when the lights go down

the other day we had a monster tripola up to the city. I had a huge day planned. We went up to the mission to check out Needles and Pens, a tiny DIY store with clothes, jewelry, accessories, periodicals, books, and even a corner dedicated to showing local artist's stuff. I bought a necklace w/ an owl, a peak oil handbook, and a local fiction mag.
Then we went down a couple streets over to Zeitgeist. The best place to go drink during the day.


we drank beer..played mini dominoes


i don't know if we were playing correctly but we were having fun so who cares.
from there, we were pretty hungry so we headed over to the haight because I know there are a lot of places to choose from there. We parked in Golden Gate and walked over to Amoeba. I bought these



Then Barrett got the itchin to get his nose pierced. First place we went he made the mistake of telling the truth. He told them he'd had a beer and then they did the whole scrunching of the face "ouch" look and the "sorry we can't do it if you've had a beer but come back when you haven't been day-drinking" I liked his politeness and how he called it day-drinking. We headed down to Mom's and got the pricking done, they had no questions about alcohol.
It was getting later and closer to the time of the show we thought we were going to, so we headed back to the mission. We had some time so we paid a visit to the 5. There was a baseball game going on so there were a few locals in.

notice how its still plenty light outside. I realize i haven't gotten any pictures of myself up...so here's one

hahahahaha
After that we headed down to The Knockout in the Castro ish area to try and see the DoDos. We foolishly thought it started at 8. Got there....no bands. BUT they did have an extended sushi happy hour! We bought a bunch of veggie rolls that were effing great. Also there was some Donkey Kong/frogger/miss pacman going on.

We subsequently found out the gathering was not going on until 10pm..ok. So we paced ourselves, waited till then. Saw like 3 acts, none of which were the DoDos....it was getting late so we had to leave...bummer but thats what happens when you have to work at 8 in the morning and aren't getting home till 2am. They're local...hopefully we'll see them again.
Here are some cotton candy sky pics to lessen the bummer.



We're planning on starting a planned savings to get a move on up to the city.