Started the week at the top of Seattle. The 50th anniversary of the unveiling of the Space Needle at the World's Fair meant a trip up was only
One. Dollar.
Usually it's about $20 for two hours of time up there so we snagged Clara and took a ride up after almost no waiting. It's no Empire State Building but it's a nice for a look around. Well worth a dollar.
We snagged some brunch at Bang Bang Cafe
and I had to go to work to hang out with these guys.
This guy was absolutely ridiculous. When i gave him a bath he shrunk down to about half his size.
On the way home I saw this in the paper.
Charles Burns, is amazing. I first found out about him from the Iggy Pop cover art for Brick by Brick. Then I read Black Hole and fell in love with his line style and used it as a research point in my thesis project.
Chris Ware I didn't learn about until my comic's class senior year of college. Then i found out I had seen countless covers of the New Yorker with his illustrations (he brought this image up at the discussion and mentioned he's in the bottom left corner with the tandem bike and his daughter is the girl in line looking back.)
The very next night was an amazing night at the neptune starring
Dr Strangeloop (who did not play sadly did not perform this night) did provide and excellent visual set up wherein Flying Lotus's dj set up was positioned between two screens each projecting a different flowing set of images. It was beautiful.
Shortly after starting the set he dropped the beat a few times singing the words "Whiskey Time!" in each drop. I couldn't figure out why until I noticed the handle of Jameson sitting on a turntable on his left (visible in the photo below).
He managed to kill 3/4's of the bottle during his performance and still stay amazingly precise with his music. At the end of the set he came out to the front of the stage jumped into the crowd and handed what remained of the bottle to some kid and said "Here! Take this and RUN!" Then disappeared backstage.
As I was exiting the lobby I looked up and saw him walking through the crowd up the stairs I was walking down. I grabbed my camera and tried to take a picture but decided to go full contact with a hug mid photo.
This is one of my coworkers, Jordan, who is awesome and came to the show with her boyfriend. She reached out and said "Thankyouthanksyouthankyou soooooo much for coming here" and he casually looked her in the eye and said "oh thank you so much. that's so cool."
He was a really chill/ and despite the amount of alcohol he consumed he was really well composed albeit more than a little exhausted.
This is Jordan telling me a story about her and her sister getting attacked while walking home in this very spot by some crazy guy who thought they spat at him.
This is the bloodstain from him punching her sister two weeks after the attack (also visible in the photo above on the right)
This is where her sister lives.
And there's always room for more silly dog pictures.
Dylan went to a costume party of architecture grad students. I loaned him some stuff to make a costume with.
My phone started exploding with calls and texts telling me the power had gone out in the east and the hurricane was knocking stuff out left and right and killing eleven people in new jersey.
We're chillin in Seattle, hangin out lookin like this.
Be safe y'all!
