Despite traveling I’d be remiss not to mention the auditory 
enjoyment that Noise Pop fest is bringing San Franciscans through next Monday. And not just because it temporarily claims the stages of favorite haunts (Benders, Cafe du Nord and Rickshaw Stop among them) with shows by the likes of Zee Avi and Downtown Calling. Two films also stand out: a Roxie Theater screening of the documentary Austin, Texas: Live Music Capital of the World? about the effect that the city’s economic downturn had on working musicians and Vin Cinema’s event around Blood Into Wine about Tool’s front man’s attempt to make wine in the Arizona desert. And, for the record, I’m completely (not) over missing tonight’s happy hour “Outside the Crowd” photography show with work by the very talented Ashod Simonian at my home away from home Hotel Biron. C’est la vie, as they’d likely tell me.