UNDERGROUND REPORT_001
reference tom waits - swordfishtrombones. track 1
today was a busy and immensely fun day. after a bit of a detour i get to my friend, Chris', house. we take a wierd surface street path into downtown and eventually find a parking space across the street from Lincoln Plaza and the surface entry to Dakota's which is also part of the underground. it has a sunken in patio area with a waterfall, we walk around for a bit and can't find the continuation of the system.
on the verge of giving up, Chris reminded me we paid six fucking dollars for all day parking and weren't about to leave without atleast asking a few employees. she asks the reception dest guy and he pulls out a "guide to dallas' unerground and raised walkways" tell us we have to take a skybridge across the street then go down two sets of escalators. we go up then down.
the down was a non working escalator, through a street level plaza past some rectangular sculpture and down another non working escalator. we entered an ugly reddish orange brick walled hall, there were skylights here and all the shops were closed. we took the time to put up a SG sticker to comemorate our discovery of a public place. more wandering and we enter anothe hall this time with seriously ugly yellow bricks, on the right is a workout room called "the Sweat Shop" ti the left are two more stores closed for good friday, one was an oriental cafe. moving along the path ahead was dark, the sharp turn was all a dark colored textured concrete with some sculprutes and art pieces in undermaintained unlit niches. the lighting above was a grid of little flashlight shaped fixtures with less than half of them working.
after this sharp turn, there is an escalator going up, we go up but are met with a ground floor lobby, studying our handy map, we find a way thorugh the lobby to a hall that leads to more tunnel.
as we continued through the underground, we pass more shops as we come closer to what would be considered the center of the underground system. after some more poking around we tag a vending machine as we get soda and approach renaissance tower where my aunt works.
we continue out from under reunion tower, and pass through a foodcourt and enter the "metropolitan mall" which is a few sundry goods stores, an eckerds, and a small office supply store(closed). we go as far as the tunnel takes us and reach a creepy looking dead end at under the Hampton inn, the tunnel segment that goes under the street has no carpet or drywall, just concrete painted white and the hampton inn section was being renovated so the tile cieling was gone and the silver ac space worms were exposed. we head back.
when we pass the eckerds we decide its a good idea to buy a disposable camera because my dumb ass forgot to bring my digital. heading back through some different sections we snap pictures of the stickers we put up on the way in while putting up more stickers.
we get back to Lincoln Plaza and decide its still to early to call it a day so we head off towards the Dallas Museum of Art. [i finished the report but the browser ate it, when i'm no longer pissed off at it i'll finish the story.]
reference tom waits - swordfishtrombones. track 1
today was a busy and immensely fun day. after a bit of a detour i get to my friend, Chris', house. we take a wierd surface street path into downtown and eventually find a parking space across the street from Lincoln Plaza and the surface entry to Dakota's which is also part of the underground. it has a sunken in patio area with a waterfall, we walk around for a bit and can't find the continuation of the system.
on the verge of giving up, Chris reminded me we paid six fucking dollars for all day parking and weren't about to leave without atleast asking a few employees. she asks the reception dest guy and he pulls out a "guide to dallas' unerground and raised walkways" tell us we have to take a skybridge across the street then go down two sets of escalators. we go up then down.
the down was a non working escalator, through a street level plaza past some rectangular sculpture and down another non working escalator. we entered an ugly reddish orange brick walled hall, there were skylights here and all the shops were closed. we took the time to put up a SG sticker to comemorate our discovery of a public place. more wandering and we enter anothe hall this time with seriously ugly yellow bricks, on the right is a workout room called "the Sweat Shop" ti the left are two more stores closed for good friday, one was an oriental cafe. moving along the path ahead was dark, the sharp turn was all a dark colored textured concrete with some sculprutes and art pieces in undermaintained unlit niches. the lighting above was a grid of little flashlight shaped fixtures with less than half of them working.
after this sharp turn, there is an escalator going up, we go up but are met with a ground floor lobby, studying our handy map, we find a way thorugh the lobby to a hall that leads to more tunnel.
as we continued through the underground, we pass more shops as we come closer to what would be considered the center of the underground system. after some more poking around we tag a vending machine as we get soda and approach renaissance tower where my aunt works.
we continue out from under reunion tower, and pass through a foodcourt and enter the "metropolitan mall" which is a few sundry goods stores, an eckerds, and a small office supply store(closed). we go as far as the tunnel takes us and reach a creepy looking dead end at under the Hampton inn, the tunnel segment that goes under the street has no carpet or drywall, just concrete painted white and the hampton inn section was being renovated so the tile cieling was gone and the silver ac space worms were exposed. we head back.
when we pass the eckerds we decide its a good idea to buy a disposable camera because my dumb ass forgot to bring my digital. heading back through some different sections we snap pictures of the stickers we put up on the way in while putting up more stickers.
we get back to Lincoln Plaza and decide its still to early to call it a day so we head off towards the Dallas Museum of Art. [i finished the report but the browser ate it, when i'm no longer pissed off at it i'll finish the story.]
marquismark:
Actually, I don't think it's an import but just a rarer CD that I hadn't seen before (my brother picked it up in this small hipster record shop, so I assumed it was an import 
) It's called The Early Years Vol. I and it has some songs from the Closing Time/Heart of Saturday Night era that, I believe, were previously unreleased. A lot of good stuff there.
) It's called The Early Years Vol. I and it has some songs from the Closing Time/Heart of Saturday Night era that, I believe, were previously unreleased. A lot of good stuff there.