Why is San Francisco a great city?
Because thrice, thrice, thrice as I walked through this fair city did a car pass me listening to Lil Wayne's "A Milli".
It was a wonderful night. First off, I went to La Taqueria, which oddly enough does not translate to "Heaven on Earth". If you are familiar with La Taqueria, you can probably see how I would get confused. I think I've picked up on the secret of San Francisco: nothing in the city is really important unless there's a McDonalds nearby. The Haight Ashbury Park, La Taqueria...and other places too I'm sure.
After La Taqueria, or "the Taqueria" as I call it, I went over to the Amoeba Music near Haight & Ashbury. It's a wonderful store. You can actually listen to a lot of cd's in their entirety on their listening stations. I got Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating Through Space, an Arthur Russell album, and My Bloody Valentine's Glider EP. I listened to parts of My Morning Jacket's new album, and it actually seems really interesting. Someone asked me if I worked there; it kinda made my day. I wish I did. I wish I had a job for that matter.
The reason I went to San Francisco to begin with was to see Liz Phair. But I still had like twenty minutes to kill before the concert, so I went around the corner hoping to find a place to get an ice tea. Instead, I found one of these uber modern yogurt places, the kind that only has 2 or 3 flavors of ice cream and a million different topings, from fruit to Captain Crunch. And they always have really modern layouts and architecture. The walls are always predominately white too, with cirles and wave like patterns. This place was called Jubili, and it was actually really awesome. There are these places like this in LA called Pinkberry that people from LA are always raving about. I used to think they sounded like idiots. But after going to Jubili, I can see where someone would go apeshit over a place like this. It's really quite awesome.
I talked to one of my all time top homies Marcus Rubio too. He is doing well; he's hanging out a lot with a girl who is going to the Rhode Island School of Design. He says, "yea I guess she's pretty good at art", I'm like, "of course man! She's going to RISD! That's like the best art school in the country!!!" Apparently she is also really cool and they talk a lot and had a fun date. They did not go shoot hoops, as I suggested he do. I think this is a great idea for a date, ask a girl "hey you wanna go shoot hoops?" I have yet to try it out, but I think it will work especially well for an un-athletic guy like me. Hilarity is bound to ensue, and I could see it turning romantic. Anyway, she made him a really cool shirt. Marcus also went to Austin today with his good friend Kaitlin. They saw Islands do an instore at Waterloo, which I think is the best record store ever, though SF Amoeba is close.
Then I went and saw Liz Phair perform Exile in Guyville in its entirety. I thought she was going to be performing it alone acoustic, but she had a band. I think this was a great idea. It was seriously amazing. I think I was the only person in there who has ever bought something from an American Apparel; everyone else seemed like a married couple. People around me were talking about their business getting four million dollars donated to them. Liz Phair did say at one point, "I gotta ask: did everyone here buy this record back in the day?" I was the only one who didn't scream yes, because I was 4 "back in the day" she was referring to. "6'1" was amazing, as was "Help Me Mary", "Divorce Song" was amazing too, and "mesmerizing", and especially "fuck and run". She is really great live, she has good banter. For an encore, she came out and said "I literally did not practice anything. But this is good, I used to fear performing live, and I thought the best thing that could happen was something awful would happen outside like a fire or something, and we'd be forced to stay inside, and I would be like 'i guess I could play some more songs or something'". It was great. These two hippie guys next to me apparently did not know she would be performing Exile in Guyville, and thought half of the songs were off of her last album. They also used phrases like "she's got it goin ON!" and "daaaaaaaaaaaamn!"
On the way out I got stuck standing next to a really smelly gay guy.
All and all it was a really fun night. I need to hang out with myself more often.
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