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Earlier this week the struggle for marriage equality lost a battle. Another battle. Proposition 8 was allowed to stand as law. You may remember that about 52% of the voters voted to write discrimination into the state constitution and take away the right for same-sex couples to marry. Now, keep in mind that about 18,000 [...]
Greetings once again faithful readers. Today’s terrific tune is one you may not have heard but should have. It’s Stan Ridgway’s “The Big Heat”, from his first solo album. He was formerly the singer and main songwriter for Wall Of Voodoo, a great but weird band from the bay area known mostly for their unlikely hit [...]
How do you like your music? No, I don’t mean Metallica vs Yanni. Yikes! I even scared myself with that one! No, what I mean is how do you like it recorded, what format? Are you a CD-type, like much of the country? Do you like it digital, MP3/WMA/etc, like a growing number of people? [...]
The latest book I finished was “Velocity” by Dean Koontz. It’s a fast-paced suspense thriller and it was hard to put down. Good thing I’m so busy or I might have read it in one sitting! The tag line is “fear never slows down….” It was the first book I had read by this author, [...]
This week’s Terrific Tune is “I’m Wrong About Everything” by John Wesley Harding. He’s a very talented singer-songwriter who sometimes does “gangsta-folk” (as he calls his folk music) and also sometimes does clever and catchy pop. This song was on the soundtrack for the film High Fidelity and also ended up on one of Wes’ [...]
Today’s terrific tune is a pretty cool video too. It’s one of my favorite bands Death Cab For Cutie and it is their official video for “Grapevine Fires”. It looks cool, sounds good, is moving, and thankfully it’s much different from most of the crappy videos you see on the music channels (when they even [...]
Last week was “Go to the Doctor” week here in stevenology world. My wife Petra had four, count ‘em, four doctors appointments all related to her breast cancer from back in 2005. Yes, unfortunately, that issue never really leaves your life once it has so rudely forced it’s way in. She is still on medication with [...]
Time for a rock concert! We traveled up the hill to Reno, Nevada to see the band Live, one of Petra‘s favorite groups(learn more about the band). They were playing last night at a casino there, which made for a good excuse to get a hotel room (no two and a half hour drive home late [...]
Today’s terrific tune is a live version of Beck doing his hit “Where It’s At” from his must-own album Odelay. He’s a strange guy but he’s just weird enough and just different enough that he is usually pretty interesting. This performance is from an MTV Live special way back somewhere around 2005, but I could [...]
A few days is more like it. We had a three day weekend this past one, and we intended to enjoy it. Friday we drove to San Francisco to see a couple events. But first we had brunch at Hebivore, a vegan restaurant with three bay area locations. When you think vegan you might think [...]