I think this started at 12am. Each DJ doing their installment. You can listen online in the archives forn2 weeks: 

https://kfjc.org/listen/archives

Or download the *KFJC* app and listen that way (again, only available for 2 weeks)

--tg

I don’t know how many times I saw him. I even followed his tour up the coast to OR once (he opened for the Dead) and saw him duet with Jerry at the Greek. A true legend of Reggae.

My press passes were for row e on the house right aisle, near the percussion section of the orchestra pit. Stacy & Bri were were in the nosebleeds, eye level with the ceiling façade. The press room was nice - they offered coffee, tea, beer & wine, plus snacks like chocolates, cookies, cheese-its, almond cookies, power bars. Comfy couches. Ran into a dear doc friend from Rock Med (she’s in the dress circle and said it looked like crazy rich Asians there last night, instead of the usual crowd of old white people - she’s Asian too btw). It was a rush to get there because there were 2 accidents but we met up with Tara & Bri at Rad Radish, a veg burger place, that may become my new go-to for BGC shows (there was some disco edm show at BGC that the doc was thinking of hitting because the opera ended at 10).

Yau Kung Moon did an opening lion dance and had a fall off the benches (not a bad one). I hoped to see someone I knew but they were all youngens. The hall had some fun displays. Sold out show.

The production was complex - monkey king alternated between singer, dancer, & puppet. Didn’t care for the music much. Opera in English never quite works for me. When in some Italian or some other euro language, it heightens the surreality. In English, if often hits me like ‘listen to the incredible way I can shout sing these words.’ It was funny to hear the word ‘poop’ sung operatically.

I got a couple tix cause I was curious after seeing the Dig doc (see my review here). I invited my son. We met up at the Crepe Place  I had my go to dishes: steamed artichoke and chicken strips. It was very loud in there by the bar, but that used to be my Cheers and it was nice to see some of the old faces, watch an old B/W Gamera flick on the teles while eating…

Went over to the Rio…this event sold out. Found some seats easily. The opener was The Federales from Portland - Six member band, country leaning. They had a pedal steel player who was carrying the band a lot, even though he was too quiet. They were Ok, but really needed some dynamics…

BJM came on…they just kinda wandered out on stage, plugged in and then started tuning. The  venue started to fill, with a majority moving in front of the stage rather than taking seats. They are a 7-piece band: drummer, bass, guitar, guitar, multi-instrumentalist (mostly keyboard, but some guitar), a tambourine player, and singer Anton, also playing guitar.

There were 6 sets of sunglasses, 3 pairs od huge sideburns. One of the guitar players had a western shirt and sunglasses and was a dead ringer for Michael Nesmith.




For the first song, all 3 guitarists were playing 12-string hollowbody electrics. They seemed to swap out guitars almost every song, and with every swap, they spent a very long time tuning. Almost every song sounded like a variation of the Boardwalk Empire theme.





Plodding…so much plodding. Only singer Anton spoke to the audience (actually, Joel, the tambourine player spoke briefly to say that he was drunk/hungover because it was his birthday and couldn’t say no when people bought him drinks). Anton was having a hard time stringing words together. If I was an officer, at this point, I would have had him step out of the car. There was one episode where Michael Nesmith swapped out guitars between songs and then had a heck of a time tuning it…like over 5 minutes. They never played any songs I recognized. I didnt recognize anyone in the band from the Dig! doc. One time, the roadie came to bring Anton a different guitar and Anton gave him a huge, long hug. I came because I was curious, but the place was full and we couldn’t all be curious…some people must actually know these songs and can tell them apart. 

The tambouring player was f’ing awesome, in spite of his condition. I wonder if he makes the same as the other band members.

—tg

(07-10-2025, 07:02 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Red Sonja

(07-18-2025, 11:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Den asked me if I could interview Luke Lieberman (Red Sonja) but it's a half hour before I arrive at SAN. :-(

https://sanjosespotlight.com/cupertino-m...h-tv-show/

Quote:Cupertino may enter the limelight with TV show
by Mike Langberg
NOVEMBER 17, 2025

Cupertino is about to join the rarified list of California cities — including Beverly Hills, San Francisco and Santa Barbara — that have given their names to TV shows.


“Cupertino” will premiere on CBS in the fall of 2026. The show is billed as a “David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley,” and follows a lawyer who refuses to back down after he’s cheated out of his stock options by his former tech startup employer.

Actor Mike Colter is leading the series and is best known for the show “Evil,” which ran on CBS and the Paramount+ streaming service from 2019 to 2024. “Cupertino” is being produced by married couple Robert and Michelle King, who created “Evil” along with other CBS shows including “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight” and “Elsbeth.”

TV shows with California place names in their titles

• Beverly Hills 90210, 1990-2000
  
• Death Valley Days, 1952-1970
  
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 1990-1996
  
• I Love LA, 2025
  
• L.A. Law, 1996-1994
  
• Malibu Shores, 1996
  
• Melrose Place, 1992-1999
  
• NCIS: Los Angeles, 2009-2023
  
• The O.C., 2003-2007
  
• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 2010-present
  
• The Real Housewives of Orange County, 2006-present
  
• Santa Barbara, 1984-1993
  
• Silicon Valley, 2014-2019
  
• The Streets of San Francisco, 1972-1977
  
• Fresno, 1986
  

“I’m delighted to learn that ‘Cupertino’ will be a legal drama — something in the spirit of ‘The Good Wife,’ which happens to be one of my favorite shows,” Cupertino Mayor Liang Chao told San José Spotlight.

It’s unclear if the show, which got a green light from CBS last month, will shoot any scenes in Cupertino or be filmed entirely on a soundstage in Los Angeles.

City spokesperson Samantha LoCurto said the “Cupertino” production team has initiated preliminary outreach to the city, but she declined to provide further details.

The launch of the show, slated for a 13-episode first season, might be the driving force behind a proposed city policy to create a process for granting film permits in Cupertino.

At a Nov. 4 City Council meeting, Interim City Manager Tina Kapoor said Cupertino has received over a dozen inquiries in the past year regarding film production. A memo from city staff said those inquiries came from Yamaha Motor Corporation, El Camino Health, Italian television network La7 and CBS, among others.

“Over the past year, our communications team has received over a dozen inquiries,” Kapoor said at the meeting. “We’re handling them on an ad hoc basis right now. So we’re really hoping through this ordinance we can recover some staff cost and insure adequate protections for the city.”

Councilmembers initially approved the permitting policy at the meeting, with final approval scheduled for a Dec. 2 vote.

Wherever “Cupertino” is filmed, local boosters said the show could raise the city’s profile.

Claudio Bono, president-elect of the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce and managing director of the Cupertino Hotel, who ran for city council last year, said he’s thrilled the city will soon be in the national spotlight.

“As a hotelier who travels the globe to promote our city as a premier leisure destination, I’ve long advocated that Cupertino is so much more than its tech reputation,” Bono told San José Spotlight. “We are home to the world’s first trillion-dollar company, yes — but we’re also rich in history, culture and natural beauty.”

Although Cupertino isn’t yet a watering hole for Hollywood celebrities, the city has had at least one previous brush with movie fame: The 2015 biopic “Steve Jobs,” starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, shot at the since demolished Flint Center on the DeAnza College campus in earlier that year.

They are going on tour, but neither band has any original members. The article on Paste is funny (and very short), and kudos for mentioning the Ship of Theseus.

This is show 3 of 3. Been a good run by all accounts. Very theatrical show Im told. Tonight isnt sold out yet but it’s close enough that it’ll prolly sell with walk up. 

I’m on a team with a friend that’s actually my age and his partner who I’ve never met before - she’s an old bgper. Looking good for tonight.

Police procedural set in Belfast. It's kind of like the Rookie but much more realistic. And like almost every detective novel I have ever read set in Northern Ireland it's kind of bleak, but I'm down for it.

Through the six episodes, the show follows three probationary constables and their more experienced partners driving around Belfast. Their main opponnent is a drug gang in one neighborhood. The constables are constantly thwarted in their efforts by the populaces distrust of the peelers and their own government seeming protecting the drug gang in the hopes of tracking the drug gang to bigger operatives.

The whole show for the first season (only six episodes) was really good. Some really twisted things happen. You get a slice of life for what the Belfast officers go through. The accents are as thick as coffee left on the burner for two days. I can't wait to watch the remaining two seasons.

One thing that might be unclear for the uninitiated, one of the ways the IRA funds their operations is by selling drugs.

We saw this on Britboxx.

New 8 hour long ep mini series where Clair Danes can be all insane. She plays a Pulitzer Prize winning author who’s had years of writers block after her son was killed in by a drunk driver and her wife left her. Rhys Davis plays an asshole tycoon who moves in Jeff door and may have killed his previous wife. 

It’s a decent thriller although a tad heavy on the nerve wracking violin soundtrack. It all hinges on Danes over the top performance and she’s great at playing mentally disturbed characters. I like it so far…