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Name: limeginger
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Subject: RE: Sept. 16 movie - San Francisco, anyone?
Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010
Time: 3:59:26 AM
Remote Address: 98.207.76.142
Message ID: 256534
Parent ID: 256529
Thread ID: 256470
hi you guys :)
Maine was pretty, gorgeous, really, but I couldn't find work--and had happily teleworked til 2009, then teleworking gigs dried up. Realized I needed to leave, and was very fortunate to have options in Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philly, and San Francisco. I liked the guy who would be mt boss in SF best - plus the company was the most interesting, and had never lived in the Bay Area, and that's where a lot of work for peeps like me is anyway.
So I shook off my resistance to the West Coast (don't ask - it was stupid East Coast prejudice), and took a 6-month gig out here, starting mid-June.
It's fricking brilliant out here -- I love it more than I can say. I grew up outside NYC, went to college and grad school in NY state, and lived in Washington DC for 12 yrs before moving to idyllic Maine. It was hard to leave but if all goes well and right I will stay here.
saw Dylan at the Warfield out here last week at a tiny show, he was on fire, he and I had eye contact throughout the show, which was amazing because he's so funny and expressive and was just so HAPPY that night (he loves that venue).
There's so much 60s-70s musical/cultural history in SF, it blows me away. And the place is just intoxicating.
I thought PDog was here at one point.
I've missed you guys...much work and getting settled. It is not a "settling" sort of place - it is always swirling and moving - and not just cuz it's big, cuz it's actually *not* that big. Compared to East Coast cities and, like Chicago, there's just this vibe of constant evolution and change and movement and motion that's very cool and also a bit of a ride :)
I went to a photography exhibition at the San Francisco Art Exchange last month featuring all sorts of Stones photography. Stunning and humbling. The crowd was large and nice and fun - met many neat people and went out with some after the opening. Nothing like that ever happened in Maine, and I was getting pretty lonely up there. Even the guy here from Maine who posts and does a Stones radio show periodically told me "no thanks" when I said I'd love to come up to the studio (not that far from my town) and meet him, and then offered to have a drink after the show, to no reply. So I loved my dear friends I made up there but not the friendliest or most open place in the world. I'd almost forgotten that I'm a really happy outgoing person, until I moved back here and meet peeps all the time, always doing stuff.
West Coast has its negative aspects of course, but openness---and generosity in all regards---is not one of them.
Hope you all have been well - what's been new? thanks for saying hi, Teiz and 2000Man.
- limeginger
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