Ithaca.

ok what do i do

bong rips

mushrooms, spear-fishing.

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if autumn leaves used books is still there, they had a basement with all sorts of records for sale. back in 1999.

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they don't mention slaughtering your wife's suitors, but fortunately SexyDancer already thought of that.

anyone know a romantic restaurant?

moosewood lol

wait why lol i thought that place rules?

romantic rest...err..no..but theres a place on the top endof the commons that has decent foood..place to eat is maxies superclub, though...havent been in town in ages..but its all about walk this time of year...wander through gorges...hit wineries, as its just past harvest and could be some fun stuff...just chill out..thats what the town is best for...lok for records inthe basement of the big bookstoreon the commons...

moosewood is kinda crap..better off making it at home...food must: hottruck...i think hes back on west campus on weekend nights, if not you can get it at shortstop deli dwntwn...

check and see if the swap shop is stil open...that place rules...

hell i have to go to ithaca.

too late :(

say hi to the one that got away dude

i wonder if "club semesters" is still in operation

hahahahahahahahahaaa...

completetly fergot about that place

i remember one time i went there and the lights came up and this friend of mine was sitting in a corner making out with this cyrano de bergerac lookin girl and he had to keep his head at a weird angle to maintain :-\

i never went in...was on college ave, right? i was in dino's once..think its gone too

oh wow

was it on college? i dunno, it was whatever went west straight out of the commons. that diner was across the street.

when i lived there i lived right above fisherman's grill on aurora st. those dbags who would go to micawber's always hung out on the sidewalk right below my window getting pizza from that ny place. one time my neighbors got pissed and shot a bottle rocket down into the crowd, which ending up leading to their eviction pretty quickly.

What was the name of the place in Ithaca where the bands would play? Ok, that's vague. I mean - the place where I might have driven and hour out of my way to go see shows at? I can't remember the name of this place and it's killing me. grrrrr.

was it a bar near the commons? or a place near the water? i don't remember the names, either... ;_;

mcawbers: 25 cent pints between 5 & 5:30 on weekdays...one pint at a time..after happyhour that place blew. id imagine some shitty late night activity..well, 1:15 am activity..

ahhh, right..yeah semesters was on state wasn't it...i live about 4 blocks up from there on state...across from the bank. was pretty free of dbags, but had some fun junkies of dift stripes and nutjobs...our back windows faced shortstop, which occasionally warranted some shouting at drunks..

now, what was the name of the shitty attempt at a club on the west side of college? practically directly across from ruloffs..

yr thinking of the haunt...across the street from the mobile station

place by the water was castaways

i played at both..i apologize again for whoever was there

ahck...no, i didnt play at the haunt...show was cancelled

It was The Haunt, thank you! That would have bothered me all night.

I think I got hammered at Mcawbers' once

i saw merl saunders at castaways, lol hippie. the biggest band that came to town when i was there was rusted root.

i miss dp dough, man, those calzones were awes.

mccawbers also had real cheap "car bombs" on a day in march...i got drunk real early there once on a day in march because of that...

i got fired after being caught having a beer outside at the sports bar on the commons when i should have been working...though i had already closed shop for the day.

i got a coffee and an oatmeal cookie every morning at the bakery on the commons...now also gone

yeah, castaways was serious hippyville...though there were a few "indie" shows and some breaks and drum'n'bass nights too..

oh, man dp dough was kinda awesome...i still get hot truck cravings from time to time

ha..i got tossed from the haunt for giving maddog to some townie punks in the parking lot...

man, this has been two days of repressed memories

fitting that ive been listening to huggybear all day

the commons was turning into a ghost town when i was there. the bar i went to most was moonshadows, though i really liked the chapterhouse when it wasn't overrun w/dbags.

The first show I ever went to was in some bizarre gym at Ithaca College - Murphy's Law opening for Bosstones. Ha. Chances where given what I spent most of my time doing my freshman year I'd probably been listening to huggybear and drinking MD2020 earlier that day. lol college. x-post.

I'm going to be in the area in a couple weeks. I should in Ithaca for old times sake. Maybe.

chapterhouse made their own rootbeer...was a goodplace in non-school times...

i had a roommate that worked the door at moonshadows = never ending drink tokens = drank there often... while in school i drank at stellas, as i had long been a regular at the shop and knew owners/workers, but mainly at homes.

when i moved back, we drank at the chanticleer and at the place that was once club europa (cant remember the name at the time). they had a small lounge upstairs with a real good bartender called doc. mostly it was empty, so doc would make us fancy drinks for reasonable prices (often inventing new stuff and testing it on us for free) and give us his good darts for the always empy board...those guys the motherfuckers used to play downstairs all the time.

Too much coffee. That should have read - I should "stop" in Ithaca. x-post to self.

ha! i was at that show. friends of mine had put it together so i had dinner with the bands before hand...errr, had shitty pizza...might have been my 1st show there too...unless i saw belly and the catherine wheel at bailly hall before that...but i think the IC show was pretty early in fall, before i knew people and saw plow united/weston/thirsty/kerosene 454/carbondale/ifarm play every week...eek

what kills me is knowing now that doug yule lives in town.

ha! i was at that show. friends of mine had put it together so i had dinner with the bands before hand

That's funny. My 17 year old self would have been very jealous. It was very early in the fall - within the first couple weeks of school because I was there with those random people you hang out with our first month or two and then never see again.

That wasn't just my first show in Ithaca, that was my first show EVER. I had the type of strict parents who wouldn't let me out of their site while I was in HS.

sight. Ok, that's it - I need to go home now.

my current self is shaking his head at my 18 yr old self hanging out with them...but friends of mine from albany had toured w/murphy's law, so that was not the 1st time i made that mistake...but it was a dude that i played lacrosse with in h.s. that worked on that ic show. that suddenly seems very funny

i was lucky to know some people whod been in ithaca for a bit and was told about stuff and missed out on a lot of the random dudes from yr floor kinda stuff, but i also lived in a special dorm and ended up lifelong friends with a lot of the random people i met in the 1st few weeks...

clup europe was hilarious! i was there when it opened and it lasted like 2 months or something, yeah? they were charging a $15 cover and no one went. only time i was there, the cover was down to $5 and it was 11pm on a friday and there were twenty people there, maybe.

club

europa

yep...hilarious. and a "no sneaker" policy to boot

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i lived just next to tht bridge for 2 yrs and the summer after i graduated

3xc3pt3r will be there tomorrow...

I hear the TOWGA is going to swing by to say hi.

you'll like her

What is in the cliff? I want to know!!!

Place for clandestine assignations and shady deals b/c hidden mics are rendered useless by the background waterfall noise? Oh I hope I hope I hope

I'm guessing it was a mill of some sort

old power plant

we tried to get in..no dice..

there were other such buildings lower down in that gorge you could get into

where will you play, jfr?

Place for clandestine assignations and shady deals b/c hidden mics are rendered useless by the background waterfall noise? Oh I hope I hope I hope

closed down in 1992.

that little walk bridge was closed most of my freshman yr which drove me bonkers as it required walking like 10 minutes (up and down a hill) to get to the ag. quad for classes...

there is a colony of beaver that live in that lake...one of them scared the hell out of me early one morning as i was running on the path along side it

the bldg just off to the left is the language house...where we got a bunch of tossed out video equipment once...

Ithaca seems like a pretty fun small city to live in but it seems like it would get boring post college. Everyone I know there not doing grad school is kind of coasting along.

Everyone I know there not doing grad school is kind of coasting along.

CA$TAWAY$

basically...so imoved here to coast along with more distractions

the TOWGA pays like $200 bux a month rent and gets by working part time. Don't know what she does with all her time (seems like watching horror movies and weeping all day)

ha..you hippies belong there...

down by the inlet, which is kind of fun

my house in Wburg is like 3 blox from Gimme Coffee; towga's house is like 3 blox from Gimme Coffee

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200!!! thats cheap. my rent was like 350 or so..i had a small room, but a huge living and seperate dining room, walk in pantry, and washer dryer in the kitchen...was also 1 block from the commons

i had random academic gigs then worked at a vintage shop and finally selling really fancy snowcones on the commons (under the table)

the gimme by the creek downtown? across from the hair salon in the crazy blg?

my crazy friend kurt used to live right there. he worked for the vet school. cutting up animals.

to be fair she has like 3 roommates

the gimme by the creek downtown? across from the hair salon in the crazy blg?

yep

we'd end up at his or another wierd house down ther after the chanty closed..many confused walks home!

it was where i 1st hear jeff wayne's prog rock musical version of the war of the worlds...

have to rip that

Ithaca is a place outside of time man

indeed

sD,

try and go to the hot truck if you can (after show?)...its the dude who sold the copyright/patent on "french bread pizza"

"I'd just about sign anything for one of them Stouffer's"

roommate that worked the door at moonshadows = never ending drink tokens = drank there often

this was true for me actually, except it was a friend's roommate. we would just shoot darts and drink for hours.

yep

TOWGA

TOWGA