Friday, May 05, 2006
AM I BEING TOO NEGATIVE?
Happy Friday Chaddy!
Photo provided by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkelchrispy/
I would first off like to thank the lovely and talented Castichell duo for commenting on my controversial Bono vs. Oprah blog. Their response was wonderfully opinionated and skillfully written and I think we should continue this debate for the rest of our natural lives...
Secondly, I would like to present a new "can you be more specific" blog tradition:
THE WEIRDEST and/or CREEPIEST BLOGS EVER....
here's the first of many: http://joyzabum.blogspot.com/
As far as I can tell, it's about a Christian teenager who lives in Estacada with her dysfunctional parents and is obsessed with gas prices and lice.
here's an excerpt (perhaps even more scary than Oprah? yikes!)
"How did it end? I refused to leave the house until I got the movies so I could take them back personally so I could rent from the store and not have people thinking I'm irresponsible. I was screamed at, I was threatened to be arrested, I was put down, I was grabbed by my hair and dragged around the house (I'm hard-headed, so it didn't hurt and I stayed), she told me she hated me, that she never wanted to see me, that she didn't want to know anything about me."
-http://joyzabum.blogspot.com/
Thirdly, I will interpret last night's First Thursday experience:
Maybe it was the heat, the fact that I didn't really want to go but thought, "maybe, just maybe it will be better this time"... It could have been the parking, the crowds, the lack of free wine...but because this is my blog and because my opinions are all I really have...I will state once and for all:
FIRST THURSDAY SUCKS ASS AND PORTLAND AS A WHOLE IS NOT MUCH BETTER (and the Willamette Week sucks now too)
BEFORE you get too excited, let me state that I am moving to Baltimore (or Pittsburg, I can remember which...) SO I AM distancing myself from this town. It happens every time we leave and then when I'm someplace else all I can think about is beer, dogs, pizza, friends, family, and cheap movies IN PDX.......C'est la vie
that being said... All the unoriginal Midwestern trust fund hipsters have ruined ART and have ruined PORTLAND. There, I said it. I said what I was thinking....or at least what they want me to think.
ANYWHO... the skinny jeans, shag hair cut, sewing on your paintings, Japanese wanna be, leeches (can you believe it? US kids now want to be like the Japanese who are only trying to imitate US kids who are trying to...) have no identity of their own so they come here and quickly examine what is kitschy or cool and EXPLOIT it for their own interests. This makes me mad!! or maybe I'm jealous again... Maybe I want a trust fund and a strong Ohio Christian family that I don't relate to anymore! I want to run away to the WEST COAST where the girls are warmer!
BUT ALAS - I'm running to the EAST COAST, where the girls are colder and there's poverty and extremes and things can get really fucked up (or fucked down) really fast. This blog entry won't make sense to me there because ultimately, I will come back to my old neighborhood, where I know the streets and the bars, I know my friends and I know their dogs and where I can't go to my local coffee shop because there's no where to sit.
MOREOVER: ALL the galleries at first Thursday had the shittiest most moronic art I have ever seen. There are pictures of bears and people's feet and rocks and little paintings of people peeing and birds and genitalia and American Apparel ads with gritty boobs and broken high heels. What the fuck is the world coming to? What happened? Is it post-modernism? (Seth thinks it is) Are we running away from our real Midwestern AMERICA? IS THERE NO MEANING ANYMORE? ARE THE FRENCH STILL WAY COOLER THAN US?....
that's all I've got today. Chad, I would still love you even if you had lice.
ttfn,
-Alicia
Jacques-Louis David1793 Death of Marat
Photo provided by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkelchrispy/
I would first off like to thank the lovely and talented Castichell duo for commenting on my controversial Bono vs. Oprah blog. Their response was wonderfully opinionated and skillfully written and I think we should continue this debate for the rest of our natural lives...
Secondly, I would like to present a new "can you be more specific" blog tradition:
THE WEIRDEST and/or CREEPIEST BLOGS EVER....
here's the first of many: http://joyzabum.blogspot.com/
As far as I can tell, it's about a Christian teenager who lives in Estacada with her dysfunctional parents and is obsessed with gas prices and lice.
here's an excerpt (perhaps even more scary than Oprah? yikes!)
"How did it end? I refused to leave the house until I got the movies so I could take them back personally so I could rent from the store and not have people thinking I'm irresponsible. I was screamed at, I was threatened to be arrested, I was put down, I was grabbed by my hair and dragged around the house (I'm hard-headed, so it didn't hurt and I stayed), she told me she hated me, that she never wanted to see me, that she didn't want to know anything about me."
-http://joyzabum.blogspot.com/
Thirdly, I will interpret last night's First Thursday experience:
Maybe it was the heat, the fact that I didn't really want to go but thought, "maybe, just maybe it will be better this time"... It could have been the parking, the crowds, the lack of free wine...but because this is my blog and because my opinions are all I really have...I will state once and for all:
FIRST THURSDAY SUCKS ASS AND PORTLAND AS A WHOLE IS NOT MUCH BETTER (and the Willamette Week sucks now too)
BEFORE you get too excited, let me state that I am moving to Baltimore (or Pittsburg, I can remember which...) SO I AM distancing myself from this town. It happens every time we leave and then when I'm someplace else all I can think about is beer, dogs, pizza, friends, family, and cheap movies IN PDX.......C'est la vie
that being said... All the unoriginal Midwestern trust fund hipsters have ruined ART and have ruined PORTLAND. There, I said it. I said what I was thinking....or at least what they want me to think.
ANYWHO... the skinny jeans, shag hair cut, sewing on your paintings, Japanese wanna be, leeches (can you believe it? US kids now want to be like the Japanese who are only trying to imitate US kids who are trying to...) have no identity of their own so they come here and quickly examine what is kitschy or cool and EXPLOIT it for their own interests. This makes me mad!! or maybe I'm jealous again... Maybe I want a trust fund and a strong Ohio Christian family that I don't relate to anymore! I want to run away to the WEST COAST where the girls are warmer!
BUT ALAS - I'm running to the EAST COAST, where the girls are colder and there's poverty and extremes and things can get really fucked up (or fucked down) really fast. This blog entry won't make sense to me there because ultimately, I will come back to my old neighborhood, where I know the streets and the bars, I know my friends and I know their dogs and where I can't go to my local coffee shop because there's no where to sit.
MOREOVER: ALL the galleries at first Thursday had the shittiest most moronic art I have ever seen. There are pictures of bears and people's feet and rocks and little paintings of people peeing and birds and genitalia and American Apparel ads with gritty boobs and broken high heels. What the fuck is the world coming to? What happened? Is it post-modernism? (Seth thinks it is) Are we running away from our real Midwestern AMERICA? IS THERE NO MEANING ANYMORE? ARE THE FRENCH STILL WAY COOLER THAN US?....
that's all I've got today. Chad, I would still love you even if you had lice.
ttfn,
-Alicia
Jacques-Louis David1793 Death of Marat
