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"Quick, Marge, get my gun! There's one of them nutria swimmin' in the river over there!"

Seattlest rode the open-faced and manned elevators up the Smith Tower to the Chinese Room on the 35th floor about a year ago. An ill-timed Americano made us have to take a piss up there which led us into the stairwell where the bathrooms are and also enabled us to discover a chain and across the stair leading up with a small sign that said something like "Private residence. Turn around, little Seattlest, and go take your piss before heading home to your Wallingford duplex." Which we did. That's the closest we ever got to seeing the legendary Smith Tower apartment.

MUSIC: We'd never heard of any of these bands before, but we're pretty sure the bill of Crap Happy Hookers, Eight Hour Disease [mp3] and Wack Job [mp3] at the Central tonight will, at the very least, be loud. It's part of the Central's weekly "Punks and Pints" series.

Seattlest doesn't normally do the rave thing, and we would never even consider going to Burning Man, but we're kind of curious about the October 15th Internal Combustion event, described as "an underground trance dance gathering at a place like no other," only because where its taking place, that underground tunnel by Stevens Pass, is in fact a place like no other: site of the historic 1910 Stevens Pass avalanche that killed 96 people aboard two trains stalled in the snow. Having a rave/trance party in such a place seems kind of like screening The Shining at a birthday party for an orphan who's dad went insane and killed people with an ax. Or maybe its not totally comparable with that, but still...