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"The city can best be summed up by its population of young people who move there for a variety of reasons: cheaper rent, bike paths, an opportunity to start over, or, as a wise man once said, to retire."
But why? Why are they what sums up Portland?
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I think that that wise man was Jeffrey Eugenides (about San Francisco), before Fred Armisen ripped it off.
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I was wrong, it was William Burroughs.
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If only we could ship to Paris for those closing days the nut who's been waving sticks and a bible at the Portlandia statue on recent mornings and shouting "Come down off that building, you whore, you prostitute!"
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i got interviewed for this paper: http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2012/04/27/portland-on-l-aime-et-on-la-quitte_814841
and said some things, as a portland native and long time music/art maker, about why i think the city is what it is. i think she got most of what i said right (based on a translation by a friend), except that i think she said i was a professor of theater? ha. that is pretty funny. drum lessons are sometimes like theater. anyway, super glad to have gotten to play with so many great people and so great to hang out with so many amazing portlanders in a different city and to see the comaraderie, open-ness, and loving-ness between all of us, which many of my parisian friends noticed and noted. so that's one thing.
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Everybody wants to be Austin. ;)

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