Here's some pictures I took while I was there on vacation recently.


Guess what I found out?


Teh Transamerican building from Chinatown


A view of the palace and SF bay from the top of Divisidero street


the opposite direction view from US Hwy 1, going to Muir Woods


A wild Bobcat(?) looking for an evening meal

san fran is awesome

I miss those days. Those nights. Good times.

I've been twice and can't wait to go back!

Yeah, I surprised how much fun I had there. Definitely will go again since the airfare from HNL is usually not that expensive.

Here's a rundown of what I did:

walked Fisherman's Wharf area
ate clam chowder from a sourdough bread bowl
Ghirardelli's chocolate (mmmm)
one-hour boat cruise in the bay (Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz)
sea lion sightings at Pier 39 (not walruses!)
Chinatown
Castro street goggling
Coit Tower (spectacular view)
had a drink at the Top of the Mark late at night (also spectacular view)
hiked in Muir Woods
found some stones/got some sun at Muir Beach
saw Aereogramme at The Independent
saw The Shins at The Warfield
walked around The Palace of Fine Arts
day trip to Berkeley
walked upper and lower Haight street
gave panhandlers some change
drove down Lombard street (world's most crooked road apparently)
shopped at BOTH Amoeba's, Rasputin, and Streetlight Records (fantastic)
Dubliner bar (drunk)
City Lights bookstore
taqueria take-out
modern art museum (saw the new Picasso exhibit)
rode a trolley
had breakfast at Chart House (windy as fuck outside)
Golden Gate park (cherry blossoms near the Japanese Tea Garden)
walked around The Presidio
examined some of the beautiful old Victorian apartment buildings

I hope your stroll on Haight Street led you to Amoeba SF!!!!!!

Damn right it did!

Here's what I bought:

Clearlake - Cedars
Halloween, Alaska - s/t
Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever
Turin Brakes - The Optimist
Tahiti 80 - Puzzle and A Piece Of Sunshine
Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
To Rococo Rot - Hotel Morgan
Cornelius - Fantasma
Styrofoam - The Same Channel and Nothing's Lost
Systems Officer EP
Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Halou - Wholeness and Separation
Mommy and Daddy - Live How You Listen
Edie Sedgewick - Her Love Is Real...
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Ultimate Northern Soul Album
Tiga - Mixed Emotions
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of...
Anna Waronker - Anna
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
The Knack - Get The Knack
The Colour - Between Earth and Sky
Soviet - We Are Eyes, We Are Builders
Friday Night Lights soundtrack (Explosions In The Sky)
Breaking and Entering soundtrack (Underworld)
Matthew Herbert - Score
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck single
Laptop - User's Guide
Tortoise - Standards
Dead Voices On Air - Shap
Swayzak - Loops From The Bergerie
Mew - Frengers
Fujiya and Miyagi - Transparent Things
Verbena - Into The Pink
Tigercity - s/t EP
Jon Auer - Songs From the Year of Our Demise
Cave-In - Tides Of Tomorrow
Boom Boom Satellites - Full of Elevating Pleasures
Miss Derringer - Lullabies
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Ligeti - Konzerte Fur Klavier (Boulez)
Betty Wright - Best Of


At Amoeba's in Berkeley 5 different people came up to me ask how to find something as I was digging through the stacks.

That's quite a haul.

Been to SF once. Liked it lots and lots.

jesus south pacific....you didnt f around at the cd shops...

hot damn

Moving there in August!

You are such a kiwi with your list documenting your travel. Sweet, really. Friend from Wellington will sit you down and read long passages from her travel diaries... truly a cultural thing from geographical isolation mentality...

You missed the Kulchur.... one of the best Asian Art museums in the world, great Museum of Modern Art, and in Golden Gate Park there is the De Young, that has a pretty good permanent collection, great architecture, and on a clear day the best view in SF from its tower (better than Coit Tower). Andy Goldsworthy courtyard is worth the trip alone.

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I would like to go.

awesome score!!! I hated the Berkeley Amoeba though....the store three doors down to the left (forgot its name) was much much better.

Me too

i enjoyed living there - except the cost

one of these days, one of these days... I gots me some friends down there, I just need to make the trip.

you must do Alcatraz next time

not bad for your first time in sf... and nice amoeba haul (GODDAMNIT I MISS AMOEBA!!!!!!!!!!)

i miss the sf roadtrips me & my crew used to do.

Didn't swing by Mitchell Brothers, Rami?

Except I'm from Hawaii, not NZ.


And yeah, I didn't have time to do EVERYTHING I wanted to, obviously.

On my list for next time is that Asian Art museum, the zoo, the aquarium, a road trip to Napa, and lots of great restaurants I want to try. SF seems to be a great place to drive around and see on a moped or a motorcycle so maybe I'll look into doing that too.


NO GODDAMN PARKING, WHEREVER YOU GO. A guy was telling me that the fourth biggest source of revenue for the city is parking tickets.


FT, what's Mitchell Brothers? It sounds like a store for the big and tall.

met·a·phor (noun) pron. 'me-t&-"for

1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.

More like the wide and long.

It's America's premier "Adult" emporium.

Bless you.

I lived there for seven year, so I miss her everyday especially the clean crisp air.

Rasputin Records, also one in downtown SF, is not better than Amoeba Berkeley. All you need to do is go back there the following week, as they will have different stuff. Berkeley's Amoeba was once the only Amoeba until 1998 or so.

Premier? It's dirty/scuzzy...

Pussycat Theater on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood was the flagship. Busses full of confused and horny Japanese corporate men wanting to get in touch with their corporate selves.