Portland>Seattle

We showed up in portland yesterday at 2pm after driving all night. Everyone was exhausted so joe dropped us off at the hotel to shower and relax for a couple hours. J, robert, chris and I used the time to watch the latest episode of LOST.
The area of portland the venue was in is a cool strip with lots of vintage clothibg stores and a record store and an amazing book store. We walked around a bit after we showed up to the venue. I found a new glen e friedman book that is a 20th aniversary on fugazi thing with all the pictures he has taken of them. I don’t know how I never thought of it before but I would love to try and get him to shoot us sometime. They also had a huge selection of small DIY books that were pretty cool. I guess there is a lot of that in portland.
Chris and I went to dinner with alex and his wife annie. We had a great time and stuffed outselves with sushi and saki until we were sick.
The show was filled with bad stage sound and technical issues but the crowd was suprisingly into it. We had never played to a very large crowd in portland and didn’t expect there to be many fans there but they went crazy when we came on stage to set up. Merch sales were great too. I caught a guy trying to steal a hoodie. Someone stole a weatherbox shirt too.
After the show a few of us went to alex and annies house and played wii and guitar hero for a while while parker and the weatherbox guys geeked out over parkers magic card collection.
We are now on our way to seattle. It is a pretty easy drive today, I think only 3 hours. Right now we are listening to bob marley and it is pretty overcast and cold.not your typical music selection for this type of drive but somehow it makes me feel a little warmer and relaxed just listening to it. Chris and I both have been in the mood for reggae so I tried to find a cd to get yesterday but couldn’t decide on which to get so bob marley is all we have for now. Maybe I’ll pick some up today.

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