FundamentallySound Blog

The Lab is another great venue in San Francisco. They just released their 20th Anniversary CD, with works from people like Minnie Pearl Necklace to John Bischoff to Randy Nordschow to Sagan. It's actually a great document of a specific time and place, reminds me that there are interesting things going on here. Or as Randy said the other day in New York, "good 'ol sf...she's steady as a rock, and while not rockin' all the time, still rocks."

Speaking of interesting events, last night I went to a very mellow party/fundraiser for Ryan Junell's project to "document" the Republican National Convention in New York. His idea is to have four video feeds, one for the speakers inside, one for the audience, one for the protesters outside, and one for the observers who don't fit in any other category. Sagan (J Lesser, Blevin Blectum, and Wobbly) will be doing a quad speaker live manipulation of this audio. Judging from the size of the audience, seems like he might have been able to raise some cash for it. So... All in all, I'm feeling totally optimistic about San Francisco, it's a big area when you include the East Bay, and things seem to be improving: rents are lower, interesting people are moving back, etc. But still, Japan is calling my name... But for the time being, I am SO here, have no funds to be elsewhere. And that's fine.