Spiritual Victories and History: Seattle in the Nineties

I always tried to avoid regrets. I can't say i regretted my time in Seattle. In fact, I'd have to say it was something of a victory. Not a victory in terms of securing a great job or earning a spiffy degree. No, it was a spiritual victory, a victory that forever connects me to a place in time and space -- a time few people had the privileged of experiencing firsthand.

An old girlfriend dragged me out to the Pacific Northwest. It was the early Nineties and I had come out trying to find a lost love. Turned out she was indeed lost and I had shelled out a thousand clams for the privilege of being rebuffed and stuck in Seattle in the middle of rainstorm. The rain is not that uncommon -- the city would fall into the ocean if it ever stopped raining. No, I was stuck, at least until I could raise the capital I need for a return ticket to Texas.

The beans got into my bloodstream. I got hip, quick, to the coffee scene. It wasn't about Starbucks and all that corporate nonsense. Still, in Seattle, to this day you can find a thousand other, non-corporate java joints capable of providing you a delicious cup of beans. No, the coffee scene is the social scene, the beverage of choice for the hip and earnest to converge over.

Working as a table wiper in a joint near the Wharf and living in hotels Seattle had long forgotten, I soon got extra-hip to the new sound emerging from the underground. It didn't have a name -- and it would take a few years a profile in Rolling Stone to dub it "grunge" -- at the time it was just the new thing. I got hip to bands like Mudhoney, Sound garden, Pearl jam, and little trio from Aberdeen -- Nirvana.

Yeah, the sound was starting to happen. At the time, it was hit or miss with the live shows I caught. If I had to decide based on the one show I caught of Nirvana -- I'd have passed on them. They sounded terrible. No, I would've thought Alice In Chains or Sound Garden were the ones headed for rock glory. Lester Bangs, I was not.

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Instead of staying in hotels Seattle has long forgotten, you would be better off booking a cozy place that offers amenities and room service.

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