Old FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

Muttering — “Cigarettes, yummy.” — in a voice just slightly above what could be considered under your breath as you walk through the front door — in order words, just loudly to be heard in passing, but not quite loudly enough to provoke or justify a response — that’s the coward’s way.

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Some background on my previous post. Most of these are not actually out of focus, but in-focus handheld exposures of one to two seconds taken while braced up against a wall at Doug Fir Lounge. Having tired of running low-light tests with my Nikon D50, I decided to play for awhile instead, and ended up with a series of photographs which looked the way The High Violets sound to me.

Check out this post from me, as well as this follow-up from Mark Oliver, to see what happened — or didn’t happen — with the “modified commission” option unceremoniously tossed out by the Charter Review Commission.

Tonight at Doug Fir: Please Step Out Of The Vehicle, The Dimes, and The High Violets play to benefit the Public Interest Law Project at Lewis & Clark Law School. Doors at 8:00, show at 9:00, $10 at the door.

Not content with its various and sundry policy efforts to keep underage musicians from being able to perform and quash the sustainability of all-ages venues, the OLCC now has banned families from the Oregon Brewers Festival.

Do you support changing Portland’s form of government? Are you looking for a place to examine Charter reform from that perspective without being relegated to the reader comments section? Then I want you as a writer over at Portland’s Future Charter. Just get in touch, tell me why you’re interested and what you will bring to the discussion, and I’ll see about adding you to the ranks there as a full-fledged contributor.