i <3 ely guerra!! :D thank you for introducing me to her music LYNN!!!! i absolutely luvs "quireme mucho" so when i saw her flyer for a one-nite acoustic performance in sf, i thought it'd be kuL to check out. ano's also down with the artsy-fartsy stuff so we got tix and headed out to the mission last night. we hit up a divey bar called pop's before the show & it had the COOLEST bathroom :D. fishies and water everywhere! (see below) damn. i should've checked the guys' bathroom to see what they had. ehehe, next time. they also had a lil candy machine on the way out and one of them was filled with doggy treats, for their doggy patrons. the dood to our right brought his chihuaha/chowchow mix puppy to drink with him. ^^;;

newayz, the show turned out to be mind blowing. ely was SO captivating. even though the majority of it was in spanish, this was WAY better than my mexican charlie chaplin experience x). her voice transcended the language barrier, the physical distance of the theatre, and time. she can sing a sweet angelic pitch, an angry cry, playful "doodoos," and intimate acappellas (usually within the same song). her guitar skills are off the hook and she was so real. lost all track of time from song to song, and then she came out for an encore, with some of her best material of the nite. :D SO memorable.

my main motivation to move to the city was to focus on studying, volunteering, and expanding my future career options, and i've gotta admit that my days aren't the most exciting up here. nonstop studying and lots of missing L and my sister. but in the context of SF, it's so full i can't help but luv it all. :D i get to wake up to the crispness offered by the coastal waters and jog around a sparkling lake covered in morning mist, feast my eyes on art and natural beauty to my heart's content, and experience the best of what the artsy-fartsy world has to offer. :D i'm in my metropolitan haven. this city is all about carpe-diem and "burn, burn, burning."