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City: Minneapolis
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:50 pm
by PWP_Archive
Though I've never been to the city, I'll vote NOT CRAP for at least three reasons...
The Suicide Commandos
www.twintone.com/commandos/
Kirby Puckett
www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_h ... _Kirby.htm
The Soviettes
www.thesoviettes.net
Discuss amongst yourselves.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:59 am
by dfg_Archive
Kirby Puckett as a baseball player = 100% NOT CRAP.
Kirby Puckett as a person = 100% CRAP
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseba ... i_puckett/
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:11 pm
by Flaneur_Archive
Lakes, man. Right in the city.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:10 am
by mattw_Archive
Had a blast the past week and a half here--grabbed some food at Kramarczuk's, headed over to Treehouse (great record store, if a bit small), made the pilgrimage to the Walker and of course to Cheapo and Pizza Luce...
Picked up Sicbay's new record, it's quite good!
Btw, the band Stnnng's rec was listed as one of the top of the year by the Tribune. Nice to see some Electrical-affiliated appreciation.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:03 am
by Mazec_Archive
Little tip about Minne: Don't hang out around the bus station.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:39 pm
by Charlie D_Archive
I've lived here two months and this is what I've observed:
1 It is a clean city.
2 People are friendly.
3 I get paid better for a slacker job here than a backbreaking job in Ohio.
4 Beer at a bar here averages about $2 more per bottle than in Ohio. (Maybe others are used to slapping $3.50 down for a Pabst, I prefer to slap down $1.25.)
5 People who drive here are either impatient or absolutely fucking nuts or both.
3 to 2 wins out... Not Crap.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:57 pm
by Schaal_Archive
I agree 100% on the driving thing. People are shitty drivers here.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:34 pm
by M_a_x_Archive
Mazec wrote:Little tip about Minne: Don't hang out around the bus station.
Maybe I never hung out there long enough. But the semi-indoor and heated smoking room is the finest of it's kind in the huge variety of U.S. Greyhound stations.
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:36 pm
by Big John_Archive
Seems like there are nice creative people there and very happening place in as much as it seems surrounded by frozen praries in all directions. As I remember the bars close alwful early. Nice guitar stores.
Faverite story was about the very old wood chair from some chinease archology dig in the Walker during the touring Star Wars show some over weight star wars fan jumped the velvet ropes and sat in it destroying it. Ah the imperial throne is not what it once was.
Oh yea don't they deep fry everything at the Fair?
City: Minneapolis
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:34 pm
by Eksvplot_Archive
Cinema Revolution is a really great video store.
http://www.cinemarevolution.com/
also, biking around Lake Calhoun is nice. especially in the early spring, when the ice on the lake has just melted, because depending on the wind there's usually a temperature difference of over 15 degrees between one side and the other. it's a nice sensation, going from sweaty to freezing to warm and back again.
my favorite restaurants there are Udupi (north of NE), Hell's Kitchen, the Blue Nile (where i used to wait tables), Taco Morellos, and the Mercado on East Lake where you can get awesome fresh tamales for a dollar a pop.
Minneapolis is a fine city, but in general i think people's tastes in music there are pretty limited (i've only DJed there about thirty times though). everything's very segregated. a lot of people are actually super square and imbecilic but you'd never know without talking to them. but i suppose that's the same everywhere.