but today john lee hooker is a monument. i mean, he is bigger than big, you know. with the way he was doing, he had a style that was his. there was no copying. he's got people running around trying to figure out, "what are you doing? how do you do that," you know. so i decided to try to play like muddy waters, elmore james, and all these different blues people. i tried to learn this when my mother went to the a&p. [laughter] you understand? see, 'cause she didn't deal with the guitar. she didn't like it. she loved that violin, but that guitar was just not the right thing to have in her house. you understand? and she told me many time, "don't bring that in here, boy." and like, she wanted to kill my sister for giving it to me. you know, like, she said that i was going to be worthless. and back then, i can kind of understand that i wasn't even allowed to have a funny book in the house. mama said that was bad news for the brain. and i agree with her. it is. it's something-- when i should have been learning arithmetic and all, whatever, you know, looking at batman and

john lee hooker, jr., son of the late blues legend plays at 9:00 tonight at j.j.'s blues in san jose. comedien daniel t-o-s-h brings his tour to the bay area, 7:00 at the masonic center in san francisco. >>> and how about a work of art made entirely of tree branches? it is part of a new exhibition called the nature of entanglement at the palo alto art center. take a look. it took the sculptor, patrick doherty, three weeks to complete the exhibit. houses look like something out of a fairytale. he invites you to walk through and look at the windows. the project is set to show for about a year, where it will then be recycled through a wood chipper. oh, no! >> oh, those entanglements. >> that's cool. >> very cool. weather wise, cool today, but look for rain to return to the area by tonight, into tomorrow morning before we dry it out and warm it up again through next week. >> should be wrapping up around what time tomorrow? >> what do you think this is, a bus schedule! [ laughter ] >> 11:00 a.m. >> sounds good. we won't hold you to it, but thinking before noon-ish. >> t