Portable music culture has long been under fire for sociological reasons. Worried essayists, overwrought with concern, pepper the blogs of the world with the charge that our society’s growing fondness for headphones is disconnecting us with the world that we live in, causing us to tune in and tune out.
“You kids just don’t care about anything but fun!” Of course we don’t care, right? We’re Generation Apathy. The iPod Generation. The Facebook Generation. We want our lattes and our Converse–that’s all we want, and we want them now.
Heh. I guess I’ve been intrigued by the myth for a long time. It is a pervasive myth in many cultures, and many religions have a version of it. And it said something to me about men’s attitude towards women on a certain level, and it seemed like it was fruitful territory to explore directly in a darkly comic way.
Right, first thing’s first. Teeth is about a vagina with teeth. It’s a depiction of the vagina dentata myth in a modern-day setting. Gnarly, huh? The story goes something like this: Dawn, a sweet high school girl with a chastity vow, one day discovers that her vagina has teeth. And then things go wrong. Before you can ask, yes, those teeth end up chomping on a hell of a lot of penises.
Enjoy Fareless Square in the wee hours while you can. It might be gone soon. Crime on the MAX has been a softly bubbling issue for a while, but after two high-profile November attacks off the light-rail line in Gresham, TriMet unveiled a multi-pronged plan on Dec. 7 to increase security for its riders. This need became reinforced when a woman was sexually assaulted on Christmas Eve at a Gresham MAX station.
The release posters for Cloverfield show a headless Statue of Liberty set against the backdrop of an actively smoking Manhattan skyline, which is in the process of darkening. Also, there’s an ominous trail through the water that leads into the city. Did I mention the Statue of Liberty has lost her fucking head?
Oh, Katherine Heigl. Last year, you acted superbly in Knocked Up and vaulted yourself to deserved superstardom, the cred of which is reinforced by your time on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. And now it’s 2008, and you are already coming out with the PG-13 rated romantic-comedy 27 Dresses. How you have already fallen…
On New Year’s Eve, a night when most of us were trying to remain standing (or trying to help others stand), Christopher Adam Monette, 25, was shot and killed during a house party fight in northeast Portland just before midnight.
When I was a scant five years old growing up in the city of Winnipeg, Canada, my father took a “leave of absence” from his university studies, which meant I could no longer stay in the school-owned daycare, and had to be transferred elsewhere. I eventually ended up at the John Dafoe Children’s Centre, the population of which was almost entirely Jewish.
About and month and a half ago, a junior at Oregon State University came up with the seemingly innocent idea that student fans wearing all black at the Oct. 6 home football game would be a great show of school spirit, as orange and black are the traditional school colors.
If you wanted some quiet time outdoors to study or catch up with a friend last Tuesday afternoon, the Park Blocks was not the place for you.