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Seattle, Day 5
Oct. 27th, 2011 02:26 amToday has been Seattle Day.
Woke up fairly late this morning to a text from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_eljefe_, who was both in town and free for the early afternoon. So subject_zero and I, our gracious hosts having gone to work like normal people, navigated our way through downtown Seattle to meet up with him with possibly a maximum of fuss. For all I've been plugging getting lost and adventure and stuff, I really do feel better when I have the internet in my pocket and GoogleMaps to guide me. But we managed.
Met up, and went to Pike Place Market, to nose around and get some lunch. Had Chinese, with an excellent view of the harbour, and then grabbed a coffee and_eljefe_ dropped us off with reasonable directions to the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum, where we had some comp tickets for around 2pm.
The Experience Music Project's pretty small as museums go, but it's pretty super: There was a sculpture made out of guitars, a Seattle band map, a whole exhibit about post-punk and Nirvana, a Jimi Hendrix exhibit that made me realize he was actually the 1960s equivalent of Atticus Ross, a lot of oral history recordings, and a whole section where you could monkey around on instruments and actually record. We laid down Fake Plastic Trees (Danny on guitar, me on vocals), Nothingman (Danny on both) and Casual Walks (me acapella), but didn't buy the CD because in retrospect we were a touch terrible.
The science fiction wing of the museum was pretty media-oriented -- a BSG exhibit which was meh, an Avatar exhibit we didn't care about, and a horror movie one -- so we mostly skipped it.
Afterwards, grabbed a coffee on Pike and met up with Jon and Nish, and then went for Thai for dinner and meandered back to home base. We've spent the evening monkeying around with their guitar and having World's Longest Singalong (and it's better than what we recorded), and now our fingers hurt and we're just sort of vegging around with laptops and knitting and manga and the like.
A bit more Seattle to be had tomorrow morning; the flight to San Diego is midafternoon, and then it's WFC starting in the evening. Our days of hoboing around the Pacific Northwest are ending all too soon.
Possibly more coffee reports tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Woke up fairly late this morning to a text from
_eljefe_, who was both in town and free for the early afternoon. So subject_zero and I, our gracious hosts having gone to work like normal people, navigated our way through downtown Seattle to meet up with him with possibly a maximum of fuss. For all I've been plugging getting lost and adventure and stuff, I really do feel better when I have the internet in my pocket and GoogleMaps to guide me. But we managed.Met up, and went to Pike Place Market, to nose around and get some lunch. Had Chinese, with an excellent view of the harbour, and then grabbed a coffee and
_eljefe_ dropped us off with reasonable directions to the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum, where we had some comp tickets for around 2pm.The Experience Music Project's pretty small as museums go, but it's pretty super: There was a sculpture made out of guitars, a Seattle band map, a whole exhibit about post-punk and Nirvana, a Jimi Hendrix exhibit that made me realize he was actually the 1960s equivalent of Atticus Ross, a lot of oral history recordings, and a whole section where you could monkey around on instruments and actually record. We laid down Fake Plastic Trees (Danny on guitar, me on vocals), Nothingman (Danny on both) and Casual Walks (me acapella), but didn't buy the CD because in retrospect we were a touch terrible.
The science fiction wing of the museum was pretty media-oriented -- a BSG exhibit which was meh, an Avatar exhibit we didn't care about, and a horror movie one -- so we mostly skipped it.
Afterwards, grabbed a coffee on Pike and met up with Jon and Nish, and then went for Thai for dinner and meandered back to home base. We've spent the evening monkeying around with their guitar and having World's Longest Singalong (and it's better than what we recorded), and now our fingers hurt and we're just sort of vegging around with laptops and knitting and manga and the like.
A bit more Seattle to be had tomorrow morning; the flight to San Diego is midafternoon, and then it's WFC starting in the evening. Our days of hoboing around the Pacific Northwest are ending all too soon.
Possibly more coffee reports tomorrow. Stay tuned.
