I just finished up the flyer for this upcoming gig at Dante's in Portland, OR!

Zombie Summer Vacation! w/ Living Dead Girlz, Day Of The Zombie, Maggothead, Carny Jerkwater

Awwwwww yeah, I scored a chase Stereotype toy from Superdeux.

I don't know what it is about these, but they're my favorite toy series to collect - I don't know why I hardly ever see them in stores.

So Alex and I secured a new apartment, which is a block or two farther up hill, and hence slightly less of an appeal to crackheads. Also, apartment is way larger. I know I promised everyone pictures of our current apartment, but we never really got to that "super cute, hella organized" state we wanted to, so you're going to have to wait until we get settled in the new place. We're painting this week and moving in on Saturday. I think our goal... okay, my goal, is to get featured on one of those awesome-designer-apartment blogs. We watch too much HGTV.

In fact, Friday we're getting the cable set up at the new house and we've decided to spend the extra $7 for HD, since we got our new TV and all - we went back and forth on it since the only 2 things we watch are HGTV and Seinfeld reruns. So, now we'll have HD-HGTV.

Also, in completely unrelated Wii news, I totally beat Super Mario Bros. 3 last night. Thanks, Gamefaqs!

My friends Nicole & Jenn came down to visit from Portland last week, and we caused quite a bit of trouble. We invaded Japantown, which will suck you in with its unbelievable cuteness. Here, Nicole and I are getting into a brawl in Neo Tokyo or whatever. My hundred-hand-slap is useless against Nicole's fire breath! :( x 100

We did other things, mostly drinking and shopping. We decided to check out all the tiny bars that are directly in my neighborhood, so here are some quick mini-reviews of each

Zeki's - Directly downstairs from new apartment, has Connect 4 and PEAR CIDER ON TAP!

Encore - Super secret upstairs karaoke - short lines, low ceilings, low singing quality, no taps? What???

Bacchus Kirk - Rowdy, rowdy bar with super nice bartender who gave us free shots of something that tasted like melted mint ice cream, and made Nic & Jenn pint-glass sized mojitos.

Bigfoot Lounge - I got 3/4 of a free Guinness when the keg blew. Giant bigfoot statue takes up valuable seating space, and a little too much taxidermy for my taste

Vertigo - Hidden-in-plain-sight tiny danceclub right around the corner. About 8 people can dance comfortably, so the 12 people rocking out to funky progressive house had the place packed. Hope to DJ here some time

Mint - Over by Aaron & Jason's hood, not mine. Seriously fun karaoke bar, definitely where I will be making Rachel & Corey go when they come visit. They have a camera pointed at you so the people in the back of the bar can watch you on TV.

Friday!

A woman barged into my apartment without knocking. I asked if I could help her. She was obviously very very drunk and said "Do you know Wendy? Are you good with keys? And getting the right key into the door and opening the door?". I actually don't know the neighbor who's apartment she was going into at all, and have never seen her before, so I asked if she was staying here, she said something like "Kind of, but I just have to pee really badly. HELP ME OPEN THE DOOR". She's basically screaming at me frantically now, while bracing herself against the wall so as not to fall down and also doing "the pee pee dance". I told her I didn't know the neighbors at all so I don't feel like I should help a drunk woman into their apartment - keys or not. She said "Oh, some great neighbor you are!". Well, now she's just being mean, so I told her I wasn't helping her, walked back in my apartment and locked the door.

Of course I did watch out the peephole for a while and saw her sit down on the ground and burst into tears. I'm going to give her a tiny bit of credit in that the keys in all the doors in the apartment actually turn in the opposite direction of normal doors and I imagine that would confuse a drunk person, however that's no excuse for being rude!

Minutes later she is gone and the woman who is actually my neighbor knocks on my door to ask "Have you seen my cousin? She has my keys". I told her what happened and she started apologizing, and then the first woman came out of the elevator and started crying and pointing fingers and going "He was so mean to me!!!! THAT MAN MADE ME CRY!!".

Great, so now I'm the asshole neighbor who makes people cry.

Saturday!

Alex took a shower and noticed our shower wasn't draining, so he called the apartment manager. Well, manager came down and attempted to snake our tub, not knowing that the other end of the snake came out of our elderly neighbor's bathtub, whipping around and destroying her bathroom while spraying black water everywhere. Whoops.

I feel very bad. She is a sweet old lady (see, I am a good neighbor) and I think she my have had a stroke or something because she talks very slowly. She always says hi and visits with us - I can't imagine at 80+ or whatever, suddenly some alien technology-looking tentacle creeping up out of my shower and spewing up goo all over my bathroom. I'd be a little freaked out.

Roto-rooter eventually came and fixed everything, but it sounds like there was a lot of damage done next door that the building is going to need to cover.

Now it's sunday and I have a cold. I'm hoping for no excitement today.