Where are cool places to visit in Olympia? my best friend is going there Weds and she wants to know about places to buy zines and records, punk places, resource centers, the olympia zine library, vegan friendly restaurants, thrift stores and so on. you can respond to me, I don't know that she wants her email address out (although she has posted here once...)

agatha- i am the best freind of whom semillama speaks.... please fill me in on cool stuff to do/see in oly

agatha- i am the best friend of whom semillama speaks.... please fill me in on cool stuff to do/see in oly

hey, mavis, are you one of semillama's portland friends?

I think I can affirm that.

yes. i. am...! actually, a detroit sister living in portland is more accurate.

Well, there's about five places. Are you staying overnight? If so, there are some good places to go at night. There are two good record stores: 1. Phantom City is on Washington right off of fourth, which is sort of the main strip around there. It's in the same storefront as a place called Dumpster Values, which has good used clothing for cheap. 2. Rainy Day records is on the West Side, more towards Evergreen. They have more variety, but the people who work there are not as friendly. Value Village is right next door, and there's a good pizza place around the corner from there called Vic's. I will email llama and tell him more.

there are literally no vegan restaurants, there are a couple that have some vegan options and that's about it. On sunday nights, there is this thing called the Red Horse Cafe, these two girls have this once a week restaurant out of their apartment and usually have vegan options. But that's on sundays, not wednesdays. Summer in Olympia is the most happening time to visit.

Harvey Danger is playing at the Metropolis in downtown Olympia on Saturday. I'm there.

speaking of bands......ther is a band from atlanta in LA this week called The Forty Fives.....if they come your way...... Satyricon - Portland OR, Thu 30 Mar The Brickyard - Vancouver BC Sun 02 Apr The Forty Fives SEE THEM!!!! it's a bitch of a weekend......lots of bands playing sat. The Legendary Wrong People, my ex bassist band...(by the way Seattle-ites, every heard of them, they now reside there, formerly a band called Kommunity FK, the front guy Patrick Matta is kinda well known around here and there i hear) and Nashville Pussy is also here Sat. but I think i am opting for hometown faves the 45s.........

hey agatha- thanks for the info! you can email me if you want... lulibird@teleport.com mavis

hey, jina, I'm meeting agatha at that show. come say hi. I'll be the super tall chick in the slutty little red shirt. don't mention sorabji to any of my friends. I don't want to get busted.

oh, shit. i'm scared.

I'd been wondering about Harvey Danger. are they a small enough band that you can go talk to them after the show? If so, ask them what the heck is up with a second album, cuz their website info sucks a whole bunch.

the second album is done. I think it's great. they're looking for a label. this is from the kathleen wilson column in the stranger a couple weeks ago: Wasn't it just a few years ago that Harvey Danger had all the labels in hot pursuit? And now, one gigantic radio hit and a newly recorded sophomore disc later, the band is having all sorts of headaches. A while back, Harvey Danger's label, London, was released from its contract with Polygram when that label merged with Universal. (Okay, now I'm getting a headache.) London spent most of 1999 trying to hook up with Sire, and all the while the band worked on their much-anticipated follow-up to Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? -- finally calling it complete at 12 songs and 48 minutes. In January, London hitched up with Sire and told Harvey Danger that the record would come out in March, and that they should get ready to start touring as early as February. One week later, the band got the word that because all London assets were obtained using Polygram money, all London assets belonged to new industry behemoth Universal Music Group. Which basically means that Harvey Danger now has to sit on their thumbs while bloated labels like Island, MCA, and Interscope, among others, get around to listening to the album and then decide whether they can make any money off of it or whether they should let the band go. Says Sean Nelson, "Island Records, the first in line, has passed. Though it's never fun to be rejected, I must say that the guy who passed on it was the same guy who signed Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys; he was given a record label to run for his accomplishments. That oughta last...." If all the labels who have dibs on Harvey Danger's contract pass on the album, the band will then be set free, and Nelson says they'll probably go back to the London label, which is still dying to put out the record. "It's funny to me that we did so much to try to not make the mistakes other bands made when diving into the major-label miasma," says Nelson. "We turned down a lot of money; we kept the scope small; we fought for control, etc. We thought that if we went into it with good intentions, we would be served well. How funny is it that directly because of those good intentions, we're now triply fucked?"

sorabji fest 2000. olympia, washington. tonight.

The guy who signed those crappy bands runs ISLAND?! Fuck. So much for that label.

Ignore this. This is a test...

you have their second album, Cyst? What's it called?

it may be called "limbo rock." sean taped it for me. I listen to it all the time. I met jina tonight! I looked back and saw this beautiful girl with these huge, dark eyes. I introduced myself. she's very nice. she and agatha (who was too tired to go) should meet up.

i'm lame. sorry.

hey, it's ok. I was kind of preoccupied anyway. I had a really, really, really great time.

I'd like to meet Agatha too. I had a great time. It was weird that I decided to wear the freaky eyeliner for the concert. The first time I thought it was you was when I saw the lead singer standing and talking to someone and realizing it was a girl and seeing the other girls around this girl about a head shorter. And I was like No Way.

"realizing it was a girl." oh man. the story of my life. yeah way. I think sean and I are the same height when I'm not wearing heeled boots, which is never. your eyeliner was fantastic. you should wear it always.

Cyst, for some reason, the thought of your 6'3" self in high-heeled boots is making me swell with pride. You rock.

thank you. I used to wear flat shoes all the time, but then I figured, what the fuck difference does it make? I had some sort of transformation a couple years back. some of my seattle friends missed that process, and now when I see them they're taken aback. from today's e-mail: "jeff asked when you... when you changed... he couldn't finish the sentence. he wanted to know why you started dressing differently. i said 'because she realized she's really fucking hot?'" a lady standing behind me at wal-mart today called me sir.

Tall shoes give me a great sense of power. My friend had a couple pairs. And one day we wore them out together. We got the biggest glare from this woman. I couldn't understand it. If I saw a girl who looked great in tall shoes I'd be cheering her on. Not out loud, but I'd at least give her a friendly smile. Do you ever get glares?