San Francisco [Archive] - erutufon|nofuture

Hectic Cum Balthazar

11th March 2009, 13:52

I'm gonna be there for a week for the game developers conference.. anyone recommend any good music/sound/synth related things to visit?

As for shops.. Robotspeak, Amoeba and Aquarius are already in the plan..

Hectic Cum Balthazar

11th March 2009, 14:00

This looks good

http://disquiet.com/2009/02/07/10-ways-of-drawing-music-san-francisco/

les diamond

11th March 2009, 14:25

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/123410200_ca5131fcd8_o.gif

spoon

11th March 2009, 14:31

I'm gonna be there for a week for the game developers conference..

lucky prick ;)

les diamond

11th March 2009, 14:36

bob

11th March 2009, 18:05

Amoeba is pretty good, don't really have any other good suggestions, other than I would recommend hiring a bike and riding across the golden gate bridge

olv

11th March 2009, 18:16

i'm going in august, cant bloody wait...suggestions welcome :)

Loz

11th March 2009, 18:38

make sure you follow Peter Molyneux around, and whisper "deeaaaatttthhh" quietly when he's not looking.

and if Cliffy B is there, he owes me a fucking drink, the bastard

Hectic Cum Balthazar

11th March 2009, 18:57

lucky prick ;)

yeah lucky plus 12 years of fucking graft ;)

Bwaarp

11th March 2009, 19:12

look out for any bfamily events, they are a sound bunch and usually up for a laugh..

les diamond

11th March 2009, 19:23

watch out for pongoid.

Hectic Cum Balthazar

11th March 2009, 19:24

heh...

love_tempo

11th March 2009, 21:43

It could be worth the trip to Berkeley to Moe's second hand book shop and Rasputin records.

Amoeba's well worth a peep.

Try Chef Jia's in Chinatown for great cheap hunan food. Pancho Villa in the mission is good for cheap mexican Taqueria stuff. You might get lucky with the Mariachis ;) If the video game conference is in the moscone, then El Balazo in the alley behind the newspaper building (The Chronicle, I think) is another really good Taqueria.

City Lights bookshop in North beach is well worth checking out. Mario's cigar bar near the park nearby is a nice place for quiet drinks and usually some nice bebop in the background.

It's been a good few years since I've lived there but some other places that used to be good were The Beauty Bar in the mission.

The Top used to be good for a boogie on sunday nights. Nickie's bar next door to it in the lower haight had great funk and soul nights.

Nearby, Tweekin records was great for old house records. Worth bringing a big record box and filling it up with all the old classic Theo Parrish, KDJ and whatever that are really cheap in the US compared to here.

Dunno if all this stuff is still there but worth looking into anyway.

love_tempo

11th March 2009, 21:45

btw The San Francisco Bay Guardian had/has a lot of listings of what's on.

http://www.sfbg.com/

And the Zagat guide was pretty good for food and some bars/music.

http://www.zagat.com/sanfrancisco

les diamond

11th March 2009, 21:48

penciLneck

11th March 2009, 21:50

I was going to say Tweekin. Although I was last there in '97.

Also the rest of Haight-Ashbury just for the history and the weird shops.

And If you can score a burrito in the mission your stomach will be well pleased.

There will be weird stuff here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/

les diamond

11th March 2009, 21:54

If you can score a burrito in the mission your stomach will be well pleased.[/url]

a 10 dollar burrito these days bro....

love_tempo

11th March 2009, 21:55

I was going to say Tweekin. Although I was last there in '97.

Also Haight-Ashbury just for the history and the weird shops.

And If you can score a burrito in the mission your stomach will be well pleased.

yeah I wonder if tweekin is still there even?

Pancho Villa was my favourite place for burritos in the mission and it's just around the corner from the 16th and mission BART station. El Balazo near the chronicle downtown was just as good though.

The Top in lower haight used to be mega when Iz (or Diz) or whoever it was played there. Wonder if it's still going.

Also, I remeber the End Up used to have some decent stuff that went on from Sat. night until early mon. morning a bit like Berghain.

Other good places include Shalimar, the diviest but bestest Pakistani restaurant in the diviest Tenderloin neighbourhood. Queues out the door of pakistani's at times.

Uncle Vito's near Union square had savage good pizza. Blondie's is an institution for junk food pizza :)

les diamond

11th March 2009, 21:56

also ! get someone with a pot prescription to go to the canibus club for you and get you a grab bag....

adsr

11th March 2009, 21:57

BPM Records
573 Hayes St
San Francisco, California 94102
+1 415 487 8680

*A very small record store, but I liked the selection - I've only been there once, but I really liked it -...mmm- maybe it was cause the day I went they were serving free cranberry and vodka drinks to everyone over 21yrs old that day...

Not sure if the store still exists, but if it is, I do recommend it..

penciLneck

11th March 2009, 21:58

yeah I wonder if tweekin is still there even?

Pancho Villa was my favourite place for burritos in the mission

Yup they are: http://tweekin.org/ and Snap on the burritos.

love_tempo

11th March 2009, 21:59

a 10 dollar burrito these days bro....

no fuckin way. They used to be 3 dollars!!!?!!?! wtf. I mean curry was expensive compared to the UK, but chinese, taquerias and pizza were really cheap compared to here.

Sushi used to be cheaper (Sanraku Four Seasons was good) tho still expensive. There used to be lots of good cheap vietnamese places in the tenderloin too for Nasai Goreng and things like that.

les diamond

11th March 2009, 21:59

yea dude i went into this little mexican burrito place in mission, they call it "the window" because it is little more than a window for ordering.... ordered my burrito al pastor and it was 9.99 and this was like 3 years ago!!!

penciLneck

11th March 2009, 22:01

recession init.

les diamond

11th March 2009, 22:02

nono

it is the whole silicon valley thing, i mean SF is more expensive than manhattan for at least 10 years now.... one of the most expensive places on earth and i am too lazy to find you a source but macdonalds workers make more than 9 dollars an hour there imagine it

Hectic Cum Balthazar

11th March 2009, 22:08

les diamond

11th March 2009, 22:13

seriously forget the sushi and get your ass to chinatown for dim sum....

penciLneck

11th March 2009, 22:17

nono

it is the whole silicon valley thing, i mean SF is more expensive than manhattan for at least 10 years now....

wow. the bush administration have a lot to answer for.

write to congress for cheaper burritos everyone.

wheezer

11th March 2009, 23:21

STEEV DO DIMSUM. go eat XIAO LOMBAO these are the soup dumplings i have been raving about on here for years..... it is pronounced SHAOLOMBAO serious bro that is the BOMB and also - ORDER A FRENCH DIP in a decent cafe man invented in CALI and perfected up north WORTH THE EATS

btw I found a place that does shao lom bao here in london, fucking awesome. they also have a crab version, haven't tried that one yet... hmmmm.

San Francisco has the best sushi outside of Japan I heard... I'll be able to find out cos a week after I get back from SF I go to Japan for two weeks on my honeymoon. I know I know. I rock.

you are mistaking San Francisco for Düsseldorf. Common mistake.

love_tempo

11th March 2009, 23:36

mmmmm

my belly is already rumbling, thanks everyone.

San Francisco has the best sushi outside of Japan I heard... I'll be able to find out cos a week after I get back from SF I go to Japan for two weeks on my honeymoon. I know I know. I rock.

yessum, sushi is good in SF. I lived near this one and it was my favourite. Not so expensive as far as sushi goes but sooo fressssh.

http://www.sanraku.com/

probably not too far from where you are likely to be staying in all likelihood.

Oh and even though, like les diamond says, SF is expensive you won't find it all that expensive compared to london say. though the dollar has got strong so maybe now isn't the best time to say that.

V Knid esq

11th March 2009, 23:36

Old school Erutufon poster K-Dub / Kid Whatever lives in SF now and is a fine fellow... I'll cc you in on an email.

garew

12th March 2009, 16:14

If you have a car drive down big sur.
Its worht it. Drive along route 1. Its wonderful.

I stayed at this amazing hostel in Saratoga among the rewoods. It was a really great place. Lots of strange but interesting people and you can explore the woods and the cabin is very comfy and plush

http://www.sanbornparkhostel.org/index.html

Swimming in China Cove at Pt. Lobos was one amazing time.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84618963@N00/2415630906/

http://virtualguidebooks.com/CentralCalif/MontereyPeninsula/PointLobosSouth/NorthOfChinaCove.html

But I encourage driving along the coast north or south of san fran as its very very pretty.

Hectic Cum Balthazar

12th March 2009, 19:03

les diamond

12th March 2009, 20:45

btw I found a place that does shao lom bao here in london, fucking awesome. they also have a crab version, haven't tried that one yet... hmmmm.

http://d2.biggestmenu.com/00/00/96/ad19ed0f5954b0d3_m.jpg

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmm nomnomnom

les diamond

12th March 2009, 20:47

http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/12uuNvvpJepGsaTIxlqyhw/l

so gooood bbkjdojdwhchwdjhus

Hectic Cum Balthazar

12th March 2009, 20:58

i'm there

love_tempo

12th March 2009, 22:42

Yeah I have driven down to san jose... up to sausilito.. and out east on the way to lake tahoe before garew... it's great.. strictly city bound this time though.

Love_tempo I'm staying just off Union Square.. which is a big hard on for the old seventies sound design geeks out there (me)

ah right, I lived just near macy's there.

you are quiet near some good of the restaurants I mentioned then. Uncle Vito's is just little up the hill near the corner of Powell. El Balazo is just the other side of market street. There's some good cheap Thai restaurant's on Post Street (e.g. Thai Stick and Thai Ginger). And Sanraku, the really good sushi place is on Sutter or maybe the next one up the hill.

Shalimar is just on the edge of the tenderloin.

There's a great italian ice cream place on the the tram line near union square too, think it's the more western line (mason line maybe?). and blondies bad but good pizza is at th bottom of powell too i think.

the owl tree bar was fun for mega strong martinis too. and the clift is well posh.

mdk

13th March 2009, 02:17

Love_tempo I'm staying just off Union Square.. which is a big hard on for the old seventies sound design geeks out there (me)

im going to have to go and hunt down that Clock DVA b-side now :)

Hectic Cum Balthazar

13th March 2009, 13:17

im going to have to go and hunt down that Clock DVA b-side now :)

The one off the record called 'The Conversation'? I saw the flac on a tracker the other day, bookmarked it :)

mdk

13th March 2009, 13:21

nice.

the one im thinking of is 'the connection machine', b-side of The Hacker, with samples from the film.

i found it :)

nempsey

13th March 2009, 13:21

http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/12uuNvvpJepGsaTIxlqyhw/l

so gooood bbkjdojdwhchwdjhus

they might taste good but they look rank!

les diamond

13th March 2009, 13:46

to anybody who has never eaten them hahah

bigus

15th March 2009, 23:57

The Top used to be good for a boogie on sunday nights. Nickie's bar next door to it in the lower haight had great funk and soul nights.

Nearby, Tweekin records was great for old house records. Worth bringing a big record box and filling it up with all the old classic Theo Parrish, KDJ and whatever that are really cheap in the US compared to here.

the Top is sadly long gone, I think Tweeking is toast too :( - last time i was there April/May 08 - it was sorta hanging on for dear life.

bigus

16th March 2009, 00:12

"citrus club" its about a block from amoeba, walking away from golden gate park.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-citrus-club-san-francisco

in the lower haight there's at haight and filmore. upper playground- cool t-shirts + art
hanabi - super cheap good sushi, with a house/techno sound track
cafe international-
robot speak
burger joint

http://www.yelp.com/biz/hanabi-japanese-restaurant-san-francisco

2 decent promoters ( they usually got interesting dj's/acts when i lived there)

http://www.kontrolsf.com/

http://www.blasthaus.com/

bars - "milk" in the upper haight ( right across from amoeba)
my local was "the uptown" 17th + mission(ish)
there used to be this place called liquid 16th and mission was a great club bar 11 years ago - ha ha jesus im old

Konx-om-Pax

16th March 2009, 02:55

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/123410200_ca5131fcd8_o.gif

very funny episode

Hectic Cum Balthazar

16th March 2009, 13:50

which episode is it?

cheers for the info bigus, much appreciated.

JE:5

16th March 2009, 14:37

which episode is it?

cheers for the info bigus, much appreciated.

It's called Smug Alert!

les diamond

16th March 2009, 16:17

which episode is it?

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