last friday night
As I mentioned, I had tacos & margaritas at my place Friday night. And right before we all took off, the camera came out to document us trying Orbit's BUBBLEMINT gum for the first time!Graham (from Rogue Wave) had mentioned this in his Friday 5 last week - and I thought I had read it wrong... but being a fan, of their Cinnamon gum I happened to be at the store buying some later that day - and saw that it wasn't a typo, it really is called "Bubblemint"! So I had to try it.
Well Jem, Eric & Rick were just as curious - so we busted it out. Wow! It is like minty bubblegum! Thanks Graham! :p
There's some silly photos of us trying it out (as well as a few photos from the show that night and even some from Rick & I toolin' around Russian Hill the next morning)
So all bubbleminted up, we headed off to the show! It was our first time at this new venue, so that was exciting... but unfortunately it took forever to find parking and when we did it was like 7 blocks away. arg... get a lot! This place used to be a dance club of sorts (The Justice League), but they totally redid the stage & bar and now it's a great new music venue for San Francisco, called The Independent.
I thought the sound was spot on... Not too loud & all the levels were totally perfect, IMO. They're so psyched to have brand new state of the art speakers & lights - it all looks & sounds great. The best part was they didn't oversell it and we could actually move around - awesome!
On the Speakers were FABULOUS!! I was soo psyched to see them play again, but so bummed they didn't have their EP there for me to pick up. Apparently they're getting it re-released on Universal. I love them & am looking forward to seeing them again - opening for Sleepy Jackson on Friday 3/11. I think these guys are gonna be big - Ian's voice is awesome and they play such a rockin, tight set!!
Stratford 4 was good, but not my new favorite band to see live by any means. They sound just like their CD, and it was cool to see them live - but at the time I wasn't drawn into it and instead found myself just wanting to hang out & chat instead of stare and dance and totally get into every minute of it like I do with a lot of other bands!
The Stills were GREAT as well - they had a much more rockin set than I expected and they sounded awesome the whole way through. Everyone in the audience was so psyched up on em - and there was this great feeling in the air of everyone being so psyched to see others just as psyched as they were about them... aawww GROUP HUG! hahhaaa
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Saturday morning, after sleeping in we tooled around Russian Hill & I took some photos in some cutie shop. Everytime I'm in a store like that it just slays me that I need to be working on my products to put them in stores too!! And yes... I'm workin on it :)
