Deep Pockets on To-er with So Adult pt.3
Back in the House of Elrond with Cecelia, Justin, and Matt. When we walked up to this bridge Justin was like “Yo I literally bought a post card of this bridge earlier without knowing we were coming here” it was pretty funny.
Whatcom Park is what it’s actually called I believe.
The trails sort of lead straight through the city so people will often take a nature walk on their commute to work. Not a bad thing.
Cecelia took us to this spot where the kids do wild stuff.
No not drugs (or probably drugs too) but they jump off of cliffs. There are some kids right there. Lemme go around to the other side, hold on
…just a sec…
lemme just get situated…
there we are. Here is where the kids do crazy stuff. So you got those same kids up top , a girl who already jumped down below, and a guy behind the tree branch (who’s shadow is visible). I wasn’t able to get him in that shot though
Though I did get one in this one. See in the upper fourth of the picture the shirtless dude? There’s those two girls from a few frames ago to give you size reference. Big drop.
This one girl (on the right) sat there thinking it over and over. We waited a few minutes to see if she would get the courage but she reached the shit-or-get-off-the-pot moment and did nothing so we left.
We were gonna attempt to go down by the water but it was steep as shit and none of us had treaded sneakers on (‘cept maybe Cecelia)
We later gathered at Bo and Cecelia’s to meet up with the van. I have no clue what Matt is doing in this one.
This is Wuv at the Seattle show. Sometimes there are some gaps in the timeline between photos. I think this couple days has a bunch of gaps because I was tired, or driving, or something.
Wuv wears these little animal ear things like Gretchen Weiners does on Halloween at each show. Ilya’s quote about them was “we wear our ears so that you remember to wear yours”
Conor with some sort of camera malfunction. The venue reminded me of a west coast Silent Barn. In between the show and walking back and forth to this other bar spot some folks were at we heard karaoke coming from next door at an Irish bar. This dude was doing “Mother” and me and Matt went in to sing along. Justin took some video (edit: which won’t upload for some reason). The end of the night we hung out in the street talking to one of the dudes from The Exquisites who was basically the west coast version of Lubrano. We then had to make the hour and a half drive straight back to Bellingham for the 23rd time.
The following morning Bo got an early call that the van was ready. We gathered once more and collected all our shit and began to load it as the members of So Adult showed up one by one. Somewhere in the process we must’ve forgot to load the tapes into the van so they were lost forever, bummer shit. Also I’m pretty sure this is when the infamous “a tribe called quest” story happened. I was upstairs at the time so here’s what I heard: Bo was wearing his ATCQ shirt. A skinny white nerd walks up and says “Oh I just moved back from where they’re from. (Bo’s inner voice asks “oh, Queens huh?” while New Yorkers Justin and Conor watch this turd in disgust make a fool of himself) I’ve been listening to jazzy hip-hop all day. Just started making beats two days ago. Look me up – Jew York.” UGH. We then picked up Joe at his place. While there we saw his awesome screen printing set up. Up there is Conor with himself.
We had to make the drive from BHam to Seattle once more to grab Matt from Uncle Kenny’s (his fake uncle’s place who lives in Seattle) then we had a lovely long drive down to Portland. No AC. Quite a blast. I think that was our first long one, maybe like 12 hours or something. I can’t even remember because the days are blending.
The Portland show was a low point in my opinion but it didn’t matter. Hanging with So Adult was fun so it didn’t matter that people weren’t there.
So Adult tried a few songs that weren’t in their normal set and sort of failed. I loved it. They also played Citizen’s Arrest (the video jam) and it was splendid. That song rules.
After the show we drove to Bo’s sister’s place which was about 40 minutes south of Portland. The house was pretty banging and we stayed in the movie room. Lots of Pirates of the Caribbean posters in there. Good shower. So on.
Funny stuff taking place in the van during the no AC period. A few days before Matt would pretty much never pop his shirt off for any reason but the heat just drove that man to the edge. I did start the shirts-off party the day before, but Matt was carrying the torch.
Justin and Joe. I would later learn why Joe preferred to keep his bag on his lap…
Here is where everything changed (click to make it bigger). We stopped in the desert somewhere to fix the AC. Double charged it and finally the windows could be rolled up without everyone dying. More coming soon.