Our run of good weather in Seattle continued after a dry, but very cold weekend visit the city to see the Pixies. I’m so glad we made the trip – they were unbelieveable, and the magnificent Paramount Theatre was an appropriate venue for these unassuming rock gods to grind out the greatest indie album of all time, Doolittle.
We also checked out the Bodies exhibition – Plasticised Humans, stripped of their skin posed sportingly on plinths, organs in clear display cases and, downstairs in a darkened room off to the side with worried warnings at the door, embryos and fetuses in back-lit bottles. Other highlights were the Seattle Art Museum with an impressive permanent Aboriginal Art exhibition and the small cinema at East Broadway, The Harvard Exit Theatre, where we rested our legs and took in the Cohen Brothers’ latest black comedy. The weekend was rounded off with the best authentic italian pizza we’ve ever had at Via Tribunali in Belltown.
Seattle has it’s rough patches, but it’s way less edgier than Vancouver and an altogether more grown-up and relaxed city – we look forward to returning there soon.
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Yes indeed… the Pixoids rocked my world twice in one year when Edinburgh was my home.
They are very, very good, if not slightly larger than they used to be. But that just means more rock for your dollar.
Boon x
You saw another side to this city from the one I experienced with you two in August. But I really do like Seattle. Your trip sounds like the best sort of birthday celebration anyone could want. XX Ma