Monday, October 03, 2005
It all started Saturday afternoon. My old friend Matt said he was in my 'hood & asked me to meet him for a drink in the Mission at 6pm. We hit the Revolution cafe, which is an interesting little cafe I've walked past a number of times, but never gone to (it's that funky corner cafe between LAC & the Makeout Room, if you're familiar). It was nice to chill & drink a glass of wine while the sun was setting. Good people watching, too.
I needed dinner, and Matt was down - so we called our friend Stig & had him meet us for dinner @ one of our favorite Bernal Height's restaurants, Emmy's Spaghetti Shack. More wine and good conversation, not to mention some delicious Spaghetti & Meatballs, and all of a sudden it was 9 and I had to get to my show! Matt drove me over to the Fillmore where I met
Ali for the Josh Ritter/Frames show. Ali works for
Josh Ritter, so we got to go backstage & watch
The Frames play from the VIP area upstairs. aww yaaa.
Me, Zach & Ali @ the Fillmore
Both bands were great. I hadn't heard any Josh Ritter before, but he absolutely put his heart and soul into playing, and it's always so fun to watch a band have such a great time on stage. Also, due to Ali's relationship to the band, it was fun to be on that end of it and be excited to see other audience members singing all the words and enjoying their set so much! I've had the Frames CD for awhile now, and really like it, so I was excited to see them live... and they were excellent! Especially from the VIP section with free drinks. :p It was actually really fun because we were standing right there when they walked down to get ready to go on. They all walked down one by one & you could sort of seeing them taking deep breaths & mentally preparing. So cute.
The Frames @ The Fillmore
After the show we all hit the Lone Palm to have another drink (luckily it wasn't horribly smokey like it is usually!). "Highlights" of the Lone Palm will go unmentioned, but boy oh boy was it fun! After we closed it down, I called my friend
Lulu to see if her party was still going on, and it was! She had a huge party that night & I showed up on the tail end of it, but there were still quite a number of people there! But it doesn't look like it in my photos, because I didn't take my camera out until the wee hours.
Party girls up late
Bottom line is Lulu & I ended up staying up talking till 5:30 in the morning! She lives just a few blocks away from me, so I stumbled home around 6am and realized I'd been partying for 12 hours. HA!!! Totally fun night!! Here's
all the photos from my 12 hour adventure.
Misty called me at 11am to see if I was still down for the brunch she'd planned... if you can believe it, I rallied & went! ha! I got up, showered, walked to where I'd left my car the night before and joined them at Savor at noon! Yes, i'm crazy.
Derek, Ted, Misty & I with full bellies out in front of Savor
View all photos from Sunday's Savor brunchOh & I also posted
photos from last Wednesday night's Birdmonster/Serene Lakes/Catholic Comb show @ Cafe du Nord!
