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

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!

was that the place with the shirtless dj dudes?

yes.

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.

Thankig u for the many stuff goin on updates, they are v useful for the bored and locally friendless (yo).

Sunday is the pug playdate in the off-leash area of Irving Park at Fremont & NE 7th at like 2:30pm or so. It's always amusing.

Also, if you're up for a beer, post on here and I'm sure a few portland ilxors would be interested

Will you might also want to try Branx (http://www.myspace.com/branxpdx). i've heard it's small and can be worthwhile, depending who's playing. also Rotture is right there http://www.rotture.com/ though i don't know the first thing about that place

Rotture is appaz the hipster meatmarket; this is second-hand information, mind, and from someone who might be a bit quick on the h-word trigger, but rather reliable.

And yeah I'll get a beer! Mini-FAP should happen at some point, though I should warn my work schedule is shit and I'm not available many nights until like 12:30.

W I L L, go see Atole at Work/Sound on the 28th. They always put on a great dance party with live music.

And if you swing the other way, my doom metal band of 12 years -- Witch Mountain, is playing at Dante's on the 28th with Jucifer and Lickity (a synth/punk duo featuring the original drummer from FEAR).

thanks for the tips, all. i kept pretty busy, didn't really have time for a FAP, but thanks for the offer. <3 portland. you all are some fortunate people to be living there!

kingfish, that wasn't you sitting next to me at b-side tonight, right? cuz there was a dude who looked a lot like you (I think, been awhile since I saw a wdyll) with a ground kontrol shirt, but his beard was black so I assumed no.

Nope, not me. I was at Billy rays.

oh btw I am moving to yo city in a few days

Rock.

hey congrats rev. that's awesome.

Do you know what part of town Rev?

Welcome, rev.

Oh wait I mean

Go back to where you came from and stop taking jobs from we native (aka been here more than 9 months) Portlanders! Grrr! Anger!

How many ilxors do we have here now?

Dope btw.

best of luck in p-land, r!

If I just want someone to travel to for a solo vacation, hang around and catch some local food and stuff and do low-key stuff for a few days, is Portland a decent idea at this time of the year?

Yes, get out here soon before we enter... The Rain Tunnel

It's an awesome place to do that kind of vacation where you just hang around, eat out, and basically act like you live there and it's just a long weekend.

I will temporarily be in SW off Barbour, hopefully moving to north somewhere near the yellow line (seems to be the area that with the most optimal combination of affordability/convenience) soon. Any location advice accepted and appreciated.

nick: I'm from WA, not Cali, thus more human than monster

How many ilxors do we have here now?

About as many as would fit in a clown car.

1 and 1/2 clown cars

If anybody needs a place to live, my landlord's wife is trying to fit folks into a large house at 57th & NE Sandy. It's a decent place in the Hollywood neighborhood for a decent price.

I know some hippie chicks in NE that need a roommate.

NOOOOOO hippies. Uh uh. Not happening.

57th/Sandy looks like somewhere from which it would be a pain in the ass to get to downtown Vancouver by public trans.

Yeah, if you're commuting to Vancouver then North Portland is def. the way to go. I haven't spent a lot of time up there, but I looked at renting house a few months ago that was cheap and really cool about 5 blocks from the center of the little Mississippi neighborhood. It seems like a really nice place to live.

If you don't already have one, get a bike, it's soooo silly to live in city with such great capacity for biking and never use it. I'm not trying to push you to become hardcore biker dude commuting across the Columbia (even though it's only five miles) but if just to run out and do errands and explore, bike is u+k.

It's an awesome place to do that kind of vacation where you just hang around, eat out, and basically act like you live there and it's just a long weekend.

awesome, i am doing this at the end of the month. looking at someone on ilm's list of portland music was as far as i was gonna go in terms of planning activities

Be sure to eat at least one cart meal (e.g. Wolf and Bear's at 20th and Belmont, holy shit, get the coffee with the cardamom).

Food carts are my current PDX fixation, they're so goddamned good and cheap, and the people who own and run them seem to have just figured out their lives.

Musicfest NW is this weekend as well

I've spent many a long weekend pretending to live in Portland doing mundane stuff, roaming around, eating, and so on. It's pretty perfect for that.

Reverend, I think if you stay close to I-205 then you won't have too bad of a commute.

Also, speaking of awesome food carts, Taqueria Los Gorditos on the corner of SE Division and 50th Ave. is superb.

That was kind of one of the pleasant surprises when I moved out to east county a couple of weeks ago -- there are taco trucks everywhere with buche, lengua, tripa, cabeza, etc.

close to I-205

rong end of Vancouver

I have a bike but it needs fixing and I'm totally penny-pinching at this point. In any event, it won't be coming down with me, at least not right away.

Yeah, do whatever you can to fix your bike; once you do that, you can get around the city with ease

Can't stress that enough. Portland is uniquely suited to biking, in some ways because it is ill-suited to other forms of transit: driving sucks a lot, things are just a bit too spread out for walking, and transit is good but not excellent.

I didn't realize this at first and spent a few months trapsing around waiting way too long for bus transfers on trips that would have taken ten minutes to leisurely ride.

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Alright when is beerztime for up and coming ilxor.com population center Portland, OR? I've got the next three nights off, just FYI.

I'm in Seattle until Wednesday :(

I am up for this if it happens in the next week and a half

HAY CLAY