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My New Favorite Band



I saw Toshio Hirano play at the Rite Spot last night (after Chris, Lily, and Geoffrey’s photo show), and was really blown away. Horino does amazingly spot-on renditions of old Country numbers by the greats (Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, etc…). That, combined with his charming broken english in-between song banter, might have been the best show I’ve seen in months. So, so, good. I highly recommend checking him out in and around S.F. …Apparently, someone’s made a little documentary about him too:

MLK is A-OK


St. Martin Luther King of Georgia, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Come down to the Attic tonight and jam with Richard Hart and I!!

Grace Cathedral


Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
December 2009

Monday January 18th for you

Howard Moon, Monsoon Moon, Comin’ At Ya


Sarah Lannan and Simon Evans staging a photo in front of the cigarette lighting Mighty Boosh’s Howard Moon @ 96 gillespie gallery London 2007.

Things Learned in 2009


When you’re born on Christmas, your life takes a backseat from the very beginning. (I wasn’t).

My Grandad is 89 years old, he lifts weights daily, drives a porsche, and is quite disappointed in the effect global warming has had on his winter hobby of ice skating. He told me he had to get ice skates all the way from Norway this year, because “you just can’t get speed skates in the US anymore.”
Grandad was a decorated officer in the US Navy aboard the USS Texas. During World War II, the ship sailed the South Pacific. The day the war ended, his ship was dry docked in Papua New Guinea amongst a fleet of US destroyer ships awaiting to invade Japan from three sides. The sailors heard over the wires that a large bomb had decimated the city of Hiroshima. No one had ever heard of an atomic bomb at that point in history, they didn’t find out until later what had really happened.

The snow blankets with dramatic effect. A stillness smothers and drowns everything out. Nature wins.

Canvas vans stomping slushy puddles and walks with joe frank to cleanse the spirit.

What else are you going to do in your home town? Later realizing that that was the movie theater that you saw Goonies at, kissed your first girl at, and god knows how many other first things at.

Grandad’s Diego Rivera drawing.

I Used To Have This Hanging on My Wall

cometbus quote

I just stumbled across it again. Still as true as ever.
Thanks Aaron Cometbus.

Tonight @ the Attic for you.

nn

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