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ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight

ikue mori at stanford ccrma tonight i may have her confused with Cheetoh Molly, but it’s cool. http://events.stanford.edu/events/318/31849/ edit to add: meanwhile I was gonna post something about comparing the Freight and Salvage schedule arrived yesterday in my box with … Continue reading

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News! News! News! News! Reykjavik?

Yale-educated, Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes of Half Moon Bay has written four books on the science of the history of “The Bomb” — that’s, by my simple math, about 2,000 pages and a half-million words — but by my reckoning, … Continue reading

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Harbaugh Monologue debut at Philz

I am not actually a comedian just a guy trying to work out my issues with Jim Harbaugh, who is or was a great athlete but I had to guard him in basketball in 1982 and just never really got … Continue reading

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Bird is the word effigy Cochiti

(this does not work at all but for a minute there, for 1:21, there was what I found a charming effect where the woman would demonstrate a Bird Effigy while, if you open both videos, the band would play “Bird … Continue reading

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I am mining Dylan for insights into Palo Alto parking debates

Tonight there is a meeting about parking issues in downtown north. I just pasted this classic Bob Dylan track into the debate, on another site. “Don’t follow leaders, watch the pawking metaws” to me means both get involved and stay … Continue reading

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Plastic Alto welcomes “Palo Alto” and “The Set of All Blind Piano Players”

1. A whiles back I ran into Jim Keene, the City Manager for City of Palo Alto, at a chain coffee house on El Camino, near Stanford Avenue, the place that us old timers think of as the former Mountain … Continue reading

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading

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Motherhips in early May in Big Sur Folk Yeah!

Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, and various other Mother Hipsters have played sundry shows for Earthwise Productions in Palo Alto, mostly in the 1990s. They also played The Edge numerous times, produced by other peoples. I last saw Tim and … Continue reading

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Rigo 12

Rigo 23: Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program Rigo 23, “Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program – Corncob (Mazorca) Spaceship,” 2011-12. Photo: Santiago Marcial. Rigo 23, “Itacuruça,” 2010. Installation view, Berardo Foundation Museum, Lisbon, Portugal. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. … Continue reading

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Three chords and the truth

I am admittedly biased about Robert Glasper.  He is my best friend and my life partner.  He is also a brilliant musician… disclosure and disclaimers aside. –Angelika Beener, jazz writer and in Glasper’s circle. This made me laugh out loud and … Continue reading

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