So we made it out to Portland this weekend to visit some very dear friends. We stayed at the Jupiter Hotel which is apparently famous for being an absolute dive before it was recently restored. Our friend Douglas explained its repute as a place where a murder occurred in the last few years, where the Police wanted to put the lead witness in a witness protection program only to find out that she was already enrolled in a witness protection program.
Anyhow, now its a restored cheap motel with little cute Ikeafied rooms that have doors painted in blackboard paint that you can write shit on (we started a graffiti dialog with the people across from us which was rather amusing for five minutes). The place seems run by a gaggle of very cute 23 year old girls who run around all day in impossibly short skirts and fishnets. Part of the hotel is a very wannabe swank lounge called Doug Fir, which has a most excellent day bartender and several extremely cute waitresses. Their T-shirts all had the lounge name in different logo variants like Doug Fir done in 70s era Boston lettering. I want one.
Downstairs theres a full-out rock club of all things and we caught IQU and Of Montreal there Saturday night. IQU are highly recommended. Sunday night Maktub was playing and this ensured that we would once again encounter the man with Seattles largest afro, Reggie Watts, who has become the most oft encountered Seattle semi-celebrity. I mean we might encounter some Seattle semi-celebrities more than Reggie, but really their afros arent anywhere near as noticeable.
Sunday night we went to Dantes at the Doug Fir bartenders behest and observed this thing they call burlesque or stripping or whatever you want to call it. Im sure its all immediately familiar to you people here. There was some nice fire dancing and feather dancing and other stuff that doesnt belong with an F but all I really remember was the horribly crowded bar in the back with the cute asian bartender who was just 100% business. Handled things incredibly well but we still waited 20 minutes for a drink.
Ah, yes, we also found a great breakfast nook on 7th called Colleens that serves the best breakfast burrito I ever did have.
Hope all your weekends went just as well
Anyhow, now its a restored cheap motel with little cute Ikeafied rooms that have doors painted in blackboard paint that you can write shit on (we started a graffiti dialog with the people across from us which was rather amusing for five minutes). The place seems run by a gaggle of very cute 23 year old girls who run around all day in impossibly short skirts and fishnets. Part of the hotel is a very wannabe swank lounge called Doug Fir, which has a most excellent day bartender and several extremely cute waitresses. Their T-shirts all had the lounge name in different logo variants like Doug Fir done in 70s era Boston lettering. I want one.
Downstairs theres a full-out rock club of all things and we caught IQU and Of Montreal there Saturday night. IQU are highly recommended. Sunday night Maktub was playing and this ensured that we would once again encounter the man with Seattles largest afro, Reggie Watts, who has become the most oft encountered Seattle semi-celebrity. I mean we might encounter some Seattle semi-celebrities more than Reggie, but really their afros arent anywhere near as noticeable.
Sunday night we went to Dantes at the Doug Fir bartenders behest and observed this thing they call burlesque or stripping or whatever you want to call it. Im sure its all immediately familiar to you people here. There was some nice fire dancing and feather dancing and other stuff that doesnt belong with an F but all I really remember was the horribly crowded bar in the back with the cute asian bartender who was just 100% business. Handled things incredibly well but we still waited 20 minutes for a drink.
Ah, yes, we also found a great breakfast nook on 7th called Colleens that serves the best breakfast burrito I ever did have.
Hope all your weekends went just as well
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good shit, man.