Nu School Nutrition : West Coastin: part 2.5

So, after day one of the Mega-Conference, I was feeling a little tired. This lasted for about 5 minutes...and then Lee and Ilayda asked if I was ready to go to Planet Raw. Of course I was! I am ready to live on Planet Raw! We were walking up to the restaurant and of course we see David Wolfe and his posse stepping back down to earth from the Raw Planet. He says, "hey Wolfeman, you guys want to meet us at a raw food party downtown later?' Uhhhhh...yeah!!! These synchronicities happen ALL the time! They happen more and more as I go further down the stream...going with the flow :)

If you are ever at Planet Raw, I urge you to get the Alien Blood Elixer...field greens, cucumber, sea weed, zucchini, salsa, and spirulina. It was sooo good! One of the best drinks I've ever had in my life! Tasted like a healthy bloody mary. For dinner I had a cheesy pasta dish...super tasty!

Dinner rawcked and now it was time to dance! We rolled up to the raw foodist colony, aka Peace Yoga Gallery, and stepped into another dimension. We were greeted by smiling tribe members adorned with blue face paint. The blue marks were anointed onto our hands and were accepted into the 36th chamber of rawness. It was unlike anything I've seen in my life! At ground level, there were 2 matriarchs creating and serving raw cabbage quesadillas and some other raw food that looked AMAZING!

Then we descended, shoeless, downstairs into the Los Angeles Raw Food Underground. It was 100% THE BEST PARTY EVER!!! There was a crunchy drum/jam band reminiscent of Hare Krishna's mixed with Ravi Shankar and smiling souls everywhere dancing and twirling around like dervishes.

I saw David and his friend Rachel on the dance floor and boogied out to them. I was grooving out to the hypnotic drum and sitar beat talking fruit with the Wolfeman, and realized L.A. is where I need to be. I shared this thought with David and he said, "dude Cali is where it's at, this is the epicenter of cool! But San Francisco is even cooler". Then all of a sudden the music stopped. The crunchy front man asked everyone to sit down and be quiet...that it was time to meditate. All 100 people in the underground yoga lair obeyed and sat still. The music continued and the chanting began. I was situated in front of a club-style laser light and it kept shining across my eyes, adding to the trance that I was falling into. As I got deeper and deeper, I was overcome with gratitude and love for life and my path. It was as if this was my 5 year reward for living a good life and everything had fallen into place exactly as it should. A tear came and went as the music slowly picked up. I grooved out of my meditation and back to my feet. The party was reborn through the sound!

Lee and Ilayda asked me if I wanted to cruise out to the next party...the 'Burner' Party. At first, I was thinking that I would stay at the Crunch Fest and meet up with my crew later. Then I decided to go with the flow and the flow was going to the dark side. In defense of the dark side...it has amazing music and more BASS!!! Being a South Florida bass head I was right at home. 'Burners' are the people who go to the Burning Man Festival. It appears to be a subculture of strange style and designer drugs. The Burner party was on the out skirts of Downtown L.A. in a Warehouse/Apartment Quadplex...basically a Burner Vampire Lair.

It was one of the strangest and coolest party spots I've ever seen. This party was the POLAR opposite of the Rawker's Ball. We payed a $20 'donation'. It was a 'donation' because this party was after hours and well...in warehouse full of the dancing vampires. I had a good feeling this donation didn't go to the March of Dimes. The first room was an electro bass room with a hot female DJ ripping electro breaks....my ideal wild monkey dance music. I grew up on electro breaks and tofu in Central Florida. The other main room had a sick Dubstep/Glitch-Hop DJ, spinning distorted bass and trippy highs. It was AWESOME!!! The people at this party were not smiling. In fact, this one Vampiress hissed at me as I walked by her. Thankfully we made it out with our blood.