believe, hon

Balmer made rolling stone's Best Scene of 2008. because its gritty, i guess.

another girl's trash

i'm making a mix or two for a friend who'll be dj-ing at a gay hipster dance night in SF called "the Saturday Night Reacharound" or just "Reacharound" for short. Pure class. Here're some of the b-sides I've cut so far to make room for the good stuff.


i honestly can't listen to this enough.


and wherever sylvester goes, rick james isn't far behind


this one from !!! is a big meh. I keep cutting it and then coming back to it.


absolutely not club-friendly, but jane bang is my new girl crush. what.


you can run, JD, but i'll find you. i'll always be there.


and if i had my own dj night, this is all you'd hear.

got er did

Wednesday: cheesefries and pbr for pennies at Dot's
whisky and beer back(!) at new Montage bar
Thursday: avacado swiss omlette and gay waiter at cricket cafe
summer dresses at buffalo exchange
coffee at Stumptown Division
Juno and pizzacato pizza and pbr at Laurelhurst
Friday: vegan brunch at Paradox
more summer dresses and gold sandals at thrift store at 50th and Division
chilli relleno burrito and horchata at La Serenita
local brews at Amnesia on N Mississippi
Saturday: more brunch and hypercolor shades at Pattie's in St Johns
pbr and bocce ball at Leisure in St Johns
5 kinds of latenight fried grease (macncheese bits!) at Holman's
Sunday: still more brunch and bloody mary's in the sun at Mississippi Station
spicy garlic pad thai at than thao
more pbr at Beulahland
Teeth and more pbr at Laurelhurst
Monday: cupping at Stumptown Belmont
Everyday and all of the night: the Hills online and poppin bottles fulla bub up in burrp bleep huuurp wuuurp

all the while driving an SUV around the greenest city in the US for 5 days, which did wonders for my indie cred. and its not like i took pictures of anything, but whatevs, trust me.

to do the crap out of in pdx:

burritos - la Serenita, la Bonita, Super muhfukkin burrito Xpress, taco del mar (if time)
Buffalo Exchange, Red Light, the BINS
Laurelhurst - movie/pizza/pitchers of Hef
Karaoke - CHOPSTIX, grandma's
brunch - Laurelthirst, Cricket cafe, that one bomb place on Morrison? Hawthorne? toward downtown?
coffee - Stumptown, fresh pot
beer - Delta, Lutz, Yukon for shuffleboard
froofy drinks - Squeeze (fresh, hippy-flavored martinis), Salvador molly's (caipirinhas, rasta rings, and peanut shells on the ground)
Voodoo donut
Powells
Hoda's
Doug Fir crafts on sunday