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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:13 pm

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Sorry Willow!

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We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.

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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Canadian_watcher » Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:40 pm

Willow, I think this summer is the Summer of Trying To Kill Artists by Indirect Means.

My basement flooded badly today.. this has never happened to us but of course, since we just put our house up for sale after making a VERY painful decision to give up on home ownership for a while in order to rent, it happened today. Goodbye "finished basement." Insurance does not cover this type of thing, either. Fan Tastic.

Sorry to whine while you're already down in the dumps. But I thought maybe misery would enjoy some company. :cheers:
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Project Willow » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:04 pm

Thanks Jack.

C_w, how momentous and then exasperating. Flooded basements suck but as far as I remember they suck more when it's a sewage back-up. Hope it wasn't that.
Here's to company, no, no, here's to fewer bad things happening in the immediate future! :cheers:

Willow, I think this summer is the Summer of Trying To Kill Artists by Indirect Means.


Reading the comments to the coverage of the building closure, I'd say most of the general public has been rather direct in telling artists to drop dead, but I know what you mean.
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Canadian_watcher » Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:11 pm

Project Willow wrote:C_w, how momentous and then exasperating. Flooded basements suck but as far as I remember they suck more when it's a sewage back-up. Hope it wasn't that.


no it wasn't that.. and believe me the whole time I was hand-bilging I was repeating to myself and my family: at least there's no poop in here, at least there's no poop in here! ;)

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Reading the comments to the coverage of the building closure,...


It's my new policy to never read 'comment' sections. I swear only evil people bother to post on them. At least I hope that's the case.

and I heartily raise a glass to the wish that no more bad things happen in the immediate future!
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Project Willow » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:44 pm

Who wants to be an unfucker?



It's a gorgeous summer day in Seatown. Tonight a parade will pass by under my windows, and the building will be alive with parties. A little debauchery is a fine cure for the blues.
Hope you all have a lovely Saturday. :sun:

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Apparently the Saloon was once the Yesler Chop House.

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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Project Willow » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:03 pm

I used to do band photos.

Why do rock stars always stare a the viewer with utter contempt?

I always had to prod my subjects to do that, because I thought that's what the industry required, and I'd only do it for one or two shots.

Otherwise, it didn't come naturally to them, so I wonder, who is coaching all these rock stars to stare at the viewer in utter contempt?

Personally, I'd like to tell them to fuck off.
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby blanc » Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:32 am

Like fashion models, staring contemptuously, because you don't look like them and have to do real work for small return. Be grateful you can gaze back.
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Project Willow » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:31 pm

Project Willow wrote:
Apparently the Saloon was once the Yesler Chop House.


I was misled, that is not true and I replaced the photo above with the correct photo. The former chop house was next door in a triangular shaped building that now houses a rather good but pricey Italian restaurant.
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Gnomad » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:14 pm

Please pass me a fat doobie. Could really use one.
Just two more days till that one day off ;=)

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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Project Willow » Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:51 pm

Gnomad wrote:Please pass me a fat doobie. Could really use one.
Just two more days till that one day off ;=)


I do believe my friend at the end of the bar can handler that request. :tiphat:

Gnomad wrote:The meek and the hard workers shall inherit the earth, yea right?


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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Hammer of Los » Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:50 am

I watched that TED talk.

I love TED.com.

Brene Brown wrote:I call it a breakdown, my therapist called it a spiritual awakening.


She discovers there is no security to be found, amongst other fascinating insights. It's a remarkable talk. I could type it all up to quote it here, but I don't have the time;

Brene Brown wrote:(People who don't suffer from a crippling sense of lack of worth).. had the compassion to be kind to themselves first, and then to others, because as it turns out we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly.




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Who felt that every child should know how to love
So daily laid a trail of light
That clearly followed close
Yet no one really understood it's you,
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Simulist » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:38 pm

That's quite beautiful, HoL.
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Postby Hammer of Los » Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:43 pm

Simulist wrote:That's quite beautiful, HoL.


I'm glad you also find it beautiful.

I was lucky enough to see Jon and Rick play a lot of pieces from their recent album, "The Living Tree," when they toured the UK last year. I saw them in glamorous Croydon!* What do you think of that, Searcher08?

It was a magical evening.

Jon's face shone with a radiant glow, and even though he was only recently in very poor health, he sang like an angel.

I wept tears of Joy and blew him kisses all night long. I think the people sat next to me thought I was a little eccentric, there on my own cheering and laughing and crying and singing along.

I pray to God Jon and Rick will tour together again before they retire.


*If you search on youtube you can find some dodgy grainy footage that doesn't do the evening justice.
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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:19 am

Gnomad wrote:Please pass me a fat doobie. Could really use one.
Just two more days till that one day off ;=)

The meek and the hard workers shall inherit the earth, yea right?


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Re: Welcome to... The Saloon

Postby Canadian_watcher » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:45 pm

I just noticed something incredibly wonderful!

Braless

rhymes with lawless & flawless

:yay
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