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   The Other Sumez
   

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   What is "PDX OR US", and how are you able to post this in one year? Are you a traveller through time and space?

   edit: Lol, I managed to post this before your post. So you ARE using a time machine.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   dodd
   

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   TACOS!

   TIME PARADOX!!!!!

   Edit: OMG! He did it again! :D

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   raedarius
   

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   Goes to show that all this 2012 paranoia is a load of bollocks.

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   aphxero
   

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   I've been lurking for a minute and decided to join. I live in PDX, OR US. Been into industrial type music for a long time blah blah blah... I like synths and stuff...

   HI!

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   soillodge
   

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   Whoa, the time lapse thing happened here too. Weird.

   PDX is the Portland Oregon Metro area.

   Welcome Aphexero!

   `michael

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   Cult of the Bleeding Toe
   

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   What do you like? It's not cool to like terrorbannana now apparently hehe

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   mechapop
   

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   I'M NOT GAY!!

   My dream is to go to Portland...everyone tells me its a mecha for artsy people and hot nerd artsy chicks

   @cult: "What do you like? It's not cool to like terrorbannana now apparently hehe "

   what is this, 2007? ;)

   Posted 3 months ago #
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   aphxero
   

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   Thanks I love my home :) And the rumors about it are 100% true. One thing, this town is very artistic and supposedly "open" but trust me it's a very regimented and specific "openness". More on that some other time.

   It could be my life/surroundings affecting my worldview but I can't shake the feeling that this music has become irrelevant/kind of a joke to everyone. I mean for something with such a long history and rich catalog of artists it just seems... Invisible? Like no one likes this shit. Any mention of it garners blank stares or worse. Not that it applies to my understanding of it or anything. It's just confusing that more people don't embrace it. Have I lost it? Have a been a drunk for too long?

   And my name has absolutely nothing to do with aphex twin.

   yeah/

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   mechapop
   

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   I'M NOT GAY!!

   @aphxero: "It could be my life/surroundings affecting my worldview but I can't shake the feeling that this music has become irrelevant/kind of a joke to everyone. I mean for something with such a long history and rich catalog of artists it just seems... Invisible? Like no one likes this shit. Any mention of it garners blank stares or worse. "<<<

   Oh totally. When people say that, I go "yeah, don't worry about it...you didn't miss much". I kid of course...in fact I still run into people(normally late teens/early 20 somethingers just discovering 'cybergoth') to whom all the aggrotech/terrorbmnoiseclub stuff is the bee's knees and the hot new thing. God bless em'. Least its a subculture that shockingly never got exploited or marketed by Hot Topic or anywhere else. Hell even "Steampunk" has been packaged and sold.

   Heh, I feel like Portland or Austin, or especially Williamsburg...Id have to be especially bizarre and outside the box to get noticed where *everyone* is an artist.
   In the lame area where I grew up and live, it doesnt take much to be seen as an artsy weirdo...that's just not where the girls are. (Im in bro/jock world)

   Posted 3 months ago #
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    The Other Sumez
    

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    Supposedly people in Oregon know who I am. That's a little creepy considering I've never been anywhere near the place.

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    djkrat
    

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    I have been to Oregon. It's nice there, though the speed limit is ridiculously low.

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    Mutagen
    

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    Oregon is sasquatch country.

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    dianus
    

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    @aphxero: "One thing, this town is very artistic and supposedly "open" but trust me it's a very regimented and specific "openness"."

    i grew up in portland and i couldn't agree more--there's a kind of insularity and a set of rigid expectations among people i grew up with there that i've never experienced anywhere else. at the same time many people who've only ever lived in portland repeat and almost believe in the city's own self-hype and then they don't recognize this insularity or these expectations. i was miserable in portland and i'm very glad to have escaped.

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    bubba
    

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    "i was miserable in portland and i'm very glad to have escaped. "

    I cannot wait to leave this self-aggrandizing piss poor hamlet which fancies itself some kind of sophisticated metropolis. I have now lived here in the city for nearly twenty years and hate it with all of my black little heart. Rednecks, white trash and high school dropouts are the majority of this shit hole in 2012.

    You people who keep moving here, congratulations, you've now made it as fucking pointless as the places you came from. Way to go, goofballs.

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    aphxero
    

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    damnit! I purposefully mention portland's negative aspects only in passing never to dwell on them. Now you've lit the fuse. As soon as I leave the house today I'll be imaging everyone's douchiness everywhere I look. ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

    Has anyone else been to the clubs here? There's like 2 good DJs in town and the crowds are mostly boring "play me that song from last week" types. But again, in spite of it's faults I love it here. Maybe it's my lowered expectations from having lived in tampa for so long.

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    bubba
    

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    I check out John's work at the Lovecraft when I can as he'll pretty much play anything, metal nights are f-in great when he's djing them as he grew up in the 80s and knows what metal actually is, not the fragmented fashion show it's become. Always a pleasure to watch the "punk rock" kiddies curdle their faces and leave.

    Any other djs in this town I have no use for.

    Posted 3 months ago #
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    PsiWarInc
    

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    ^ You mean DJ Ghoulnatic and DJ psyborg? I know those cats.

    We need another snow day here in the city. It was pretty sweet last month, walked around laurelhurst park drawing pentagrams in the snow |m|

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    PsiWarInc
    

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    That ^ was @aphxero

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    distortedmemory
    

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    the only things i know about portland i know from portlandia.

    i will take everything from that show as pure fact. :)

    Posted 3 months ago #
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    mechapop
    

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    I'M NOT GAY!!

    Wait, so Portland *isnt* all glasses wearing artsy hipster chicks and vegan cooking bearded bohemian dudes on bikes who work at alternative book stores and cafes? :)

    Posted 3 months ago #

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