Got out of L.A. long before this show, but just in time to snare the last fibrous remnants of my sanity. Echo Park? Silver Lake? No thank you. I’m surrounded by plenty of unattainable affluence right here in rainy Portland, OR. Los Angeles might have In ‘N Out Burger, but the girls in Portland actually make eye contact with me, which allows me to believe it could lead to the fabled act of in and out. Hold your tongue, friends. My whole life is upheld by such delusions and denial, like rotting stilts holding up a teetering shanty in the swamp. Spare me your gale-force facts. Instead, I went to my friend Noah’s house for a cookout. Ate someone else’s steaks, drank someone else’s beer. Gotta make the most of the upper left coast. Then I was ghost. [via Eagle and Talon]