Valentine’s [232 SW Ankeny PDX]
Friday 1/23
Tiga [1465 NE Prescott PDX]
Saturday 1/24

Drop in and have a drink. Matthew Yake will be spinning records 9pm – Close at both locations.

He was kind enough to send me this Youtube Video so that we would have some ‘sound bites’ to chomp on while we eagerly waited to get out of work and go listen to his tunes

BTW Matthew Yake is also blogging for Multnomah County Library where he works as a Librarian.
How cool is that? A librarian blogger dj. Fuck. Thank god he is already my friend or I would be super envious and have to start stalking the mofo.

Here…Read this.
I have included an excerpt from one of his posts from the library’s blog

Saturday January 03, 2009
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst…

If Russian academic Igor Panarin newest theory is correct, in about 18 months Oregon will be part of China. This is part of a larger forecast Panarin made which predicts that the United States will dissolve into six spheres of influence under conditions most of us would liken to an apocalypse. Happy New Year! Thankfully, Panarin states that there is only a 45-55% chance of said event coming to fruition. Whew…

To be honest, Panarin’s prognostication doesn’t exactly fill me with dread. Call me an optimist but I’m not about to spend 2009 preparing for the end of the world as we know it. However, if that tingling, creepy, melancholy feeling is what you’re looking (and as a fan of post-apocalyptic movies I could sympathize) try Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. It’s a quick read compared to his many of his other works and, like No Country for Old Men, it has recently been adapted for film. In fact, some of The Road’s bleak, weather-beaten, exterior sequences were filmed in Oregon. Considering that we’ve been at Nature’s mercy for the past couple weeks it might be easy to identify with this novel’s protagonist and his efforts to save his son in a cold world, nearly burned away by an unnamed ecological disaster of unimaginable scale.

And, if things do happen to get worse here, we can count on Joshua Piven’s The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook to provide a plan for escape. Illustrated with easy-to-read diagrams and including even (or perhaps, only) the most outlandish predicaments, Piven’s book makes imagining being attacked by a bear fun again. I recommend the audio-book version as read by Mr. Burt Reynolds. Clocking in at a little less than two hours, it is the perfect duration for a trip through the Cascades or out to the coast and it will keep you in stitches as it prepares you for anything that could, but almost certainly won’t, go wrong.

As far as secession from the union goes, Panarin’s a step slow. Folks around these parts have been dabbling with that idea for a while now. Hypothetical nation-states have included; the Republic of Cascadia, the State of Lincoln and the State of Jefferson. If one needed convincing of the longevity of this concept I’d point them in the direction of The State of Jefferson a terrific collection of prose and photos by Bernita Tickner and Gail Fiorini-Jenner. The State of Jefferson is a causal look at life in Southern Oregon/Northern California and includes many playful observations such as the re-emergence of Etna, the official beer of the State of Jefferson. The real fun in The State of Jefferson is looking over its many photographs. Their quality and abundance makes imagining living in this place, both mythical and real, a joy. More of Matthew’s Post from Jan 3rd…

I think Matthew writes really well and I am thrilled to see that the library is paying him to blog about the books there. He has worked at the library for eight years. He _knows_ those books dude. Who better to get a recommendation from then someone who has been working there for years? I wonder if they will post the top picks or something fun like that? I wonder if they get to write about more stuff than books? I wonder if anyone will read this post? Well whatever. Just go to listen to him spin. I mean it when I say you will not be disappointed. Peace.

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Dance Party! For Serious.

FREE BOOZE AND BOOTY SHAKING because we
like
you
and
its
kinda
icky
out-
side.

Featuring infused vodka and tunes provided by artist Jen Delos Reyes. Jen will be playing various soul/motown/disco records she wishes she owns via internet sources.
We will be dancing in the gallery, the kitchen, the bedroom and the bathroom. We will put alcohol and treats in the bathtub. Bring a drink if you’re a fish.

“I maintain a really dorky Youtube playlist titled ‘Records I Wish I Owned’, where I collect some fairly unattainable singles. Lots of disco, soul, funk and motown. I was asked to do a dance party at Igloo and I suggested I play this imaginary vinyl collection of mine, and to my surprise, they agreed. Enjoy the attached image of a record I wish I owned, and a man who has DJ skills I wish I possessed. Also enjoy this sampling from my collection, a track from the namesake of this dance party.”

loose joints
LET’S DANCE!

Jen

http://jendelosreyes.com
http://jendelosreyes.com/openengagement

<< YES ITS SMALL BUT THAT JUST MEANS REALLY FUCKING COZY>>

IGLOO
325 NW 6th Ave #102
Portland Oregon
[email protected]

This past Sunday at IGLOO Gallery was pretty festive. Nathan Langler from the PNCA Grad program came over and taught us how to brew beer, we got to help a band make music and we made delicious food.

We brewed a dark winter beer with sour notes and chocolate and caramel and I got to learn all about mash-tons, car-boys, and other cleverly named devices.

Nathan Langler, the brewmaster (left) and Damien Gilley, gallery curator (right) talking about how to bre beer while we are waiting for the water to boil to make the Wort.

The grain mixture for our beer!

It should be ready to drink around January 7th- just about a month away from Sunday. This is my second time brewing beer with Nathan and he is a fantastic teacher, very thorough and devoted to his craft. Nathan’s artistic practice is all about brewing beer and the social constructs around brewing and drinking beer.

Nathan stirs the grain into the hot water in the Mash-ton to make the Wort.

Nathan takes out some of the grain to make a filter at the bottom of a bucket. We will then pour all of the water and grain (Wort-making goodness) into the bucket and drain out all of the liquid back into the Mash-ton. Then it will be the Wort! The whole gallery smelled sweet and sour like malt and sugar. Very nice for a chilly, rainy Sunday. Oh and of course we drank beer the whole time we were making the beer.
Just cause.

Tristan, Anselm’s son is pointing at the liquid draining out of the bucket. It was very hot and I was freaking out that he would stick his fingers into it and get burned and also possibly ruin the beer!
This part of the process, from water-boiling to grain-adding to wort-draining took the longest time. Maybe like 3 hours. We ate a lot of rice and beans and talked and worked on the IGLOO website while we waited.

Once all the grain was separated from the Wort we dumped the grain and went back and put the Wort back on to boil and added these hops that smelled really, really good.

Then Nathan cooled down the whole mixture in the bathroom utility sink (which is huge) with this cool copper tube that had cold water running through the inside of it and then poured hot water out into the sink so that the whole thing cooled down to a specific temperature really fast.

He then poured the contents of the mixture through a strainer to get out the hops and it went into the carboy. The only thing left to do was to add the yeast!

We went through the whole process and now the beer is bubbling away in my kitchen. It sounds like a tap dripping slowly and it’s nice to know that something is growing and fermenting happily in the gallery.

If you want to see the full set of photos from our beer-making adventures go here!

THEN! The band Bones Made of Lazers (Sean Carney and Posie Currin) performed for us and we were able to participate and add to the music; as a group we all got together and clapped to create the rhythmic back-beat for the song. Carney and Currin’s Bones Made of Lazers is an open-source collaborative project involving downloading and reusing stock tracks and backbeats, layering them with keyboards, violin, base and guitar and then reposting the music online for further glitching/reworking and remaking. Sean Carney says he will get me a link to the tunes by this weekend so I will post it up for folks to grab.

And Kelvin Pittman played Sax while they set up for their show

While the music was playing we made a pizza that looked like a laptop computer which I seem to not have photos of but was quite delicious.