I was on my way to Laser Rush @ OMSI.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 August 2009 05:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Saturday, 1 August 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Had vegan cupcakes tonight (a friend started working at Saint Cupcake recently). Gooooood.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Saturday, 1 August 2009 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
back in 4 days, plz cool down
― bear, bear, bear, Saturday, 1 August 2009 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I hear we might get rain on Monday. Fingers crossed!
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 2 August 2009 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Darin, Sunday, 2 August 2009 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
^needs more region- and subculture-specific buzzwords imo
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 2 August 2009 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anybody gone to the Sisters Folk Music Festival? Is it worth going to?
― banjoboy, Sunday, 2 August 2009 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Energy Food - the bagpipe-playing, unicycle guys on Hawthorne bring out the worst in all of us. It's just what they do.
― Darin, Monday, 3 August 2009 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Monday, 3 August 2009 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, adult soap box derby is on the 22nd
http://www.soapboxracer.com/
― kingfish, Monday, 3 August 2009 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Grand re-opening of the expanded/remodeled Farm Cafe is on wednesday night. Love that place.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 3 August 2009 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 3 August 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 3 August 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Monday, 3 August 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
mmm yeah it is good
― sleeve, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I have not tried Gravy yet. But I've heard tales.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally checked out the new and improved Mississippi Studios tonight. It's nice.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 7 August 2009 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
is it bigger now?
― jergins, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Chinavision (altair nouveau), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 August 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
KoiFusionPDX,
<3 this truck so so so much
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Thursday, 13 August 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― W i l l, Monday, 24 August 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
also would be interested in hearing about anything else particularly cool going on. excited!
― W i l l, Monday, 24 August 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― joygoat, Monday, 24 August 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― W i l l, Monday, 24 August 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Sept 4 Prins Thomas Holocenei am driving down for it, might be past when you're there
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.holocene.org/calendar/^YACHT tomorrow night, might be fun
rock placehttp://www.dougfirlounge.com/cal.php
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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 whohttp://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1322026
liked the name on this one, heard Dunes is cool though i've never beenDeep Space Disco: DJ Honeydripper, DJ Rainbow Pudding http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1594341
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I've said this before on board, but Pierced Arrows was great last night
― bear, bear, bear, Monday, 24 August 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
some day when i have money, i will come to yr night, clay!some day.
― tehresa, Monday, 24 August 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i will invite myself along and actually go this time
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll believe that when i see it!
― tehresa, Monday, 24 August 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― W i l l, Monday, 24 August 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
no wait, i think they are on the southeast side? it's all backwards from how we do in dc
― W i l l, Monday, 24 August 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
nobody lives on the west side except me and a bunch of douchebags.
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
does the Matador still do the free popcorn?
― this filthy ambulance of a season (jergins), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
was that the place with the shirtless dj dudes?
― tehresa, Monday, 24 August 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
yes.
― pastor prayer zoo (Clay), Monday, 24 August 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Check the Portland Mercury for events. You have stuff like Rock Band Night at Ground Kontrol on tuesday, or $5 free-play there on wednesday night all night. There's also the Fez for dancin'.
Saturday, they're showing "The Room" at Cinema 21 and I'll be damned if I'm not going.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link