friday
dropped aaron off in a san fran suburb where he'd be meeting up with another artist for a few shows. our triune party soldiered on.
ten hours on a spider vein leading past the knee of california connecting through to oregon. mexican cokes in glass bottles. snow tipped peaks, evergreens, creeks and blue lagoons. rivulets, majesty & happy trees. past dunsmuir and the great great glowing tarp called mount shasta. through the winding wliderness of klamath. oregon, lush and green, green, green! craggy walls of pine. everything up, up, up! - pointing, deciding, directing southern visitors to the sky. beneath the watchful eye of mount hood we finally arrive in portland.
portland felt like minneapolis, but with mountains and robots... and sasquatch. met up with matt at kelly's olympian. it was a decent downtown venue, but we were a later addition to a bill and didn't take the stage until 1:30am. 20 minute set. a LONG day... and a LONGER night - although we did have some great thai food that evening AND a few faithful comrades hung around to share our ephemeral moment of magic in another city on another planet.
grycts