Portlandia
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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.