Friday, June 18, 2010

There's no place like home.





"One day if I do go to heaven ... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'"


Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." ~ John Lennon






"It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else -- it's so beautiful, and there's that location, and the sense of the free spirit~. Who couldn't become ravenous in such a place?"~Julia Child, Chef



"East is East, and West is San Francisco"~O.Henry




"A synonym for San Francisco: Inspiration. What ever one's field of study - arts, humanities, science - SF is a microsphere of everything inspiring to the human spirit."



If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion

There's a whole generation with a new explanation

People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there






The Fillmore

A legendary venue. A lasting cultural impact. A long list of stellar performances from some of the greatest artists of all time. The place is so full of history you can just feel it when you walk through the doors. 

Below is excerpt from a blog about one of the many great great things about our city. The blog is written by a dear friend of mine who lives her life for the sole purpose of one thing and one thing only, music. 



To read more go to http://getwithallison.tumblr.com/

Having never lived in New York, it is easy for me to say that SF is superior when it comes to shows, quite frankly people simply just seem to be happier here which impacts the energy and therefore just makes it BETTER here. I clearly am bias. The Rock and Roll movement of the 1960’s made SF into the mainstay of all things music and while great bands continue to come out of NY, Austin and oddly enough Ohio…the song remains the same. Sidebar, we all know I got mad love for the Bristol Sound, I would marry it if it would have me. While there may be far better music born and constructed various places around the world it is hard to say that there is a more quintessential venue than the Fillmore. It is the last real Rock and Roll venue and I will say this about that, the fucking Fillmore never sold t-shirts in Urban Outfitters so go fuck yourself CBGB. 



Brooklyn may be currently kicking San Fran’s ass in the indie department, but fuck, as a voyeur… its all about SF, musicians just fucking love to play there. The energy is different, for one. Everyone’s not trying so hard to seem like they are not trying so hard and this notion I find particularly hysterical. Let’s put it this way…there is a reason almost every to die for band plays at least two nights in SF while on tour, simply put.






San Francisco Market Street in the early 1900's. Oh how I love this footage!



The best city in the world ♥




San Francisco Street Art (shot by my talented love, Mr. Aaron Paul Ryan)













When The Lights Go Down In The City - Journey

When the lights go down in the city, 
and the sun shines on the bay,
do i want to be there, 
in my city,
ohoh ohohoh ohoh

So you said your lonely
well my friend i'm lonely too
i want to get back, to my city
by the rain, ohoh ohohoh ohoh

its sad ohh, 
theres been mornings 
out of the world without you,
without your charm
ohohoh nah nah nah ohoh

when the lights go down in the city
and the sun shines on the bay 
do i want to be there, in my city oh oh
ohoh ohohoh ohoh

when the lights go down in the city
and the sun shines on the bay 
do i want to be there
in my city, 
ohoh ohohohoh ohoh
mmmmhmhm ohoh ohohoh ohoh

My ♥ belongs to San Francisco...

"San Francisco is the longest lasting love affair of my life. Her beauty inspires me each day and I am very thankful to be able to live here on the edge of the continent in what I feel is the heart of the world."

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