parkinglot Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I was super excited when I first saw mine. I live in Portland. OMG you can buy me liquor cuz im 20!!!!!!1!!!!1 Just kidding. What do we do in Portland?! And will you be at The Menzingers show by chance on the 18th? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 typing up a whole thing currently for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkinglot Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 typing up a whole thing currently for you! You rock. Any cool coastal stuff that you know about too would be super cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 (I've actually never listened to the Menzingers...where is the show/what do they sound like? Maybe I'll check it out.) The "big" local coffee chain here is stumptown, people go ape over that shit. They know their craft. Voodoo Donuts is another thing people are crazy about, but I think it's kind of a touristy thing at this point. Ummmmmm. The Ace Hotel is neat if you're staying in town, downtown. Kind of...expensive hostel-y? Mississippi Records is the best record store in town in my humble opinion. It's in North Portland though. Chinatown has some cool stuff. The Japanese Garden sounds kind of boring...but it's awesome. Also kind of touristy though. Less expensive than I thought it was and if you're into tea they have an awesome tea room. The main draw for me here is the food though. Eat at Clyde Common (connected to Ace hotel coincidentally.) that joint is tits and was the first place I ate when I came to visit here before moving. Gravy in North Portland has a Smoked Salmon Hash good enough that I capitalized it... Sizzle Pie has some bomb-ass pizza, and it's a pretty punk-rock joint. Really good jukebox. Dantes is a bar a lot of people check out, haven't been there yet but they have shows and burlesque, but if you're only 20 you might not be able to go, I'm not sure on their policy. I mostly hang in North Portland, but I don't want to suggest too much out here because most people stay near the pearl downtown and I don't want you to think you're missing out on too much. Food carts are everywhere... I'd just check out pretty much every cool looking hole-in-the-wall place you see. You'd be surprised how many are actually as neat as they look. As far as coast stuff, I haven't been out there more than 2 or three times and I've only been to Cannon(sp?) Beach but out there they have the rock formation from The Goonies that they look through the coin at. It's nice out there, kind of sleepy and laid back. Astoria is supposed to be nice too, that's where other parts of The Goonies were filmed. Youinreverse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Oh man, the dude in the panic/blink thread is hilarious. I tip my hat to those of you involved in there. Hahah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Oh man, the dude in the panic/blink thread is hilarious. I tip my hat to those of you involved in there. Hahah. I think from here on out everyone in that thread should only post in haiku. That's just me though, I find stuff like that funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkinglot Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 (I've actually never listened to the Menzingers...where is the show/what do they sound like? Maybe I'll check it out.) The "big" local coffee chain here is stumptown, people go ape over that shit. They know their craft. Voodoo Donuts is another thing people are crazy about, but I think it's kind of a touristy thing at this point. Ummmmmm. The Ace Hotel is neat if you're staying in town, downtown. Kind of...expensive hostel-y? Mississippi Records is the best record store in town in my humble opinion. It's in North Portland though. Chinatown has some cool stuff. The Japanese Garden sounds kind of boring...but it's awesome. Also kind of touristy though. Less expensive than I thought it was and if you're into tea they have an awesome tea room. The main draw for me here is the food though. Eat at Clyde Common (connected to Ace hotel coincidentally.) that joint is tits and was the first place I ate when I came to visit here before moving. Gravy in North Portland has a Smoked Salmon Hash good enough that I capitalized it... Sizzle Pie has some bomb-ass pizza, and it's a pretty punk-rock joint. Really good jukebox. Dantes is a bar a lot of people check out, haven't been there yet but they have shows and burlesque, but if you're only 20 you might not be able to go, I'm not sure on their policy. I mostly hang in North Portland, but I don't want to suggest too much out here because most people stay near the pearl downtown and I don't want you to think you're missing out on too much. Food carts are everywhere... I'd just check out pretty much every cool looking hole-in-the-wall place you see. You'd be surprised how many are actually as neat as they look. As far as coast stuff, I haven't been out there more than 2 or three times and I've only been to Cannon(sp?) Beach but out there they have the rock formation from The Goonies that they look through the coin at. It's nice out there, kind of sleepy and laid back. Astoria is supposed to be nice too, that's where other parts of The Goonies were filmed. Thanks so much! I definitely do want to check out Voodoo Doughnuts, haha. That pizza place sounds awesome though. I'm currently checking out everything you mentioned and running it by my friends. And The Menzingers show is at a place called Branx. Here's some of their stuff to check out, they're also playing with PUP, Lemuria and Cayetana: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Shane Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Today was kinda cool. Played a bit of guitar with my friend and we showed each other stuff we've been doing ourselves. He dug my vocal covers I've done and we made some progress on a song I've been working on. I went in with nothing really in mind, but now I have more of a desire to write and stuff. I'm learning that it's really hard to write with a bassist vs. another guitarist to bounce ideas off of. It's going to be challenging, but hopefully we get something going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Re: gray hair If you currently have dark hair, you will be a FOX when you start going gray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 (I've actually never listened to the Menzingers...where is the show/what do they sound like? Maybe I'll check it out.) The "big" local coffee chain here is stumptown, people go ape over that shit. They know their craft. Voodoo Donuts is another thing people are crazy about, but I think it's kind of a touristy thing at this point. Ummmmmm. The Ace Hotel is neat if you're staying in town, downtown. Kind of...expensive hostel-y? Mississippi Records is the best record store in town in my humble opinion. It's in North Portland though. Chinatown has some cool stuff. The Japanese Garden sounds kind of boring...but it's awesome. Also kind of touristy though. Less expensive than I thought it was and if you're into tea they have an awesome tea room. The main draw for me here is the food though. Eat at Clyde Common (connected to Ace hotel coincidentally.) that joint is tits and was the first place I ate when I came to visit here before moving. Gravy in North Portland has a Smoked Salmon Hash good enough that I capitalized it... Sizzle Pie has some bomb-ass pizza, and it's a pretty punk-rock joint. Really good jukebox. Dantes is a bar a lot of people check out, haven't been there yet but they have shows and burlesque, but if you're only 20 you might not be able to go, I'm not sure on their policy. I mostly hang in North Portland, but I don't want to suggest too much out here because most people stay near the pearl downtown and I don't want you to think you're missing out on too much. Food carts are everywhere... I'd just check out pretty much every cool looking hole-in-the-wall place you see. You'd be surprised how many are actually as neat as they look. As far as coast stuff, I haven't been out there more than 2 or three times and I've only been to Cannon(sp?) Beach but out there they have the rock formation from The Goonies that they look through the coin at. It's nice out there, kind of sleepy and laid back. Astoria is supposed to be nice too, that's where other parts of The Goonies were filmed. Thanks for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks so much! I definitely do want to check out Voodoo Doughnuts, haha. That pizza place sounds awesome though. I'm currently checking out everything you mentioned and running it by my friends. And The Menzingers show is at a place called Branx. Here's some of their stuff to check out, they're also playing with PUP, Lemuria and Cayetana: Oh! I know right where Branx is. My favorite game store used to be next door. Sometimes there's a dude with a frozen yogurt truck who parks outside there and around back there is a place called Big Ass Sandwiches that is NUTS. They close kind of early though. There's also a bar/restaurant around the block called Produce Row that serves some incredible food. I do love Lemuria, even though I don't think I've heard their most recent stuff. I used to live about an hour and a half from their home town, so they'd come over to Rochester a lot. I think some of my buddies were friends with the gal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks for this. No prob! parkinglot, I might actually try to make that Menzingers show. It's on a week I have to work Saturday, so I can try to get Thursday off. We'll see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Another question, what's a good website to see what shows are coming up in Portland? Do most venues there use Ticketmaster, or other outlets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkinglot Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 No prob! parkinglot, I might actually try to make that Menzingers show. It's on a week I have to work Saturday, so I can try to get Thursday off. We'll see! Cool! I can meet my first VC'er and awkwardly converse, because I'm terrible at small talk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkinglot Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Another question, what's a good website to see what shows are coming up in Portland? Do most venues there use Ticketmaster, or other outlets? I use an app called Bandsintown. It's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Forbenator and I met at a Caspian show here last year. He's a cool guy. He even got me a Doug Martsch cassette that I was missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laralaurent Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I use an app called Bandsintown. It's awesome. that and last.fm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Another question, what's a good website to see what shows are coming up in Portland? Do most venues there use Ticketmaster, or other outlets? I mostly use http://www.portlandmetal.net/ and http://pc-pdx.com/show-guide/ Cool! I can meet my first VC'er and awkwardly converse, because I'm terrible at small talk! Yay! I'm not great either, but. You know. Alcohol! Which you won't be able to drink unfortunately because bars are suuuuper strict in Portland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Parkinglot and Jared, send me a PM about Seattle stuff. I'll do my best to answer any questions I can. I know that there are a couple Pac-NW threads too, but I can't remember everything that was covered. Probably worth parsing through I think. I do recommend bandsintown and songkick for finding shows, they're usually more on top of things than last.fm. I can back Sizzle Pie in Portland too. Place is delicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I can back Sizzle Pie in Portland too. Place is delicious. Dude that owns it is supposedly from Buffalo, NY? According to my buddy at least... He knows how to make some NY style pizza for sure, so I'd believe it. Wish they served good Buffalo style wings though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Parkinglot and Jared, send me a PM about Seattle stuff. I'll do my best to answer any questions I can. I know that there are a couple Pac-NW threads too, but I can't remember everything that was covered. Probably worth parsing through I think. I do recommend bandsintown and songkick for finding shows, they're usually more on top of things than last.fm. I can back Sizzle Pie in Portland too. Place is delicious. Thanks Jon, I'll be sure to PM you once plans are a bit more structured. ----------- I'm super tempted to buy all of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 ^ Same here! I never really got into Mini Figs, but those ones are awesome. They're based on the era of Simpsons I love too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FangsAnalSatan Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks Jon, I'll be sure to PM you once plans are a bit more structured. ----------- I'm super tempted to buy all of these. ^ Same here! I never really got into Mini Figs, but those ones are awesome. They're based on the era of Simpsons I love too. I'll leave this here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 ^ Same here! I never really got into Mini Figs, but those ones are awesome. They're based on the era of Simpsons I love too.I'm not into buying mini figures either. I haven't bought Legos since I was a kid. These are really cool though. I think the Simpson House set would be cool to have too, but $200 is a lot to spend on an impulse buy of some toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I'll leave this here I love the Simpsons!! If I wasn't so lazy I would make all these. http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/collections/430062456 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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