Last night we saw a great show in The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Opening band was Jim White, an alt-country singer from Pensacola, Florida.

JIM WHITE: In my town there’s a man who dressed up as Jesus and he drives around in a motor home with a big cross on the back. Every morning he drives to the place where the most traffic comes and he climbs on top of the motor home and he holds the cross and he waves to people and he reminds them that Jesus died for their sins. To him that is a serious job. To me it’s sad but funny. In my town there are people dressed up like Jesus walking around quite a bit.

Jim also stars in the recently released movie Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus — Now playing at The Balbao in San Francisco.

The main act was of course The Pernice Brothers. We saw them last at a great show in Berkeley This venue was bigger. When MB went to get some drinks at the bar, she noticed a scruffy guy standing next to her, and realized it was Joe Pernice! She said “You’re Joe!”, and proceeded telling him about the show in Berkeley, now almost two years ago. Joe was very friendly and him and MB talked for a little bit more while he finished some pre-show drinks…

picture © Hannah Thompson

Joe looked very different, but sang better than ever. They played a few songs of their new album “Discover a Lovelier You”. Joe did an acoustic “Bum Leg”. As an encore they did an amazing version of “Flaming Wreck” which went in a crazy guitar noise adventure.

The show ended at about 00:30 and we ventured back to Russian Hill, where the car was parked.

Or, according to some, The Place Of Injustice.

Pick up some Leffe Blonde at the Whole Foods grocery store.

First, take some strong garden scissors and cut the palm leaves clean off.

Then, take picture.

Done!

The New Hammock in the garden

View From The New Hammock

The line-up: Nokia 3120, Panasonic A100, Motorola V550. Despite it’s tiny size, the A100 GSM phone works great, good reception and good user interface. There’s even a speakerphone, vibrating ringtones and a ringtone composer…

Gromit, that’s it! Cheese! We’ll go somewhere where there’s cheese!

Now you can see for yourself at Google Moon

Interesting choice of actors in some fairly recent movies: we discovered last night that Jack White plays Georgia in Cold Mountain. Rufus Wainwright, his sister and his dad were the musicians in The Aviator night club scene and Mick Jones of The Clash was doing a karaoke “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” in Code 46.