dark pictures and dark lives

So a week ago I drove up to the city to visit Nicole. She moved up to the Mission to live with the hipsters and Mexicans and work at being the best damn Lab Manager a girl can be. Jealous? Who, me?
KTF hopped a Bart and joined us in an excursion through the streets of the city, looking for a certain bar called The Gestalt Haus (It literally means "shape house") which is one of the apparent up-and-coming biker bars in the city. It was replete with a double decker bike rack inside the front door across from the pool table. A full bar of German Oktoberfest beer awaited us and holy god there was TWO vegan versions of German sausages. Now granted I am not one for sausages at all...but I had to try one and it was yummy. There were lots of dudes with one pant leg rolled up and dead animals on the walls too...




I went to the little girls room and found some art that looked as if it had come from Krink himself



We had a good time with our candy necklaces from the tender of bar. then it was off to the Bart and KTF and Nickel had to do their goodbyes


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A few night later Barrett and I had a date with Earthless in Oakland at like 11pm so we decided to head back to Gestalt to sample more vegan delights and liter beers

We then went across the Bay Bridge to this Gallery/Venue/Flop House to see Earthless play. We were first met by the impossible parking of Oakland city streets, driving around for a few laps before parking. Then greeted by fucking "guard" dogs. Two pit bulls guarding a car lot. I think one was pretty friendly. The other was more unsure. They were both very interested and wagging tails furiously...but as we know...that's not necessarily a happy sign, just a reaction. Such a misuse, it really made me furious. I took a couple pics, but as the night would prove to be, it was all too dark for them to show up. The inside of the "club" was odd. Art, multiple rooms, bathrooms with no tp, people dancing to old music, a small bar serving about 5 different things. Then we walked upstairs and into the wall of noise. I'm not sure how we did not hear this all from downstairs, but the venue room was damn loud. We couldn't even converse.

Earthless proved to be really good...but I was so tired we had to drive back...more for next time!