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I finally had the pleasure of meeting Siona yesterday for lunch, we've been trying to meet for months now, somehow our schedules just never allowing it to actually happen. We had an iteration of the conversation I seem to have with all of my best friends these days, something along the lines of Why Do I Want To Live In San Francisco When It Feels Like I Am Living In A Fishbowl. But her answer just reaffirmed why I am staying here, she also believes that if you don't see what you like, then you make it. It's such an opportunity because nothing has solidified here yet, you can actually have a big hand in creating the channels your work flows through, influencing the way it gets consumed and read. How fun! And admittedly exhausting as well. But there is a sense of the city being a blank slate, with an audience starved for stimulation.
Here are a few examples of people filling in the blanks and connecting the dots:
Overlap – A bi-monthly series of electronic music organized by Christopher Willits and his crew. The next one happens this Saturday night at Rx Gallery.
Three Pieces – The quarterly series that Deric and I put together. The next one is scheduled for July 24th and we've already booked an amazing electronics duo from Hamburg called Incite. It will be our first "international edition."
Wilde Chats – A bi-weekly discussion series for gay men to talk about philosophical ramifications of gay life in San Francisco, at the Orbit Cafe. I've not been yet, but if it is actually anything like it is described, I'm fascinated.
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A belated, but very appreciative, thank you for the outing. I meant to pass on Evelyn's blog (my friend who cast herself into the hands of fate and left for New Orleans a number of weeks ago); you can find it here. Her writing always leaves me a little breathless; she hurtles through topics and tosses out references at breakneck speed, but somehow manages to maintain such a sense of immediacy and in-the-moment presence. But I'll tell you more of all that the next time I think... because E wanted to bring salons--of the ancient European sort--to Silicon Valley, to mix artists and developers and to bring together disparate and segregated voices, and we'll need to talk about that, too.
Posted by: Siona | April 28, 2007 11:33 PM