i came to great falls a few years ago on an escapist trip after a fucked up break up, to visit my mum and brother. i ended up staying for three months, meeting the local punk rock kids, smoking ridiculous amounts of chronic and drinking 6.11 percent steele reserve which i had never even heard of living in the south for so long. i had a pretty great time.

the one way roads fucked me up a couple of times, but the bus system was neat, and sometimes you could ride for free. seemed like a good mixture of liberal and conservative type folks, lots of john kerry signs in yards, etc. there was a cool little shop called the venue which used to have shows and sell clothes and shoes and skate stuff, which is out of business since the last time i was there. the airport is a great place to get drunk and look out over the light line of the town, cause it's a bluff and malmstrom air force base is a nuke base, so you can have fun imagining the end of the world if it hits you fancy, and i don't see why it shouldn't.

there were regular shows, a huge skate park, the dam was amazing during the right season, and at the time there were like maybe two patrolling night cops. a little too many reservation bums hanging out around the M&H, but bums can be fun if you’re careful.
there were a lot of cool kids, but in the end the group i hung out with seemed to suffer too strongly from small town syndrome, so i came back home. i’ve been back to visit my mum since i was headed northwest anyway, but didn’t really stay for long. pretty cool thrift stores, and M&H is really easy to steal from.