My Bloody Valentine storms into SF

I lucked out my first year in college and shared a dorm room with a Filipina shoe gazer. Stylishly adorned in the colors of a true mod-ster, black and white, she refused to leave the room without make-up. She pinned up posters of Ride, Lush, and the Jesus and Mary Chain. And she took me to my first general admission show: Wonderstuff.

My Bloody Valentine's reunion show in San Francisco took me back to these early years of my musical development. While the decibel level had my clothes and body parts vibrating like a cell phone, I danced like it was 1991.

And the folks present took me back to those days as well. I ran into someone I made out with in high school, my first college boyfriend, a boyfriend from my early days in San Francisco!

But MBV wasn't enough. I wanted to hear a mix tape of this soundtrack with Teenage Fanclub, Chapterhouse, JAMC, Ride, and Lush. And it would have been nice to run into that college dormmate. I'm sure that if she lives in SF, she was in the house.