From Marc Hawthorne’s The Mark of a Great City:

My all-time favorite songwriter is Mark Kozelek

Ditto.

Hawthorne visits many of the places in and around San Francisco Kozelek has referenced in his songs over the years. A piece best enjoyed by Kozelek enthusiasts for sure, but I had a blast reading it. Just plain fun. One of my favorite parts:

I know an old woman ran a donut shop
She worked late serving cops
But then one morning, baby, her heart stopped
Place ain’t the same no more

Those lyrics are from Glenn Tipton on Sun Kil Moon‘s album Ghosts of the Great Highway. It turns out the “old woman” was Eleanor Ahn and the “donut shop” is Bob’s Donut & Pastry Shop.

After reading partway through I was so intrigued I opened up Google Maps and ended up mapping out all the places Hawthorne mentions. Check it out here.