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Monday

11/01/2004

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Advanced HKD Workout @ RSF

Rik Grech (1946);
Lyle Lovett (1956);
Anthony Kiedis (1962)

Tuesday

11/02/2004

Election Night Dinner Party @ Jarid & Jo's place in San Francisco

Keith Emerson (1944)

'Mississippi' John Smith Hurt (1966)

Wednesday

11/03/2004

Observe the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter near the eastern horizon at approximately 5:30 AM

Morning HKD Workout @ RSF

Takeout dinner with crepes from Crepes-a-Go-Go on Chestnut

Monica Salmaso (cancels - sick! But her pianist Benjamin Taubkin carries on, with help from Mike Marshall & Harvey Wainapel); Hermeto Pascoal @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

Thursday

11/04/2004

A visit to the Dentist!

Dinner with Jeff @ Fresh Choice, Walnut Creek

JAL stays over at our place

Delbert McClinton (1940);
Christopher Henry Difford (1954);
James Honeyman-Scott (1956)

Friday

11/05/2004

RLV turns 14600 days old today!

Morning HKD Workout @ RSF

Dinner @ Paul K Restaurant, San Francisco; with Carl & Monette, David

Bang on a Can All-Stars with Philip Glass @ Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Program Notes from SF Performances
Reviews from Joshua Kosman of the SF Chronicle and Jason Kuan of the UCSF Synapse.

Leonard Franklin Slye AKA Roy Rogers (1911);
Izear Luster 'Ike' Turner, Jr. (1931);
'Little' Richard Wayne Penniman (1932);
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (1941);
Ingram Cecil Connor, III AKA Gram Parsons (1946)

Gaetano Alberto 'Guy' Lombardo (1977, ruptured aortic aneurysm);
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (1989, heart attack);
Eddie Harris (1996);
Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray, Jr. (2005, heart attack)

Saturday

11/06/2004

Culann's Hounds @ Green Festival, San Francisco Concourse and Exhibition Hall, San Francisco

Adolphe Sax (1814);
Douglas Wayne Sahm (1941);
Glenn Frey (1948);
Arturo Sandoval (1949)

Roberta Joan Anderson AKA Joni Mitchell (1943)

Sunday

11/07/2004

Counterthrow Workshop with Dr. Link @ RSF

Afternoon HKD Workout @ RSF

Dinner with Roland @ Hua Hin Thai Restaurant and Grill, Berkeley

Roberta Joan Anderson aka Joni Mitchell (1943)

Alvin Pleasant 'A.P.' Delaney Carter (1960)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

11/08/2004

Advanced HKD Workout @ RSF

James Douglas 'Jim' Morrison (1943);
Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell Bramlett (1944);
Minnie Julia Riperton aka Memphis Minnie (1947) Arbonna 'Bonnie' Raitt (1949);
Rickie Lee Jones (1954);
Don Byron (1958);

James Carroll Booker III (1983, liver failure);
Lester Bowie (1999, liver cancer)

Tuesday

11/09/2004

Back at the Dentist!

Tom Fogerty (1941)

Wednesday

11/10/2004

Morning HKD Workout @ RSF

Dinner @ Fresh Choice, Saratoga

Angelique Kidjo @ the Claire Loftus Carriage House Theatre, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga

David Edward 'Screaming Lord' Sutch (1940);
Greg Lake (1948)

Carmen McRae (1994, lung cancer);
Ken Kesey (2001, liver cancer)

Thursday

11/11/2004

John Mose Allison, Jr. (1927)

Berry Oakley (1972, motorcycle crash)

Friday

11/12/2004

Run/swim Charlie at East Beach, Chrissy Field, San Francisco

Jake Shimabukuro; Darol Anger and Mike Marshall @ the Claire Loftus Carriage House Theatre, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga

Booker T. Washington 'Bukka' White (1906);
Booker T. Jones (1944);
Neil Percival Kenneth Robert Ragland Young (1945)

Saturday

11/13/2004

Liz Carroll & John Doyle live on KALW 91.7 FM

Leslie Wirpsa's Dissertation-Filing Celebration Party, Kensington

Bay Area Snow Show @ San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose

Dinner and Bowling for Columbine @ Siu-Fai's place, San Jose

Kenneth David 'Kenny' Kirkland (1998, drug overdose or heart attack?)

Sunday

11/14/2004

Counterthrow Workshop with Dr. Link @ RSF

Afternoon HKD Workout @ RSF;
Randy breaks his ankle (bottom outside portion of the tibia, actually) during Rondori sparring.

Kaiser Walnut Creek takes three hours (apparently no blood = no emergency = no hurry) to get a temporary cast in place on Randy's ankle.

Dinner @ Tin's Tea House Lounge, Walnut Creek

Aaron Copland (1900)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

11/15/2004

Randy's pain medication triggers an asthma attack

Lunch with Lawrence @ La Creperie du Monde

Randy's BD Dinner Celebration @ Yoshi's Jazz House and Restaurant, Oakland

Billy Bang Quartet (with Ishmael Reed) @ Yoshi's Jazz House, Oakland

Clyde McPhatter (1932);
William Edgar 'Little Willie' John (1937)

Tuesday

11/16/2004

International Day for Tolerance

Tiberius Claudius Nero AKA Tiberius Caesar Augustus (2nd Roman Emperor, 42 BC);
William Christopher 'W.C.' Handy (1873);
Albert Edwin 'Eddie' Condon (1905);
Wesley Curley 'W.C.' Clark (1939);
Shigeru Miyamoto (1952);
Diana Jean Krall and Vincent Herring (1964)

Eadmund Rich AKA Saint Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1234);
Clark Gable (1960, heart attack);
Alan Wilson Watts (1973, natural causes);
Chester William Powers, Jr. AKA Jesse Oris Farrow AKA Dino Valente (1994);
Thomas Lee 'Tommy' Flanagan (2001, aneurysm)

Wednesday

11/17/2004

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One more trip to the Dentist!

Randy's BD Dinner Celebration @ Tony Roma's, Oakland

Watch the Incredibles @ Regal Cinema, Jack London Square, Oakland; with Lisa, Sally & Ford

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (1938);
Harold Eugene 'Gene' Clark (1944);
Martin Lancelot Barre (1946)

Ruth Weston Brown (2006, heart attack/stroke)

Thursday

11/18/2004

1-2 AM: best viewing of the Leonid Meteor Showers for this year!

National Collegiate TKD Team Trials @ RSF

Maria del Mar Bonet @ Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Center Stage Theatre, San Rafael

Hank Ballard (1927);
Don Cherry (1936)

Herman 'Junior' Parker, Jr (1971, brain cancer);
Danny Ray Whitten (1972, Heroin OD);
Cabell 'Cab' Calloway. III (1994, stroke);
Douglas Wayne Sahm (1999, heart attack)

Friday

11/19/2004

hummingbird

Dinner @ Armadillo Willy's Real Texas BBQ, Cupertino

Jackie Greene @ the Claire Loftus Carriage House Theatre, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga

Saturday

11/20/2004

Alpha Delt Winetasting Party @ Dave & Jerusa's, Orinda

Duane Allman (1946);
Joe Walsh (1947)

Ronald Alphonso of the Skatalites (1998)

Sunday

11/21/2004

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (1904);
Malcolm John 'Mac' Rebennack Jr AKA Dr. John (1940);
Craig 'Sparky' Klein (1960);
Björk Guđmundsdóttir (1965)

Robert Lockwood Jr. (2006; respiratory failure)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

11/22/2004

St. Cecilia's Day (patron saint of music)

Lunch with Said and Jan @ La Creperie du Monde

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899);
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901);
Jacob Cohen AKA Rodney Dangerfield (1921);
Terrence Vance 'Terry' Gilliam (1940);
Perry 'Jesse Colin' Young (1941);
Aston Francis 'Family Man' Barrett (1946);
Martina Michéle 'Tina' Weymouth (1950)

Tuesday

11/23/2004

Randy has an ankle check-up and fitting of a regular fiberglass cast at Kaiser, Walnut Creek

Dinner @ Fresh Choice, Walnut Creek

Bruce Randall Hornsby (1954)

Autry De Walt, Jr. AKA Junior Walker (1995)

Wednesday

11/24/2004

Bruce Hornsby @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

Junipero Serra (1713);
Scott Joplin (1868);
Teddy Wilson (1912);
Alfred Schnittke (1934);
Randolph Peter 'Pete' Best (1941);
Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941)

Joseph Vernon 'Big Joe' Turner (1985, unknown cause);
Farrokh Bulsara AKA Freddie Mercury (1991, bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS);
Walter Booker (2006)

Thursday

11/25/2004

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Siu-Fai visits for Thanksgiving dinner @ our place

Paul Emil Breitenfeld AKA Paul Desmond (1924);
Nathaniel 'Nat' Adderly (1925)

The body of saxophonist Albert Ayler is found in New York's East River (1970, suicide? murder!?)

Friday

11/26/2004

Drive up to Kirkwood

Randy sits around at the Mountain Cafe, Kirkwood, listening to music and working on the first CSS iteration of these web pages.

Snow-sporting @ Kirkwood; w/Siu-Fai et al

Dinner @ Harrah's Forest Buffet (40th floor!)

Lodging in a rental house on Lakeview Ave, South Lake Tahoe

Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock (1939);
John Graham McVie (1945)

Cream played two farewell concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall today in 1968.;

The Band plays its farewell concert, the Last Waltz at San Francisco's Winterland Arena today in 1976.

Saturday

11/27/2004

Drive back to Kirkwood

Randy sits around the house and catalogues the shows from the CD spindle that came back from Larry Stein

Snow-sporting @ Kirkwood; w/Siu-Fai et al

Lodging in a rental house on Lakeview Ave, South Lake Tahoe

Al Jackson Jr. (1934);
Johnny Allen AKA James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (1942)

Sunday

11/28/2004

Drive over to California Lodge at Heavenly

Randy sits around the lodge, listening to music and working on web pages all day

Snow-sporting @ Heavenly; w/Siu-Fai

Dinner @ Carrow's, Placerville

Drive home to Oakland

Berry Gordy, Jr (1929);
Randall Stuart 'Randy' Newman (1943);
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (1949)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

11/29/2004

Editing Splashnote white paper

William Thomas 'Billy' Strayhorn (1915);
Merle Robert Travis (1917);
John Mayall (1933)

George Harrison (2001, brain cancer)

Tuesday

11/30/2004

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra @ Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
Official Program Notes from a promotional email sent out by BSO.
More promotional material: two editions of the BSO Spotlight email.
Reviews from Jerry Kuderna, Joshua Kosman, and Jeff Rosenfeld

Walter 'Brownie' McGhee (1915);
John Veliotes, Jr AKA Johnny Otis Jr. AKA Shuggie Otis (1953);
William Michael Albert Broad AKA Billy Idol (1955)

Herbert Buckingham Khaury AKA Tiny Tim (1996, heart attack);
Charles L. 'Charlie' Byrd (1999, bladder cancer)



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