Oakland Bay Bridge and back to the City...plus SPAM!

Finally - It's the LAST SF Day 3 post! This was way back during the first weekend of October.

To recap SF Day 3 - We went to the SoMa and saw street signs named after Philippine revolutionaries and saw the 8 story high Lapu Lapu and Filipino American history mural at the Dimasalang House, ate at Jollibee, saw some cool roadside oddities ("Berkeley Big People" statues and the "Berkeley Fish House", had awesome beignets, decadent chocolate espresso twinkies, funky flavored ice cream and drove up a steepa$$ hill so we could relax at a park.

It was time to head back to Thane's place in the city...I tried to get another shot of the "Berkeley Big People" statue and this is what I got...

Well, you can kind of see it if you squint!

Heading back on the uppder deck of the Oakland Bay Bridge...

They're building another bridge right next to it. YOu cansee some of the equipment in the corner.

Thank goodness there was no suicidal jumper that day!

Back to the city near Thane's place in the South Beach area...

So tired!

I love Thane's place. It's close to everything, the Bridge, the Muni, the Embarcadero, AT&T Park, the Ferry Building...

Since our dinner plans were kind of shot (cousin sick and former student coming back to SF late), we didn't feel like going out again for dinner. We had a late flight out and just wanted to relax at Thane's. TC played Beatles Rock Band with Thane while Bert  occupied himself online. I scrounged around Thane's cupboards and came up with this gourmet quality  delectable dish standard desperation dinner that most Filipinos would like, FRIED SPAM. That's one can between the four of us (not enough in my opinion!). Just a splash of soy sauce on that low sodium spam kind of negates the low sodium eh?

I cooked some white rice and heated up the only vegetables Thane had, frozen mixed. There you go, a complete meal.

Dessert was leftover "It's It Ice Cream Sandwiches" - I had the mint.

On a different note, Darlene sent me an email about the John Hughes tribute at The Pearl Hotel in Point Loma. Hot Fudge also sent Bert a message on his FB wall about the same event. Every Wednesday this month, they will play a different John Holmes Hughes movie. Turns out tonight was "16 Candles"!

Currently listening to M83's homage to vintage 80's music: "Saturdays=Youth

I read in one of my John Hughes' tribute books that Anthony Gonzalez (M83 frontman) used vintage synthesizers and instruments from the 80's for this album. Although this came out in 2008, it sounds like it could have come from 1988! There is also a red headed girl in this video (shades of Molly Ringwald maybe?).

Rave reviews of this album:
Pitchfork
Drowned in Sounds' 50 Albums of 2008
Urban Outfitters blog - Best Music of 2008
and Pop Matters