hopes of one day being forced onto the romantic streets of Paris due to the notion that France is quickly becoming our friendliest European partner, bon voyage ex-patriotism and my Hemingway hopes. Confusing like a Disney/ Bush administration produced promotional video entitled “Portraits of America,” aimed at luring over American-fearing tourists to spark our weak tourism industry with slideshows and catchphrases. Only problem is the video uses elaborate orchestra-backed shots of Horseshoe Falls, which happens to lie in Canada. Good luck to the any traveling families whose skin pigment exceeds translucent, in their upcoming border-crossing attempts. Confusing like the sickening timeless obsession old aristocratic males have with sending the poor, uneducated but most importantly the unsullied young to settle their conflicts and squabbles. Therefore, with all these uncertainties and doubts there comes one common theme. With each different daily worry, there is a sense of irrelevance. Thus, choosing which befuddlements to dwell on daily should at least be pertinent to not only oneself, but its environment as well. We worry, we question, but most importantly we depart. Some of us leave peacefully, some of us leave unfairly, but we all leave indiscriminately.