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Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Someday

hummingbird

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

Regular event

Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Thursday

04/01/2004

the_fool
April Fool's Day

Morning HKD Workout

SF Jazz Collective @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco; with TC
Jesse Hamlin's Promotional Article from the SF Chronicle.
Sam Prestianni's Promotional Article from the SF Weekly.

HKD Workout with Anne Marie

Willie Dixon (1915);
Amos Milburn (1926)

Scott Joplin (1917, syphilis);

RIP
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr (1984, shot by his dad in an argument)

Friday

04/02/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Evening HKD Workout

Baaba Maal @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley; with Tim & Susan
Program Notes

Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr (1939);
Leon Russell (1941)

Bernard 'Buddy' Rich (1987, brain cancer);
Charles Edwin Hatcher AKA Edwin Starr (2003, heart attack)

Saturday

04/03/2004

HKD Workout with Leslie

Dinner with Mom @ Meze, San Francisco

Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland and Zakir Hussain @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco
Derk Richardson's Promotional Article from the SF Chronicle.

the New Orleans Radiators @ Slim's, San Francisco

Herb Caen (1916) - coined the term 'beatnik';
Richard Manuel (1945)

Sunday

04/04/2004

daylight savings time begins
Start of daylight savings time

Emerson String Quartet with Edgar Meyer @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford, Palo Alto; with TC & Kaoru

Board-breaking practice @ RSF; HKD workout and practice test

McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters (1915);
Maya Angelou (1928);
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (1939);
Berry Oakley (1948)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

04/05/2004

Advanced HKD Class

Jim Campilongo @ Yoshi's Jazz House, Oakland

shotgun
Kurt Cobain (suicide, 1994)

Tuesday

04/06/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Cleaning at the Dentist!

HKD counterthrows practice with Gaidi
HKD workshop for TKD Yellow Belts

HKD Workout with Lisa, Hien, Charles and Anne Marie

Ravi Shankar (1920);
Merle Haggard (1937);
Robert Nesta Marley (1945);
Warren Haynes (1960)

Babatunde Olatunji (diabetes, 2003);
Virginia Wynette Pugh AKA Tammy Wynette (blood clot, 1998)

Wednesday

04/07/2004

Randy bikes+BARTs+Caltrains+bikes to Tumbleweed in RWC

Mariza @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

Eleanora Fagan Gough AKA Billie Holiday (1915);
Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria (1922);
Spencer Dryden (1938)

Phineas Taylor Barnum (congestive heart failure, 1891)

Thursday

04/08/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Ralph Stanley @ the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley

Shoghaken Ensemble @ Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Program Notes

HKD Workout with Lisa, Duc, Charles and Anne Marie

Carmen McRae (1920);
Jacques Brel (1929);
Steve Howe (1947)

Laura Nigro AKA Laura Nyro (ovarian cancer, 1997)

Friday

04/09/2004

Dinner @ California Pizza Kitchen on Van Ness, San Francisco

William Parker Quartet;
Sam Rivers, Reggie Workman & Jason Moran @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Paul Robeson (1898);
Carl Lee Perkins (1932);
Dave Prater (1937)

noose
Philip David 'Phil' Ochs (suicide, 1976)

car crash
Dave Prater (car accident, 1988)

Saturday

04/10/2004

12th Annual Chinese Martial Arts Tournament @ Haas Pavilion, Berkeley

Neville O'Riley Livingston AKA Bunny Wailer (1947);
Brian Setzer (1960)

Kurt Vonnegut (2007, complications from an accidental fall)

Sunday

04/11/2004

Easter Brunch @ Mom's house, San Francisco

Bag Workout!

HKD Workout

Masaru Ibuka {cofounder of Sony} (1908);
Richard Berry (1935)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

04/12/2004

ITOPS Lunch @ Kirk's Steakburgers, Palo Alto

Advanced HKD workout

Herbert Buckingham Khaury AKA Tiny Tim(1932);
Herbert Jeffrey 'Herbie' Hancock (1940)

Tuesday

04/13/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min
HKD workshop for TKD Yellow Belts

HKD Workout with Lisa, Hien, Charles and Anne Marie

John William 'Jack' Casady (1944);
Lowell George (1945);
Reverend Al Green (1946)

Wednesday

04/14/2004

HKD Workout

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (1922);
Loretta Lynn (1935)

needle and spoon
Pete Farndon (drowned in the bathtub while stoned on heroin, 1983)

Thursday

04/15/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa, Charles and Anne Marie

Alvin Pleasant 'A.P.' Delaney Carter (1891);
Bessie Smith (1894);
Dave Edmunds (1944)

Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartre (1980);
Jeffrey Hyman AKA Joey Ramone (2001, lymphatic cancer)

Friday

04/16/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Evening HKD Workout

Average White Dog (Chris Rossbach, Jimmy Sanchez, Bobby Vega & Ray White) @ Jupiter Pub, Berkeley

bicycle day
Bicycle Day! (1943)

Roselea Brogdon AKA Rose Maddox (kidney failure, 1998);
Alexander Lee 'Skip' Spence (lung cancer, 1999)

Saturday

04/17/2004

Sushi Dinner @ Restaurant Ino, Mill Valley

Audrey's B.D. Party with Quicksilver Gold @ the Sweetwater Saloon, Mill Valley

car crash
Eddie Cochran (1960, car crash);

RIP
Felix Pappalardi (1983, 'accidentally' shot by his wife)

Carlton "Carly" Barrett (1987, murdered);
Linda McCartney (1998, breast cancer);
Earl Silas Johnson IV AKA Earl King (2003, diabetes);

Sunday

04/18/2004

HKD Red-belt Workout with Laura

Assad Family @ Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, Palo Alto; with Sulana.
Program Notes

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (1924);
Alexander Lee 'Skip' Spence (1946)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

04/19/2004

Lunch with JC & Kiran

Advanced HKD Workout

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform two accompaniments to Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's film, Un Chien Andalou @ Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts Theatre, San Francisco; with Matt
Program Notes

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (1924)

Randy turns 14400 days old!

Albert Hoffman
Albert Hoffman's first voluntary trip (1943)

Tuesday

04/20/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

Lionel Hampton

Andrew Hill (2007, lung cancer)

Wednesday

04/21/2004

Ting turns in her HKD Black Belt Papers!

Picnic Dinner from Pluto's on Chestnut, with TC & Kaoru in Walter S. Johnson Park (outside the Palace of Fine Arts), San Francisco

Zawinul Syndicate @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco; with TC & Kaoru.

Iggy Pop (1947)

Sandy Denny (1978, fell down a flight of stairs)
Eunice Kathleen Waymon AKA Nina Simone (2003, old age)

Thursday

04/22/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa, Lily and Anne Marie

Charles Mingus, Jr. (1922)

Earl Kenneth 'Fatha' Hines (heart attack, 1983)

Friday

04/23/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Susan Platts & Dennis Helmrich @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
(SF Performances Gift Concert)

Roy Orbison (1936)

William M. 'Red' Garland (1984)

Saturday

04/24/2004

Dinner @ Hua Hin Thai Restaurant and Grill, Berkeley

Joe Lovano Nonet @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Program Notes

Henry Mancini (1994)

John Gilbert (1953)

Sunday

04/25/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD Workout

Dinner with TC & Kaoru @ Jupiter Pub, Berkeley

Zakir Hussain & the Masters of Percussion @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley; with TC & Kaoru
Program Notes

Ella Fitzgerald (1917);
Albert Nelson AKA Albert King (1923);
Vassar Clements (1928);
Jerry Lieber (1933)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

04/26/2004

Lunch with Drew and Howard @ Mime's Cafe, Redwood City

Advanced HKD Workout

Duane Eddy (1938);
Diane Earl AKA Diana Ross (1944)

William 'Count' Basie (cancer, 1984)

Tuesday

04/27/2004

B+J Logo
Free Scoop Day at Ben & Jerry's!

Morning HKD workout

Lunch with Emmanuel @ Mime's Cafe, Redwood City

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa and Anne Marie

Wednesday

04/28/2004

Lunch with Sue @ Franklin Street Caffe, Redwood City

B-R logo
Free Scoop Day at Baskin Robbins!

Oskar Schindler (1908)

Thursday

04/29/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa and Anne Marie

Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington (1899);
Tammi Terrell (1945)

Albert Hoffman (2008, heart attack)

Friday

04/30/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Dinner with Anne Marie, Lisa, Lily and Duc @ Asqew Grill, Emeryville

Mean Girls @ AMC Bay Street, Emeryville; with Anne Marie, Lisa, Lily and Duc

Reverend Gary Davis (1896);
Willie Hugh Nelson (1933)

Casey Jones Wreck of the Cannonball Express
John Luther 'Casey' Jones (train wreck, 1900);

McKinley Morganfield AKA Muddy Waters (died in his sleep, 1983)




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