Jack's Picks

Jack's Picks is a carry-over from my 'zine Prose and Cons: a lit. 'zine for penned pens. Here are some recent flavors o' the month:

Love with Lliam Hart. bunny, Buddhist, rock drummer. The main points (1) Compliment her. (2) Kiss her. (3) Tell her she's the only one, and mean it.

Steve Roach.The best of his class in ambient music. So subtle, it would seem the music is listening to you.

Minus One, just one of Lliam's outfits, as I like to call rock bands, at the other end of the subtle spectrum. They've been tapping the spirit of true rock and roll together since they were children. Vocals and lead guitar, Dana Alberts. Bass guitar and vocals, Michael Henry. Drums, Lliam Hart. (Photograph by Alana Witala).

My new job as associate editor at Home Energy Magazine...not exactly what Jay Baldwin calls "Edible Building" but I am sneaking it in as I can. This one is a little geeky, goes more for the building trades, covering building science, "the building envelope", internal air quality, efficiency issues.

The Bay Area is dripping with excellent Zydeco music. Hear it and dance to it live several days a week. This is the calendar.

The trails of the east bay hills. I have a life goal of covering them all some day.

Kevin Kelly's website, featuring his answer to Whole Earth Review's much-missed reviews of good stuff, Cool Tools. Look familiar? I stole a lot of his code for this site.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch. High art, thanks Janine Björnson, with whom I watched it on her 12 inch iBook in her tiny Marmot tent at a jobsite in Sedona, Arizona.