Mike, Mark, Michael, T.J., Jay, and myself had a grand afternoon at the Portland Apple Festival at Portland Nursery; lunch at Laughing Planet; afterwards at Pied Cow.
A lovely day.
10/16/2009
Apple Festival
10/15/2009
critque
Alligator
Bridging the gap between '70s camp and '80s cheese, Alligator is 90 minutes of time well wasted. Words can not express the sheer ridiculousness of this "film."
Chained Heat
Real tits, full bush, and forced lesbianism, Chained Heat is 95 minutes of frumpy Linda Blair and bad frizzy hair. Words can not express the sheer ridiculousness of this "film."
Some Kind of Wonderful
Nothing more than Pretty in Pink with the characters' genders switched, Some Kind of Wonderful is 95 minutes of twenty-something-year-old "teenagers" and Lea Thompson refusing to emote. Words can not express how shitty and unecessary this "film" is.
Mash Tun
Sunday, Vadim and I checked out the Mash Tun Brewpub on NE Alberta. It was decent, in my opinion: not awful, not wonderful. Their BLATO (bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato, onion [and mayo]) sandwich was tasty; and I'm usually not much of a beer drinker, but I thought their Penfold Porter was pretty good. Though part of that could be rooted in my love for this guy.
If you're in the area, give it a shot; but I wouldn't make a special trip out to the place.
recent
Tuesday
~~ into town to kill some time before appointment with the podiatrist; realise I left all my insurance info at home; back home; back into town for appointment.
~~ per the podiatrist: all of my recent foot pain/problems stem from tight muscles and tendons which aren't giving much slack to each other. So, I have a twice~daily stretching regiment, heel elevations, orthopedic inserts, and a sleeptime brace to help ease the stress on one of the tendons of my left foot.
~~ late lunch with Mike at Kornblatt's. One day, we will catch them before the salt bagels are gone.
~~ *enormous* apple fritter from Voodoo Doughnut and quick visit with Vadim
~~ darkroom class at Newspace. Printed on fiber paper for the first time. Time consuming, but worth it.
Wednesday
~~ bus ride into SE for therapist appointment, only to be told my appointment is next week.
~~ work
~~ help out with Michael Chabon's reading/event.
~~ series of weird, random txts from some unknown number in Yakima, WA.
~~ guy at bus stop tried scamming me for/out of something; earbuds in and music playing, so didn't hear his speil or react; he walked away.
~~ into town to kill some time before appointment with the podiatrist; realise I left all my insurance info at home; back home; back into town for appointment.
~~ per the podiatrist: all of my recent foot pain/problems stem from tight muscles and tendons which aren't giving much slack to each other. So, I have a twice~daily stretching regiment, heel elevations, orthopedic inserts, and a sleeptime brace to help ease the stress on one of the tendons of my left foot.
~~ late lunch with Mike at Kornblatt's. One day, we will catch them before the salt bagels are gone.
~~ *enormous* apple fritter from Voodoo Doughnut and quick visit with Vadim
~~ darkroom class at Newspace. Printed on fiber paper for the first time. Time consuming, but worth it.
Wednesday
~~ bus ride into SE for therapist appointment, only to be told my appointment is next week.
~~ work
~~ help out with Michael Chabon's reading/event.
~~ series of weird, random txts from some unknown number in Yakima, WA.
~~ guy at bus stop tried scamming me for/out of something; earbuds in and music playing, so didn't hear his speil or react; he walked away.
10/11/2009
10/07/2009
10/06/2009
all that glitters
Prince - Gold
For some reason, I've been listening to a lot of Prince recently. A lot of Prince.
Dirty Mind
Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day
The Gold Experience
Musicology
3121
over and over and over and over and over
An intervention may be needed.
pinhole pinhole spinning around...
The Pinhole Camera class yesterday was a blast! And the fact that my employer paid for it made it even better!
We spent a part of the day making the typical oatmeal-carton-pinhole.
We also had some of the instructors homemade wooden box pinholes to mess around with.
(they looked similar to this)
And then, he also brought along the bulk dry-food barrel that he had converted into a large-format (16" x 20" negs) pinhole. That was worth the price of admission alone.
But, I also pulled out a nice array of photos; most of which impressed a lot people in the class. So much so that a few of them tried to jack my style. Whatever.
As soon as I can get them scanned (well, the 4x5 images, at least; it'd probably cost a pretty penny to get the larger images scanned), I'll post'em.
Tuesday, my second round of darkroom class starts up.
Free darkroom access for a month! Yay!
* in case you missed the reference in the title, here you go
We spent a part of the day making the typical oatmeal-carton-pinhole.
We also had some of the instructors homemade wooden box pinholes to mess around with.
(they looked similar to this)
And then, he also brought along the bulk dry-food barrel that he had converted into a large-format (16" x 20" negs) pinhole. That was worth the price of admission alone.
But, I also pulled out a nice array of photos; most of which impressed a lot people in the class. So much so that a few of them tried to jack my style. Whatever.
As soon as I can get them scanned (well, the 4x5 images, at least; it'd probably cost a pretty penny to get the larger images scanned), I'll post'em.
Tuesday, my second round of darkroom class starts up.
Free darkroom access for a month! Yay!
* in case you missed the reference in the title, here you go
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