DISASTOUR pt.1 AKA a wide-range of emotions

ok , before we get into the really heavy shit, let's go back to a happier time. i'ma rub your ass in the moonshine, let's take it back to seventy-nine....

THE GOOD OL' DAYZ
Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the state of Oregon. The city and region are noted for strong land-use planning^[9] and investment in light rail, supported by Metro, a distinctive regional-government scheme. Portland is also known for its large number of microbreweries and microdistilleries, and as the home of the Trail Blazers NBA basketball team.

Ok, so we have LOTSA friends in portland (if you don't see yourself then maybe you shoulda got in the pic, kook).
For some reason we were surprised to see this one:

one of them brought us this back from the falafel glamalaxy

not sure what this one is doing

but oh snap! i'm doing it too!

Q:awkard goth-dance party? some kind of mystery spot vortex? someone having a seizure over there?

A: goth

this friend came to be aptly known as 'NOISE PENIZ'

while we watched these ones play some pretty far-out nintendos

LOOK REAL SNOW!!! AND BISCUITS!!! thanks kari (x2) (oh and sorry about those other biscs james, ill get it next time)

and it was only the beginning of the end for this TRAV (not a good sign)


ONWARDS to "it's in the water" olympia
LOOK! a house prominently featured in this book has a note explaining greywater sinks which prominently features The New Thrill Parades!

the Echevarria family tree:

can someone who's really good at photoshop plz take julia's hat and put it on danny's head and erase his moustache and give him some black eye makeup??? did the hat part IRL and it was really really really really really really really really fun.
so julia goes to evergreen and she got us into the dining hall which inspired a WIDE range of emotions, particulary when we noticed these guys (ps - what emotion(s) do you think i'm having?)

i think we can all agree that the emotion felt in relation to college is: REALLY missing it.

not pictured: the utterly hateful mean-mugging dished out by danny (and to a lesser extent steve and i) upon julia's bigbirdyexbf when he DARED show his face in the dining hall while we were present. unfortunately we later learned he thought we were just batty bwoys, not badmans bout to BOX 'IM FACE BWAAAP!!

ONWARDS to seattle trav-fest
can our dude (c)andy crane really be considered an outsider artist? what is an outsider art? are metal cats "outside the boundaries of official culture"?

what about metal jackets?

the key word is seattle is: hair and you're about to see a LOT OF IT
check it out: BRO-ken nobles

LOOK AT ALL THAT HAIR! (mckinnon is thanking me for not posting certain pictures from this shoot)
CONDITIONITIONERLYFE

LOOK AT ALL THAT HAIR!!
here's a better look at that shirt mackwell was wearing the entire time we were there and is probably still wearing right now

also this "moment we've all been waiting for"

back at the crib:
who knew this trav was a master at anything much less FOOSBALL?? undftd

FOOSFACES OF THE VANQUISHED

all you could do was laugh.

amitai didn't sing and watched this classic seattle trifecta instead

not pictured: bingers and a lot of other things (for legal reasons)

ONWARDS to boy-se, by which point everyone except me was sick and physically unable to have fun.
pussygutt were just what we needed. synus-clearing. and they're house was appropriately goth.


at the show, dan-o and ben(?) filled in for amitai (r.i.p.) on vocals and made us feel like a karaoke machine.
then on the way out of town the next day
the clownz caught up to us. they took us to the amusement park and wouldn't let us leave. i spent the night there.
eventually i got out
.....to be continued?