Monday, October 02, 2006

ROCKtober is upon us

It even started a little early this year, considering I just went to 5 shows in 7 days. aww yaaa, BRING IT!

To review: Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton performing (on 9/22), only a few at Cafe du Nord & Lucky 13 afterwards, which you can find right here. The Phoenix show, the next night (9/23), ROCKED and here's my recent blog post & link to photos about that, in case you missed it. Sunday (9/24) after Buzz & Courtney's beach bday (blog post) I hit the Ben Kweller show with Ryan & Mario. Again, sadly didn't take photos because my card was all used up from the day at the beach, but I'm amazed I haven't at least blogged about it because OMG it was AWESOME!!! One of my favorite shows this year I think, only because the 'vibe' (if I may use that word) was soooo awesome. I was also a little drunkle so that may have helped. :p But I heart Ben Kweller SO much! That whole day was insanely fun.

This last week we had Silversun Pickups w/ Viva Voce @ the Rickshaw Stop (9/28) and it was awesome. Of course. Except for that it was sold out, no thanks to Live105, and therefore there were a bunch of tools who are new to "our band"* and it took all the patience I could muster to deal with them. I pretty much was so fed up, especially with this idiot, that I vowed to just leave after they played Kissing Families**. To which I must document: After the song was over and the 'in the know' portion of the crowd had just belted out the lyrics with all their might, the fools standing in front of us (or the "stripey shirts", as Ali calls em) shrugged & said, "huh, that must be on their first album or something." *rolls eyes* And then they played Lazy Eye, and of course I had to stay for that.

*I know, I'm a snob.
**Kissing Families = My #1 favorite song of 2005.

I heart Silversun Pickups

Viva Voce, who was one of the openers, was great also! I've had their CD's for awhile, not sure who turned me onto them originally (was it you?!), but I have been looking forward to checking them out live ever since. I had heard at some point that they were "San Francisco's best kept secret" or something, so I dunno... that's all I needed to hear to keep them close to my heart, give em a good listen and look out for when they were playing live. Perfect that they opened for one of my favorite bands. We were up front & I really enjoyed watching the drummer. What's up with all the long hair & beards these days? I'm having a time warp back to the 70's.

View all the photos from this show (on Flickr).

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This last Friday night started with a FEAST!!

Korean BBQ extravaganza @ the Wooden Charcoal Barbeque House

I have had Korean BBQ before, but not like this. It was very fun & I even came away smelling like campfire - wooohoo! haha. I was invited to this dinner by my friend Kevin (photo), who was my main contact at TicketWeb (ongoing client of mine) before he bought a round the world ticket & has been traveling ever since! awesome! It was great to see him & catch up, especially considering he's going to live in London now & work between there & Barcelona. nice! I wish you the best, Kevin, and can't wait to come visit you on that side of the puddle.

Next up was picking up my girls Ali & Jess, and meeting up with Aubs, Jordan, Ryan, Misty and Sean for the show at Slims with Division Day, Two Seconds & Birdmonster! I'm so into all three of these bands, and they were great, as always. A fun night all around! Great to see the Birdmonster boys back in town, and fun running into Elise and Mike & Anna, too! wooo!

rock show blur fantasticness. this is when division day came up
& joined birdmonster at the end of their set. awesome!

View all the photos from Friday night.

I'll get to Saturday night at some point in the next few days. Time for bed!