Not Enough! A Queer/LGBTQIXYZ Art-Music-Performance Festival

September 18th & 19th 2010 @ The Waterheater

Music Fest NW Saturday, September 11 @ Mississippi Studios. Mynabirds, Portland Cello Project and Crooked Fingers.

Janet Weiss played drums with the Portland Cello Project. Since she’s such a loud drummer, they had to put a plexiglass barrier around her to tone it down.

Read Willamette Week’s review of Saturday.

Music Fest NW Friday, September 10 @ the Crystal Ballroom.

“Music Fest NW, I love you. I love the talented bands, the rush of zipping around town to photograph the next show, and the free booze with dear friends and music nerds at the end of the night. I love you even when I don’t get to go to bed till 4:30am and have to get up at 5:15am for work in the morning. Pearl vodka and Jack DanieIs, I don’t love you so much but I’m okay with our late night encounters during this time.” Thats all I have to say.

This is what Willamette Week had to say.

These badass ladies will be playing the Not Enough! queer music festival September 18 @ the Waterheater. Yes, their band is called Fucking Lesbian Bitches, and they really are fucking lesbian bitches.

The Night of Possibilities shot for the Not Enough queer music festival happening on Sept 18&19 in Portland, OR.

From the Not Enough! website:

Come to A Night of Possibilities!

At The Feline Factory AKA House of Gris Gris

4312 NE Emerson

Portland, OR

A Night of Possibilities is a party, and a meet and greet for people interested in participating in the Not Enough! Festival

For one night, we will get together and create new musical and artistic connections with others.

If you’ve ever wanted to start a german-style minimalist synth band and want to find someone to play keyboards or design your outfits…
…
if you’ve got a tampon and are looking for your tea cup…

If you want to collaborate on a huge painting and need to find someone who shares your vision, or if you just wanna dance and need someone to write a song just for you, then this is your opportunity to find that person!

My best friend from San Diego is having a baby. Her shower happened to be on the same weekend as Gay Pride so I felt like I should make another trip back home. I didn’t quite make it to any of the Pride festivities and ended up spending the morning walking around Hillcrest then the afternoon at the Tractor Room drinking Pimm’s Cup. It was still a pretty gay day.

I felt like getting out of Portland so I drove up to Seattle for gay pride weekend. Visited with an old Portland friend and saw two Portland bands. Glass Candy and Reporter @ the Wild Rose.

I’m starting to get really into Camera Obscuras and Pinhole photography. I just had a nice birthday weekend journey around the great basin region of Oregon to Summer Lake Hot Springs. We went on a wild sage grouse chase, soaked under the stars and turned our cabin into a giant camera obscura. The cabin had a beautiful view of the  winter ridge which was projected upside down onto the walls. It was a long exposure but the image wasn’t too clear so thats why theres white paper on the walls. Once again, foil was used to block out the sunlight. Sometimes its worth sleeping in a big tin foil box in the middle of the high desert when you can have the outside projected inside.

Music Millennium turned 40 and the Dharma Bums reunited for a show in their honor. They were suppose to be the big breakthrough band of the Pacific Northwest but instead Nirvana, who used to open for them, exploded. The show was highly charged and meant something different to everyone who was in attendance. Music aside, I was excited by the involvement this show had with my circle of friends and the bliss demonstrated by frontman Jeremy Wilson. Fresh Young Fellows and Derby opened.

Every weekend at Lola’s Room inside the Crystal Ballroom or on the bouncy main floor, VJ Kittyrox hosts the 80’s Video Dance Attack. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing their Valentines Day event. It was an entertaining evening and felt like a prom for 30-40 year olds mixed with a younger queer dance night and maybe a wedding reception. Music videos are projected on three giant screens while the crowd dances along. Couples make out behind curtains and dark corners, and single men stand awkwardly in line for another beer while adjusting their wigs.