This is Portland, we do what we like. This is Portland, we do what we like.

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I am so glad I found that dusty old A/C unit in the garage. Without it, I'd be... well not at home right now.

I saw a guy playing bagpipes while riding a unicycle down Hawthorne today.

I was on my way to Laser Rush @ OMSI.

HA ha. I'm sitting outside shirtless, reading "The Ridiculous Race" about two tv comedy writers deciding to race around the world without using airplanes(one of them cheats), and drinking my roommate's beer.

Tonight is far more tolerable than last night.

Had vegan cupcakes tonight (a friend started working at Saint Cupcake recently). Gooooood.

back in 4 days, plz cool down

I hear we might get rain on Monday. Fingers crossed!

I saw a guy playing bagpipes while riding a unicycle down Hawthorne today.

They need some sort of Bearded Trust Fund Casualty sign on that part of town. It's Height-Ashbury for tourist retards and they peel up a new Reed student off the ground like every other day over there.

^needs more region- and subculture-specific buzzwords imo

Has anybody gone to the Sisters Folk Music Festival? Is it worth going to?

Energy Food - the bagpipe-playing, unicycle guys on Hawthorne bring out the worst in all of us. It's just what they do.

Sunday nights at Beulahland has music videos by request after 8 or so. It's pretty much a DIY 120 Minutes/Headbanger's Ball. I try to go there weekly, and it's a blast.

Meanwhile, my experiment of trying to cool my bedroom down with two box fans facing opposite ways in different windows seems to have worked.

Also, adult soap box derby is on the 22nd

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Grand re-opening of the expanded/remodeled Farm Cafe is on wednesday night. Love that place.

Oh man I totally forgot about Beulahland on Sundays, and here I was being all friendless sadsack wishing I had something to do tonight.

Also Darin what the hell this was like the first time I got all zing-style on ILX and you come back all concilliatory and the bigger man? Bullshit. Let's try again:

fuk u ur gay

Your move.

xpost -- I'm looking forward to the adult soap box derby -- I haven't been in a few years even though I live just a stone's throw away from Tabor. I've always been out of town that weekend. But then the week after that I'm moving out to east county, so future visits will be more difficult.

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i just visited portland last week, was thoroughly amazed by the number of bars and restaurants and indie boutiques. portland is the new oakland, i think. if i didn't have things tying me down (like a wife and job) i'd move there in a heartbeat. good job portland!

ps - i ate at gravy. what an incredible restaurant!

mmm yeah it is good

I have not tried Gravy yet. But I've heard tales.

Finally checked out the new and improved Mississippi Studios tonight. It's nice.

is it bigger now?

For those wanting cheap entertainment, i'm throwing a birthday pizza party for me tonight at Ground Kontrol from 7pm onward. It promises to be appropriately loud & stupid.

I like loud n' stupid! I might stop by after my roommate interview thing for some Dr Who pinball.

PS it is hard to find people to live with up in this piece, everybody wants me to be a vegan woman non-smoker.

And if anybody is about to suggest a Bosom Buddies scheme, rest assured have already had that dream.

That Portland/Oakland thing is funny, since from time to time in Oakland I'm struck by how much it reminds me of of Portland. Berkeley and parts of Seattle factor into this as well.
Also, had breakfast at Gravy a couple years back and it was good, but the most unforgettable part was that it took like an hour and a half to be served!

was in portland last week. ate at Pambiche, Waffle Window, India Something Something Cart, La Jaracito, KoiFusionPDX, Whiffies and Crema Bakery. holy shit, perfect food experience the whole trip.

KoiFusionPDX,

<3 this truck so so so much

i'm visiting portland for a week starting tomorrow. can anyone recommend a dj/dance night, or good shows in general? willamette week hasn't updated its music listings yet, don't know where else to check.

also would be interested in hearing about anything else particularly cool going on. excited!

Never been to any of them but my brother-in-law seems to always be DJing at some club somewhere when he's not a philosophy professor at other places. I know he veers pretty heavy towards hip-hop rather than straight up dance:

http://www.myspace.com/doctoradammusic

hip-hop's not really my dancing choice, but thanks for the suggestion. may look at the list of clubs he spins at and see if they have other, more electronic-dancey nights

holocene is the first best choice for dance music, depending what's going on. also check a night called Nightclubbing (i think their myspace has the most up-to-date info). they do it at various venues, might be a monthly.

Sept 4 Prins Thomas Holocene
i am driving down for it, might be past when you're there

http://www.holocene.org/calendar/
^YACHT tomorrow night, might be fun

rock place
http://www.dougfirlounge.com/cal.php

somebody's bored at work!

went through the mercury listings, here are the best couple that i found:

soul stew, DJ Aquaman. I think this is the weekly that's been going on forever, he's friends with somebody famous, i forget who
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1322026

liked the name on this one, heard Dunes is cool though i've never been
Deep Space Disco: DJ Honeydripper, DJ Rainbow Pudding
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1594341

Dunes is... not very cool. It's like a haven for underagers with fake IDs mostly.

You could always come to my DJ night Thursdays! But it's at a rock & roller dive bar where I get looked at sideways for playing like bizarre love triangle, much less being able to keep a sustained dance thing going on.

I've said this before on board, but Pierced Arrows was great last night

some day when i have money, i will come to yr night, clay!
some day.

aw! <3

I should be back in Seattle sometime in the middle of next month, doing another band session! We'll have to get together for a drink one night!

i will invite myself along and actually go this time

i'll believe that when i see it!

Clay, where do you play? I'll come and request Bizzare Love Triangle, so when you get looks you can point at me and roll yr eyes.

ha, i always play BLT. It's just the aging punk rockers sneer at me for it. Which is a pleasure really.

The Matador on W. Burnside. Thursday nights.

I have various other gigs too but they're more irregular. Second Saturday here, one Friday every three months there, etc. Everybody's a DJ in Portland, it's hard to get gigs/get noticed!

last time i was in portland i saw chromatics at holocene & then danced, it was great. i'll be gone by the time prins rolls through, too bad. thanks for the tips. i definitely want to check out the doug fir, i missed it last time.

clay, where is your dj night? xpost - nevermind. w burnside, i think my friends may live near there

no wait, i think they are on the southeast side? it's all backwards from how we do in dc

nobody lives on the west side except me and a bunch of douchebags.

does the Matador still do the free popcorn?

no, but they have decent beer now and still have the stiffest drinks in town, probably. sometimes there is a terrible spanish-language rock band that opens for me. god i should have this thread de-googled now so i don't get fired!