What the hey?!?!? How is it April already? Weren’t we just jamming through the New Year? Losin’ my mind over here regarding the passage of time. And with that train crash of a non segue it’s time for this months THE GOOD LIFE! (Cheapskate Edition!) With me, you friendly neighborhood disc jockey, saver of a buck and purveyor of all this cool stuff, Steve Foxx. Let’s goooooo!

Week 1 - The Eats:

You look like the kind of person who can wolf down a basket of garlic fries and three brews at a baseball game. You also look like the kind of person who doesn’t want to spend $80 on a ticket for the cheap seats and two bills on food drink and merch. The Gigantes are a splurge for sure.

Across the bridge is a cheaper and dare I say cooler and more fun alternative. Go hang with the Pioneer League CHAMPION Oakland Ballers! A seriously fun time with all the ball park food for cheap. Like real cheap. For the price of a MLB cheap seat. Bring a friend. Or five. Get a lil’ rowdy. (Lil’ Rowdy is a hip hop story for another time).

Week 2 - The Art:

This month’s journey is not only thrifty, but a boundary-breaking adventure. If you want art, go make it. And by art I mean the open mic night at The Faight, 6pm on the 21st. And by make it, I mean write some poetry. And perform it! You have it in you. You can write poetry. Dig it, here’s a haiku:

Mission is the warmest;

My landlord ignores my calls;

A Tecate and lime;

Cat-centered 80’s album.

Surely you can match my nonsense that I made up on the fly for this column? Write with your heart! Do it, kid!

Week 3 - The Drink:

With the warm weather that we’ve been having, I’m dreaming of Cuba. We all need to lay back, step back, and some of us need to fall back. But I know the stoop sitting in temperatures that belong in San Diego will be made more memorable with a delicious and classic Cuba Libre.

Ingredients

2 oz Light or Aged Rum (e.g., Havana Club 3 Años or Bacardí Gold)

4-6 oz Mexican Coca-Cola (bottled)

1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice (approx. half a lime)

Lime wedge/wheel for garnish

Instructions

Fill a highball or Collins glass with ice. Add the rum. Add the lime juice. Top with the Mexican Coke. And please, don’t use Diet Coke, or cola, or Pepsi or Coke Zero or ANYTHING ELSE. Mexican Coke. Period. End of rant. Okay, Gently stir that sucker and garnish with a lime wedge. Drink! Then go to City Hall in San Francisco and burn a pile of Levi’s in protest of Denim Dan the TikTok Mayor. ¡Viva la Revolución!

Week 4 - The Show:

You haven’t been to The Independent for awhile. Time to revisit. How about some aging alt rockers giving up the rad tunes? That would be ART BRUT, all the way from England on this leg of a West Coast tour. No? Too much scratch? Go to the Golden Gate Bandshell as their free concert series continues. Yes! You did it! With all the money you saved this month you can’t not afford to spend it on Record Store Day.

Until next time friends,

Foxx. Out.