Hello Olympia, Farewell Zebulon

This past friday we made our journey to Olympia with a crew of six to check it all out and rock a party for our friend Zeb (VT crew) who is going to live in the wilderness of Montana for a while. Olympia is a sweet town. I have always heard good things about it, but had yet to make the 2 hour drive North to find out for myself. After figuring out where the house was (actually in Tumwater, which is SouthWest of the city center) we headed into town to find some food. The exit we took spit us out at at the base of the capital building, which is a fairly impressive way to enter a city even if it seems to represent the elite power structure. It makes me wonder what the country would feel like if we built freeform abstract sculptures to represent our progress. Anyway we parked along the park and walked down to fifth or sixth st. While scoping coffeeshops and bars we found a flyer wall, and I took some notes on who had the dopest looking flyers. First place went to a spot called Le Voyeur, which looked like it could have been someone's house show based on the flyer.

After some more walking we decided to eat in a funky looking place with blacklights and flowers painted on the windows...turns out this was Le Voyeur. The food was way nice, big portions and dank sauces, with every plate vegan and omnivore adjustable. We ate our fill and I checked out the stage area - low blue lights, no actual stage and some grungy booths on the side - exactly what Start Fires likes. Thrashley left a gift for everyone who doesn't finish their plate and we headed back to the house for the party. Zeb is a sick drummer and we got a chance to see him jam out with some of his homies - I got some video, check out the drum hanging from the ceiling.

It was a small party but we got a chance to rock with Dre which hasnt happened in over a year, so we got a good practice night in. Dre was killing it on the mic.

We stayed and partied with Zeb into the night, then headed back to Portland in the early morning. It was great to get out and do our thing in another town, and to get an idea of what its going to be like for the next 3 months.