cottonboon:

Have some Celestia.

Ken Ashcorp - 20 Percent Cooler

I drove my stuff up I-5 from Los Angeles back to Portland.

Coming up through the Central Valley, it seemed like half the radio stations were producer pop - which, wevs, I actually like the Max Martin/Dr. Luke stuff, but it sounded more like top 15 than top 40 and that got boring.

Up into the mountain forests and through Oregon, that half was replaced with weird and charming little local stations that would play like, all requests, or have local programming boards, or just freeform with some DJ chasing ‘70s country with dub reggae, though they were on repeaters so they changed frequencies like every valley.

The other half, in both cases, was Christian Music. Like, songs in every rock style of 2005, as competent and polished as anyone, only all about Jesus. All spun by people pushing this culture of relentless positivity and frequent quotations of the canonical text.

And I realized there that while I had originally been thinking of Harry Potter fandom, like with wizard rock and all, no, that is what pony music reminds me of.

nedhepburn:

THE INTERNET IT IS UNDER ATTACK.

Staying in a fleabag motel. It’s exactly what I expected. I’m not delicate, I can take this for a while.

Looking for apartments/rooms on the internet. It’s exactly what I expected. It’s tougher in Portland, at least in LA I could use “can this person actually read and/or write” as a pretty effective screening mechanism, up here people are competent enough that that doesn’t narrow it down sufficiently.

Or I dunno maybe I’m spoiled. Should make a Socially Awkward Penguin: “CL ad doesn’t describe roommates? Might be terrible, don’t reply./Includes description close to but not exactly like me? Might be terrible, don’t reply.”

There was an ad, they wanted no cats so I wasn’t eligible anyway, but their criteria included, like

* be LBGT-friendly
* be non-misogynistic and non-sexist
* have a sense of humor that’s not PC
* don’t be easily offended

And I guess it was in the spirit of “Just don’t be a tool, in any direction,” but it was hard not to take it as “we need you to fit a very particular sweet spot.”

Wevs. I actually have a lead on a guy that sounds really decent, I’m meeting him tomorrow, hopefully that’ll work.

Soooo, people were like “ZOMG snowmageddon today!” and then there was some snow, and then it stopped. And the Portland subreddit was like “LOL snowmageddon” and I was like “LOL snowmageddon, let’s go for a walk.”

Three blocks? Hail.

fuckyeahvinylscratch:

when you see it…

(if you haven’t played Story of the Blanks yet, go do so right now)

Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery

Yeah I liked this song back in the day but damn, somehow I had not filed Sarah McLachlan in the “incredibly sexy” drawer. My bad.

Also on the drive up, I listened to “Hand In My Pocket” and I was like “damn, kinda having feelings here”. Swap out like *one* refrain for an instrumental bridge and it’d be good cover bait still.

Maybe this is my late 20s talking?

The dude in that video though, woof the ‘90s.

UPDATE: after posting this, I got “xfilesforever” swapped in as one of my Spotlight recommendations, which, okay, correct.

scenecelebrities:

Mel Gibson for Anon

“Who is spamming my dash with this Starbucks shit?”

“Oh, apparently I am spamming my dash with this Starbucks shit.”

Wut?

Um, sorry. Working on it.

nostalgicgamemusic:

Chrono Trigger- Wind Scene

thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:

Bye, darling.

I’m off to war.

Looking for a place in Portland. When I was scouting here I subletted up by Alberta. This time I’d been looking more SE. Lined up some places around Hawthorne to look into and I’ve been checking out the neighborhood. It’s a little… undergraduate? That’s not exactly it. There are also happy grey-haired burghers and the girl whose apartment I just checked out, a 27-year-old spiritual healer, which is maybe like being a professional CFWG?

I guess it’s that people don’t feel like they’ve been scuffed up enough? Also the bars/restaurants are more, ah, themed, and bigger and less personal.

Which, given that my beef with Alberta was that it was kind of isolated and going out to bars at night there were too many damage cases…

This bowl’s too edgy! This bowl’s not edgy enough!

“But if I move to Portland, who will I have to hate/look down on?” was kind of a question there.

nothingtodowithponies:

Derpy is best fire mare.

thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:

I could not have put that better with a gun to my head.