November 15, 2007
"Oracle World Wasted My Ambien!"
Who knew living in a city would be so noisy?
We received a few messages this morning regarding mass sleeplessness due to last night's Oracle Open World finale. Even the enchanting Stevie Nick's couldn't keep SF residents from calling the cops to ask what the hell was going on.
OK, I am going to try to sleep. I just can't believe . . . I live 3 miles away from the Cow Palace, and tonight Oracle is having their big "Appreciation Party" there. After closing Howard Street for two blocks downtown for an entire week ...tonight they have Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks & Mick Fleetwood (!), Lenny Kravitz, The Engish Beat, and The Smithereens in concert. It is so loud, you can hear it blasting all over The City, and I live 3 miles away from 'it'.
And according to the Chronicle, "apparently, the party was set up in tents outside the Cow Palace," which is why many SF residents could hear Billy Joel's wailing. But we're going to go ahead and blame Lenny Kravitz's set. His derivative music and rockstar persona is unsettling, can be felt near and far.
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How does an outdoor concert that disturbs people over a 3-mile radius get "approved", anyway? Isn't there such a thing as noise ordinances in SF?
Wow, is that what that noise was last night? I live about 3 miles from the Cow Palace and I just assumed someone nearby was having a party or something. That's crazy.
Foolish humans, thinking you can stop Oracle!
As someone who was there all I can say is you haven't lived until you've seen Billy Joel play "Purple Haze."
Next year's Oracle Open World Appreciation Night entertainment: Larry Ellison, wearing a crimson sash that says "I Own This City", blows up a city block of his choosing, using no less than a dozen dynamite-strapped babies, also of his choosing.
I was a ringer attending this event in '01, and all I can say is it was unbelievably posh. Lenny Kravitz played that year too.
Here's what's wierd -- know who got me in? Plant Trees!!! Yes, that Plant Trees. He somehow had a huge wad of free admission wristbands.
Given all this... I cannot ever discourage this event from taking place.
I live in the Outer Sunset and could hear the booming. Didn't know what it was until I read the news in the morning. Must have been one LOUD party.
lenny kravitz is the worst
how old are you guys? you live to complain about something. get a fucking life!
Love the accompanying picture with this entry. So appropriate for so many SF residents.
@Suckafree: Old or not, I'd have been really upset about being kept up all night. People pay rent & taxes so that they can sleep. Why should a rich company be able to inconvenience half a city so that they can live it up? Unless they're paying mad taxes to the city and the state (in which case maybe I'd suck it up), they should have to abide by the law like the rest of us mere mortals.
Ah ha ha, I live in Noe Valley and I thought it was some teenagers having a party a block or two away! Seemed weird to be having a big blowout on a Wednesday, but I just rolled with it. It sure was loud though, but what Larry wants, Larry gets.
Interesting comment, suckafree. Remember it next time the topic of welfare comes up.
Old or not, I'd have been really upset about being kept up all night. People pay rent & taxes so that they can sleep.
the party went until midnight. all night? COME ON.
Dumb question I know, but if it was in tents around the Cow Palace, why wasn't it just in the Cow Palace?
I love jevans' prediction for next year's bash. I imagine Ellison will kick off the whole event with the clubbing of many tiny, adorable seals--if he hasn't done that already.
mamcart: What do you think the tents were made from?
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If it was set up like it was last year, there were three shows at once, two in tents outside and one inside the building itself.
Like I said. Boringlittleworkerbees enjoying mundane entertainement on a Wednesday. Bless their beige little hearts. Back to the cubes for another year Josh.
housing 42k people in every available hotel for a week, putting more dollars in a g-string in town for week, and on and on and paying the annual property taxes he pays on that mansion in pac heights pretty much gives him the right to have gavin blow him every year. rock on larry.
oh, and touche jevens!