Local concerts of interest in the following weeks.  (in other words, anyone interested in going?  )

6/24-6/25 - Glen Phillips at Tower Records (6/24) , Great American Music Hall (6/25), both in San Francisco

6/29 - The Duhks at Espresso Garden Cafe, San Jose.  One of the hottest rising indie bands at the moment.  Coffee shop atmosphere, once in a lifetime

7/3 - Better Than Ezra at Day at the Meadow, San Jose.  Fun live band, fourth of July atmosphere.

7/12 - Beck and Le Tigre at San Jose Civic Center, San Jose.  Beck... 'nuff said.

7/14-15 - Ray LaMontagne and Rachael Yamagata at Mountain Winery, Saratoga (7/14) and the Warfield, San Francisco (7/15).  Awesome songwriters.

That's a good month.

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House Votes to Limit Patriot Act Rules

 … lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.  The House voted 238-187 despite a veto threat from Bush to block the part of the anti-terrorism law that allows the government to investigate the reading habits of terror suspects.

Wow.  Yet, I still don’t feel fully secure about the confidentiality of my library book borrowing habits…