But you often make me shudder.
(Whatever happened to DarrensCoq anyway?)
We should all FAP at Pho Bich N'ga one day.
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 1 April 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link
You still on for Kool Keith?
― LC, Thursday, 1 April 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
????
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I have one: I've bought a lot of used CDs, but never sold any. Which store is the best bet? I've been planning to go to Audiopile, because I live nearby, and the guy stocks a lot of the stuff I have (old Depeche Mode remix singles, eg), unlike Charlies, say.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
ps: thank you v. much DB for your recs!
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 4 June 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 17 June 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/pbn/pbn_outside_small.jpghttp://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/pbn/pbn_menu_small.jpghttp://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/pbn/pbn_threebean_small.jpg
THE PHOTHE BICHTHE N'GAFOREVER AND EVERAW SLIME
:(
― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq at Jay's (jaywatts), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Hello, who are ILXors in Vancouver, British Columbia? I don't live there and I'm not visiting (never been, in fact). Just curious.
Show yourselves
― Flowers By Pete (admrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol this thread(i have thought twice in the past 8 years of moving back to vancouver and have come to my senses pretty quickly each time)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes that's the way to get them out of the woodwork
― Flowers By Pete (admrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
there are/were a couple. somemguy was looking for an apartment a year ago?
― 156, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahaa I mean Vancouver just ain't for me. Beautiful tho. And full of good food, healthy people, yknow.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I survived the 2010 Winter Games and all I got was this lousy harmonized sales tax.
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello!
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a vietnamese student named nga. the 'g' is silent.
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hi. i was that guy looking for an apartment a year ago. i found one and have moved once since then and am moving this week.
i've lived here about a year. i now live in richmond, which is like vancouver except minus the goretex lulululemon wearing kitsilano aging hippie fascists and shit food and crazy fucking rents. and i can be in the city in 20 minutes if i need to be, without any driving. 可是中国人他妈的多. cheap rent and good food.
and i'm about to take a job on west 4th ave, so i'll be back in the heart of the part of the city that reallly bums me the fuck out. (parts of the City [not suburbs] i like: west hastings, chinatown, joyce-kingsway, commercial).
― dylannn, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
If there's one takeaway I have from ILX, it's that Canadians take many forms
― Flowers By Pete (admrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I have only been to the casino and the Ikea in Richmond.
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
homie, i've been following you across the country. regina to vancouver.
anyways, come for the food...
best sushi in the fucking lower mainland at sushi hachi, crazy regional chinese food (straight authentic nose-to-tail hunan farmhouse shit, best sichuan in north america at chuan xiang ge, food stall xi'an, fujianese), fine dining at zen (greatest chinese restaurant outside asia, according to some people-- it's good but not that good) or hakkasan (no affiliation with the one in london, though), a cheap decent good place to get wasted izakaya: nanchu, decent night market (better than downtown chinatown), good viet, good korean (not as good as burnaby, obv.), lots of other stuff.
― dylannn, Friday, 2 July 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
best sushi in the fucking lower mainland at sushi hachi
ORLY cuz AjiSai in uh Kits (? sorry i'm bad with geo) was fucking doppppe. I had basashi (horse neck) at a place on Robson too. Only time outside of Japan I've seen that on a menu.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
outside of where, sorry?
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
outside of yo momma.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ah yes
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck, you're the kawnasewr of these things, but i think i prefer hachi to ajisai.... fish is just really fresh, really well cut at hachi, with some unique and rel lesser-seen stuff. atmosphere is really chill, too, husband and wife team, not stuffy. they're open fucking weird hours, though.
hachi, never saw basashi there. the one place i have tried it is actually in richmond, though. at a stripmall place called, not very originally, tsukiji.
but, yo, japanese is only something i dabble in. i am not confident making these recommendations. if i was coming to richmond to eat, it'd be for regional chinese (burnaby is up there, too).
― dylannn, Friday, 2 July 2010 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
nice... i will def keep in mind next time. also bookmarking all your 中国菜 recs thx!
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 July 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha! I think ILX's entire SK pop is now Lower Mainland. I feel so schooled re food. Um, best cheeseburger is Splitz Grill on Main. I haven't even had a japadog! I basically live in a small town, around Commercial. I go downtown to work three days/wk, and over to Main about once a month for haircut and books. I think I've been to Seattle more than I've been to the West End.
― Well, because whatever happened changed him. (Dr. Superman), Friday, 2 July 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
for 中餐…… i don't want to be fucking lame but you could check out my blog here: http://jiaoqu.blogspot.com/ -- which is about chinese food in the suburbs of vancouver. there are a ton of places i'd like to write about, more seriously. but at the same time, really, though... the suburbs of van are pretty solid for regional mainland chinese but, deep in my heart, i'd still say there's no great place, or any place that's really much better than the average streetside restaurant in china. so... i dunno. on that unenthusiastic note, if anyone is ever in town or is actually in town and wants to eat good chinese food, definitely get at me.
my favorite place in the world right now is probably NINE DISHES on kingsway, which is a beer and chinese bar food place run by a beijing hipster, who kills it with super cheap beer and lax enforcement of local smoking bylaws and makes fucking good food, too.
― dylannn, Friday, 2 July 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
went to nine dishes last night with some ppl for a twentysomething's chinese new year dinner - that place IS fun. thanks
― chillin in the volvo, listenin' to alva-noto (fennel cartwright), Monday, 23 January 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
good place. i'm glad to see it still doing well. sort of miss it, even when i'm in china.
― dylannn, Monday, 23 January 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
im going to be in vancouver in march for 3 weeks visiting my girlfriend and apart from seeing her im pretty much just stoked for the dining.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 23 January 2012 08:32 (twelve years ago) link
this is such a weird place to live imo (n.b. i have always lived within 15 miles of glasgow prior to moving here at the start of july):
1. i live in a neighbourhood that i would describe as beautiful, quiet, and pleasant (strathcona), and where i could never afford to buy a house in a million years, but sex workers and johns do it just outside my gate, and last night someone took a huge dump out there which i will have to clean up at some stage before my girlfriend gets back on sunday.2. booze is so fucking expensive it makes my head spin. most expensive liquor store prices ive seen anywhere.3. not that there's "nothing" going on, but kind of not as culturally interesting as a city of its size should be.4. tons of great places to eat.5. dtes totally astounded me first time i walked thru there, yet it's weirdly so much more sketchy than it is scary, i feel safer walking these streets than glasgow streets (and prob with good reason).6. b.c. is the most beautiful place ive ever been and you can travel so little distance and be somewhere so unspoiled and beautiful.7. im aware that it's about to rain for 5 months and im not sure how much this will colour my future opinion of the place.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 22 September 2012 07:19 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like Kennedy Stewart is the new mayor
But Greens and NPA dominate council
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 21 October 2018 06:38 (five years ago) link
sylvester ran a much better campaign than stewart (or sim) I think. These results could have been worse.
― shwarmaduke (symsymsym), Sunday, 21 October 2018 10:05 (five years ago) link
heads up it's a canadaland podcast but by now it's painful how obvious money laundering is in this city
http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/how-vancouver-became-a-money-laundering-paradise/
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
hey guys, let's get rid of first past the post
― Freda VanFleet (symsymsym), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
or not, whatever
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 21 December 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
Fuuuck.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
it's such bullshit
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
the Boston Pizza on West Broadway has a magician - who is also a Langley based realtor - called R0d Bo$$ (google-proofing) who works 6pm-8pm Sundays. He comes to your table and does a number of tricks, including one where he appears to poke a hole in one of your party's sleeve with his finger as well as a coin and bottle trick and a bunch of card stuff. It's very weird.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 28 January 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
this was my first time in a Boston Pizza. Probably the last time
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 28 January 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
lolll that's a good call probably
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
i have a conspiracy theory about the b-line
― flopson, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
Lay it on me
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 05:05 (five years ago) link
*listens*
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
ok so you know how sometimes the doors won't shut if someone's standing too close to the doors, like in that little zone delineated by the yellow box, and it goes dingdingding over and over as it attempts to shut? and then the bus driver comes in on the intercom and says 'i can't start the bus until the door closes, folks' and all the passengers stare hatefully at the poor souls packed into the yellow zone desperately trying to squeeze out of its boundaries?
so the busdriver is totally FULL of SHIT!! they have a button they can push that will force the doors to close. now many (most?) will admirably push this button on a really crammed bus during rush hours. but there's a twisted minority who love pitting their passengers against each other, who get some sadistic gratification from the sad dejected faces of people who are forced to step off the bus as the collective ire of the other passengers grows too great to bear
i figured this out because i get on incredibly crammed b-lines going west at main every morning, and am almost always myself well within the yellow zone, and MOST of the time doors shut no problem. but today i was unfortunate to have as driver that most smug and hateful fuck (maybe you know him, the one who sings 'if you're happy and you know it' at the end of the line, and speaks in this faux-cheerful tone nearly continuously on the intercom, announcing stops and thanking everyone for riding) and the bus wasn't even that full, like 70% capacity tops, and he made a huge deal at every other stop of shaming people for being close to the door. it's a huge scam
this probably applies to buses more generally. also, idk about the broadway skytrain but they seriously need to increase capacity on the 99 in the mornings. such a stressful way to start the day
― flopson, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
yeah i think you might be right there, i do know that bus driver.
i never had to get the westward 99 in the mornings but i did used to get the one going east from main every day for years and while it was pretty busy i would always see the westward one going by and think "thank the lord I'm not on that"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
Would love to see a short documentary about the board of Translink trying to travel from Burquitlam to UBC during rush hour.
― everything, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
when i went to UBC in the early 00s the 99 was already hell, must be such a nightmare now
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
im a master at getting a seat
― flopson, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
does anyone remember this little ditty, that seems like a tim and eric thing, about the 99?
https://youtu.be/SBRoW0XAG4A
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
went walking round the seawall like a dang tourist yesterday, was a marvelous day for it.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 February 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
otoh i want it to be summer already
I walk the whole seawall almost every weekend. Always worth it.
― everything, Monday, 25 February 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
Fucken nice out
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 1 June 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Don’t jinx it
― flopson, Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
we’re like the only province not enveloped in smoke
― flopson, Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
the dispensary at main and hastings sells grams for $5
it's not good weed but still, $5
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 June 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
makes u wonder why he didn't go with 'vancouver jim'
― j., Monday, 17 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
lol wrong thread
thx for the tip jim. i've actually been looking for a dispensary that sells mids, all the weed here is way too strong
― flopson, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
it’s a funny problem to have...but i have had it
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
xp. stuff i got yesterday so dry and crappy, but nice mellow sativa high when i vaped some watching the office last night
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Christian Marclay's "The Clock" starts at the Polygon Gallery in North Van on July 5. The gallery will be open 24 hours on five occasions during the summer.
https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/the-clock/
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 30 June 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
about to spend a week! inside! vancouver! v stoked
― Simon H., Monday, 29 July 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
good time to be here, weather has been v nice of late - and for you it will be less humid and hot, which I'm sure is welcome
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
honestly I'm considering a move out here just for the climate
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
come for the climate, stay for the inevitable catastrophic cascadia subduction zone quake
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
shh, just pretending that will never happen and making no emergency preparedness measures.
xp. if you don't mind rain then id recommend the climate
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
rain slaps
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
vancouver in the fall when you're broke isn't much fun
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 October 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
The Lido has reopened thank the stars.
― everything, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Hadn't realized it was closed but I live in strathcona now so am hardly up in that specific bit of mount pleasant.
Met my wife there.
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
It was one of the places I feared would not survive. Now they take credit cards and the bar staff are waiters. Otherwise it's the same. Black Sabbath, Os Mutantes, Teenage Fanclub, $4.50 pints from 4-6.
― everything, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
<3 lido. thought it opened a while ago?
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Monday, October 19, 2020 10:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
ultimate tinder date spot lol
i live like 2 blocks from there now but moving to a pretty lame hood (near vgh/99 heather stop) far from it on november 1st
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
the frenchies fire is sad, destroyed a few homes, took out dandelion records
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 22 October 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
WHAT WENT DOWN TODAY, a thread— Pulpfiction Socially Distanced Books (@pfbvan) October 22, 2020
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 23 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
That really sucks. Dandelion is a record store I visit regularly but rarely find anything, but the owners were really nice people, they are very into music and it was cool shop. Relieved the other stores on the block are relatively unscathed.
― everything, Friday, 23 October 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
I haven't gone record shopping in years but i have a very fond memory of discovering Dandelion with a friend when I was like 15 and being so amazed by all the cool records they had there... sad to hear about what happened
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 23 October 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jeff-amp-laura-at-dandelion-records-amp-emporium
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 23 October 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link