Sonic Youth @ The Independent August 3, 2009

1. No Way
2. Sacred Trickster
3. Calming the Snake
4. World Looks Red
5. Walkin Blue
6. Poison Arrow
7. Anti-Orgasm
8. Silver Rocket
9. Malibu Gas Station
10. Antenna
11. Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
12. Massage the History
13. White Cross

offstage @ 11:10 PM

Encore:
14. What We Know
15. Expressway To Yr Skull
Encore 2:
16. Brother James
17. Death Valley ‘69

Sonic Youth Setlist @ Fox Theatre Show 8/2/09

1. Tom Violence
2. No Way
3. Sacred Trickster
4. Calming the Snake
5. Hey Joni
6. Anti-Orgasm
7. Walkin Blue
8. Poison Arrow
9. Malibu Gas Station
10. Antenna
11. Leaky Lifeboat
12. Massage History
13. Stereo Sanctity
Encore:
14. What We Know
15. Shadow of a Doubt
Encore 2:
16. The Sprawl
17. 'Cross the Breeze

Karma has you...

After a night of karaoke, Long Islands and conducting further assessments leading nowhere, I couldn't muster up the energy to get to work on time. So what does one hungover beezy do after a filling corned beef hash breakfast?!


Play tourist in her own damn city!

First of July calls for searching for cheap cigarettes in Chinatown, Fast Passes, Bi-Rite Creamery run, thirft store and bookstore goodness on Valencia, burritos at Papalote, adult onesie hunt on 24th and Castro, sticker power at Japantown and ending with Ice Age in 3D with Mr. Steven.

The fun doesn't stop there with me. I conversed with Rhianne over Tecate and soju goodness I picked up from the Korean food mart. Met up with Rodolfo @ Badlands where I lost my phone in the bathroom. Damn, distracting Best Mariah Carey song posts! I gotta stop texting in the bathroom because this is how I lost my beloved phone! What a better time than a Holiday weekend and so close to my birthday to lose my phone.

And that's how karma has me...FUCK!

Bat for Lashes Opener

'I taste the black/I taste the white/I taste the brown/I taste the Filipino.'

Hecuba Hecuba

Piss shot plan!

Yeah, so this was my blog I shared with my two buddies to talk about our experiences during the 30 Day Sobriety Challenge. One fell out in the first week, while the other two completed more than a month as we were the last two standing and we can get competitive. I learned a couple things about myself and also that O'Doul's isn't exactly non-alcoholic. Those liars!

It's the end of my Spring semester after next week. I'll be so happy to have my evenings back. I miss Happy hours and naps right after work! I guess I can finally fit in more swim time and guitar time too now. Just have to endure past next weeks finals! Yay!

Lust for life!

Day 1 Reflections

30 days...Day One started with me already spent: hung over at work from the Bacardi consumed before midnight and the lack of sleep. I was thinking about what vice can replace the drinking and thought of the friends with benefits situation brewing and went forward with organizing my plan of action and now thinking it's not such a great idea. Smoking is already the one vice we agreed to keep - even then I feel like I'm not getting the full experience of sobriety but it's a step. I think even sex and even dating might complicate my goals with having a path towards the positive changes I've been working on this past year. The curse of choice and distractions to indulge into has got me twisted.

I ended the night with Chris and Lindsey waiting for Sugarspun to play over at Edinburgh Castle. The bartender gave me some free water (whoo hooo!) and then told me about cranberry and soda. It was so hard to look at it knowing it's missing vodka. LOL My mouth was so glued to the straw and then reality hits when visions of being tased popped into my head.

I think I may enjoy that a little too much.

I was really getting into the conversations we had - plus I'm infatuated with the socialization part of being in a bar, I just hate to dance with the drinking part. Part of me hates having to reflect and assess choices and re-interpret things people share with me to the point where all meaning is lost. Living more consciously steals from me this tranquil bliss and fluidity of ignorance and being unequivocal when things clash with my perspective. Pain + love = growth

I came back into the house at 1am feeling more energized on a natural high after walking from Edinburgh Castle in the TL back to North Beach. Maybe it was the conversations maybe it's also my head being in all sorts of directions and restoring some balance in my life with other distractions and having to rethink certain ways of how I go about my life and feeling okay that others are in their own process too.

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Texts before battery died:
"End score. Broncos 41, Raiders 14."
"Congrats on Day 1."
"I lost my bet so I'll be encouraging and helping you accomplish your goal the rest of the way."