On the way home from the East Bay today, I turned on the radio in time to hear the end of the chorus of a song I hadn't encountered before:<\/p>\n
\n\nYou've never seen a sight so fine<\/p>\n
as the love that's gonna shine<\/p>\n
at City Hall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I thought, \"Huh, that could almost be about same-sex marriage.\"<\/p>\n
And then I listened to the rest of the song, and yup, in fact, that's exactly what it's about; more specifically, about a couple who've been together for ten years, traveling to San Francisco in 2004 to get married. It turns out to be called \"City Hall<\/a>,\" and it's by singer\/songwriter Vienna Teng<\/a>. I had never heard of her, but apparently she got a lot of attention around here when she first started performing, while she was still a Stanford student. She's got a couple of albums on the iTunes Store now, featuring nice vocals, pretty melodies, solo piano (and sometimes other instruments), good lyrics, and occasional harmonies; very much my kind of thing. I've now bought two of the albums, and am considering the third.<\/p>\n