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― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that shit!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

you guys have bad attitudes

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I'll regret this, I'm sure. But I'll just file it with all teh other regrets and it'll get lost somewhere.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, it sounds like we might be going to see Moolade' on Monday night.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Is it still raining? I want to go for coffee.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

anyway, to follow from the last thread, no, he is not "the one". I think he's probably a good drummer though and I want to horde all the good musicians I can for my hundreds of side projects.

oh well I won't be seeing a movie with you on monday! but if you're drinking something fist I might be up for that.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha "something fist" my typos kill meh

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

How does one woo a drummer?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Put a van down your pants.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

In college I wrote a paper for some stupid class in which I used Ambrose Bierce and the author of Leisure Town as my two main examples in an argument that SF makes you really, really cynically pessimistic about the human race in the way that no "dirty" town like NYC or LA or even Vegas can.

Good fucking times!!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 7 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe it's only an English cliche that the drummer always drives a van???

xpost TOMBOT you love it here.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Tombot, I want to read your paper!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Also you need to spend more time here if you don't consider it "dirty".

You're still my friend though.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

the american cliche is that the drummer is always a pothead, which in the case of my current band, is almost true (he is, at least, my new found W33D connexion!)

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

CYNIC, n.
A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Tombot mentioned Ambrose Bierce aka My Hero of American Lit and so much more is clear. :-) I want to read that paper too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

(But for what it's worth, I am finally planning an SF trip in late February for a weekend...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I wrote some papers:

1. Dogme 95 and authorship theory (ouch!)
2. Some stuff about The Magnificent Ambersons
3. 20th C Berlin and urban theory

college is hilarious!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

oh great ned, you can hang out with my parents!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Whose only recognition here is a short, dark, alley redolent of the fetor of urine. How appropriate somehow.

xxpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

All the Marina-types I know (which is like 3) insist that SF is much much dirtier than NY is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Depends where in NY or SF but post Giuliani Manahattan definitely feels cleaner and safer (except for you-know-what). Also, I believe the trains run on time.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Also WTF San Francisco has a largely unrecognized noir tradition easily the equal of NY or LA! Dashiell Hammet Hitchcock Exoperiment In Terror Lady From Shanghai WTF WTF?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I could go on!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! I sound like gygax!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Where is Mr. Gax btw?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

My gf used to live in an apartment Hammet lived in on Leavenworth and Hyde. When the tourbuses drove by she'd put on a recording of someone whacking away at a typrewriter. To this day, we have a copy of the Falcon on our mantelpiece.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

On the noise board or at work or playing PSP.

xpost cool!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait to visit sf!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember if you said you had been before or not? And your friends/business partners?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

no never ever!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

It is kind of out of the way, but from what I know of your tastes the Tonga Room would be a suitable venue for a meetup.

http://web.meganet.net/kman/donh3.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

(That's from the last FAP)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

which one is you? (haha xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

There are great free City Guide Tours of most of downtown SF. I think one of them is a Noir tour too. They are really informative and you get to see all this amazing architecture and weird rooftop gardens and such that you would never know existed otherwise.

http://www.sfcityguides.org/descriptions.html

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

cool! but they should call it the "noir toir"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

has anyone taken the Vampire Tour? It must be hysterical/sad and pathetic!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I was just watching a KRON news "piece" about SF noir/movie tours and telling Sarah we should do one!

There's also this which is great if you love Hitch like I do:

http://www.footstepsinthefog.com/

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

My parents have done the Hitchcock tour. They liked it a lot.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Haha Kyle, I once wrote a bad story about a woman who falls in love with her guide on a "ghost tour"! ROFL

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

The Hitchcock family home is/was near Los Gatos.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Close to Leee!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

When are we going to House of Shields?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

We went! Adam's and my table was MUCH lusted after!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Table fetishists? How did you beat them back?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's true. We had something everyone wanted. It felt like power, watching those folks being forced to stand, drinks in hand.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

BTW, is anybody else remined, at the Tonga Room, of the little fake thunder + rainfall at Safeway's produce section?

Only girls sit at tables in bars.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Court TV anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom have called it quits after just three years of marriage, citing the demands of their "respective careers." As the one-time "It" boy of the Democratic Party, Newsom, 37, made headlines last spring by granting same-sex marriages, and in September he posed with his 35-year-old wife - who has lived in New York for two years - for a glossy pictorial in Harper's Bazaar, entitled "The New Kennedys." Was their marriage, as some have speculated, a publicity stunt? "That's a ridiculous rumor," mayoral spokesman Peter Ragone told Lowdown. A Court TV rep said: "She's devastated by this, and I don't think she would be as devastated if that were the case."

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

My predictions: Gavin marries a man and I marry Kimberly.

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I was going to mention that!

Only girls sit at tables in bars.

Well you're the self-declared "swishy"!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

He's going to have to fight off the gay blowjobs now.

xpost

So you're saying that you're man enough to sit at the booths and not look gay?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gogomag.com/kn/x_kimberlyguilfoylenewsom.jpg

Somebody left the stable doors open again.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

"So you're saying that you're man enough to sit at the booths and not look gay?"

We're tough like that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/37145_m.gif

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I'll forever think of you and adam as hard men, now, Alex.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

The people at my last office kept always loudly declaring that Kimberly was "a close personal friend".

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

LORDY LORDY LORDY THAT WOMAN

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

SHE IS TEH HOTTTTTNES

― C**** W****** and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I think what happened was this:

Kim: "Gavin please change your hair."
Gavin: "I know it looks stupid baby but the people expect it now. It's like my 'thing'."
kim: "it is greasy and makes me ill. please for the love of god."
gavin: "bitch I liked you better as an underwear model!"

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so now you're a hairstyle commentator, Kim? Commentate this! *whips out divorce papers*

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scu.edu/news/images/newsom-md_md.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like Kimberly's salacious comments to the Gay Men's group earlier this year actually, before that I'd always thought of her as prissy non-entity (whereas now I think of her as a prissy non-entity with an amusingly foul mouth.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Is he hung? Yes. Is he gone? Yes. *sob*

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I have stood next to Gavin 2x. I have drank next to Matt Gonzo 3x.

Kimberly is a former lingerie model.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY REPRESENT

― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

that's not SF dude.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

SF is for bums.

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I just saw the Newsoms at a Christmas party. She gives me the willies, which, now that I've said it, doesn't quite sound right.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

SF is for bums.

-- Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (power.strik...), January 7th, 2005 11:35 AM. (deangulberry)

OTFM

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I used to talk to the homeless in SC every now and then and they would tell me fascinating stories of how they worked the bum circuit up and down the coast. It sounded like they had it pretty decent up in NorCal. That is, the ones who were able to talk.

― Carl Winslow and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

A woman in my office just spent 15 minutes trying to convince me to move to the Excelsior.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Where does a newly single mayor meet a potential partner?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

the excelsior district is cool but it would take you much longer to get to work or indeed anywhere than it does from where you live now (well, it would be a shorter commute for your wife).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

doesn't sound good.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Fog

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I want to live in a swank cobbled mews in SoMa!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

shorter commute for sarah=no wake up so early=more sleep=more feel better=happy

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Mews? Go back to Scotland, adam.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I knew someone would pick up on that. I'll call them mews if I want to, Michael.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Do we really have mews in SF?

mews (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I saw one on Hawthorne the other day!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

This restaurant is there:

http://www.hawthornelane.com/site/home.html

Bill Clinton ate there!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

My friend used to work there when Anne and David Gingrass were still together.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

And would you call it a mews?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

an a mews bouche?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

have been thinking about moving to excelsior recently. adam, tell me standout tidbits of this woman's reasoning!

― (Jon L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

ummmm....

bodegas and asian supermarkets, cheap enough to get (rent?) a house (I'll believe it when I see it), close to Valencia, a park where Italian men play Italian men games...

Don't you live in the Upper Haight?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

dolores @ 22nd. rent controlled circa 1996 with a wonderful longtime friend for a roommate, but increasingly cramped. having the studio in the bedroom, that's a bummer.

okay then.

― (Jon L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could tell you more!

I wish I had a studio!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I am looking at an apartment three blocks from work in like 10 minutes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

x-post you could always sing, adam

― (Jon L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Bill Clinton ate there!

First time I went to Slanted Door (5 blocks from Milton!), Bill, Hill, and Chels and about 4 secret service (it was 1997) guys were leaving.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't sing. I'm getting better at Garageband.

I hope the Imax theater shows this:

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/

Alex, is it a 2-bed?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Chelsea Clinton was everywhere in London, like a drunken pigeon.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Adam, it is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I want a 2bed!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Break a leg, Alex.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, we want a full report!

I found this:
https://www.sffs.org/pt/articles/noircity.html

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

adam, is nick coming when your parents come or was that just a summer holiday thing last time.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

holy crap. i can't even keep up with reading this thread. i go to lunch and it's already up to 100posts. you guys should get on AIM and chat realtime

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah but you have a cool job!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

adam, is nick coming when your parents come or was that just a summer holiday thing last time.

I'm not sure! He has just got a job at W4RN3R MUSIC in London! SO maybe not!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

nice job NICK! i'd tell him "congratulations!" but he probably wouldn't understand what I'm saying.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

The apartment was really nice (and pretty large and HEAT and no mice or ants)! We are getting more specifics, but I may soon have a new place!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

does your current apartment have no heat and is it overrun with mice?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

How much extra for the mice and ants?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

My current apartment has no heat and there are mice (although they don't come into the apartment any more since we spackled up their holes and installed a high-frequency mouse annoying device.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

We have more ants than air in our apartment.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I hope this works out!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I love the idea of a mouse annoying device! Does it incessantly quote Monty Python in ultra-high frequencies?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

adam, did you ever put down ant stakes? we had ants in our new place the week we moved in but i put them down and it must have killed all of them because they never came back. I am not going to chide you about the ant stakes any further.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I put down many many ant stakes.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Maybe your cats eat the ants.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently airbrushing out the nasty bits of a photo of two really ugly girls in lingerie for work

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

:–$

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Sounds thrilling.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

one girl has what looks like ingrown hairs on her bellybutton and chocha

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

what's even scarier is that we're listening to disc 2 of MJ's HIStory.

http://www.markromanek.com/video/images/10/10_header.jpg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Aaaiiiiie!

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

You should be drinking some Jesus Juice.

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

hook it up, yo!

what's jesus juice?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Come to my amusement park / house and you'll find out. *wink*

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Let's talk about SoMa. I know that JaXoN lives there (I think?). What are the gems of SoMa? Where did the old Zoetrope building used to be?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Folsom and 4th, apparently.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

SOMA is probably my favorite neighborhood in sf. close to everything. food and shopping and bad record stores. lotsa leather and bears.

i can and do walk everywhere

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

it's not too neighborhoody but not too non-neighborhoody

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

and you get to see things like this http://www.art-ificial.com/jump/

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I too am a city boy and this area appeals to me.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I remember that.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

places i frequent in the Dirty South:

Basil Thai (must get the Tamarind Shrimp) - 8th and folsom
Koh Samui & the Monkey (thai) - 2nd and Bryant or Brannan?
Vino e Cucina (wonderful Italian) - 3rd & Bryant
Specialties
Best Buy
Whole Foods
Harvest (second tier wholefoods) 8th & Howard
Extreme Pizza - 7th & Folsom

there's that whole new area with a big Barnes & Noble and Safeway by the ballpark, but haven't been to yet.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Koh Samui & The Monkey

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

http://kohsamuiandthemonkey.com/

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Operation Koh Samui: The Enema Within

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

gah@! i'm eating lunch!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I am trying to volunteer at this place but it's not in SoMa and doesn't have monkeys:

http://www.atasite.org/

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Let's just take a second to laugh at this:

"all non-Chipotle burritos have been banned in Washington DC
you can make them at home, but like if you want to take one to work to eat for lunch you have to tell people it's a "wrap."
-- TOMBOT (i.mis...), January 10th, 2005."

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

it's taken a long time for SOMA to not seem extremeley late 80's to me. I'm not sure why. Like the Haight, I associate it with a certain time and era, filled with black motorcycle jackets and people who entwine their beards with wire and worship Mike Patton as a saint. However, this stereotype is beginning to fade in my perception and the various charms of the area are starting to make themselves evident.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

black motorcycle jackets and people who entwine their beards with wire and worship Mike Patton as a saint.

This is basically JaXoN, though.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to work across the street from Specialties. I gained like 5 pounds a day.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

JaXoN entwines his beard with sinew he strips from the bones of the animals he slays on his "hunts"

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

but i only wear vegan leather jackets anymore

have you guys heard of this Otsu place? http://www.veganmart.com/

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

like seriously they publish articles like this one in the papers over here to make people feel better or something but it just makes me MORE ANGRY. I am coming to vacation in your city okay? I am totally finding out when spring break is and taking off like a whole week to get the fuck out of this place.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I like DC. Parts of it renmind me of England.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

and you get to see things like this http://www.art-ificial.com/jump/

a classic, classic thread.

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Also I like that museum of Americana. I wish we had one of those.

Don't like Ethiopian food though.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

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From the veganmart site

I love Basil Thai.

xxxxxpoast

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

but ethiopian is great! have you been to the blue nile on telegraph? mooshy, like baby food!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

blue nile is terrible. go to the ethopian place on telegraph and alcatraz instead, it's much, much better.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah that place is good but it's farther away from my house. actually I rarely eat at either of them.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't like that place. :(

Did I order wrong?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I don't like mooshy food

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i just get the vegetable things. I like the spongey breads.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

I hate the spongey breads

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Injera is my favorite part of Ethiopian food.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

you're all wrong

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Ethiopian is yummy taste-y.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

It is squidgy and messy and an unpleasant, jarring mix of textures, tastes and temperatures!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

It's like the New Order or Kraftwerk of foods - I feel like I am always being told to like it!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I like New Order and Kraftwerk. I do as I'm told.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I actually mostly agree with adam here except for the music references.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

goddamnit adam do we have to kick your ass?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

maybe!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

i can't believe you still don't like Kraftwerk?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

sorry i know you tried :(

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

how can you not like The Model?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

yeah that's alright

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

How can you not like "Ceremony" and "Blue Monday"?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah they're alright I like Bizarre Love Triangle too

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Well other than those three songs I could pretty much care less about New Order too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

"Temptation"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry that's by Heaven 17

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

i don't like new order either,,,,,,, but i've never tried

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

you all suck

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

oh, adam, thanks for finally adding me to friendster,,,,,,, like 6years after i asked you

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

I added you, Dean, Hstencil, Spencer, Gareth and nickalicious all at once!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

...and then I deleted my profile.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

It was...an inaccurate portrait.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

wadam was tired of getting notes from teenagers looking for the maroon 5 guy

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I did get one!

I also got one that said "oh I just noticed that you are married but you are cute anyway'!!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

It did nothing for my self-esteem. I'm above that shit, man.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

no-one ever hits on me. ever!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

that's not what you tell me!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

so i've been talking to .adam about this on email, but i thought you guys might have some suggestions as to how to best infiltrate SF media to publicize our film when it plays in february! any suggestions of writers/papers/online media outlets? i know about the two big weeklies and the chronicle and flavorpill, but anything else that would be useful would be appreciated.

to thank you in advance, here is a peek at our trailer:

http://autovaud.com/RecsPreview.mov

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/category/4001?r=10535

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I also say without bias that it is a damn fine movie and this willl be an event worth attending.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Michael...do you know how to get in contact with David Thomson?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

SF Indie Fest people and the Film Arts Foundation folks send me a lot of emails concerning upcoming movies too, etc. Cool postcard flyers are also a decent ad tool in SF. Nearly every cafe has one of them and I'm sure that they can be infiltrated and their crappy Absolute cards replaced with cards advertising a Canuck flick instead.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah we're designing the poster in the next room AS WE SPEAK, which will hopefully be converted to postcard form in time for the fest.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot Film Arts!
http://www.filmarts.org/

and BAVC (maybe)!
http://www.bavc.org/

and maybe ATA but they are very independent and only seem to publicize their own stuff!
http://www.atasite.org/

I'll distribute postcards if you send them to me!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

cool!! but considering the timeframe they'll probably end up being done the day before we take off, haha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

haha what would you do if i sent you 500 postcards and i mailed each one individually?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

laugh? cry?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

It would be good of you to write a little message on each one.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I would make a fort out of them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Michael...do you know how to get in contact with David Thomson?

Not without difficulty (i.e. calling favors from putative inlaws, etc...)

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

okay.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

guess i'll have to go through the phone book then!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

What neighborhood does he live in?

I am going to an event he is doing at the PFA this week, actually.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

can you yell out "the smoked meat boys are coming!!"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

he'll know what to do.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

errrrr, OK!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

NO DONT I WAS KIDDING! ADAM NO!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I was going to shout it and ring a bell at the same time, town crier style, all the way through DT's speech.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

okay, on 2nd thought, you should probably do that.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

also, if there's a q&a period you should ask him about grime.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

He is from Streatham, Southeast London. It's quite grimey there!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

ask him what he thinks of simon reynolds' review of run the road.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

From Google:

Lucy Gray 415-346-6463

David Thomson 415-346-3108
415-346-6442

all in 94102

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

awesome!! how did you find that? google didn't give me nothin'!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

now i'm nervous cuz i have to call him.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

you know what to say

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I sent the putative ma-in-law an e-mail asking if she had DT's e-mail but I think that she's off on a jaunt somewhere.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

If you get really brazen/brave:

Representing Lucy:

Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts

Phone: 415.647.2995
Fax: 415.647.2995

eMail: art@jwfinearts.com

Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts has a Web site located at http://www.jwfinearts.com/.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

thanks so much for this michael.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Break a leg, slocki. Send me the festival info at mwwhitesf at gmail.

BTW, the google search was just their names and 'San Francisco' so who knows but I'm pretty sure that the art dealer rep's his wife.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

i found lucy gray's email! WE ARE CLOSE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

(cuz ideally i'd prefer to email him first, it seems less intrusive... but i will use those numbers if neccessary!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but he basically OWES you a sandwich.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

cuz ideally i'd prefer to email him first, it seems less intrusive

"Hi, I don't know you from Eve, but can you tell me how to get in touch with your husband?"

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

actually i owe HIM a sandwich!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah that's right

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

WELL then...the perfect excuse!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Tell him that in the New Bio of Film book he's miscalculated Carole Lombard's age.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

omg, i'm supposed to DJ my friend's office opening party / art show this saturday! i've never DJed before and i'm scared. i think the wife is even gonna throw on some records.

you guys should come and root me on!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Where is it, JaXoN?

Will the wife be playing cheesy Dance Dance Revolution-style trance? How was the Hamburger Eyes thing?

I am going to this over the weekend, if anyone cares:
http://www.sfiae.com/about.html

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

broken link!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

?

Works for me.

It doesn't matter. It's just some poncey art thing that nobody else will care about anyway.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Looks fascinating but I will be busy packing books this weekend.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Is that a euphemism?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

For something swishy?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

No. We're getting bookcases built in the living and dining rooms and we have to pack up all our books and help get the old bookcases out.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

On the plus side, I'm going to see a band (a little before your time) called X on Friday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I like X! I know who they are even though I am from the time that I am from!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I have been converted by my gf. She has mind-bending powers.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

"converted", eh? :o

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Well, considering that she was confused in college as to what to give up 'for Lent' when her friends asked her, I'm sure my atheism is pretty safe. However, I now run on 110 volts.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

which day are you going to that adam?

jaxon where is this party you are dj'ing and when and can I smoke pot there?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Saturday?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

kyle, I scanned that as "... and when can I smoke pot there?"

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

When the fat lady sings.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Tell her to show up early for rehearsals.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

party is at 8th & Irving (Receiver Studio & Gallery - 1314 8th Avenue) from 6-10ish. it's a small webdesign/art gallery type space, but they're gonna pack it full of kids. you can get your drink and smoke on.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I think we'll come, especially if you play

93 Til Infinity!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

or some Ursher

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Ursher is my favorite term.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna play some 60s & 70s rock, funky post-punk, some soul-jazz, some electro disco and a bunch of soul.

the wife is gonna play hip hop, but most of our hip hop is on cd, so no 93 to infinity :( . she really wants to get to amoeba this afternoon to pick up some ursher, but might not make it.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I thought she hated ursher.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

no way man, she fucking loves him! Yeah is probably her favoritest song in the entire world next to something by Justin and maybe Saturdays by De La, Digable Planets, and something by Le Tigre

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I approve of all of this (except Digable Planets).

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Tell her to bring some Justin then.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Ask her if she has heard the 4X4 Mask mix of Yeah - It is (UK) garage.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Tell her to leave Le Tigre at home though ;)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Unless it's that DFA mix.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that's the only Le Tigre I know, but my brother likes them so they can't possibly be good.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

adam, email me that 4x4 mix.

le tigre's older stuff isn't so bad. not great or anything but kinda fun.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

why's it so fucking cold!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

i like the first le tigre album alot, the others are terrible. it's cold because of atmospheric conditions! also, it is winter.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

have you guys heard of this Otsu place? http://www.veganmart.com/

That place is TINY. I'm glad it exists, but it has like six pairs of shoes and maybe a bar of soap and a handmade journal, and that's like it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Did you actually ENJOY your visit to SF AT ALL?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Did you SMILE and have FUN?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

YES!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

It could be worse ... it could be LA.

― LORD OF ALL THINGS HOMOELECTRONIC (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

this is where adam says "but I *like* LA!"

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I love LA!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

that's because adam is pretty and all the pretty people live in LA.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I love LA!
-- .adam (adamr...), January 13th, 2005. (nordicskilla)

you sick fuck.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm not pretty. I'm not sick.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

But you like LA
so you must be a dick.

(not really, but isn't it a pretty poem we made together?
AW, SNUGS!)

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a dick, I'm one of the nicest people on ILX. Stop being annoying.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I said not really
psh
and obviously my 'job' on ilx is to be annoying.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

also, I guess this means no snugs?

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

No. Not for you.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

why you make my heart sad?

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

we're still mad at you for not showing photos of all the blood you lost from cutting your own hair after a bottle of wine

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

oh, ok, sorry:

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/bloodymess1.jpg

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

more self-promotion!!

http://www.autovaud.com/POSTER%20DRAFT%20UNO-small.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

VERY nice!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

is that you crying?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I'LL GIV E YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

That's a really sharp-looking poster, s1ocki!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I hope he doesn't mind me saying this, but s1ocki gets to stay in "Johnny Depp's SF hotel of choice"!!

I'm so coming over to hang out in the lobby in stupid clothes!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

STUPID clothes

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

which hotel is that? and which clothes are those? are you going to wear that ugly slip dress?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

no. no. no.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

thanks jaymc!! it's not quite finished yet but i thought it'd be fun to post this draft.

(ps only for 2 days adam!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

OH SHIT

"It’s the most sexually, intellectually, and culturally stimulating hotel in San Francisco.”
- Anthony Kiedis (as told to People magazine)Fodor’s guidebook

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

OH SHIT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

OH SHIT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

OH YEAH

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I hope the de-louse the sheets well.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

OH NO

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

It's in the 'Loin, it's uncool to worry to much about that type of thing.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I worry about getting crabs from Anthony Kiedis even when I'm NOT sleeping on hotel sheets. YOU ALL SHOULD TOO!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

He seems like a very hygienic, upstanding pillar of society.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

so when i stay at this hotel i assume my coolness meter will shoot up to the point that i'm this cool:

http://www.firebox.com/pic/p752h.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

I'll make like this and we can hang together:
http://mr-12560.mr.valuehost.co.uk/movies/k/kangaroo-jack/images/kangaroo-jack.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Adam, you are wrong about Digable Planets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

And I'll bring some friends

ihttps://secure.syspark.net/partners/nexen/iletaitunefois.qc.ca/images/snoopy_lunette.gif

http://www.omgjeremy.com/unclesam/fonz.jpg

http://w1.1396.telia.com/~u139602049/haimcor10.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Slocki, are you staying at the Ph03N1X?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

it's my driving test tomorrow

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Break someone's leg, adam.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

on a multiple choice? unlikely

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

michael: yes, for a couple of the nights i'll be there

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

hi :)

does anyone know about some afterhours thing at 52 mas0n ?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

The words you are reading are being typed by someone TEMPORARILY LICENSED TO DRIVE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

That will be all.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

San Francisco is rather cold today.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

adam, you have my cell phone no. I think. I want you to call me any time you're going to be drving so I can be sure to stay in the fallout shelter.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I do have your cellphone number. Hooray for me!

I think it is a beautiful day today. Or, it was in the East Bay when I left. I love the East Bay!

I am a good driver.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

you didn't have to take a behind-the-wheel test?

it was so cold that when I went out to my car this morning at 7:00 the windshield was completely iced over. I don't have a fucking ice scraper! I live in california! I had to sit there with the defrost on for ten minutes before I could drive.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

It's a little hazy looking from the 46th floor but it's sunny and not as cold as yesterday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Sarah has to defrost/scrape the car all the time!

Driving-actual-driving test still to come.

http://www.sd455.com/movielicensetodrive.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I love passing tests! I love getting things done!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

On the day of my driving test, I drove around in the neighborhood near the DMV for several hours. I was quite confident and ready when the test came and I aced it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

guys make sure it's warm for early february ok?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm crossing my fingers for our usual February sunny spell.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Can't promise that there won't be a slight chill in the mornings but the sun may be big and beautiful and bright. I can guarantee it will be warmer tham Mtl.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

With more vowels too.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

The words you are reading are being typed by someone TEMPORARILY LICENSED TO DRIVE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

Congratulations! I'm tipping my shades to you.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

so we will be staying at "elements sf" for most of the trip, with a two-night stop at phoenix in the middle.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

thank you, Spencer!

s1ocki, that is a long time to be staying in a hotel in SF. Are you planning some fun daytrips?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

hmmm... possibly! suggestions? ALCATRAZ?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

It is my humble opinion that the main tourist attractions in SF, unlike many in London, are uniquely fun, interesting and worthwhile. But maybe I'm just a booster?

I still say that Alcatraz is great and riding a cable car is FUN!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I wish I'd gotten to Alcatraz. They were all sold out the day I went; I guess you have to make reservations in advance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely. At least a day in advance. I could go over and over again. The views from the island are beautiful too, especially on a clear day when the Bay is full of sailboats. I always look out for whales!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been sailing in too long.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

do you have a boat? can I come?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

A cheaper alternative bay view is the Tiburon/Angel Island ferry (departs from Embarcadero Ferry Terminal). I think it's like $12 roundtrip per person on the weekends. You can have lunch in Tiburon (North Bay/Marin County) and you can hike on Angel Island (former Japanese internment)... or actually rent bikes in SF and you ride all over Angel Island/Tiburon.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

In that I work about a half a block from Pier 39, I have grown to hate Alcatraz and its visitors.

Suggested tourist ventures:

Walk around Chinatown and the Castro.
Rent a bike and ride across the golden gate bridge.
Climb up to Coit Tower (or drive, I guess.)
Take a daytrip up north to hike among the redwoods.
Take a daytrip down to Monterey to go to the aquarium, which is so awesome.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

is there anything on angel island? I have always wondered this. obv. not curious enough to actually look it up.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, I'll do that.

xpost I still haven't been to the Monterey aquarium because it is soooooooo expensive!! Sell me on it.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

it's the only interesting thing in monterey from my experience. it is expenseive, I guess. there are some amazing jellyfish in it.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoyed my Russian River trip, btw. Did I say that elsewhere? The crabcakes at this one restaurant were so good I have been trying to invent an excuse to go back.

xpost I like stingray because they look really BORED from above and really HAPPY from below!!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ALso the views along Big Sur/Monterey/Carmel are amazing!! I think you take these for granted, kyle!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

do you have a boat? can I come?

I don't even know anybody with a boat. When I lived in Sausalito, I knew a lot of the wharf rats, some of whom crewed and some of whom spent the winters on a friend's boat kind of vagabondery, etc.. and one way or another I'd manage to get out on to the Bay at least once a year sometimes more. Now, the closest I come is when I take the ferry. :(

Coast in either direction from SF is beautiful. You can easily do Muir Woods/Mt. Tam and Stinson in one trip.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I have not been to Stinson Beach yet. I still want to go to Upper Mendocino and that weird county that andy is from!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

the one above Mendocino...

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

ummm...

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

...it's on the tip of my tongue

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

HUMBOLDT, Adam have you read Vineland?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

that's it. No, I haven't read Vineland. Is it good?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE Angel Island. I used to go all the time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Is Humboldt good? Weird?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

how expensive is the aquarium? do you mean it's expensive to visit or expensive to BUY?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Where can you rent bikes in SF to take to Angel Island? I am afraid of/don't like bikes.

xpost-BOTH, I'd imagine. It's, like, $19. It IS meant to be amazing. Let's go!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

no vineland is not that good.

Humboldt is filled with hippies.

the only thing I don't like about heading north is the extremeley wind-y road, it's a bitch to drive in the dark or in the rain. Oh and the hippies. But it is beautiful up there. Note that there is not really anything to do, much. There are a lot of little towns that are nice to drop into. But how much saltwater taffy can you eat, really?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

$19 is not expensive! that's only nine dollars more than a movie and you get to see REAL LIVE ANIMALS

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

But can they act?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

some of them do tricks

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Kyle, some of us JUST LIKE TO LOOK AT PRETTY STUFF. And BREATHE IN FINE AIR. And TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS. And COLLECT OUR THOUGHTS.

If the fish were all scripted, I'd consider $19 worth it.

snap xxpost!!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.adventurebike.com/

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

okay!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

and you can take them on the ferry.

Side-topic:Specialties- c/d?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah you can do all that up there then.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Adam have you rented a rowboat in GG Park?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

No, I haven't. Or Lake Merritt! I jogged around the whole of Lake Merritt recently. I was really proud of myself.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

also is there any danger that if i visit alcatraz i might be mistaken for an escaped convict and locked up there for life? **SERIOUS**

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

yes. this happens often.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

so stay away from striped clothing and heavy chain jewellery then?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

(like that's EVEN POSSIBLE for me!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/1213/rock.jpg

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

do you think if they make a rock sequel the rock will be in it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

It can be like Innerspace. The breaking into the Rock part, that is.

― Moran and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

god when i was much younger i think i saw that movie every day

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

(innerspace)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

is there anything on angel island? I have always wondered this. obv. not curious enough to actually look it up.

ANGELS! duh

also, go to the Exploratorium

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

JaXon, will there be food tomorrow? :)

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

actually i think so. talked to my friend jay last night and his GF, his mom and her mom are all making stuff.... so? should be good.

also,,,,,keg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

i saw the greatest graffiti on the ground last night, it said...

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha, GREAT name.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Funny usernames are funny.

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Scat?

― Tess Tickles is a Drag Name (Hereward), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

omg INNERSPACE!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

what's the word on the ROXIE cinema?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

it is very small and in the Mission. I saw the Nick Drake documentary there. It's cute!

JaXon's DJ skillz were so great I came back to the party twice on saturday!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

our movie is playing there, and also a place called the "women's building auditorium"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

The Roxie is nice (they've improved the seats dramatically in the past couple of years.) And it's in a great location. Apparently it now has two screens, but I've only seen stuff on the big one (The Revenger's Tragedy played there last year.) What day is your flick showing?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

The Roxie is nice. I don't know this women's building place.

xpost

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Haha did you see my email, Adam?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh you did.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

"women's building auditorium"

I hope that's at a women's prison!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

www.womensbuilding.org

You probably have driven by this a hundred times. I always wanted to go into the bar at the bottom of this building.

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

me too!! omg

the recs is playing at the roxie on feb 5 at noon (boo), and at the women's prison complex cafeteria or whatever it's called on feb 12 at 4:30. both of these days are saturdays.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Alex, do you know this record? hahaha!

http://www.webm8.co.uk/riddler/tunes/albums/shut_up_&_dance-dance_before_the_police_come.jpg

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha YES!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

"the recs is playing at the roxie on feb 5 at noon (boo), and at the women's prison complex cafeteria or whatever it's called on feb 12 at 4:30. both of these days are saturdays."

We can to the afternoon movie on the 5th and then go to the inaugural grime/jungle/sublow night at Nickies!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

A fine idea.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Where is Nickies? Will it also get shut down by the police? This is like the UK in the early 90s, man!

http://www.mcm.net/cm/image/dictionnaire/smiley_dico.gif

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Haha no Nickies is licensed and not in Hunter's Point.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

grime party!!

i'm wondering if we shouldn't try and set up some kind of party while we're there...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

any excuse to bring my record bag!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

You should! I want to be a DJ!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nickies.com/

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

GRATEFUL DEAD JAMS
Dark Star Dan & Friends

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

GRATEFUL
DEAD JAMS

Dark Star Dan & Friends

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

haha xp

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha yeah. I'm actually kind of surprised they are doing a grime night. It seems more like the Top's sort of thing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget to wear a flower in your hair, Mark.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Bring petuli (sic?)!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

"pachouli"

The Top is no more... it re-opened last week as an Electro club called "SF Underground".

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Blech.

Well I am still hopeful about the Nickie's thing. I've wanted to find a monthly Saturday event to go to for some time now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I just got the SF Indie Fest mailing. And there is apparently competition in the "Canadian DV comedy" stakes!!

And there's this:"Kicking into overdrive with its opening night offering at the Castro
Theatre,
IndieFest proudly present THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS.
Actress-turned-director Asia Argento offers up a horrifying tale from
the
hairy underbelly of America with her adaptation of San Francisco bad
boy author
J.T. Leroy’s acclaimed novel of the same name. Argento sears the
celluloid
with exploding houses, skin-scrubbing preachers and medicated child
molesters
while offering delectable cameos from has-beens, freaks and nubiles
like Peter
Fonda, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Sisto and Marilyn Manson. After the movie,
Festgoers
are invited to stumble down Market Street to the opening night
after-party at
the Swedish American Hall (above Café Du Nord), 2170 Market Street,
where
IndieFest once again proves firewater and flicks can mix."

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

How is JT Leroy an SF author? He is from W. Virginia.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Did he move here?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Fuck JT Leroy and his bullshit. He lives here in the Mission with Argento, Adam.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right.

I liked some (first third) of Sarah and I still have yet to read The Heart Is Deceitful...I think I discussed this with both you and Kyle.

I think, bearing in mind some of our recent conversations, that I like "bullshit"!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Amazing that Winona Ryder is now billed BENEATH Peter Fonda.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

She's from around here, right? Maybe she'll be at the screening! (Can she spot me some Vicodin?)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Haha I couldn't stand Sarah (I don't think we did talk about this actually.) The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is at least readable, but by no means great. Mostly I just can't stand the cult of personality surrounding Leroy though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Is she? For some reason I thought she was a SoCal person?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I liked Sarah right up until the magic jackalope made an appearance. Then all was lost.

xp Winona HOROWITZ was born in MN, parents moved to an electricity-free commune in ELK, California when she was 7. Went to school in the Bay Area.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

"I liked Sarah right up until the magic jackalope made an appearance. Then all was lost."

Haha wait that's like 30 pages in isn't it? Man, fuck Tom Robbins.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! What is this called? Backwoods magic realism?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

It might have been about 30 pages in, yeah.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

It's called damn annoying (not that Tom Robbins would be good either way.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I used to like Tom Robbins!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

we're performing at the party!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

what's this other canadian dv thing adam?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

"THE
DELICATE ART OF PARKING, a Canadian comedy, tells the hilarious tale of
an
angry documentary filmmaker and his attempts to make an expose on his
town’s
crooked parking authority."

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

oh THAT movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

you know it?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

i know OF it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Are the legends true?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

does it matter, in the end?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Ah but will it ever end?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Let's go to see DJ Hell!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Haha where?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Mezzanine. Is he too "Ronan" for you, Alex? Maybe Jen will be into it!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

JaXon's DJ skillz were so great I came back to the party twice on saturday!

dude, no way. allison was the one that rocked the party. everyone kept complimenting her on the records. i couldn't even figure out the turntables and headphones. and i only played 1/3 of my records and none of the fun ones. after she played her hip hop, i realized how the crowd changed and i started playing 80s funk and stuff and i could totally see the difference. my first dj experience and i learned something.

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

That place had a niiiiiice audio setup.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha I'll confess I've not heard much of his stuff. She would probably be into to it though (even though she didn't really like the Mezzanine that much.) When it is it?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

JT was allegedly homeless in SF when he first started getting published (in Spin? I think). I couldn't finish Sarah, I thought it was annoying. I probably would have loved it if I were 16 though. Winona went to high school in Petaluma.
Asia Argento is fucking hot.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

"allegedly" haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

well actually I guess he probably was. I agree that the cult of personality is annoying. he was supposed to "open" when Sparklehorse played here a few years ago with a reading; it would have been his first public appaearance. But he didn't come out.

His "band" (for whom he writes lyrics and does not perform with) plays around SF sometimes too. I find all this pretty lame but shtick is shtick. He's certainly more successful than I am.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I was laughing cuz that's the first thing I thought when I heard all the stories myself. So cynical.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha I'll confess I've not heard much of his stuff. She would probably be into to it though (even though she didn't really like the Mezzanine that much.) When it is it?

Feb 11th! I like the Mezzanine, it's maybe too big?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I find Jess Mowry a million times more important and interesting than JT Leroy. Not that they are really comparable, I just thought I'd say that.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know who that is! The professor of that class just wrote back to me and told me to turn up early and maybe I will get in! I am excited now!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

cool what class?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Film production - 8mm/16mm. It's a beginner's class so I ahd reservations about going back over stuff I've done before, but then I haven't touched a strip of 16mm film in about 4 years...

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

ah sweet! that's great! (the class, not the fact that you havent' touched film in 4 years)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

La Jetee is showing at Madrone (!) next Sunday with a live JAZZ score.

Will it be good?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Ça dépendra de la came

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I can show it to you around the corner with the official soundtrack supplied.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

"La Jetee is showing at Madrone (!) next Sunday with a live JAZZ score."

If there was no live JAZZ score it would be great.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Did I mention it will be SMOOTH JAZZ?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Haha no, but it changes nothing.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

I would go if that was true, though!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mcfri.com/web/portfolio/images/kksf.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that's beautiful.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

adam, go to the Hotel Nikko for Sunday brunch and you will bear witness to the live KKSF broadcast in the dining room.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

you keep telling me! I'll probably take my parents.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Is their Sunday brunch good? No one does good Sunday brunches anymore so if they do I will go.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

La Note in Berkeley is meant to be good for brunch.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty good... and pretty pricy too... :-\

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

How pricy? $35+?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

If you don't mind gay chic, 2223 Market has the bestest in town.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

If I was to be honest I'd say I don't really "get" brunch, and I don't think I've ever had it, not on purpose anyway.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.2223restaurant.com/

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

I love brunch, but that's because I love breakfast and eating a lot and then not again until dinner time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

If you get up at 11am on a Sunday and you eat a chicken apple sausage, an english muffin and a mango...are you having brunch?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Do you eat a meal again before dinner?

Also I eat 2 or 3 sausages, hashbrowns and a couple eggs so your scenario is faulty haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Also we I say Sunday brunch I mean ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET STYLE SUNDAY BRUNCH not some piddling order of a menu bullshit.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Mimosas or Bloody Marys, too much food, semi-catatonic sunday afternoon interspersed with hoizontal dancing = classic

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

$50 @ Hotel Nikko w/ tax + tip.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

not bad.

Do you eat a meal again before dinner?

Probably.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Where can I buy a good, cheap-ish turntable? Maybe I should get a stereo first.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

horizontal dancing does = classic

i thought gygax said $50 @ Hotel Nikko w/ wax + tip.

adam, i'm selling my old Numark turntable. it's bluish purple :\

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

I like colors. How much are you selling it for? What does it sound like?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

I Like Colors May I quote you?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

no

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

adam, you're assimilating so well. isn't it colours? how much do you want it for? it sounds good. it's probably from guitar center (my mom bought it for me YEARS ago, that's why it's colors). i also just bought two new stanton 500 needles which i'm looking to sell also (along w/it or separately).

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Adam don't you ahem need a tuner and some speakers before you get a turntable?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't know how much turntables cost, so you can really rip me off.

My current home "soundsystem" = Powerbook and $10 speakers from Walgreen's.

xpost yes!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I liked colors plenty on Sunday when I inadvertantly came home for a nice, relaxed evening with the missus and a friend to watch the Golden Globes mega super E'd out of my mind. I spent the evening petting my cats and using my newly acquired superpowers to deflect the withering glances I was getting from the Managament. Some movie won or something as I recall.

xxpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Michael are you advocating the use of illegal drugs for recreation? That's not very sporting.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

god i miss drugs

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Not advocating at all, merely recounting an otherwise uneventful Sunday down the pub gone awry story.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Haha well I would recommend getting those things before you get a turntable (although $50 could be a really good deal) since without 'em you can't really hear anything.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I'll have a tuner for you soonish, if the gf doesn't give it to someone else first.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

you can hear stuff if you put your head really close to the needle!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

adam, just remembered i have a receiver and quite possibly a tape player for sale also.

for you, my friend, we work out a deal

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

xpost, holy crap, i just remembered a Mr Wizard eppisode where they made a record player out of a sewing needle, a piece of paper and tape and a pencil.

they stuck the pencil through the record hole to make it spin and then made a cone out of the paper, taped it in place and then stuck the needle in the point of the cone. voila! that's your needle and speaker.

wouldn't suggest doing this on rarer records

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

adam I thought you got that ipod lansing thing and that was your home stereosystem now

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

It is! But it doesn't play CDs....or records.

I like it though.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

City College was kind of weird and miserable. I like it though.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Can't sleep now!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

it is a community college. were all the other students in their 50's?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

no

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Why not a DV class, adam?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

...there is some DV.

I actually...don't like DV...don't know how to make the most of it...s1ocki does (and succeeeds), though! ;)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I just don't know how to light for DV, not in any way that I feel I have control over.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

it is the eternal problem!!

use as much natural light as you can, it looks really awesome on DV, and don't worry about blow-outs! unless they are really extreme of course.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

i mean that's not entirely correct. but it is much easier to get great-looking exteriors on dv. and i actually like the practical-lit, low-light DV look. especially if you have any control over your white balance.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

What I need is an NTSC camera.

I am processing three reels of S8 today!!!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

nice!! is there a place in town you can do it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! No there isn't, but I just realized that Walgreen's can send it off!

Am definitely looking into bathtub processing very soon, though.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Gasser's do it?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

nope. Not super 8.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

do you have a projector?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I used to.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Will probably get a new one. CCSF does (free!!!!!!) transfers, though. Yay!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

i've always meant to learn bathtub processing.

what's ccsf? i always gotta do the transfers myself and they look like shit

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

City College.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

that's nice of them. otherwise it's the big bucks for a decent transfer.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

how are you going to do bathtub transfers with all that gin and acid in there already?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

i'll just ask the naked flapper to move aside and clear out some of the champagne

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Just send them over to me. I'll know what to do.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

adam, just found out the website for my neighbor's 8mm -> digital transfer company
http://super8cinema.com/

he's a super nice guy

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

this is kind of brilliant and also kind of fucked up and sick: filmmaker films all of 2004 Golden Gate Bridge jumpers:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/19/MNGENASPH31.DTL

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I won tickets to see RTX tonight and I really want to go but I haven't got more than 5 hours sleep in one night since last Thursday!

xp I heard about that!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

kyle,

Mary Currie is very sweet.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

you don't need any sleep to see RTX. I would say having slep at all would be a detriment

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm not looking for a date with her, michael!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone want to go?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

hmmm.... chalk me in as tentative, i might have a scrabble date tonight.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

ok let me know! If I don't go you can just say you are me, it's x2.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm considering maybe just going for an hour or so a bit later in the evening - there are two warmup bands and show starts at 9...god, I'm tired.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm not looking for a date with her, michael!

She's a little old for you and probably not your type.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

What are you guys talking about?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

ok let me know! If I don't go you can just say you are me, it's x2.

repeat after me: "plus two"!!! not "times two"!!!

if you don't go, i probably won't be able to get in because these sorts of things require ID and our names are pretty hard to be mistaken for the other.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

What is your real name, anyway?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Cyclops McBrady

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Tits McGee

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

JaXon, Wolfking of SoMa

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Neil B. Formey

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Al B. Kirkey

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Phill Herrup

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Philip Sherburne

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

?uestlove

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

RTX won't be going on until midnight, just to let you know

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

DJ Righteous Babe

xp what makes you say this?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

they are headlining, there are two openers, it starts at "9" which means "10", it's at the bottom.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

maybe 11:30. I would go to this if it weren't a school night

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

You just want to be my x1

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

WE JUST GOT THE APARTMENT ON FELL ST! WE SIGNED THE LEASE PAPERS AND EVERYTHING! I AM IN A STATE OF SHOCK!

― A Little Dizzy in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, Alex! Where on Fell?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, Little Dizzee! (which one is that again?)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Between Gough and Octavia! It's a gorgeous 2 bedroom flat!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't feel like working now! I can barely focus. I am thinking about where I should put bookshelves and stuff.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

That's cool, Alex. You can do Market, Hayes and Lower Haight all with ease.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

You should invite adam over and take him to Limelight.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm three blocks from my work now haha (it's almost too close actually.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Is Limelight the film and video bookstore on market?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Adam have you been there? You would love it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been there!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

It's really neat. It's right next to a terrible overpriced breakfast place though (also a really good Peruvian restaurant as well.) I'm going to right next to the gorgeous new boulevard they are building. I can't barely contain my excitement.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

You can't barely contain your excitement?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to try the food from peru.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

The Peruvian food is very good (good Sangria too IIRC.) I can't barely wait to eat there again.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

(JaXoN, if you are still reading, I think I would like to contact your neighbor. Do you mind if I drop your name? Walgreen's does NOT do processing anymore)
xp hahaha

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

It's right next to a terrible overpriced breakfast place though (also a really good Peruvian restaurant as well.)

also next to good sushi and greater records (grooves)

adam, feel free to tell him i sent you. but make sure to tell him his neighbor because he's a little stoney sometimes

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, we will be near a couple of good sushi restaurants (I think Midori Mushi is still open.) Also a good video store! It's perfect!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

is this going to be next to the new big boulevarde that goes onto the highway as well? it's nice and sunny down there now that they ripped out the freeway

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Hella, will he do a 2-for-1 super8/weed deal? There's nothing about it on his website.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

i have w33d for you if you want it. but I cannot process your film.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

"is this going to be next to the new big boulevarde that goes onto the highway as well? it's nice and sunny down there now that they ripped out the freeway"

It is!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Stop spelling "boulevard" with an "e", kyle!!!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

My boss just called me "the John Waters of [this company]". What can it possibly mean?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

He also called me "endlessly entertaining".

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

it was that film of the singing asshole you showed the whole company at lunch

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

and he thinks your dirty sanchez is a real mustache

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

does that mean what I think it does?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dirtysanchezthemovie.com/synopsis.html

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dirty+sanchez

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

not clicking on either of them.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

ewwwww. I just did.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT BE DENIED!!

http://www.gyromart.com/images/home_but_sanchez.gif

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

oh no! my application to volunteer at arty film non-profit got accepted! how will I do two classes a week and one night at this thing and not collapse or age rapidly from stress and exhaustion?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I think you're doomed.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

DOOMED!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I will be my age but I'll look like....gygax's age or something.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

And then you'll be dead.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

older than dead!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Like me, adam. The HORROR!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

We are going to the Yuerba Buena party on Friday.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I amde the decision to just get some sleep last night> I'm glad I finally did.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

What is new in your world?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I have my first cold of the winter.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

oh no that's not good at all. And you're a smoker, too. That is always hard.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I am at home feeling kind of bleh too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

It's not a very heavy cold. When do you move, Alex?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I thought about staying home, but didn't.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Did you get my e-mail, adam?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

yes! and I replied this time! :)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I'll check it this evening. (Damn work web filter!)

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

So...what great, outdoorsy place can I drive to (without incidents like closed roads) for a few days in the middle of February? It is the eternal question! I think that both kyle and Alex don't like leaving the city so I put it to you, the son of a naturist.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Golden Gate Park

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

is there hiking?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

and more!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Say something about this website or place or both:

http://www.mankas.com/mankas/intro.html

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Also read the menu it's fucking hilarious.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

"Sunday service in the church of culinary delights"!

"FOR YOUR PENANCE"!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

"It's not a very heavy cold. When do you move, Alex?"

Some time in early February.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

How much of the Beast have you seen? Why the need to venture into the hinterlands before you've explored all the treasures of the Bay Area?

Re: Mankas. Worked on a since aborted Danny Glover TV show in the summer of 2003 and we shot at their cabin on the Tomales Bay. The main place is gorgeous too and I've heard the food there is delicious. Bit pricey as I remember it though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha that website is amusing (the menu is reedocolous too.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

How much of the Beast have you seen? Why the need to venture into the hinterlands before you've explored all the treasures of the Bay Area?

I have seen a fair bit and love it, but sometimes I need to get away from my piles of bills and dirty dishes for a few days. Also I like driving. Always have time for exploring the Bay, though.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

but look at my life - I get antsy if I don't take a trip SOMEWHERE at leats once ever couple of months!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Have you done Big Sur? Not just the coast but the surroundings? How about the coast between SF and Santa Cruz? Or Highway 9? Or Highway 35 (Skyline)? Highway 92 or 84 through the peninsula are cool too. I sometime get the feeling (maybe it's only 'cause I lived in Marin) that people look north and east before they consider the peninsula. San Mateo county has several redwood parks and the drives down from Skyline are very pretty.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

All food for thought.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

adam:

http://www.deetjens.com/home.htm

take the wife, for reals

― (Jon L), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! thank you.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

The inn exists today because when Helmuth Deetjen died in 1972, he left the Inn to be forever enjoyed by transient guests wanting to experience the peace, friendship, and beauty that can be found at the Inn.

Are you two transients, though?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I think we kind of are, yes!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Isn't everyone a transient in this game of life?

― Profoundly doped up in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Don't get deep on me, Alex, I only have about three synapses firing this morning.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Isn't everyone a transient in this game of life?

hahahahahahahaha!

Man, I should have stayed home.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Sic transit gloria mundi

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

"Don't get deep on me, Alex, I only have about three synapses firing this morning."

That's probably two more than I have. I'm gonna go watch some more of the Prisoner on DVD.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Excellent, No. 17.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I am cleaning up a database and un-ironically listening to an Alexander O'Neal track!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

(It's on Matos' Jam & Lewis box thing)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

adam, what else is on this box (how big is it?) i've been curious about J&L lately

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

It's big. I don't even have all of it. It's well over 100 tracks. I would be happy to put what I have on a disc 4 U.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I am dying to eat some Indian food!!! :(

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I (only JUST!!!!) passed my on-the-road driving test this AM.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~janetmck/bookaweek/books_pics/ontheroad.jpg

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Haha the one and only time I took the on the road driving test (at 20!) I barely passed too. Luckily for me, once you've taken it you are pretty much done (even when I moved to MO and came back they never asked me to do it again.) Which explains why terrible older drivers are currently terrorizing us all.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, most of the stuff I screwed up on is stuff we don't have in the UK - I pulled too close to STOP signs (we don't have stop signs), I went too fast (Speed limit is different), I didn't check my blindspots (ENglish ppl are lazy).

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I forgot to curb my wheels all the way. I went too fast over a speed bump. I forgot the order at a four-way stop. Otherwise it went well haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, adam.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

thank you! I don't want to be at work!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

You want to be out driving!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

thanks JaXoN, your neighbor was helpful in the Xtreme.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

you don't have STOP SIGNS in england?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

guys i'm going to be in sf real soon!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Is your plane making an emergency landing?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah LIKE REAL SOON LOOK OUT!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

you don't have STOP SIGNS in england?

no

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

how do you know when to stop?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

You wait for the fat lady to sing.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

(We have STOP LIGHTS and you have to stop at intersections but we don't ahve big red signs that say STOP where you have to stop even if nobody is around)

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Where can I find "Calla's foods" and what is it?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Cala Foods.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

http://clients.mapquest.com/calabell/mqlocator?link=find

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

cars in england just fucking run you over at intersections, this is true.

Cala Foods is in SF. There are a bunch of them. They're supermarkets.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

They process color Super 8 film for $4 a roll, apparently!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

So it's not Calla like the band. THE BAD BAND that kyle probably likes?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Or is that hella? Or whatever?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Same as Bell Markets.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Ilxor Colin S. used to live across the street from a Cala.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

i quite like calla. no they are not bad. they also broke up.

hella is another band entirely. they haven't broken up either.

i find old supermarkets that have not been replaced by Safeway or Albertson's fascinating in a weird way.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

On Friday I went to a bar. I can't remember the name though. It was on Market and had a lot of rock posters everywhere.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Alex will tell you.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

luck 13

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

lucky 13, I mean

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

yes! they have yummy beer

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I was down the street, briefly, at The Expansion.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

The Expansion, eh?

...I also went to the bathroom in MARTUNI'S

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

adam, glad it worked out. he just asked me what happened to you yesterday

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

What happened to me?

Oh, you told him I would write to him.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been there in ages. Did you meet anyone in the bathroom, adam?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

No, but there were two girls in front of me who were waiting too and I spoke to them. They seemed drunk or coked up or both. They were slow-dancing with each other and a middle-aged guy standing at the bar was eyeing them up in a really sleazy way.

Martuni's.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Something about it, maybe the velvet curtains, makes me think "Quaalude".

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

i object to being referred to as "middle-aged"

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Actually that place makes me think of Tales Of The City.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, "SF eats its young". That doesn't sound good.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Lucky 13 always makes me think of LA bars, but I like it more than Amber (and it's cheaper) so if I am in the area I go there.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

The Expansion was my 'local' when I lived on 15th Street.

a middle-aged guy standing at the bar was eyeing them up in a really sleazy way

I don't remember going to Martunis.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

he was older than any of you

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Any of us what?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

guys

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Soon that will be me, the old perv leering (peering blindly) at young maidens. I can't wait.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Adam saying they were maidens at all. Were they maidens?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly, but maybe.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

two girls = two maidens in my nomenclature.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

They process color Super 8 film for $4 a roll, apparently!

!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Martuni's doesn't seem like the MAIDENS A PLENTY kind of place, frankly.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

i take the blame for derailing this thread into sad and stupid territory
(xpost, xpost)
I finally saw the trailer for this movie: the wild parrots of telegraph hill and it looks great!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

"i take the blame for derailing this thread into sad and stupid territory"

Oh believe me we didn't need much help heading in this direction.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine lives on Darrell Place (I think that's what it's called) and we were admiring his incredible view and he showed the place right below him where Mr. Bittner (?) lives. They used to hang out often at the Officers' Club in the Ft. Mason too.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

The parrots, that is.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

2 non-SF related questions that I am putting to you all because I know you:

1. Where can I get a really BIG box? Like, almost human size.
2. How hard is it to do your own taxes?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Also, I need a raise. Is it time yet?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Is #1 related to your not being able to afford getting back to Scotland?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

...very distantly, yes.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

you can get really big boxes at that moving "we sell boxes" place on shattuck near Reel. this is where we got all of our boxes when we moved.

I always did my own taxes with turbotax, but I'm not doing that this year, because I'm convinced I can get an accountant to keep us from having to pay in a shitload of money again this year. Not sure though.

don't ask for a raise until six months into a job and be able to demonstrate why you should be given one.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

1. Moving companies sell boxes that you can hang clothes in. That should be big enough for a human.

2. No. I believe this year you can do them directly through the IRS website.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

you can get really big boxes at that moving "we sell boxes" place on shattuck near Reel. this is where we got all of our boxes when we moved.

Is that the place with the SMILING STYROFOAM PEANUT in the window?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

directly through the IRS website

hooray!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

TurboTax can be pretty cheap if you get it at like BestBuy and do the mail in rebates etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I've had bad experiences with Best Buy and rebates!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"How hard is it to do your own taxes?"

It's easy unless you own property or want to do something weird. The over the phone thing is uber simple.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I think I did it by phone last year, come to think of it, or was it that the 976 dominatrix call?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

yes, it's the place with the happy styrofoam peanut. the people that work in there aren't so happy.

you can do turbotax online, I did it last year. it is an amazing feat of web engineering. anyway, i don't think they have a mac compatible standalone version so you'd have to do it online.

can someone recommend an accountant who can keep me from having to pay this other $2k we apparently have to pay, and who will work out for us once and for all this goddamned marriage penalty extra withholding BS which is always NOT ENOUGH when you follow the stuff in the W2?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

we went to H&R Block last year.It was expensive and weird because we had spent some of the year in another country.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Caledonia? Pictland?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Londinium.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

screw taxes. i've been self employed forever, so i'm not allowed to do it over the phone or website, and now i'm married and own property. shit is difficult. and since i don't get taxes taken out by my employer, i end up owing a SHITLOAD of money at the end of the year (i don't pay quarterlies because that is just too much work)

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Don't you get dinged for not paying quarterlies, Jason?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

nothing makes me madder than realizing we've paid like $20k to the government and then watching them spend it on killing Iraqi children and blowing up our own army. fuck that shit. I wish you could be a conscientious objector with your taxes.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

The only thing that makes me madder is the interest free loan I make them every year until I get my refund back.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

refunds! I remember refunds. those were the days of being single, flirting with maidens, and nonstop drug use.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I hope that, just because you're no longer single, you haven't given up flirting (inconsquently) with the maidens, kyle.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

i am flirting with JaXon as we speak, he's a pretty cute girl

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Can I just interrupt all this to say that ILX is back up?

Thanks for reading.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Moma's parking garage alarm has been going off for the last 15 minutes. It's the most annoying sound.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Is it the flirting that got it back up, adam?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

I doubt it.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Now there are police cars and fire trucks.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to San Jose. To learn software.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Vaya con Dios, amigo.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to Balboa Park soon.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Don't you get dinged for not paying quarterlies, Jason?

yeah, it's only like 150$ or something, but i'd rather pay that, and make the interest on the money i'd pay to the gov, than have them make the interest and me having to do more work

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

even though the interest isn't 150$

real answer - i'm lazy

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

they are trying to get me to join Crunch

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

what is that? who are they?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

gym. work

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

my energy level is so low. Shall I drink a Sparks before class? Can I drink it on BART?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

how and why? is this a social thing like the book club they wanted? or is it a work thing where they will pay for it?

it sounds suspiciously gey to me though so wouldn't fall for it.

drinking and eating is prohibited on the BART trains. Please keep our environment clean of litter. Thank you for riding Rapid Transit and have a nice day!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

CRUNCH! SMASH!

If you keep it in a paper bag you can.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

If this was England I could drink whatever and wherever I bloody liked!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

yes but they have people to clean shit up on the tube. here they can't be bothered. they're too busy not fixing the escalators

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

also, no fucking trash bins in bart stations any more, apparently. War on Terror!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I would not want those tube-cleaning people's jobs. I have seen some NASTY things on the tube.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

the other night in the parking lot behind walgreens on Piedmont we almost stepped in a rat. Yes, IN a rat. Or what used to be rat before it was run over by the wheels of a car. Which, judging by the quivering body and freshness of the blood, had been about one minute earlier.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Check it:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/tubestudy.html

I miss London, the terror, the creeping, gothic horror of it all. The humanity.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

i have received that same email about BART

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

HAHA

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Ppl are NOT having SEX on BART

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

Aren't they? What's the use then?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

the BART train is a porno

SF cares...

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

a porno

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Since when are people not having sex on BART?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

I have to go and do my homework now.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

no joke, my friend got Syphilis of the eye from riding the bus in sf.

WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE!

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Are you implying that one of us gave your friend syphillis?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

syphilis of the EYE?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

yes. watch out.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm staying home.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Gave it to him for free?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Everyone in San Francisco has syphillis. And if they don't have syphillis then they have herpes. And whatever we have, we are always rubbing our genitals on peoples' eyeballs when we are on public transportation. It's just the kind of town we are.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

you down with HPV?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Apparently it is "not a two-fisted drinking town like NYC or Chicago".

Two-fisted?

Oh I see now.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

xp yeah you know me

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

They call me "Flavorpill Flav".

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

"not a two-fisted drinking town like NYC or Chicago"

Well when you only have one free fist. . .

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

haha

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm about to use the word "interplay"!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like an Interpol/Coldplay cover band?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I swear though I would not rub my eyes after touching anything on a MUNI bus. Seriously gross things happen on public transportation.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Considering the fact that even the flu and most colds, though airborne diseases, are mostly passed through contaminated hand to eye or nose, this is probably smart, Alex.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

If I rub my eye, my lenses fall out.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I've never been this late at work before...WHO KNEW there were people that stayed this late???

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

i think the rate these sf threads grow, we're gonna need to create a new one each month

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

It's mostly just me talking though.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i think your friend got syphillis of the eye from those bukkake sessions, not MUNI

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was wondering HOW does he know he got it from MUNI?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

JaXoN has a ton of stories like this!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Emphasis on "stories".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Gygax has a lot of stories too.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

They definitely accepted me into the class. Then we watched La Jetee. I was the only person (out of almost 30) who had seen it! And there is always a man shaving in the bathroom.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

What's the median age of your classmates?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I ran into Michael White at the bus stop this morning. We chatted until Van Ness and then i debused.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

That's nice. Was he wearing a cheeky beret?

What's the median age of your classmates?

Hmmm...probably my age. There are some "mature" students but also a lot of young kids. Might be different in otehr classes.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Actually that sounds about standard for city. I'm kind of shocked no one had seen La Jetee, but maybe there are a lot of new to film school folks. It's good they've seen it now.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

It is kind of frustrating, though. I have become one of those people that raises their hand at every question! Luckily, the equipment room opens next week and then I can really get started hahaha!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

"I have become one of those people that raises their hand at every question!"

Oh NO! Not one of them haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

ass kisser!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I saw Wynton Marsalis and band last night after my gf's dad and step-mom took us to Jardinere and ran into my friend Marcus Shelby. It was a much better evening than I had expected.

Since I was scolded for using it en public, I have forgotten gygax's real name. Riding the very crowded bus this morning, it felt like he was my KGB contact as we exchanged important info coded to sound like chatter about travel and Japan. I think he may have given me syphillis.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Was he rubbing his genitals against your eyes, Michael?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

No. There wasn't enough room. I did feel a sharp pain in my leg though. Maybe he used one of those Bulgarian poison umbrellas.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

my real name is Zsa Zsa.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

So you're saying it was Hungarian syphillis...?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

ass kisser!

It's not like that. I pause to let other people answer, but really, I can't sit around all day while my classmates sit slack-jawed wondering about the differences between panning and tracking, so I just tell them so we can keep things moving! It is kind of frustrating.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I met a young man called Brian. He could potentially prove useful in the future.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Suicide missions? Patsy/fall guy? Menial labor? Organ harvesting?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

He has a full head of ginger hair and a thick beard. His head is like a giant pleasing reddish orange tennis ball.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Does Sarah know about your new love?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

...

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

He's not a GI Joe, is he?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I walked all the way from here to California/Hyde and back and now I am about to do it again.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

That's a good walk, adam. During the Buchannan administration, I lived at Sac & Hyde and walked to work at Sansome and Sutter. Of course, if you have a fast pass, you can take the cable car and offer free (though spurious) facts about SF to tourists.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

"Look whatever you do don't TOUCH anything on this car and then touch your eye, okay. I know a guy who knows a guy who SWEARS he got syphillis from MUNI. By the way right over there on that street corner is where they filmed the chase scene from Hammett."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

my friend was a girl, GET IT RIGHT!

alex, you went to UCSC, right? what year did you graduate?

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

1996!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

El Janko, I think we are hanging out by proxy on Saturday night... (please say yes)

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

"my friend was a girl, GET IT RIGHT!"

I'm not gonna let the "facts" get in the way of this story!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Dean and Alex went to the same college.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Dean and Alex went to the same college.

that's actually why i was asking. he graduated in 2002, though.

gygax, what is happening saturday night? my calendar (ie. the woman) is offline right now.

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

g, also your IM is on, but has been idle for the past 2hrs, i think someone's in your house using your computer

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

ILXer and adamfriend Chuck Tatum was there for 2000.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) and Shakey Mo Collier's a banana slug too!!!

jax0n:
i left my AIM on, sorry dude. it's been idle probably for about 4 hours actually. check with the wife, she has you guys down for some plans and i was happy to see you guys on there because i'd probably not be into it at all if not.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Alex is OLD (although he was still pretty young when he got the hell out of Santa Cruz.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

My first year of college was 1997!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Now I do feel old.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

BANANA SLUGZ

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

ULTIMATE FRISBEE

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

DRUGZ

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

HPV

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

ROCKABILLIES

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

GENITAL PIERCINGS

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

looks like deaner got here before my email got to him.

g, the inlaws are in town on saturday, but i think we'll show up for a bit

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

ODWALLA

― mayahee, mayahoo, mayaha, mayahaha (deangulberry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Haha ODWALLA ECOLI SCARE

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

dude, i have a friend that got Ecoli in her eye from playing hackysack in santa cruz

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I believe it!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

TAKE ONE SHOWER

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

EVER

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

EL Janko, that was funny.

I went to The Mission for lunch. I really, really like it there when it is busy and loud and fun, as it was today. But when it is quiet it is kind of weird?

Also on BART, have any of you seen this guy:

Skinny Gaiman-esque looking dude in a wheelchair, all in black, wearing shades, HUGE cross around his neck, hardhat attached to the back of his chair with lots of scrawl on it, prominently emblazoned with the legend "CHRIST'S CHOSEN SUN". He had several large orange triangles of paper around his person and every time the BART started up he would hold them up for a full minute or so. They read things like "DEPORT ALL PEST, ILLEGAL COMMUNIST CHINATOWNS. THEY ARE SO NOT FRIENDS OF AMERICA".

?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

He was WAY creepy and leaving the train he dropped a pair of electricl gloves (?).

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

You should do a student film on him, Adam!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Does it have to be a student film?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Haha okay you should just make a STALKER film of him. Just follow him perpetually for a couple of days.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Need new shoes (not to replace A shoes though).

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that guy is Christ's Chosen Sun. Best to accept him.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

He made me think of you!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

he is a better man

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

but not a better speller

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

What is that little green hill(ock?) that you can see from Van Ness/24th?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

bernal hill

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

hmmm

kinda incongruous?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

(i'm assuming; if you're looking northwest it's twin peaks)

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

It looked too small to be Twin Peaks but I think I was looking Northwest. I did wonder if it was TP.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

I guess I haven't been that close to it much.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

incongruous how? I guess it looks weird from certain perspectives; it's very noticable driving into SF from Oakland as well and looks like a green cap on top of a bunch of boxy houses. But it's really kind of the edge of city when you're there, before things fall off into brisbane/daly city/cow palace and rolling hills. I've never actually walked around on it.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

It looked to be green to be real. It looked like The Shire.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dreamworld.org/sfguide/Neighborhoods/BernalHeights/2002.12.16_15.50.42.jpg

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

i think you were looking at bernal hill, twin peaks has Sutro Tower on top of it. Bernal Hill has something on it but I'm not sure what. No hobbits though thank fucking God.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

mrs adam will be sad at the lack of hott Orlando Bloom elf-types.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Twin Peaks doesn't look very Shire-esque.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Some people like Bernal Heights as a neighborhood to live in, but they all have cars. It's intolerable for us bus-types, but I've been to parties there. Some nice houses definitely.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

it's one of the last places in SF where it's somewhat affordable to buy a house (if you have a lot of money, that is). but yeah it's way the fuck out there by bus and even the nearest BART is a haul. Sunny though.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Gradually, I will get us to talk about every neighborhood in the Bay and then print a book.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I got an amusing email a while back by a native San Franciscan who was pissed off as all get out by all these books written by SFers who've only been here ten or so years.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Emmy's Spaghetti Shack is basically in Bernal Heights (or, I guess, the Outer Mission, same thing practially). A plus in it's favor!

I very little insight on most other bay area neighborhoods....hayward. egads.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I've been to Hayward.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

There is some nice stuff on Mission thereabouts that area, but most of Bernal Heights is on the other side of a very steep hill from there. If you could live close to Emmy's though, I would definitely recommend living there.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

I like Precita Park

http://www.sfneighborhoodparks.org/parkhistories/precitapark.html

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Unsurprisingly I've never been to that park. I was a Lincoln, Mountain Lake, Julius Khan, Rossi Field, Rochambeau (sic?) kid.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Julius Khan is what they called it, briefly after the Tatars invaded in the 1370's. Now it's called Julius Kahn.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Tatar Tots?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

They're delicious. With tartar sauce.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I glance at that park site cuz I could remember which way to spell Kahn, but it wasn't on there so I just picked teh funny way.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Mom: Where do you want to go play, Junior?

Junior: KHAN!!!!!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHA I used to play that game with my MOM!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

My digital camera is fixed, free of charge! Hooray!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

lucky you, i dropped my 900$ one and it's dead

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

but i just got a Lomo because i got a restoration hardware gift certificate and had nothing else i'd want to buy there

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

adam, do you still want that tuner?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure because I don't think I can afford to buy JaXoN's turntable at the moment! Or his table! Or his cd stand!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

So, while it is a gracious offer I don't actually know that I can use it. :(

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Whatever you buy from JaXoN DON'T shake his hand to seal the deal!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

But you could save me from having to otherwise dispose of it, like leaving it on Hight Street at night. (That block of walking is sooo not in my contract)

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I don't see why you would turn down a free tuner! If you can find free speakers you are set!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I'll take it!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

adam I have a CD changer you can have as well.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

a Cd...changer?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I can built some sort of insnae Frankenstein stereo system

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

What does that changer change the cd's into?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Into LOVE!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

A CD CHANGER! WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLES FROM 1985 OR SOMETHING?

it is a carousel player that you can put 5 cds into. It is a kenwood. It is nice. I don't need it anymore though, I use my DVD player.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Don't any of you people want MONEY for these items? After all, what have I ever done for you?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

By the way, JaXoN started this thread too:
Are you ready for the grossest story EVER?!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

mine is only worth about $30 and I think I still owe you money for the black dice/animal collective show now that I think about it so it doesn't matter. also, you are broke.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Adam you can give me money for all these items if you like. I'm not too proud haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

I AM broke. :(

UK debtors are after me.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Will they slap the cuffs on me when I land on the tarmac at Heathrow?

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

No they will wait and arrest you when you try to buy Lord of the Deck Vol 3.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

That would be smart of them.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

are you going to wind up in a Dickensian debtor's prison?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Do they still have debtor's prisons?

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/hogarth/images/1.41.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

If you go to a debtor's prison Adam bring your camera! It'll make a great film!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Although now that I think about it they'll probably take possession of it to balance your debts, so nevermind.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

The gear and inhabitants of Hogarth's debtor's prison has always intrigued me.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm meeting up w/Shakey Mo next tuesday or thursday after work for a drink and cd swap if any of you are interested

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I am! Shakey Mo, bring Robin if possible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

I can probably make it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Tuesday is movie class, thursday is paint class! Might be able to come out v. quickly b4 class on Tuesday maybe.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

SF Indie Fest pullout in the SFBG today and it looks nice (s1ocki's movie is on p.18)!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Woo hoo!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Also KYLE was in the gym at the same time as me last night...apparently, I didn't actually see him.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I went swimming. I am doing this again. For the time being anyway.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I was doing weights until I got too pissed off by the high school kids trying to "work in" and left.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

is "working in" similar to "bitching out"?

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

i am on a phone conference!

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

sorry for interrupting you

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Re mem ber to e nun ciate very clear ly ad am.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i almost just got fired.for this basketball site we're doing, as jokey placeholder for a recipe page i wrote, "get these recipes and slam dunk them down your food hoop" and i accidentally forgot to change it and sent it to the client and they got mad.

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

well what do they expect having fucking recipes on a basketball site?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a recipe for TROUBLE

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

adam, alex, you guys know more about current electronic/dj stuff than i do, what do you make of this? it says "Black Rock-style breaks", so i'm assuming it's funkadelic/temptations type stuff, but then i got to the mighty website, and the website of the particular djs and it looks more like jazzy, house-y, "nu-breaks" type shit. is Black Rock a record label or something?

Groove
Playa favorites Space Cowboys are joining forces with the ladies of Sister SF every third Friday of the month (beginning Jan. 21) over at Mighty to help tide Bay Area "Burners" over until Labor Day. DJs from both of these much-loved local crews will take turns dishing out funky, Black Rock-style breaks at this cool, Potrero-adjacent dance den. Mighty, 119 Utah St., San Francisco. 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. $10. Read more at www.mighty119.com.

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

"get these recipes and slam dunk them down your food hoop"

MAYAHAHA

― Site Admistrator (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

"Burners" = Burning Man-types = avoid at all costs you filthy tripster

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

OMG U R + I M SO DUM: Black Rock is the town in Nevada where Burning Man takes place.

You should go bro, it'll be sick-ass groovin' with all the 30-something e-tard dot commers.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

set fire to this place please thanks ok bye

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

ew, terrible. soooooooooooooooooo glad i didn't go

― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

I will be playing 100% Black-Rock breaks exclusively during the Matmos DJ set tonight at the Make-Out room . . . the whole room with be aflame with the creative nourishing spirit that makes Burning Man such a magical, empowering exxxperience! Please come and share your stories, or just draw invisible boxes with your hands! free Vapo-Rub and Glo-Stix at the door for anyone with a persistent infection they caught in Nevada!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

what time is this starting? If I show up around 10:30 will I be able to breathe through the stench of dreads?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

The drum circle should be building to a chlamydia-baking crescendo just about then! Um, seriously, we are DJing there from 11pm to 12:30 or so, and I've made some new stuff to play out with, got some sublow and some fazey disco and the usal clomtarded favorites . . . might be fun, or we might suck. Sometimes we suck as DJs. but come and say hi or something, my ILM broheems.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

sublow! :)

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

well, some Jon E. Cash anyway, and some Search & Destroy stuff too.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

adam if you go to this I can pick you up and drive you home.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

I have my ATA meeting tonight! That's a sweet offer.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I have practice until about 10:30 but I'll just go by there afterward. we can communicate through the wonders of cellular technology

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Ceratinly, I would like to see Drew DJ.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Alcoholic Transvestites Anonymous?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

see you all theres

― (Jon L), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I will make an honest effort to attend.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Is this tomorrow at the Mighty? I'm kind of confused, sorry.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

tonight at the makeout room

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

http://home.comcast.net/~saellow/IMG_0983.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~saellow/IMG_0983.JPG

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

That's my fridge!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

"On to a perennial favorite in the burrito wars, Taqueria Cancún (2288 Mission St., 415/252-9560, $3), where huge slices of creamy avocado are tucked in each veggie burrito and the slightly crisp tortillas are warmed on the grill rather than steamed. But we also discover the occasional bits of gristle, enough to keep this one from perfection."

GRISTLE! Plus that poster would be better with the Virgin and some lowriders and girls in bikinis.

― svend (svend), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

WHERE IS THE STIGMATA?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weepingstatuesandicons.htm

sorry guys, i have to be up in 7 hours, i'm going to bed.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 January 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

"HEllo, I am Adam. I make plans to meet people in the MIssion to see Matmos DJ, but then I don't show up, and don't answer my cell phone, and come home and take pictures of my fridge. That is all."

― notadam (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Big ups to Kyle and Milton who came down and partied with us and the Unisexy posse- everyone else. . . . y'all missed out on Martin's Post It note pinned to his chest that said "NO I.L.M.!!!". Twas rather fun, especially when the bass made some of the ceiling tiles fall down on people on the dancefloor. It was lame when the cops came and we had to turn it down for a sec.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 28 January 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

This was lots of fun. I'm surprised Marty even allowed this to happen there, he never wants anything too loud to happen in his bar (I think partly because of that ceiling tile problem). Everyone who didn't show up = WEAKLINGS AFRAID OF PRECIPITATION.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

*raises hand sheepishly*

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"HEllo, I am Adam. I make plans to meet people in the MIssion to see Matmos DJ, but then I don't show up, and don't answer my cell phone, and come home and take pictures of my fridge. That is all."

?
Did you call me? Should I have called you? Did we make plans? Is this about me?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

adam if you go to this I can pick you up and drive you home.
-- kyle (akmonda...) (webmail), January 27th, 2005 11:47 PM. (akmonday) (link)
I have my ATA meeting tonight! That's a sweet offer.
-- adam.r.l. (adamr...) (webmail), January 27th, 2005 11:48 PM. (nordicskilla) (link)
I have practice until about 10:30 but I'll just go by there afterward. we can communicate through the wonders of cellular technology
-- kyle January 27th, 2005 11:49 PM.
Ceratinly, I would like to see Drew DJ.

-- adam.r.l. January 27th

Adam has no short term memory. but that's okay!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Are you mad at me? I got confused!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I promise not to burn you cottage down.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe you misread my tone of voice on some of that, not that I didn't want to see Drew DJ. It is sad that we still have this Transatlantic communication barrier between us.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I met another of your countrymen outside on the sidewalk who is also a film maker and was roughly your height. Although he smoked a lot of cigarettes and wanted to know what this Matmos bloke was all about and hoped there'd be a lot of big beats and heavy dancing. I never saw him the rest of the night. I guess Drew let him down!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Were there not enough "big beats"? WHY DREW WHY?!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

what is "roughly my height"?

Koh Samui and the Monkey - good for Valentine's Day?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

The website had a monkey on it and I couldn't resist making a tentative reservation! I love monkeys so much!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Could make for a classic comedy moment if you tell the wife about your monkey love on Valentine's.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

She's my WIFE, she knows about the monkey thing! She bought me a monkey and I called him Hymie, he's Jewish!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, I am going to Thep Phanom tonight. I haven't been to Koh Samui but I highly recommend Basil on Folsom.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

it is either 2 1/2 stars or 4 stars depending on which online reviews you read. it's probably good. It has the best name of any restaurant I've seen lately!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I just emailed you with a bunch of excuses.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i read them. they are acceptable!

"roughly your height" = "shorter than me"

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Does Hymie wear a talis and yamulka? Where do you get your kosher bananas?

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

what's Luna Park like? Where is somewhere kind of fun and Californian? With cocktails? But no Marina people.

xpost he is culturally Jewish more than anything

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

like me

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I find Luna Park disappointing. Have you been to The Public?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Luna Park is okay. No place exists that is Californian and has cocktails, but is not frequented by Marina people unfortunately.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Or bridge and tunnel people.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

:(

What's the public?

xp-hey!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Luna Park is very good around lunchtime. It's VERY VERY noisy at night which is my main problem with it. We eat at the Last Supper Club all the time (same owners at Luna Park) because my father in law made the bar and the tables in there; some people like it and some don't apparently.Anyway Luna Park is bad for valentine's day if that's what you're wondering about.

The Public is in SOMA. JaXon likes the waitresses.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

You should go to Suppenkuche. It's way better than any of the "Cali"-cuisine places that are springing to mind.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

the Public also apparently really noisy (I haven't eaten there. My wife gets to eat at all these places for work things though).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Last Supper Club has a decent enough brunch. I've been there when Boogaloos is too busy. I thought the one dinner I had there was terrible though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

JaXoN loves a Whole Foods girl.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/36408701/san_francisco_ca/the_public_restaurant_bar.html?cslink=search_name_noncust&ulink=search_2_searchslot1_520__0_profile_2_1

The food's good, there's a bar, and the waitstaff mostly seem to be hot little lesbians.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Suppenkuche

I can't go here anymore as I always stumble out in post-prandial stupor brought on by beer and the heaviness of German food.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

what is Bistro La Moone like? we had reservations for V. Day there last year but cancelled them because they told us they wouldn't have any vegetarian food that night (which I think was untrue).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I think the quality of the dinners at LSC has probably varied and actually gone downhill since they opened from what I've been told. We don't eat meat so it's always the same to me though, but most of the complaints I've heard have centered around meat dishes.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

"I can't go here anymore as I always stumble out in post-prandial stupor brought on by beer and the heaviness of German food."

That's why I love GOING there!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Not my cup of schnitzel and I don't know if this good for a romantic dinner.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i am excited to eat good san francisco food! SUSHI!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Enormous beers and bratwurst aren't romantic?!?! WTF is wrong with you Michael?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

gygax will sneer, but I had a good dinner at Tsunami last night. Have any of you been here? http://www.midorimushi.com/?

Alex, I'm a francophile snob. Also I don't find burping really puts me in the mood.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I think Suppenthingy sounds good.

Mark, we should do lunch sometime!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I've been to Midori Mushi many many times. It was great (by far the best sushi in the city for like a year or so) but they've been on the verge of closing and reopening so many times I don't know what to expect nowadays.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

hell yeah!

(hell xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I live right down the block from Tsunami. It's pretty good, but it's WAY too expensive (unless you hit the happy hour deals.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been, Alex, since last summer and it was wonderfully creative and tasty then, if a little tedious in it's self-congratulatory hipness.

It weren't cheap but it's within walking distance for us and my gf invited some friends who have helped us with moving shit while we are getting work done on our place as a thank you.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

The last time we went was last August, yeah, when they keep sending emails to us that it was going out of business. We should try it again though. I got really enraptured with the Hawaiian restaurant on Masonic about that point and I think it sorta ended up taking the place of sushi outings for a while.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Hawaiian? what kind of food is this?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Poke!!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Teriyaki! Roast pork! Mahi Mahi! Grilled White Fish! Sriracha! White Rice! Macaroni salad!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

SPAM MUSUBI!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

oh god spam.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Ubiquitous on the Sandwich Islands, dear boy.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I knew that, I think.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

A Hawaiian place just opened in Chicago. It looks pretty good. A Hawaii native I know was very excited.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Hukalau (which is the place I go to) is really really good. It competes well with the Pig & Whistle for best bar restaurant in my general area.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Where is it, Alex? My gf's dad takes us to Trader Vic's (which I find tiresome, overpriced, and gloopily mediocre) and they have poo poos and such, like the Tonga, but I don't know of any genuinely Hawaiian places in the City.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

It's on Masonic and Geary (where Eats used to be, right across the street from the Copper Penny.) The wait staff is constantly turning over so the service is sometimes shakey, but the food is always really good (esp. if you like meat.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Actually is the Copper Penny no longer called the Copper Penny now? Is it the Lucky Penny? Well either way it's across the street from that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

poo poos!

A Hawaii native I know was very excited.

Is that a fact?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

hi. i think all you guys get to work way before me. i'm always walking into conversations

Koh Samui and the Monkey. decent food, but not that nice looking or romantic.

Public. don't remember the food. do remember the women working there.

whole foods. i never see that girl anymore. probably for the best

Suppenkuche. good food and beer, but you have to share tables.

my favorite nice restaurant in the city right now is Town Hall (howard & 1rst?). it has fancy american (almost southern at times?) food and not another generic asian fusion place. has a really great eggs benedict type appetizer. kinda loud though

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I work from 8 to 4:30, JaXoN.

not that nice looking or romantic.

This is important to know! I will cancel then, but we'll go another time.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Is that a fact?

Yes! He was in the Hawaii/Austin/Chicago rock band POI DOG PONDERING. He might record the Canasta full-length, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait I just remembered a very good non-Marina California cuisine place. It's in Noe Valley on 24th St about 3 or 4 blocks away from Castro (in the non-Noe St direction.) I just called Jen and it's called Firefly.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Noe Valley is the brunette Marina, though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

True.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the Brunette Marina is upper Polk but Noe strikes me the same way. I like them both and I never end up going to either.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

thx Alex, I will take a look.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

can anyone answer my bistro la moone query? this might be somewhere for adam on v. day

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Never been, kyle, sorry.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

brunette marina is hot though. blone marina is just annoying.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

please no-one pay any attention to me at all today, I've had no sleep since I was waiting in the rain all night for adam to appear.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Were his excuses entertaining at least?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

he said he had nothing sexy to wear

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

what is this record? everytime i'm trying to scroll down the page i get stopped on it and it's so intriguing. why do you guys both know it?

http://www.webm8.co.uk/riddler/tunes/albums/shut_up_&_dance-dance_before_the_police_come.jpg

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

It's a proto-hardcore record by Shut Up and Dance (owners and operators of the Shut Up and Dance label and soundsystem and producers of the first Ragga Twins and Nicolette albums and responsible for "Raving, I'm Raving", "Derek Went Mad", "10 Pounds To Get In" amongst other classic.) It's quite good.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

It's also long out of print and impossible to find in the United States anyway.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I have it on MP3. It is one of the only records both me and my brother agree on! We used to have a copy of it on casette, but it is probably lost in my parents house somewhere.

I was waiting in the rain all night for adam to appear.

Don't say this!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm certain I have pneumonia now

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

You know, kyle, that adam will promise to go see you in the hospital and never show up.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

:'(

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Remember how much fun we had watching the England vs France game, adam?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

:'(

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm good at doing things really!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually sort of pleased we didn't wathc that England France game though, I can just see you gloating now, your mouth full of croissant as you balance on your little unicycle...

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

lets' watch the superbowl together!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I was supporting England nontheless. As were the Scot and the Irishman who came by to watch. Go figure.

What's the superbowl?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

the Scot and the Irishman who came by to watch.

Okay I DEFINITELY made the right decision.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Not that I actually remember making a decision.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

They're nice guys (one of them is a bartender at the Expansion) and I think they were more disappointed than I was, though not as much as we all were at Campbell's disallowed header vs. Portugal.

Don't know what I'm doing for the Superbowl. I went to my first Superbowl party in years last year and I may go to a friend's house this year. My gf will take advatage to do homey things and enjoy my being out of the house.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I still have yet to hear her speak and experience a genuine SF accent.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I think there will be a lot of dirty ads and sexy halftime stuff going on, from what I hear. Best to watch that filth away from the woman!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

my wife was born in SF, so you've experienced it. very exciting huh? actually english was like her third language so maybe not.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we will drive by on Sunday and then Alex In SF can take me to the Hawaiian restaurant. We have to be back in the Beast by 5, though.

?

ALSO s1ocki and friends are exhibiting-slash-performing at the SF Indie Opening Night Party at the Swedish American Music Hall next Thursday at 9. I am busy over the Bay until 10 but I am going to try and make it.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I tried to get into the playoffs and I just don't care about football that much anymore. It's weird 'cause I was fanatical as a kid.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I like how kyle's wife speaks. Michael said some thing about how his girlfriend was an Nth-generation San Franciscan and she had this excotic accent.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I liked the halftime show that had Aerosmith, Britney, and Nelly. That is my favorite ever halftime show.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

my workmate is trying to talk me into going to a Whales N' Wine festival in Mendocino.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

No, I didn't. She found a paper on San Francisco speak and we recognized many of the patterns and sayings. She speaks normal NoCal English.

xxpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

oh, sorry!

See? I get confused easily. It's not my fault.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

It is sad that we still have this Transatlantic communication barrier between us.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

aka I BITCHED OUT

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

my workmate is trying to talk me into going to a Whales N' Wine festival in Mendocino.

Maybe Joanna Newsom will be there.
http://www.bayareabuzz.net/pastissues/0305mayjune/cdreviews/cdr_0305/joannanewsom_130.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Her grandfather is mayor.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Damn you, woman!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

are you damning your beloved Joss Stone?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know who Joss Stone is! All I know is it is a pink CD that Sarah asked for (and received!) at Xmas!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

She loves her mp3 cd player though! She says she understands MP3 culture now. I made her a big CD with lots of stuff I thought she'd like on it but she just listens to the Streets. She says that keren ann has mean, depressing songs and that Annie is vain for writing a song like "Chewing Gum" about herself.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

keren ann is MEAN? she is a tender flower and I love her

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

And then she asked me to burn her a CD for the gym and I asked her what she wanted on it and she said "it doesn't matter as long as Say My Name is on it". Say My Name has been (by request) on practically every mix I have EVER made for her!

xp Sarah says she has some song about a guy dying in a fire

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha.

I put Lose My Breath and Soldier on my wife's Ipod and that was all she listened to for days and then she felt somewhat brainwashed and had to detox from pop music.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

isn't Say My Name a much more narcissistic song than Chewing Gum?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Actually she always asks for Say My Name and Keep On Moving by forgotten British boyband 5ive.

xp yes! But I think it's because Chewing Gum refers specifically to "Annie" whereas Say My Name is more ambiguous/universal?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

how does she feel about "Drop it LIke It's Hot?"

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

She hates Snoop.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

She hates anyone who tizzalks like thizzis.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Awww. I would like to meet your wife. Sometime.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Like that Target ad where the woman goes "fo'shizzle my nizzle", she hates that.

xp you might!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

a woman says that in a Target ad? I mean, is it now okay to use the "n-word" as long as it's in Snoop-speak?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Didn't you read that Nina Gordon thread?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh jesus no. Do I look like I care about Nina Gordon? i mean I know she's on your Audioscrobbler and all.....

Also, a target ad is different than a song released by a white woman.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Do I look like I care about Nina Gordon?

To me, you are the walking definition of "probably still cares about nina gordon"!!!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

i don't really have an opinion on it at all, I'm just surprised Target would do anything that might make them a "target for criticism" oh hahahaha

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

nina gordon - "straight outta compton"

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I have never, ever cared about Nina Gordon. I mean I wish her the best and all, a long life, many good dinners, relaxing weekends, a healthy and fulfilling sex life. But that's about all.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

She seems like one of those people that I would diss in front of you and you would turn, wounded, silently look to the horizon and say "her music and her soul are heartbreakingly beautiful to me".

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Letters to Cleo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> veruca salt

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

And then two days later you would send me an email that says "and she is hot".

xp

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I would only do that to make you feel uncomfortable and ashamed of yourself, but I wouldn't really mean it.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Kyle, I don't know who or what "Letters To Cleo" is.

hahaha!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Well you have a lot to learn about your power pop, junior!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't really know what power pop is! Deosn't it just mean "indie"?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet Kyle now, too. Adam always makes him sound so amusing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Adam: Cheap Trick is the quintessential power-pop band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Kyle is funny but you need me to be there to make him seem amusing.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I know a Cheap Trick song. I think it's called "The Flame".

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

how about Cheap Trick's "Surrender":
Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

time for a new thread?

xp-sounds good!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Thought Police?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

or the That 70s Show soundtrack

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Is it a power ballad? I love power ballads. My favorite is probably "High Enough" by Damn Yankees and Sarah likes the one that is the theme to Karate Kid II that goes "I am the one who will fight for your honor".

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh not is' I am the man who will fight for your honor.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

oh actually it's just The Karate Kid theme

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

And it's called Glory Of Love by...Peter Cetera????

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

What I'm basically telling you is that we clean the house to REO Speedwagon.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Blast your eyes, adam, for putting that hideous tune into my fragile psyche.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought you said your house was piles of bills and unwashed dishes.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Not any more! I did all the washing up while Sarah was asleep and then have sorted (almost) everything else out over the last week. I feel almost together now!

Our house is nice!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Here is our front door and porch!

Picture thread: show me a picture of your front door

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Your porch is a cute!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! Imagine that with a gate on it and now there is creepy ovy stuff running all over the top of that this (there's a technical word for it I've forgotten) and we have some plants and flowers on the steps now and off on the patio (to the right of the picture) we have some garden furniture. I really like our house, I'm still not sure I'd want to leave it yet.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

ivy not ovy

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

thing not this

Sorry, I justdrank a lot of coffee

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

We wandered about our new apartment yesterday making plans and stuff. It's very cute.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

making plans!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

For where we were put things and what we need to buy as far as furnishings go. PLANS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Also which room would be the most fun to play CLUE in.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

We all expect to be invited to the hosuewarming, Alex.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Kyle said he was going to have a housewarming party and never did. Goddamn flakes!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Also - I was asking Alex this but do any of you know the really OLD deli on Geary just off of Union Sq? I was asking Alex. It is old and it has a sign in the window which basically says "read how OLD we are!!".

I expect maybe Michael would know?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

David's? If I go down there during the day, I emerge from Lefty's slightly temulent. If I go down there at night, I'm going to the theater, so I don't really know what's down there.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I walked by there once, think it said mid 1950's was that old.

― svend (svend), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

err wasn't

― svend (svend), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Also, adam, go back to Caledonia.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

hi svend! Yes I guess so!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

go back to Caledonia

Not because you're old! which you aren't! But because Alex doesn't know and Kyle is vegetarian and gygax and JaXoN don't seem like deli people? And I don't know svend well enough to guess at his food habits.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I know of a Jewish deli on Geary called David's. It's expensive and not very good.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

But it seems very 60's to me so I don't know if that's the one.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that is it. And woah, sounds like a place to avoid:

http://www.fudcourt.com/davids.html

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

And I don't know svend well enough to guess at his food habits.

Actually, sorry svend, I just realized I'm just assuming you're a guy. And maybe you're not.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

It's not Lefty O'Douls is it? Cuz that's the hofbrau I was thinking of. It's ancient.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

no. it's David's

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

we were going to have a housewarming, but we don't really have any time. I think the last date we thought about was Feb. 4th but then i assumed you would be going to grime night at Nickie's and wouldn't make it anyway; and also, we are really lazy and don't have our place together yet. We did get another bookcase though so hopefully we'll have the last of our boxes whittled down shortly.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

For some reason NY Deli doesn't travel well. Maybe you need curmudgeonly people from the old country to get in your face about the service and the quality but every time I've been to these kinds of places in L.A. or S.F., they end up a little too chilled out California-style and they put weird-ass shit on their menus or, like David's, they're just tourist traps.

Lefty's rules!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

What is the oldest restaurant in SF? I went to a steakhouse with no windows somewhere that was very old. Has anyone been to ALfred's?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

The oldest restuarant in SF used to be, uh, that grill on California, or so claimed. It closed. It's by the Tadich Grill. Which maybe now claims it's the oldest? I can't fucking remember.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I was right: It's the Tadich Grill, which claims to be the oldest restaurant in all of California. I walked by in only an hour ago.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

I was right: It's the Tadich Grill, which claims to be the oldest restaurant in all of California. I walked by it
only an hour ago.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

spot the difference b/w those posts and win a penny

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Alfred's is great fun but it's now in an alley off of Kearny. Halleck or Commercial. I don't remember. The oldest restaurant concern in SF is Tadich's but it's moved a couple of times since 1853. Jeanty at Jack's is in the spot where the old Jack's was, (I loved that place, but I'm weird) and that's been around since 1864. The Saloon, a bar on Grant Ave. is from the 1860's.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Jeanty is meh. I went there once. The dessert was good. I'm a terrible reference on any of these things since I don't eat meat (wow I've mentioned that like 50 times today. It's not a big deal). It's a cute space though.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

did Sear's Fine Foods reopen?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I think I'd like Alfred's. Can I get a big fat steak and a Sidecar there? What is it like inside?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

"For some reason NY Deli doesn't travel well."

Have you been to East Coast West deli on Polk, Michael? I'm not gonna say it's the equal of Katz or Second Ave, but it's definitely in the same ballpark.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Moishe Pippics is pretty good, but it's definitely more Chicago style.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

You'd love Alfred's adam. Sear's did re-open, I believe. The weird thing about Jeanty at Jack's is that it is mediocre whereas Bistro Jeanty in Rutherford, or wherever, is quite good.

I'll have to check out East Coast West. Thanks, Alex. Has anybody here ever eaten a sandwich from May's on 14th at Market?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

had anyone ever actually eaten at Julius' Castle? I didn't even know this place existed until last year. I have a feeling it is rancid.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Does "Chicago style" mean "cheap"?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Chicago style means more sausages and hot dogs and slightly different coleslaw and potato salad as far as I can tell.

I've never been to May's. I usually do Quincy's for my lunchtime sandwich fix. That place has been there for eons.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I thought it meant "from behind".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

had anyone ever actually eaten at Julius' Castle? I didn't even know this place existed until last year. I have a feeling it is rancid.

i have a direct view of it during the week.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

somehoe I have managed to never even see it!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

I would still like to hear from someone who has eaten or would like to eat at EITHER of these fine Oakland establishments:

http://www.fodors.com/rants/rrread.cfm?destination=oakland@618&class=Restaurants@20002&entity_id=49253&property=EVERETT%20AND%20JONES@181803&sort=name&pg=1

http://www.tjsgingerbread.com/

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

i sound functionally illiterate in my last post. I'm sorry.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I know I link to the Gingerbread House often but still haven't been...I'm sorta obsesses with it!

Also Spencer that was funny!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

i've been in Everett & Jones'. One night while REALLY REALLY REALLY shitfaced on tequila.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

tell us more!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

anyone ever actually eaten at Julius' Castle

It's supposed to be Ok but astronomically priced. My friend who lives up on Telegraph Hill loves to go to their little bar and have drinks.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

we went to Dalva in SF, myself, two other guys, and this girl; we got really really hammered, we drove back to Berkeley, we went to my apartment, we drank tequila, we drove to Everett & Jones', I swear PEOPLE PULLED FLAMING PIECES OF MEAT OUT OF THE WALLS WHICH WERE FILLED WITH FIRE, we eat said pieces of meat, went to someone's house way up in the hills, we had a "tequila drink off", it got down to me and one other guy, everyone else had vomited copiously, we finished the bottle, then he pulled a fucking bottle out of NOWHERE with exactly one shot left, challenged me to drink it by saying "if you don't drink that, you are a pussy and everything you say is bullshit!" I didn't drink it, I did pass out, I was hungover for two days.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

oh, actually I've heard you tell that before. At the start it sounds like it's going to be some sort of weird orgy or something!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm really not sure how I remember any of that. I think only because I retold the story so many times.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

i only tell the orgy part to people I trust

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Everett & Jones': "WE PULL FLAMING PIECES OF MEAT OUT OF THE WALLS WHICH ARE FILLED WITH FIRE"

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

You obtained a manly story of heroic drinking with which to regale your friends, so it was worth it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I am going on a work outing to Whole Foods on monday.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I've been to a couple of BBQ places in Oakland, but I don't think I've been to Everett & Jones. The ones my friends drag me to are always in the worst neighborhoods for some reason (and really really good.) I haven't been to one in a while, but I make up for it by eating at Brother-In-Laws once in a while. YUM.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

dalva = ew.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

dalva used to be great!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Brother In Laws = ew too, I can smell that from my apartment :(

― svend (svend), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I have a manly story of heroic drinking that involves myself, Chuck Tatum and a Las Vegas dance club with cages suspended from the ceiling that have poles inside them.

It's actually not how it sounds but I like momentarily giving the impression that it is how it sounds.

I can't hear people talk in Dalva.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

this was actually the night Dalva opened unless I'm totally mistaken

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

you can't hear people talk on message boards, if your nonappearance last night is anything to go by!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I said sorry!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I used to like Dalva. I haven't been out in the Mission for almost a year.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

I just found my phone and the battery had run out.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

I tend to like my bars really divey or really swank. Most everything in between I find wanting somehow.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

if you plug it in, it will recharge the battery. (xpost)

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

don't know where the plug is.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

recommend a swank bar, Michael

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.meuricehotel.com/uk/pr-bar.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

what is it?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

where are the ridiculous swank hotel bars in this city?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Seriously. Hmmm.

High End: Four Seasons, Le Colonial

Mid-Level: Brazen Head, Washbag

Dive: Expansion, Danny's (RIP), 500 Club, Smitty's (in Sausalito)

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

le colonial is barely bar-like though.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

The picture is of the bar in the Meurice in Paris. My gf, who is travel agent, and I toured the hotel with one of the sales reps and had a drink in there. My martini only cost 21 Euros.

xpost

Yeah (re: Le Colonial), but in the early evening, you can go up to the bar or go out onto the terrace, which is nice. SF has very fashionable bars but few really swank ones. Apropos of nothing, I like the drinks at Le Central.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

My all time favorite is probably the Big Four in the Huntington.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

There is a dive bar in Sausalito? I HAVE to go!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

WAITWAITWAIT...step back. Your girlfriend is a travel agent?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Let's be friends!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

You mean you and her, right?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

If you're into that.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

are travel agents becoming obsolete with online booking now?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

She's certainly not. I think online booking weeded out alot of the smaller mom and pop places. She does mostly corporate and high-end travel and the place she works for is doing better than ever.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm high-end!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, Sarah can hook you up with all the science textbooks you could ever need!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha. When I first met her my ex-wife and I turned down a quote she gave us 'cause we found something $20.00 cheaper.

all the science textbooks you could ever need

Do they burn well?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Some of them have plasticky covers. But some have sex pictures in them!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Burning sex pictures!! It's a heat source and an auto da fé.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

where are the ridiculous swank hotel bars in this city?

ritz carlton dining room

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

The Ritz is OK and the Fairmont's bar is OK but they're both somewhat anonymous. Michael Mina's is quite swank but the bar's not a great place for anything more than a couple.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm one of those people who think that they fucked up the Redwood Room.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

we went in there with adam and wife and we were like, "uh what the fuck happened here?" there's like, no fucking bar any more. FUck that shit.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

The old RR was one of the places my gf seduced me.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

ewwwww

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

How did she do it, Michael? Did she offer you an upgrade?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

With her wit and charm, naturally.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

oh

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

How did your wife seduce you? Pornographic science texts strewn in trail to her door?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

DON'T YOU GUYS EVER WORK!!!

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

She gave me a cigarette and she let me share her umbrella and I took the tag off of it as we walked in the Norfolk rain.

xp nah

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

GET ONE I.M. CHAT!!!!!

― El Janko (JasonD), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

can't!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Jason!? YUO ARE A TREAT!

Kisses.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

won't

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

ADAM ADAM IT IS "I AM A KNIGHT WHO WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR HONOUR"!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 January 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

oh YEAH! thanks!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Is this hostility related to the basketball recipes?

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

jaXon what is your IM name?

I don't work this week, because the boss is on vacation, and my manager went home to deal with his pregnant girlfriend, and the only other person remotely in charge just went drinking.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

She gave me a cigarette and she let me share her umbrella and I took the tag off of it as we walked in the Norfolk rain.

you smoked?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Is this hostility related to the basketball recipes?

YOU DON'T EVEN FUCKING KNOW!!!

jaXon what is your IM name?

soularfone

― El Janko (JasonD), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

You didn't know that? For many, many years!

xp

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

It's sounds very poetic in a mildewy, English way. Was any tea consumed?

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

no, don't drink tea.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Is that legal in Britain?

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't know.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

You carefree rogue, you.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

You sound like ned!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of travel, the woman next to me is making her vacation plans to go to Crete. She's on the phone now! It's annoying me.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

'Cause you're not going?

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I hate nothing more than hearing my coworkers plan their fucking vacations. Who the fuck are you to go somewhere when I can't afford to? You're going to Tahoe for the 10 weekend in a row? You're going to Hawaii for the third time this year? GO TO HELL I KNOW YOU MAKE LESS THAN ME, WHY DOES YOUR FAMILY PAY YOUR BILLS???

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I just don't like to think of other people travelling! I'm a bastard, you see.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Haha, she just referred to "solving the dliemma of where to go this summer"! I wish I had dilemmas like that!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Or more properly, "Why doesn't your family pay for my travel?"

xpost

I dunno, adam, there seem to be a lot of people here who I think should go on a Bible study excursion to Fallujah for their (and my) health.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

that is actually intriguing

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

my boss just gave me a lemon and left

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

How ambiguous.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

What is that about "when life hands you a lemon"?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Make lemon drops, right?

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

He also lent me Finding Nemo even though I don't want to see it again. He told me I have "hair like a matinee idol". Should I be scared?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

I just beat Germany 5-0 and Ireland 4-1. I am a paragon of productivity today.

I doubt it. At first I read that as manatee idol and thought you were like the Jesus of the sea cows.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 29 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I can't keep up here, but wayyy upthread:

The Ritz is OK and the Fairmont's bar is OK but they're both somewhat anonymous.

Wow, I don't think I could disagree more strongly about the Ritz: it's gorgeous, has the best true bartenders in SF, I'll chalk it up to a difference of taste.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 29 January 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I like all bars.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 29 January 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I like Alberta at the Orbit Room, she is crazily great.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 29 January 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

Spencer, let's go to the Lucky Lounge!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 January 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

"I like Alberta at the Orbit Room, she is crazily great."

I am absolutely positive I know who you are talking about.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 29 January 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

BIG COMPLAINT FOLLOWS:

We ate at Lalime's in Berkeley last night. Food was fine. Here was the problem: we were given a $100 American Express "Be My Guest" gift card for use in restaurants by a relative.
It's supposed to be accepted in places that take AE, which they do. After dinner, they brought the check, it was $103. So, I put down this clearly marked $100 card and my check card, and was goig to ask them to but 100 on the gift card, and the rest on my check card, and I'd put the tip on my check card also, but they picked it up before I could say anything. They bring it back; they split it between cards. I was like, "well, that was dumb, but whatever, we'll just pay half" but Ani wanted them to adjust it. I didn't really care, but she flagged the waiter down and asked him to.
He looked at it, and say, "oh, I didn't realize, okay," then went off
with the cards. Two minutes later, the manager comes over.
"I'm sorry, we don't take these."
Me: "What?"
"Gift cards."
Me: "Uh, well you just DID, you put half the bill on it."
"Yes we can take them, but the owner doesn't want me to. The waiter didn't know."
Me: "Why?"
"I don't know. He just has a thing. People come in with bank of america gift cards....What do you want to do?" (I have no idea what she meant by this, btw)
Me: "Well, I think that's FUCKED (trying not to turn into Alex in NYC at this point), that's what I think. You can obviously take them, you put half on there, what's the problem?"
"We credited the card," she says.
There were some more exchanges where she basically just stood there and stared at us. Finally I said okay, whatever, put it on my credit card, but I'm never coming here again and I'll tell everyone how you handled internal communication problem on YOUR end. She goes
off, she brings it back. I look at the bill for the first time....
they charged us for an appetizer they never brought!

So as I"m walking out I said to the waiter, "Uh, you never brought
this, and it's on the bill." "Oh, I guess I can wrap it up for you."
"You know what? Forget it." And we left.

So what was a nice night will forever be tainted by this crappy memory.

SOMEONE TELL ME I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY ANGER.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

sorry for all the typos

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

also in all my anger I inadvertantly took all the signed credit card slips. I wonder if the charge will still go through.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 30 January 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

"They bring it back; they split it between cards."

Apparently this is standard industry practice, BUT otherwise my girlfriend says you are totally justified in feeling righteous anger (esp. at the Manager who was a completely inflexible fuckwit.) She is currently praying to the wait table Gods to strike the unbelievers down.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

you should've demanded they refund you for the appetizer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha yeah at that point what have you got to lose.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 January 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

well I was already angry, it's a small place, the manager's station is the middle of the tables, I didn't want to make a scene. I thought it best to leave before I yelled.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

seriously though, you should NEVER pay for something they don't bring to your table (i'll stop harping on it now)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

ok unrelated: any recommendations for a good sf culture/tourism/eating guidebook? since i'll be there for about 10 days i figure it makes sense to bring one along. lonely planet? rough guide? thoughts?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Haha beats me. I seriously doubt any guidebook is better than the collective power of ILX though. When I travel though I usually use Rough Guides if I can.

On a completely unrelated to that note: MEMPHIS MINNIES now does a weekend brunch and oh baby what a brunch it is. Great great great biscuits and gravy and also phenomenal BBQ brisket hash. Seriously puts most of the breakfast places I visit to shame. Tell your friends!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I like the Time Out guides. Maybe Rough Guide is a better read?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

i'll probably take whatever i see in the bookstore!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Actually I had a Time Out guide in Paris (there was no regular sized Rough Guide for Paris or someone gave us a Time Out instead, I don't remember) and it was pretty guide despite being obv pitched at someone whose social class and shopping tendency were a bit higher end then my own.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

time out - for eton boys

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

i've alwyas been ok with lonely planet guides on my travels, despite some errors (one of which left me standing confusedly in the middle of a field in denmark, looking for a non-existent hostel). but rough guides and time outs seem more fun, especially that i've got my accommodation already figured out.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

i always get the time out guides. I've never looked at the SF one though

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

i always find it amusing to look at the guides for my own city--it's actually a pretty good way to gauge a guide's worthiness

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)Eton boy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

i mean, i think it's a good way. i've never actually been smart enough to go about evaluating a guide in this way.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Do you read the Observer and the TIMES, Kyle? ;)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 31 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

I have the SF one. I like it.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

i don't care about current events! i read US magazine!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

the what adam? the time out?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 January 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm flying out from London Heathrow in a couple of hours to see my brother in San Francisco. I'll be staying there for a week.

http://adi.brainspace.info/upload/upload_files/passport1.jpg
http://adi.brainspace.info/upload/upload_files/passport2.jpg

These are my passport photos, they're only a couple of weeks old, so if you see me walking about looking lost please say hello!

― Patrick Allan (adr), Monday, 31 January 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

Bored bored bored.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Me too. At least the weather's going to be nice at lunch.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Woo hoo! I inspect my new apartment at lunchtime.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I'll manage to avoid knowing the score before I go to the Dog to see the replay of Arsenal vs. that team that adam likes?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

when do you move in?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Next Monday.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Have they had it cleaned/painted/restored/renovated?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes. It looks very nice (Adam saw it he can attest to this fact!) but I still want to give a complete look over before I sign and mail in the inspection form.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

It's right around the corner from your work, right? Lucky bastardo.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's just three blocks away. If I don't figure out another way of getting exercise I am gonna get so fat haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Adam, is that your brother?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

It almost could be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

He's cute, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Chicago is a nice place to visit, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Can I wait 'til the weather is less inclement?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

I just realized that it's probably no less creepy if I hit on guys, and perhaps more so, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I believe you have carte blanche to hit on adam's brother though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Okay, good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Nick (I think that's his name) has a slightly more angular face, as I recall.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I'll manage to avoid knowing the score before I go to the Dog to see the replay of Arsenal vs. that team that adam likes?

Oh well. Still, sounds like I'll enjoy watching it anyway.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

everyone I work with has been "sick" and either not come into work or gone home early over the past two days because it is nice outside. I did it myself yesterday. Perhaps I will get sick again this afternoon.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

will this do it?
THE MOST NSFW OF ALL THE NSFW EVER (TINY BROWSER WINDOW TIME)

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Is Adam not supposed to be posting to ILX today?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

(He popped up on an ILM thread under the name "adam posting anonymously" and later "you did not see me and we are not having this conversation")

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

He hasn't posted much in days. Work?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

i'm sorry to tell you all that adam is in jail

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

That's no excuse!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Is it San Andreas related?

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm flying in tomorrow to bust him out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

don't bitch out mark

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Is anybody going to the last SF luna show?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Dean Wareham ex-Galaxie 500 = Luna?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Yes to Dean Wareham being in luna. No to the show, leaving for the weekend and it seems they have been here a lot lately.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kidkameleon.com/images/webchoon.jpg

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Yup. I'm the rara avis that prefers Luna (though I love Galaxie 500), mostly 'cause I've seen and followed them for so many years. Playing at the Fillmore.

xpost

Last show, svend. Final tour.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but he'll tour solo or something again. Im going to in the closet right now and find his Anesthesia single, it is in some box.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to that this morning.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure he'll tour with Britta but as I said, I'll miss Sean Eden on guitar.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Fuck this shit I am starting a new SF thread!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Por Favor

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

but but but... id Damon and Naomi come I'll go to that ..

― svend (svend), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Use this now:

Talking Even More Smack In SF

― Don't Bitch Out in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

is it normal for the male prostitutes on polk to freely, verbally solicit women? yes i said women...

"oh girl, you gorgeous! won't you talk to me? okay girl you come back here if you decide you want to talk to me, you know i'll be right here." this was hollered at a woman walking alone. by a dude you would have expected to be soliciting dudes.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Saturday, 24 December 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

When I was 16 I drove into the city to go to some movie at the Lumiere and I parked in this area that was like male hooker central. My car got rammed from the back while it was parked and I ended up having to wait for a tow truck at 1:00 AM. My g/f and I met some special people during that TWO HOUR WAIT for my dad to come into SF to pick us up. I can still smell the urine. I really haven't went back down there since then and I live in SF now :). That was back when NaNa's was stuck inbetween those porn shops.

― svend (svend), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Fuck JT Leroy and his bullshit. He lives here in the Mission with Argento, Adam.

-- Alex in SF

I guess that turned out to not be true

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. Alex hates being wrong!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is a year old?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

time to retire it. maybe there's another one?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, new SF thread plz, k thx bye

― JT LEROY (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I hear great rolling thunder-like cacophony from here in my aerie and looking out, realized it's the firecrackers reverberating through the streets of Chinatown. Gung hay fat choy, everybody.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've never understood how they can have firecrackers and I can't. It's part of my culture, too.

― andy ---, Monday, 30 January 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

It might even be more a part of my culture 'cause I used to blow up shit all year long when I was a kid, not just for New Year's.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I read in SF this is a school holiday. True?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, it isn't true. Kids didn't go to school on Friday though.

http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=calendars.instructional.q2

― svend (svend), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

anyone can get firecrackers, yo! it's called chinatown.

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Washington Post is a liar.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/09/MNG29HLABU3.DTL

Anyone have any more news on this? My g/f was down about that area and sez that it's crawling with CIA/FBI types.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit!! I work right near there, but I got to work about an hour earlier

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I got off at Montgomery but I didn't see shit. I left the station at 8:50 though. DID THE TERRORIST DO IT?

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

maybe its a V for Vendetta promo stunt

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've had a couple incidences in the last two weeks where BART trains were held up because dikwads were running through the tunnels... everytime some jackass runs through there, they have to send an inspection crew.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I get off at Montgomery too. But I start work at 7:30.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

my first instinct would be that a fire is not terrorism-related - explosion, strange gas okay maybe, but a fire has plenty more pedestrian explanations that seem more likely.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Terrorists are never going to give a shit about SF!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

well in Cali San Diego is the primo military target, and LA is more high profile (but also more spread out and thus harder to severely cripple) - SF's only real targets are the bridges...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Well, hasn't there been a few PG&E underground explosions in the last couple years? They're the real terrorists.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah there was a previous one at Crocker-Amazon.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Plus SF is all liberals... why would you wanna bomb liberals?

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

No wait it was at the Crocker Galleria. Ignore me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

There was also an explosion at the Mission St. substation near the old Guitar Center, and it turned out to be the handiwork of an employee. But that was like 6 years ago.

― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that was like a boiler that blew or something.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently it was a trash fire.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

the terrorists area after our trash!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure if I can swing down to SF after Seattle this year, but if I do I'm thinking July 8:

http://sfeagle.com/MudwrestlingIndex.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Heh the Eagle.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

We could settle this Spielberg beef there, buddy!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I doubt it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i was invited to the eagle tonight

― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

at the Sunday beer blasts I do things I don't in NY, like chat with strippers. They have bands on Thursday, yeah?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

the Eagle's great!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

we're playin Cafe Du Nord (I'll also be doin a little DJin) - will hands down be the most happenin thing goin Monday night...

THE SOCIETY OF ROCKETS
THE OTHERSIDE
THE BOARS

Monday, 4/24
Doors: 8:00 pm
$8.00 21+

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

NY Times food writer Mark Bittman went bananas over the eats at the Ferry Building, esp this place... confirmation?

BOULETTES LARDER 415-399-1155; Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Breakfast or lunch, Sunday through Friday, $20 to $50. Dinner after 7 requires special arrangements.

I wish the place could put in a few more tables and acknowledge our God-given right to eat this food any time of day or night right on the spot. This is no-holds barred California food, done well. The problem is that the place is all kitchen, fully functioning and very capable, and there's no room for niceties like tables (there are one indoor table and seven patio tables).

Despite this, and despite the relatively high prices, this is a fabulous place. If it were a real restaurant it would be unbelievable. There are dark-braised short ribs, cabbage stuffed with pork, seasonal fruit galettes, roasted lamb shoulder with lacinato kale (the best kale there is), rice balls, nettles and other salads pretty much entirely made from northern California ingredients. And great desserts, and supremely rich hot chocolate. And good French press coffee.

Much more, too: the stuff that makes a menu great. It's straightforward but cooked with care and, dare I say it, love.

The shop also sells ingredients, and most of them are delicious: wild pine nuts, near-ideal eggs, schmaltz (outside of New York!), amazing marzipan, house-made English muffins.

And there is, or was on a morning last month, the best breakfast dish I've had in, um, maybe ever. It consisted of freshly made yogurt from local organic milk; hand-rolled couscous (something I thought only Paula Wolfert was nutty enough to tackle); house-made harissa, brick-red and only mildly spicy; and two of those eggs, perfectly poached. Presumably, there was some local butter in there as well. This was a creation that made me happy not only to be in Northern California but just plain alive.

It was served, as I wish all the food at Boulettes Larder could be, at the sole, if large, indoor table, the one that is only set for diners at breakfast, lunch and special-occasion dinners (that is, when you reserve the whole place). Otherwise, it closes at 7 (3 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday, if you can believe that!).

So it's best to think of Boulettes as just about the best takeout food you can get, at near-restaurant prices. And that's the other rub: its not unusual for a takeout meal to run you $30 or even $40 a person, which hurts just a bit.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Schwantz' wife worked there for awhile.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

my wife had a business lunch there and said it was great.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been there but it did sound pretty great - she quit before I could come by and scam for free shit tho. I think she left cuz the Hungarian owner was a bit nutty.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

that's outta my price range. but i like the ferry building (especially the saturday farmer's market!)

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

That place has received very inconsistent reviews, I haven't read any recent ones though since they've opened up table service.

I'm not a fan of the Ferry Building (with the exception of access to the Angel Island Ferry).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

LULU PETITE

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

this long-time lurker's girlfriend needs a place in san francisco badly. anybody need roomates? 25, likes italo disco, tennis, architecture, etc. nice girl.

she actually works right by the ferry building, so i'll get her to go to boulettes larder and give us her verdict..

― babedad, Sunday, 22 July 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

if she's so great why doesn't she move in with you? or did you kick her out?

― akm, Sunday, 22 July 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago)

it's like complicated man.. i don't have a car and i work in san ramon so it'd be a bitch dealing with that

― babedad, Sunday, 22 July 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

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