Bay Area Thangs

Lately I’ve thought back to planning my cross-country road trip into the unknown over four years ago. Not just because holy-shit-where-did-the-time-go, but also because the old me would’ve been ashamed of the present me’s lack of dedication to this internet space. That entire week of travel was full of guest posts. GUEST POSTS. Not only did I plan posts ahead, but I even forced my friends and family to write for the internet too (sorry, guys).

I was uprooting my entire life, leaving everything and everyone I’d ever known, but it was YOU guys I was worried about (ok, maybe it’s only my mom who’s still around from that era). Anyway, I have a lot of stuff going on these day. Once I got here it became more of the “LOOK AT ALL THE COOL STUFF CALIFORNIA HAS” kind of content, and dudes, there’s still so much cool stuff here. I’ve just been doing it without telling you about it, so let’s catch up for a minute. I’m sticking to the bigger events, but four years ago I could’ve/probably did write an entire post just about how excited I was to have dairy-free creamers for my coffee everywhere I went). #spoiled

Bottlerock — the past couple years I went all out for Bottlerock (read about it here and here), but this time it was a last-minute decision. My office has this majestic thing we call Summer Fridays where everyone goes outside and enjoys life starting at 1pm on Friday through the summer (did I mention my job is awesome?). So instead of riding the ferry home and lol’ing at everyone still in their offices like I’d done the week before, I raced home and drove to Napa for some wine and music. I missed out on a bunch of acts earlier in the day, but let’s be real, I really just needed to see Modest Mouse. I also managed to catch Macklemore on the food stage throwing chicken into the audience with Martha Stewart, heard St. Motel as I was trying to find parking, watched some of Fitz & the Tantrums’ set, Silversun Pickups, Catfish and the Bottlemen, then settled on in with Modest Mouse the rest of the night. It was a short, whirlwind love affair, but I already have my Outside Lands tickets for this year, so I let it go.

Clusterfest — Speaking of Outside Lands, those angelic humans created a COMEDY FESTIVAL. This was its inaugural year, and I’m hoping there will be many more to come (despite it  living up to its clever name). I’m pretty sure I strained my face from laughing so much. There were simultaneous sets of super to semi famous comedians in the Bill Graham Auditorium, at a stage set up across from the capital building and another smaller stage set up farther away. We saw so many hilarious acts, but the ones that really stick out in my mind are: Rachel Bloom, Hannibel Buress, Fred Armisen, Lil Dicky, Anthony Jeselnik, Tig Notaro, Hasan Minhaj, Liza Treyger, Jay Larson, Chris Garcia… I know I’m missing some really great ones, but seriously all of these people cracked me up. There were a couple times when I was uncontrollably laugh crying. OH, AND TIA CARERRE WAS THERE (the Babebraham Lincoln from Wayne’s World) — the Broad City Girls (who I also love) did a live reading of Wayne’s World (one of my all-time favorite movies) and then, BOOM, Cassandra comes on and sings Ballroom Blitz right into my ears. It was incredible.

Random Weekend Things — When I’m not chilling at festivals it’s all about that brunch, wine, hike, and obviously Netflix life. So that’s what I’ve been up to.

What have your weekends looked like this summer?