Thursday, May 31, 2012

Morning Teleportation live

     I can't even begin to describe how fucking fantastic this concert was. The doors opened at 8pm and the show was [supposed] to be on at 9pm, but alas, when we arrived fashionably late at around 920pm [really we just got lost a lil bit], no one was there. No really. There was maybe eleven people there when we showed up and the crowd didn't push passed thirty until halfway through the second band [which really was all of the late peeps loss since the first warm-up band, Nicos Gun, was pretty friggin rad]. But anywhooo, the bands just kept getting more awesome and the crowd just kept getting more intoxicated [I'd never seen so many "cultured" people, i.e. hipsters a bit too old to still be called hipsters, under one roof. Karla and I even made up an entire life story for one of them. Ah, Nikolas. We'll miss you]. I mean, the second band, Chappo, all had eagle feathers on their arms and the headliner, Morning Teleportation, used so much fog during their set that I'm still washing it out of my hair a week later. 


Hurr're some photos:
Nicos Gun.
With the token black guy drummer. 

I was kind of obsessed with this shot. I think I took roughly 25 pictures of all the wires.
This was the best though, with that drink in the foreground.


Chappo.

You can't really tell, but he [and the rest of the band] had sweet feathers on their jackets.



He heard me talking about him. Twice. Classic Katie. 

Morning Teleportation.






He was so beautiful.



These people were so great. They were dancing the entire set.

Such a ghetto set list. Gotta love it.





Currently listening to... Native Savage by Chappo. I think he said this song was inspired by the guy who gave the band their feathers. Either way, it's a pretty badass tune.


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Bay to Breakers

     So it's been a week since I last posted. Whoops. And over a week since I went to Bay to Breakers. Double whoops. But oh well. hurr you go. And look for more radical adventures in posts to come [including, but not limited to, the Morning Teleportation concert and Santa Cruz for Memorial Day]!


First photo of the day.
"I'm just a man catcher."

POWER RANGERS!
Borat 

Gotta catch'em all!
Most beautiful coxswain picture ever.
Photo by Hannah Rogers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
At this point I was alone in San Francisco at 7am.
So I took photos on my phone to occupy myself.
And a little piece of the Bay Bridge.

The Bay Bridge! So beautiful.

And then my phone's camera started doing sweet effect.


And this was the best shot of the day.
Then I finally found the Avengers.

This man wasn't wearing pants.



This man was wearing a diaper.



A decisive moment if I've ever seen one. 



This man was wearing nothing.

Happy 75th birthday, Golden Gate!

Breakers! Finally. that last mile and a half was awful.

Quail Man! Best superhero of the day!

Finished in just over 4 hours!

Currently listening to... "Timelines" by Motion City Soundtrack. Did I mention that I'm going to see them in the city with Karla on the 16th? Well I am. And their new album GO comes out on the 12th. I absolutely cannot wait.