KSE/Weekend in SF
Another weekend in the Bay. Lots of fun. Staying up until 3AM for 3 nights in a row has really fucked up my sleep schedule though. I'm going to be really tired tomorrow at work. I'm really not a morning person anyway. I should find a job where I can start at noon if I want to.
The concert in LA on Thursday was alright. Dragonforce's sound was pretty badly balanced and they didn't really have their shit together. Maybe they came out a little too drunk, but they were not on beat the whole time. The crowd was also lame and no one sang along to any of their songs, so that made them play even worse. I can understand, it's no fun playing for people who aren't excited to see you. But when you're on a tour with Chimaira and Killswitch Engage, you gotta expect that a lot of people are going to think your music is for pussies. And most Dragonforce fans are definitely that. Killswitch Engage sounded awesome in L.A., and the crowd was actually into them (which you'd expect, they are the headliners).
Friday I drove up to SF and had dinner with Dre, Alex, Diego, Eric and Ellen. Then we went out to the Mission district. We planned to go to this place called Medjool's, but we didn't end up making it there. Instead we hopped through three different places, the Double Dutch, the Elbo Room and then Blondie's. Blondies was hoppin'. The DJ was really good and Alex basically spent the whole night getting her groove on while those of us who can't actually dance just stumbled around and bullshitted. It was a fun time. Diego got really drunk. He turned 21 a month ago, and Dre was helping make up for the fact that Diego had still not been wasted in public. We rolled out at closing time and slept for maybe an hour or two because Dre and Diego had a flight to catch at 7AM. I was DD for the night out, and Alex was still feeling pretty tipsy so I volunteered to drive their drunk asses to the airport at 5:30AM. Then I drove back and slept. I spent Saturday chilling with Alex, she made us breakfast and we watched Million Dollar Baby.
My dad brought Tim and Megan up around 6PM and we went out to eat dinner. Tim and Megan came with me to the concert (yes, Killswitch Engage again). I snaked them some decent balcony seats by trading my floor tickets in the lobby, so they got to see the show really well. Dragonforce played about ten times better than they did in LA, and the crowd was stoked about seeing them. They are a blast to watch, the guitarists are just so fucking fast, and they are all pretty funny onstage. The Killswitch set was great, and the crowd was so much better than in L.A. Fuck those SoCal hipsters that are too cool to put their hands in the air and bang their heads. The KSE encore was fantastic, they covered Holy Diver by Dio \m/
After the show I got my Tim and Megan back to my dad and he drove them home. I took BART to the Mission again and this time met up with Alex and her friends at Medjool. It's a really cool club. It has a dance floor on the bottom level, a set of couches on the mezzanine where you can chill out and still hear the music, and then a roof deck where you can just mingle. I danced with Alex for a little while and then we went up top to hang out with Caitlin and some other people I've only met through Dre and Alex's parties. It was chill. We left around 1AM or so and grabbed a burrito at the same Taqueria Brian took me to like 6 months ago in the Mission. It really hit the spot. Then we went home and chatted for like and hour and went to sleep. I took Alex out to breakfast this morning for being such an awesome host.
And that just about caps the weekend. My next will be spent doing much less exciting stuff. I will be heading up to Los Olivos to taste some wine, but that's about it.
The concert in LA on Thursday was alright. Dragonforce's sound was pretty badly balanced and they didn't really have their shit together. Maybe they came out a little too drunk, but they were not on beat the whole time. The crowd was also lame and no one sang along to any of their songs, so that made them play even worse. I can understand, it's no fun playing for people who aren't excited to see you. But when you're on a tour with Chimaira and Killswitch Engage, you gotta expect that a lot of people are going to think your music is for pussies. And most Dragonforce fans are definitely that. Killswitch Engage sounded awesome in L.A., and the crowd was actually into them (which you'd expect, they are the headliners).
Friday I drove up to SF and had dinner with Dre, Alex, Diego, Eric and Ellen. Then we went out to the Mission district. We planned to go to this place called Medjool's, but we didn't end up making it there. Instead we hopped through three different places, the Double Dutch, the Elbo Room and then Blondie's. Blondies was hoppin'. The DJ was really good and Alex basically spent the whole night getting her groove on while those of us who can't actually dance just stumbled around and bullshitted. It was a fun time. Diego got really drunk. He turned 21 a month ago, and Dre was helping make up for the fact that Diego had still not been wasted in public. We rolled out at closing time and slept for maybe an hour or two because Dre and Diego had a flight to catch at 7AM. I was DD for the night out, and Alex was still feeling pretty tipsy so I volunteered to drive their drunk asses to the airport at 5:30AM. Then I drove back and slept. I spent Saturday chilling with Alex, she made us breakfast and we watched Million Dollar Baby.
My dad brought Tim and Megan up around 6PM and we went out to eat dinner. Tim and Megan came with me to the concert (yes, Killswitch Engage again). I snaked them some decent balcony seats by trading my floor tickets in the lobby, so they got to see the show really well. Dragonforce played about ten times better than they did in LA, and the crowd was stoked about seeing them. They are a blast to watch, the guitarists are just so fucking fast, and they are all pretty funny onstage. The Killswitch set was great, and the crowd was so much better than in L.A. Fuck those SoCal hipsters that are too cool to put their hands in the air and bang their heads. The KSE encore was fantastic, they covered Holy Diver by Dio \m/
After the show I got my Tim and Megan back to my dad and he drove them home. I took BART to the Mission again and this time met up with Alex and her friends at Medjool. It's a really cool club. It has a dance floor on the bottom level, a set of couches on the mezzanine where you can chill out and still hear the music, and then a roof deck where you can just mingle. I danced with Alex for a little while and then we went up top to hang out with Caitlin and some other people I've only met through Dre and Alex's parties. It was chill. We left around 1AM or so and grabbed a burrito at the same Taqueria Brian took me to like 6 months ago in the Mission. It really hit the spot. Then we went home and chatted for like and hour and went to sleep. I took Alex out to breakfast this morning for being such an awesome host.
And that just about caps the weekend. My next will be spent doing much less exciting stuff. I will be heading up to Los Olivos to taste some wine, but that's about it.