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british sea power and stuff
Whee, tired. Full day though.
I got up and went to Agua Verde for lunch with Megan, Heidi, and their friends Sheila and Julia. It was a really nice day out and it was nice to try a new place and listen to different conversation.
I decided to stop in the UVillage Barnes&Noble after that and pick up maps... I grabbed a Portland map and a Vancouver BC map. Then on a whim I went up to the computer section and I sat reading some C# books for a while, and also scoured their baseball book section. There are several new books out that I really want. Hey, it's my birthday next week. (/e updates Amazon wishlist; replies to father's email saying "what do you want for your birthday?")
After hanging out at the bookstore for an hour or two, I came home. I had a package waiting for me... my sidekick 2! Wheee, new phone. So I spent a while setting it up and reading through the owner's manual thingy.
I gathered up a few books I'd been meaning to get rid of, and went to Cap Hill. Stopped at Half Price Books; between my 15% discount coupon and a $5 credit for dumping 6 books on them, I got a bunch of other stuff really cheap, and not just baseball books, honest. To feed my alternate book hobby, which is currently 19th Century Literature, I picked up Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and The Man In the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas.
I parked in the community college lot and then wandered cap hill for a while looking for dinner. I ended up eating at Hana, which was really pretty damn good for the price and the service. Their california rolls kinda sucked, but honestly, for cheap sushi, that was really pretty good, I was happy with it.
Then I met up with Chris at Neumo's. We saw three bands play. The first was called The Glasses, and they just seemed kinda like generic Seattle emo. The second was The Turnons, and they were a little better, more of a solid rock sound. Then the third was British Sea Power, who we had gone to see. They were pretty rockin'. This was their first show of their US tour, which is exciting I think. To be perfectly honest, I had never listened to anything by BSP before, and mostly went because of our Looterati crew by the same name... but it was really pretty good. (If you think about it, the concert cost $12, and a CD costs $18, so it's not entirely unreasonable to try the music that way.) They really jammed a lot, which was pretty cool, and the lead singer guy did a lot of goofy stuff like playing a tambourine with a quail^H^H^H^H^Hpheasant, and he had another guitarist riding piggyback on him for a bit towards the end. They had a bunch of samples of ocean-like sounds that they'd play between songs. And stuff. But yeah... they were rockin'.
And now I am home. And it's sounding like James (crackoon) and I are going to go up to Canada to play IIDX tomorrow. Exciting...
I got up and went to Agua Verde for lunch with Megan, Heidi, and their friends Sheila and Julia. It was a really nice day out and it was nice to try a new place and listen to different conversation.
I decided to stop in the UVillage Barnes&Noble after that and pick up maps... I grabbed a Portland map and a Vancouver BC map. Then on a whim I went up to the computer section and I sat reading some C# books for a while, and also scoured their baseball book section. There are several new books out that I really want. Hey, it's my birthday next week. (/e updates Amazon wishlist; replies to father's email saying "what do you want for your birthday?")
After hanging out at the bookstore for an hour or two, I came home. I had a package waiting for me... my sidekick 2! Wheee, new phone. So I spent a while setting it up and reading through the owner's manual thingy.
I gathered up a few books I'd been meaning to get rid of, and went to Cap Hill. Stopped at Half Price Books; between my 15% discount coupon and a $5 credit for dumping 6 books on them, I got a bunch of other stuff really cheap, and not just baseball books, honest. To feed my alternate book hobby, which is currently 19th Century Literature, I picked up Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and The Man In the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas.
I parked in the community college lot and then wandered cap hill for a while looking for dinner. I ended up eating at Hana, which was really pretty damn good for the price and the service. Their california rolls kinda sucked, but honestly, for cheap sushi, that was really pretty good, I was happy with it.
Then I met up with Chris at Neumo's. We saw three bands play. The first was called The Glasses, and they just seemed kinda like generic Seattle emo. The second was The Turnons, and they were a little better, more of a solid rock sound. Then the third was British Sea Power, who we had gone to see. They were pretty rockin'. This was their first show of their US tour, which is exciting I think. To be perfectly honest, I had never listened to anything by BSP before, and mostly went because of our Looterati crew by the same name... but it was really pretty good. (If you think about it, the concert cost $12, and a CD costs $18, so it's not entirely unreasonable to try the music that way.) They really jammed a lot, which was pretty cool, and the lead singer guy did a lot of goofy stuff like playing a tambourine with a quail^H^H^H^H^Hpheasant, and he had another guitarist riding piggyback on him for a bit towards the end. They had a bunch of samples of ocean-like sounds that they'd play between songs. And stuff. But yeah... they were rockin'.
And now I am home. And it's sounding like James (crackoon) and I are going to go up to Canada to play IIDX tomorrow. Exciting...
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Me and the boys have been.. storing bananas in our pockets over something like that for a while.)
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Um... was it living at the time?
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