Debarked last night and took the BART to my new place.  San Fran goes to bed early.  On my block, there is an Ethiopian restaurant, two bookstores, a bodega, and a park with a pool.

Those bookstores will be the death of me.  Also, there is a cafe every single block for seemingly  miles.  And these are street blocks, folks!

I like the lonely anticipation of moving to a new city.  I walk the streets and think, which of these places will I frequent?, which of these faces will become familiar?  I’m a little nervous about school, but like an orchestra tuning up there is that building tension in my brain that makes me think like a writer. It’s mostly a matter of walking around & how you look at the world.

I only like music these days that is made by people I know.  The only stuff I’ve been listening to is Werewolves, Natureboy, and Heiress.  Also, this song by Yoni Wolf.  But I feel like I know him anyway.  Actually, I listen to natureboy constantly.  I feel a generalized sense of loss, that I can no longer watch them play shows, or wander around brooklyn at strange hours of the night for hours without getting bored.  It’s so startling, how someone you know, onstage, suddenly becomes something powerful, pleasing professional banter, toe-curling emotion and all, a voice that breaks the heart.

I’m living with my friend Reece, who found me a room in a wonderful rent-controlled flat in the middle of the mission, across from a nice bar and a block from that McSweeney’s store.

Walking around the city at an unnaturally early hour this morning, I think: god, SF is hilly.  I miss the post-industrial-apocalyptic feel of Brooklyn.  I don’t feel quite right without feeling the world has reached its techno(logical) ultimatum and crumbled into beautiful deserted wasted streets, bombed-out factories looming overhead, late-night drunken hipsters like zombies, fallout survivors whose brains have rotted.

I don’t think I’ve ever missed a place before; it’s always been the people.  But in this case I think it’s both.

I’ll take some pictures soon.

love

-k

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