The Defenders (Short Film / PSA)

So I did a short film earlier this year, an all-volunteer cast & crew, to protest the passage of Proposition 8 here in California, which bans same sex marriage in favor of opposite marriage. The Supreme Court just ruled it constitutional, and the finished PSA was uploaded just after the decision. Click the video for [...]

Parry Gripp, Humping on John Stamos’ Leg

Because who wouldn’t? [video from Free Radio on VH1]

Three New Songs About Lions

Well, they have the word “Lion” in the title, anyway. Bishop Allen – The Lion & the Teacup Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma Sam Roberts – Lions of the Kalahari

Sam Roberts Band

Yeah, twice in three days I made it over to The Troubadour. The previous post gushed plenty about Roberts’s amazing stage presence, but the photos I took are pretty and they need to go up. For a tiny club, the lighting was beautiful. The band started off the set with Love at the End of [...]

Henry Hey Sets Final Bush Press Conference to Music

This is amazing work. Jazz pianist Henry Hey did an outstanding job creating a song out of spoken words. We don’t often think about it, but words have musical pitch (which is obvious to anybody in China, where they use pitch & tone as an integral part of language). Hey used the pitch of George [...]

Justice (The Band, Not the Legal Concept)

I’ve liked those French dance scamps since I first heard the sexy, growling beat of ‘Genesis’ on a TV ad. It took a while to find who did that smokin’ groove, because I rarely connect the music to the product, ubiquitous silliness like the freecreditreport.com ads aside (that’s French-Canadian Eric Violette, just for the record). [...]

Unrevolution 12.5

Unrevolution 12 – In which some things are explained, some questions are answered, and more questions arise, erm, therefrom. UPDATE, Feb. 5: The fire had died to embers and was cool enough for Ronidez and his guest to sit close together on either side of it. Ronidez had seen much in his many years on [...]

Unrevolution 12.4

Nothing since JULY?! Oh, man. I still haven’t figured out why the site’s broken, but another post is long overdue. This one won’t make much sense to readers who never got the old dead-tree-edition issues, but I guess the 12.3 didn’t, either. Continuity be damned, let’s knock this issue out, already, shall we? Unrevolution 12 [...]

Unrevolution 12.3

In which some things are explained, some questions are answered, and more questions arise, erm, therefrom. The point where the sun’s light had faded and the stars were just shining through had long been a favorite spot of Kyden’s. He still enjoyed coming to the clearing he’d found years before, even after he’d come to [...]

Unrevolution 12.2

Another long pause made her ache to comfort him, to hold him and tell him it would all be fine, that they would get through this.