days, you are so full lately. the trip to san fran was excellent as usual. flying up for the first time instead of road tripping it worked out nicely. taking the bart from the planes to our designated meet-up spot couldn’t have been smoother, and the flights were painless (except for the attendant on the way up who refused to get me two drinks when i asked for them. ‘we’ll see if we have time’ is no excuse, lady! don’t deny me my in-flight relaxation!). although i can’t say part of me didn’t miss the nice drive up the 5 rockin’ the ipod and patiently approaching the kettleman city in-n-out burger…

right from our arrival we set right about our task: drinking beer for most of our waking hours. over the course of a couple days we stopped by several cool little spots for more than several drinks. zeitgeist in particular was a lot of fun, sort of a hipster/biker version of a beer hall with a nice backyard vibe, all those picnic tables lined up and full of people draining pitchers of all those tasty local microbrews… oh, what a time. we managed to escape the super-heat of LA and enjoy the cool san francisco afternoons with a pre-usc-football bbq as well. even snuck in some beer pong. overall, it was outstanding.

plus i finally got to make that amoeba trip i’ve been planning to make for weeks. okkervil river is good as expected, i’m still enjoying the beirut and thinking i should have bought the full album and not just the new ep, and the new pornographers disc is different but great in its own ways too. the surprise though was the ratatat i picked up on a bit of a whim after seeing them open for daft punk a few weeks back. i don’t think i’ve listened this much to an instrumental band in, well, maybe ever. check out this pay day song and tell me it doesn’t get you rocking and strutting down the street. also perfect for bumping in the car, it’s called lex and it’s killer.

oh yeah; labor day it was hot and we were lazy and after trying to have a barbeque for like an hour we instead went and hung out in our apartment pool for a few hours, then came home and were lazy some more. that’s what national holidays are for though so i don’t feel bad in the least.