Sacramentune

From a Christian game show

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:27:00 +0000

David Cross as Alan Ginsberg

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:54:00 +0000

I just watched the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There. Not for everyone; required viewing for fans of Bob Dylan or Cate Blanchett. In this scene the great comedian David Cross has a cameo as Alan Ginsberg.

Long lost

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:48:00 +0000

I drove my mom to Suisun City to see her friend Francisca who she hadn't seen in 52 years! She had some interesting stories. For example, if you are a rich Filipino-American returning to the Philippines, you may be "KQ" — kidnap quality.

This is the piano room.

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:21:00 +0000

No, it's the tent room. No, it's the piano... fine, it's the tent room.

I hear they don't use real monkey glands any more

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:40:00 +0000

At UC Davis they engineered an organic compound that tastes pretty similar.

When you walk, you notice things

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:55:00 +0000

Here's an amazing restored Victorian at 18th and N that I never noticed before.

Street art near 18th and Capitol

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:49:00 +0000

I bought a tiny crowbar today...

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:47:00 +0000

...for breaking into very tiny houses.

The future of social networking

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:06:00 +0000

I punch into one of these boxes to get into a gated community. Soon, all human interaction will involved metal boxes.

My one Music Circus show this summer:

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:57:00 +0000

Cats. Considering changing the title to Cash.

Neighborhood sculpture park

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:56:00 +0000

This neighborhood near the El Camino exit on I-80 is full of these sculptures, mostly with musical themes.

Put three kids through college

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:55:00 +0000

My customer actually makes a living playing this.

Testing the keyboards

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:26:00 +0000

I was testing some of the keyboards for Music Circus the other day in the vocal booth. In the monitor above I could watch the rehearsal of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Poster at music department, Sacramento City College

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:25:00 +0000

Free delivery!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:17:00 +0000

One of our favorite restaurants, Ma Jong's, is using these tri-shaws for delivering food to the neighborhood offices.

Fancy brickwork

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:16:00 +0000

My customer's father built this house twenty years ago. There's amazing brickwork all over the inside and outside, including this arch.

I saw Mary Youngblood at Fairy Tale Town

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:59:00 +0000

A lovely place to give blood

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:52:00 +0000

I gave blood at a different Bloodsource branch today. It used to be an O'Brien paint store, and features a multi-color sculpture that the store put up and is now a civic landmark.

Rachel reading fortune cookies as Kate

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Pete's caricatures

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:31:00 +0000

Here's a great self-portrait by our nephew Peter. To see more, click here.

They really do put two soups in one bowl...

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:43:00 +0000

...at California Pizza Kitchen. Howard.

Oscar-winning card

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:37:00 +0000

Rachel is visiting for a few days and she and Pat Burns (our gay son!) have been doing Katherine Hepburn as channelled by Cate Blanchett in The Aviator. After a while, every sentence ends with "...Howard [Hughes]". It made me think of a new way to enjoy fortune cookies: read the fortune as Blanchett/Hepburn, adding "...Howard." at the end.

"That should be a website!" said Pat.

George Bruno at Henschel Park

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:18:00 +0000

I played with George Bruno at Henschel Park in front of 1,000 people! The wind kept blowing our music around but it was a lot of fun. The great Melissa Collard sang and John Doolittle played sax. "It's not a show unless Doolittle plays."

Tuning a rich man's piano

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:59:00 +0000

This is not my wife's car

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:26:00 +0000

She is not a vegan.