the house show went pretty smoothly, i'd estimate at its prime there were 150 or so people in my back yard, i'm glad i could provide a bunch of strangers a good time. there was full nudity in the pit, a rapidly cashed keg, 90 degree weather and ceaseless BBQ, crowd surfing in the basement, teeth lost and cops called The first band were a bunch of ( Read more... )

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these last two weeks have been eventful as portland thaws out and the sun tentatively appears. i've been doing pretty well with substance abuse, or lack thereof, but this weekend was a triathlon of brutality. on thursday wade runner and i drove out to the base of mount hood and went on a really amazing four or five hour hike through the pacific ( Read more... )

winter just wont give up in portland, i remember when i visited here last year around this time of year and the weather was stupifying enough to convince me to relocate, if it had been this year i'd visited and not last year i might have formed a very different first impression about the northwest. the prolonged darkness and rain has got me a ( Read more... )

for posterity: the twilight of winter and dubious spring we've been having in portland has treated me extremely well. its almost as if this winter i just put my social life on pause, i went out for one of the first non raining non bone chilling nights of the season a few weeks ago and rather miraculously saw like 30 people who comprised the ( Read more... )

My friend was telling me about a documentary about a group of mathematicians he watched recently. they kept pondering to themselves the concept of infinity, and the idea that there was an infinity was jarring enough, but then when they considered that there was an infinity of numbers between one and two and it got a little more convoluted, then ( Read more... )

So i had a job working at marketing strategies international, which is a market research firm that compensates you the least amount they can without being arrested or fined. Most of the people working there were homeless or mentally handicapped, and all i did for eight hours a day was bother people all over america on the behalf of such great ( Read more... )

portland is really an absurd town. tonight there are three REALLY good shows to go to, i could go see Israeli garage rock band monotronix at satyricon, theres a five dollar doom metal tour rolling trough dante's, and lola's room is hosting two of my favorite locals for a rip roaring record release show. i got to see sanctum kick off their american ( Read more... )

This week has added another notch to the morbidly obese belt of my unfathomable love for the northwest. The sun is back out from its hibernation under the thick gray blanket we've all been enduring for so long, theres an almost palpable feeling of well being all over the city. as i'm typing this right now i can look out my window over mount tabor ( Read more... )

i've been listening to the first bob seger lp allot recently, the late seventies & early 80s were really a golden age for the working man, it may have been the beginning of the end for the american working class but godamn did they ever go out with a bang. before subhuman avatars of the void which all mankind battles everyday like ronald reagan and ( Read more... )