Dear friend? Not so much...old Jackie boy died 60+ years before I was born, but the man put it more poignantly than anyone has since. It's cold & dreary here while it's hot & sticky everywhere else. As a local (& I've been here long enough to call myself that) I find this every bit distressing as I do refreshing. I miss heat. I miss sweat. I miss fireflies, being outside at night in a t-shirt, & for that matter, the constant discomfort of, well, clothing that a good heatwave can cause. Like so many other SF transplants, I find myself irritable over nature's air conditioning, which runs out of control at full-blast, 24-7. Sometimes I fantasize about closing all the windows, turning the heat up to 90 & pretending we're anywhere else in the country.
Yes, I'm fully aware that living in this amazing city which blesses us with a natural cool breeze makes Esme & I the envy of the other 99% of the population suffering through wave after wave of summer heat.
People LOVE to make mixtapes/CDs of summertime music, the thing is...summertime music is different here. There is no summer breeze blowing the jasmine of our minds here. It's a little more intense than that. Anyway, I think I've captured the mood of summertime in San Francisco.
I think these eight songs sort of represent the feeling of warm sun, cool breeze, & the occasional (okay, frequent) day of intense soupy fog intermittently mixed in. This is a magical place. After all, where else in the country is the high temp pushing mid-60s in July?
Stay tuned for more mixes. There WILL be more very soon. This (& doing laundry) has become my part-time job.
PS. We're both in love with the last song, & Esme fantasizes about the day we can use it as our swimming montage soundtrack.
"This Summer I Went Swimming, This Summer I Might Have Drowned"...in FOG!!
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