forever and a day
I'm slacking on blogging, sorry bout that. I could have made time last week, but the days slipped by - and then they got hotter and hotter, which honestly made it a little harder to work :)I'm gonna try to make this quick so I can get to bed:
Last Thursday night was awesome if for no other reason than I got to go out w/ NO JACKET! Seriously! In San Francisco, our June-August - when everyone else is in the heat of summer - is foggy and cold. In fact year round in this town you have to leave the house w/ some kind of jacket pretty much every day, so to be able to leave the house w/o jackets is HUGE. And in a tank top & skirt no less! woohoo!
So, it was a super nice night out. Cameron came & got me and Rick, Lyne & Jim all met us at Doc's Clock's for a pre-show drink. Then we headed over to 12 Galaxies for the show: Lovemakers w/ Film School and Silversun Pickups
It was my first time at 12 Galaxies and I love it. Awesome club, I can't wait to go back. We were all pretty psyched on the amazing weather, the great new club and the evening ahead of us... so it made for a fantastic start to the evening.
Silversun Pickups were good, I'd like to hear them play again sometime.
Film School was more rockin than the first time I'd seen them, and I really enjoyed their set! Apparently Nyles is doing more work with his band, N.Lannon, so Film School won't be playing as much/any time soon, so it was good to catch them now. I ran into Warren (my drum teacher) there too, which was cool. He's playing drums for N.Lannon!
We were MOST psyched to see the ever so sexy Lovemakers, and that we did!! Despite having to fend off some drugged up gross guy, thinking he was hot shit with his pants 1/2 way open. eeww! He's not worth even talking about more, but thankfully between Rick & a few other pissed off audience members we got him out of there and were able to enjoy the show full force. We had the super hott Scott & Lisa shakin it right in front of us. Practically sweating on us. :) It was so great to see them again - they were on fire! I have some great photos that I'll post this week some time.
UPDATE: Photos Posted!
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Friday night we went & had margs & a quick bite to eat at Chevy's and then caught Napoleon Dynamite. It was so funny - I loved it.
Afterwards it was still so nice & warm out that I suggested Rick finally take me up on the roof of his apartment building, like he's said he's been wanting to. Great idea, Willo! :)
It was awesome... he layed out this big shag rug and we brought up Baley's on ice and a blanket and layed under a full moon, looking out at the view of the Golden Gate Bridge and trying to see constellations through the bright light of the moon. Perfect night for it!
However, I can't wait to go up there again when there's no moon. We felt like we had a big flashlight on us, and it was hard to see the stars! Also, I'll bring a pillow and the full bottle of Baley's. :)
Saturday morning we were greeted with nothing but luck!! After sleeping in we realized we'd spaced setting an alarm and left my car in a place that should not only have at least gotten a quarter in the meter by 9am, but that was in a commercial loading zone and therefore could have been towed! eek!!
So, hoping that the worst would be a ticket, we got over to it by about 11:15 to find it was thankfully still there AND there was no ticket! WOW!! What luck!!
Oh & as I reparked the car, apparently Rick was greeted by a frequent reader (Hi Stacey!) and when I got back he told me I'd just missed her - darnit!
THEN, long story short - through a couple random events, we ended up getting free breakfast!! nice!! What a great way to start an incredibly warm and sunny Saturday!
That afternoon Rick & I put on our walkin shoes and hit the park. We walked from Stanyan aaaall the way through Golden Gate Park out to the beach (where by 3:30 it was of course: foggy), but it was still pretty nice and warm. Warmer than usual anyway! So we layed there for a bit (and enjoyed watching the surfers getting pummeled by the waves), until it got just a little too cold for our shirts/shorts attire and we decided to head back inland towards the sun.
Approx 5-6 miles roundtrip we ended our nice long walk with some yummy noodles at the Citrus Club. yumm!! Rick's been wanting to take me there and it was fantastic. The Hot & Sour soup is soo good and we got yummy Pad Thai and spring rolls too. Oh, and the cold beers were very, very refreshing after our long walk in the sun!
We stopped into Ameoba, rapped w/ Warren about my Sunday drum lesson & then headed back to the car.
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Saturday night: Ben Kweller w/ the Unicorns at The Fillmore
For some craaaazy reason The Unicorns went on right. on. time. jeeshk! Couldn't they have just gone on 15 minutes late? How rude! hahaa See, we crashed when we got home after our walk and noodle adventure and ended up napping a little longer than we thought and so we were rushing to get there and ended up missing the majority of their (ridiculously short) set. 30 minutes!! Only 2 bands on the bill! WHAT GIVES?!?!?!
I don't think they were too happy with it either. Maybe Ben Kweller likes to go to bed early? Who knows... but their last 2 songs were good and we were at least glad we'd seen them before (unlike the Kings of Leon debacle).
I love Ben Kweller and have been wanting to see him live for a long time. I got SHA SHA when it came out and loved it - and his newest, On My Way, is just as fantastic. He writes such fun songs. Great lyrics and I love it when he really belts it out. Rick's been learning several of his songs on guitar, too, so he was psyched to see them play em live.
Jem, Tania & Kyo(sp?) showed up (missing the Unicorns entirely, unfortunately) and joined us up front for rockin out w/ Ben and his fellow tight jeaned bandmates. It was a super fun show, despite the fact that the entire thing was exactly 2 hours long. Saturday night 9-11pm? Who does that??
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Today started nice with breakfast out on the porch. Good thing too because the weather and my mood somehow spiraled downward from there. I did however get a new keyboard! And off CL, no less, so it cost me 1/2 the price as a new one would have - woohoo! I've been needing a new USB mac keyboard and have yet to turn my PC on, but wanted one that I could use in my KVM switch to use between my PC/Mac. Hopefully it won't make the beeping noise I've heard about, but I can always plug in my camera's USB cord or something to make it stop. Ok, sorry for the geek talk, there's maybe 5% of you that know what I'm talking about.
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I had drum lessons, which were great - despite my foul mood, and then I came home and cooked myself a pizza and tried to work a little bit. And that brings us up to here!
The photos of the last week are way funner than my quick and dirty summary, so I'll try to post those over the next few days.
Have a good week everyone..
