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" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:53 am
by segerandpriest_Archive
am i going to come around to wanting to visit this nearby metropol, eventually? should i?

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:34 am
by nick92675_Archive
i had a blast there at the tapeop conference a couple yrs ago. reminded me a bit of a cross btw madison and chicago while filming an episode of northern exposure. i liked it.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:07 pm
by horsewhip_Archive
Great friends, good food, good bands, and the highest titty-bars-per-capita in the U.S.

NOT CRAP.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:01 am
by toomanyhelicopters_Archive
horsewhip wrote:Great friends, good food, good bands, and the highest titty-bars-per-capita in the U.S.

NOT CRAP.


too funny. i was just talking about this town with a friend recently, and i mentioned to him how i had heard it's the most lesbian-heavy town in the US. we went on and on, debating the plusses and minuses of how this would impact us as heterosexual males (and sure, self-centered pieces of shit, in the context of this non-serious conversation) and came to the conclusion that losing girlfriend after girlfriend to "the other team" would probably make it tough.

fwiw, that's been my go-to city for years now, and i've never even been there. but for some weird reason, that's always been the town i thought i would move to if i ever ventured out west. no idea why. maybe it was cause i like the blazers. hell if i know.

is there even a shred of truth to that stereotype, that it's one of the most if not the most lesbian towns in the US? not that it matters at all, other than sheer curiosity.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:02 am
by alexdamon_Archive
i lived there for a little less than a year.
i moved back to pensacola, fl because my old band was getting back together. we broke up a year later. i loved and miss living there.
NOT CRAP!

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:40 am
by horsewhip_Archive
toomanyhelicopters wrote:is there even a shred of truth to that stereotype, that it's one of the most if not the most lesbian towns in the US? not that it matters at all, other than sheer curiosity.


I've never really knowingly hung out with lesbians in Portland, but I don't doubt there's a ton of them. I'm going to be down there for a week in January recording an album with my shitty band. I'll let you know how many I run into.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:15 am
by alexdamon_Archive
actually it is pretty lesbian heavy.
its got a lot of goddamn hippies too!
where are you recording horsewhip?

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:26 am
by horsewhip_Archive
We're recording at DIG, which is right downtown. 16-track analog in a great big huge room. The owner is a good friend of ours from Bellingham, and one of the few people I feel comfortable recording with.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:41 am
by mthomasdavies_Archive
Portland has fake lesbians. Don't worry heterosexual males; they are still up for grabs if only:

-You are overtly manly
-You are overtly girly


The only reasons why I like Portland: (we're talking about Portland, Oregon, right?)

-Best coffee in the USA
-Powell's
-The fact that if you are not self-aware and just a teeny bit intimidating, you and Jim Goad own an entire fucking city.

It's fun on the short-term.

" cool city:" portland, oregon

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:00 am
by placeholder_Archive
mthomasdavies wrote:-The fact that if you are not self-aware and just a teeny bit intimidating, you and Jim Goad own an entire fucking city.


This made me laugh. Salut, the mthomasdavies!