“You stay out here in Oakland?”

“Yeah, what about you?”

“I’m over here in San Francisco. What do you do here?”

“I’m a musician and an artist.”

“How is Oakland different than San Francisco?”

“It’s a whole different dimension, can’t you feel it?”

“I can, but I was hoping you would describe it in your own words.”

“It more connected over here, more grounded. You ever been to Brooklyn?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s like Brooklyn west.”