Photo: Taylor Swift in Stockholm, Sweden - May 2024
Slooooooooowing down on shows! ... Focusing on smaller shows - or bands I really want to see! Or opportunities to dance!!! ... Remember to buy tickets LAST MINUTE - not too far in advance...
Went:
- Sat Mar 8 - Endzeit presents... (Alex; said Hi to Chris) @ Public Works
- Wasn't in the mood... Stayed for an hour. Interesting lighting/visuals. But too much ambient techno that I was getting sleepy to!!!
- Sat May 17 - RILO KILEY @ Treefort, BOISE IDAHO *** !!! (+Joy)
- Loooooooovely nostalgic. Joy went super pregnant. Crowded - but not packed. We stood in the back, near the sound engineer. There were drunk older people who kept crowding our space = boo. Joy enjoyed people watching - a tatted up bearded guy in the VIP seats section who knew all the words and cheered at the old songs -- and then folded his arms and were grumpy at the songs off the 2007 album. I got a shirt. I'm so excited for the show at the Greek. I hope they play MORE OLD SONGS and LESS NEW songs. And also have a longer show!? It was a very short show in Boise.
- BOTH WEDS May 21 & THU May 22 - Justice @ Bill Graham (with Ryan & Lisa & Brandon & friends; Peter & his friends; Geri & friends; Ahmad & his friend Brittany)
- SOOOOoooooooooooOooooooooooooo GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many lasers. Best view from balcony. DANCED HARD. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got free ticket for night 2 off Raptors. SO good to dance it out. Great work-out and felt amazing!!! Went super sober night 2.
- Sat June 7 - Heels for Hope! ft Adele Delano
- Thanks for all the support, friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Sun June 15 - Kid Francescoli @ The Independent (Max)
- Lovelyyyyyyy Sunday show with Max. Great way to ward off Sunday scaries. Great French electronic pop. LOVED IT.
- Thu June 19 - Shannon Curtis 80s kids show @ Yoshi's (Jill & Joe, Kellen, Tiffany, Jared & May, Derek & Jules)
- Interesting 2 person show. More like a play! - Fell on the sidwalk with Tiffany after the show & almost tore my favorite pants!
- Tues June 24 - Hard Fork Live @ SF Jazz (Jasmin)
- FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!! They had Open AI CEO come on stage. Weird weird interview. We got neon green hats - which I left at Amanda's house, which I need to get eeks.
- Sat June 28 - Tainted Love (cover band) @ Bimbo's (Mike, Tiffany, Julie, Tess, Kellen & Zach, Brian, Jess Park, Alex Wolfe, + who else?!)
- So much fun dancing!!!
- Sat/Sun Sept 20-21 - PORTOLA!!! (Jonny, Mike, Kellen, Zach, Chris)
- Highlights........ allmyfriendsaredead - brutalismus 3000. Dom Dolla was a par-tay. LOVED head banging with Kellen and Zach at Prodigy. We were all very tired by end of Day 2. I'm super sad I missed LCD but I got a t-shirt?!
- The October 16 - Rilo Kiley @ the Greek (Tess; Ashley and Friends; Vivian and her friend Nahla; Geri)
- Magical. Loved it a second time, in a big venue. Got a new t-shirt that I liked better. Took a giant pizza that got very soggy. Very very very magical.
- Tue Oct 28 - Parcifal @ SF Opera (with Geoffrey)
- My first opera. It was like 5 hours long or something like that. I dozed off in the last act BUT I was pretty locked in for acts 1 & 2. Definitely moving. Geoffrey gave me tons of knowledge about the music and the story and the history. Really appreciated the experience!!!
- Wed Nov 5 - Leisure @ the Fox (Max; Geri & her friend Kat)
- Surprisingly not as good live as I expected. They sounded just like their recordings - probably part of the problem. Would've been good to have some more variation and "real" ness in the live act, versus a perfect sound. I found it kind of boring by the end. But still lovely. We all met for pre-drinks before the show.
- Nov 11 - Ginger Root @ Great American Music Hall (Kellen - Chris overslept)
- Chris overslept and made me and Kellen nervous when he didn't show up. We both got Tees for our man. Show was AWESOME. The recorded videos in the back were so good. Lots of young asian americans in the crowd. I looOoOOOved it.
- Nov 13 - Infinity Song @ Great American Music Hall (Nahla)
- Yay new friends new music! Felt like I was witnessing MAGIC in real time, real-life. 5 siblings musical act, from NYC, with father manager... all incredible singers... interesting mix of rock genre... Their recorded stuff on Spotify feels low-production -- needs to be re-recorded. I think they'll get big......
- Sat Nov 22 - Disco Lines 22 @ Bill Graham (Andy's last hurrah, Alison & Luis, Jeff & Jasleen, Kellen & Zach, Mike)
- Needed to get out and DANCE. This was an 18+ show. So many booty shorts and bikinis. I showed up in all black. Whoops! Super super fun. Slept terrible tho!
- Tue Nov 25 - Monkey King opera @ SF Opera (with my parents lol)
- My dad didn't really like it. I'm glad I went to see it though. Sent Geoffrey a ton of my thoughts after the show and got MORE education from him on the music. "Sparse" sounding music is what modern classical is. Very weird modern music. Not Chinese sounding = there are reasons for this = cannot sound like appropriation.
That ends 2025! Wow, November was a doozy!