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Sometimes I find things on the internet.
This song has had me by the throat for two days. I am a sucker for a waltz.
Josh Ritter, “The Curse”
The bluest thing I own, parked on a stretch of blue pavement at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland.
Mark Linkous committed suicide.
I don’t remember how, but when I was 14, I stumbled onto Sparklehorse’s first record, and this song never left me.
I don’t have anything new or clever to say about the death of a musician I didn’t know. I just want to mark the passing of something that left a stamp on me.
A.A. Bondy at Café du Nord, San Francisco on 20 Jan 2010
Location: Café du Nord Door 7 p.m. / Show 8 p.m.
$14
21+
(I am, if you were wondering, still in the process of designing a “Lorem ipsum” tattoo.)
I sent out a link to the beta of a site I was building for a client. Since it was powered by a CMS, the pages still used dummy content. I got a kick out of the email I got back:
“We love the site, but one thing: maybe our computer is broken, but everything seems to be getting translated into Latin. It just says ‘Lorem ipsum something something’. Maybe something is broken with the site or else do we need to change a setting?”
Kris Kristofferson at Campbell Heritage Theatre, Campbell, CA on 13 Jan 2010
Location: Campbell Heritage Theatre
Adam Stephens at Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco on 16 Dec 2009
Location: Rickshaw Stop
