i am so ready to go see this.

Typo in the headline, Ezra. Yeah, I know I'm always the typo-in-the-headline guy. Just consider me an unpaid proofreader.

@Todd Mecklem Thanks.

That's actually the proper punk way to spell it. Just like the words Kops, Punx, and sXe.

Great! Another Hollywood wannabe “Mike Lastra of Northwest Passage fame” trying to make money off of Portland’s uniqueness. Reminds me off the buzzards that circle something dying just waiting to come in for the kill. By the way, I thought Northwest Passage was a really poorly done documentary that looked like it was a 5th grader film project. We need a film that shows all the grit and grim of the past and present Portland scene. Not one that looks like it was just made to enter film festivals.

Hey Salmon Dickhead, Lastra has been in/on/around the scene before most of us were born. If anyone has a RIGHT to make this it is him. Dude is nothing short of a legend for all the killer shit he's been involved in/documented.

What @Abusive said. I doubt there is much money to be made from painstakingly documenting the history of a tiny punk club.

If SS had'a been around as long as the Satyricon (that's only '85, folks), he would've known that Lastra was around with a camera since before Portland had a punk scene. That cool YouTube video of the Dead Kennedys in Portland in 1979 or 80? Lastra shot it. He was shooting punk bands when you were in your Green Day underoos and is STILL a Portland dweller.

That said, he needs an editor. While Northwest Passage was great, it was only because of of a wealth of fascinating interviews and a fertile subject matter. It was also somewhat disorganized and lacked focus.

I really love the sense of entitlement and hierarchy that's de facto in the punk/DIY scene. No one is ever good enough or been around long enough to matter.

I remember that urinal trough...and that's about all I remember about the place after almost 25 years. This city need more urinal troughs. Randy Leonard, are you listening?

Just because people may have fond memories of what this place was like before you moved here, Graham, does not a sense of entitlement make.

It just makes many feel proud and honored to have been there the night the singer for Shitfinger lost his Daisy Dukes on stage and bent over facing the drums and fingered his ass while the rest of the band kept rockin'.
Somehow I doubt that particular milestone made it into this documentary.

What Abusive said...

@stukasoverpodx: I'm impressed by your ability to counter-act my accustations of entitlement and hierachary in the punk/DIY community by acting entitled and showing your place in the "i've been here longer" hierarchy game. Good job. Too bad your rhetorical judo is for shit.

2stukasoverpdx: If you would have had a video camera on you at the time, it would have.