If your work isn't blocking mp3's from downloading to your PC, you are hearing the song Heaven by the Talking Heads when you load the stevenlaplant.com main page. On the surface you may be thinking, "Oh I get it, Steven died, he's in heaven, right." but my reasons for picking that song go a little deeper.
This version of the song is from the Talking Heads concert movie, Stop Making Sense, from 1984. Steven and I saw that in high school, and I remember him commenting how much he liked that song. It was the second song in the movie with just David Byrne and Tina Weymouth on the stage - a guitar, a bass and two voices. When Steven realized his first marriage was ending he came down to our house in Wauwatosa to get away and hang out for a bit. We were expecting our first child, and Steven was helping me assemble the new baby crib. I pointed to the drawer with my cassettes and asked him to pick one. He found the Stop Making Sense soundtrack and went to this song.
After he died, I helped Helle consolidate his computers and found two copies of this song. One was on their iPod folder (which was full of Helle's Danish pop songs, but also had sixteen tracks that were clearly Steven's.) The other was on an older hard drive, downloaded during the Napster heyday of the late 90's, which is the file I used here.
Attaching it to this site is more about me than Steven. I don't know what the afterlife holds for us, but I like to think that it will be anything you want it to be: a bar, a party, a kiss. Whatever it is, I hope Steven's enjoying it - "The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song...."
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This page was last updated 8/14/2008.
Note about this domain: A year or so after Steven died, I was transferring my domains and web hosting to a new provider and saw that Steven's domain, stevenlaplant.com, had expired. I grabbed it without really knowing why. Eventually I decided to put up this little memorial, but if any of his family would like it for something else, feel free to let me know. It can also be found at www.elfners.com/essays/steven .