Yep. We had two. The first was with my family at a local restaurant. It was nice to see the family and afterwards we went over to my Dad’s house to visit a while. Good times.
The second dinner is the one in the picture. Tofurkey roast with stuffing inside, mashed potatoes, different stuffing, creamed corn, salad with Seitan and faux blue cheese, homemade cranberry sauce, red wine (sangiovese), and a cranberry apple crisp for desert. All vegan. All tasty!
Hope you had some good dinners too 😉
Hello again, family, friends, and everyone else too. The pictures from our San Francisco 2011 anniversary trip are now online! We had a great time.
Any questions, just ask. Take a look! Leave a comment if you want, I’ll be waiting….
Wow. Our 25th anniversary. Damn, that’s a long time, Petra B! I don’t regret it at all though.
And yes, there will be pictures here soon. But not yet!
We decided to take a short trip to San Francisco for our anniversary. We left Friday early afternoon and arrived a couple hours later at our first destination, a reuse/recycle store called Scrap. We found a few things there but not much, but it was still fun to look. Then we made our way through the traffic and rain to our hotel, the Galleria Park. It’s in a great location and close to a lot of things. We checked in, just in time for the free daily wine reception (translate: free wine). We were getting pretty hungry and luckily we had brought with us
I call it “Spongebob with Collard Green Leaf”.
What do you think?
Hello again friends, family, and music lovers…
This is the twenty-second in a series of posts about the music we own. We sort-of collect items by certain artists, as you may notice. And V/A means “various artists”. And yes, we are both still obsessed with music!
Artists are listed as last name, comma, first name. If it is a band then it is just the band name. Anyway, check it out and see what you think. Leave me a comment below the list!
Name – Title – Format – Size – Country – Comments
V/A – Grammy Nominees 1999 CD 5 US
V/A – A Very Special Christmas Live CD 5 US
V/A – American Idol Greatest Moments CD 5 US
V/A – Billboard Top Rock ‘N Roll Hits – 1972 CD 5 US
V/A – Music Express Productions – DJ To Go CD 5 US Prince and others
V/A – A Motown Christmas CD 5 US
V/A – Wild And Wooly CD 5 US
V/A – Funk Blast! CD 5 US
V/A – A Holiday Wish CD 5 US
V/A – Hear Music – Waking CD 5 US
V/A – Chestnuts CD 5 US Promo
V/A – Double Shot Pop Alternative CD 5 US Beth Hart, Jill Sobule, Morrissey, etc
V/A – The Concert For New York City CD 5 US Bowie, Etheridge, Mellencamp, etc
V/A – Just Say Noel CD 5 US XTC, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Beck, etc
Save the date! On November 12th, 2011 it’s the (fourth) annual Swell Sister Art Show and once again my wife, friend, and partner Petra B will have a piece or two in the exhibit, along with various types of art by other members of the Swell Sister Society art group. The free event is part of the city’s Second Saturday festivities and will be held at Shine, 1400 E Street in Sacramento, CA from 5 PM until 8 PM.
Click on the two images to see more info about the show and the official postcard/flier. Then make a point to come out on November 12th and see some great art!
Earlier this year I posted about going to see Elvis Costello in Reno (read about it here and more here). Well, I finally got around to posting more of the videos that I took at the show.
Check out the links below for video of Elvis doing four more songs from the great Spinning Songbook Tour in Reno Nevada.
What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding
Last weekend we drove up to Reno, NV for a quick getaway and a concert. Sure, we gambled a bit too but mainly we were there for the music. Petra likes both the artists and so we went to check them out. First on the bill, and starting 20 minutes early (!) was Carolina Liar. They were ok but the singer had some problems staying on tune. Not sure what that was about. Next up was singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw. Turns out he’s quite a performer too. He put on a great show and should easily have been the headliner, performing most of his songs from his first album (Chariot) and his latest (Sweeter). Those are his best two albums anyway IMHO. Then last up was David Cook, from American Idol. He put on a decent rock show, but there’s a sameness to almost all his songs that makes him better in small doses. More variety might help. Overall, though, it was an entertaining show and Gavin was by far the high point. I took some cell-phone videos that you can watch, click on the “continue reading”…
Here is the latest update. Some we bought, some were gifts, a few we burned. Do you love any of these? Hate any of them? Or are you just confused? Take a look and then leave me a comment…
Read all the way to the end and then leave me a comment!
ARTIST – TITLE – FORMAT – SIZE – COUNTRY – COMMENTS
Death Cab For Cutie – Codes And Keys CD 5 US
Jack’s Mannequin – People And Things CD 5 US Special edition with three bonus tracks
Bowie, David – Vs. KCRW – Golden Years CD 5 US Advance copy
DeGraw, Gavin – Sweeter CD 5 US
B-52s – With The Wild Crowd! Live In Athens, GA CD 5 US
Beatles, The – 1 CD 5 US Remastered
Adele – 21 CD 5 US
Eisley – The Valley CD 5 US Autographed
Hello again friends, family, and music lovers…
This is the twenty first in a series of posts about the music we own. We sort-of collect items by certain artists, as you may notice. And yes, we are both still obsessed with music!
Artists are listed as last name, comma, first name. If it is a band then it is just the band name. Anyway, check it out and see what you think. Leave me a comment below the list!
Name – Title – Format – Size – Country – Comments
U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb CD 5 US Special package with bonus DVD
U2 – No Line On The Horizon CD 5 US
U2 – The Joshua Tree CD 5 US 2-CD reissue
U2 – Boy vinl 12 US
Have you read this book? It’s called “This Must Be The Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century“, written by David Bowman and published in 2001.
First off, I really like this band. A lot. Talking Heads took pop, punk, art, funk, and quirkiness and cooked up something unique and innovative, while at the same time catchy and infectious. No one else sounds like them. They pushed musical boundaries with nearly every song, but the music was so good it would be stuck in your head for weeks.
Now, on to this biography. The author has a casual style that is kind of fun but also can get kind of annoying. He refers to women as “chicks” (does anyone still do that?). And, while there are plenty of facts about the band and it’s members, there is also an obvious bias to his opinions. He gives a lot of time to the tensions between David and Tina, and places that as the reason the band quite working together. This may be true, there are quotes and insights from friends and others, but there could have been more contributions from the band members themselves. There are some nice photos in a center section, though I of course wanted more.
We took the granddaughters out to the airport to see the new Teminal B, scheduled to open on this coming Wednesday. We got tickets to a preview so we could see it early. We wanted to see the new one billion dollar terminal but also all the public art that is in it. The kids loved the art and so did we. And the terminal is pretty awesome too, very light and modern, lots of glass, and very large! And many of the restaurants in the terminal building are local, not just the same chains that you see in every city. Nice touch! Pictures after the “read more”…
Hi there music lovers…
This is the twentieth in a series of posts about the music we own. We sort-of collect items by certain artists, as you may notice. And yes, we are both still obsessed with music!
Artists are listed as last name, comma, first name. If it is a band then it is just the band name. Anyway, check it out and see what you think. Leave me a comment below the list!
Name – Title – Format – Size – Country – Comments
T.A.T.U. – Dangerous And Moving CD 5 US CD-R
T.A.T.U. – 200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane CD 5 US CD-R
T.L.C. – No Scrubs CD 5 UK
Ta Mara And The Seen – Thinking About you vinl 12 US
Ta Mara And The Seen – Ta Mara And The Seen vinl 12 US
Ta Mara And The Seen – Everybody Dance vinl 7 US
Takahashi, Yukihiro – Neuromantic vinl 12 US Includes lyric/picture booklet.
Talking Heads – Remain In Light CD 5 US Dual disc, CD + DVD
Talking Heads – Electrically vinl 12 US Bootleg.
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music CD 5 US
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense CD 5 US Special edition, seven bonus tracks.
Hello again, family, friends, and everyone else too. The pictures from our Seattle 2011 trip are now online! We had a great time as usual. There are Seattle pix, Bumbershoot Festival pix, and just some other weird pix we took on the trip.
Note: These photos came from my cell phone camera. There may be other pictures posted later.
Any questions, just ask. Besides Petra and me, you might even notice a couple pictures of our friends Mama O and Liz. Take a look! Leave a comment if you want, I’ll be waiting….
Seattle/Bumbershoot 2011 photos
Did you miss the first two parts? Read part one here and part two here. And there will be a bunch of pictures soon too…
Monday September 5
Last day of the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and the routine is familiar. A bit of food in the room and then we took the monorail over to the festival. Once there, we snacked at the hospitality room and pondered the myriad of possibilities for the day. At one of the booths we watched a song or two by Lemolo, which I didn’t really like. It was very low-key female vocal but much too low-key. Today we had decided to see some comedy too, not just music. Our VIP passes got us to the front of all the comedy lines so we wanted to take advantage of that. The comedy show we went to had a short funny introduction by Baron somebody (I think), didn’t catch the last name. But the main show was two fairly well-known comedians, Amy Shumer and Eugene Mirman. Seriously, Amy was so funny I barely stopped laughing for her whole set. Politically incorrect. Yep. Funny? Hilarious! And Mr. Mirman was very funny too. Great show. After that, we watched a four-person panel discussion about being vegan, featuring the Black Metal Vegan Chef. He is so cool, check out his videos on YouTube. The panel was humorous at times and informative.
