SE Portland REPRESENT

[sedita]

......but i gotta ask:

WHICH french movie
and
WHICH movie theater?

as fronch cinema is not my forte,
i hazard no guess.

but as for the house,
i gots to go with the Laurelhurst.

john?

[John]

but as for the house,
i gots to go with the Laurelhurst.

john?

haha DING DING DING we haff a WINNAH

[sedita]

phew.

don't you just love it when your hood shows up in the papers?
makes me so proud.

[fleetwoodmarc]

i'm not trying to be nosey(sp?)here, but i fear i might not know how these forum thangs work.  let me explain; today i look at the topic list and see something about portland, OR.  me being from here/there decide to take a look and maybe even represent, but all i found were three posts, but no, um, like, well, beginning.  so again, i'm not trying to be nosey and maybe these posts were a continuation of a phone call or something, but if they weren't and you can clue me in on what i might be missing i'd love you for it.  thanks!  mark

[fleetwoodmarc]

oh crap, never mind, i'll bet the posts had something to do with an article in LPTJ.  thanks for your patience.  mark

[Lalitree]

'sok mark, I was confused when I first read this topic too, and I am supposed to know what's going on!  

[sedita]

as i started this mess-ola i will bring brightness to a darkened situation:

in the latest LPTJ,
the new interpol album was likened to watching the endtitles
to a french film in an art house in SE portland.
as i live in SE portland,
('sup mark?!?!?)
i was tickled to see my 'hood represented
"in the wider world of the electronic super highway"
and say i flashed my gang shit,
threw up some colors
and rep'd.

lookin' fo shouts from my bro's and sis's.

as for the rest, i'm digesting, i'm digesting.

[fleetwoodmarc]

'sok mark, I was confused when I first read this topic too, and I am supposed to know what's going on!  

thank you kindly, lalitree.   i won't make little short "thank you" posts a habit, but i just appreciate the response, you know, as the new kid and all.
everyone in the world, except for those who deserve otherwise, have a wonderful day!

[fleetwoodmarc]

(i had typed a longer funnier response to sedita's last post, but then was away from the computer for so long that it went somewhere, argh!  here's the jist/gist(sp?)of what i said.)

first i said that, oh yeah, i totally missed that mention of pdx in the list of 101 things, so, thanks for pointing it out.

then i gave you, sedita, the shout out that you were looking and it went a little somethin' like this...(hit it!)

alright, everybody in the house say, "SEDITA!"  SEDITA!!!!!!  HO!!!!!!!!!!

then i went on to say, "se portland?  me too.  32/morrison to be exact.  i'll betcha we see eachother around."

finally, i think i went onto to say that i was sorry(still am)to post this on the forum when really it just kind of should've went to sedita, but this computer is not letting send emails without some password that i don't know.  i also said that i hated to make that like my 3rd post out of 4 or 5 that contained or at least implied an apology, but that i didn't want people to think i was just wasting their time and not caring about it, so.......

oh and then there was a closing bit about how beautiful portland is today, but in the time that it took me to buy 300+ hardcore records from a nice fella who just moved here from vermont it got all cloudy and rainy and stuff, so....

o.k., well, back to getting my ass handed to me by this live Sodom album and pricing hardcore records.

have a great day everybody.

[Andrew_TSKS]

dude, you work in a record store?

man, and i thought my job ruled.

[fleetwoodmarc]

dude, you work in a record store?

man, and i thought my job ruled.

it probably does.  what is it?  email me off list if you care to.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i work in a bookstore. almost as cool, but not quite.

and hey, i think tangental discussions like this are part of the fun of the forum, so don't sweat it.

i mean, unless it's annoying other people, in which case, blame me. haha.

[sedita]

dude, mark,
thanks yo for  the ups.

i'm at 60th and powell-ish.
but i bet yer right about our paths crossing.
it's a small town.

drop a line oflist, and we can go lift a few cold ones and listen
to records.

j.

[fleetwoodmarc]

haha, yeah, i'm into the tangents too, but every once in a while i run into people who seem to have been doing this kinda thing for years and have a real clear idea of some kind of e-etiqutte and me being new to all this...
well, you get it.

ah, bookstores, that's what i did with the three years before these last three years here and since you're (kinda) out that way i might as well tell you about it because it straight rules.  it is called the book barn and is located in niantic, ct.  they have a website with directions and all that.  so many books spread throughout, what, six buildings("buildings" is a bit of a stretch for some of these, um, let's call them structures.)and the place is so cheap that it's not even really funny.  if you(anybody) go there, please
tell them that i sent you and that i miss 'em all.  thanks.  well, back to letting lou reed do it to me like only he can.  sigh, what a hunk.  kidding.  really.

[Andrew_TSKS]

whoa, that place sounds AWESOME. ct is about 10 hours from here, but if i'm ever up that way i will TOTALLY be on the hunt for that store.

[fleetwoodmarc]

whoa, that place sounds AWESOME. ct is about 10 hours from here, but if i'm ever up that way i will TOTALLY be on the hunt for that store.

oh, one last thing and then i'll move on.  since we started the whole chat with a comparison of jobs.....it's funny because towards the tail end of my time at the book barn i remember telling my friends how much i hated book "collectors" (don't get me wrong there; i love the readers, i just have a hard time relating to/liking much the people who buy books just to have them, just because they're "important".) and how i couldn't wait to get out to oregon and talk to people that are crazy about records instead and for the most part my suspicion (man, that word looks misspelled to me right now) that i would enjoy the company of music freaks more than their bookish counterparts has been right on, but every once in a while i'll get a doozy in here that'll make me ask myself which one is crazier, the "books" or the "records"?(oh man, that makes me see softball jerseys)  i think i know the answer though, they're both as nuts as anybody else.  i know that i certainly can't lay any claims to sanity.  just take a look at my apartment.

[jaimoe0]

Mark, I think there are plenty of record collectors who fall into the same category as the book nuts you describe... I've been guilty of purchasing stuff just because I thought I ought to have it myself, although kids and the attendant cash crush have curbed that tendency.  The guys I hate are the dinks who buy records as "investments" when they have no interest in the actual music. There are a couple of books called Incredibly Strange Music where musicians and collectors talk about their passion for music and collecting, and in Volume I, some of the members of Untamed Youth (Deke, his ex-wife, and I think one other member) and some of the guys from Phantom Surfers talk about these guys and how annoying they are. They drive up the prices of mediocre releases by snatching them up and playing off their rarity rather than their quality, if that makes any sense. Deke and his buddies go into it much more exhaustively and eloquently than I have.

[fleetwoodmarc]

"Mark, I think there are plenty of record collectors who fall into the same category as the book nuts you describe"

yeah, i know, i guess they irk me less because i can relate to their situation more, what with sharing their disease and all.

"The guys I hate are the dinks who buy records as "investments" when they have no interest in the actual music."

yes, right there with you.  i actually believe that buying any record for that reason should be illegal, even though i've done it before.  i didn't just say that.  hey, i was broke.

anyway...thanks for writing.

o.k. and in case you were wondering, the record i bought and sold on ebay was one of the les savy fav records, the one on desoto.  i could buy it for $3 and sell it for $15, i did it a few times.  it was when i was only working at the record store and we only make a touch over $4 an hour here.  so.....that's my defense.

am i still a dink?

[jaimoe0]

Not at all, sir.  A dink does it habitually.  You did it out of necessity. (Even if it wasn't, let's just go ahead and go with "necessity" here.)  One other thing that the folks in the Inredibly Strange Music book related was collectors who have something that's kind of rare and who went out, bought other copies and destroyed them to drive up the price on their stuff.  I don't think that's a regular occurrence, but they ran into someone who did that.... or was that Lux and Poison Ivy in an earlier chapter? Damn, now I'm gonna have to read that book again!