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My brother bought a house in Portland so I'm helping him move this Friday. I think we are all subdued AND excited. It will be sad that I won't see him every weekend but he's a first time home owner and Portland to me seems like an awesome city.

And I'm not biased because Sleater-Kinney is based there and I might have a teeny chance of running into Carrie Corin or Janet when I visit him (and I will be there whenever S-K or the Gossip perform there). And I'm not biased cause of the great food and vinyl stores. Nor the awesome landscape and the cool bridges of Willmette.

We're going to put all his stuff in a 14 foot U-Haul and attach his roadster (in Portland?) on the trailer and take two days to get up there.

danceable post-punk post-riot grrrl feminist rock

that is all



oh wait Erase Errata is performing at the Bottom of the Hill on May 30th. God I love San Francisco.

asian food

twice this week I overheard people say, "asian food" as in "Do you want to get asian food?" or "How about asian food?"

more photos

a few more from the last 2 months or so. They are in reverse alphabetical order.

a photo essay of the last two weeks or so

goodbye tomato basil

My local soup place... the San Francisco Soup Company has their regular lineup of soups but also a daily rotation of others as well. I've been enjoying the tomato basil for the longest time but lately... lately it been a bit too salty. And today's soup, they must have changed the recipie so that it's chunkier.

Maybe it was the novelty of eating spaghetti sauce as a soup but sadly it has come to an end. I will still enjoy it over pasta, but not like this.

Erase Errata

I've been fascinated/hooked/amazed by Erase Errata, an all female band from San Francisco that's a little bit of post-punk/funk/experimental/no wave/bizarre/something. They "use" atonal sounds and each song sounds really disjointed (sorry I know so little about music) but they almost always have a funkass bassline, sharp guitars and vocals that are spastic.

I think if they laid out their songs on paper one might think that, yes, THEORETICALLY it might work, but actually IT DOES WORK. The more I listen to them, the better they get. If you want to sample check out At the Palace which is more refined than their first full length album, Other Animals.

They are touring in Japan at the moment (surprise) but I really hope they will perform regularly in San Francisco.


Check out some samples from Tower Records (I recommend Ca. Viewing, Go to Sleep, Surprise It's Easter):

http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2894188