As I blearily write this, I am up too late, thinking about a last-minute camping trip I’m sneaking away on in the hopes of removing some of the crude nanoparticles that the year’s nonsense has disgorged into my psyche. I had hoped that last week would be the last time I would have to write […]
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Back at it Again?
To mask or not to mask, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer a mild inconvenience to … oh, stop it. It looks like the numbers are climbing and the governor — with a recall election looming that he might want to take a tad more seriously lest we all […]
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Living on a Thin Line
I’m a little confused lately and I’m not the only one. Now that things have opened up again, and I did my civic duty and got the jab, what’s the plan? I find myself oscillating between going maskless and fancy-free until I read something about the Delta variant and go back to covering up for […]
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Don’t Make Me Tap the Sign
I’ll cop to it: I view the world materially and holistically. Things are connected. And I don’t just write about music for a living, I also build things. I come from carpenters and I can recognize designs and patterns. So when live music goes away for more than a year because of a disastrously unprepared […]
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Into The Great Wide Open
As I write this, I am nursing a mild sunburn and what I increasingly suspect is carryover of inebriation from a day of patriotic drinking and grilling. Such is the nature of things but I have to say these are mild wounds compared to the pleasure I had of having people around and feeding them […]
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Make Fun, Not Fire
I’m settling back into the swing of things here at the Setlist. It was nice getting feedback from some of you about the return of this little column. Even nicer was snagging some free drinks as a result of my bartender shout-out last week. Free booze is truly the Olympian ambrosia for a gadabout town. […]
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Return of the Mack
Hello. How are you doing? It’s been a real one, hasn’t it? Welcome back to the Setlist. I’m your host, Collin Yeo. You might remember me as the bald guy who brings you thrilling descriptions of our county’s nightlife while griping about living through the doomed pantomime of a dying empire. I’m letting a lot […]
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Something Old Something New
It’s the darkest month in what will likely be remembered as an extremely dark year, and most of us are cloistered away from our friends, music and culture. So in the spirit of finding some communal joy in our secluded cells, here are a couple of local new releases you can enjoy with even limited […]
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Hungry For Love
When I find myself in times of trouble, dear reader, Mother Mary sometimes comes to me and speaking words of wisdom, and says, “Hey Collin, quit lying about like a jackass and go do something you enjoy.” This advice usually goes quite a distance and during normal years I would always go out and do […]
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The Sturgeons Suck
Like a lot of you out there, last week came at me pretty hard and fast. As a member of the “gig economy,” which is shorthand for the reduced circumstances that almost everyone under 40 has to live in so that three men can own more wealth than more than 150 million Americans, I am […]
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All of Us
Enough time has passed since Super Tuesday that I feel it necessary to thank Humboldt County specifically and California broadly for voting and generally supporting Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary. Now let’s get the rest of those votes counted fairly and delegates assigned. This primary season isn’t over. Why am I so blunt and […]
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Spread Some Love
Oh, what a great many options we have here this week. From the theater to the dance floor to the concert hall, from free to pricey, from the 21+ environs of a new watering hole to all-ages events, we have a bit of everything this week. Now more than ever, getting out and enjoying yourself […]