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THE FLY

Inside Jokes Sans the rivalry of a mayoral contest that fueled the drama of last year’s Monday Night Live!, the political comedy show ramped up the raunchiness for its 22nd annual production this week with a skit that left freshman Councilman RAUL PERALEZ drenched and shirtless.

Set to an Addam’s Family theme— complete with dry ice and a macabre, melodramatic GOMEZ ADDAMS—the sketch-fest kicked off with a Three Stooges scene starring developers TOM ARMSTRONG, RAY HASHIMOTO and MICHAEL VAN EVERY. The bumbling trio, on a quest to steal San Jose’s overcooked general plan, encounter a zombified interim Councilwoman MARGIE MATTHEWS They mumbling something Did about the jobs-housing What? balance and industrial land conversions, SEND TIPS TO O evidently possessed FLY@ by some policy wonk METRONEWS. WS. poltergeist. Peralez, the COM gamely host for the evening, picked it up with a canned stump speech that morphed into a Magic Mike-slash-Dirty Dancing number punctuated by offbeat thrusting, table-top dancing and a chair-straddling strip-down that gave everyone a good long look at his tattoos. Council colleague and “token Republican” JOHNNY KHAMIS made an appearance with Deputy Director of Economic Development NANCI KLEIN to riff on Mayor SAM LICCARDO’s toilet-totap-guzzling publicity stunt. Though absent in the flesh, District 4 contenders MANH NGUYEN and TIM OROZCO worked their way into the script. In a Saturday Night Live!-style “Weekend Update,” anchors HALSEY VARADY and WILL SPRINGHORN JR. quipped about Nguyen’s rumored stable of wives and how Orozco could blame Sen. BARBARA BOXER for his longago DUI busts. Ex-Mayor CHUCK REED got a shout-out for turning a $1 FPPC fine into a $106,000 return by some alchemical calculus. After taking a jab at Metro trying too hard to be edgy, Willow Glen Councilman PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO delivered a “Top 10” list teasing Liccardo for indulging Vice Mayor ROSE HERRERA’s delusions of grandeur by letting her sit in his office after-hours. And for forgetting to strap on a bike helmet during union negotiations.

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A Helping ‘HandUp’ HACKING THE HOMELESS Bay Area-based startup HandUp connects needy members with people who want to help.

A crowdfunding app connects donors with homeless people in need

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HRIS REYNOLDS was a few weeks shy of 47 when he bought his first brand-new bed.

Photos and videos uploaded to his Facebook page mark the event. In one, he flops onto the mattress with a dramatic sigh of relief. In another, he hands over the check to a sales clerk.

Then, he’s pictured outside, pointing to the storefront and beaming, or “doing the Vanna White,” as he calls it.

Reynolds documented the shopping trip with all the fanfare of a major milestone because he considered the mattress an important step to getting his life back. Donations for the bed were raised through a charitable crowdfunding platform

called HandUp, which has been called “a Kickstarter for the homeless.” The website helps donors give to homeless people who commit to using the funds for a dedicated need, like phone bills, security deposits or medical bills. Even seemingly small things like a new bed can have a profound impact.

“They’re giving me back my life,” Reynolds says, “they’re giving me back my self-esteem.”

For most of the past two years, he would stretch his 6-foot-4 frame on floor of his empty apartment to sleep. Before that, he bunked in various homeless shelters in the East Bay. Reynolds became homeless after working for more than two decades in East Bay schools as a sign language aide for deaf students—a job he loved. But after work dried up in 2008, he spent several years on unemployment.

“Life,” he says, “just kind of came to a dead standstill.”

With nothing to fall back on, Reynolds became homeless just before

New Year’s Eve 2011, living in his car for a while before bouncing from shelter to shelter. It wasn’t until 2013 that he secured a room in supportive housing through Abode Services, a housing nonprofit that provides shelter to low-income and otherwise homeless residents in Alameda, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. Along the way, case workers and social services helped him find work and enroll in college, the first steps toward rebuilding his life. But some gaps remained unfilled—relatively small expenses that seemed insurmountable without a disposable income—until he learned about HandUp. Since launching in 2013, HandUp has expanded throughout the Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, with a homeless population of around 7,000.

The startup claims a simple core mission: to use technology to help people meet basic needs, while encouraging dignified human connection. Rose Broome, CEO and co-founder of the charitable app, was inspired to start HandUp after walking by a homeless woman sleeping on the street one bitterly cold San Francisco night. She wanted to help but, at that moment, didn’t know how.

certain criteria. Project Homeless Connect is one of the few “open� sites. Through their drop-in service “Everyday Connect,� they make HandUp available to anyone who needs it. They now have more than 200 members on the site. “HandUp is a great tool to engage people,� says Emily Cohen, director of programs for Project Homeless Connect. “When we in the past might have had to say no, we can say ‘no, but we have this tool where you can get it for yourself.�

In addition to member proďŹ les, partners have a general fund, which allows for more exibility in case of emergencies. On a recent afternoon, Cohen heard someone pounding frantically on the door. She opened it to ďŹ nd a young transgender couple escaping a roommate who had threatened to kill them. She knew she could get them into a shelter the next day, but not that night. “They can’t go home, they don’t feel safe,â€?

Cohen recalls. “So we were able to use HandUp funds to put them up in a hotel room for the night.�

HandUp is focused on expanding within the Bay Area, while staying responsive to community needs. After recently learning that donors wanted a way to give to people they encounter in their daily lives, HandUp piloted gift cards. Donors could buy $25 gift cards to give to people in need, who could then redeem them through Project Homeless Connect.

Since its start, HandUp has fulďŹ lled over 2,100 needs for impoverished people. Like Margaret, a member living with end-stage MS, who got a shower chair and gel cushion.

Or Michael, who overcame drug addiction, mental illness and a severe head injury, and raised money for a new pair of dentures. And, of course, Chris Reynolds, who now has a digniďŹ ed place to rest. The website has raised nearly $730,000 for needs like these, small items that allow members to return to a stable life, take the next step or simply feel whole again. “I’m feeling conďŹ dent,â€? Reynolds says. “I’m feeling more sure of myself.â€?

That conďŹ dence has taken him back to school, where he studies broadcasting to pursue his dream of becoming, “the next Dennis Richmond of the Bay Area.â€? Social services have helped Reynolds get back on his feet.

But knowing that strangers care and want to see him succeed has given him resolve to follow through.

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“A lot of donors come to us telling us stories of that feeling,� Broome says. “That’s such a painful experience for people.�

Frustrated by the lack of innovation in the safety-net sector, she began looking for new solutions. Eventually, she decided to start HandUp as a public beneďŹ t corporation rather than a nonproďŹ t. Public beneďŹ t corporations are for-proďŹ t entities legally beholden to a given social mission. Broome garnered funding from Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator, followed by an angel investment from Jason Calacanis’ Launch Fund. Backers now include Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and “super angelâ€? investor Ron Conway.

But HandUp isn’t limited to investors. Through their ďŹ scal sponsor, Netroots Foundation, they can accept grant funding and have attracted big players in the philanthropy world. The company became part of Google.org’s portfolio, and now every dollar given to someone on HandUp is matched by the Mountain View-based search giant. “The beneďŹ t corporation (status) let us make it clear ... that our social mission is a big priority for us,â€? Broome explains. “But it also gave us the exibility that every other for-proďŹ t tech startup has.â€? Unfettered by the cumbersome ďŹ scal requirements nonproďŹ ts face, HandUp has grown tremendously—from one partner to 15.

Earlier this year, Abode Services became the latest to enter the fold. “HandUp is a good model for directing people’s compassion to the sort of help that people really need,â€? says Louis Chicoine, executive director of Abode Services. “Once the basic needs are met, what we ďŹ nd is people thrive and they really do stay housed. They start to be able to look at other things, including improving employment and income.â€?

NonproďŹ t partners act as gatekeepers between HandUp and the homeless clients, called “members.â€? The organizations vet each person, create online proďŹ les and determine which needs could be met. Once a fundraising goal has been reached, HandUp releases the money to the partner organization, which then buys the item or service for the member. The website never doles out cash, and funds cannot be used to buy alcohol, weapons or anything illegal, of course. Once a member launches a campaign they are bound to that goal.

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A ghostly MARGIE MATTHEWS made a cameo appearance only slightly more short-lived than her council term.

Not to be outdone by ball gags and bong-packing of years past, downtown Councilman RAUL PERALEZ doffed his top in an off-tempo striptease.

NANCI KLEIN and JOHNNY KHAMIS balk at the price of sewer water.

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Game On PLAY TO LEARN Student programmers created a video game that doubles as a teaching tool on digital privacy.

Video game teaches players the ins and outs of online security

BY GARY SINGH

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he San Jose Public Library was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to develop an online project to help people understand privacy issues in the digital age.

After recruiting student programmers from the SJSU Game Development Club and researchers from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, the library came up with a working prototype. The library will present

the prototype at the American Library Association annual coNference in San Francisco this weekend, as well as the Digital Rights in Libraries conference a few days. The latter event emerges thanks to the Library Freedom Project.

In general, online privacy is a complicated stew of issues that still befuddles quite a few people.

The San Jose Public Library’s test prototype, a video game of sorts, will teach people how to make informed decisions about their online activity.

Believe it or not, many people still don’t understand basic components of how the online world works, that is, who can see our activities, just which institutions are spying

on our habits and selling them to advertisers, or just how social media environments like Facebook handle these things.

So what’s the answer? A whimsical video game that takes users through a Donkey Kong-style environment where the user travels through different levels, bounces around to answer questions and collect discs on his or her path toward privacy education. In the process, the user learns more about social media and the online world.

And it’s not just for kids. If you’re confused about all of this stuff like sharing, permissions or checking in to a tire shop on Swarm, well, you just might learn a few things. That’s the idea.

“Security, privacy—it’s a scary topic for a lot of people,” said Erin Berman, the librarian in charge of the project.

“So what I wanted to do was create a way to make it fun. Take this dry

and scary topic and make it fun and engaging. And also recognize that people have different needs.”

As a result, several different issues came up during the course of the project. With over three billion people now using the internet on many different levels, privacy means different things to different people.

“One of the things that popped up for me is that privacy is an outdated concept,” Berman said. “Everybody has a different definition of privacy now. And that what you do online might be different than what I do online, and that we might share differently, but one of the most important parts is just to have that base education.”

For example, in order to feel safe and confident online, users need to know how to do that. This could mean something different for any given person. For example, these days, some generations fall victim to phony telephone tech support scams, or they don’t even realize their web browsing activities might be tracked by a remote machine somewhere. In other cases, people share all the wrong twerking videos on Facebook, which can come back to haunt them in future job interviews. Small businesses, to cite another instance, often fail to understand just how their customers’ information stays safe.

If everyone just became aware of these issues, the world might be a better place. And what better institution than your local library to begin the journey? With libraries evolving more and more into multidisciplinary educational centers in general, places where one can go look for real, living, trustworthy people to explain all of this, such a project makes sense. It shows that libraries are not stagnating. They continue to forge new paths into the future. This is just one example.

“Libraries have always been centers for literacy, places to learn new things,” Berman said. “And this is just another type of literacy, just like a lot of libraries are transitioning into teaching people how to use 3D printers or how to solder, or how to code. Those are all different types of literacy. They’re all different skills to up your life game. And we want to address concerns and current relevant issues that are happening. And this is an important topic to discuss.”

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NE of the more interesting and least probable characters around Silicon Valley is Rudy Rucker. Mild mannered and grandfatherly, the retired San Jose State professor and prolific author lives simply in a Los Gatos home with his wife of almost 50 years. That’s pretty much where the normalcy stops.

He listens to the Ramones and the Replacements and paints colorful folk art-like canvases of the afterlife featuring spaceships, human head farms and characters who look like they were borrowed from a Russ Meyers movie set. A contemporary of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and other cyberpunk writers and one of the core contributors to the seminal cyberculture magazine

Mondo 2000, he spent the ’90s in dive bars and brainhacking into the black holes of human consciousness with the aid of exotic synthetic drugs. And while he was mentoring future engineers and learning to wield a paintbrush, he flushed his vested stock options in a corporate downsizing and managed to heckle, during a presidential visit, the CEO who terminated him.

Rucker’s 828-page compilation of journal jottings capture, with the proper dose of absurdity, Silicon Valley at the millennium’s cusp, a digitized microcosm of the human paradox, simultaneously beautiful and futile, like a wry batch of contaminated ethanol torched by humor. Rucker always surprises. He mentioned, before Ann & Mark’s Art Party last year, that he’d lived in a small New Jersey college town as a Rutgers grad student, which means he was living four streets

over from me while I was growing up. While that kind of Twilight Zone theme-worthy coincidence can’t be guaranteed, readers who have spent time in and around the valley will connect with the local touchstones that abound in his readable and witty chronicles.

With more than 20 books out, Rucker no longer bothers with traditional publishers and funded “Journals: 1990 - 2014” with a Kickstarter campaign. It’s available on Amazon for $24.95 in paperback, and in hardcover for $10 more. In April, he cryptically posted “Don't Worry About the Hyphens” to his Kickstarter backers, which I figured was either a play on the Sex Pistols’ first album title or a computer warning message that appears on a form for social security or telephone numbers. As we went to press, Rucker sent a clarifying email about

“some ‘bad’ hyphens that had slipped into the book text.” Scholars will analyze his body of work in years to come, and interpretation, no matter how incorrect, will trump actual reality. Nonetheless, purged of bad hyphens, Rucker’s latest work shines some 4D sunlight on a human time period when the collective brain punched through former perceived limits with code and chemicals, and which is just now taking its place in a literary context. —Dan Pulcrano

SEPTEMBER 2, 1992.

AT THE BLACK WATCH.

In the Black Watch bar, sitting in a booth facing the street. I see a riot of color and hear a mass of sound.

Initially it is truly horrible Tom Jones shouting “Delilah.” So loud it hurts. Then after the bellowing, rutting finale of “Delilah,” as if in cosmic forgiveness, the music

shock and disorienting depression.

I’m supposed to go back to this? To these…professors? After running with the hard-guy industrial hackers for four years? After freaking with the finest of the bay-lit nuts? Did someone say committees?

Everyone was nice and friendly, but inside my head I had a vision of being a screaming kicking rabbit in a trap. The trap being my teaching job. Rabbits can make a sound, you know. It’s a high-pitched squeal, like wheenk wheenk.

employment at Autodesk. I feel nervous about it. I had to buy myself new computer equipment, most of the stuff I’ve been using at home belongs to Autodesk. I still don’t have my new email set up—I can’t get my new system’s modem to work.

Today, Friday, I went up to Autodesk and got flensed (whaling term for removing the blubber from a whale). On the way I hit Fry’s Electronics on the Lawrence Expressway off Route 101 in Sunnyvale one more time, my sixth

SEPTEMBER 25, 1992.

COURTROOM.

Doing research for a courtroom scene in The Hacker and the Ants, I went into San Jose today to the Hall of Justice, right next to the Main Jail for Santa Clara County.

I went to Dept. 33 on the fifth floor where a trial was just beginning.

Judge Robert P. Ahern presiding.

He was a heavy-set guy who spoke very slowly and clearly. He was still inspecting and instructing the jury. Sometimes he’d start asking a juror questions and would pile one question on top of the other bang bang bang. What college do you attend? What courses are you taking?

How long have you gone to De Anza?

The trial room: five rows of fourteen chairs with an aisle in the middle, the aisle goes through a low partition that separates off the court. On the partition is a sign: “All communications with the prisoners—verbal, written or signal is unlawful without the permission of the deputies.”

One of the jurors: I’m a retired pilot. I worked for Fidelity Insurance company. A corporate pilot. My wife works in personnel at Lockheed.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1992.

BACK TO TEACHING?

Tonight, Saturday, we went to a party for the SJSU math department at Professor Jane Day’s in Palo Alto.

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She Has a Pet, August, 2010 What a burn. I’m not ready to start teaching again next spring. What I need to do is to finish Hacker and the Ants and then get my head together about what it is that I’ve been doing in Silicon Valley for the past six years out here with computers. Write another nonfiction book.

Titles? Why Computers Suck. But they don’t. Why Computers Don’t Suck. Forget the suck. Inside the Machine. It’s almost like A Season in Hell, or maybe Mathematical Hacking.

Accurate and to the point. But not actually a good title.

OCTOBER 16, 1992.

FLENSED AT AUTODESK. Monday is my last day of official

visit in the process of getting my new machines to work.

Up at Autodesk, I turned in my Autodesk machines in the area that used to be Advanced Tech. There were some young kids sitting around laughing in our old “Cyberia” room. One of them was tapping a golf-ball with a club, doing putting practice. They all looked so happy and relaxed. They were the Help group of Information Systems. I got the putting boy to carry in the heavy stuff: the laser printer and the Compaq CPU. “Oh were you the guy who sent the email today? I saw that,” he says.

The next thing was that I went to the third floor of the execs’ building to meet an Autodesk lawyer, who had

the contract ready for the artificial life code package that I’ve been calling Boppers. The lawyer was a very junior person—I’d been imagining a big wheel assigned to my deal, but they don’t care that much. The contact gave me a free perpetual license to use the Boppers code as I like…which made it seem like the code was a real thing, anyway.

Walking down the low white halls I was thinking, “This is just what you’ve been writing about in The Hacker and the Ants. This is so great.”

I’m living in my novel. This morning when I called the Galaxy 2000 video chip people about my new graphics card, they were all Vietnamese, like my Vinh Vo character in Hacker, I recognized the calm accent. And when I took my Galaxy 2000 Windows Accelerator Board back to Fry’s this morning the guy in front of me in line was none other than Steve Wozniak—the Woz—buying four Apple Powerbooks plus 5 thousand dollars’ worth of boards and chips to stuff in them. It’s a trip to be here living in the transreal world that I’m really writing about.

Back to my Autodesk visit. I go to see a young woman named Lori in “Human Relations.” She takes me into a conference room full of packing boxes. I sign forms, give her my Autodesk AT&T phone credit card, my office key. She is flensing me, rendering me, butchering my corpse.

The so-called exit interview is a formality where I fill in answers to three printed questions about my work experience at Autodesk.

Nobody will ever read my answers.

I keep them short. Lori leads me back into the halls and I happen to see that programmer kid who was working with me at Autodesk at the end. John Castellucci.

“Hey, Rudy!” he calls down the long hall. “Is that Rudy?” John is freakin and geekin, it’s fine to see him.

Lori recognizes Castellucci, he’s potential meat for her to flense, he may be on his way out too.

“I’m here with the undertaker,” I tell John. I’m resentful about being flensed and embalmed.

“Don’t call me an undertaker,” says Lori a little sharply. I begin to notice how really skinny she is. Like this was a subterranean afterworld experience.

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switches to mellow space music, and later on to heavy metal. The bartender is a guy I’ve seen working at the liquor store, he’s languid and weary, as if he’s not fully inflated.

I found out today that I can pick up the equivalent of three-month’s salary if I buy my Autodesk stock options. Copacetic! I’m really not going to go back to teaching at State yet this spring is what I think today.

I want to be unemployed for awhile, like in the magical four years at Lynchburg when I wrote six books.

Thursday I went up to Autodesk and met the Human Relations Director. He told me that I wouldn’t get some of the severance pay I’d thought I would. He had zero empathy, of course, why else would he be in charge of Human Relations.

It’s like the Ministry of Peace in 1984.

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She drops me with a friendly old lady who’s in charge of stock options, and I pay the money to exercise them and I actually leave with some shares. I feel like the lady thinks I’m a real sport.

Before emptying out my office at Autodesk, I went through all my old email on the desktop machine I had there, and I selected out the good parts.

Looking back, it was funny how much effort I expended writing up “business plans� that nobody ever fucking looked at.

After three hours of ruining my eyes scrolling through the email and selecting shit, I slipped up and crashed the computer without having saved the doc. So typical of doing things with computers.

I think, never mind. No use selecting all that crap again. Let the email be gone for good. I read over it and that’s enough. Times like this I always remember G. I. Gurdjieff ’s line, “No effort is ever in vain.� If you work with computers you end up saying that line a lot.

FEBRUARY 9, 1993.

TIME COVER STORY ON CYBERPUNK. I ďŹ nished the second version of The Hacker and the Ants on Wednesday, January 27, (adding about six thousand words,) and mailed it in.

Time magazine had a cover story on “Cyberpunk� in the February 8, 1993 issue. I can hardly grasp the wonder of this. It happened because of the Mondo 2000 User’s Guide, which happened in some part because of me. I brought cyberpunk to the West Coast, and we made it into Time. Incredible.

Needing to visit the Waite Group to talk about my ArtiďŹ cial Life Lab software package, I drove up to Marin in my new red Acura Legend with the black leather upholstery.

California has been good to me.

FEBRUARY 23, 1993.

BILL CLINTON.

Sunday night, Bill and Hilary Clinton were in Los Gatos to have dinner at the California Cafe with

DECEMBER 31, 1999.

BIG FLIP IN SF.

After dinner, Sylvia and I walk around San Francisco. We swing through Union Square, but nothing’s going on there, only a couple of hundred people in a clearing behind a zillion police barricades, listening to some weak-ass world music. We ride a bus down Market Street to as close to the Ferry Building as we can get, and walk the rest of the way. This is where it’s at. Thousands of people walking along with us.

They’re not, on the whole, violent or weird, just here to see the show.

We stop around First Street, where the crowd starts to get too thick.

Hundreds of police, some with riot helmets and batons, some mounted on motorbikes, motorcycles and horses. They’re very insistent about keeping us out of the street and on the sidewalks—a display of force. Their motorcycles are doing little circle maneuvers, savoring their free space.

At midnight the ďŹ reworks start by the Ferry Building’s old tower, big fountains of colored balls and paisley-like swirlers, then skyrocket explosions, maybe 10 minutes’ worth. Looking down the street towards the Ferry Building and the bay behind it, we can’t see all the ďŹ reworks, but we can see a lot of them. A young gay couple next to us with one of the guys’ parents. They exchange a little peck at midnight, just like Sylvia and me.

Green laser lights fan over the crowd now, and the twitching beams sketch images on the buildings. Fully operational. The exultant play of the still-functioning computers.

Afterwards, we see dozens of people talking on cellphones. That’s a new 21st Century thing too. But many things haven’t changed. People still wear long pants, and thick coats,

and leather shoes, and wool hats.

The future hasn’t swept this stuff away. We wear warm clothes because we’ve ďŹ gured out over thousands of years that they’re practical and comfortable.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2001.

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Daughter Georgia, who lives in Greenwich Village, saw the buildings collapse, each of them, pancaking down oor by oor, pulverizing the three thousand people inside, What a terrible thing for your little girl to see.

I haven’t been feeling much anger about the attack, it’s more fear about what comes next. And we’re stuck with what looks like the least well-equipped president we’ve ever had. For a few years I’ve been thinking about how the U.S. has been tormenting Iraq, blockading it, bombing them so often that it’s not even news anymore—I’d been worried that doing that kind of thing for long enough would bring something nasty down on us. The cause and effect, the karma. But none of our leaders are seeing it that way.

I drove down to Santa Cruz early this afternoon and I went to Four Mile Beach, my favorite. Out on the east end of the beach, quite a ways from the entrance, there’s a tower of stone in the sea with pelicans ying by. This is my magic spot, and I knew it would make me feel good to go there today. When I get to this spot, I’m immediately in touch with the big aha.

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I had lunch with Ralph Abraham after my last class to celebrate. Ralph was teaching a course at San Jose State this term. He’s retired from UC Santa Cruz. I really look up to the guy, the Grand Old Chaotician.

It was cold and windy, we two admired the whirling leaves in front of MacQuarrie Hall. Hard to imagine a better qualified pair of observers for this lovely chaos than Ralph and me. Really seeing it. It felt as good as the time Robert Sheckley and I were crossing a street in NYC years ago, high, and we nearly got run down by a taxi.

Looking back, it was funny how much effort I expended writing up ‘business plans’ that nobody ever looked at.

Today Ralph was talking about a science video of a rabbit smelling a pineapple. And how it’s hard to bring a smell to mind because, instead of being a primitive sensation, a smell is a learned association to a certain olfactory stimulation pattern.

Sometimes I don’t understand what Ralph’s talking about. He always says surprising things, not at all what I was expecting, and often irrelevant to the conversation’s topic.

Sort of like my own conversational style. I really enjoy talking with him.

MAY 18, 2004.

MY LAST LECTURE. As soon as I woke up today, I was planning my final lecture. My last class today, and in about two weeks, in place of a final exam, my students

will demo their semester project programs for me, and then I’ll be done.

At the outdoor coffee bar under my office building, the baristas are playing a Ramones CD, including “I Wanted Everything” and “Rock ’N’ Roll High School.” Synchronicity everywhere these days. My fave band has come to sing me goodbye. Joey’s dead. This fall I had a premonition exactly here at this coffee bar that I’d soon be gone.

I sit for awhile in the sun, drinking tea and listening to the Ramones, penning this note. No rush. The Ramones sing their exquisite, “The KKK Took My Baby Away.” Life is good.

What if I got up and started dancing? All around me students are studying, as if there were no music.

FEBRUARY 21, 2005.

UNIVERSAL COMPUTATION.

Yesterday I went on a kayak tour in the rock islands of Palau. It was one of the very best days of my life.

Paddling into a lagoon for lunch, I felt I was flying—the water was that clear, with the sandy bottom all white. It was as if my kayak were gliding through empty space. And quiet, quiet, quiet all around. Not a whisper of wind in the trees, only the gentle lapping of the waves, the occasional calls of birds and, of course, the sporadic whooping of the cheery Palauan guides.

I felt a wave of joy, wading around in that lagoon, and a profound sense of gratefulness, both to the world for being so beautiful and to fate for letting me reach this spot. Peaceful in Eden. The world as it’s truly meant to be. I’m glad I lived long enough to get here.

High in the air above one of these sunny backwaters, I see a large, dark—bird? It’s the size of an eagle, but, no, it’s a fruit bat, the sun shining through the membranes of its wings. The islands seem like green clouds come to earth—mirroring their fluffy white brethren above.

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Swimming through the arch, I encounter a shoal of perhaps ten thousand tiny tropical fish—like the fish you’d see in someone’s home aquarium: zebras and tetras. With my snorkel on, I marvel at their schooling motions. They move in unison like iron filings in a field. Ropes and scarves of density emerge from the parallel computations produced by their individual anxieties.

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The turbulent water currents compute—the clouds in the sky, the cellular automaton reactiondiffusion patterns on the mantles of the giant clams, the Zhabotinsky scrolls of the shelf corals, the gnarly roots of plants on the land— everything computes, each moment flowing from the moment before, orchestrated by nature’s laws.

So I’m thinking that maybe, yes, maybe everything is a computation.

Thinking that way gives me a point of view from which I can make sense of all these diverse forms I’m seeing here. But, wait, what about my thoughts, can I see those as computations too?

Well, why can’t they just be fractal broccoli, flocking algorithms, class four turbulence, cellular automaton scrolls. I want to ascribe a higher significance to my thoughts, but why make so much of them? Are my thoughts really so vastly different from the life forms all around me in these lagoons? Why not relax and merge. All is One. And if I find it useful to understand the One’s workings in terms of computation, don’t think

that this reduces the lagoon to a buzzing beige box. The lagoon is not reduced, the lagoon is computing just as it is. “Computing” is simply a way to describe the dance of natural law.

MAY 22, 2012.

ECLIPSE. TRANSITION. There was a cool partial annular eclipse of the sun in the San Francisco Bay Area last week. It was about 6:30 pm, and the sun was going behind the hill that we live on. So I walked up the street to get a better view.

I’d been using the safe method of studying tiny crescents via a pin-holepunched sheet of paper, projecting the crescents onto the black back of a book. Wearing shades and walking up our tree-crowned hill, I noticed that the patches of shadow-light cast by the trees and bushes were strangely warped as well, with each dapple-blob molded into a crescent.

And then I looked up and I saw the eclipsed sun directly with my eyes, via quick, raking side-long glances.

The suddenly huge-seeming sun was a strange crescent, just above the horizon, filtered through the scrim of oak trees, archaic and mythical. The horned sun.

A signal from on high.

This is a strange time in writing and publishing. It seems like there’s hardly any bookstores anymore. The publishers are on the skids. My old publisher won’t have me anymore, and my publisher is on the verge of bankruptcy. No offers on my next novel at all. Rejected by the big houses and the small publishers both.

I’ve been building up my new publishing venture; I call it Transreal Books. I’m like a guy digging a fallout shelter. Transreal Books gives me direct, unmediated access to my readers. I can sell ebooks myself, and I’ve learned how to sell printed books online as well.

Yes, self-publishing carries a whiff of being a literary leper. But I’d rather publish my new novel myself than go around begging the truly tiny publishers. Right out of the box, I have a better web presence than many small publishers. And if I self-publish, I earn about twice as much per copy.

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Wine Time SUMMER, for oenophiles, has a recurring theme. Wine tasting, outdoor concerts, wine tasting, beach bonďŹ res, wine tasting, movies in the park, wine tasting.

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The event is free and open to all ages, but wines can only be sipped by those 21-and-up and armed with a tasting ticket. The ticket, $40 in advance or $50 at the door, includes ďŹ ve three-ounce pours, a $10 voucher for any of the San Pedro Square Market’s food vendors, and a souvenir wine glass.

Last year’s wine pour was a smaller, indoor event. As San Pedro Square Market looked to expand it to the patio and St. John Street, they invited SJMADE to bring in nearly 20 pop-up shops. SJMADE is a platform to encourage community ideas, independent businesses, and local products.

The pop-ups will feature local jewelers, bakers, designers and makers for patrons to browse as they tipple. “A lot of the people we work with, a lot of the vendors who are going to be at the wine pour, are local people who hand-make or very meticulously make their goods,� said Kevin Biggers, Content Strategist at SJMADE. “I think that augments this idea of high-quality wine mixed with high-quality shopping.�

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The inspiring tale of her survival propelled Yousafzai to the global stage, where she continues to advocate for girls’ rights in education in Pakistan. She became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2014. She will join Khaled Hosseini, the local bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, to speak at San Jose State University.

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SHREWS AT STREETLIGHT Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat, 5pm, Free Though they're barely more than a year old, the name of San Jose's own Shrews sorta brings to mind some crass, crusty, balding punk band whose glory days are long behind them. And, while they are certainly no stranger to the power chord, The Shrews are, in fact, a lot more melodic (and several decades younger) than their pest-inspired name lets on.

There may be earnestly-sung lyrics, some tambourine shakes, and even a ballad or two waiting for you at Streetlight this Saturday.

Take it from their formidable list of influences: The Velvet Underground. The Ramones. The Clash. The Cars. It's a lot to live up to, but these young'ns are getting there. (JA)

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Northside Branch Library, Santa Clara Sun, 5pm, Free The Santa Clara City Library is gearing up for its first-ever film festival. CineFest will celebrate and showcase the work of local filmmakers—paying special attention to students with directorial aspirations. The festival will feature nine family-friendly films, including documentaries, dramas, short films and music videos. Oakland-based director Michelle Grace Steinberg will open the festival by speaking about her passion for film and the directing experience. Other filmmakers will also be present to share and answer questions about the craft. (LN)

ROCK ROCKSTAR R KSTAR MAYHEM FESTIVAL Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Sun, 1pm, $25-$75 Slayer. King Diamond. The Devil Wears Prada (and we’re not talking about that Streep-Hathaway venture from a few years back). This day-long tribute to skull-crushing metal and the awesome power of taurine sounds the way energy drinks taste, and it’s passing through Mountain View this Sunday. The Mayhem fest is an edgier offshoot of the Vans Warped Tour, and it’s bringing 13 (of course it’s 13) bands with almost comically “metal”-sounding names (Sister Sin! Shattered Sun! Feed Her To The Sharks!) to festival grounds across the country. It’s also worth noting that a literal bucket of earplugs is like eight bucks at Walgreens. If you value your auditory health, you’re gonna need ‘em for this. (JA)

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MAC SABBATH August 9 at The Ritz

ZIGGY MARLEY & STEEL PULSE August 13 at Mountain Winery

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August 14 at Mountain Winery

Cafe Stritch, San Jose Mon, 8pm, $20

August 15 at California Theatre

If a rhythm section is the metaphorical backbone of a band, then Antonio Sanchez & Migration have a spine of steel. The Mexican-born Sanchez leads the group from behind, propelling the music forward with his impressive percussive prowess. Film lovers will know Sanchez from his work on the 2014 film Birdman—winner of four Oscars, including Best Picture.

Unfortunately, and perhaps unfairly, the Academy did not even nominate the film’s excellent and kinetic, drum-driven score, authored by Sanchez—citing the same arbitrarily enforced rule used to disqualify Johnny Greenwood’s excellent musical accompaniment to 2007’s There Will Be Blood. That’s what you call a snub. (NV)

CHRIS HARDWICK SHANIA TWAIN August 17 at SAP Center

DIERKS BENTLEY August 21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

RODGRIGO Y GABRIELA June 28 at Mountain Winery

MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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Time and Again TIME-CROSSED LOVERS The Pear Avenue Theatre’s latest play, ‘Arcadia,’ toggles back and forth in time.

‘Arcadia’ jumps between intertwined eras to tell an intricate story

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OM STOPPARD’S Arcadia is not a play to watch passively.

It's a dizzying blend of science, math, history, art and literary references, which requires audiences to sit up, don their thinking caps and pay careful attention—the type of production that sends theater patrons directly to their Wikipedia apps during intermission.

It’s also the kind of play that demands compelling performances and a great attention to detail from set designers, directors and actors alike.

Pear Avenue Theatre Company boldly

takes Arcadia on and offers a satisfying version of this modern English classic.

The drama is set in Sidley Park, a stately home in the Derbyshire countryside, with the storyline toggling between the early 19th century and the present day. In the older timeline, bright young Thomasina Coverly (Monica Ammerman) is tutored and flirted with by Septimus Hodge (Robert Sean Campbell), under the watchful eye of her mother, Lady Croom (Diane Tasca).

Lady Croom is also reluctantly overseeing the transforming of her lovely garden from a Classic design to a wilder landscape, complete with an as-yet empty hermitage.

While Thomasina begins to astonish Septimus with her insightful probes into mathematics and science, his acquaintance Ezra Chater (Brian

Flegel) challenges him to a duel for seducing his wife and criticizing his mediocre writing. Famous Romantic poet Lord Byron is behind the scenes stirring up trouble, college-age heir Augustus (Jason Pollak) teases his sister, and a beloved pet tortoise quietly witnesses all the goings on.

In the present day, author Hannah Jarvis (Elizabeth Kruse Craig) is researching the history of Sidley Park's gardens for a book on the English Romantic period. The estate is occupied by the current (unseen) lord and lady, as well as their three children: mathematical biologist Valentine (Michael Rhone), naive Chloe (Roneet Aliza Rahamim), and mute adolescent named Gus (Pollak again).

Jarvis is bemused by the arrival of arrogant professor Bernard Nightingale (Dan Kapler), her academic nemesis and personality opposite, who's on the hunt for a Sidley connection to Lord Byron and searching for clues tying him to a fatal duel. Hannah meanwhile desires to uncover the identity of the resident hermit.

Characters in the later timeline echo ideas expressed by those centuries before, such as a young woman asking a male mentor figure whether she's the first person to have thought of a certain visionary idea. And there's plenty of dramatic irony when the modern characters ponder clues from the past and sometimes misinterpret them.

The grand Sidley Park study provides the simple backdrop for both timelines (with lighting cues indicating a switch in era), and the wonderful time-travel aspect of the play is highlighted by the way the props (designed by Miranda Whipple) brought to the table in one time remain there, intermingled with those of the second. By the end of the play, the two timelines themselves have cleverly blended, allowing the action in both eras to unfold around each other.

Stoppard's play is wordy, full of highbrow citations, and dripping with big, interesting ideas. Classicism vs.

Romanticism, arts vs. science, chaos vs. order, determinism, thermodynamics and more are all explored. Ultimately, though, mathematical models of the universe simply can't account for the disruptive influence of human emotions and attractions, and arts and sciences both have their place.

Despite its academic allusions, Arcadia is also a warm and quite lovely human story of the impact of interactions between lively and believable characters who, like all of us, are seeking meaning.

The actors playing the oldenday characters, their mouths full of Stoppard's wordplay and fancy British accents, can be occasionally difficult to understand when speaking quickly, but Ammerman's Thomasina is winsome and Campbell's Hodge believably charming. In the modernday realm, I enjoyed everyone's performances, but my favorite was Kapler's Nightingale—a conceited blowhard, yet undeniably charismatic.

Arcadia is the final production staged in the intimate, hidden-away Pear Avenue space in Mountain View (the company is moving to a new, more spacious digs). It's an ambitious and rewarding choice for a last hurrah.

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HOMEWARD BOUND At the turn of the 19th Century, a quarter of a million orphans were sent from New York to new homes. This production blends art with history to tell this little-told story. $15-$38.

Sep 18-Oct 11. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

WEST SIDE STORY Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets a greasy combover and a leather jacket. The legendary struggle between the Jets and the Sharks set in New York is a timeless classic. Jul 16-Aug 23. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.

CHINGLISH Daniel, an American business man, heads to China to make a fortune on correctly translating signs from Mandarin to English, but when he arrives he finds that language, culture, and love ends up getting lost in the translation. Jun 13-28. $17-$42. Palo Alto Players.

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URINETOWN This musical with the eyegrabbing title took over Broadway in 2011. The modern classic enters a laughably familiar world where water is so scarce that private toilets are banned, opening the door for an unlikely hero to rise up for all of our number 1 rights.

May 28-June 27. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

ARCADIA The third chapter in Braverman's “stage noir” trilogy featuring the gin-soaked private eye, Frankie Payne, finds us rooting for something that has long eluded Frankie as she solves mysteries of crime: the mystery of love. But, in harm's way once again, will she solve the mystery in time? Jun 19-Jul 12. $10-$35. The Pear Avenue Theatre. Mountain View.

TOM FOOLERY Tom Lehrer was Weird Al Yankovic before Weird Al Yankovic, but way better and using social issues as his material instead of pop songs.

The songs of this Harvard educated math professor have been made into a musical that hits on some of his favorite

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DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last Saturday, alternative concert. Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz.

Every Fri, 7-9pm. San Pedro Square Market, San Jose.

TOSPS TUESDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s budding music scene across all genres. Most Tuesdays, 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

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“Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”, featuring the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Maasai tribe of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania.

“Woodcarvings of Val Gardena, Italy,” featuring handcrafted woodcarving figures.

2TWENTY5 Alternative Art next to rather fresh duds. Japantown, San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS “Reconnecting with Cuba” Photographs of the contemporary state of the country by American artists. Thru Jul 26. Mountain View.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “San Shui,” paintings by Russell Altice Case. San Jose.

EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS Arlene Asuncion, Candie Bolton, Caitlin Hackett, Crystal Morey, Bunnie Reiss, Roan Victor. Thru Jul. San Jose.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Promised Land” Works by Jacob Lawrence. Thru Aug 3. “500 years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University of Art.” Thru Aug 24. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Dora and Diego: Let’s Explore” A series of adventures and activities based on the worldfamous children’s show. San Jose.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

MACLA “Breaking Point” glass works by award-winners Jaime Guerrero and Vivianna Paredas. Thru Aug 8. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY “2015 Anniversary Show” bright and chilling work from over 20 resident artists. Thru Jun 28. Redwood City.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Metaphoric States” Five bronze works by Stephen de Staebler. Thru Oct 1. Saratoga.

PACIFIC ART LEAGUE

Various art and photography created by students at De Anza College. Cupertino.

“Pressed” A printmaking exhibition. Thru Jun 25. Palo Alto.

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“Home Grown.” mid-career exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Walter Robinson.

Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.

“Silicon Valley Bikes! Passion, Innovation, & Politics since 1880” Tracing the history and showing the artifacts from San Jose’s 150 year history on two wheels. “Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing

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press is one of the most important inventions in human history, see the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. San Jose.

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SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Paths Will Cross” photos by Phil Jackson, Brad Westcott.

Starts Jun 12. San Jose.

GOOD BOYS, FOUL MOUTHS ‘The Book of Mormon’ makes its South Bay debut at the Center for the Performing Arts next week.

Missionary Position TWO YOUNG MORMON missionaries are sent to Uganda to spread the good news of their faith. However, upon arrival they discover the local villagers— suffering under the rule of a cruel warlord—are more concerned with issues of poverty, disease, famine and violence than matters of religion. Sounds like a barrel of laughs, right?

In the vulgar hands of writers Matt Stone and Trey Parker (they of South Park fame) and Robert Lopez (who co-wrote the songs of Frozen and Avenue Q) it certainly is.

Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy, is making its South Bay debut, with 16 shows running from June 30 to July 12 at the Center for the Performing Arts.

Hailed by critics all over the country, the production is a gentle parody of, and tribute to, classic Broadway styles.

Book Of Mormon Jun 30-Jul 12, $58-$203 San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

“It is a groundbreaking show in the sense that it was able to bring adult language and risqué subjects to the Broadway stage, but at its core, its structure, it's a very simple musical comedy,” says Billy Harrigan Tighe, who plays Elder Price, the more confident of the two missionaries.

To prepare for his role, Harrigan Tighe says he and his cast mates were given "a large packet full of every single reference made in the show to the religion, the church, and the characters in Uganda so there wasn't any reference in the show that I wasn't informed about.

“They definitely wanted to make sure that we were knowledgeable about what we were talking about and why they thought it was important," he says of the creative team.

Co-star Alexandra Ncube did research into the role and treatment of women in Uganda and extensive dialect practice to play Nabulungi, the chief's daughter, who teams up with the missionaries in hopes of saving her village.

"It's really racy, but it's a wonderful story, filled with wonderful characters.

You'll be on board by the end," she says of the show—naming the "Hakuna Matata"-inspired song, "Hasa Diga Eebowai" (translation: "Fuck You, God!") as one of her favorites.

Though the crude language and potentially blasphemous material may offend some, Harrison Tighe says the underlying tone is neither mean-spirited nor shocking. "People shouldn't be scared away. It's not malicious, it's just a buddy musical, written and performed through the eyes of 19-year-old boys, with such a sweet and positive message."—Karla Kane

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Meta Home Movies YOUNG MAN, MANCHILD, CHILD Everyone is just trying to figure it all out in ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.’

Art imitates life imitating art in ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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OMETHING INNOCENT and sweet survives in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, to balance out a manipulative, conniving streak so effective that Fox Searchlight paid $12 million for the film at Sundance—the biggest buy in the fest’s history.

Dying Girl is never straight-up Fault in the Stars-Love Story backwash, despite the redemption of the troubled hero—the self-loathing, selfdescribed “pasty faced” protagonist, Greg (Thomas Mann).

It all begins when Greg’s mom

forces him to hang out with Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a neighbor girl fighting a losing battle with leukemia.

Greg is half-heartedly distracted from his visits of mercy with the problem of an annoying crush on the prettiest girl in school (Kathleen C. Hughes). Meanwhile, African American sidekick Earl (RJ Cyler) follows the sidekick’s ancient path— coolly endorsing the hero’s decisions, right up until the key moment, where he can reveal the simple and honest emotions that our hero is too complex to understand.

The plot has the traditional youngadult lit problem of badly delineated actual-adults. Nick Offerman, as Greg’s dad, and Joe Bernthal, as his favorite teacher, actually seem to be the same character. (The latter has

tattoos—that’s how you can tell the difference.) It’s a tribute to Molly Shannon’s wry subtleties that she can wreak so much emotion out of the one-note role of Rachel’s drunken mom. The young actors, especially the sweet, sad Cooke, don’t overdo it.

Mann brings in a tough, selfish streak that it took the similar Michael Cera many movies to discover. A thick audio layer of ’70s Brian Eno invokes cerebral romance; there’s needledrops within needle-drops, but it’s still rare music. Chung Hou-Chung, of the original Oldboy, photographs the Pittsburgh locations so well that you’ll think you’ve been some place exotic when you leave. The Vertigo references don’t seem in vain when you see the precipitous streets, the noble old Victorian houses, and a three story bookshop with steep, belltower-like steps.

To avoid the tang of soap opera, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon uses every distancing device in the book, from Robot Chicken-like animated interludes

to subtitled chapter headings. The film-geekery is deep—beginning with a double portion of Harold and Maude references. (Just guess what Greg’s family cat is called. Hint: “Stevens.”) Greg is such an art-movie expert that he can imitate Werner Herzog’s jungle breakdown speech in Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams. And yet, he insists this is why he’s a reject: it’s as if he’s never heard that film directors make good money and become idolized.

As a private joke between them, Greg and Earl have remade most of the Criterion Collection, using handheld cameras and camera phones. They film in vacant lots and use blunt-scissors to cut stopmo animation. The pair’s wittiest sweded film is Godard’s Contempt (1963) starring a naked Barbie Bardot.

The geekdom borders on ludicrous when Earl is sitting, captivated by the Scorsese narration track on Michael Powell’s Tales of Hoffman (1951). That recently restored classic can’t get a local theatrical release and yet Dying Girl did. Ever heard the expression, “Youth must be served, but do we have to encourage cannibalism?”

What’s missing in this film is the shared experience of movie watching.

Woody Allen could film himself going to the old Thalia theater in Manhattan. Belmondo could tenderly mutter “Bogie!” seeing a lobby card at a Paris screening room.

But there’s no place to go to the movies in this alterna-Pittsburgh.

When Rachel and Greg finally share a movie, they watch it through a smartphone and a mini projector.

You have to wonder at such borrowed craft in a movie where every character’s purpose is to turn a boy into a man—or at least into a college boy. Dying Girl quotes Truffaut, but the real Jeanne Moreau catalyzed events in Jules and Jim. As a (dying) girl, Rachel hardly participates in the creations except as a sad, ethereal muse. In one scene, Greg has to leave Rachel’s side to go remake Apocalypse Now on a $5 budget. A really enterprising young director would have seen a bald bedridden girl and said, “Here’s my Kurtz!”

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WELCOME TO THE FAMILY IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING As Louis XIV, Alan Rickman has issues with his contractors (Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts).

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BACK WHEN Versailles was a swamp, A Little Chaos begins: Alan Rickman’s romantic dramady charts the creation of the royal palace. We come to witness much ared-nostril romance between Kate Winslet as the garden designer Sabine de Barra, a hands-on, gloveless gardener who grubs and prunes; she meets Matthias Schoenaerts as Le Notre, the stern official landscape architect. What impedes the courtship is Sabine’s long-standing trauma over the way she was widowed. More trouble comes from the objections of the witchily unfaithful Mme. Le Notre (that frequent villainess Helen McCrory).

King Louis (director and co-writer Alan Rickman) moved to an estate carved out of swamp land, the better to escape the Parisian mobs. The ďŹ lm suggests this move as a semireligious mission, seeking the “window into perfection.â€? Rickman directs in a way that the King himself—who was only about 40 at the time—is the center of this ďŹ lm.

The romantic dialogue is badly stilted.

If there’s chaos here, it’s a chaos of accents, most of them British. One zones out over the costumes and gazes at Rickman on the cusp of his upcoming Gielgud years.

The best scenes are the ones he reserves for himself and Winslet. His majesty has

a pleasingly candid friendship with the lady. Winslet’s curves and untidy golden hair are attered by the outďŹ ts. She looks businesslike, ever-weary, with heavy eyelids and A Little Chaos parted lips. Maybe she’s just short-winded from R; 117 min. the tight corsets.

Opens Friday at It is always fun Camera 12 watching other people work, but the landscape plans aren’t quite clear and Schoenaerts is too grim to fantasize about. Still, the supporting work is adept.

Jennifer Ehle is beguiling as the discarded royal favorite Mme. de Montespan.

Stanely Tucci is the King’s well-liked homosexual brother “Monsieur,â€? who frets about life in the country (“Muck, or beasts making muck‌â€?).

The script doesn’t mention Monsieur’s martial valor. Whenever you hear some imbecile claiming that gay soldiers always lose, remember the victor of the Battle of Cassel. Finally, Rupert Penry-Jones stands out as an ironical chevalier, taking Sabine on her ďŹ rst tour of court; he has such suaveness, one wonders why Sabine doesn’t run off with him instead of with her lovesick Le Notre. — By Richard von Busack

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Old Dark House. You’ll recognize the story, ďŹ lched for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A ood in the Welsh wilderness strands some travelers with a prime group of inbred and androgynous weirdoes. Charles Laughton was still very much a stage actor when he went before the camera. His way of signaling that that he’s a parvenu millionaire is by bellowing "The Roast Beef of Old England." Ernest Thesiger is your richly-syllabled and sexuallyambiguous host; Elspeth Dudgeon is the bed-ridden maniac, and the lurching butler (a mute, scar-faced Karloff) is the most menacing of them all. James Whale (Frankenstein) directs, with one eyebrow raised skyhigh. (Plays Jul 1-3 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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LONG ROAD BACK After splitting up, reuniting, and spending two years in mixing purgatory Citabria are back with an excellent new album, ‘Exit Reality.’

Citabria play their first show in years behind brand new album, ‘Exit Reality’

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OR SOME REASON things are always hard for us,” says Keviano Azevedo, drummer for the San Jose-based progressive alternative quartet, Citabria. He’s got a point. Considering the band’s fraught seven-year history, it is a wonder they’ve made it as far as they have.

After their initial formation as a trio in 2008, the band spent over a year searching for a singer. In all, Azevedo estimates, they turned away around 50 applicants before settling on Leopoldo Larsen—former

frontman of San Jose nu-metal/raprockers Zero Mind.

From there, they recorded The Stereo Guillotine EP—an energetic and highly technical set of eight songs.

After releasing the EP on July 1, 2010, Citabria quickly earned a local following and started gigging like crazy.

But still something wasn’t quite right.

“We wrote that album way too fast and out of excitement,” Azevedo explains. “It wasn’t getting recognized the way we wanted it to. We weren’t getting any radio play. It wasn’t socially friendly enough.”

And so they set out to write simpler songs. Or, as Azevedo puts it: “Something that we thought grandmas could rock out to—something girls would want to dance to.”

They began working with Bill Cutler—older brother to John Cutler,

the Grateful Dead’s longtime sound engineer. Cutler became like a fifth member of the band, helping the group shape their songs.

Azevedo wasn’t into it. “I felt that we were losing our individuality and our identity,” the drummer says. “I started to feel like I was just going to practice as a job—but not getting paid.”

Azevedo had a falling out with Larsen and quit. He started playing for other bands—Anya Kvitka, Los Hotboxers and Eyes on the Shore, as well as accompanying DJ sets with live drumming.

Things eventually cooled off between Azevedo and Larsen. The two ran into each other after a show and got to talking and texting.

Soon they were sending each other song sketches via email, and other band members got involved. After scrapping most what they had come up with while working with Cutler, they had 18 demos.

The next big hurdle came when they all got together in the same room for the first time to play the songs they had written using electronic music production

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software. “That was a challenge,” Azevedo says, but they eventually figured it out.

Citabria then took to Kickstarter to ask their fans for money, ran a successful campaign and headed into the Green Day-owned JingleTown Recording studios in Oakland to record what would become Exit Reality.

They tracked the album’s 14 songs in just eight days. But Exit Reality was far from being realized. After laying down all the music, the band found itself trapped in mixing purgatory.

They went back and forth with JingleTown for an entire year, but the mix never came out right.

Finally, they requested the raw tracks from JingleTown and took the album home to mix it themselves—a process that would take yet another year of layering on effects and other general tinkering. They finally released the album on Feb. 24.

“It was exhausting,” Azevedo recalls. However, as long as it took, and as difficult as the road has been to get to this point, Exit Reality goes down as smooth as buttermilk.

Take “The Animal,” for example.

Aaron Axelsen, program director for Live 105, recently played Exit Reality’s second track on his Sunday-evening new music program, “Soundcheck.”

With a stuttering, Moog bass line, soaring vocal harmonies, jet-plane guitars, the song sounds like a cross between Muse, Depeche Mode and Dredg.

“The Animal” is directly followed by “In Your Eyes,” which takes cues from sultry PBR&B crooners like The Weeknd and Frank Ocean.

Where The Stereo Guillotine was built upon dry guitar spasms and technical drumming, Exit Reality, is soaked in codeine-laced syrup and propelled by dance-ready rhythms.

Azevedo says the band is totally stoked on the new album and ready to hit the road. He says they are especially excited to share all their new tunes with their hometown fans for the first time live. “I know there is going to be really good turnout for this show,” he says. “I feel it.”

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MARIANI’S THE CARAVAN

AGAVE Every Fri, 9:30pm: DJ Norman.

San Jose.

Thu, Jun 25, 10pm: Jamie Nova Sky and Donovan Cole.

Fri, Jun 26, 10pm: Them Slacked Jawed Sons of Bitches. Sat, Jun 27, Forgotten Gods, Cropburner, Smoke.

San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays w/ free dance lessons. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose. Every Sunday: Hip-hop & reggae.

San Jose.

THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more.

San Jose

BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed, Jun 24: DJ ONEmanARMY & JASON DEE. Fri, Jun 26, 8:30pm: DESIGNATED DRIVERS; 10pm: DJ DvS DAVE. Sat, Jun

Every Tues, 10pm: Resident DJ Gabriel Black presents Beat Culture. Every Wed, 10pm: Rubber Soul w/ Wen Davis, Nappy, Cutso, and Golden Child (Hip-Hop). Every Thu, 10pm: Roger Morehouse Presents Foxy Thursdays.

Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 8pm: Dubstep. Every 1st & 3rd Sunday, 8:30pm: Hip-Hop Nights. Campbell

CHARLEY’S LG Every Wed, 10pm: Wi3rd Wednesdays. Every Thu, 7pm: Speakeasy Saloon w/ live Country music. Every Fri & Sat, 7pm: Live Music in Downtown Los Gatos. Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Thu, 10pm: Karaoke.

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

THE CATS

27, 10pm: DJ NESSrock & KRUCIAL. Sun, Jun 28, 10pm: Reverend Sean Blak. Mon, Jun 29, 10pm: DJ Sean Blak. Tue, Jun 30: DJ HiGrade, TESFA & Friends. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed and Sun, 10pm: Karaoke Night with DJ Hank. Thu, Jun 25, 10pm: DJ Maniakal. Fri, Jun 26, 10pm: California Groove-Love Music.

Sat, Jun 27, 10pm: DJ Dinero.

San Jose.

Wed, Jun 24: Acoustic Madness. Thu, Jun 26: Smoking Snakes. Fri, Jun 26, 8pm: Maneck. Sat, Jun 27: Jimmy Dewrance Band. Every Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Sat, Jun 27, 8pm: AKA Concerts Presents: Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (Tribute to ZZ Top) With Shred Zepellin (Led Zeppelin) and Jett Black (Tribute to Joan Jett & The Blackhearts).

Redwood City.

COURTHOUSE SQUARE BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Fri, Jun 26, 6pm: Mustache Harbor. Redwood City.

Thu, Jun 25: DJ Benofficial.

Fri, Jun 26: DJ Radio Raheem.

Sat, Jun 27: DJ Ready Rock.

DANA STREET COFFEE

CAFFE FRASCATI Thu, Jun 25, 8pm: The Dope Noones. Fri, Jun 26, 8pm: Raye Zargoza. San Jose.

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Every 2nd Mon, 7pm: Ukulele Jam. Mountain View.

LILLY MAC’S Every Sun, 6pm: Irish Music.

Wed, Jun 24: Sunnyvale

Thu, Jun 25, 8:30pm: Karaoke Lounge. Santa Clara.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, Jun 26: Allen Vega. Sat, Jun 27 Grumsling. Every Sun, 8pm: Acoustic Jam. Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Band. Every Thurs: DJ Mist. Fremont.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, Jun 24, 7:30pm: Smash Mouth/ Toad the Wet Sprocket. Sat, Jun 27, 7:30pm: Bell Biv DeVoe. Sun, Jun 28, 7:30pm: The Roots. Saratoga.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Every Thu, 9:30pm: DJ night w/ DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Every Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: Karaoke w/ DJ NoWrath.

Santa Clara.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band. Thu, Jun 25, 8pm: Saint & Sinners. Fri, Jun 26, 8pm: Joint Chief. Sat, Jun 27, 8pm: SAGE. Tues, Jun 30, 8pm: Jack Ripoff. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Every Mon, Wed & Thu: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, Jun 25, 7pm: The Cruisetones Duo. Fri, Jun 26, 7pm: RJAE Haas Band.

Sat, Jun 27, 7pm: Daydream Nation Multi-band show. Sun, Jun 28, 1pm: Jerry Sauceda Band. San Jose.

SAP CENTER Fri, Jun 26, 7:30pm: Super Freestyle Explosion. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Wed, Jun 24, 7:30pm: Nickelback. Mountain View.

STAFFORD PARK Wed, Jun 24, 6pm: Snap Jackson & The Knock on Wood Players. Redwood City.

THE X BAR Every Thu: No Cover night.

Every Sat: Saturday Nite Live Music Show. Cupertino.

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The legendary singer, whose work with Mercyful Fate and his own eponymous band has inuenced several generations of musicians, hits Shoreline Amphitheatre this weekend—sharing the main stage with Slayer at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival.

Known for his high-pitched falsetto, macabre lyrics, elaborate stage productions and iconic face makeup, King Diamond (born Kim Bendix Petersen) says that he has never felt stronger and that his band has never sounded better. That’s great news for his fans, considering the state of his health just ďŹ ve years ago.

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“It was horrible. That was the worst thing I ever experienced,� Petersen, a long-time smoker, says, recalling his 2010 triplebypass heart surgery. He remembers waking up “too early�—still connected to a breathing machine in a dazed and incredibly painful condition—and attempting to pull his breathing tube out of his throat. “I could only see in black and white when I came to,� he says—“it was surreal. The doctors were leaning over me, I felt like I was in a spaceship or something. It was like Metallica’s “One� video—I felt like I could not communicate. If they could hear me, I was literally begging them to kill me.�

The procedure had required doctors to collapse his lungs. After completing a lengthy period of rehabilitation where he basically had to learn how to breathe again, King Diamond has returned to haunt stages, and says he feels rejuvenated and reinvigorated like never before. “My voice sounds better than ever, I stopped smoking completely,� he says.“I didn’t know it would have that big of an effect on my voice that I didn’t smoke, but I feel like it’s stronger and it’s much easier to do all those things I used to do when I started.�

Fans heading out to the show can expect nothing short of a full-blown metal spectacle—a multi-tiered stage, occult props, costumed characters, and, of course, the piercing wail that made King Diamond famous.

The 59-year-old vocalist is thankful to have been given a second chance at life, and says he is thrilled to share it with his loyal fans. “There were so many moods and feelings and stuff you go through,� he says. “It was really out there. You cannot imagine the roller coaster—the ups and downs. I don’t take tomorrow for granted; not anymore.� —Sean McCourt

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Fri & Sat: Live Music.

Mountain View.

Every Wed, 6pm: Blues & Brews w/ Ron Thompson & Friends feat. The Fountain Blues Festival Beer Blow Out. Thu, Jun 25, 6pm: Joanne LeBlanc Band. Fri, Jun 26, 7pm: Candye Kane Band feat. Laura Chavez. Sat, Jun 27, 6pm: Frank Bey with Anthony Paule Band. Sun, Jun 28, noon: School of the Blues Student Jam. Mon, Jun 29, 5pm: Theme Jam Night feat. Music of Dead, Janis, Airplane. San Jose.

CLUB FOX WOODHAMS LOUNGE Fri: Live music. Santa Clara.

Jazz/Blues/ World AGAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica.

Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo. San Jose

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Thu, Jun 25, 7pm: Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours. Fri, Jun 26, 8pm: Salsa Spot - Vibrason.

Redwood City.

DANA STREET COFFEE Every 2nd Mon, 7pm: Ukulele Jam. Mountain View.

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, Jun 26, 8pm: The Moves - Blue Grass/Jam/Folk.

Mountain View.

HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE AGENDA LOUNGE Every Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Every Thu, 9pm: Banda Night. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays.

Thu, Jun 25, 7:30pm: Will Russ Jr. & The Force of Will Band. Fri, Jun 26, 8:30pm: Lily Alunan Jazz Quintet. Sat, Jun 27, 8:30pm: Pete & Juan Escovedo with Latin All-Stars.

Mon, Jun 28, 7:30pm: Anya Malkiel & Jazz Trio.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Thu, Jun 25, 7:30pm: Shay Salhov Quartet. Fri, Jun 26, 4pm: Grampa’s Chili,Medicine Road, Tone in Georgia.

San Jose

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 7:30pm: Yoshi Senzaki Band. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

Blues and Jazz every night.

Call for info. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Every Sun: Irish Music.

Sunnyvale.

LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Wed, Jun 24, 7pm: Scott Goldberg Pro Jam. Every Thu: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, Jun 26, 7pm: Sam Adams Event; 8pm: Chris Bigford Country. Sat, Jun 27, 8pm: The Jokers. Tue, Jun 30, 6:30pm: Fred McCarty.

San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Sun, Jun 28, 7pm: Ben Folds.

Saratoga

MOROCCO’S Every Wed, Fri, and Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing. Every Tue, 4pm: Live Jazz Music w/ Johnny Williams. Every Thu: Live Acoustic Guitar Music.

Mountain View.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax WednesdayAll Vinyl DJ Set. Thu, Jun 25, 8:30pm: Curtis Robinson Quartet. Fri, Jun 26, 8:30pm: Tim Lin Quartet. Sat, Jun 27, 8:30pm: Michael O’Neill Quartet. Sun, Jun 28, 7pm: Eulipions Jazz Jam Session.

Mon, Jun 29, 8pm: Antonio Sanchez & Migration. San Jose.

Wed, Jun 24, 6pm: Carolyn Sills Combo. Tue, Jun 30, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

SMOKING PIG BBQ Fri, Jun 26, 9pm: Frank Bey & Anthony Paule Band.

Fremont.

ST. STEPHENS GREEN Every Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music. Fourth Sat, 10pm: South American Hits.

Mountain View.

TRAIL DUST BBQ Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.

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Every 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm: Don Balistreri. Every Sat, 7-9:30pm: Live jazz.

Every 1st and 3rd Sat, 9pm: Randy Whiting and “@Jazz.”

San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 6-9pm: Jazz for dinner. San Jose.

THE WOODSHED

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Nothing Til September. Los Gatos.

Every Tues: Pro Blues Jam. Wed, Jun 24: Vegas Nights.

Fri, Jun 26: South City Blues. Sat, Jun 27: LEN CAT. Sunnyvale.

C&W/Folk

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Every Fri: Blue Rock Showcase. Every Sat: Live Featured Show. Every Sun: Jazz & Blues Jam. Saratoga.

SAM’S BBQ

O’FLAHERTY’S Thu, 9pm: Live Music. Sun, 5pm: Reggae music. Tue, 6:30pm: Live Irish Rock. San Jose.

DANA STREET COFFEE Every 2nd Mon, 7pm: Ukulele Jam. Mountain View.

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Thu, Jun 25, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Fri, Jun 26, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Sat, Jun 27, 7pm: Beargrass Creek.

Fremont.

Every Thu: Acoustics Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustics/Bands Music Nights. Campbell.

PIONEER SALOON Fri Jun 26: Rubber Boom. Sat, Jun 27: The ZAP SHOW. Every Sun: Jam Session. Every Wed: Marty and Annika. Every Thu: Pete Weston. Woodside.

THE SADDLE RACK Every Wed, 7:30pm: Country Get Down Wednesday. Every Thu, 7:30pm: Swingin’ At The Rack Dance Lessons. Every Fri, 9pm: Country Get Down Friday. Fremont.

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Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN GVA CAFE Every Wednesday 7pm Chris & Friends Open Mic. gvacafe. com. Morgan Hill.

IMPROV Wed, Jun 24, 8pm: Brian Swinehart. Thu, Jun 25, 8pm: A Show for Corie Gipson. Fri, Jun 26, 7:30pm and 9:45pm: Bobby Lee. Sat, Jun 27, 7pm and 9:15pm: Bobby Lee. Sun, Jun 28, 7pm: Bobby Lee. Tue, Jun 30, 8pm: Improv Night at The Improv. San Jose.

LIQUID

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

APPARITION Every 2nd Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BAR Wed: 8pm-midnight: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

THE BACK BAR Tue thru Sat: Karaoke. San Jose.

THE BEARS

PHILZ COFFEE

Sat, 9pm: Karaoke evenings.

Santa Clara.

THE WOODSHED Every 1st Sun: Doug Young’s Acoustic Guitar Night. Los Gatos.

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Fri, Jun 26, 7pm: Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes & Sam Hunt. Mountain View.

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Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Wed, 9pm: Poetic Justice Open Mic. San Jose.

Every Tue: Open Mic Tuesdays.

Redwood City.

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Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose.

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Mon, 7pm: Open mic. Free.

Downtown San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE Mon: Comedy. No cover.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 9pm: Karaoke Friday Nights. Santa Clara.

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

BLUE MAX

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Thu-Sun, Jun 25-28, various times: Arden Myrin. Every Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE Mon: Comedy open mic with Pete Munoz. Santa Clara.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Every Mon, 8pm: CommediaOpen Mic for Comedy. Every Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

THE WOODSHED Nothing until September.

Los Gatos.

WORKS/SAN JOSE 2nd Thu, 7pm: Words Drawing Music. San Jose.

Fri: Karaoke Fridays.

Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 8pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri & Sun, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu, 9pm: Karaoke with Tony.

Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Mon: Karaoke with DJ Sean Blak. San Jose.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

THE QUARTER NOTE

Wed and Sun, 10pm: Karaoke w/ DJ Hank. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Tue: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO

KHARTOUM

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Mon-Sat at 10pm: Dancing.

Fri-Sat: Karaoke Night. San Carlos.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

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RED STAG LOUNGE

Wed, Jun 24: Karaoke with Neebor. San Jose.

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke.

Mountain View.

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

SAN JOSE’S NEW ORLEANS JOINT!

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RAIL CLUB

THE CARAVAN Mon, 10pm: Mandatory Monday Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

LILLY MAC’S

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Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Tue, 7pm: Live Band Karoake.

San Jose

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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Thu, 10pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

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MARIANI’S

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke with DJ Jade. San Jose.

Thu, 8:30pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

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Tue-Sat, 9pm, & Sun, 4pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Every Mon, Wed, Sun, 8pm to closing: Karaoke. Every Tue and Thu, 9pm to closing: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm. Mountain View

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

Thu: JR. Sun: JR Diaz Family Karaoke. Tue: James. Gilroy.

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Mon & Wed, 9pm: Darryl.

Milpitas.

GALAXY OASIS Wed and Fri-Sun, 9pm: Doug.

Sunnyvale.

GILROY BOWL Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Every Thu, 7:30pm-9:30pm: Karaoke Club. San Jose.

OFF THE HOOK Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

PLAZA GARIBALDI

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sat: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

Wed & Sun, 7pm-close: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Every Wed at 9:30pm: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall.

Woodside.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

THE HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun: Karaoke.

Fremont.

Tue-Thu & Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

POINCIANA LOUNGE

JOHNNY V’S

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

Wed: Game night karaoke.

San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS

KATIE BLOOM’S

Sun, 10am: Psycho Karaoke.

Campbell.

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

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Psychologist Anne Campbell, like others who study female competition, explains that women seem to have evolved to avoid physical confrontation, which would endanger their ability to have children or fulfill their role as an infant’s principal caregiver. (Ancestral Daddy couldn’t exactly run up to the store for baby formula.) So while guys will engage in put-down fests as a normal part of guy-ness, even women’s verbal aggression is usually sneaky and often comes Halloween-costumed as compliments or concern: “Ooh, honey, do you need some Clearasil for those bumps on your chest?”

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4. This is off the track of my argument, but since you asked, car alarms arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t required in the U.S., and I haven't heard of them being required elsewhere. Canada, Australia, and many European countries require â&#x20AC;&#x153;electronic immobilizationâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;put simply, ignition kill switches. Are alarms an excuse to add on extras? Could be.

4. Up to this point things arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looking good for the anti-car-alarm crusade. No worries. The question of interest isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t whether alarms work, but whether less obnoxious technologies work as well or better. Answer: absolutely. Car-tracking devices, for one, are the most effective anti-theft tool.

5. To quantify the efficacy of vehicle anti-theft devices, Farrell and friends in a 2011 paper presented a metric they called â&#x20AC;&#x153;security protection factor,â&#x20AC;? or SPF, along the lines of the scheme used to rate sunscreen. The higher the SPF the better; a car having an anti-theft device with an SPF of 10 is that many times less likely to be stolen than one without.

6. A car alarm by itself, according to Farrell and company, has an SPF of just 1.2, whereas central locking is rated 2.7.

But an alarm plus central locking has an SPF of 5. Pile on the technologies and the multiplier effect becomes more pronounced. At the top of Farrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of anti-theft technologies, with an SPF of 25.4, is the following fourplex: central locking plus a killswitch plus a tracking device plus, yes, an alarm.

7. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t helping, you say. Patience.

A close second on the list of efficacious anti-theft packages, with a 25.2 SPF, is central locking plus an ignition kill switch plus a steering-wheel lock but no damn alarm.

8. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your opening, alarm hatersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can get equivalent protection without the racket.

Understand, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking strictly about theft of the car; separate SPF ratings are calculated for protection against theft of a carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contents. In the latter category ACET trounces CEM 6.6 to 2.5â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a noisy alarm offers more protection against somebody stealing a car stereo. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more important, thoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your stereo or your neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sanity? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to give that some thought. But at least thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an argument to be made.

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What is it with car alarms? They go off 24/7 for any or no reason to create a constant urban din. Do they deter any thefts, are they required by law, or are they just a way to lard on the features?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Samuel Press, shell-shocked in Vermont Listen, Samuel, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tormented by the constant urban din of Vermont, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a pretty low annoyance threshold. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to work on the assumption youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a refugee from New York, where historically car alarms have been more of an issue (although speaking as a big-city habituĂŠ Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say this is one irritant that may have crested a good 20 years ago). Browsing on the interwebs I ďŹ nd a claim from back in 2003 that noisy car alarms cost New Yorkers $400 million annually, based on an ingenious but basically harebrained calculation of the extent to which car alarms diminish the quality of life for those in hearing range. One wants to say: Suck it up, crybabies. Admittedly thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the attitude of someone not currently being driven bats by a blaring alarm, and one wants to be supportive of a fellow city dweller. So hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best case I can make for why car alarms should be banned.

1. Car alarms have middling effectiveness as a theft deterrent. We learn this from Farrell et al (2010), who use the straightforward method of comparing the number of cars with a given anti-theft technology against the number of cars with that technology that get stolen. Sixty-three percent of cars have alarms, we learn (based on UK data), whereas only 41 percent of stolen cars have alarms. Forty-one is 35 percent less than 63. Ergo, car alarms are 35 percent effective in deterring theft.

2. This is considerably less potent than what Farrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numbers suggest is the single most effective antitheft measure, namely a tracking device on your car that lets the cops (or you) determine its whereabouts if bad guys abscond with it.

Effectiveness: 77 percent.

3. On the other hand, car alarms work better than the most common antitheft measure nowadaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;door locks controlled by a button on the key or fob, which is 32 percent effective. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re way better than inscribing the vehicle ID number on the glass, 14 percent, or mechanical steering-wheel locks, 7 percent. In fact, cars with the latter two antitheft measures undergo more theft attempts, leading one to wonder what exactly the detailers are inscribing on those windows: BET YOU CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T STEAL THIS CAR?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Everyone is a genius at least once a year," wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. "The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It's even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring," says author Paul Auster. "It would be tedious to be alive." But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, "Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do." This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart's and Ingrid Bergman's classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick's. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered 11 other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone's. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway.

The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well.

Give them a potent start.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One summer afternoon when I was seven years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants.

Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight?

Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I'm sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don't do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I'm only slightly joking. At least for now, it's your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative

exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and mid-September. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions.

Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline.

Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And if you're serious about capitalizing on Saturn's demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either "I will never squander my riches" or "I will make full use of my riches" twenty times—whichever motivates you most.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy, or the stubborn. But then you're not any of those things, right? So there shouldn't be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you're ready. Here's one piece of advice that I think will help: Don't resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don't understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Man's being is like a vast mansion," observed philosopher Colin Wilson, "yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement." Wilson wasn't just referring to Capricorns.

He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That's the bad news.

The good news, Capricorn, is that you're entering a time when you're more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself.

You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won't it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia's pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus," writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. "A Madagascar 'weed,' the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin's disease and childhood leukemia," he adds, while "a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery," and a "Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry." I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally," said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance.

A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces.

You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.

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