[stylist] Portland

[Semirhage]

Hi Atty and all. Portland all in all was pretty good. Very good 
transportation and we got around very well. Mostly everyone was really 
friendly and helpful too. We really enjoyed the Russian restaurant at which 
we dined, and it's' actually great as in preparing the Russian food 
correctly. My husband, being Russian, would know. LOL.And most of it I'd 
never had and really enjoyed. We totally pigged out. HAHA. We enjoyed the 
metaphysical bookstore, Moon Shadow that we went to. He added the 
necronomicon tarot deck to his vast collection, as a reader he's got loads, 
but of course has to connect with them so won't just take anything, and I 
found a cool bronze bat on a pentagram that's supposed to be a pendant but 
I turned it into a bracelet. LOL I have a bat jewelry collection and at 
least this particular bracelet is a different style so that makes it 
necessary, right? Right. LOL. They had nice stuff and we enjoyed looking 
around. A little something for all pantheons and walks as it were. The only 
disappointment was sadly the Lovecraft bar. It was cool with the decor as we 
expected but no sitting at the bar to socialize easily with anyone you don't 
already know. Just tables and you order at the bar but no where to sit. And 
it's very dark. Yes bars are dark in general but this was really hardly lit. 
My husband can usually take his dark over glasses off and see fine with just 
the vision ones in other  dimmer bars, but he did that in this one and still 
had a very difficult time and he's got good distance vision. It's just 
tunnel vision so shouldn't matter there so ,much. So in short that means it 
was super really dark. LOL. Sorta detracted from the fun. Also the pissy bar 
keep who muttered and seemed to have trouble hearing us. Kinda 
horrifying...which fit a horror bar. It's all damn, the locals aren't being 
friendly and don't even seem to care about our business. Isn't that a bad 
sign? Should we not run now before something comes up out of the floor  with 
18 heads and eats us? LOL. And the drinks were screwy. Usually drinks at a 
bar are pricy so we want to get our money's worth and to be sure of that 
usually ordering a Long Island iced tea does it as it's sure to give you a 
buzz where as other pricy drinks may be poorly made, i.e weaker and you'll 
net get the proper kick for your dollar. Never have I been screwed over by a 
Long Island Iced Tea, though, but this time we were. Didn't feel crap from 
it though it did taste right. Then the band playing was bad. Well bad if you 
hate it 4 times, aprox, times louder than very loud. LOL. And it was screamo 
stuff I guess. Could be off, as it's not my type of music, but it was very 
hard and the words? Think they were saying words were literally screamed and 
elongated at the top of their lungs where the voice is distorted so sounds 
like the stuff called Screamo I've heard. Theirs are so many categories of 
music, though, that perhaps there is another variation that others would 
know and find to be a completely type of horrid roaring. I mean we're into 
hard rock. Well into all sorts of music, but  we loves us some AC/DC, 
Twisted Sister, Ozzy, Scorpions, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Skid Row, Guns and 
Roses, Joan Jet, and the list goes on and on. So it's not that it was just 
harder and we can't take it. Anyway, everyone else inteh bar seemed to be 
loving it so to each his own, and sorry to any Screamo fans out there or 
whatever. Merely expressing my opinion. LOL. But really that was the least 
annoyance as it's easy enough to leave. LOL. So just was a little 
disappointed there. There were nice incenses burning that smelled nice, the 
place had a cool visual vibe for what could be seen with horror themes 
everywhere, but just yeah. Cups were normal. I think cups shaped like skulls 
at the very least, at the bottom of creativity, would've been decent, and 
they're like at dollar tree every fall for Halloween. LOL. I was thinking 
how it's sad when I have an original character in the HP games, Aberforth 
Dumbledore's long lost daughter, who decorated the Hog's Head and did far 
better as the cups and spoons and such were also themed. Just the pissy 
service was not cool but yeah it was at least spooky. Somehow  I don't think 
that was the aim, though. LOL.
In general,though there is loads to do in Portland and I wish we had more 
time to explore. We'll definitely go back to Portland, just not to that bar.
Sem
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head.