2019: April 14th Nick Cave's Distant Sky Streaming Free

"The full-length concert film Distant Sky - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live in Copenhagen will be available to stream for free between 19 and 22 April 2019. To access sign up at www.nickcave.com/distantsky."

K and I saw this last year during the limited theatrical engagement and it's fantastic. Definitely worth your time if you're a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds fan.

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Had breakfast at Twede's Cafe yesterday, better known to Peaks fans as The Double R. Would it surprise you to find out that it is indeed where pies go when they die? (Yes, pie for desert at breakfast).

Now I am glad K made me wait to eat this until she could take a picture.

The trek to Seattle was easy from North Bend, but honestly, I wish we'd just stayed the duration in North Bend. Nothing against Seattle, but it's a different thing. Also, there's so much development here it kind of makes my head spin. When Mr. Brown, Two, and I were here in July 2017 I thought there was a lot, but it continues unabated. It's now Amazon: The City.

We did the Bill Speidel Underground tour, which was super cool; anything that puts me in tunnels beneath the Earth is something I'm automatically going to love. All those decayed and forgotten passages - well, not really forgotten in the context of dozens of tours going through them everyday, but forgotten in the sense that there's a whole city down there! Marvelous.

The tour combined with our last exploring of North Bend/Snoqualmie and the drive, and we were done. Ate dinner at the pub in our hotel, The Merchant Cafe, drank a few of these (below), and retired to our room where we attempted to watch the first leg of Week 3 of Joe Bob Briggs The Last Drive-In on Shudder, but I was probably out by 10:00 PM.

Playlist from 4/13:

Blut Aus Nord - Memorial Vista II: Dialogue with the Stars
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

No card today.

2019: North Bend & Dinner @ The Roadhouse

First, I had to set the tone with some music. Last night, K and I rolled into North Bend. I love this town. Seriously. With Mount Rainier looming beautifully in the mist, we checked into our amazing Airbnb and set out for the Salish Lodge. In the cool, wet spring evening, the falls were more amazing than I've ever seen them. To say K had a religious experience is something of an understatement.

Afterward, we ate at Fall City Roadhouse, the exterior for the infamous Twin Peaks Roadhouse. Second time I've dined here and the food is just ridiculous! I had the Meatloaf Dinner, and, well, this must be where meatloaves go when they die. Washed it down with two of these, Nitro, on tap:

Breakfast this morning will be at Twede's, which my fellow Peaks People will know as Norma's Double R Diner. From there will probably cruise a few filming spots so she can see them (Hap's old location, Ronette's bridge, maybe the Mill/Sheriff Station), then on to Seattle, where we'll leave the Peaks nostalgia behind and dig into an Underground tour and some museum tours. Special thanks to Mr. Brown who is way more familiar with Seattle than I, and his offering to serve as my 'Alex,' by phone if I have any questions.

Playlist:

True Widow - AVVOLGERE
Melvins - Houdini
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
Twin Peaks Limited Event Series Soundtrack

Card of the day:

Having a hard time squaring this with my present state. 7s traditionally represent the unbalance that leaving the harmony of the 6s behind causes. I don't feel unbalanced, but I suppose we often don't. I'll take this as a reminder to keep my wits about me and stay emotionally even.

2019: March 31st

I fell back into King Khan and the Shrines yesterday. Previously, I've returned again and again to the apparently well OOP The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines, one of the best damn compilations I've ever heard. It's not often I get into a band and am happy subsisting on a comp alone, but it happens on occasion, as it did with KK and the Shrines. Mr. Brown burnt said disc for me... hell, I guess back around the time I moved to LA, and it's been an on and off companion since. And although he also burnt me what probably amounts to the remainder of the band's catalogue, as well as plenty from Khan's two-man project, The King Khan & BBQ Show, The Supreme Genius of... has remained my go-to. The tracks just flow so. Damn. Good. Here's a live clip I found of another of my favorites:



That right there is Soul, baby. Khan and his cabal of collaborators have been a major force in taking back Soul from the mis-labelling of the music that began in the 80s and 90s, with crappy melodramatic balladeers. This is Sam and Dave, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding... the list goes on.

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It's one week until I head out to Spokane for work, and then only five days until I spend a long weekend in Seattle. Can't wait. Planning on staying a night in North Bend, a city I would ultimately love to live in, and you can bet K and I will be dining at Twede's, better known to Twin Peaks fans as the Double R Diner. This will be my fourth trip to Washington, the first since 2017. It's K's first, so I'm psyched to see her reaction to the state's beauty.

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Playlist from 3/29:
Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor
Brand New - Science Fiction


Playlist from 3/30:

Deftones - Koi No Yokan
King Khan and the Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of
Otis Redding - Live at the Whiskey a Go Go
Naked Raygun - Series #1
Naked Raygun - Series #2
Naked Raygun - Series #3
Naked Raygun - Free S**t! Live in Chicago
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Canadian Rifle - Peaceful Death
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
How to Destroy Angels - Eponymous EP

Card of the day:

Leaning toward an interpretation that juxtaposes The Magus with the source of its inspiration, Hermes Trismegistus, or the Messenger of the Gods Mercury, who Crowley refers to as, "Word of creation whose speech is silent." In other words, time to stop tinkering and send the book to Missi for that extremely important First Reader Experience.