Dutchess and the Duke

David got into town and we ate BBQ at Russell St and went to see the Dutchess and the Duke.
I had a giant crush on Kimberly Morrison. She was totally adorable.... simple outfit, messy ponytail, chugging wine and beer, great voice, laughing and smiling... I turned into a mushy fangirl.
Look, here she is:




They were super good, I love their voices together.
The best song live was I am Just a Ghost. The sound quality of this video does not do it justice.

And they played my favorite song last, Armageddon Song.
I guess it's the nature of the opening bands and of the Doug Fir, but the whole night was pretty mellow. I was expecting something a little more high-energy, and maybe I thought they'd stand up to play, but oh well.

friday-Glass Candy w/Dave

Friday 11/20--

I woke up at 7:20 to take a shower and get ready for work at TPI. Some people (Logan and Dave) had their doubts, but I got to work showered, caffeinated, and on time with a bagel in hand. I had a great day at work, it was mellow as hell and it was nice to be surrounded by adults instead of teenage girls.

After work I went over to Logan's and we watched the Sopranos and enjoyed having his house to ourselves (all his roommates were already moved out). Eventually I made it to Rotture with Dave to see Glass Candy. The crowd was insanely weird and I felt uncomfortable. Dave and I sat down. Dave tried to talk about life and people and I wasn't in a great mood at all, so the conversation was kind of stilted. Luckily, some guy that we met the night before showed up and Dave smoked weed with him and became extremely euphoric and agreeable. Aaron showed up too. I didn't have a great time at the show. I was tired, it was way too packed, and I didn't like the music that much.

Later we met Logan at Chopsticks where he was doing karaoke with some friends. We sat through some horrible singing. On the way out I noticed I had a flat tire. We spent what seemed like three hours trying to get my spare on. I was extremely nervous and irritable the whole time.

dave and tube

Uh-oh, I haven't updated and now I am so behind I can't remember what I've been doing.

Thursday night 11/19:
Between work days I decided to go out with Dave instead of going to bed because I thought it would be his last night in town. We met Kait and some of her friends at the River City Grill. By the time we got there it was last call so Dave dumped some rum from my flask into an Arnold Palmer. After that we went to Valentines and got a drink with Kait's friend while she walked somebody else home. It was one of the first nights I had off while Logan had to be at work, so I brought him a doughnut from Voodoo Doughnuts.

After Voodoo we walked to Tube and were immediately handed shots of tequila. I drank a lot and we danced a lot to soul music and Dave dropped an entire glass on the dance floor-- the shattering seemed to be in time with the music and it didn't bother anyone.

After that we drove to the food carts on Hawthorne and got some free poutine from Potato Champion. On the drive back to my house we sang along to Lightning Dust. We couldn't believe our luck from getting all the free stuff and the night felt perfect.

audrey hepburn and jean seberg

Roman Holiday and Breathless.

New Moon

Today for work I went to see New Moon with nine teenage girls. I am home now. I am too tired to process anything.

neon indian

Friends of Trees smashed my window in. Dave got into town and we walked to Mississippi Studios. Got there for the last two Guidance Counselor songs and saw Neon Indian after that. Great crowd. Heard someone say "this sounds like a gay space dance" and he was totally right.

exorcise these tongue-tied worries

North Coast Seed Company

I made cookies, soup, and cranberry bread. I took a bath and read Stranger in a Strange Land. I didn't feel like going out but forced myself to.
I went to a birthday party in a warehouse that had art, free food and drinks, and a dj.
It looked like this


Then I went to the Florida Room, where I frowned and texted. After that I went to a party for fifteen minutes and then left. Then I went to bed at 4:30am.

I am not trying. I have watched The Sopranos seasons 2-5 this last week. I am in bed. I am listening to Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) by Yeasayer.

Edit: I got my head light replaced, my hair cut, and my eyebrows waxed. I talked to Dave about driving up to Seattle to bring him to Portland.

job-less?

Noisy Pig

Logan and I packed a picnic and planned to go on a five mile walk around Vancouver, WA. Instead it poured rain and we ate our picnic inside. And drank wine and ate cheese. And watched a million hours of the Sopranos with my roommates.

Eventually we went to a hot toddy party (I forgot to add the booze to mine, whoops) and then saw Noisy Pig at Rotture.

Silly Pepper music video from vacio on Vimeo.

Aaron met us there and later on we went to another dance party at the Matador. I heard the song "I'm the Shit and I'm up in this Bitch."

Warming Center

I woke up and met Logan at the gym. I tried to run on the treadmill but mostly walked. A show called Franny's Feet was on TV and I really liked it. From what I could tell, some little girl puts on shoes and they transport her somewhere where she talks to animals and learns something, comes back home with a trinket, and then her grandpa does something cute with her like go puddle jumping. She says stuff like "I wonder where my feet will take me today."

Afterwards I went home and put on purple tights and a black dress and went to a job interview. When I got home from that I made soup and read Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver.

At 7:30 I went to shadow a shift at the Transition Projects Warming Center. An empty office building where up to 90 people can sleep, eat ramen noodles, and play Monopoly. Including couples. I worked at the Warming Center full time last year and I saw a couple of the same people. We played Monopoly until I left at 11:30pm. I went to Rotture after that with Logan and the place was totally empty, so we left after one beer to go drink another beer at The Nest.

I did nothing on Thursday. I slept for a long time.

gamera vs guiron

Saw Gamera vs Guiron at the Hollywood Theatre. So awesome. Live dubbing and music and sound effects and a sing along.
Gamera vs Guiron... not to be confused with
El Guincho

Remember that picture that said "CALM DOWN EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY"? Need to tell myself that while listening to El Guincho.
Mad stress at work. Won't be forever, right? Why worry? Need to be more like Alf.

HP LOVECRAFT

The more he withdrew from the world about him, the more wonderful became his dreams; and it would have been quite futile to try to describe them on paper. Kuranes was not modern and did not think like others who wrote. Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that is reality, Kuranes sought for beauty alone. When truth and experience failed to reveal it, he sought it in fancy and illusion, and found it on his very doorstep, amid the nebulous memories of childhood tales and dreams.

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

Dia de los Muertos

So I am trying to lose 2 pounds a week starting this month. I'm using fitday.com and I get 1,506 calories a day and sometimes I spend two hours looking at cookinglight.com.

Monday I woke up and went to my Spanish class, then I went to the grocery store, then I helped cook dinner, which was chicken with bacon and cider sauce. 257 calories.

I like fitday.com cause it tells you exactly what you've eaten, with pie charts. Like today I ate 20%protein and got 15% of the zinc I need.

9mths

On Sunday I woke up early and wanted to clean up from the party. I walked to Plaid Pantry to get some garbage bags and I saw 3 men standing on the side of the building with bags of recycling. I asked them if they wanted some cans and bottles. I told them it'd take me about twenty minutes to clean everything up and get the cans and bottles to them. They offered to help clean and I said I didn't feel comfortable having strangers come back with me. One man said, "I'm not going to stalk you or nothin'." He said, "Twenty minutes" and I confirmed it.
I went back to Logan's and put all the glass bottles in one bag and all the aluminum cans in another bag. I dragged the two bags back to the Plaid Pantry and a woman was at the side of the building with a small dog but the three men weren't there. I stood there for a moment, then left the two bags near a bench by the side of the building and started to walk away.
The woman with a small dog said, "Don't leave your trash there, we pay to have people take it away."
I said, "Oh, I told some people I'd give them my recycling so they can exchange it for money. They're not here so I'm going to leave it here for them."
She said, "We're trying to clean this area up. The cops were here awhile ago cleaning them all up. Leave the bags outside your house, someone will take them."
Then her small dog took a shit on the ground and she walked away. I walked ten feet away from the side of the building and left the two bags on the sidewalk there.

After that Logan woke up and I started feeling insanely sick. He drove me home and I barfed in the shower. I crawled into bed and made a shopping list: saltines, ginger ale, bread, grapes, peppermint tea. Logan went to the store and brought me home what I wanted. We ate toast and drank tea and napped. Later on we got Thai take-out from Monsoon on Mississippi (half restaurant, half laundromat.) We watched the movie I had from Netflix, Zodiac. Then we napped again and I woke up and had to go to work. It was our nine month anniversary.