Pride Day #2

Oh man my feet hurt, walking around in my boots is not as comfortable after about a mile.

I got to don my goth outfit again + the red & black fairy wings I bought yesterday. fishnets, how I missed thee.

So today was the parade day of the pride festivities, which means a ton more people at the civic center too. More alleys and booths and what not too.

Because i gathered most of the schwag yesterday, today i only obtained a Virgin Airlines "SFOXOXOXO" shirt, which I thought was adorable.

All of these cute tshirts are going to come in handy since i just bought this tshirt cutting book.


Two highlights of the day:

LEATHER ALLEY
Ah, the infamous Leather Alley. The biggest part of the alley is the tarped-off area.
Last year, I didn't go into the mysterious tarped-off area, though I'm not exactly sure why. I did see someone just masturbating in the middle of the street in the open so maybe I thought it wasn't that important to go inside of the tent and see more.

This year, Tobi & I definitely checked it out. I'm glad they didn't allow cameras or else I would have taken way too many pictures of everything. I was quite impressed with how professional and classroom-like the atmosphere was, not just a gawkfest.

Ended up dancing right above Leather Alley to some really good(well I liked it) industrial music.

API STAGE
Asian-Pacific-Islander stage. I really think this is because they don't know where to lump Filipinos so they say "Asian/Pacific Islander"

Anyway, some of my friends were performing in the drag show, and I must say it was one of the most entertaining things I have ever had to stand in the cold to witness. I was laughing, cheering, and riled up!

Margaret Cho was there for a bit, and she is FINE now. She musta lost a lot of weight. She is fierce, and apparently gay men love her.

So compared to yesterday, today was very uneventful. It was still really fun and I ended up spending like 5 hours of my life there, so it was fun!

Pride Day #1!

Today was such a fabulous day i have to blog about it before i forget everything that we did.

So tobi came over last night and is currently crashing on my couch for Pride Weekend!

ZOMG we did a lot today.

Here is a quick breakdown:

THE DAY BEGINS
1st, Candice had one of those realistic nightmares, meaning I didn't wake up until 10am. Woke up, showered, and prepared to go to Civic Center for the Pride festivities.

Arrived at O'Farrell and Van Ness. Distracted by Books, Inc.

(dude i really want some cap'n crunch right now)

PRIDE AT CIVIC CENTER
Then we went to Pride festivities near the Civic Center. Since it had JUST opened up there was barely anyone there, and tobi and i kept getting the schwag that people ended up waiting for in line later on (whoo hoo!)
Free stuff obtained:

-Me not Meth tshirt
-Dante's Cove sampler DVD
-Necklace
-2 tickets to the alameda county fair (anyone either want these tix or want to go)
-AT&T Tshirt that says "Call from the Pride Parade, sound like you're in the closet" (haha)
-Full deck of Playing Cards (apparently Reno has a pride day too)
-Obama Pride Sticker
-Got Sperm? Sticker
-Library card (details below)

Tobi made out with that PLUS he got a couple of bags.

I also bought 3 5733 tshirts for $30. Bargain bin.
After noticing that their booth was in front of the public library, I decided to go get a library card.
Yes you heard right I GOT A LIBRARY CARD. FUCK YEAH. It's a fancy decorative one PLUS i have one for my keychain. I rule.

Since I hadn't eaten breakfast, we found this place on yelp and ended up running into it accidentally. I forgot what it's called but it's this AMAZING vegetarian restaurant on the corner of grove and market.

Then i bought a sticker that has a zelda nintendo cartridge on it and it says BLOW ME. serious. yes, I'll show it to you sometime.

Tobi found out that one of his favorite DJs was playing at Temple, so he offered to buy me a ticket so that we could BOTH go and party all night long.

I also bought some black and red fairy wings in anticipation of TOMORROW's festivities, which should be even crazier.
Thinking I was going to go home right after this, I didn't think too hard about this purchase.

I ended up carrying it for the next few HOURS.

RANDOM MOVIE TIME
So Tobi and I were walking up Van Ness back to Geary for the mighty 38. I see the ad for Wall-E and make a comment about how we should go see it.

Tobi agrees, then I realize it's gonna be hella full since it's opening weekend. We go in to see what else is playing, and I realize that KUNG FU PANDA is playing in like 4 minutes.

Tobi buys my ticket (tobi was buying stuff for me all day awww)
And we see Kung Fu Panda!! It ruled, but we were definitely in the "hey let's bring our rude and noisy kids who talk about the movie real loud and you cant tell them to shut up because the other parents will shun you pride-sticker-wearing motherfuckers"

FYI they're making High School Musical 3 for the big screen. About time they figure out they can milk that cow for even more lucious milk.

WALK TO THE CRAWL
So after the movie's over, we go "great break, let's head home".
I notice it's almost 5, and since my OTHER birthday celebrating friend was having a bar crawl that started at that time on Polk Street, I call him up to see if he's already there. he is.
After some clever iPhoning, we realize the bar he's at is 1.1 miles away.

Wings in hand, we hoof it.

However, there are tons of distractions along Polk. I'm talking walgreens, secondhand shops, and oh yes, the distraction of them all Good Vibrations.

Realizing this could just be the most brilliant birthday gift to my friend ever, Tobi and I run on in.

I must say, the customer service in this sex shop is well above what is expected. i had been in here once before, but man this time around they were really friendly.
"What kind of gift would you like to get him?"
"Does he like bondage?"
"You can hook up your iPod to it" (yes people this is real. It's like the vibrator for geek girls)

After playing certain HR Violation scenarios that might have arisen from giving my coworker/friend this gift, I decide that I should just buy him a beer when we get to the bar.

1.1 miles and about an hour of distraction of Polk Street later, we arrive at the

PUB CRAWL

I arrive, and am the only worker there so far. I'm half an hour late to the start.

I meet all his friends, and I high five every single one of them with my patented solid high fives. They're virtual bowling, and apparently my high fives cause strikes.

Buy Brendan a beer. Talk about good vibrations with the only other girl there to the absolute entertainment of the other boys around.

Kelsey arrives with her Feed Bag from Whole Foods so of COURSE since I'm in love with it Tobi is also in love with it 'cause we both rule like that.

So we find out the nearest Whole Foods is also conveniently on the 1 line back home anyway. So I close out my tab and we after grabbing a muni to take us the blocks we just walked, we eventually find ourselves in

WHOLE FOODS
So we figure out quickly that we suddenly don't want dinner from here and would rather just go to a restaurant, so we beeline it for the Feed bags. I debate buying one for my little sister and sending it back to Hawai'i (no whole foods there), bud decide against it for at least this two week time period.

After debating what to eat, we eventually settle on

Q
Definitely one of my favorite restaurants, and so happy that it's in my neighborhood. Usually I come here for just brunch...but ended up here for dinner tonight.

Here Tobi and I make the plan for the rest of the night (yeah, the sun is STILL at this time people).
We're gonna go to my place, rest for a bit, get dolled up and then go back to Temple where 92.7's Queen is taking place.

Food is delish.
Get back home. Go to buy tix online for queen..and of course It's SOLD OUT.

Of course! Everything that day had been going amazingly, why not throw a wrench? After a couple of minutes of debate..we decide to do the unthinkable.
To go to the one place that everyone IS going. The place where it's stupid to go on pride night.

BUT because this is Tobi's Birthday Weekend, and he's Gay, AND it happens to also be Pride Weekend...

We go to the

CASTRO STREET PARTY: PINK SATURDAY
I will admit. I didn't think it was going to be that massive. I thought there'd be a lot of people in the bars there, like Haight at Halloween time.

I didn't realize that they'd close off the street and that there'd be a SEA of people already waiting for us to party with them when we got there.

Shared a cab with Josh. Got dropped off at the top top...and oh. my. god.


IT WAS AWESOME. SHEER AWESOME. So many people! So many colors!

And every hot guy there was gay so no pressure!
Although within 5 minutes of me navigating through the crowd I had a guy come up to me and just fondle my breast. I'm not talking accidental "Whoops i just touched your boob" but straight up squeezing to see if I'm real. The last time I went to the Castro,something similarly "wow" happened, but that was mostly verbal. I look back at the guy and start laughing, assuming he's gay, and i go back and start doing the same thing to his chest. He looks like he's enjoying it, so I suddenly get suspicious, and then his gay friend leans in and goes "um, he's hetero..haha"

Good times.

Tobi and I brave it all the way to the front and center of the DJ stage, and it is PACKED. It's like metallica concert moshpit packed. And unfortunately not everyone there is respecting one another, it's definitely not like a hawaii concert.

But it is hella fun. We end up dancing from the minute we get there to the time the party is shut down at midnight due to lameness.

We run for our bus that happens to be there, but end up walking to Dolores Park
I hail a cab (thank GOD that was hard) and we head home.

FINALLY BACK TO THE APARTMENT
where i sit blogging about this.

Tomorrow morning's going to be even crazier with the pride parade and everything. I look forward to wearing my goth outfits again, haven't put them on in seriousness in years.
=)

Goodnight blogland! Today was one of the most eventful days of my life. If i had planned this stuff, I probably wouldn't have gotten them done. I love random days. Today I kinda wanted to be a lesbian just so I could be *extra* proud.
C'est le vie, just gotta be straight I guess.

Dynamic Skyscrapers

Shape Changing Skyscrapers
This looks cool, but unfortunately I could never live in one due to my vertigo.

Although I can imagine how fun a party would be in one.

Helpful friends.

I got a call at 1:33am PST this morning (which was 10:33pm Hawai'i Time) from my friend Jacqui who is apparently very helpful.

I was writing a song for tonight's open mic.

Begin Message:

"Hey Candice I came up with things that rhyme with "vibrator"

Alligator
Masturbator
Terminator
Cheese grater
Litigator
Dictator
Propagator

Seeya-later!

*click*"

End Message.


So seriously, there's a lot of material there.

makin music

7-hour jam session...no really long breaks either. It was incredible, I haven't played my bass in like 2 years and it was really fun.

my fingers hurt when i type though.

worth it.

couldn't sleep so i made a new header

took me way too long playing with putting faces in there...among other things. i decided to go with simple

Credit to Jellyka Nerevan for the font. Since I am NOT making any money off this blog whatsoever i can use it....

My lunch told through txts

Bernadette:
11:41am Hey I just parked in front of Gold Club.


Tobi:
12:13pm Boobs every where help.



Gold Club is a pretty popular spot for lunch on Fridays. You can get an all you can eat buffet for $5 entry fee.


Oh and it's a strip club. Where women dance nekkie.

And tobi's a gay male. I am a salesperson.