One of my favorite bands is X. One of my favorite songs of theirs is The Have Nots, where they reel off a whole string of names of bars, real and parhaps imaginary. The one that’s always stuck out to me is the Zircon Lounge, not sure why, but I like the name. One day a few years ago I called 411 and asked for the listing here in San Francisco, and strangely enough there was a listing. I’d certainly never heard of a place here in town by that name. I rang the number and they answered “Place Pigalle”, which is a bar down on Hayes. That night I went down there and asked the ‘tender about the Zircon Lounge, and she said that the owner had almost used that name, but decided at the last minute to go with Place Pigalle instead. The only other evidence of this I can find is their email address, which I found posted here. Funny little story. The question is: is Place Pigalle somehow the Zircon Lounge that Exene was talking about?