#alky dude

[rainingmusic]

BELZEBONG - Diabolical Dopenosis

[kindleaf]

AND THE CUP OF COFFEE GOES COLD‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Sunny would you allow me to show u something in a way that might make u smash ur phone against concrete

yes of course my dear caspian

[lucius-morningstar]

Nicknames?

Yes we know Lucius has a hatred for the nickname Luci, but that isn't to say he doesn't have nicknames for others in the hotel. Not all of them are creative, but he has pride in some.. Not all. ------- Vaggie: So you have nicknames for everyone in this hotel. Lucius: Yep.. Some need work but hey it takes time. Vaggie: ...What's your nickname for Alastor. Lucius: Coatrack. Vaggie: *Snorts* Why? Lucius: Seriously look at him. Alastor: *Static* Watch it.. Lucius: Dude looks like a fancy coatrack you'd see in a brothel house. Angel: HA! Alastor: So all that tells me is you've been to a brothel house long enough to know. Lucius: Sure gotta put my coat somewhere. Angel: What about me? Lucius: Legs, you've got the nicest legs in the hotel and the longest. Angel: Guilty. What about Husk? Lucius: Alky Alley Cat. Alastor: Hmm strangely fitting. Husk: Fuck you, but honestly not the worst one I've heard. Lucius: I was going to joke about you being a Hissy fit but- Husk: I'll take the Alky any day over that. Alright, Nifty. Lucius: Hmm Pocket Sized. Vaggie: Why Pocket Sized. Lucius: I cannot tell you how many times I've seen her in my coat pockets. Angel: Cherri? Luicus: Was stuck on Inferno or Wildfire. Angel: I think she'd enjoy Wildfire. Husk: Alright, how about Sir Pentious. Lucius: Wasn't pleasant and working on a better one, so pass for now. Angel: You left out three people. Your sister, your dad and Vaggie. Lucius: Well I was going to go with Deadbeat for my dad but Charlie says that's too mean. Dwarf king was another but again too mean. So I went with Cockatiel. Angel: Why? Lucius: Look at him, man looks like a cockatiel. Angel: ..Fair. Okay Charlie and Vaggie. Vaggie: I'm starting to hate this game.. Lucius: Vaggie hmm.. Let's see Shadow. Vaggie: Why Shadow. Lucius: Cause you're always up my sister's ass. Angel: Then wouldn't Anal probe be better? Vaggie: *glares* Lucius: Charlie's word, it can't be gross either. Angel: Alright what do you call Charlie. Lucius: Lottie. Angel: Lottie? Lucius: Yeup. Although I don't use it often as I use too. I used it more when we we're kids and early teens. I used it a lot when she was in her goth phase. Angel: Hold on she was in a goth phase! Lucius: Oh yea, we both went through phases for a couple of decades. She went goth, I went Punk. Spent a lot of time in Zilla's. Angel: Please tell me you have pictures. Lucius: Oh I have pictures. Vaggie: I'm not sure this is a good idea. Lucius: New nickname, Fun Fucker, because you're always trying to ruin the fun with your fucking mouth! Vaggie: Watch it.. Lucius: Oh what'chu gonna do about it Vagasil! Angel: *Laughs* Oh fuck, I gotta remember that one. Vaggie: Lucius I am not fucking around! Lucius: I'm surprised you even know how guess my sister is good at teaching you something Angel: Kink- Lucius: Not what I meant Angel, and you know it. Vaggie: ..I'm telling Charlie. Lucius: Tattletale!

[cherryjuicegf]

alone + midnight + mistake for the ask game <3

thanks bestie absolutely LOVED these and it turned out to be an essay so under the cut <3

alone: just the right spot actually because loneliness is like a huge theme in the story. katerina has generally felt alone forever and pretends she's completely fine with that and she had no other choice really, she has many ways of being with herself. yet she's social and pleasant and just seeks company everywhere but never actually commits, never actually belongs, she is safe in her aloneness and she doesn't admit it and that's why, even though she craved human connection, she married a man who's away for a year at a time. stavros on the other hand is like. extremely angry. enraged. he is forced to be alone by society, by his mother and after alkis goes to the sea, by his best friend and the love of his life. his one chance at not being alone is snatched from him and he takes it out both on katerina and alkis in very subtle ways. but the thing is he craves company so much he ends up connecting with the woman he's trapping in his revenge narrative so. yeah not rly good at planning. on his own he's very introspective (in the wrong direction nevertheless) and i like to think he inspects himself in the mirror a lot, trying to be on his own who he cannot be outside. but the whole point of his character is his need for love and company which he's deprived of even in the best case scenario of running away so he cannot handle being actually alone. the only thing keeping him is the secret hope that, despite everything he's done, he is not alone.

midnight: katerina absolutely has no restful sleep schedule, miss girl hasn't slept free of anxiety ever in her life. constant anxiety that she's not enough, that her life is slipping away, trying to convince herself that she made the right choice and to a point believing it so that she doesn't hive her mother the satisfaction of running away again in failure. she wakes every morning and haunts the porch of her house to see if stavros will deliver a letter and can't stop questioning her disappointment and her happiness at the same time. and it's the loneliness that connects her with stavros tbh because it's the main reason he stays awake. he stays in bars till morning hoping to merge with the crowd, be invisible. he has the earliest shift as a postman. he lays in bed at night thinking about how empty it feels, how different everything could be and how he can get away. ridden with guilt for deceiving katerina, for even thinking about leaving his mother alone, for being so cowardly to do what he wants, or needs to do to get away. generally not much of a good night's sleep for these two.

mistake: love how all these are interconnected huh. i think katerina hasn't yet realized her marriage is that worst mistake for. well. MANY reasons. she's so loyal and has faith and alkis really did make her feel something extraordinary so she gave no second thought and she's fighting tooth and nail to keep it together now and when she realizes [redacted] happens so she will really never be able to fix it, forever trapped. so like her worst mistake is being desperate for love, and not admiting it made her reckless too. stavros on the other hand has .uh. has made many mistakes. uh. dude is a rocky slope fr. he thinks his worst mistake is opening up to katerina and he tries to take it back desperately but it's too late and she always sees underneath it so their connection is inevitable. so then his worst mistake could be that he is so devoted to alkis but so blinded by his bitterness and anger that he forges this terrible lie to try and get away from him, and keeps it up until everyone gets hurt so idk. maybe his worst mistake is being prone to passion. his worst mistake is loving. oh and no one ever moves on :)

[hihigherdi]

Every a Friday after school, my mom would take us to this Baskin and Robbins. I’d get a scoop of daiquiri ice, or cherries jubilee. It was such a treat. I realized it’s Friday and also, I didn’t eat anything today so on my way to the airport, I stopped and got a banana split, of course with daiquiri ice. It’s just as delicious as I remember and while I will pay for this later, it’s worth it.

I walked down to the beach after my work calls were over, took a million pictures. Odd ones though, like where my dad would keep his instant coffee which he drank for decades. Then I went to our old house where I took pictures of our old backyard, where he installed a whirlybird for us to play. He taught my sister how to sail on the big behind the house where we’d all pick blackberries with the other kids in the summer. I snuck in to the community pool at the end of the street where he’d swim like a horse with me on his back. I remembered all of the endless games of kick the can with the other kids, all of the little friends I had there.

He loved from a distance and did the best he could, and I am going to miss him.

I changed to a 9:30 flight home so I have just slowly moved through the day. I ended up in Alki Beach and found some beach glass, and sat down on a bench next to also ran into a sweet and very young woman who recognized me, she lives a few houses down from mine (I didn’t remember but faked it). As we were chatting, a dude on a bike was being a creepy, aggressive weirdo and wouldn’t leave her dog alone even after she asked twice, and then started getting touchy and just ugh. I finally screamed GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS BENCH” which if I had a picture to describe his reaction, it would have been that prank people play on their cats when they sneak a cucumber behind it and it jumps straight up in the air when it turns around. Lolzzzz. IDGAF. we laughed so hard.

There was a neighbor’s open house and 100 people showed up. There are four showings tonight. I’m so sad to lose it, I really don’t care about the money but my mom needs it. My dad left his IRA to all three of us and there’s not a lot of money there but it will allow my sister to fox her car.

I just have to be thankful that it was part of my life.

[lilaxthegreat]

Ship Meme: Voile x Alki

What made you ship it? There is a long standing habit that I wind up getting enabled for things. Just like I blame Nick for Null13, I blame Shree for Voile/Alki

What are your favorite things about the ship? I DIDN’T EXPECT IT. ALKI JUST LOOKED AT VOILE IN THE RP AND WAS LIKE “I like this dude” AND THEN WENT ON. THEY”RE ADORABLE AND ALSO there’s time travel involved and I’m a sucker for this.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? There’d better not be an unpopular thing for these two dumbasses. They’re each half of a whole dumbass. And we love them for it.

[lemememeringue]

That video of the dude w the cup and green stuff: vegetable oil, water, green food coloring, and Alki seltzer tablet. That's all it takes, you can defo make your own!! The Alki seltzer will stop making bubbles eventually tho, they don't last super super long.

that's what I thought fjfhdh it sucks it doesn't last long :(

[cracked-ste-ven-u-ni-verse]

Dude r u okay

N-o! La-pis nee-ds he-lp a-nd im us-eless so w-e n—eed so-m-eone el-se to d-o it!

B-ut if y-ou we-re t-alki-ng ab-ou-t the cr-ack, ye-ah I’m us-ed to it.

[bub-y]

ancient greece

yeah, dude. fuck ... you've been alive for so fucking long, but like, it's been so long in fact that you're no longer feeling jaded, but just absolutely feral. howl at the moon, go to the vampire ball naked, it's like, who is going to stop you ? you've basically seen everything before, but you can't help but be excited to see what happens next. perhaps crack open a pomegranate and think about it for a while.

@bakerysnake . @avid-idiot . @paperd0llz . @alky-nbs

hey are you a vampire? take this quiz i just spent way too long making and find out the time period in which you were turned

[fuckyeahseattle]

(via 20180715_062556-P1320732 | Alki Beach, Seattle | geoff dude | Flickr)

[madadrawing]

Dude I love writing for Alki so much (My Main Jigglypuff OC) I’m gonna make her the protagonist of either a fanfic or comic for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (just in general) but she’s great she’s a human but also the most chaotic individual. Like this mfer just spawns in as a 12 year old weakass, gets adopted by this really nice but poor family, and her first instinct to try to help them is just. “I am going to steal shit from everyone else.“ She gets TWO cool moves, and completely ignoring how weak she is just kinda. Joins a gang. Tries to keep her two lives separate and lies to everyone around her cause she’s having a blast being an outlaw. She’s not even like. Mean. Or Evil. She just has a lot of fun with it and this low confidence child is just good at being a criminal and its the only time she really has any faith in her own abilities so she just keeps doing it.

Like. It will blow up in her face eventually but every time I write or draw her I’m like. God kid I wish I had the same amount of unfounded confidence as you.

[theboysfromaustin]

The men who’ve been in my life:

High school boyfriend

Dude from Normal, Illinois which I only know from a Ben Folds song

Dude who cheated on me relentlessly (red flag man #1)

THE GRAND ALKIE, KING OF THE SCUMBAGS (RED FLAGS UP THE ASSSSS)

Chest pains over pasta man

[hihigherdi]

This is Dude. His parents Annmarie and Scott came to Alki because they lived here for a long time and Dude used to play on the beach as a puppy. He is in his later stage of life, has terminal cancer and they are calling this year “the year of Dude”, taking him on all sorts of adventures to create a bunch of memories with him before he dies. They chose my place as part of his year. 

Wendall and I made up a big basket of dog treats and toys for him, and I bought them a book on what it means to grieve a pet called “Goodbye Friend”. https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Friend-Healing-Wisdom-Anyone/dp/160868086X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=D2V6GDNKN4ZCKKCJRA1V 

They’ve been sending us pictures of him barking at seals, swimming, running on the beach, playing with all of the toys we got him. He’s been in heaven. We got him a big fluffy dog bed and he’s been sleeping by the fire. They ended up staying a few extra days because he was having so much fun. 

They just sent me this picture and all I can do is sob. 

[savingchaos]

on love and vodka and marlboros, with just a dash of bipolar

"some things are a slow suicide," she muttered, taking another drag off her cigarette, "but they'll kill you all the same."

she paused then, for a moment, and turned to watch the last murky dregs of the day's light give way to blueish charcoal above her head.

"love is a slow burn. it'll keep you warm and happy while it lasts, but anything that catches fire eventually has to go out. some end in a big fucking mushroom cloud, like when you pour gas straight onto the flames and almost light your neighbor's trees on fire. then they douse the bitch and call the police," she said, punctuating this with an aggressive eyeroll.

"some just lose oxygen, I guess. no boom, nothing. just sorta fizzles, and it doesn't really matter all that much because no one cared enough to feed the flames before they death rattled. it only matters when you're alone at 2 am again and want something familiar to fill the space beside you."

another pause, this time to smack a mosquito that got a little too friendly and to down a shot of vodka.

max made a face and quickly inhaled more of her cigarette to chase the bitter sting of booze.

"alcohol, yeah, that'll kill you too, but at least you know it'll hurt you in the end. not like love, where stupid fucking hope springs eternal."

this time she dispensed with the shot glass altogether, and swigged straight from the bottle, slamming it onto the table beside her like a judge with their gavel.

max continued her drunken rant, slurring a bit now.

"it takes away the pain for as long as you keep at it, and gives it all back in spades as soon as you come up for air. you're basically just borrowing happiness from another day, and if you borrow enough you'll run out, eventually. when that dude with the white coat walks into your hospital room and tells you cirrhosis got you good, and because you're a damn alkie, well, no new liver for you," she chuckled, like it was a very funny joke, far removed from her actual future.

"but hey, if I make it that far, I'll probably be ready to go since I'm already fed the fuck up now. there are way too many demons in my head. it's a hotel with no vacancy but the guests just shove their way in anyways."

sooty tears tracked their way down her pale cheeks, pooling ever so slightly by her chin here.

"they keep giving me these dumb pills and they either turn me into a walking talking corpse, or I'm just one notch below spiraling again. I'm constantly losing it a little more, daily. I'm even seeing stuff again, but I'll be DAMNED if I go on more meds. those aren't even a slow suicide at all. they're just a living death sentence. I don't care if I lose 20 years off my stupid life, it's gonna be worth it to at least have emotions and enjoy things and-"

she stopped short.

"god I'm fucking rambling, huh? I should probably shut the fuck up now. no real point anyways, I'm just mad."

max put her head back for a moment, and promptly fell asleep, collapsing into a drunken slumber in a deck chair. her half-smoked marlboro fell out of her hand, and, luckily for her, rolled its way right off the porch.

it smoldered for a minute, and went out. not with a bang, but with a whimper.

[roniz31]

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different credit cards and my flow is no different, I be at yo girls house like some old dishes/ole girl said she ain't even dealing with me, only flirting with the things that's will make a million with me/times that by a billion now you catching feelings with me, I'm a genius silly! And your boyfriend just being silly/still speak in tongues yet I haven't said a curse word, and I go harder than yo favorite rappers first verse/these are things in my silly little neighborhood, don't try to be Mega Man or you won't be Meagan Good/them dudes take rides to Walmart with 3 guns, catching bodies, then go back home and watch Martin reruns...I'm God's gift without a refund, 37, 34, 29, 31/back like Halloween movies playing blackjack, used to sell dope with notepads in my backpack...this alky was a seller not a user, on deafs ears this verse is a Cappella to some music/check bar for bar oh God I ain't lied yet, had soo many seizures I'm surprised I ain't died yet/ #musicheadinc #bars #profanityfree #hiphop #bornleader https://www.instagram.com/p/COtO6nrASQE/?igshid=pnon4hsaklki

[doomedandstoned]

Psycho Smokeout Scrapbook

~Words, Photos, Film by Shelby Kray~

The Catch One venue is an old 1925 Mediterranean Revival monolith taking up half the block and surrounded by a thriving neighborhood of homes, Korean churches, juice shops, and auto parts stores. It boasts a fascinating history. From 1973 to 2015, Jewel Thais-Williams owned and operated a successful black LGBTQ dance club with her wife, Rue Thais-Williams. The space was vital to the community, an organization bringing people together, providing a place to meet, communicate and, of course, dance.

As I walked through all the bars, rooms off of bars with smaller bars, loft areas, spiral staircases, large wooden staircases, stages, secret extra stages with staircases leading to extra secret lofts with small, private bars, I imagined the building full of dancing, drinking figures moving from one room full of music to another.

Corner Bar

Green Room

Jewell Room

Since 2016, Catch One has had a new owner. Hours before the show, people are rushing around getting things set up. The place feels DIY, but with a historic grandeur. It is all painted black -- the perfect setting for the Psycho Smokeout, taking place on the coveted date of April 20th, 2019.

Mystery Room

One of Many Bars

Underground Stage

This year, Psycho Entertainment teamed up with Riding Easy Records, filling the hallways and bars with three stages raging. The hallways are replete with the rumbling of music playing, the next stage creating an intensity and an urge to go see every band. Because I was there to film, I had to make some difficult choices.

Disco Ballroom

Disco Soundboard

Gear Elevator

Gear Room

Ufomammut

I went to the Psycho Pre-Party on Friday to catch Ufomammut on their tour from Italy. Here is their full, glorious set. Watch as it builds from a dream-like hum pulsing through recurring themes until just about the 44-minute mark, when guitarist Poia breaks it up and reforms into “God” from their 2004 Snailking album. You’re going to want to spend the next 57:37 fully engaged, so cancel your appointments.

For the Saturday event, I covered the Disco stage -- dead-set to film the seven eminent acts lined-up. I missed a few chances to film Elder and Monolord when they came through Portland, so I was hopped-up...and I was about six hours early. As I am a fan of the activity in preparation for the show, I took some pictures of the behind the scenes action: audio engineers, lighting techs, video techs, sound checks.

Arturo Gallegos

Veteran filmographer Arturo Gallegos set his cameras to capture all the action, too, and you can see his footage on the Psycho Entertainment channel or his sexthrash69 channel, showcasing nearly twenty years of documenting bands in the Los Angeles area.

Ben Setting Up For Yob Set

Dreadnought

Kelly Schilling, Kevin Handlon, and Lauren Vieira of Dreadnought

Dreadnought showed up from Denver, seemingly to steer us through many stages of the storm -- from calm moments to lashing out with a force -- bringing you to a conclusion that you have really been through something powerful.

UADA

Mysterious as ever, shrouded in hood and smoke. These Portland natives have never been easy for me to film, but that is for good reason. My focus is shifted from the visual to the relentless, visceral nature of their sound.

BelzebonG

This was a treat! Flown in from Poland, Alky Dude, Cheesy Dude, Sheepy Dude, and Hexy Dude brought heavy, fuzzed-out, consistent tempos interspersed with surprisingly melodic guitar episodes. As fitting, there was more smoke coming from the audience than from the stage. Watch and trance out.

It was right around this time the weight and the breadth of this full day of music hit me. The first three bands had already ripped it up and there were four titans left to go!

Amenra

Amenra’s set was as lush visually, as was their sound, with moments of quiet contemplation leading into severity. Their reputation preceded them and they did not disappoint.

Elder

Here’s Elder getting set up. Once they got rolling, we were treated to “Compendium,” then to “Thousand Hands,” winding their way through a gorgeously melodic set.

Monolord

The mighty Monolord started out their set with “Where Death Meets The Sea,” going into “Lord of Suffering.” I usually favor watching live shows and Monolord's live set provided a great example for why. It really changed the way I heard their music. There is something extra there with their presence, an energy adding to the interstellar doom sound.

Yob

Aaron Riesling and Mike Scheidt of Yob

This was the last show on Yob’s tour and they ended it with a real burner. You get a guest cameo by Amernra’s Levy Seynaeve sandwiched between “Prepare the Ground” and that crunchy cog that is “Atma.” This performance commanded attention, finalizing in the singularity of Mike Scheidt’s voice at the last 1:08:31. A fitting end to the stacked line-up and buzz-filled weekend that was Psycho Smokeout.