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Aimless, are you from around here?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, hey. I just wanted to say that I visited Portland for the first time last Thanksgiving and it was fantastic. My wife still says that she would move there in a heartbeat (which we're not for now...but you never know).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. I grew up near SE 26th Ave and Harrison Street. I've lived in or near P-town during all but my misspent college years. But these days I am a long, long way from making the scene. Too old, too married, and too far into the burbs.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, that means Gresham, right?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

No. Lake Oswego. (Yeah. I know. But, in my case, knowing only that much is highly misleading.)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ooo, even better.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

I know someone that lives in portland

― RJG, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Bill: Genuinely awesome record (vinyl only) store: Mississippi Records, on Mississippi.

Most extensive selection: Everyday Music, one branch on W. Burnside around NW 13th, another at NE 20th and Sandy.

Best curated selection: Jackpot Records, one branch on W. Burnside around SE 9th, another at SE 37th and Hawthorne.

Also, Yximalloo is playing here twice this weekend!

― Douglas, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I meant SW 9th, of course.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

I may move back from Brooklyn in a month or so. I need the NE. I need the coffee. I miss Magic Gardens.

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think I finally went to the Magic Gardens a coupla months ago. Seemed a great place for the really drunk and about-to-be-hungover types. Of course, late night food in portland is fucked, so sometimes you NEED dim sum.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hell, I'm playing on Friday if you're in town for it. EP release party for three bands.

Adam, where did you end up catching your "football" game?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

dogs:Portland::cats:Seattle?

At least on the east side, we have more cats per square inch than I've seen in any neighborhood in Seattle. Out where Aimless lives, there are probably more dogs.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't. I had a nice cup of coffee and looked at thrift stores instead.

xp

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Also The Kennedy School was amazing. Detention Bar!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted to smoke a cigar but did not as I was with my ho (as opposed to my bros).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Also no sales taxxxx! No self-service gas (if only I'd known this I could have avoided a quite embarassing scene).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

That weird coffee place where people drink coffee....through straws!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

...what? Was it iced coffee?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Rust! Steel!

xp no it's called Dutch Boy or something? I don't have the name right.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/358549167_362808b345.jpg
Our room at Kennedy school!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

The corridor! creepy!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/358549180_5fabd06eeb.jpg

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Rust! Steel! Asphalt! Rain!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/358549170_f54446e526.jpg

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Portland

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Dutch BROTHERS
http://www.dutchbros.com/

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Another great record shop is EXILED, on Hawthorne: sweet selection of experimental/ drone/ folk/ outsider LPs in there (used and new) plus they've got the best Middle Eastern psychedelic selection I've seen anywhere (on disc and LP) -- it's even better than Amoeba or Aquarius.

But Douglas is right -- MISSISSIPPI is the best shop in town, also a great record label doing vinyl only releases that are pretty hard to find esp. now that Damon Albarn's shop in the UK, Honest Jon's, buys up half of whatever they make as soon as they're out. The Thai Orchestra one they just did is super great, kind of like gamelan meets 'Ethiopiques' with a bit of drumcore thrown in. Mississippi is sold out of that LP but Exiled has copies still, I think; it doesn't have a name or any text written in English, so just ask for the Thai Orchestra record. If you don't like it, I'll buy it back from you. (Full disclosure: I'm working with them on some projects that'll be out later this year OK).

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP. ANTHEM is a pretty good shop for new-ish alt-drone-metal stuff, I always find something at the weirdo punk-folk-country shop Q IS FOR CHOIR, if you like metal chek out 2ND AVe. RECORDS, and yeah the EVERYDAY MUSIC on Burnside is so big that they invariably get some good stuff. I myself am satisfied with just going to Exiled and Miss. (I've never liked JACKPOT, but that's just me.)

For my $$, this town also has a lot of great places to eat fresh/ local/ organic/ sort-of-gourmet type food for very little $$: VALENTINES, PROPER EATS, THE FARM, L'ASTRA, etc. There's also some really good Ethiopian food (DALOS being the cheapest and also the only one I know of with both brown rice and delicious shakes offered) and Japanese as well (SABUROS is amazing --large, fresh sushi cuts, very inexpensive-- and well worth the hour-long wait).

Coffee is kind of a big deal here. Thanks largely to the fact that Duane from STUMPTOWN has trained so many people and done so much to work directly with growers and pay them well above "fair trade," this town's crawling with awesome coffee plaes and baristas. You'll get a great shot at any of these places, ranked rougly in descending order: ALBINA PRESS, STUMPTOWN, FRESH POT, CREMA, TINYS, that new place in St Johns, and SOHBET. The Stumptown bean shop on Belmont has fresh cups made with a ridiculously expensive machine that are pretty out of this world, too.

And MAGIC GARDENS, for me, is the best strip club I've ever been to, even though a lot of my favorite people are no longer working there. It's usually got a decent male to female patron ratio (more a bar vibe than a gross/ sleazy one), there's no pole or anything, only two girls work per shift, the woman who runs the plae is super sweet and in her 60s at least, there is no cheesey dude announccing people and reminding you to tip, some of the dancers are actually my favorite DJs in town, and the best dumplings in town are right across the street at the GOLDEN HORSE, old shool Chinese place that's open until 11 or so. Yay.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

hmm

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

how many pdx ilxors do we have now, anyway?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

I keep wanting to visit my bros over there. Damn you, poverty!

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Portland is in walking distance. (Note: I did not say "easy walking distance".)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time (and large water bodies aren't involved).

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/forrest_gump/tom_hanks/gump1.jpg

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

What is summer like in Portland?

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP.

that's crossroads. i've found some pretty good stuff for super-cheap there over the years.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks of horrid heat, made worse by the fact that nobody except movie theaters, powells, and only so many bars have A/C.

Everytime else is just great/perfect. Green trees, sunlight til 9-10pm, attractive people and other drunks out & about, riding bicycles, openly copulating on the riverfront park, etc.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Please just reassure me that Hung Far Low is still there.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

copulating? sounds rude.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

A/C is bad for you

― RJG, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hung Far Low building still stand. Hung Far Low restaurant packed it in two years ago ago.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=30735

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hung Far Low is now on 82nd and Division.

― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hung Far Low? sounds rude.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Portland! I am here too!

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://laurabush.info/website/lookie/pics/45b15b.jpg

For the uninitiated.

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

That's not the canonical sign.

Former ILXor Martin M. is also in PDX these days. (And in my band, for that matter.)

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Also wtf why is it so damn hot today?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

i believe the old sign just got replaced with basically the same sign (minus the graffiti on it) as it's now the hung far low building.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

80 in the daytime, 44 in the nighttime

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

BTW hi Mike I've been to your house a bunch on account of tight friending with your roomates.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

Went to the "Digital Democracy" panel thing at Acme tonight. David Sirota was in town, hosting it, and it was a pretty good time with some interesting ideas.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

Bear: Huh? You sure you mean me? Here a bunch? Ummm, when?

I have three roommates, one's my girl and the other two don't hang out that I know of -- in fact one of them's been away for a few months now, on tour.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 06:42 (eighteen years ago)

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hopefully we can all agree that this represents a good praxis of resistance?

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― sleeve, Friday, 10 October 2025 16:37 (one month ago)

blah I was misled, that's not from PDX but rather Germany in 2007

I am still loving the frog & unicorn costumes being used in PDX

― sleeve, Friday, 10 October 2025 17:10 (one month ago)

Things are still looking bad, apparently.

“Portland, Oregon, I mean, every time I look at that place, the place is burning down. There’s fires all over the place,” Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he made the same wildly false claim last month to justify his desire to deploy federal troops to the city.
“When a store owner, there’s very few of them left, but when a store owner rebuilds his store, they build it out of plywood. They don’t put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up, because they know it’s going to be ripped down,” the president insisted, as his health secretary, FDA commissioner and Medicare administrator looked on but said nothing.

― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:14 (one month ago)

I love the frog costumes because they conceal faces but are also the opposite of Black Bloc-type outfits. It'll suck if Proud Boys show up disguised as frogs and wreak havoc, though.

― the way out of (Eazy), Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:21 (one month ago)

I'm sorry to hear about the end of stores... I used to enjoy PDX for its stores, now it's just plywood

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:25 (one month ago)

as his health secretary, FDA commissioner and Medicare administrator looked on but said nothing

what is there to say?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:26 (one month ago)

how about: "wtf is wrong with you, man?"

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:40 (one month ago)

really shockingly weird series of feelings watching one battle after another at the hollywood theater a couple days ago amidst all of whatever this is

― Jizzle James (Clay), Saturday, 11 October 2025 00:53 (one month ago)

wow I bet

― sleeve, Saturday, 11 October 2025 01:41 (one month ago)

When a store owner, there’s very few of them left, but when a store owner rebuilds his store, they build it out of plywood.

Leaving them vulnerable to big bad wolves, among others.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 October 2025 02:54 (one month ago)

I'll be in Portland early next week ... someone tell me where all the many different fires are so I can avoid them, please.

― alpine static, Saturday, 11 October 2025 07:24 (one month ago)

they're turning the frickin gays into frogs here, it's bad folks

― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 October 2025 07:40 (one month ago)

On the plane flying back to Boston after an incredible boy’s trip weekend. Karaoke was, per usual, insane. Casa Diablo, per usual, sketch. Food, record shopping, all the good Portland shit. I’ll miss you Portland.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 13 October 2025 13:50 (one month ago)

Sounds like you hit it all. Where was karaoke?

― the way out of (Eazy), Monday, 13 October 2025 15:14 (one month ago)

(I hit Send and then realized: probably The Alibi?)

― the way out of (Eazy), Monday, 13 October 2025 15:14 (one month ago)

IsPortlandBurning.com

― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 14 October 2025 16:34 (one month ago)

come to my karaoke nights, pdx ilxors! (it's in the burbs no one is gonna go)

― Jizzle James (Clay), Tuesday, 14 October 2025 23:50 (one month ago)

I went to see a friend host trivia at a strip-mall bar in Gresham, so you never know. Could be fun!

― the way out of (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 00:32 (one month ago)

xp tell me more

― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 01:01 (one month ago)

i've hosted karaoke fri/sat (and now alternating wednesdays) at a sports bar in a famously uncool portland suburb for like 8 years now! could be a fun ilx outing sometime, honestly never thought about it til today. i'd rather not put the name of the bar on here but maybe we can figure a way to work it out sometime in the future

― Jizzle James (Clay), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 04:10 (one month ago)

def down for a Saturday sometime

― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 14:40 (one month ago)

That sounds fun for sure - up for it as well.

I did karaoke at Voicebox (off of NW 21st) with some friends this summer and loved it. Private-room karaoke and just well run in every way, including charging per person, which was easier to sort out than standard a room rental.

― the way out of (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 15:38 (one month ago)

Baby Ketten has the top catalog, from my experience, fwiw

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 17:45 (one month ago)

did you guys ride your bikes around naked?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 17:48 (one month ago)

We went to Baby Ketten!

did you guys ride your bikes around naked?

It was way too cold!

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 18:03 (one month ago)

voicebox is my friend's standard karaoke place... i don't do karaoke myself, i get pretty overwhelmed, but it seems nice for people who like that.

that said i'd show up for ilx karaoke, tho i mostly use public transit, so if it's not accessible that way i'd need a ride.

been down with a cold lately but once i'm over that would love to hang out with folks more!

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 22:15 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

hey any portlanders interested in a signal group chat? just tossing the idea out there, my friend groups are increasingly turning to signal chats as the internet dies (film at 11)

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 31 October 2025 16:48 (three weeks ago)

this saturday i'm hitting the clinton street theater's annual RHPS, they do it all the time mind you but they really go all-out for the halloween shows. i made it last year and my god RHPS at the clinton street theater reaches linear calculus levels of genderfuck

is "linear calculus" an actual mathematical thing, i failed calculus three times in a row and then changed my major

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 31 October 2025 16:51 (three weeks ago)

did you guys ride your bikes around naked?

It was way too cold!

portland does have an annual "worst day of the year" bike ride that generally happens in early February. it's not naked, though.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 31 October 2025 18:15 (three weeks ago)

I live by Ladd's, and we've got the annual Ladd's 500 in the spring (500 laps around a circle, in fun outfits).

Anticipating Knife + Heart in 35mm tonight at the 5th Avenue Cinema (which I've followed closed - lots of good programming - but have never been to). Hadn't heard of K+H until this week, but a film-director friend says it was his favorite film of that year and I just found ILXor raves from then as well.

― the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 31 October 2025 19:05 (three weeks ago)

*followed closely

― the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 31 October 2025 19:05 (three weeks ago)

The Clinton Street Theater
Friends on the block lost a coworker to the kidnappers from ICE. There's a fund set up to try and get him back to his family:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-reunite-orlando-vazquez-with-family

― sleeve, Friday, 31 October 2025 19:06 (three weeks ago)

Saw that on Dot's instagram (where he worked). Also read about some abductions around Alberta & 18th (from restaurants and food carts near there). Frightening to see things kicking in here, after a month where it seemed like they were mostly focused on protesters.

― the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 31 October 2025 19:07 (three weeks ago)

I live by Ladd's

Hah! I grew up up the hill from Ladd's, just off Harrison St. at 26th Ave. Looks just different enough, yet same enough, to feel uncanny to me on my very infrequent passes through the old neighborhood.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 31 October 2025 19:24 (three weeks ago)

I starting visiting/living in Portland in '21, so the mazes of Ladd's were my kind of fun when everything indoors was shut down. Love the combo of lush quiet streets but then all the coffee/food/bar/movies/etc on all sides of it.

― the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 31 October 2025 19:33 (three weeks ago)

we had a cook at my joint deported a month or so back, we're doing what we can to help his wife/kids but it's obv so awful

― Jizzle James (Clay), Friday, 31 October 2025 20:28 (three weeks ago)

hey any portlanders interested in a signal group chat?

Sure, I’d be interested

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 8 November 2025 18:49 (two weeks ago)

Works for me too.

― the way out of (Eazy), Saturday, 8 November 2025 19:12 (two weeks ago)

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