October 1, 2006

• Holy cow. What a good weekend. I'm sitting at SFO waiting for my flight, and will be for some time.
  Got to San Francisco Friday afternoon, met Mike at the airport and we took the BART downtown. Got off at the Powell Street station and was completely amazed. It felt so awesome there, kind of european. Walked to the hotel in awe, met Gregg there. It was a Renaissance, really nice place, right downtown. Went to eat at this really good Indian restaurant, where we met Jake! It was so good to see him, hadn't in years. He said he could sneak me into his club later. But first it was time for the concert! The Scissor Sisters are so fun... Or maybe I was just drunk. Either way it was a great time. Kind of a gay overload. Afterwards we went down to Castro to poke around. That was pretty gay too. Haha. Wasn't allowed in any clubs, so we went to Jake's. It was a really cool place, he's put a lot of work into it he said, which was impressive. Too bad the party sucked and I hate clubbing. We left pretty quickly and went back to the hotel.

  Yesterday, went to a good breakfast (pumpkin crépes, yumm), and did a little sightseeing drive past Lombard St. and Alkatraz and over the GG and all that good stuff. It was really fun to see. I did a pretty bad job as navigator, plus there was pretty bad traffic in Oakland, so our drive around the bay took so much longer than it should have. By the time we got to the new hotel (W! Very swank but I hated the architecture and it was in the middle of nowhere. Suite tho, with the suitest bathroom ever, and a ~35in plasma, and a massage chair! And those beds... Mmmm), which was much closer to the festival, it was like 430 and we had missed the first 4 hours. When we actually got there though it was pretty obvious it would have been a bore fest, a bunch of no-name bands we'd never heard of. So it was good we didn't miss anyone we wanted to see. First were the Shins, who were really fun, then we walked around a bit and saw Coheed and Cambria for like one song on the second stage before we got bored of that crap. There was also a 3rd stage where Mutaytor played like all day, they were fun to watch, they had fire dancers and a chinese dragon and stuff, really cool. Next to that was a little garage for bands, kinda cute. Next on the main stage was Muse, who pretty much rocked me, they were so good. Yeah Yeah Yeahs were next and they pretty much bored me to death so I went and watched the end of Mutaytor who were infinitely more entertaining.

  Then... Beck. My hopes and dreams and expectations were so high for this one... And I am so happy that they were EXCEEDED. By far the best show ever. They had a marionette band in the middle of the stage that were on the big screens the whole time, that was pretty cool. He played such fun songs and I sang and danced so much. There was this "snakes on a bus" clip with the marionettes, where the band all got eaten, it was so funny! I was crying so hard.
  ...yeah. Man that was an amazing show. I could totally be a Beck roadie.

  Today, just packed up and drove to the airport. Had some sushi. And here I sit.

  Yeahp... I love Beck and I love San Francisco.

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