Dear New Zealand, I am just writing to announce that, from an accurate sample of one show, I declare San Diego bands to be pretty much exactly the same as New Zealand ones. Just saw some boring experimental/drone band, all kneeling hunched over their laptops and anachronistic sound machines. Then a 5 piece shouty-folky-electro-y band who were like the Futurians, if the Futurians had 5 members and folk leanings. Then this guy Alasdair Roberts who is from Glasgow and is on Drag City I think. Anyway he was very nice and here is a (bad) picture of kids sitting round attentively like he is big-daddy storyteller. And then it rained again, and he said he was going to play "Weather With You" but he didn't.


And here is some of the graffiti in the toilets. Am I at Arc? Midnight? Nooo..... Different city, same graffiti. *sigh* And this place is even scody-er than any Arc or Freedom Shop ever. There was apparently a rat under the couch I was sitting on, and one guy spent about an hour trying to evict it by thumping on the couch and yelling at the offending rodent. Rattus rattus.