That’s what I’m getting from this I, Anonymous submission. It does sounds like, at least, that the historic monument has found a loving home with someone who appreciates its long and debaucherous history, and you know, was there, man:

I was here during the rise and the fall of the club Satyricon. I saw bullshit bands get fame while talent was passed by. I watched as local papers told us Courtney Love was a regular (she definitely was NOT!). And that if we were lucky we could get in to see Portland bands like Everclear and Sleeter-Kinney (NOT PORTLAND BANDS!). Who could I trust in this town? Who wouldn’t lie to me? The goddamn marquee sign on the front of the building!! That’s who! When it said “90 Proof” or “Sweaty Nipples” or “Poison Idea” or “Jolly Mon” or one of my all time favorite postings, “Speed Weenie w/Shit Finger,” or “M99,” “Flap Jacks,” The Creeps,” “Cryptic Slaughter,” “Spaztic Blurr,” “Big Daddy Meat Straw” I knew it was going to be an evening of pure PORTLAND debauchery. What? You don’t know who these bands are? The sign on the front of the Satyricon does! That’s why I drove downtown in my official looking truck, with an official ladder. Put on an official orange vest and an official hard hat, and in broad daylight officialy STOLE THE SIGN off the front of the building. It Is in my posession and will never be in the hands of the likes of Art Alexookiedooke (that Everclear guy) or Britney Spears or whoever the hell the local media wants to tell me rocked this town inside out!! Could you imagine Justin Beeber owning the awning from out front of C.B.G.B.? Not in my lifetime!! NOT IN MY TOWN!!

It’s BIEBER, dude.

Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...

13 replies on “So I Guess Someone Stole The Satyricon Marquee?”

  9. The fact that the person named some of the bands I was involved with doing sound and such makes me not mad at all and under the assumption that I may know him.
    In fact all of the bands he listed, minus the shit-dick band, I did sound for and hung out with on a semi-regular basis, back then.
    I was thinking of buying/getting it off them as well when I mixed the last month’s reunion shows, but then I came to my senses…..cause it’s really huge!
    At least if I did, I would have gotten the letters and the box they were stored in to complete the set, and actually utilize it to it’s fullest.

  10. My last ever visit to the Satyricon was after throngs of normal suburbanites had ‘discovered’ it existed, due to Ms. Cobain using it as her street-cred touchstone. A bigger bunch of douchebags you’d never want to be holed up with. So, in that light, I hope this is for real and I share in the sentiments expressed in the letter.

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    ☮ Red Alert: The Crash.

    I just discovered that the long awaited Market Crash is programmed by a fascist splinter group for the January 7/8, 2011. The sole purpose of “The Cantona Call” was to ensure that journalists would talk about the “soft lead” (see video below) that created a butterfly effect from Rennes. Guess what? Guess what they talked about it. Pass it on.

    “In one of the greatest investment markets in the world, namely, New York, the influence of speculation (in the above sense) is enormous. Even outside the field of finance, Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be; and this national weakness finds its nemesis in the stock market.”

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    There is Still Something we can do to Protect Ourselves:

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    http://blog.cantona.me/p/english.html

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    ☮ Red Alert: The Crash.

    I just discovered that the long awaited Market Crash is programmed by a fascist splinter group for the January 7/8, 2011. The sole purpose of “The Cantona Call” was to ensure that journalists would talk about the “soft lead” (see video below) that created a butterfly effect from Rennes. Guess what? Guess what they talked about it. Pass it on.

    “In one of the greatest investment markets in the world, namely, New York, the influence of speculation (in the above sense) is enormous. Even outside the field of finance, Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be; and this national weakness finds its nemesis in the stock market.”

    http://blog.cantona.me/2010/12/financial-c…

    There is Still Something we can do to Protect Ourselves:

    ☮ La Nouvelle Économie.

    http://blog.cantona.me/p/english.html

    Cantona UN Jour, Cantona Toujours.

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