adventures in the city part 1.

Things have been a little hectic lately as I'm moving back and forth between both of my brother's apartments. I'm currently watching Criminal Minds reruns- one of my favorite shows, so excuse me if I sound a little distracted. I really wanted to update though. I've been putting it off so much.
As some of you know, Mika came from Bangkok to stay with me for a week. It was a lot of fun showing her around, shopping, eating good food, and doing touristy things. I'll be brief as I have an entire week to cover (or because I probably can't remember details that far back). Also, consider yourself warned- I am going to talk about food a lot.

Day 1: We picked up Mika from SFO. It wasn't hard to spot the pale Japanese girl among all the baked tan blondies coming back from vacation in Florida. We had burritos at this Mexican place that had the funniest advertisements posted everywhere. After settling in, we had dinner at an Indian restaurant that just opened called Curry Up Now. It's pretty damn good, and the interior of the restaurant is so cute! Mika and I proceeded to wander around, but realized everything was closed, so we hung around in a grocery store to looking at all the cereal they had in order to keep warm.

1. Too funny

Day 2: This was our major shopping day. We took the BART downtown and shopped at all the major shops down there. There were instances where I was certain I'd lost Mika (a few times in Forever 21). We also stared at shoes in Urban Outfitters for a while. It was painful. Afterwards, we crossed the street to Rasputin Records, which was probably the absolute highlight of my day. Flashback: I was here last summer and on almost ALL OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS, there was a sticker that said "Matt's Recommendation" on it. If you look back at my music post, you'll remember me going on about how I left this guy a note claiming we were musical soul mates. So when I came back last week, we found that the note was still there and this guy wrote a message back. It was pretty cool. Mika actually went up to one of the workers and was like "Does a Matt work here?", but he was like "Uhhh, I'm new. I dunno." I ended buying a Decemberists record, Elliott Smith's either/or and... something else. I don't remember which CDS I buy on what day. I think it might've been Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People. I go crazy with CDs here cause you really can't find anything in Thailand. After getting pulled in by those people at Lush, we had a late late late lunch at Cafe La Taza. I used to come here almost everyday. 

1. Riding on BART     2. Powell Street
3. Inside of paninis    4. Cafe Sport in North Beach
5. My Decemberists record and Mika's Villagers record

1. Mika in front of Rasputin Records   2. Cafe La Taza  3. Iced Tea & Panini
4. Inside Rasputin Records   5. Mysterious Matt and our musical soulmate-ness

Day 3: We spent the day in Haight Street which was full of vintage shops, smoke shops, record stores and a massive amount of other interestingness. I ended up buying a lot of stuff there including a red cashmere sweater for $6 and some boat shoes. We also spent a good amount of time in Amoeba Music and Booksmith (this bookstore was really awesome). My friend, Victor, I met last summer met up with us afterwards and we stuck these unicorn stickers on everything that Bigger Things In Mind sent to me to put up around the city.

1. Mika and our mini-mes  2. Sometimes forgetting to adjust lighting turns out cool
3-5. Unicorn stickers taking over the city

That's Part 1 of me and Mika's adventures in the city. I'll try to get on Part 2 soon. I also wanted to mention that I was at Barnes & Nobles the other day and this creepy man came up to me and said something along the lines of "I see you like books. I have a lot at my house if you want to come take a look. You can keep all of them." I got really scared because I just watched a program about Jaycee Lee Dugard's abduction. People are so nice here, but at the same time there are some real sickos. Don't talk to strangers. Please. I also have some really exciting news, but I want to wait to tell you guys until it's set in stone! Even though it's so cold and windy here, Best Coast can always make me feel warm.

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