Portlandia
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- dbloc0
I'll be in portland the weekend after next. I'll let you know if the show stands true.
- Kidswift0
Just moved to Portland for three months and believe me the show is so apt. So far I have seen a guy using a unicycle as a serious mode of transport, ladies drinking brown liquids from jars, so many chest and tribal tattoos I swear that a river of ink runs underneath the city and bird art everywhere. Still love the city though!
- lol @ the unicycle. too true. ffs, it's a fucking circus prop.fugged
- dbloc0
Is the show still on?
- Frosty_spl0
This show is hilarious, everyone should buy it.
- rattail0
this seems like this should be a skit from Portlandia but it really happened... Free Tattoos at The Portland Art Museum.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/brobee/a…- This was a really legit show - a coworkers husband is the artist that put it on, and it was pretty rad!NONEIS
- rattail0
yep,
Next season they'll welcome more actual rock stars onto their hilarious show, too: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, Joanna Newsom, St. Vincent, and Johnny Marr will all appear in the second season of Portlandia, set to premiere on January 6 at 10 p.m. EST on IFC.- as if Carrie Brownstein isn't an "actual rock star"rattail
- mikotondria30
How 'alternative' to satirize an alternative pov. What's the real alternative to 'Portnaldianism' ? People not having tattoos and not riding odd bikes ? I mean it doesn't strike me as a particularly binding aesthetic - I went to Portland for a few days and I fucking loved it. Is this thing just like an adolescent sigh against things people've noticed about the style in their town and like, they just cant' wait to Get Our Of XXX ? (then move back and open an organic trouser shop). Or what ?
Word to the wise who've got themselves funding: Satire only really works and produces comedy and commentary when it has a clear and current cultural perspective; since "the 90s" that they reference here, there has been no focussed replacement for the styles they mock. There hasn't is any offline culture. Music, literature, cinema. We got to the 21st century and turned left. Or turned right. Or just stopped. The zeitgeist isn't in 'things like' tattoos, or how you wear your beard, or whether you ride a pogo stick wearing a black and white wig. Those things don't represent an expression of your ironic take on taste or fashion. That self-regard that is fundamental to how they're trying to make this comedy work isn't there anymore. It comes across like some teenagers expressing their angst by snarkily people-watching at a mall, unaware that people know what they're doing, and don't give a shit about their judgment. It's a shame, because they've got the production, and dare I say it the delivery great, it's just a shame that the writing is really more dated than that which they're sending up.
pHail.- I just read that back, 3 weeks later. What an incoherent twat I am a lot of the time.
Jesus fucking christ.mikotondria3
- I just read that back, 3 weeks later. What an incoherent twat I am a lot of the time.
- Handel0
^
Didn't really bother to decipher your poorly organized statement.Me, I'll just be satisfied if Brownstein learns to stop looking at the camera like a green child actor.
- My comment was mostly worthless - I'm just trying to avoid doing some work, so..
As you were.mikotondria3
- My comment was mostly worthless - I'm just trying to avoid doing some work, so..
- prophetone0
i love the humor. it's not for everyone. for example, my wife would hate it.
- dbloc0
teaser for the new season up on their facebook page.
- mg331
I am a slow convert to this show, and some of the stuff on there cracks me up beyond belief. The one-liners and little random statements that become entire plot points are hilarious. There was one last week where Lance was ripping on Nina for telling stories that are "all middle, with no beginning or end" and I pretty much laughed my ass off.
That was the episode where she was trying to become smarter and more intellectual, being tutored by a smart kid in elementary school, and that kid told her "if you really want to impress people, do inverted fractions." LOL
- i_monk0
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/…
‘Portlandia’ to End With Season 8 in 2018
- colin_s-1
good fucking riddance
show has ruined portland
- I was up there like 10 years ago, how did the show ruin portland? It is a cool spot from what i remember.capn_ron
- truth hurts sometimesGnash
- I was there in August, didn't see anything out of order.i_monk
- Portland ruined itself.refunktion
- vero_vandal0
Excellent show
- BK0
Beaverton por vida!!