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[pearwaldorf]

I love many things about this city, and I will miss it a great deal when I have to be exiled to the Cultural Wasteland that is Vancouver, Washington next year, but Good lord my town is full of goddamn wanks. Why can't they just all go away and leave my city in peace? True, Mirah's here because of the whole horrible hipster scene and that's kinda nifty, but good lord do they suck. They need to go back to California and Asscrack, Midwest State where they all belong. The only reason they can think they're cool is because they congregate in swarms like locusts and engage in mutual wank about the Evil Corporate System Oppressing their Proletariat Identity, when in reality they're mostly trust-fund babies who want to make sure they never have to work a day in their lives.

Adrienne, I should come to Galesburg and start a scene with you, so all of these stupid little hipsters can have their own little speshul little basement shows and feel so indie it hurts far far away from Portland. It would be better for all involved.

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[noog.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, do I agree with you. I love Portland, it's my city and when I walk through it I know I grew up in that area and that I'm definitely a product of that region, but the place is being overrun with pretentious scenester wanks who are trying to make it the next Olympia and are in fact quickly making it the next southern California yuppieland. Granted, I can't entirely fault the hipster scene, since it's because of that scene that my favorite singer and my favorite band now live in Portland, but still... *shivers* it pains me how stupidly self-righteous those wanks are. They're so busy being anti-capitalist that they don't realize they're contributing to the gentrification of the city and destroying everything that was ever cool about it and... argh. We've been over all this before.

CAST OUT THE INFIDELS!!! PORTLAND FOR THE PORTLANDERS!!!!!! (Except Cody and Katie; they're allowed to stick around.)

Oh, and long live the Galesburg scene!!!!

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Like I've always said, Portland is the place where yuppies move if they can't afford Seattle.

They're so busy being anti-capitalist that they don't realize they're contributing to the gentrification of the city

Word, yo. I still say native Oregonians should be given the right to walk around with cricket bats and bash in the kneecaps of all the dipshits who talk about how cool the old Ozone was when they weren't even fucking around for it. And all the dickheads who move to Portland because it has a 'scene' now (I am absolutely amazed how many people are going to PSU to be part of it all).

And I sent your letter out today. Let me know when you get it. *hearts*

[noog.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Amen, sister. I shopped at the old Ozone, so all those silly self-important scenesters can suck my synthetic, vegan, made-in-a-womyn's-collective-and-sold-at-a-queer-sex-positive-store cock. =P

Not only that, but I grew up with all the accoutrements of Portland culture that the scenesters have no clue about because they're too busy being identifying with their cooler-than-thou city to do their homework on Portland's culture and history. I was on the Ramblin' Rod show. Twice. Go me. =P

The mass migration to PSU cracks me up. I know people who go there because it's affordable, because they didn't want to move too far-- but people who come from across the country for the specific purpose of going to PSU? No. Does not compute.

I say, dole out the cricket bats. And I will be graciously awaiting your letter.

Hee hee. *is considering going to an on-campus party, but is currently having too much fun reading Harry Potter fanfiction to go out*

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

See, I was always an Everyday Music sort of girl. Those skufs bins are the fucking shiznit (no I do not know why I am throwing random black rapper slang into all of my comments tonight). I wish they hadn't reorganized them by day instead of alphabet; it was so much easier to zero in on the interesting stuff instead of wading through the fifteenth Backstreet Boys CD of the day. But yeah. Ozone didn't have enough used stuff for me, although I was seriously considering that bootleg copy they had of Y Kant Tori Read for the longest time. ^.^

my synthetic, vegan, made-in-a-womyn's-collective-and-sold-at-a-queer-sex-positive-store cock

*laughs* Holy crap! You never told me it was made at a wimmin's collective. That's fucking great.

I think the scenesters go to PSU because they're too slackerly or too poor to go to Lewis and Clark. And because it's not downtrodden enough, or something.

currently having too much fun reading Harry Potter fanfiction to go out

If you have any good Remus/Sirius, pass it along. Theirloveissocanon. And get on AIM. I want to talk to you.

[noog.livejournal.com]

Eh, well... I was never a particularly loyal Ozone shopper. I went wherever the music I wanted was, not wherever it was cool to shop. Again, another one of those infuriating things about scenesters-- for people who consider themselves such avowed anti-capitalists, they certainly spend a lot of time identifying themselves by where they shop.

*laugh* I actually don't know whether my sex toy was made at a wimmin's collective. I think the fact that it was made at a radical vegan bikers' collective is more than hilarious enough. =P

Personally, I think scenesters go to PSU because if they went to Lewis and Clark or Reed, they'd be too busy actually doing schoolwork to spend all those essential scenester hours standing on street corners and looking good (in that unwashed punk sort of way).

Oh god, I wish I had Remus/Sirius stuff. My friend is forcing me to read After the End, which is pretty good, but I'm getting tired of the universal heterosexuality in this story. Remus so wants Sirius to shove it up his ass, and the story (all fricking 45 chapters of it) would be so much better if the authors just acknowledged that.

[noog.livejournal.com]

Oh. And... Y Kant Tori Read?! I mean, I know you're an avowed Tori fan and all, but isn't Y Kant Tori Read reputed to be one of the worst albums ever made?

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Um, well, some of it is really REALLY terrible (like "The Big Picture"), and some of it is all right ("Etienne"). I have a copy bumming around somewhere, but I don't know where it is. I should let you listen to it to judge for yourself. But none of it is still as bad as the shit they play at Dot's.

And I thought you'd appreciate this (http://www.portlandmercury.com/2003-10-02/feature.html).

[noog.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Nothing, my friend, is as bad as the music they play at Dot's.

And that article was amazing. I have to note with pleasure that, to my knowledge, I don't fit into any of the mentioned species. Nor, it must be noted, does anybody I know who was actually born in or around Portland.