So with the month of November pretty much filled up with activities, stress, and departure, I worked all weekend to get as much stuff moved into storage as possible. Step 1 was to get storage at CityStorage which, fortunately enough, has a storage center literally 3 blocks from my house. I knew living in a quasi-industrial zone would have its advantages at some point. Step 2 was to empty all my big furniture, deks, TV stand, bookshelves. Step 3 I posted an ad on CraigsList to get some help, a great guy named Jon volunteered to help for a reasonable rate.

Their music is operatic and new-wave at the same time. It’s haunting. I was really into this album “Turn on the Bright Lights” when I was living in San Francisco and working out late at night on the 2nd floor of the 24 Hour fitness on 16th street. I remember sitting on the press machine and hearing the echo guitar dialog of the song “Obstacle 1” as I stared through the murky blue dark towards the occulting clouds swirling about twin peaks and it’s devil’s prong pitchfork radio tower. but its different now that I’m poor and I’m aging ill never see this place again

Often times I’m out in my neighborhood and am curious about food / coffee or a beer. livesoma.com has some great maps of these three spots.