documentation, research, experiments
Dude! Does this spaceship make me look fat?
(Pardon the mess in our clean room; the cleaner is coming tomorrow, I promise.)
As the attendees of Red Night at LIGHTBAR are aware, MSL is deeply committed to earth-mars friendship. That’s why we’re sending jacked-up hotrods to the red planet! JPL offers a sneak peek, here.
If this mission succeeds, we’re on-schedule to host LIGHTBAR 2020 on MARS!
Yesterday was the saddest day in LIGHTBAR history.
Today — Wednesday February 25, 2009 — we’re digging out, cleaning up, sorting and sifting. It’s really not too huge of a job, but the more the merrier — especially when it comes to folding 40-foot tarps. Please drop by if you can. Pizza will be ordered.
The remaining LIGHTBAR events are well and truly cancelled, BUT we’d love to find someplace to have one last little bash on Saturday. My band never got to play, and I know everybody has these awesome gold outfits they want to wear …
LIGHTBAR goes dark early this year …
WTF? Well, I knew there were problems. I’ve already had to fix several broken struts, and there were one or two near the top of the dome that I couldn’t reach to fix properly. Yesterday we had the heaviest rain and wind in a month. Did my baggy roof tarp begin to take on water, and grow heavy? Were the winds worse than I realized? I wonder if anybody else’s dome fell down last night.
… was great! For instance:
Huge thanks to my pals in CHERVONA, the greatest Russian band in all of Portland! They leave for their Maslenitsa tour of California IHOP franchises on Friday. Go see them! Their last Portland show before the tour will be this Thursday at the Alberta Street Public House.
Huge thanks also to everybody who came, danced, partied, celebrated, tipped, and then vanished into thin air right at midnight like ninja elves! Such professionals! Remember:
He who rocks and sneaks away
lives to rock another day!
You got ZOOBOMB on my LIGHTBAR!
You got LIGHTBAR on my ZOOBOMB!
Last Friday night, Portland’s awesome Midnight Mystery Ride left from Portland’s awesome (if I say so myself) LIGHTBAR at midnight, thus launching a mad weekend of gladiatory excellence known as Minibike Winter VI, brought to you by Portland’s awesome cult of speed, ZOOBOMB!
Portland is just awesome. This video gives you a taste of the whole weekend, with blue-drink action courtesy of master mixologist Matthew. Includes subtleties for the thinking impaired.
On Saturday LIGHTBAR hosted a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”, a piece of music that’s been variously classified as avant-garde, modern, 20th century (which used to mean modern), aleatoric and minimalist, and which sparked a revolution in musical hierarchy in 1966 when it was first conceived. I’ve been in love with this ever since I first heard it last fall. I had no idea it’s so widely performed, but it’s super fascinating to play and to hear.
Egad, what a night! Hundreds of people in fabulous white costumes, hovering under the lights like moths, laughing, dancing, talking, smiling …. so much smiling! Can pictures do it justice?
