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It ain't perfect, but it ain't crap.

I have a love/hate relationship with this city (my birthplace and current home). I get the feeling that just about everyone born and raised here is prone to bi-polar symptoms and passive-aggresiveness.

Cows, Am-rep, Babes in Toyland, Twin-Tone, Prince, The Walker, 1st ave., Minneapolis homo-core, rampant liberalism(both a blessing and a curse, but i'll take it over the alternative).

Not Crap! WF 5

Fuck you Minneapolis I love you.

I moved here in 1981, because of the Punk/New Wave scene. I never left. People in "the scene" were immediately friendly to Flour and me, there were cool clubs and record shops.

It's not as small-town as it used to seem to be, but it's an okay city. Real estate used to be an amazing bargain. What appeals to me is being able to drive for an hour out of town and be in the woods. Two hours away and you can be in wilderness, two and a half and we have our own inland sea.

Not Crap...but I'm biased as well, lived there for a bit. To the post(er) with his chocolate love for Annie's Parlor; I worked there for a couple months and it is one of the few restaurants that I will still eat at after my employment.

C'mon I still love Minneapolis even after being mugged and my house being robbed at gunpoint.

whirlindervish wrote:I have a love/hate relationship with this city (my birthplace and current home). I get the feeling that just about everyone born and raised here is prone to bi-polar symptoms and passive-aggresiveness.

Cows, Am-rep, Babes in Toyland, Twin-Tone, Prince, The Walker, 1st ave., Minneapolis homo-core, rampant liberalism(both a blessing and a curse, but i'll take it over the alternative).

Not Crap! WF 5

Fuck you Minneapolis I love you.

I've never been to MPLS...I hope to make a trip up in March with a band I like... but as a student at UW-Madison, I can tell ya, I meet a hell of a lot of MPLS natives. In my experience, while I tend to prefer the MPLS dudes and dudettes to the Wisco natives...the passive-aggressive/cliquish thing has proved to be true time and time again. Very little annoys me more. I think fast, I talk fast, I do shit fast...the adjustment has been extremely irritating. The whole "up north" attitude of both states seems to be "hey, yeah! we're really educated and nice and stuff!...we also like Architecture in Helsinki, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Joanna Newsom"...but instead of telling you what is actually going on, they lollygag around like pussies and are often simply not straight with you. Wisconsin is even worse than MPLS in terms of getting things done...everything moves at a glacial pace. Can you name any good Wisconsin bands besides Killdozer and Oil Tasters? Not to mention the fact that Killdozer is completely comprised of Minnesota natives. Also, the music committees at UW-Madison CONSTANTLY book "big" Minneapolis bands that I don't give a fucking shit about. I might even prefer the bullshit faux "punk" culture (Descendents, Fall Out Boy, Rise Against) that I was raised in (Note: The Descedents are good!) to the artificially created (in the way that Abercrombie and Fitch struck it big), Pitchfork influenced, hipster culture of the "nearly Canadian" north. At least those faux punker kids liked Black Flag and were fun.

I guess the IfIHadAHiFi dudes are different. Thank god you guys just yell at each other and shit. So refreshing.

I prefer the lower Midwest...

1) Chicago is the greatest city in America (but NYC also rules hard).
2) I love how when you get south of NW Indiana/into Ohio, the accents turn nearly Southern (if not completely Southern [see: below an invisible line in Illinois, the rest of Indiana, Kentucky]).
3) Did I mention Chicago?

Also, the rampant liberalism thing makes me wanna puke (even if I agree with most of it). Doesn't change the fact that the Midwest is essentially socially conservative (Madison doesn't seem to see it in themselves...even Chicago is pretty conservative in this way, I imagine that MPLS is similar).

In my experience with larger cities Minneapolis is not as great as Chicago, but it is definitely better than New York, LA, San Diego, or Cleveland.

I spent maybe 12 hours in Minneapolis in my lifetime.

During one of those hours, I had a Juicy Lucy.

That was not crap.

I would like to visit again soon.

It was better before of the "beautification" of the urban areas. I felt more comfortable in the seedy environment of the early eighties. I can't seem to relate to the current cultures.

However, I was a witness/semi-participant in a music revolution. I am grateful for that experience, and feel blessed. I'm not so sure that I could have gotten that close in any other city. NOT CRAP.

The only town I've been to in the USA.
Very nice.

burun wrote:I spent maybe 12 hours in Minneapolis in my lifetime.

During one of those hours, I had a Juicy Lucy.

That was not crap.

Please 'splain what that is.

Mpls is not crap for many reasons, one of which is one of my top 5 drummers.
Linda Pitmon is fantastic. She plays with total authority. I get the feeling, when she's taking down after a show, that she's thinking "hell yeah, in 23 hours I get to PLAY DRUMS again."
I consider her a friend, so I mentioned that to her one time. She said "yeah, that's pretty much how it is."
I love seeing people get joy from making music.

Plus, nobody on the planet looks better in a stripey shirt.
Nobody.

-A