Blog: Go West Young Tex

Road Trip

Dec 28, 2007, 9:31am Go West Young Tex
Road Trip Rebecca and i are packing up the truck (along with some snow chains) and heading to California for the long weekend. Will report back if the opportunity arises.
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Rialto

Dec 27, 2007, 12:11am Go West Young Tex
While I had every intention of going to the gym after work to shake off the xmas slugs, it was closed. So i wandered back to what is becoming sort of a haunt of mine with a friend after work. The Rialto is fancy/seedy, sort of like a casino. A combination of heavy pours, off track betting, billiards and pinball and cigars draws an odd mix. After work office people (I guess I am one of these), a rockabilly gaggle of waitstaff, gambling addicts, serious pool hustlers, sports bar types, downtown bums and [...]
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Artist:Wussy
Title:Rigor Mortis
Link Text:Wussy - Rigor Mortis
File Name:RigorMortis.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2007

And then they were back...

Dec 26, 2007, 3:25am Go West Young Tex
And then they were back... Perfectly exhausted from the journey back, but glad to be coming home to Portland. The Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band Everytime i hear this song, it reminds me exactly of the way things felt last time i was a full-time Texan, going to a low rent boarding school in Denton, Texas and plotting my escape. The alienation, my cadre of similarly alienated angry, reactionary schoolmates, the way you knew you had to get out of there lest you utterly perish. it is not [...]
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Artist:The Mountain Goats
Title:Best Ever Death Metal Band
Link Text:The Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band
File Name:01 Best Ever Death Metal Band.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2002

Greetings from Fort Worth

Dec 24, 2007, 10:45am Go West Young Tex
Greetings from Fort Worth It is my third day in Texas and we have finished Phase Dad of christmas are starting on Phase Mom this morning. If you grew up with divorced parents then you know what I am talking about. So far the highlights of our trip include, in no particular order: -driving around in my dad's Clarkmobile which he has for his State Farm office and has his name, phone number and email address printed all over it. -seeing my oldest oldest friend and her new baby. -eating lunch at The Original Mexican Eats, a restaurant [...]
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The difference between a vacation and a trip.

Dec 21, 2007, 3:55am Go West Young Tex
The difference between a vacation and a trip. Blog interrupted. We are going to Texas for a few days and will be back middle of next week. See you then.
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Audio Portion

Dec 19, 2007, 2:12am Go West Young Tex
Music for You: Some say this is the song of the year. I'm cool with that. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss (link taken down. sorry). Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers - Ballad of a Thin Man (Dylan Cover) The Libertines - Time For Heroes
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Artist:Lil MAMA
Title:lip gloss mix mp3
Link Text:Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
File Name:mama-lip.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:Stephen Malkmus
Title:Ballad Of A Thin Man
Link Text:Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers - Ballad of a Thin Man (Dylan Cover)
File Name:malkmus_balladofathinman.mp3
Bitrate:213 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:The Libertines
Title:Time For Heroes
Link Text:The Libertines - Time For Heroes
File Name:thelibertines_timeforheroes.mp 3

Pinball League

Dec 19, 2007, 1:16am Go West Young Tex
Pinball League Bowling is okay I guess, but I'm a pinball person and tonight I went to Pinball League! We met at Goodfoot , a great big pool hall sort of beer place at 28th and Stark. I hadn't been over to that neighborhood before and I really liked it. Anyways, Goodfoot was a great place to be for no other reason than for the great rock n roll poster exhibit that adorns their walls. The best and most beautiful i have ever seen, and they were all for sale. [...]
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Seriously Crafty

Dec 17, 2007, 12:07am Go West Young Tex
Portland does not mess around when it comes to DIY crafts, craft events, craft stores, craft classes, and craft love. Today we hit holiday craft extravaganzas for holiday shopping. There was a line a hundred people long stretching outside the Norse Hall of hipsters and nursing mothers and little old ladies and lesbians teeming to get into the fair. So many people came that they could only let you in after someone left or else the fire marshall would have a cow. All for the love of felt sew-ons [...]
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Already thinking about Spring

Dec 14, 2007, 11:47pm Go West Young Tex
Already thinking about Spring I won a charity auction through The Portland Mercury for a trip once the weather gets nice. We are going mountain biking in Bend, Oregon. We get transportation to and from Bend, a night's stay at the McMenamins Old St. Francis School , and guided beginner mountain bike riding. Yay! To celebrate, there will be more music for you! The Blow - Come on Petunia The Geraldine Fibbers - Lillybelle
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Artist:The Blow
Title:Come on Petunia
Link Text:The Blow - Come on Petunia
File Name:TheBlow_ComeOnPetunia(BlackCan dy).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:The Geraldine Fibbers
Title:Lilybelle
Link Text:The Geraldine Fibbers - Lillybelle
File Name:Lilybelle.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1995

Jail Roadtrip

Dec 14, 2007, 11:09pm Go West Young Tex
Jail Roadtrip I haven't been to New Zealand or the Scottish Highlands, but maybe the Columbia Gorge out west past Hood River is something like it. Pity i can't find a picture that shows off what i saw. Roaring cliffs surrounding a big river, waterfalls, mossy, craggy, bluffy, rugged, ancient, gorgeous. At the end of the journey was The Dalles, a jail, and two clients. And then back again hours later through the gray, misty, wild green crevice.
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Lost again.

Dec 14, 2007, 2:47am Go West Young Tex
Lost again. Following a serious class at our fancy new gym, rebecca and I battled it out at the Pop Culture Debate Club hosted by the In Other Words feminist bookstore. When we walked in they were debating the relative merits and transgressions of America's Next Top Model vs. Project Runway. Because everyone wants Tim Gunn to be their fabulous gay uncle, Project Runway was the handsdown winner. The debate club then took on whether it was ok as feminists not to vote for Hilary in the primaries. Lively discussion ensued. [...]
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Link Text:James Brown - Funky Christmas
File Name:14.mp3
Artist:Edwin Starr
Title:Twenty-Five Miles
Link Text:Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
File Name:25Miles.mp3
Bitrate:288 kbps
Year:1969

Retroactive guideline change! Smiles Everyone, Smiles!

Dec 13, 2007, 2:09am Go West Young Tex
Retroactive guideline change! Smiles Everyone, Smiles! After years of pleas and persuasion, the US Sentencing Commission has finally done something (though not nearly enough, that requires an act of Congress) to offset the collosal, racially discriminatory disparity between drug sentences for powder and crack cocaine. There's a fairly comprehensive article about it. here . Even better, the sentences are going to be changed retroactively. A whole bunch of people are going to be eligible for release because their new sentence is shorter than what they have already served. And there's a whole lot of other people, who might not get [...]
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