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Date

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hummingbird

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

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Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Friday

10/01/2004

AM HKD Workout

Lunch with Emmanuel @ La Creperie du Monde

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (1903)

Circa 10/1/1966, the U.S. Government declares LSD a dangerous and illegal substance.

Al Jackson Jr. of the MGs (1975, murdered ?by his wife's boyfriend?)

Saturday

10/02/2004

Batting practice @ Malibu Grand Prix Batting Cages, Redwood City, with Lawrence and George

Robert Russell 'Chubby' Wise (1915);
Mike Rutherford (1950);
Gordon Sumner AKA Sting (1951);
Don McLean (1945)

The Grateful Dead's communal home at 710 Ashbury Street is raided by police (1967)

Sunday

10/03/2004

UCMAP Papers Database Input

HKD Workout @ RSF

Susan Link Surprise BD Party @ Link's

Eddie Cochran (1938);
Felix Pappalardi (1938);
Ernest Evans AKA Chubby Checker (1941);
Lindsey Buckingham (1947);
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954)

Woody Guthrie (1967, Huntington's Chorea);
Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James (1969)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

10/04/2004

hummingbird

Advanced HKD Workout @ RSF

Ironport Softball Practice @ San Bruno Park, San Bruno

Amos Leone 'Leon' Thomas, Jr. (1937);
Frank Bua (195x)

Janis Joplin (1970, heroin OD);
Graham Chapman (1989, cancer);
Art Farmer (1999, heart attack)

Tuesday

10/05/2004

Taekwondo workout @ RSF

Jenna Mammina @ Yoshi's Jazz House, Oakland

Steve Miller (1943);
Steve Kimock (1955)

Edward James Kendrick AKA Eddie Kendricks (1992, lung cancer);
Jacob Cohen AKA Rodney Dangerfield (2004, complications from brain surgery)

Wednesday

10/06/2004

Evening HKD Workout @ RSF

UCMAP Papers Database Input

HKD demo team practice @ RSF

Nelson Riddle (1985, cardiac & kidney failure)

Thursday

10/07/2004

hummingbird

Taekwondo workout @ RSF

Joni Mitchell (1943);
Dino Valenti (1943);
John Cougar Mellencamp (1951)

Overton Amos Lemons AKA Smiley Lewis (1966, stomach cancer)

Friday

10/08/2004

AM HKD Workout @ RSF

Dinner @ Tony Roma's, Concord; with Siu-Fai et al

Party @ Jessie's place, Concord

Ed Blackwell (1992, kidney disease)

Saturday

10/09/2004

Adam Sah & Carol McCloskey's Wedding @ Sunny Cove Retreat, Santa Cruz

Visiting with Siu Fai at his place in San Jose

Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813);
Camile Saint-Saens (1835);
John Winston Ono Lennon (1940);
John Alec Entwhistle (1944);
Peter Tosh (1944);
Jackson Browne (1948);
Polly Jean Harvey (1969)

Gabriele Falloppio (1562, unknown cause);
Pieter Zeeman (1943, unknown cause)
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1967, executed in Bolivia);
Oskar Schindler (1974, unknown cause);
Jacques Brel (1978, lung cancer);
Milt 'Bags' Jackson (1999, liver cancer)

Sunday

10/10/2004

Softball practice @ Shepard Canyon Park, Oakland

Ivory Joe Hunter (1914);
Thelonius Sphere Monk (1917);
John Prine (1944);
Ed Volker (1948);
David Lee Roth (1955)

Daniel Pearl (1963)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

10/11/2004

Advanced HKD Workout @ RSF

Lunch for Said @ Vietnam Village, San Bruno

Art Blakey AKA Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (1919);
Lester Bowie (1941);

Tuesday

10/12/2004

buy tix for the surprise Dylan show tomorrow @ the Grand

Joey Calderazzo; Miguel Zenón Quartet; Branford Marsalis Quartet @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley

Neil Young (1945)

Randy's Chinese BD!

Wednesday

10/13/2004

AM HKD Workout @ RSF

Bob Dylan @ the Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center, San Francisco
Joel Selvin's review from the SF Chronicle;
Setlist and Reviews from Bill Pagel's fansite.

Raymond Matthews Brown (1926);
Paul Simon (1941);
Sammy Hagar (1947);

Thursday

10/14/2004

Third Annual Daniel Pearl Music Day

Thomas Dolby (1958)

Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby AKA der Bingle (1977, heart attack);
Baldemar G. Huerta aka Freddy Fender (2006, lung cancer)

Friday

10/15/2004

AM HKD Workout @ RSF

Harry Edward 'Sweets' Edison (1915)

Cole Albert Porter (1964, complications from kidney surgery)

Saturday

10/16/2004

Paul Gonsalves & Liz Salazar's Wedding & Reception @ Inn Marin, Novato

Caetano Veloso @ Masonic Auditorium at Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco

Mahalia Jackson (1911);
Bob Weir (1947)

Marie Antoinette (1793, guillotined);
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1849, tuberculosis);
Eugene Bertram 'Gene' Krupa (1973, heart failure);
Art Blakey AKA Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (1990, lung cancer)

Family Dog presents its first psychedelic dance, called "A Tribute to Dr. Strange", at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco on this day in 1965, featuring the Great Society, the Charlatans, and the Jefferson Airplane; Paul Kantner meets Grace Slick...

Sunday

10/17/2004

HKD Workout @ RSF

Dinner with TC & Kaoru @ Kamal Palace, Berkeley

Music, Dance & Ritual, a Theyyam performance of Gods, Goddesses and Ancestors by a group of performers from Malabar, Kerala @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley; w/TC & Kaoru
Promotional release and Program notes;
Renee Renouf's review for Ballet.co.uk's Magazine

Joseph Lee 'Big Joe' Williams (1903);
Ziggy Marley (1968)

Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991, liver failure)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

10/18/2004

Lunch for Jan Mak @ La Creperie du Monde

Advanced HKD Workout

Chuck Berry (1926);
Laura Nigro AKA Laura Nyro (1947);
Wynton Marsalis (1961)

Tuesday

10/19/2004

Junior Achievement Volunteer Training

Winston Hubert McIntosh AKA Peter Tosh (1944)

Don Cherry (1995, hepatitis)

Wednesday

10/20/2004

AM HKD Workout

Emerson String Quartet @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford, Palo Alto; with TC

Ferdinand Joseph Lemott AKA Jellyroll Morton (1890);
Eddie Harris (1934);
Tom Petty (1953)

plane crash
Lynrd Skynrd bandmates Ronnie Van Zant, Steve & Cassie Gaines (1977, plane crash) Merle Robert Travis (1983, heart attack)

Thursday

10/21/2004

Peak of Orionid Meteor Shows this year!

Bowling by the Bay Fundraiser @ AMF Bowling Center, Redwood City

Alpha Delt Reunion Dinner @ Milagros, RWC

RLV turns 21 Megaminutes (and 350 kilohours) old today!

Coleman Hawkins (1904);
John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie (1917);
Manfred Mann AKA Michael Lubowitz (1940);
Steve Cropper (1941);
Elvin Bishop (1942);
Mark Ford (1953)

Bill Black (1965)

Friday

10/22/2004

AM HKD Workout

HKD Club @ RSF

Mark Morris Pre-Performance Talk @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley

the Mark Morris Dance Group @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley,
featuring a revival of Mosaic and United (both from 1993), set to the 3rd and 4th String Quartets of Henry Cowell,
and the West Coast premiere of Violet Cavern (2004), with live accompaniment by jazz trio the Bad Plus.
Program Notes;

Emily Hite's review for the Stanford Daily;
Rachel Howard quotes several of the other reviewers while sharing original thoughts in her own blog;
Corey Pallatto's review for the Daily Californian;
Allan Ullrich's review for Voice of Dance;
Suzanne Weiss's review for Culture Vulture;
Steve Wynn's review for the SF Chronicle.

Opening Night Reception for Mark Morris

Bobby Fuller (1942);
Leslie West (1945)

Saturday

10/23/2004

Ed & Tiffany's Anniversary Party @ their place in San Rafael

Dinner with Mom at her place with takeout from Zao Noodle Bar on Chestnut, San Francisco

Rokia Traore @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

Los Lonely Boys @ the Fillmore, San Francisco

Wilson Anthony 'Boozoo' Chavis (1930);
Dwight Yoakam (1954)

"Mother" Maybelle Addington Carter (1978);
Merle Watson (1985, drunken tractor-driving accident)

Sunday

10/24/2004

Fall back to standard time!

Saunders Terrell AKA Sonny Terry (1911);
Luciano Berio (1925);
Jiles Perry Richardson AKA 'the Big Bopper' (1930);
William Perks AKA Bill Wyman (1936);
Jenna Mammina (196x)

Gene Roddenberry (1991, heart attack)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

10/25/2004

hummingbird

Lunch with Ambika @ Mollie Stone's Market, San Bruno

Advanced HKD Workout

Johann Strauss II (1825);
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon AKA Minnie Pearl (1912);
John Roy 'Jon' Anderson (1944)

Wolfgang Grajonca AKA Bill Graham (1991, helicopter crash)

Tuesday

10/26/2004

Running Charlie at East Beach, Chrissy Field, San Francisco

Junior Achievement Teacher/Volunteer Kick-Off Meeting @ Monte Verde Elementary School, San Bruno

Mahalia Jackson (1911);
Natalie Merchant (1963)

Wilbert Harrison (1994, stroke)

Wednesday

10/27/2004

Total eclipse of the moon, (6:15 PM - 9:55 PM PST)

AM HKD Workout

'Values' Lunch with Jan and Rohit @ Vietnam Village, San Bruno

Afternoon & Evening HKD Workouts

Dinner with Anne Marie & Hien @ Tachibana, Oakland

John Cleese (1939);
Gary Tallent (1949)

Thursday

10/28/2004

Mark Morris Dance Group @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley; w/Carl; featuring:
I Don't Want to Love (1996), set to seven madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi, performed by members of the American Bach Soloists;
Marble Halls (1985), set to Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo in C minor, BWV 1060, and performed by members of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra;
Rock of Ages (World Premiere), set to Franz Schubert's Piano Trio in E-flat, D. 897;
and V (2001), set to Robert Schumann's Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Strings, Op. 44;
both of the latter pieces were performed by members of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble.
Program Notes;

Rachel Howard quotes several of the other reviewers while sharing original thoughts in her own blog;
Renee Renouf's review for Ballet Magazine Online;
Allan Ullrich's review for Voice of Dance;

Charlie Daniels (1936)

Marijohn Wilkin (2006, heart disease)

Friday

10/29/2004

AM HKD Workout

White Album Ensemble performs the Beatles' White Album in its entirety @ the Claire Loftus Carriage House Theatre, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga; w/Barry & Susan

Denny Laine (1944);
Peter Green (1946);
Peter Timmins (1965)

Howard Duane Allman (1971, motorcycle accident);
Woodrow Charles 'Woody' Herman (1987, heart attack)

Saturday

10/30/2004

Randy finishes over 2500 crunches in an hour at this year's annual UCMAP Crunch-a-thon Fundraiser;
his belly, back and neck are sore for the next week...

Visiting with Siu-Fai at his place

Dinner @ Mom's place in the Marina; with Dave, Elena & Josh

the Jazz Passengers perform live accompaniment (ala Mystery Science Theater 3000) to the classic horror film the Creature From the Black Lagoon, projected in Shocking 3-D! @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

Dave Myers (1926);
Eddie Holland (1939);
Grace Wing AKA Grace Slick (1939);
Timothy B. Schmidt (1947);
Jim Messina (1947);
Trilok Gurtu (1951)

Don Vogel (1940)

Kirsten & Chris' Wedding Anniversary (1998)

Sunday

10/31/2004

jack-o-lanternHalloween!

Counter Throw Form Workshop with Dr. Link @ RSF

HKD Workout @ RSF

Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961)




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