Exploring the Year 2009 in Portland!
1 - Full outfit
Originally uploaded by All Halley's Eve This weekend was eventful indeed! I, unfortunately did not play at the Farmer's Market. I assume that they believe I'm gone for good, but I fully intend to be there this coming Saturday. I did, however, participate in two different pub crawls. Glutton for punishment, I know. I know.
Thursday evening, I rode by bike and harp trailer up to Amnesia Brewery in N Portland for an hour of Car-Free Happy Hour before making it to my gig at the grand opening of the art gallery, Splendorporium in the inner SE.
Friday evening, we did a bicycle pub crawl from inner SE Portland to N Portland where the group eventually met up with the Midnight Mystery Ride. We ended up hitting only two bars because the service was tragically slow at Green Dragon and we had to wait over an hour for caesar salads and tater totes. I ducked out about 11:30 before the MMR for home, via a detour at Voodoo Too.
After having a slow morning, I began throwing together my outfit for Saturday night and Drunken Rampage's monthly pub crawl theme created by Dresden Codak. The theme was "Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day" and was put together amazingly well including an "Emergency Protocol for Temporal Anomalies; Your Guide to the 21st Century" and hourly guided tours by licensed educators of Earthonomics! Not preparing in advance, as usual, I just threw together an outfit with what was in my closet. I had a lot of choices as far as medieval went, but really didn't want to go that route. I decided to pull out the vintage English riding pants and band jacket (both from about 1930), my "hobbit" vest and fencing equiment. (Gloves, boots and gorget) I finished it off with a military grade aeroplane cap, my bicycling goggles, a silk scarf and my Soviet attache case. Made an admiral "Amelia Earhart" if I don't say so myself.
All in all the evening was a success. Working on my gigs for this week, including tonight at Invasion Cafe.
Still working on the CD for any who is wondering.